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VOL. XVIII., NO. 964. _SSgjagS.y??'ir as- ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 2nd, 1926. " SINCLE COPY 5 CEITO.
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Ltho are ili en-n-h to In- in j
?ion.l li-xv few "t i he women
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tii-tu down. The ln>>
.i.--tors recover what j
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hive the means t*? pay.
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rt.an y?n think it to ?h- j
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r,r to l> e\horl?itant.
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WASHINGTON COUNTY I
AFFAIRS ALL IN A MESS
When You Put a Republican Auditor Over;
Democratic Office Holders There's
The Devil To Pay
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There is the devil to pay in
Washington Countv. j u s t j
across the Sound from us, since
they got to mixing up the poli- j
tics of that county, putting in I
Democrats in some county of
fices and Republicans in others.
There is no harmony in the!
County administration ami out j
of all the discord the tax pay-1
ers are learning something
about county government.
e v. \V Audmn. Clerk of th?
t'ulirt i* a'legm? t<? l?> short $4,307
in hi* accounts mill uiiii against j
him is now (tending ami on the i
?I'm km of the July term of the j
Sitjierior Court for trial.
former Sheriff J. E. Iteiil died
in Mareh tO'J.'t ami investigation of
his affairs disclosed -i shortage of1
S:;i.inh?. His bondsmen are lieing
siie'l. Ex Sheriff Reiil was succeed
???I in office hy his son -T. K. Iteiil
who lias Untie the nest lie eonlii to
in.ike good his father's shortage ami
has actually maile unml $?>.imh> of '?
the amount.
An audit of the acoiuits of thej
former treasurer Tins Holmes in-.
dicatnl a -hortiisi' of $I..'IHIVUU in
that gentleman's accounts. Air.!
Holmes oldigingly gave the audi- j
tors. A. I.ee Rawlings & Co., his
|M-rsonal check for $1..Wi.tl2 to l>al
am e his accounts. That was in j
August 1R2I. That rliii k lias not |
been dc|iosited for collection or |
turned over to the County Treasur
er yet. according t>? \V. .1. Jaeksoti.
Jr.. the County Auditor.
Jiokson alleges that the check
is held in the archives of the
County Roard of Edueation mid i
makes no lames a Unit saying that,
the Roard of Education is shield-1
ing Holmes.
In the meantime John W. I>ar-'
den. who has occupied the office
of County Su|H>rinteiidetit of Edit-1
cation for Id years or so is lieing i
licensed here and there of all sorts
of irregularities. Jackson charges
that Harden borrowed RJoJHXi for
tlie schools and dejiosited $10.(mh>
.of the sum to his personal account,
issuing vouchers for school supplies
against his |iersonaI account.
Jackson also charges that Har
den purchased certain school trucks
of the International Harvester Co..
of Charlotte. X. C.. issuing a vouch
er therefor in the sum of $K.."V?4..1o.
Jackson alleges that Darden pre
sented no original invoice covering
these trucks and that when lie got
a statfinent ??f the account from
the International Harvester Co. the
hill for the trucks was $7,600.75.
or $SS|.?jn less than the amount of
the voucher issued to Harden for
the trucks. Jackson hints strongly
that this ilifference of $?&4.fkl repre
sents a profit ont of the truck trans
action that Harden took for himself.
This young man Jackson, the i
county auditor is the real trouble-!
maker in Wasbfug|oii. He just
can't seem to understand why the |
affairs of the county should not 1st !
conducted on a business-like basis j
and when he sees the tax payers'
money running thru all sorts of I
rat holes he raises an alarm and
talks al-oiit it in a way that makes
the accused county offieils bate him
and call him all sorts of unprint
able names.
Tint Jackson goes right on talking.
The editor of this newspa|M>r sat j
in his office in Plymouth the other i
morning and heard him make the j
bold charge that Supt. Harden
should 1m? removed from office and J
that lie bad appealed to the County
Hoard of Education and to the f
State Suiieriiitendent of Public In- '
ft ruction to bring Harden to task, j
but that neither the County Board !
nor State Superintendent A. T. [
Allen would make any move against j
Harden. "Harden is strongly in-1
trenched." declared Jackson: "He j
has held the office until I guess |
he thinks it N'longs to hiin: he is;
;t great church man. a great secret j
order man. Iielongs to the Shrine j
and the Ku Klnx Klan and has a [
a large following to back him in al-j
most anything he does."
Turning to his files Jackson pro-;
dnced an affidavit made by a j
Washington county artisan who did ,
some work on one of the schools in j
that county, who swears that, act-'
ing H|?on orders from Harden, he
took loads of materials from the !
s'-hooolhouse, carries] it to the:
premises of Superiuteiideut Harden j
and used it in the construction of
Harden'.- own nome.
"That's tne way iauq&s go ia 1
-r.. 2?->- ' acta re; iucj
Republican auditor who audits the]
a ecu tints of Democratic officeliold- f
ers. The Democrats ??f Washing-:
tun County will just have to get 1
rid of Jackson and put a "good
Democrat" in the office of County |
Auditor, if they don't want tho lid 1
Mown off for fair.
Eye strain tauseti tvtKted herve
energy. Let us look after your eyes.
Drs. Hatha way. Flinton Bide. adv.
MILES JENNINGS SAYS J
"They certainly do have a lot ??f >
liisthfnliitiu names tliyse days to j
make farming attractive to thy now j
generation. What they used to call
following the cows wheu 1 \rus a t
boy is now called animal has-1
laindry. If you had called it auiuial t
hushnndry when I was a kid we I
would have thought you were talk- j
ins; about breeding."
Old King Spud Is a
Merry Old Siud
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COTTON is only a pretender to the
throne in thus corner of the South- j
lahd. Here Potato is Kins and
WillMttiriie Harrell, an Elizabeth'
City Iwy, ha* pictured him here as !
a merry old soul; as merry in fact'
as famed King Cole. Rut. unlike!
King Cole wIhi was selfishly con- J
tent to call for his "pipe, his howl
and his fiddlers three" for Ills owrf;
selfisti amusement. King Spud calls
for horse races, ha.se ball, a big
brass hand and lots of other things {
to entertain alt the |?eop!e while do-'
?ng homage to him at Elizabeth City
Monday. July 5.
WANTS AVENUE!
OF JAPANESE!
CHERRY TREES
iWould Make George Washing
ton Highway Scenic Wonder
of Atlantic Seaboard
An avenue of cherry trees
ingre than twenty miles in
length along the route of the
George Washington Highway
from Deep Creek. Va. to South
Mills, N. C., and possibly from
South Mills to Elizabeth City,
is the latest dream of Dick
Job. secretary of the Elizabeth
City Chamber of Commerce.
And licing an Englishman and a j
Chamber of Commerce Secret a ry nil
at (tie same time, lie is doubly seri
ous about it. The Carolina-Virginia
highway between Elizabeth City
and Portsmouth, via the Dismal
Swamp ("anal has lieen named the
George Washington Highway in
honor of the Father of Our Country
and the original surveyor of the
Dismal Swamp Canal. Visions of
cherry trees instantly occur to one
in connection with the name of!
Washington, since it was a cherry !
tree which the mythologisls tell us i
Little George laid low with his |
little hatchet.
And now it. leaks out why George |
clioppcd down that, cherry tree. It I
was not a regular fruit hearing
cherry tree so dear to the heart of
gonna ml i/.ing boyhood, hut just one
of those ornamental Jaiaiiiese cherry
trees that hear hlossoms profusely
Imt yield no fruit. That's the kind ]
of cherry tree Secretary .lob wants j
to see planted in rows up and down j
the route of the George Washington !
Highway: making it the most
romantic, the most colorful and the .
most talked aliout piece of scenic |
beauty on the whole Atlantic Coast- |
al Highway.
Mr. Job has already had County |
Agent G. W. Falls write to the C. |
S. Unreal! of Forest ry at Washing
ton to find out the prolstble cost of
the project, ami whether the Japa
nese cherry tree will thrive as well
on the black lands of the Dismal!
Swamp country as they do 011 the I
red clay soil around Washington, j
Secretary Job thinks the Federal |
government itself will fall hard fori
the idea of setting up an avenue oft
cherry trees in commemoration of
the immortal Washington, buf what,
he is thinking about first of ail is
the attraction of such a scenic high
way for thousands of tourists in the
early summer months when the mil- j
. . i
lions of delicate blossoms wellld
Inmhii. Not ( lily would tlloy hlo'jip. I
l'?i; iii blooming shod millions of j
gorgeous petals tlmf. would literally '
carpet the hideous Virginia soolion
of the (Jeorgc Washington Flihj*\va.v !
mid leni|i:?r;irily conceal the rough I
plates in one of the most atrocious :
pieces of highway const ruction over
unloaded upon the traveling puldic. j
The Clnniiher of Commerce of
Norfolk. Portsmouth. Deep Creek.
Walhieoton mid South .Mills tiro ex
pected to join with the Chnnihcr of
Coiiuneree of Kli/.aheth City In
boosting the idea of an avenue of
cherry trees for the (Iconic Wash
ington Highway. Laying all Jok
ing aside; it is a beautiful idea.
The movies employ .".(HUMid poo- j
pie. have over ?JO.ihmi picture houses'
and have invested In the industry ;
Sl.otKUKio.OOO.
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We examine the eyes and fur
nish glasses the same day. (see Drs. I
Hathaway, llinton llldg. adv.
EDENTON HAS ITS OWN
JULY 5, CELEBRATION
Two Fast ir<u.-;i> Races and League
Baseball ilaine In Chowan
Capital That Day
LMentou will haw Its own fourth
|of July celebration or Fifth of .lull
celebration rather, Monday. whe?i
[two fast horse races, and league
baseball will provide entertainment
for the growing Chowan county capi
tal. The races start promptly at
one n'eloek In order to get. thru
I promptly for the hall game. The
| first race is a class A. trot and
pace, while the second race is a
class It. trot, and pace. In the form
! cr such well known entries as Lee
Trilby. Alwrta Kitchen. Silby I'al,
and drove Town will take .pari.
While entries in the later race
are Lee IT.. Marguerite If.. Itillie
(tale, and Rusty Coat.
The game on that date is expeet
|od to be one of the liveliest of the
season.
The Potato's Servants in Pasquotank
HERE is a Kf-oi;|i of Government men and their assistants who arc
helping to make the potato king in the Elizabeth City section. They
comprise the Government inspection force who are teaching the growevjs
the advantage of inspection ami grading, under the direction of A. E.
Meieker of the liureati of .Markets and the Department of Agriculture,
and also the clerical force of \V. G. I,onsen, laical Representative of the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics, sending out daily reports from Eiiz
azclh City, <>? the market situation. From left to right (hey arc| top
row: A. G. Mare. Jr.. J. It. Moore. IF. C. Kdmett, S. C. Oliver Jr. \V. C.
Warner, \V. F. Deirnell and t). W. Dowd; middle row, G. B. Bobbins, IV.
G. Scott James, head of (lie local inspectors, Itichurd C. Job, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce, V. G. I?ensen, G. 11. Gillespie, J. It. Britt.
Bottom row. 1). A. Holder, J. D. Midgett G. I.. Robertson, Jr.. Davis
Job, ropy hoy, and Frank E. McCahe. There are a total of some Hi
men in the local field, but some half a dozen were missing when the
pictures were made. Tim young ladies in the picture are Misses Fujanie
l.ee West, lair.icc Dayman and Clara Carter, stenographers. I'hoto by
Zoeller's Studio.
The Mother df "W. O."
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THIS newspaper owes much of its hutnun greatness and .strength of
character to this fine, plain, clean, straight-thinking, big-hearted woman,;
Ella Ilyrd Saunders, mother of XV. O. Saunders Himself. She always i
loved folks and disliked hypoerisy, falsehood and sham in any guise.1
One of her frequent sayings that made a profound impression upon her I
boy was this: "Tell the truth and sliamc the devil". Ami earily in
"\X. ()." learned how well truth pays in the end. Ohe day his mother j
thought it advisable to give him a switching. Hers was a strong j
linn in those days and she did not spare the rod when she thought ,
it necessary to apply it. "W. 0." knew tho character of his mother. In- j
stead of denying Ids guilt or whimpering and begging oil', he stood up
manfully, took oft' his coat and said: 4 Mother. give me a good one; i!
deserve it." Instead of getting a deserved whipping himself he had j
whipped his mother: she threw dowu her peach tree switch, enfolded him
in her amis and with tears streaming down her checks forgave him and
blessed him. A boy doesn't forget a tiling like that.- In Tho July issue
if The Ameriean .Magazine Mr. Saunders tells soinelhing of the intimate
life store oi this muifier of his. The piece is reprinted in this issue of
I'tie Independent for the benefit a thousar-zL ot riLii readers trhe may !
not sec Tile ?>i MajaxittS. _ _ I
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C/h?<BANJK CUftK TUC SODA JE.RKLR
ALL SALT WATER YARNS AREN'T SEA YARNS
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"We bad a seene at our hoarding j
| house last night." said the Bank}
| Clerk to the Soda Jerker as he
paused t<? see if he eould find the
hain in a pair of slices of bread
that he had bought for a sand
wich.
"What was the trouble?" asked '
the Soda Jerker with an eager show j
of curiosity.
"I only learned this morning."
said the Bank Clerk. "One of our
prettiest girl boarders has been wor-;
rying with a pain in her side and j
thought she had appendicitis. She;
went to Doc Coinhg and he told her ;
she should bring him a specimen for |
uranalysis. She got the specimen j
for the doctor and poured it into j
an empty Listerine bottle already
to take down town in the morning.
"She left her room yesterday i
morning, forgeltiug to take the J
s|K'ciiueii with her and didn't think '
of it until she was going out the |
door. When she discovered that
she had forgotten she told one of J
the maids who was cleaning the hall
to run up to her room and bring her j
the bottle.
"The maid rati upstairs ami j
brought a bottle of Listerine itself
and the poor girl didn't notice the
difference. She had forgotten that
there Was a bottle of Listerene on ,
the' same shelf with the Listerine
!>ottle that contained her specimen. <
"Well sir. she took that bottle of
Listerine to Dr. Combs. The color
was nil right and looked like the'
real thing. Dr. Combs examined
it. and saw that a mistake had been j i
made, hut lie didn't let on. He
knew there was nothing wrong with
his patient anyway, so cnuckled
to himself and tola her that an ex- i
cii fed :i tendency toward halitosis [
probably due to some minor and I
temporary digestive disturbance. j
"Everything was lovely until j
about 11 o'clock last night when the
young lady prepared to retire. She j
got down her bottle of Listerine and I
poured It. all over her head, rubbing I
it well into her scalp, without dis-j
covering her mistake at once. Then j
she took a gargle of it to rinse her t
mouth out while she was rubbing j
her scalp. It was not until she got j
a mouthful that she discovered the]
mistake. ??Ii Boy! That girl let. j
out a yell that, brought everybody
la the neighborhood out of hod and j
they found her on the floor of her i
room kicking, screaming. crying and j
raising the dev?l generally.
"When she finally did recover i
from her rage I think she would 1
have murdered that maid who mix
ed up the bottles and tlion pone on ;
the warpath for Dr. Combs, if the!
other women in the house hadn't j
restrained her. She sat up all !
night last night washing and sham- j
pooing her hair and rinsing her
mouth out with Zouite, Lavoris and j
Borax."
The Bank Clerk eoneluded his
yarn and started to leave.
"Here you." shouted the Soda ;
.Terker: "You've left your dog be-t '
bind: take that dog along with you
or he'll l>e hanging around here all j
day." :
"That isn't a he dog." said the, i
Bank Clerk: "It's a she dog; that's j1
why it likes to hang cut around a
soda fountain all day."
I
Because you can see well, it's bo '
retison your headaches are not cans I
pd by your eyes. Z?.z. Hatn-j
17/17. 31 - r J
NEW YORK MAN!
TO BUILD NEW
$450,000 HOTEL
W. L. StodcWd of New York \
Selected by Directors to
Draw Plans for Com
munity Structure
\Y. L. Stoddard, noted New
York (architect was selected
Wednesday night to draw plans I
for the Virginia Dare, Eliz-!
abeth City's new community
hotel. The hotel is to contain '
100 rooms, and will he nine!
stories high, counting first!
floor and mezzanine. It will j
contain six stores and coffee I
shop for rental purposes.
Mr. Stoddard Is well known in
North Carolina where he built some;
.10 am? odd of the newest and most:
magnificieiit hotels of the state!
Antony: 'lie hotels he planned are
the Battery Park and (Jeo. Vaiidcr-I
i hilt Hotels .-it Asheville. the O'Henry !
I at (ireenslioro, the Sir Walter at
i Raleigh. the Sheraton at High
i Point, the now Hottol (Johlslsiro. [
j the Ifotel Charlotte and the hotel at I
II -uncord.
I It was not until after a commit
tee of the laiard of directors had j
inspected these and other leading
hotels of live state in order to give j
Elizabeth City the benefit of their;
! observations. Hint Ihc.v wore willing i
to decide upon the architect, tic-j
I cording to C. O. Hohinsoti, prosi-;
dent of the hotel committee. "We
are building a hotel to last many
I years and we want to give Elfoc
I a both City the very host and at the
| same l.ime get the most possible for
i the money of those who have iu
I vested in it.
j II will probably lie September bo
fore ground can lie liroken for the
| new hotel. In the meantime the
(?architect must complete his plans,
before tori tractors' can lie llotified.
Hut the work is now underway, of
completing all the preliminaries ami
subscribers to the stock arc urged
to cooperate with the committee
in makiiur prompt payment of their
subscriptions.
Tentalive plans for the new hotel
present a very striking layout. The
j hotel will he luiilt on the corner of
! Mc.Morrine and Fearing Streets
| with, an arcade running in from
| McMorrine and out to Main. The
entrance to the hotel iolihy will
open on this areade. which will Ik?
1-1 feet wide. The coffee shop of
I the hotel, will o|ieii on McMorrine
Street and Hie areade. The en
tranee leading in from Main Street !
will he 12 feel wide, and flanked on
either side by stores and offices,
to lie financed independent of the
hotel. Two stores under the hotel
proper, and a part of tho hotel
building, will he located on the
Main Street entrance.
Three, stores IS by 40 feet, will
front on McMorrine Street, while
the barbershop hotel lot' will front
on Fearing Street. The hotel lot
fronts !l'l feet on McMoriiie Street
and 122 feet on Fearing. The lobby
will lie located in the center of tlie
building, with windows fronting oil
Fearing. The assembly hull will j
l>e located on the Mezzanine facing ;
McMorrine Street, and the kitchen .
and private dining room will be at!
the rear of the building.
Steps will lead downward from j
the areade to the basement, and j
public lavatory connecting with die
barbershop. Steps upward from tho j
arcade will lead to the lobby. The,
arcade may lie entered cither from
Main or from McMorrine.
Each floor above the mezzanine,]
will contain 11 bedrooms. Provision |
is made whereby CO additional rooms
may be built if the growth of the i'
hotel demands their consttuction.
APPROACHES TO CHOWAN!'
BRIDGE LET THIS WEEK1.
i
The $2,000,000 higifvav letting <
ar Raleigh this week, included the >
approaches to the Chowan bridge. '?
Xello Ij. Teer of Durham was the
low bidder on the two projects.
There are 14.22 mile.- on route S42 s
between Windsor and the Chowan 1
Brl J?c to cost $128.1081$, and Hi J1
miles between the briflge ana taen
011 to cost SI 13.910. These were the
Dnlv coutntets of interest in this
teetion.
Tn? District or Columbia has th<
nuwtvi oi i&rms in t!?
Rimed Stares. 139, while Tf -. 0
tit, is* la.jc-i oc v^
CELEBRATING MILLION
DOLLAR POTATO CROP S
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Elizabeth City Sets Aside Monday, July 5tH,
as Potato Day; Will Offer Its Visitors
Bargains, Baseball and Horse Races
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Everybody in Northeastern
North Carolina is urjjed to
visit Elizabeth City Monday,
July 5. and help the town cele
brate the section's million dol
lar potato crop, for such it is
called by bankers and brokers
who^say shipments sent thru
Elizabeth City alone this seas
on have brought in a million
dollars, to the great relief of
local trade channels.
Nearly a hundred carloads a day,
for several days. leaving this sec
11ton have brought in a steady
stream of dollars. Hotter grading,
| and Government inspection . have
helped to win letter prices, and a
tremendous yield above what was
expected, made shipments largjer
than in many a year.
Monday will be a big day in Eliz
abeth City, if plans made by the
Merchants Bureau of the Chamber
of Commerce get thru. A feature
of tlie program will Ih? prizes iotal
iug nliout $2HO. The Eli/.nl?eth City
Boys Band, and the Masonic Band
will play on the courthouse gr?en
where the potatoes exhibited, will
bo Judged,
The, potato contest will be held
at 11 o'clock. A. E. Merckor, in
spector in charge of the Govern
ment force working in this section
will give practical demonstrations
of grading and packing.
Entertainment for the day will
also be provided by fast horse races
at the Fair Grounds beginning' at
1 1\ M. There will be two events,
a trot and pace, and among the
entrys are such well known horses
as Country Boy, Petrol, Nancy M.,
Millie Frisco, Corbln, Sclnm X? and
others.
A double header at the baseball
diamond promises (o be a big fea
ture. Elizabeth City meets Oole
ruine in the morning, at 10 o'clock,
and Hertford in the afternoon at
;.'{() o'clock.
Special trade advantages have
been announced on that day by
many ot .-t local stores.
STOCKHOLDERS
ffl LOCAL BANKS
DRAWDIVIDENDS
.Semi-annual and quarterly divid
end cheeks mailed In the stockbold
ers of Elizabeth City financial in
stitutions this week totnl $40,660.
The largest dividend was that of
the Savings Bank & Trust Co
seven per cent. This hank pays an
annual dividend of 15 per cent,
making: an 8 per cent payment in
January. Its stoekholders received
a total of $7.0n0 this week.
The First & Citizens National
Bank paid its usual sis per cent
semi-annual dividend, its stockhold
ers receiving $12,000.
The Virginia Carolina Joint
Stock Land Bank increased its divid
end from 5 1-2 to 4 j?er cent semi
annually on July 1, paying to its
sto< kholders $12,000 in dividends.
The Southern Trust Co. paid its
usual -id?er cent semi-annual divid
end. its stockholders receiving $5,
000.
Stockholders in the Ifood System
Industrial Bank received their usual
4 per cent semi- annual, a total of
$2,100.
The Atlantic Discount Corpora
tion, a concern that is only one year
old. dealing in uutomohile paper
and similar to the Commercial
Trust Co. of Baltimore, paid Ha
preferred stockholders a quarterly
dividend of 1 3-4 per cent and its
common stock holders anticipate a
six iK'f cent annual dividend.
The Carolina Banking & Trust Co.
will issue no dividend, conveying its
profits to its surplus account.
Every hank and financial in -ti
lution in Elizalietb City is reported
in a thriving condition and a suc
cessful potato season starts them
nft' with hSJfp.v prospects for a new
fiscal yea?/