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-ailment to the People of Elizabeth City Concerning Their Public Utilities ?\ COWARD E, CROOK,"^President of the Companies o interest shown bv the people of Elizabeth City present and future status of their sewerage, water u. and power service, following the publication of p>e i Letter in the local newspapers, convinces me ;e citizens will welcome further facts about what ee Companies have done, are doing and are cap ut" doing in the performance of their public function i.vet to the health and well being of the community > a contribution t<> the sound business growth ot l-.j- abeth City. uv Open Letter referred to has prompted many cx ? v Ons from the citizens, indicating their fairness and i]? v v will welcome further facts in the spirit of 11111 ! understanding and co-operation between the Com and the Pill)lie. Mr. J. C. Parker, Superintendent ?i r Companies, has been approached by numerous -..a- interested, as a result of which we are prompted a. -.resent further facts for the information of the com ae. facts similar to those stated by Air." Parker verb ?Ill* ? ? there ;? re ask the Public to consider these facts in relation to a decision which the people of Elizabeth y\ wall he called upon to make in respect to a munici '? nil is-ue to provide additional facilities, the need of a is urgently felt, particularly in the matter of sew erage and water. Since the people of Elizabeth City are considering a umcipaHjnnd issue to provide the funds-for the enlarge wnt of their public utilities service, we feel that in the orkingout of tlii< plan the facilities of the present Com * '.nics should he considered the nucleus upon which to build. i I The growth of Elizabeth City during recent years has increased the service requirements of our facilities. Nevertheless"the Companies have been able in the main t<? provide reasonably satisfactory service. We are en- ? deavoring constantly to maintain adequate service. Tn presenting our facts to the people a fair under standing of the local facilities situation is what we seek to accomplish. \Jre will gdadlv answer such inquiries as k citizens may care ro ask and we will welcome sugges o 'i< looking to better service as well as to our ability to >?s; present requirements. TF< )\VARD E. CROOK, President, Electric Light Company of Elizabeth City, Elizabeth City Wat er and Power Company and Eliza bet h City Sewerage Company. Mr. Crook's Open Letter To the People of Eliza beth City follows: Open Letter to the People of Elizabeth City I mg that the people of Elizabeth City have been somewhat misin the acuia'_i";?mliti?.!j ami operation of their public utilities. 1 - means ?>f bringing certain facts to your attention. I ;"y \ a s ago. at which time your City has no electric, water I < r\ice. ):<a sought the investment of outside capital in companies ! '"i-'i r lie service to your community and the present owners I ? s, accenting in good faith the overtures made to them by I n < !?_ ( "ricials and certain leading citizens, agreed to undertake the n ut and operation of utility plants. The necessary ordinances i\?y-\c.-.r franchises were passed, put to vote and approved at I by ;tn almost unanimous vote, the investments made, and for I s watee! ctric light and power have been furnished, and in the ' ..\n ewer connections have been continuously maintained. ? ; a years, no dividend has been paid any stockholder. I v to an;, odicer other than Mr. Whitehurst and Mr. Lewis. City recently made an offer to purchase the three utilities, and yict s oi 'ered were not accepted, that the City would build I its i. i ;>!:?.:it . The sum offered did not represent the reason- | .r the properties, and was so low that without great injustice n m could io t he accepted. As an evidence of the unfairness of r we need only cite the figures involving the sewer company's consists of more than thirty thousand feet of main sewer. | :ig st.-'.tions. seventy-five manholes and ten flushing stations, all operating condition. inv ?stment of the company, approximately $40,000.00 II after allowing for full depreciation, as found by :tys own Engineers in June. 1922 31,000.00 the City in July. 1922. for 15.000.00 II ? red to sell in August. 1922. for 25.000.00 has also offered to sell its property to the City II ted appraisal by an impartial board or at a price II 1-y tl ? C orporation Commission of North Carolina. the people of Elizabeth City to have the fullest knowledge of our plants, and we stand ready and willing to II information that may be desired. < l ion with the people of Elizabeth City that, * II ? al facts, they will not want, after our eighteen years || ? it bout remuneration, to acquire our plants at less than their true ? com-t met plants of their own. the operation of which can result '<? r lo to both the City and ourselves. I beg to remain, Respectfully yours. II HOWARD E. CROOK. President. N.C. STATE NEWS Digest of Everything Wortf Knowing About Old North State Folks and Things ?Will Zaeharr. of High Point, while walking on I ho railroad track ncm Spencer, was struck by a passengct train and .instantly killed, ?General John J. Pershing will at tend the North Carolina State Fait at Raleigh Wednesday. Oct. IS, ant will probably speak at the Fait grounds on that day. Mrs. James K. Norfleot. of Wins ton Salem, was unanimously eleefeti i president of the North Carolina : American Legion Auxiliary at the recent assembly held in Greensboro. i ?Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed the plant of the P. A. Thom as Car Works, at High Point, man ufacturers of trolley cars, entailing a loss estimated at $2.">0,000. ?The jurv failed to agree and a mis trial ordered in the ease of five strike sympathizers charged with seizing and carrying away in an automobile Atlantic Coast Guards in Rocky Mount. I ?Paul SiloolT. of New P.orn/ was struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. O. G. Dunn of that town, and is now in a hospital. Whether any * internal "injuries took place is not known. ? Roscoe .Morris. Albert Dunham and Queen Claybnm. negroes ?f Charlotte, were drowned in I.ak * wood l'ark lagoon when the boat it! wliieli they were riding was over turned within !."? feet of the landing. ?Fifty-five warehouses have made contrails with the North Caroline Cotton Growers* Co-operative Asso ciation to store cotton this season, according to I!. F. Brown. manager of the cotton ilepartnient. While North Carolina's fire h-s- of Sl'l'l.lUri for August. l!r_-_*. is larg er than the loss for June or July, it was si Mi less than the loss for Ang us*. I ill* 1. according to reports in made public by the North Carolina Insurance Ilepartineut. Tiie Kaleigh Chapter of the Amer ican Keel Cross decided to launch a campaign for a Tuberculosis hospi tal for Wake County. It voted to devote all of the proceeds from the Bed Cross Koll Call starting Ar mistie l?ay to this purpose. ? Frank Summers, who several days ago is alleged to have confessed to the Augusta police that he killed Manning Ford, at Marietta. X. seven months ago. was carried back to the scene of the crime by Sher iff Carpers of Robeson County. A real students' publication the Carolina 1 toll Weevil, is going to take place of the ill-fated Tar 1'ahy. the privately owned magazine wldeli was mistakenly supposed by many to be a 1'iiiversity publication and which went out of existence recently. ?John Wyberg. construction fore man. of Koxboro, died at a hospital in Durham, from injuries received when his automobile1 collided with a team of horses. Roy Dehart, oi' Hill-how. who was also an -occupant of the ear will recover. The Democratic eycxentire com mitt he of the Third Congressional District met this week in Goldsboro and named Charles L. Abernarhy a.* nominee for Congress to succeed the late Congressman Brinson. He will take his seat when Congress meets in December. ? Miss Adeline Ratley, 0.1 rears old. n resident of Cumberland Mills sec tion near Fayetfeville, faces trial til the next term of the Cnited States Distriet court in Raleigh on a charge of violating the prohibition law. l.".T gallons of wine having been found on Miss Katley's premises. ? Five thousand farmers. business men and iigrieiiltur.il demonstrators J id' IS counties and their families gathered at the Willard test farm 1 near Wallace last week, on which oc casion Governor Morrison delivered an address outlining the State's progress. ?A Kc-inforocment Campaign among the Baptist churches of North Caro lina was launched in the First Iiap tist church of Raleigh Tuesday morn ing at 1<> o'clock. Secretary ('lias. K. Maddry of that city called a meet ing of the Stilte Hoard of Missions for that place and hour. ? Poverty cannot he called a crime in North Carolina so long as extra vagance is made it virtue, declares (Jovernor Cameron Morrison in a proclamation issued calling upon the people of the Stale to observe Mon day. Oct. !Mh. the fifty-first annivers ary of the great Chicago tire, as Fire Prevention l>ay. |?Forty miles of hard surfaced road were completed and put into use ii I the State during the month id' I August, despite the partial paralysis | of construction work hy strike con j ditions. During the same period 100 I miles of gravel and other types' of! j road were completed and turned over , (to the State Highway Commission. I?W. V. Gucrrnrd. of Bryson City, former King Kleaglc of the Knights j of the Ku Klttx Klan, deposed by j Dr. W. E. Thompson, voluntarily surrendered to the'Sheriff of Wake ! County, when he learned that papers) had been received from Bryson City, for his arrest under charge of em- j bezzlement of fluids belonging to the I , Kit Klttx Klan. 2 ?As ,1 result of the discovery of L two women in the room of n State ' College student, warrants were sworn out by Kdwin It. Van Sunt, ?1'resident of the. Student Couneil, charging two prominent young men of Haleigh. K. II. (fobbing ami Charles Ileartt. with talcing the wo men to the College dormitory for I immoral purposes. ' ?A draft for forty-three hundred ' | dollars was honored the other day by the Xorth Carolina Cotton throw ers' Co-operative association. It was drawn by William Peterson, of ^ Sampson County, who delivered 8(1 hales of eolton to the association at tht' Clinton warehouse. This is the largest single delivery tlint has been made to the association. ' I ?The Southern Power Company, of ' Charlotte, furnishing .".00,001) home power of electrical energy every clay to industries in the two Carolines among them, 1100 textile mills, will be forced to suspend operations for one day each week, unless elief is given in coal transportation, an of ficial noti'e issued from hendejuar ters of the <v.inpau.v set forth. ? Throe million dollars for the de velopment of j: SI:i>?? port at Wil mington will In* olio ol I lie retpicsls lliHt will riiir.o before llm liij.'l ses sion of iho North Carolina fleneral Assembly, and iho petitioning voles will not be primarily that of \\'il mington but of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, the State Trnffi" Association, and like allied bodies. ?The Christian Church at Tlordorly, I'nion County, recently installed an organ after a several months" wran gle among the congregation. To-day a mass meeting of smouldering em bers was all that remained of the organ. It had been removed from the church, taken int.a tlm church yard, chopped to pieces and -et on lire after coal oil had Jiecn poured over the pieces. While driving from (ireeiislmro to Wowing lloek. Margaret Smith, of ' (!reeiisbonr and I", 1.. Jenkins, of Winston Salem, wore lodd up l>> six masked men. wh? went off with I lie automobile with Jenkins in it. leav ing Miss Smith by the roadside. No elite to the identity of the masked men has been found by Sheriff W. II. Carson, of Tsivlirsvi'le. where the \ '' holdup occurred. ? i , ?Less handshaking ;if the church door on Sunday morning and more I foot-shaking on the streets for six ! days in the week is n mighty good I way to build up an efficient Sunday I school, Arthur Flake, 1'nptisr Sun , day School Administration Secretary, j told several hundred Sunday school | workers gathered from over the eastern section of the State at the First Baptist church in Raleigh. !j ?As Cyclone Mack sees more and I more of North Carolina he keeps on I; saying that ho will hand it lo the Tar Heel State as having outstripped' his State of South Carolina in prog ress: he says North Carolina is cer tainly getting something for the tax money spent: that evidences of this fact are sticking out all over Tar- ' heelia; wherever jou go progress j greets you. ?The name of Bclvin W. Mavnard, "Flying Parson," who was killed re cently at Rutland, Vt., will be per-1 petuated at Wake Forest College, his 1 alma mater, according to faculty ac- ; lion taken at a called meeting. Two' memorials will lie established, one u 1 bronze (ablet placed in Will gate Flail, the other an endowment scholarship' hearing his name, to lie used hy i worthy students whose means are' not sufficient to enable them to at tend college on their own resources. | , ?Rev. (\ M. flentry, of Albemarle. I who died recently. left xubslnntial | ' sums of money to Church and char-' liable pauses?the Methodist. Orph- j nnage at Winston-Salem, missions, etc. Relatives have instituted pro ceedings to test the will. It is lite exception, rather than the rule, for the estate of a preacher +o figure in court. Few of them, for obvious reasons, leave enough worldly goods to incite a row over their disposi tion. - When a ear in which they were I riding swerved front the road near tirrensliofo iii avoiding another cart and somersaulted down a steep em- : hatihiiieiit. William I'iiar. of Aslte tillc. R. I.. Tli 'inpsott. dr.. of. New York. :niil K. I.. Just ice. Jr., of! tJrc'it-dioro. had a narrow and mif at iilotis i-scape front a Midden and violent death. Leaving the tint of lit" road the automobile fi:rt??-I over live or six jinies and finally landed one hundred feet front where it staffed its plunge. ? The l.auri: loirg Kxrliaiigc learn that at the close of the closing see vi-e of a revival meeting at the Methodist church, live white-robed Klansiiicti marched into the church and handed Rev. Frank Cttlbrcth. pastor of the Caledonia charge,, an envelope containing .Slid in cash as an expression of tluir appreciation for the virile gospel he had preached j during the meeting. Kluxers are ac customed to giving surprises them selves and perhaps they were not ' prepared for the surprise Mr. t'ul hretlt gave them. The preacher, ac cording to the news story in The Kx chnii.se, without hesitation returned the offering to the Klnnsmen and frankly hut kindly told them that he could not accept it. that he does not approve of the order .and is r.ot in sympathy with it and its work: ?j it .? ? whereupon the Klcnsnjen, remarking. j '?We'll see you later," marched out j of the house with their rejected gift.' Xorin.-il consumptioT! of coal for i domestic and industrial purposes in North Carolina, exxelusive of coal used hy rairloads is 2,721.000 tons atomially, according to the coal sur I vey of the State made by the North | Carolina Fuel Committee and just made public by Director R. O. Self. | Guilford County burns 170,000 tons i annually and lends the State in con sumption. and from that the figures by counties range downward to a dozen counties that use only two or three carloads a year. Cotton mills are the heaviest consumers, with do mestic consumption ranking second and light and power plants third. , North Carolina pays about thirty million dollars annually in mine costs and freight on its X>,000 tons of A co:u, and with the increased cost charged up to the three months strike of coal miners and the de mand growing out of slow deliveries * on account of the rail strike, it will probably pay more for the next few months. W. L. COHOON. J. N. KEELIN Cohoon & Keelin LAWYERS 312-13 Hinton Dldy. Phone 217. i ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. Apr.7-0mos. . WHEREVER YOU GO? 1 Hull Optical Service can follow 1 ?nnrt servo you just as eflei- ?! ontly as here in town. If planning n trip, or ffoinfl 1 nwa.v to school, it is a arise ? precaution to take alone an I extra pair of glasses. t Rut should yon hreak (be only pair, remember that, we can replace ami return then without delay. j We are prepared to fill yonr ?? prescription, or duplicate tin broken lenses and mail them ' to you the stitniyday, in moat eases. 237 Granhy Street Jfl NORFOLK, VA. J 211 E. Broad SL 9 503 Franklin 8t. RICHMOND, VA. I MILLINERY] Mr. and Mrs. Walker have returned 4 from Northern market< w ith a new line 'J of Millinery. jfl .Many exceptional values now* on display at prices * much more reasonable than heretofore. Sec them when you are in town. , WALKER & COMPANY ; 116 Poindexter Street ?i "No More Ruined Shirtwaistsfor Me,1 said Mrs. Southlee "I've discovered a most wonderful water softener" A group of young housewives were discussing washing materials. One said that her clothes had been fairly eaten to ribbons by patent washing fluids and chemicals. "No more of that in my home," said Mrs. Southlee. "I've dis covered a most wonderful water softener that does not harm the fabric. My maid says it makes the snowy white. She uses less s?4fjfl "That's quite true," chimed in aanlhttffl "I've always used Red Seal Lye aa m v+iflH softener, but that's only one of its man uses. Red Seal Lye makes an excellent! soap. I tell my cook to save all the WSSSM grease. Orn- can of Red Seal, when mixiM with grease and water, makes enough ?OgM to la-it several months for all laundry Sf3M scrubbing purposes. It's really auitt im| to make. The directions are in the ctt-wl washing easier than anything she has ever used. She just dis solves a l/i teaspoon ful of Red Seal Lye in each bucket of water. This softens the water, and makes the clothes 1 here are many HOUMBOIM uses and recipe* for Kffl Seal Lye described ia Hal Red Seal Booklet, whick wifll be mailed you free. tawl for it today. Ask your dealer for thM old reliable granulated Veil Seal Lye. Get the gtaulnfcfl Take no other. P. C. TOMSON & CO., Southwark P. O.. Philadelphia, Pa. j Down Come the Prices For several years past 1 lit* prices of dependable morchandi e skyrocketed the other way and every thing was up, up. up. Then they took a tum ble the other way and i prices to-day are more favorable for the purcha ser than they have been in a good long time. P.ut we do not advise any one to wait for low er prices. The rail road strike, the coal strike, the textile strike, the tariff and a lot of other things are combining to boost the price of things again. Higher cotton this fall is going to he another factor in sending the sky rocket of prices on all ot h c r upward flight. LET US OUTFIT YOU NOW. The Spencer Co. The Quality Shop Hinton Block t; i ? l: USliE-llRBliEi.i ;' Here is a car of enduring' * ^ . beauty, flexibility, strength and comfort at a moderate * price. You will not find a more powerful or enduring car at anything like its price. GEO. C. CULPEPPER Elizabeth City, N. C. ? i > / PRICES:- 5-Passenger Touring $ 975 3-Paspenger Roadster 935 Coupe 1080 Sedan 1660 Delivered
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