North Carolina Newspapers

tMORE THAN , PfVV W Watt ?? uu w MDHMK MM M M mbM M MpapM' TWELVE PAGES ?=? THE INDEPENDENT tY I. NO. 828. at Klu*U>tl? City, N. 0.. June ?. l?0SPU"^?ff,C" ELIZABETH CITY, N. C FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1923. r?i>ua>* xr.^o. s.a.d.n SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS. IEVIVES TALK OF GOLF ! LINKS AND THE LIKE Lgcnt For New York Syndicate Coming To Seek Site For Big Tourist Hotel In This Vicinity The fact ?'t a New York| ;i,:iv\itc iookinir i:iti? Xorth ,jt it -rtli Carolina tor the . ihrc- tor a U>uri>t hotel jiV u> .W rooms is he^in ,Met,. revive talk of an Kliz i>et!t t :v eowtitry clnh. jjolf: I.tiulinof ticM for air ami all that sort of !titt> \ r> pre-entative of the syndi- ' J- -ktnc for a tourist hotel Northeastern North Carolina , i ,.\:irefe?l in Klizal?eth City in a ,7. Thy identity of the j?ros ?? < net to In- pnMiely revealeil iforeiia' I In-i-anse ililireetors of i, |.k:iI Chamber ef Commerce jut t1 -et hot,I of him lie fore ho | off to some other loealitv. I \ r i . r.iers are loirinniiisr to fiml ? hat North Carolina offers .. ? ::? 'Vaetions than Florida - .I'iii- ami s|tort. The elimate ?v enough and never ener ?: _? winter as it is in Florida ? i j.'itifs farther south. Western Carolina is already thiekl.v ?; with tourist hotels, lmt Kas r \'?rtli Carolina lias ne^leeted . il'ilities of tourist trade, v.- Fastern North Carolina has .. fishins. Iioiitinc. limiting ' wafer sjxirts that Western .rrh Carolina ean never, offer -t-: and the ozone of the At ? I? H'sn't eoiieoile a tiling to r?s-zi s of the Western mottn :r-. pp the tourists who run away r h>>ni?' t > play almost iuvar My 'ietuaml some tilings that : 'h-th City. for instamv. lias; t*sl. Tin- Northern business wp.i take* a night's journey ? rest ami p - n ation i'\|K'rts to ir.i golf link* at the eml of the . ---v. Klizalo'li City has no i>i; links. Then too. the uuiuhors f who travel l?v air is ;ro\v i towns that get tourist - :;'ist have soni" ^>rt of lami r'or laml flying mai-hines. V. ???? one of the l>esf liarlstrs n :? uorM for hydroaeroplanes. ? isn't a safe plare any i!..? rhy for a laml ma eh i tie. T ? inilier of I'otnmeree Com ? is preparing data t< ? ?????ain New York symli Ivantage of a loeation ??;ti City are l>eginniiig ? asy ah-uit the fact that ;a some of thi' things ' A>r must have. I; is all h of a eoutlfiv elllh i. ?interest in the jM.ssi ? ot ? telling a lot of the : a Jss that is now high ru tiie Stale to less ?ie points farther South. WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL TO OPEN MONDAY Y Ml . una Rural High School l"'n|ile;e: Kiirollnieiit to !?t* run Hundred ami F ifty ???.?ink i'i.iiiiIv's finest rural ? - i .1- jll-t I" >11 < ninpl'-tril and will <?|wn Mint ???r wit It :iii i'lirolliiH'iit | !,, Si |;o"l is iimmIitii in ? Ix-in^ j>i'i>viil?'d with _ watiT iind si'Wcrnui1. '' iii |?> eleven teaehers in I Tin. principal is I'mf. ? ?I' .J'dinsinii t'utility. ? '.I'll liiuli s?Iiix?l IfiniiiTS ?I t- Whitflinrst mrl Mrs. ?* : Tin- I' aeliers ill": urade, \\*. II. rritrlinril: - id-. F. M. K. fd: tiltli snide ? U'l-ft Mnndfii: foiirtli grade. Maker: third grade, ? ?!. M. Sii?tt: second ttiiiili', Miss ' W Triiiiioti: first grade, Miss 1 l.fSSOII. ? two s|||;||| ?||.H>|s til " i'i-iii mi ihf saliii* datf fnl" ? '??nd and third i'rudrs. \i i ; si In" I will Mi>s Mary I.niiisc Skinner t?'li t'ity: and fin* I>ry ?li -.! i.y Mis< KlizaUlh 1. /.a In-: !i i "ity. a' iniial lil'dol" l.ltsrs 'If i lli>? Ir?-ii and from ' ? s iii Salt-iii t-iwii-lii|> and ^ a in ;lr ni'W Wrvks ? building. , - ' >kis|;n. I'.eiea and ??I Monday nf this wifk. ' ai Itkisku iii" Misses ' -li':- i.y i:.i|? r and Miss K'.sti r i.r K. F. I>. ?. Kite-1 ;ii iSfi-i-a. Miss Annie ? ^w-ll and Miss Anna ' '??l ?>i' Hertford: and sit ? diss i:..i,iij,. sbtiford of M.-- \ ?? I'riiihard - i I. - A Chip Off the Old Block I KKiH S1IEKP. JR. FEW mothers ran lioast of hand somer youngsters than Leigh SJui|>. Jr.. son of the proprietor of the Woman's Wear Store. This photo by trallant Studio catches him in the art of inspecting a new tooth. A GOOD OPENING DAY FOR WILDFOWL HUNTING Season Seems to Be Starting Off Just the Way Old Hunters Predicted it Would There never was better opening days it seems, for the hunting of wild fowl in eastern North Caro lina. than Thursday of this week, scores of old hunters who had cx piTssnl themselves as having a hunch that all would be well this .Mar. rrc highly gratified at the turn i:i the weather and are going forth to the marshes in high spirits. Kvery old hunter knows that the rougher the weather the greater the i pportunify of bagging the limit on wildfowl. Ducks and gees? seems to enjoy tin-blustery weather The blustr.v weather makes the bird come down from the air and seek the quieter elements where they enn feed in security.' The phy sical discomforts of a eobl day mean little to the true sportsman v ho from experiences rail ex|>col many fowl.to come near his blind at such a time. The hunting season began well for hunters elsewhere. Heavy rains be fore the opening day made many ;m.?h|s on the beaehes. it i< in these tenijH-rary jhuuIs that hutiters tind great s|h>rt after the rains sulfide, in nearly every j?ond. hundreds of geese will eotnc to ]>arndc and d's porf themselves in the shallow wafer. The s|M>rtsman who lias had the forethought to build himself a Mind nearby, can usually count oti good s|M?!*t on a blastry day fol lowing a rain on the beaches. I?nf WILL Ltrnsts TO MLD TWO-WEEKS REVIVAL Tin' members of fh?' Free "Will ISapfisf Chun-h will Imbl their first revival Ix-uintii*iir Tuesday. Novem l-cr ??. and continuing for two weeks. The Iter. Krnrst 1'ostoni of Ay Ion. \. will cuiiilnct the serv ices. The Free Will l!:i[it ists have not Iwen Ions organized in Fli/nhcth City. I?ut they have recently huilt a cluirch on Parsonage street antl ho|,| prcachins services once a month. A large nuiulter of the mem bers arc natives of Tyrrell County, a section of the state where the Kro will Baptists have a strong hoM. and from where luau.v Eliz abeth City residents migrated. CIO FXICIMNKS rK'TI'KE AT AEIiKA.MA NEXT WEEK "The .Mollycoddle." a his Douglas Fairbanks special, is coining to the Aikrain:.' for two days. Tuesday and Wednesday of next week antl is de claretl l?y .Manager John Burgess to l>e one of the biggest pictures of the season. "Bringing ttiis super-spce ?al picture to Elizabeth City tit this time costs us a lot of money," says Mr. Burgess. "hut we tire anxious to ojtcti tlie winter season with the very best pictures rimnins, and ex pect to give Elizabeth City as s<>o<l films risht at home as they can get elsewhere." For your eyes' sake see Pr. J. P. Hathaway, Optometrist. Bradford B'd" . Vp'Ci both Cite. v. c. J>a_ 'GOSSIP FROM j YOUR CAPITAL j Locke Like Work Mapped j Out For Currituck's Lov ers of Hunting r.y O. .1. COFFIN i Mpt'tlit] Kaleigh Correspondent of Till: INDEPENDENT KALKK il I. Oct. 31.?Cur-' til nek might as well got ready j lor a sure-enough fight it it expects to balk uniformity of ?Same laws at the next session lot" the (ieneral Assembly. The iXorth C arolina Fish and Game I League will be more than a I I name by that time, unless all ! signs fail, and will have built j isuch a hot fire under the divers 'members of the Legislature that a Statewide game law will ( | be a strong probability. The league alius at a momltership! of 2n.(MN? lN>fure the lU2o Legisla-1 ! tare meets. It is organizing the! larger communities first ami has a j 'man in the field. Italcigh is com-! ing through, i: is estiiuiiteil. with a j 'membership of around "(Mi. I Mir ham with that many and perhaps' < since hoth secretary and treasurer ? of the league are Durham men. a fj hundred more. Charlotte aliout four ^ hundred and (Ireenshoro. Asheville , and Winston-Salem in proportion. | - As soon as sufficient funds aceu- I initiate in the treasury every county >111 wliieh it is possible to effect an organization will he visited and the leagues will get busy informing ?he legsl.utors-to-be as to what the i will of the people is?or should he. 1 I Drains, prominence, pcrsistemv and money are heing interested. If the promoters do not weaken, it promises to he a great life for the Assemblyman who doesn't want to j think in terms of conservation of | wild life. Another Man l'aroled. Allen .1. 1 loneyeutt. whoso trial 'ami conviction a oottple of years 1W1 was a Fedcwi 1 court sensation, | will he eoHiiin: home from Atlanta soon. having l'een paroled l?.v Presi dent Cool idee on reeoiameiida! ion of Judge Henry (I. Connor and former District Attorney Aydlett. Honey eiitt, who distributed merchandise j; !stolen from trains passim: through j | in interstate eotninerc, was form-1 j ' orly a rather repntahle merchant at " the Falls of the Neitse this county, jj He made considerable money dur ing boom limes, always had many friends, who gave him :i good char-, neter at his trial, lie employed the ablest of etinnsel mid put up :i (l great fight. A lawyer now lives . ? li oil a Stio.ooo place which belonged to Iloiieyeittt when the trial begiin. t Coining home as applied to liis re turn was something of a figure of s speech. 0 Speaking of Mr. Aydlett, there jicrsists ti rumor in this section ? of the State that he has been think- , ing of contesting for llallett Ward's j seat in Congress, ahum with Dr. K. , J. Criffin of Chowan and Lindsay _ Warren of Ilcnufort. Th|- Itist ' named has heen mentioned about as often as First District polities was brought up for discussion: but of lute there has appeared among the statesmen of the First District visiting here a disposition to yield the seat to llallett without 21 sirug srle. j Looks (iooil For MrLran. Throimhoiit |ho Stale timos ap pear too good to start anything.! Thirty-cent cotton has piillt'<| nhout oil tIn* leading political lights of il Fast Carolina into 1 i!??? for Angus s Wilton McLean of Luuilicrton for ?' (Sovornor. it n|t|iv>irs. There is loss I'ailcy talk than for months past, h although tin* \vis?> I toys nod sagelj t ami concede that Bailey wotiM give 't in lifll if thi> bottom should dn?p ? out of farm prices as it tlid during j ? the year of the last gubernatorial { ? primary. j? As regards Hie movement to re- n tire memlters of (lie State adminis- 4. trot ion more or less as whole several I sprightly prospects have pine to the e bath-house, put on tlieir bathing 11 suits and strolled tlown t?? the water.1 n put in a toe ami heat it hack for l' their hritehes. Living is much loo doggoncd easy in the old North jj. State nowadays to stir tap any ex- | eiteineiif over turning it man out of' 4 a Sl.."iH) joh. j. For all the walk over this and f that concession made to special in- d terests, the prevailing sentiment is g to let well enough alone. e North Carolina has hecoine pri- 11 tnarily an industrial State. Its J-' capital is for the most part invest- ? ed in cori>orate prc?iK?rty. .Money l1 is timid and opjiosed to change: s sleek, well-fed folks seldom kick Si over the traces. The natural con servatism of (.he most American j, State in the t'nion is being added t] ' I('outiniicil on viage Fonr 1 *-?? Coming With M. E. Conference ] UK nofnl North Carolinian who was Secretary 01 the Navy in Wilson's abinet and who publishes tlie News & Observer at Kaleijjh. will come I o tliis city November 11 to IP when the Methodist conference takes'" ilace. No more interest inR or widely known North Carolinian than I J loseplias Daniels will attend this conference and Klizabeth City will take, ?ride in bis visit. 11 KKKP ON IIITTINO IT! Watching a child bouncing a rubber ball suggested this thought. A ball will ke< p bouncing as long as you .slrike it. When you cease striking, it may rebound a few times but each movement grows weaker until the ball become< inert. The same principle applies to your advertising. You must Keep "bouncliing" if yop want a "come-back" in sales. IJesides. it requires less ef fort and less expense to keep oil advertising than if dors to stop every litile wV.le ami then ge at it again. In the one case you have the ad vantage of "momentum"?in the other you mast overcome the "inertia." Keep "hitting the ball!" OKI.l.KK WII.I, SHOW IMC i:\lllltIT OK I'itOTIM.K \!'IIS An interesting exhibition of photo rapbs made by the Kastern faro 11a 1'hotograpliers" Association will e exliihited ill Kli'/.aheth City next feck. Tile exhibit is the same hat attracted so much attention ml favorable comment a; the big Hate Fair ami i? worth going out f the way to sec. \V. II. Zovllrr. fho is viee president of ilia I'hoto rapliers this year inditeed the issoeiation to send the exhibit to ?"lizabe'h f iI,v and xx i!I display it ii lis studio all next week. A COMMUNITY FAIR 'J AT NEWLAND SCHOOL js ) Arbor I My will he duly observed a iii Xeulnnd lliuli St-houl (hi Friday j It of this week when ii CiJiiuuimily *":? i:? is i? ? he simreil. Milking n double a reVhrntii.ii. Tin1 program will lie- * u: 11 .mi icii oYluik In the morning s iiiul will continue thru llif ilny. I Speeches will he niiuli' hy visitors. < Tin1 Iloiiii' I icnioiist ration chilis'f of Xewlnnd iiro iissisflng in tlie n preparations for tlio fnir and pro-n iiiisr ;i fine ilrinonstr.'ilioii of what ' tiny h.'ivi' learned to ilo under the." ?ol.li- (yrcriioii of .Miss March' Al-!> :!*>i\snii nullify lioliii' ili'lilonslI'll-| I ion audit. ; 1 Dinners .-iiiil suppers will lie sen-;* eil. ihe proceeds of which are to 1 lie i|oii:ili'il !?< I he iniproveiiieiil of j' I iIn* school iilirnry. The public is'1 coiili.illv invileil to aiteml. ' I TKXNAXT NK1.S0N , > Thus. T. Xi Isnn. proprietor of the ' Soniherii Hotel loss returned from 1 the funeral of his father. Teniiant i Nelson, use To. w ho died Sunday i t ;it his home in Knltinmre Coiiiity.il Maryland, following ii stroke of n apoplexy on Satunhiy. Mr. Nelson r was called to the heilsiile of Ills in lather mi Saturday. Mr. Nelson ,r w.as of one of the oldest and most :n proinitieiit families in Maryland, r lie was the sen of the late John 1 Nelson who was Attorney (Seneral t of the 1'iiiled Stales ilttriug the < i administration of rresident Tyler, i ami later Minister to Italy. The , .funeral was romlm-teil Tuesday. j ________ i n i # oJhe<BANK CtCQK THE S'OOA JCQKE.fi |f THE POLICE AND SOCIETY BOOTLEGGERS. \[ "I see the police arc now looking hlo high society for bootleggers." aiil l lie Haul; Clerk to tlx- Sot I a .?I ki'i\ "Ami lil like to km\w if thai !*n"l tin1 place In look for "em?" said h" SoiIh .Iciker. "It's mostly roil nooks thai make iliilo li<|iior, Imt the whito collar entry pi ink the profits. Von loodii'f think that, all those kill love sports around town who toil ml, spin not anil dress like tho liolnros in a stylo hook of Society, 5rand olothos are mission all t!???, asy profits in the honllcggiiig Inisi icss! Moot legging is jn-O the sort f soft snap they've boon wait inn or all their lives. "They pay some rough nook out I a the sticks five dollars a gallon a make the stlilT and tote it to "em. < 'hen they pay a black boy or some ool room loafer fifty cents a ijiiart or retailing it. All they have to 0 is to furnish an office or a a rage where the stuff can he re el veil and distributed, and they lake from five to twenty bucks a alien clean gravy out of the hnsi oss and never touch ir. If the oliee blow in and pick up their tock. they just look innocent and ay somebody framed 'em. "And the poor rough necks out 1 the tall timber who are making lie liquor are usually working for kiiio note higbei- on 'vtin hue nlentv 1 ?if coin Mini who lioliiiohs with the' lawyers ;iixl court officers. The 11 poor Imo!> sweating over the still 1 in the I'ocosiu gets nabbed nnd is 1 li to ld up as the cneni.v cd' society, i a All the rich man does is to get some- j v body to go on :i bond and whisper t something to the sheriff. If the , poli'o tire going to look into society j for bootleggers, they are going t> : \ look i!i the right, direction. But it's, my hunch that policemen know almiit as much about high society; and how to gel nround in it as a'li backwoods yearling ralf would Ie know about how to ramble around ; o in a Shrine Circus without getting |g Ids tail twisted and being rode for j e a billy goat. The coinimm run of s Cops are perfectly at home in no Nigger Alley or barking up the $ backstairs of a Biimmy Club, but-; g when you ]nit 'em on the trail ofje the real sports you might as well r be putting your grandpap's old sor- A id mare down behind u twelve's cylinder l'ackanl on u cement ? A road.*' 1 "Von don't think much of police-jo men. do you?" said the Bank Clerk. '1 "Oh. I like 'em all right; but tl in this strenuous and aggravatin' a age. haul workin' citizens like my- t self have got to have somebody a tu cuss; that's what wo hire police-, p men for. just to have somebody' standin' around that we can feel, privileged to say what we, doggone|T plea so about? RVIN COBB ON ! OUR ANCESTORS1 ' j loted Writer Doesn't Believe There were Many "Gentle men'" First Settlers Folks who brag about their arly Colonial ancestors should ut on the soft pedal around ? rvin S| Cobb who thinks ourj irst settlers were in the main ust ordinary run of folks and othi.ng to brag about. Mr. Cobb bus writfen mi interest- | iK article nlmnt North Carolina in lie current number of Hearst's I11 ?runtiomil in which he says Hint ,'orth Carolina is the greatest state oath of Mason & Dixon ami then ' nine: bufhe Isn't enthused over the i arly aristocracy. Mr. Cobb says:! "In the first place, bach at the eginnings of the English-speaking bite man's statu of things on this nntineiit, her soil was squatted up 11 by types of men and women ?hose descendants today form a opulatioii that makes North Car-1 lina perhaps the most typically 1 .tiierican of the .Southern States! nst as Indians, li.v virtue of sinrtlnr I lends In her original composition, I < undeniably the most typically! iineriean of all the so-called Middle ! Vest em States, aud just as Oregon, j nun similar causes, is probably the j lost distinctively American of all j hose Slates which indubitably?j ml geographically?are Western. | ,'liese first settlers almost exclu-1 ivcl.v were of Anglo-Saxon stocks. -nriisans, hi risers. smim <r;nu.-i>?: sturdy, hard-hciulcd. monoy-pnnr.i n nd-greedy raw. very sliorlly I<> ln> iiriclicil by {Troup* of Irish refugees i ml Highlander .Ineobites mid >it n uniewluit IntiT jieriixl by n valuable lmini of trekkors across tlu* moiui-j nins from up Pennsylvania way?! Junkers anil I>nti-liuit'ii niul Welsh-j noil, inn I uly: still Inter in 1110 Swiss mil ii fow Swedes out of Pelownro iml Now Jorsoy. So. yon soo. bolli 11 tin* strains of her ininii^rrntin^ mil her emigrating mlilifions, thoi ?tiling ooiiiitry signally was favored. ' She did not carry the outset the .union of an aristocratic institution vliieh his- high-headed neighbors on ?ither flank?Virginia ami South \-irolina?nlready were carrying. It nay sound like treason in some ears or me to say if. I being Southern ?orn myself, but ii seems to me the; South rather has overworked the; 'awilier fetish just as New Kng nml has overdone the Puritan ?'ather fetish. "I tun constrained to believe that here were not nearly so i-my gon lefoik among the Sunt hern -Is i is one might lie led to l> .otu ending of the histories. vv., is 11 rule, do not eric-: ?us uncharted sea to bin.- . wil-i tnd savage land. The in- . .1 ver foiitui. are prone to stay on at none: they are doing pretty well here, else they would not lie rat -d as belonging among (he elect. "It is the traveling tailor, the ?iinnway apprentice, the petty radesuiau in debt, the down-ut lels schoolmaster. tlie itinerant lrenclier. the briefless barrister, the ?titelicr, the bilker and the cniullc itiek-maker who compose the mass ?f settlers in far places and these toon absorb the' trickling adniix urcs of adventurous younger sons ind gentlemen soldiers of fortune vho wane with them overseas. Lnt r. with prosperity, the pleasing oninnce of an aristocratic ancestry j s created. "At any rato, this largely was rue of North Carolina's settlement. Ier first citizens dhl not build nnny mansions. hut with hush hook mil axe Made they hacked their ray to the heart of the wilderness here to set up thqir log home tea ds." VHY TRICES WENT DOWN . ON 01 R FALL TRt'C'K TEAS i As a result of a deluge of lima cans from the farms of the East rn Xlioro of Virginia and Maryland a the New York markets this wck, rowers in this section received tin xpected low prices for their coii- ? igiiinents of truck pens for the time f year. Truck pease went down to j 2.50 a basket when they seldom, p hrdow JSR at this seas in. This! xplanatiou is made by t". 1). B.vrd, j epresentative of .Jill Bros, of New j "ork who was here with Brock &} eotf Produce Company this week., Ir. Boyd stated that more than 5.000 baskets of lima tieaus went n the New York markets one day. 'lie limn beans sold much cheaper linn truck pens, and the result was serious drop in the market. Now hat the lima bean shipments are bout over, ho anticipates better rices on pens. ~ i Good eyesight is inexpensive. See >r. J. D. Hathaway, Optometrist, j !!i?bcth City, N. C. "Blackbeard" May Be Staged Here I, HERE is Blackboard. (lie famous piente of (lie N'orilt Carolina Coast as retreated by George Denny of the Carolina Playmakers. As the name of Blackboard is so often ; associated with the early history s of this section, "Blackboard, ? the Pirate of the Carolina Coast," may , Ite one of the plays whisk Play makers will present at their first;J performance in Elizabeth City at i a date to be announced. ? In the early part of the nine- , I rent It century orte of the most , notorious sea-robbers of all times was harrassing the coast of North America. His real name was Ed ward Teach or Thatch. But on ac count of his enormous beard he acquired the name of Rlacklteard. . He had come from England as a j privateer in the war of the Spanish succession, and was first heard of]' as a pirate in 1*16. when he began I cruising among the West Indies.' along the Spanish Main, and up | artd down the roasts of Virginia and the Curnlinas. Wherever he went ' (enroi- and death followed. In or-i dec to pursue his piracies tyt- j. molested in North Carolina. - lie ? ( made an ally of the weak-kneed i, Eden, then governor of the State, i, en prize. For a time the pirate j who shared with him many a gold en prize. For a time the priate led a rollicking life, forcing the | planters to cater to his will and | exacting toll from every vessel he hailed. At last the exasperated , settlers appealed to Governor ( Spottswood, of Virginia, who sent j Captain Maynard in November, 1718 .. with two sloops to take the ma-i, randers dead or alive. The scene . of the battle was off Ocracokc J beard's ship had run aground in , Inlet. North Carolina, where Black shallow water. In the fight ther, pirate was killed and his head taken back to the Virginia governor. |( ficinrc Hitnin I no prill i'ii kiii 01 our modern life, we hardly ran imagine wifli what fear (lie people j. regarded (his Atlila of (lie western ( world. To (hem lie was (he wrath i of God. Many a night (he quiet j roloii'st lay dreaming of this de mon and his frightful hand, hear- , ing (lie hlood-songs rise ahove (he crackle of (lie flames and (lie cries , of (lie dying, (o wake wilh (lie ! cold knife at his throat. ANOTHER VETERAN OF THE SEVENTH DISTRICT DIES I Another of th$ "old-timers" who ' spoilt a lifetime in the Coast Guard < serviio dropped out last week, when ' Capt. Macajah W. Etheridge. t*. S. ? I Const Guard. retiml, died al his 1 homo near JInnteo. Capt. Etheridjre i was keeper of New Inlet Coast Guard station until he was retired < a few years a fro. He was 7'? years 1 old and died of heart, failure on ' Thursday last. His surviving ehil- ' dren are M. W. Ktheridge. Jr.. of I Louisville, Kentueky: C. L. Etbe rblgij of Norfolk. Virginia: C. M .' Etheridge and Mrs. W. 0. Dough of , i Manteo. CLINIC FOR CRIITLK& Elizabeth City's erippled children will have an opportunity to attend , a clinic for cripples which will l??j, held hew on November 21, accord- f ing to Mr. Anna Lewis, County j Welfare Officer. jl l" ?, Carload of fine apples at our ' warehouse, several different variet- 1 ies, $2 to $2.2.7 a bushel. It rock & '' Scott Produce Co., Ilufgess Street.'1 cN2-lt. !' jl Don't neglect your eyes. Seej1 Hathaway. He knows. adv. HERE'S FORTUNE RUNNING WILD Experts Think our Yaupon Contains Possibilities as a National Beverage ' ? That some one may yet make a fortune from a plant that flourishes in a wild slat _? here iii Eastern North Carolina i> the opinion of experts of the IT. S. Department of Agricul ture. We have here a shrub that yields tea without tannin and front which some one may yet produce a soda fountain beverage that will eclipse Coca Cola in popular favor. The shrub in question is the com mon yaiqioii which our cmimIChtil ers drank. To all North Carolin ians it should lie u matte:' of much interest that the leaves of this particular sliruh, ifter thorough in vestigation by the Bureau of Chem istry of the C. 8. Popart incut of Agriculture, have hoe it recommend ed as n source for n new tea to bo called enssina tea. Or, prepared in the proper way with the addition of certain flavoring elements, it is suggested by the government men that there are genuine possibilities in the direction of cold drinks either for fountain use or for bottling. in a reeeui muicun n.v i?r. unirRf !?'. Mitchell of the Bureau of Chem istry, Washington, it is stilted that fit a recant fulr in the South IhHy gallons of cassina ten were dis|?ens ihI daily. From the general rapidly increasing interest in the new drink, (he Washington men Itelieve there are very promising commercial |s?s Kihilities in this new lievernge. The shrnh in question is known commonly as "ynupoii," "eassina" or "Christmas-berry" tree. In science . it is called Ilex eassene, which makes it a relative of the well known holly. When not exposed to excessive wind, the shrub assumes tin oval or nearly spherieul shape. It has rather rigid branches with sharp, stiff lateral shoots which are suggestive of thorns, hut it is not a thorn-bearer in any real sense. The small, firm, oval leaves (thrce foitrths inch long) are somewhat shining in full sunlight, nud lieing borne thickly, make this evergreen shrub one of the most lieuiitiful to lie found in the Suite. In its general ns|ieet it Is suggestive of Ihix. a shrub highly prized by horti ?ulturfsts everywhere. The use of the leaves for making brews of various kinds and strength lias long lieen practiced by certain folk in the regions where the plant ivas abundant, and it is well kno. Hint thy Indians would make long liihrriiiiagcs In obtain (lie leaves, riicre had not been worked out In the past, however, any standard methods of curing the leaves or deli iiitc* recijies dealing with the use of them in hot and eoN drinks. The essential beverage element in the leaves is caffeine, of which there is. according to I)r. Mitchell, about i?ne per cent. In some samples It will run as high as 1.0 per cent. Cof fee may contain up to l.Kr per cent mid tea .'C" per cent. So that from it caffeine stund|Kiint eassina may be rated as a mild drink. The writer of this article is caf feine sensitive, yet n clip of cassiua lea at night produced no n 'icenble insoninia. The drink, it might lie said, may Is* readily placed in the "there is a reason" class of harm less foods. Iii lasti* is resoiiiiiics ten, wnuoni ilif undesirable tang ??f tanliin which ton possesses. II lias n dis tinctive flavor, nblcli to the seusi liilities of the writer, is very attrac tive. The writer's sample rame from I lie Washington laltoraloric.-;, the leaves having lieen treated in no I'ortlanee with reeeiitly worked-out inetliotls. It is of much interest to kitow that the famous South American ilri'nk, Verla* Slate, or simply mate, is made from a near relative of our I'lissina. There is sm-li a demand for tiiis tea that in Argentine alone Itm.iHMi.ootl pounds per annum of the dried leaves are consumed. This is alioiil lid pounds |k-^* |<ers .11. It is needless to remark that if -assina tea come* into any such vogue in this eoimlry, it would mean that certain rather extensive irons of sterile sandy land in the ?vestal counties would quickly ad vame in value and North Carolina ivoiild enjoy a repetition of her famous Sand Iiiils story. If one may judge by the distil lation of (lie plant in uatiire, Hie ?assina actually does hotter in the poor loneliod-out sandy strctclics of upland soil, such soil which hardly inywhere is under cultivation at [he present time. It. should, how ever. always be remembered that plants of'- dimes occupy certain ureas simply lieeause they ran not (Concluded on Page 2)