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< K C STilE LIBRARY r" I RALEIGH- K C ? ' *=? THE INDEPENDENT ? VOL XV.- NOS25. w"c..Mj^V ^ms1'0*1"0810* ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1923. Public rery Friday by W. O. Saoadari SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS. ?^^__,_ *? Cltj, N. O. I"| GOT LESS THAN I ! LXrECTED" SAYS SYKES jhr?e Year Sentence For Young MaiTWhcr Began by Taking Stamps and Wound up By Embezzling $25,825.94 kick coming; I," a lighter than I 1 rear or so isn't;. ?!.i 1 can live it!; - John 1). Sykes. 1 ? ^ ci?llection tel -t vk C itizens \a- , , .l i > was sent one- i .: - in the Federal nta. hy Jud^e H. the 1". S. District ' ? ki-i week. ? trial. Yoiinu Sykes , y pleadml uuilty to , ?' etiiN-zzlenunt. The 1* of the Hoard of ' ? >tlier i>:etul?ers of the - I'lutri'ii rani" in ami the defendant had . man of exemplary i" ax they knew prevl- ( moihle at the hank. ?? was visibly affeetod - t hin out ami uut|>ed ? l itne like one strung \ a> Tuesday afternoon, r tliil Hi* hand down II Wednesday inoru Sykes showed no i!? s-i? in the laiek of the with ears strained to \ wen! of the Court and ii or tlisphiy emotion of w I. a the s. nleiiee fell l-ater lie told the writer ; !es?. than lie e\|ieetod. r la rue under his orig- j t?r spi.ooo until Satur Sntidny when he will Ih? !:? ue hy a deputy I". S. md delivered to the Ward >? A I:: nta prison. . vnteiieo of three te.iy n>>i serve inueh im?re a y. ir ..t rhar time. After g .a yeat lie may l?e paroled i"esj ,.| his "ei in. That is ? I hi* KoIitii! prisons. Sykes will l>e on good India vior d to'fake advantage of ] V tl Mil' tllllt' ????lltfS. \ N:?w Kevrlation. ? ? out in tin- I'mirt this In !?. Sykes. Jr.. hail . S'i''ioii ami narrowly | r..|.ral prosnention as ? I!*!i?. 1 ><-[>nrf metif of ? : iirt1 eternally hnsy. 1 "v_ into tilings wry- \ in nosim: Into i - rii-i-ivitl hy Sears-Koe < ... ;;!:*l tin- <'harli-s AVI! - i li? y ;'iii!inl an n-nt-siKl - clamps Ileitis sent t > I ? i--r hmisi-s for ximhN ! '? si (;.?<. Ji.. nf KMzr.U-tli ?-ispi?-ions \vi-r?- .irot's- I -l-Olks Set out to fili^ ps w -n- i-oin5:i^ from i Sykes, a yoni-sr ene ! k. \v.:- taking t! i l>ank. Itisr Sykes j iitiil. Tin- sum tot-?| ! .? n was not law am! la-t to i|o it puai.i. I is yoiit !? ami a l-iii- ' Attorm-y In- was I ? I. I tank offii-ials ){ u in.tiling aliout it. rt. it lot of stamps i only stamps In- ' In- soakml off of that wore not nsi-il l?is?ri?-t Attorm-y 1 - at tin explanation.'' ?I of sratii]?s belli;; 1 1 ll I'll VI'lo|H'S in ' If. Tin ker. A'hlress-1 ! ? afternoon the J1 saiil: "I iliil not yin;' man for the a national hank. ' a.-nl l.is-n more i-ohl-. i lia; ?? proseeiitisl - ? i >iiin from the - In- is in now."' li ( imfession ^i<?rt iti >mi 11. t<> I >?-|>;irtiii< iit of ;i fter his nipiurc | li !!- l.-isf .inin*, was ?oiirt hore .Mon- *' f tin* first time. . i vn -ions i|iu-stlous, 'if uffii-i-rs wlmt 1' know his i ? id mil-si ions ami t laki-n from I he ' F 'ii- von in the i he Nil vy. April ?iisehiir^eil Feb- ,, l> iia honorable ii I ' I - i of the Navy " . ??nil. where anil " i inployeil'! *' the |>ost offiee N. ? where I (???tore i;oiim ?i nlwlitnl* here. I remained (hero until the j latter part of August. 1919 when I ' went to work for the First and Citi ;ciis National Itank of Klizaltetk City, North Carolina lis ti collectiou oiler ami savings ?*l?*rk. ??>. How loin; iliil you remain ill tin- employ of tin- ltauk? A. I*|? to Sopteiniier 2nd. 1922. 1 t>. Whon was the first time that j rou took any money or property of | the Hank? A. It was to the best of tuy re-' ?ollis tion about a year after I start i'il to work. iv?. Why iliil you take this money? A. I started to gambling and I had to have money to pay my losses. I' gave my checks for the amounts j I lost and I took money from the U>nk to keep even. I was only re ceiving a small salary at the time, i iv>. Mow did you set this money? j A. The Christmas Savings Club Fund were in my bands and do-. posited by my. these amounts were1 kept on cards and as each customer came in I would credit the amount on a card and put it in the file. If ! wanted a hundred dollars I took it out of the Christmas moneys, and would take a card out of the files for a like amount. When Christmas came and I had to remit for the cards I took from the col lection dc|mrtmciit to balance them. i?. Fp to the time when you lie came fearful that you would la; detected what was the approximate amount of your shortage? A. 1 think it was around six thousand dollars. ty After you had iiijiiI" up your mind to Iciivc Micro, how did you get tlic money from the Bank that .1011 left with? A. By withholding eolleelions that I took in Mint would not l>u detected and putting them in u safe defiosit Ik?x that'I had in the' kink. I started putting this money in the safe deposit box sometime al>out a month iwfoi'e leaving. ty AI>oiit how mneh did you witli liohl out of the collection account ?efore lea vim;? A. To the host of my recollection ul??ut nineteen thousand dollars. But this was not all our of the col lection department. Some out of the draft department and some out >f the exchange department. ty liming the last month you ivere at the hank, where did you %eep the money that you were with holding? A. In my safe dejiosit box at the Mink. ty When did you leave Klizabeth I'ity? A. Septemher JSrtl, ?y Nid you leave there alone? A. Yes. ?y Where did you go? A. I went to Norfolk. Va. ty What did you do in Norfolk: A. I stayed there long enough to' my a ticket to ('olumhus. Ohio.. 1 ml took the first train for there. ty How long did you remain in 'olumhus. Ohio? A. Stayed there one night, then ?ought a ticket for Chicago, ty What did you do in Chicago? A. I stayed in Chicago ahout vo days and that two unvs \\i s onsumed in exchanging mv money 01 thousand dollar hills, two or luce tit each hank. ty How long did you remain in 'hieago? A. Ahont two days. ty Hid you buy anything in j 'hieago' 1 .\. I rNlllglU a <1 lit IIKMK (, OVU1V I miis and some fishing; tackle. ?y Thar was the diamond pin | hat was taken from you at the | ime of your arrest? A. Yes, sir. ., <y J low much did you jw?y for | lie diamond? A. Three hiunlretl ami fifty-one ,, ollars. {, i}. Where did you buy it? ] A. 1 bought it from l'eaeoek and | oinjainy under the name of W. 1). j impsoii. . <y Where did you go from | 'hicugo? I A. I I .ought a tieket for Great alls. Moutana. I ty Mow did you happen to go to , I real Falls? I A. I read an article in tin? Field j ml Stream aliout Trov, Montana . eing a good place to hunt and fish | nd as Troy was a small place and . doubted if I could get what things i misled so I looked up Great Fails. . >u the I ruin 1 met a man who told f ie almut the eountrv around Sun , liver Canyon and I decided to go ] Here. 1 <y Where did you stay on your rrival in Groat Falls? ' i 'oi|<-|tidcd on I'age tj.? ?! MILLIONS FOR COTTON CROP Begins to Look Like Farmers Of This Section Will Get Real Money. \\ itli the cotton crop ot" northeastern Xorth Carolina only halt marketed, it is be ginning to look like sales will run into several million dol- j lars by the end of the season.! and already more than a mil-1 lion dollars have been paid odt for cotton by some 12 to 151 gins in Elizabeth City and im mediate territory. T'p to the middle of this week, lorn! hanks had paid out a million dollars on cotton cheeks, and had J sent nearly a quarter of a million ! dollars to hanks in nearhy towns. By the end of the season, if is be lieved that these hanks will have l?tid out at least two million dol lars. And the cotton crop of the counties of Tyrrell. Washington. Chowan. Perquimans. Pasquotank. Camden and Currituck may amount to four of five millions hy the end of the season. With cotton bringing ton cents a |K?nnd right along in the seed, it appears that Ioo.imhi pounds have 1 ism marketed locally from the counties of Currituck. Camden and Pasquotank already. <!ins are tax- j od to capacity and every family is I worked to the utmost in harvest-1 itnr the cotton. So httsy are the people in the fields that ninny schools which heretofore open early in the fall have heeti delayed to meet conditions brought oil by the I)IC viojii oi roimii. ? Tli?> money that cotton is bring- j ing in is evidenced l?y the general I improvement in hII line* of love lies* in Klizclwfk (Mty and tin* iu c reuse in Hi?? siA? of thy sbopiang crowds. 'All business is doirite l>H ter 11 nd there seems to he a great j evidence of |>ros|N'rily unions nil classes of trade and iieople. WOMAN HURT WHEN FORD CAR UPSETS | Mrs. Willis Hat email. Meets Willi ! Accident on Wondville Road j Wednesday While on the way home to Wood- . ville with her husband in n Ford , automobile Wednesday. Mrs. Willis Hateman of IYr<|Uimmis County met with a serious accident when' the ear ran off the paving and turn- \ rd over several times. Mrs. Hateman was eat and bruis- 1 ed hadl.v ami when taken to a doe-, tor it was feared that she had sits- j taiiied internal injuries. K. L. Wil-j limns, one of the highway eon-. tractors working on the road, eaino j by just after the accident, and took 1 the victims to Wood ville to I>r.; W. A. Hoggard. Hateman was not seriously injured. The Hatemans had been to the j hospital tit this city where they; have a child undergoing treatment. | This Hateman is the same man who is now under bond charged with assault with intent to kill Frank Albertson, Sr., of this city! early in July. EDENTONIANS RESENT KLAN ORGANIZATION i llobl Mass Meeting Protesting Against Work of Klan Or ganizers. A mass meeting protesting j against tin* activities of Ku Klnx i Klan organizers in Edenton was | held |?y citizens of Kilentnn in the court house in that city Tuesdayj night. according to reports reaching i Elizabeth City. The second at- I tempt to organize a Klan in Kden- j ton is now lieing made, Klan or- . utilizers working in the guise of salesmen or radio up|uirutus. Eden-! touians are generally one hundred , per cent white Protestant Ameri cans who are proud of the fact and ivlio resent the suggestion that they hide their identity under a mask:' lieing of the right kind of stock , they are not afraid of Jews, \e-. rroes, (.'atholies or anything under lie sun and they don't have to pay ' en dollars and take an oath to an !' !ni|ierial Wizard to show where i hey stand. In fact, the dosoen lants of those upstanding Colonial 1 >;itriots who were among the first ' o hurl defiance at a Itritish King! ind dump his tea overboard, don't ' hink much of an organization ! swearing allegiance to an Imperial iVizard, a flock of King Kleagles 1 ind a lot of other titles borrowed Tom the hateful monarchies and I lespotism of the European world. 1 Eden ton is on record us against 1 \luckerism. j. Don't neglect your eyes. Seeli itPbawMy. He knows. adv. I The Colonel Has a Smile ' COL. ISAAC M. MKKKIXS. IIKKK'S a new kind of photograph of this Klizahelh City man who is much in tlir lime-light these days and who is mentioned for a nuniher of things, including the Republican Gubernatorial eandidaey, the h'astcrn Federal Judgeship and a Persian Ambassadorship. His smile may mean that he is shooting for something even higger than the things mentioned. Hut then. Republicans in North Carolina always smile before an election. COTTON PICKfNG TIME \ KEEPS 'EM OUT 0' COURT A sudden decrease in ( 1k> business ' i>f polite ciHirl hits 1 ??'?'!! evident since tlio beginning of the cotton harvest. In f:iet. the police court Is trying the fewest en sex in several months, or that is it was. for during 1 the ten tiny period ending Monday of this week, only about a half dozen eases had been tried, and I hoy were only small offenses like speed ing and allowing chicken* to run at large. Not all of this slump in business is laid to the inactivity of the police. Court officers believe that the busy harvest season is finding work for all hands to do and leaves' few opportunities for mischief. The usual offenders are busy because the big cotton crop of this section is finding more work for till hands to do. Kvery line of business is improving as a result of the sale of cotton. Not only in Elizabeth City are I big crowds of shoppers evident on Saturday. All the roads are full of ears, carts and buggies, and the country stores are filled with people at night. Everybody with plenty of work to do and some money to spend if they have time enough from their work to spend it in makes times better for till of us and leaves fewer hands for the Devil to find more work to do. Jl'KIST 71 YEARS Old) DID NOT KNOW DAME OF CRAP I: I Ion. Henry (Jroves Connor, Judge!' of ilie C. S. Court for the Eastern. District of North Caroliiui, hits! heen a Judge of one kitnl or another for liO years or sueii a matter and was?u vraetieing attorney for 21) years before lie was a judge. hut he didn't know until this week that the pa me of "crap" is played with dice. It was explained to him in the progress of a ease in the Court here , this week. "Well that's the first time I ever knew that dire were . used in playing the game,'' said the , .Indite. j ' It is ipiito evident that His Honor never had any police eouri i. experience," said the District At-', torney, i. NOT WHY HYDE POI NTY jj SHEEP HAVE TWO HEADS , " ; < ileo, I\ Carter of Fairfield who . staged the Hyde County exhibit at ( the Fair this week has a stuffed , specimen of a lamb born with two i heads in Hyde County. Some one asked Mr. Carter if Hyde County ] sheep had to have two heads to get ] enough forage in llyde to keep 'em , alive? Mr. Carter says they do,, not. but that he knows a lot of farm ers in Hyde who would starve to j death if they had two mouths to ( feed instead of one. j, < ? eih?<BANJK CLERK TUE SODA JCRKER THEY DISCUSS.THE SUBJECT OF CARNIVALS 1 ' i "Have you taken in the carnival on the midway at the Fair this, week? asked the Hank Clerk of the! Soda Jerker. "Ask me if I've heen taken in and I'll answer you yesly," replied the Soda Jerker. "If there ever was anything alwut one of these mid way show outfits that's worth tak-| ing in I've never seen it yet, hut if: you want to set took in sood and proper I commend you to the mid-!' way. "If it wasn't for the fact that there's a sucker or a suekeress horn < every minute t here wouldn't he such tilings as carnivals. It sure is a ' helluva commentary on civilization that we can't hold a ureal agrirul I tural exposition for the hoostinu and uphtiildinu 01 our auricultural, live L r>f louse-bitten human rubbish with | stock and industrial industries'1 without drauuiuu in an auureuation J] 11 lot of bedraggled, mildewed can-' i vas, a rickety carousel and u four;, piece Grand Spaghetti hand to I. make a noise and make folks think j they are having n glorious time. | "Folks walk up and down the-1 midway looking for something to > iuiuse them and. failing to find it. i they fetch "? at some game of ? chance 111?I spend all their loose f change trying to act a parlor lamp,! a a raj; baby, a clock with a big face t and no guts, or !i box of candy that r would make a hound sick. !a "Von couldn't put all the shows j1 in the biggest carnival that ever \ came to town into a twenty cents 1 vaudeville show and jret away with ( such a show as you'd yret out of i (lie whole comhinatioii. Hut folks : j are just that eager for amusement j e and just that hopeful that they keep; It right on nosing around these enrni-j vuls like a lot of fool moths and I other insects around a street light,: until they get singed.'' '?Still, you seemed to he enjoy-, ing yourself the way you were eat- f ing hot dogs the last time I saw a you at a carnival," said the Bank' r Clerk. 'f "Maybe so," said the Soda Jerker. jii ?I do like a hot dog. But I like I hot dogs less and l?ss when i come1 lo think that hot dogs are, after I ill. the main prop of all these bum S shows. Take the frankfurters away j o from 'em and the riff raff that's imp the midway show business would J ii find some other means of getting) i living or just naturally starve to j lentil." 1 loath.'' ' I EHR1NGHAUS IS NO KU KLUCKER Powerful Elizabeth City Advo cate Assails Klan In Speech at Winton Hon. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, former Solicitor of the First Judicial District and one of the strongest men of the Elizabeth City bar has taken an open stand against Ku Kluckerv. In a speech at Winton the other day Mr. Eljringhaus took a wallop at Kluckerism in his own choice style. The occasion was the un veiling of a monument to World War Veterans ar Winton. Here is what he said in part, as reported by the Hertford County Herald "There appears to he with us one of those self styled 100 per cent or ganizations which proclaims loud ly its allegiance to our government and its fundamental institutions, but strikes, under cover of mask and disguises, at the very vitals of what we have been taught to regard us fundamental. Though the Con stitution. for which they profess such ardent affection, explicitly pro hibits secret political societies, those self-appointed guardians of Americanism are apparently engag ed in political campaigns through out the country, giving approval or disapproval to candidates and seek ing enrollment of a certain class of officials with whom such violations of the constitution might put them in conflict ncclni-itnr themselves I lie friends and projioiieuts of law and order tlicy are faced with an almost revelation of cruel and some times heinous disorders committed within territory where their strength is supposedly great and un der the protection of the mask and regalia they have adopted as their awn. When such an attack occurs it will not do to say in answer to public denunciations that 'an im postor masquerading under our colors has done this evil.' Such an explanation is itself either a con fession of an inqioteney to render the great degree of assistance to the officers of law and order whrck in nrroganee they eiaim to possess audi which they offer as an excuse for the blindfold, or is an avowal of their sympathy with and conni vance at the acts which are com mitted under tin? protection of their insignia. Foe if the organi sation is incapable of * (posing and bringing to punishment those who masquerade their lawlessness under j ?over of the hood and gown in the ?strongholds of the Order, how can they lay claim to such power in (ther instances. And if they possess the power to uncover the culprits ind fail to do so, they themselves! ?outlive at the offense. Either they ire powerless to perform the service | to law ami order which they claim 1 >r they arc sympathetic towards its ' violation. "I'lease understand me. I have 10 quarrel with the Ku Klux Klau. | For its illustrious protype I have | still the sentiments of respect and ?egard which were instilled into me Tom earliest childhood. In its day t saved a precious civilization and o its memory we owe an unqualifi ?<i msiw.et. I find myself also in ?oinplete accord with many of Ihe irofessed objects of the present day -laimants of its illustrious name iml fame. But the causes which trough t the original Klan in being 10 longer exist. The honorable irinciples for which they contend ?an best be promoted by an unmask ?il and open espousal, and the eliar icter and manner of its present day ?perntion is so inimical to and sub versive of not merely our political nstitutbVlis, but those principles of air play which are inextricably issoeiated with the American ideal hat we are driven to protest. No ed-blooded American was ever ifraid to fight, hut he fights fair, le fights in the open, ho strikes no corneii, no matter how immoral, and ie does not desire a mask lo con- j eal his identity. Secret assault s not in his code of propriety. And . 11 covering such acts with a cloak ( f professed patriotism, they are liding behind the flag." I 'ASQIOTANK WINS FIRST COl'NTY EXHIBIT PRIZE Pasquotank Conuty again won' Irst prize with its county exhibit t the fair yesterday. Currituck an second, Camdcu third, Dare ourth and Il.vde fifth. The prizes 11 order are $100, $75, $50, and for hire ami Hyde $25 each. Caleb Ives <of this county, II. C. 'erehoe of Camden, and Mrs. Milton ?ample of this county, won in rder named, first second and third rizes of $25, $15 and $10 for best ndividual farm exhibits. Good eyesight is inexpensive. See )r. .T. D. Huthuwny, Optemetrist, Elizabeth City, N. C. t CLAIMS $20,000 j IN DAMAGE SUIT Tyrrell County Boy Pressing Suit in Federal Court For Injuries Sustained , Twenty thousand dollars is the j sum sought hy Frank Moekins, a 1 Tyrrell County hoy who is suing The Eastern Transportation Com pany of Philadelphia in Federal i court here for damages sustained to i his person when he fell thru the j hatchway of a lairge in 192U. while ! ] the barge was anchored near Ports-1 mouth. Virginia. In his complaint the plaintiff al leges that a hawser was. thrown ! him with such force that lie was thrown thru the hatchway and that: it was thru the negligence of the. defendant company that the hutch-' way was left open. When he fell, j he claims he landed on his head,: in (lie hold of the barge, fracturing) his skull, from the effects of which j he claims he has never fully rccov i eretl. Young Mcekins is a minor ami is t bringing suit thru his father. C. C. I .Weekins. At the time of the acci dent. which was in February 1920, the plaintiff is said to have been less than 14 years old. The case went on trial Thursday ! morning. FINED $150 EACH FOR OPERATING A STILL , Federal Court Docket Carried 22 Caws Mostly Violations of . Prohibition Laws. ? ? It looks as if there would he a ! i short term of Federal court in Eliz-j ' ohth City, if there were no liquor I cases to be disposed of. Probably j the heaviest flue imposed in any liquor case this week was the fines, of $150 each which C. L. Smith and i Alex Jones, two Norfolk men who operated a still in Currituck County i will pay. These men wr- i ried , yesterday. Other cases v\iv: | Caesar Bond, who pleau guilty j and was let off with the costs, for violation of the Volstead act. William H. Nixon, plead guilty of transporting and was let off with the costs, it having appeared thatj he paid a penalty imposed by the ' state court. William S. White, who plead guilty of manufacturing, was sen-) fenced to two months in jail. L. S. Scott of Pasquotank whose | case resulted in a mistrial at the] last term of court here, plead i guilty and was fined $75, C. C. Upton, ,T. J. Morse and John I Ackers of Currituck, plead guilty' and were fined $75 each. j Louis Hill of Currituck paid a ' fine of $50 and costs. John O'Neal of Nngs Head was given ten days in jail for selling whiskey. There seems to have lteen a scramble on the part of the do-, fondants to plead guilty. ct'ivcvi iut I initl'l i l1/. . ! nv.iiiuDuaoi uia/j/riijij 11/ HOLD MELTING AT GKANDY t Evangelist E. T. Liddell of Chi-; eago, will l>egin u tout meeting at, randy, X. C., Sunday October 2lst, j 1023. A groat mooting is anticipate ? od. Mr. Liddell is at present con-; ducting a great meeting at Ex-! more, Ya.. from 2,(XX) to 3,000 poo- j pie are in attendance at every serv ice. Many are driving from 50 to j 1(H) miles every night to hear him. j Mr. Liddell is well known through- j out America and especially iu Vir-, ginia and North Carolina, as a great' preacher and an invincible, con vine- j ing speaker. lie is considered one ] of the greatest Bible students in i the country and this section Is in j for an illumination on the Bible.' Everyone is invited to these meet-: ings which will be held every night j except Saturday at 7:30. Adv-Oct. 12-2t. - ? I SAYS DUCKS ARE THICK Dr. J. C. Hnum, superintendent of |i Pine Island Club, one of the finest hunting preserves on Currituck Sound, says wild fowl seem more aboundaut this fall thun at any j time in recent years. He says there are millions of the birds down j for the winter and the air is thick ; with them. The season opens on Xoc. 1st. For your eyes' sake see Dr. J. D. i Hathaway, Optometrist, Prudford Bldg., Elizabeth City, N. C. adv. ! CROWDS THRONG FAIR GROUNDS-WEATHER FINE Exhibits of Farm Produce, Poultry and Live Stock Said To Excel Past Efforts? Many Interesting Exhibits The Great Albemarle Dis trict fair opened Tuesday with a big noise, a good opening at tendance, and the greatest number of agricultural exhi bits ever shown here. Not only jare the agricultural exhibits [unusually fine, but the poultry and live stock exhibits are more numerous than ever, and [more attention has been paid to home demonstration exhi bits. An exhibit arranged by Hip Kliz abeth City Chamber of Commerce is one of the most interesting at (he Fair and visualizes to many Elizabeth City jieoplo some things about their home town that few l>oopl(? hnve taken I ho time to team liefore. The exhibit was made of various products representing the manufacturing industries of the city. The Chamber of Commerce exhi bit included brick, furniture, liosi- ? cry, lunilsw. awnings, bottled goods, cotton,* truck packages, and many other things. Jinny Elizabeth City industries were not represented, hut those represented showed an annual turnover of several million dollars and the employment of more than 1,(100 hands. ror iiisnuico mere ore mic iiiiik of T. A. Commander & Sons turning out $25,000 worth of lumlier a your; The Eliznltoth City Iron Works with a turnover of $200,000 a year; the Foreman-Blades Liiin Ik? r Company doing a million dollar business. Then there were other businesses running like (his: Fore man-Derickson Veneer Company, $175,00: Kramer Brothers Com pany $.'{25,000: Munden & Alex ander, producing 15,000 yards of awnings annually; one eandy fae tory with 500,000 ]khuicIs of eandy, and the H. P. Williams faetnry with 150,00 pounds of eandy annually; the Elizabeth City Cotton Mills pro ducing 1,000.000 pounds of cotton yarn: the Crystal Ice & Coal Com pany prodr.eing r~ tons of ice a day: l'ivo i mills producing ! i. on .a hose annually; thioi liotfliiN. ptuiits with a total annual output of 2,7*0.000 lad ties; the Whitley pnckiHg plant, produc ing a half million jKinnds of pork products; th? Elizabeth City Brick Yards producing 2,000.000 bricks annually; and there is the Zim merman mill producing $50,'Ml worth of flour and meal; Southern Boiler Stave & Heading Company doing a $150,000 business; arid the Chessou Manufacturing Company with n yearly volume of $75,000. There were several industries not represented, hut the more import ant ones were?inelnded. The dis play of the Elizalietli City Hosiery Mills iucludcd a knitting machine which knitted stocking all day. Other things in this exhibit were Itouts, complexion creams, furni ture from the Griggs-Forhes factory; and lastly a live 'possum caught iu an Elizabeth City henhouse. V! ?\ .1.. fine loumy nMiiiiin Good showing of agricultural .'iiid home products wore made hy the counties sending county exhibits l'erqulnuins and Chowan faibd to show up with a county exhibit', and Gates one of the new counties which planned to send nn exhibit this year, failed altogether in getting it to tin fair. But Hyde County was hack with its big exhibit, and Pasquo tank. Currituck and Camden were on the job as usual. Canulen's exhibit carried figures showing that the agricultural out put of thnt county in 11120 was valued Jt $1,630,748. Camden's ex hibit carried few statistics, hut there was a gciicroiis showing of everything that grows in the coun ty. The value of Camden's farms was shown to have jumped from $1,079, 840 in 1010 to $3,258,881 in 1020. Farm building values were Increas ed from $223,.'187 to 673,285. Cam den has 302 white form owners and 05 negro farm owners. It has .V,'! white tenant farmers, and 433 negro tenant. There /re 5,08u inhabitants as compared with 5,330 in 1010. Among other thiags, the county ba ? 1-123 horses valued at $10o,5i50: 603 inules at $82202 ; 2,310 cntt!>? at $70,345; 1,450 sheep lit $0.0K*t; 223 gouts nt $303; und '8,801 swine at $70,011. According to tlie fig ures with the exhibit, Camden pro duced in 1020, 42,000 gallons of milk and dairy products valued ui. $4,912; 94,70 dozen of eggs; sold $41.143#wortb of chickens and eggs, and $783 worth of honey and wax. (Couel tided on Page 3)
The Independent (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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