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The Independent i i VOL. XX.; NO. 1,050. hMverwj aa Second Claae Matter at the Poet-office ELIZABETH CIT Y, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1928. ***>** Z ? %kVBiea SINGLE COPY S CENTO I *t Elizabeth City. N. C.. June ?. 1?*8. [ ?-L-? few ?hereafter 'iS^Can'l ("' Ri"1' ?? ently A, pf" 'u , rttH'uitos JiW4 '' . a I'll f r" , ;? ' . iii iik "? M>x :? v,? . <>m Mr ' -?>? "Ul" . rt;... !?:;* 'A " Thrir ?,,r . ^ itnlN itt rt'SW 'i I"" ,!?? wi,il ' '.... th aii-l ? ... !l :? ? ?'4a?^r ? ?? > i" * .1. ;? ' . . .. ;? :?'!? .1:1'Z . ,\v - ? rii.it 11??" ?I-H' ?r*" ... | til! Mm* s,v. thsit ? ? ;?!!??*- r 1 .,1! ill iothiiis " ?t!l 'lif whit?* **rSS!v . ?*? ;i'"'- :""1 ? ?, ttt '!'?? iu,i" * " . ? , - a I -' I"' I"*' :vt-tv tl.f.v lia.l ***?" "" , s Miiu" ii.ihi?"?-1,,x i'1 .if - M' -I' :?"?? * , ',4,1 x": Uhy '1""t .. ;i:i.| throw -rr^- - J J ,.. _.nr l.llll. tt "( !????*? Iv A ' I . ... . .Mlllrll ?v ?? I. ... ?? * * I - I. \ I K\ I-.. I I? ? V. ? . ? 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Everett, beloved Secretary of State i of North C arolina in Raleigh Tuesday night, has brought State , Senator P. H. Williams of Elizabeth City into the limelight as 1 a possible successor to Mr. Everett and disclosed something of the higher political aspirations of Senator Williams. If li'iw buuit l-iioivn f<*?* wolotk tinin ? "??????????? ? that Senator William* lias hail his | , rye on fhe office of State Treasurer, i i Hi fore the lmdy of William Nash! Kverett was barely cotii friemls of Senator Williams iu Elizala'tli City I were stirring up telegram* to the Coventor urging Mr. Williams' ap pointment to fill the unexpired term of the ileatl Secretary of State. i Ami in their zeal some of the, friemls of Senator Williams have let it !>e known that for several years Mr. Williams has had his eye on the governorship ami that lie j particularly desires u State office' that would give him a position at j the capital in which he could com mand the attention of the State and exhibit his qualifications for high- ; er office. Senator Williams i> an aide man: ' in fact he i* perhaps the peer of' any man iu hi* own bailiwick in the matter of sheer intellect, lie has hi* enemies iu Klizalieth City, but even his enemies admire his genius ami capabilities and would help' rather than hinder his higher poli tical ambitions. Cxccpt for his active presidency of the Savings Hank & Trust Co. Mr. Williams has practically retired from business; he has salted away a comfortable fortune and lias both the time ami tin* money to seek i gnlieriiatorial honors. It takes both i in North Carolina. And here gossip gets .iu jimre work. It is [minted out that if: Senator Williams goes to ltaleigh ? the Savings Hank A Trust Co.. de- [ prived of his exjiert direction, would not easily find his equal. Hut that | is a matter of small moment, says. ip. since if will l?e only a mat- f ter of a few years l?efore the Sav-I .lings Hank & IViisf Co. ami the First j A Citizens National will consoli-1 date anyway. IMreetots "f (with in-J I stitutions are known to l>e favorable 11 to such a consolidation. And that * . u, > more talk. j( Ami III Raleigh 111 .111 effort t" a litif* on Sen ?tfor Williams' chances for the ftp" |x>iutmcnt .to the vaiiWity iu tin* office of Swrrtar.v of Slate, tliis newspaper wiyed its' Ualei^h ror-j res|?oiideiit yesterday. The Raleigh i o|res|M?ndei?t report-, as follows: KALK1GII. X. I'.. Kel?. !>. UrJ*.? Although uinek private ?li-.iu>sh?n" yesterday of a or to Secretary of State W. N. Kverett save to Sen i ;'?"r I'at Williams a commanding f lead. Activity begun here today imli'.ites that William S. Move <>f Rocky Moiint. may have what the| politicians regard as the inside traet to the ap|M>intmeiit. At the snmcl ?time, it U-<Hiiie known during the' dn\ that inflnential friends of Max j l? Ahernethy. former newspaper j tn.Hi who has l.een eliief elerk to the late seeretary for three years, arel U"ins to ask Governor McLean that j he name Ahernethy to fill the term of offi.-e expiring .launary 1st, next.' Senator Williams has a l>ig ad |! vantage. however, in that lie is rIn* type Mi l.'-an likes to ap|x>int to ? f- J . fi<e. lie is a hanker and his legis i lative re'-ord has heen sneh as to ? commend him to the Governor. Ir rather leaked out here today ? that while the Klizaladh I'ity man is McLean's preference, the governor may hesitate to name him through a I fear that his appointment will he : repudiated at the polls in June. Me-1 Lean is a candidate for the I'nited State Senate whenever there is a j vacjiw-y. opposition to him at tliis purely speculative state, is sitffieient ' to promote a primary candidate - against Williams. It is donhtfnl I ' that Move would have as formidable opposition were he to ho appointed, and almost certain that Aiiernethy. if named for the unexpired term, i would not run for the nomination. Move said here last night that he ' was "a receptive candidate" hut that In* would not attempt to get en-' k dorseiiient until after the funeral | '" of the late secretary. Mires had heen received here from Klizuhoth I t 'il.v asking emlorsenjeuts for Wil-. " liams last night. Williams iu Raleigh | Senator Williams was in Raleigh | Thursday in conferem* with Gover . nor McLean and friends here are' confident that lie will lie tin- Gov-! ernor's appointee. i , i m eKvKwill pay you three cents a! ?v iKum.i for gooi clean rugs. uol . j '. XHL' PE VT? *? ?"T. ' Wh DON'T WANT CHRIST. JI'ST HIVE I S IIKI.L Elizabeth City lias a great preacher in its midst this week; lie is Kt. Rev. K. K. L. Stridcr, liishop of the diocese of West \ irginia. He is ail able ard rhxpicnt preacher of great poise, digirty ard character. He came to Christ Church last Sunday to conduct a week of evangelical services. Since Sunday morning he has delivered a number of the finest ard most helpful sermons heard in this city in a long time. And there were less than 10(1 hearers ir his audience Wednes day night. The people do not want ( lit is tuciity; the people want religion. The petiole have no car for a clean, wholesome, educated ex ponent of (he gospel who comes with a sane and reasonable mrs- i ?age: the people want an abusive. inu:l-slii:ging. hell-raising, hate engendering Salvationist. Four thousand turned out nightly for six weeks to hear one of that type in Elizabeth City a few years ago ami are now eager to hear his likes again. ? ~ CHOWAN BRIDGE ROUTE WILL BE SEWED UP SOON t I Contract? let la?t week for paving the twenty one miles of 1 dirt road between Ivlenton and! W indsor on Route means j that much tourist traffic will bej diverted fiom fclizabetli City; this summer. The road will be! ' " . 1 impassable most <?f the time while the paving i? under way.; ('? fttraets for !hi> important pro-l. ie?t were let t<> the lloherts Piivinc ! i n Work i? to ln'jjiii immediately nii<I paving is In .-tart from both ; ends of the rojol i Kdeuton ami ( Wiml <>r? -imnl'aifou Iv. With uood weather the eontrieh rs will laiiM a mile or more of mail a week. Hut j fhe.v will have many w ? < k< of had j rather thi? winter and sprin;: and j the ??ompletii'ti of the road before! late summer i< not anfh ip.ited. "I know I will he in for a l??t of i eiissinjx now." -ays Chairman Frank j Pau" of rlie \. C. Highway F> in mission, "hut this happens to he one; of those roads from whirdi truffiej ean not always he eonveniently de-; toured ami there will he times when ! the road will ho closed to traffic:' that's uoiiix fo he hard on a lot ??*" ? traveller? and t shall not think hard I of them if they relieve their ire by I enssiim me out." Hat. (>h I toy! What a joy il will j he to plan a trip to the interior of the State icxt fall without having; to 'phone ahead U"iiiu and comim: to I find out whether the Chowan Kiver Hnilue route i< passable? The road in its present nnpaved condition ( holds much terror for motorists fol lowing every heavy rainfall. Hotel Stores. Will Pay Bi^ If We Can Wait K'ental from the stores and! offices of the Virginia Darej Hotel and it> Main Street an-i 11 ex will eventually yield handsome return on the invest ment and go far toward put-J ting the hotel itself on a (livid-! end paying business, according i to Col. Clius. II. Consulvo. owner ami j liianatrer of the Moutirello. Norfolk :| the Jefferson. 'Kiehmoml a ml the j I'elve?lent. Baltimore. But it. takes time to rent new store spares ami run the rents up. to wb/r: the- shoe bnodsotur pre fit. Col. Consulvo cites his Monti rello in Norfolk as an illustration. The M*>ntjro||o was huilt in iSStS. Kor a I mix time mo-t of its Mores were vacant ; for several years the rentals from the nine stores in The Month-olio amounted to only a year. "I'he.v were hrinxim; in only <|s.(MMia yeai in 1JH*. To day they are renting for $si?.ii<m> a year. Col. Consolvo.paiil iiis first visit t ? the Virginia I tare only last l-'ri day. "Hetmtifnl! he evclainusl. after heiilx shortn Hurt. "You've ttof it all over the Cavalier at Virginia Bea< h." lie said. And He's *he Boy Who Put It Over Kchiud every great li 11111 a n achievement is a dynamic person alil.v. Here is that dynamic per sonality who not only thought of Norfolk's new eoniinunity parking center first. I?ut who rolled up his sleeves, put salve on his feet and sugar on his tongue and plodded' and plugged until he had sold the idea to his eoniinunity and turned a dream into a reality. This then is Leslie .Hall. President i f the Norfolk Ad t'lilh. active iiiciiiIht of the lietail Merchants Association of his city, and ?? immunity spirit extra ordinary. lie is perhaps l?est known to readers of this newspaper as head of the <1. I.. Hall < tpticnl Co. The heaiity ahout Mr. Hall's pre tentious eoniinunity parking center tliut is to take in several valuable Mocks in 1 lit? very heart of down town N* folk, is that it doesn't cost the city or the nierehnnts a dollar. An ingenious plan was worked out l?y which the whole thins is fin anced by an indirect sus tux that nobody feels and that few are aware of. Some day we shall have Mr. Mall come to Kli/.abetli City and tell it- how the thins is done. True enoush Kli/.abeth City beat Norfolk to it in the matter of pro vidins a free parkins let in the Ilea it of town but there is no service and no protection for cars on Kli/.abeth City's parkins lot. Norfolk has done the thins l'iuht, thanks to (J. Leslie Hall. Why He Subscribed To The Independent C. A. I'lltstli. proprietor of the Hotel Fturiir ill Tarlioro. X. should t:ithe palm for heitu; the most luHit'sf lintel man in Amoriea. He mlrei'ti cs liis hotel .i> "The Worst Hotel in North < "aroliua." When ?mine one fold him that .they expei ffd to find .1 pew paper like. The rtuhlnndnit iri the worst hotel in North Carolina Proprietor Frit sell hninediiltel.v snhxi t ilted for i The li'dejifndent. . , <z)he<BANK CLCQK TUE SWA JC.QKCQ TAIL FEATHERS AND ELECTRIC LIGHT BILLS ??From v.l',-it I .-?*?? I'V the paper . sonic of those Norfolk prcai hers are j going to tear the toil feathers out "t J "W. (?." Itefore thcy'ie thru ivl?li liiin." 1 <*iii-1rkcd tlic H.ink ? lerk to ( the Soda Jeiker. ? Will, ir "\V. i. as tin 1?1 in other parts us lie is on his head, they won't get nnuiy feathers," re- | j?l????| the Soda .lerker. "We'll all he ha hi-headed if some thing isn't done to cut down our eleetrie light hills." observed Ihej Hank Clerk. "<itir town is not cm i tent to htiy eleetrie eiirrenl at a I eenl anil a half a kilowatt and dole | it out to us at twelve ami a half.! Init it seems to delight in gouging ' us hy rendering excessive hills that would have shamed the old non resident private owners. ".My light hill eame in < u .Ian. 1st twice as hia as in any mouth previ- j ons. I kicked like a steer and it | was explained to me that heeemherj was the month of longest nights | when more current was consumed j and that in the exuberance of lioli-I day observance 1 probably burned more lights anyway. I accepted the explanation with reservations and paid my hill. "iMtriug the month of January we were stingy with lights at my house: we guarded our lights so carefully! that we actually deprived ourselves of sufficient, light to read hy. We were determined to cut our bill in two in January. "ltut when our hill came in on Feb. 1st. it was twice as high as it was oil Jan. 1st. 1 raised the very devil at the city offices and they j gave me another explanation. They explained this time that the chap who reads the meters doesn't always j read them correctly: that, some months lie reads tlieni too low ami 111' jevf. moiltb ? hen he rejxK- t l_n*ijt ' light tli" correct rt-;i?lin^ allows fun cut we consumed in previous months tliiif had m<t appeared on previous months' hills. They told tnc thiii it ;tll on mil up in tiio I'ng i itn iiml tli.it in the nil incite I only p.-1i<I fi.r wliiit I got." It urikes in?' iicnl nil ever; it makes in" itch to gel out and start a < ampaign agaiint tiniiiicipiil ownership :iii<I return our electric light franchise t?.? privnle ownership." "Hut we've got priviitc ownership of gas ;iml we're ill as hnil .1 mess with private ownership of gas iis we are with public ownership of elec tricity.' s:iiil the Soda .lerker. "You're right." said the Hunk Clerk: "the piiir of I hem seem to tnke lessons from en eh other in general cussed ness." ' Hill why ilo we have to pnv the town 12V?c for electric current tli.it costs the city I 1 ?_???''" asked (lie per plexed Soda .lerker. "The town is making the electric light consumer pay not only for his electric lights, Imt for other piihlie imiu'oveinents as well. They pad his ehvtric light hill In get money to pay the interest and provide a sinking fund for water and sewer age Iannis so that these things don't appear in his tax hill. If our city liook-keepiiig wasn't juggled to con ceal tlie truth there would he a rot in this town when the folks dis oovered just how high tlieir taxes are." THK BEST IS CHEAPEST Breakfast 40c: lunch, moat or fish with two vegetaldes. dessert, hread, lmtter and coffee -lac: regular diu ner Toe. A room with private lava ton- *2.00 ?'lie Virginia. Dare Hotel JEli/aheili ('in N. C. advtC $25,000.00 FOR WRIGHT BEACON PLANS IN BILL Congress Expected To Make Initial Appropriation With in A Few Days An amendment to the Army i Hill now under consideration j adopted by Congress Wednes- j day afternoon, Feb. 8th car ries an appropriation for $25.-1 000 for making the necessary plans surveys, investigations and other expenses incident to the erection of the Wright memorial at Kill Devil Hills, x. r. The Army hill went to the House j with an impropriation of only $.".000 for this initial ex|>onse in connee ' Hon with the Wright memorial ami' I the amendment raising the amount j to $2o.000 was secured h.v prompt and vigorous action upon the part| I of Congressman Lindsay Warren, author of tin4 Aet creating the J meui'irial. The $25,000 appropriation is for V? ?liniinary expenses incident to the I erection of the monument and not! j for the m< iiiunent itself. Friends of j | the monument hope for an appro-? prialiou of $250,(KM! for the moun-l | nient iself. | The monument is to he built from i | plans to he approved by a special | commission composed of the Score-i I tary of War. the Secretary of Coin-j I Navy ami the Secretary of Com-J incrce. Tentative plans now before I I the Budget Bureau call for a monu-1 'mental structure of cathedral like 'design, the tower of which will serve' las a coast lighthouse ami aerial j I beacon combined. The structure it-1 self will furnish magnificent quart-1 ers for the I". S. Coast (Juanl at' I Kill Devil Hills, In one set of plans' the government combines not only j a memorial fit to mark the shrine! of aviation in America, hut a much needed Coast liunrd Station and, | Lighthouse as well. ' Bottle Hurled Thru DufPs Car Window Mu rfin ('ounty moonshine liquor ojime near being the undoing of j.lolm Ilallof the law firm of Ehring i Idiiis A Hail of this city Tuesday i niufit. Siiuiowlifoe U't.tvern:Wiliiunr , jstou mid Windsor, on State Highway j .'t4L'. some hoodlum hurled a whiskey i flask from the side of the road at | the Id if Linofdu sedan "f \V. j?. 1 >utl* in which Mr. Duff W. A. Worth i I and Mr. Hall were returning to KHz a both City from Raleigh at a late hour Tuesday night. The bottle ; bandy missed Mr. Hall who wrts I riding on the rear seat. The sedan was going 45 miles an hour: when the bottle crashed thru . a side window and showered broken glass over the occupants, the sedan I made miles an hour. "I' have beard flint gasoline and corn liquor I I don't mix." said Mr. Duff' next i ; morning, "but I never got better I mileage out of my car in my life." | 1 Mr. Duff. Mr. Worth. Mr. Hall didn't I stop to see who threw the corn j j container. A SQUARE MILE OF CTKES A pickle factory established nt i I Norfolk last year lias jusf signed I | contracts with Norfolk county farin : crs f< r 700 acres of cucumbers to he planted this year. When Eliz ? a both City makes a serious effort to get factories and lands something like that it will not only put a pay ; roll iii the town but put money ill the pockets of its rural neighbours as well. i I Not Just Your\ Country or My \ Country Only - j One of the first edicts of ec j clesiasticism was that man j shoudcl not eat of the. fruit of the tree of. knowledge of good I and evil, "for in the day that j thou eatest thereof thou shalt j surely die." They were spoof j ing us then and they are spoof j ing us now, declared \V. 0. j Saunders in an address to the I Kiwanis Club of Guldsboro j Monday night. It was a splendid audiem-e <?f sub .1 .urial. .thoughtful. forthright look ' (CcJ.tir.uod 011 pa^'O Tour) DIES AFTER A! WEEK'S ILLNESS i I ELISHA COPPERSMITH Elizabeth City and f'asquo tank County lost a fine and useful citizen Wednesday night in the death of Elisha Copper-1 smith, R. F. D. 1. Elizabeth City. Pcnunionia took him off after a week's illness. He was only 50 years old. Elisha Coppersmith started life with ten barrels of corn and n brok en down mule. Intelligent, thrifty, industrious he soon made a name for himself as one of the most suc cessful and forward looking fann ers in his county. He showed his neighbours the way to successful live stock production: his farm .was opted for its fine hogs and cattle. ' ' iiis sober judgement, his forth-1 lightness qnd iiis willingness to serve attracted the attention of the liest business tuinds in Elizabeth City: lie was made a director of the Southern Trust Co.. a director of the Chamber of Commerce, a director of the Elizabeth City Hotel Corp. The ten harrels of corn and the broken down mule grew into an estate said to be worth a quarter of a million dollars. In recent years he had made much money in timlier; the firm of Coppersmith & Co.. com posed of Elisha and Wiley Copper smith and M. II. Jones has been a conspicuous success. Peinimonia made quick work of Elisha Coppersmith. Before he went down with pneumonia on Thursday, Feb. 3rd he had gone thru a case of Flu. His energy and eagerness for work brought him out of that attack of Flu too early for his good. 11?? had not recovered from the weakening effects of I he Flu before pneumonia cut him Mown. Elisha Coppersmith is survived li.v Ills wife, by ;i son. Elisha <*s?p persniitli. Jr. oml by a yimns daughter Irma Louise. Two broth ers Wiley t'opitersiiiith. K. F. 1). 1 and W. (J. Coppersmith of Little ton also survive him. The funeral will be at 2 o'clock Friday the Kith. Theodore Mcekins Made A Good Deal The Paraguay, a bore on the North Carolina coast near Kitty Hawk, where it was driven during :? storm on Hecember 4. is to have her til p. o salvaged. The vessel is brok en in two parts but her cargo of StMl.tHfti gallons of fuel oil is intact, ami an effort will be made to pump the valuable fluid from her tanks into tanks or barges that .will be towed onf to the stranded craft, ('apt. T. C. Conwell. master of the Wood Towing Corp* nation's tug Goliath, in Norfolk, says the sal vaging will begin soon. The oil cargo is valued at $(10,000. Tlieo. S. Meek ins of Manteo is reported to have bought the Paraguay and her cargo for $100. j ?Will White. Negro employ ed by the heal ice manufacturing concern in Kooky Mount, was drown on wheu be (til from a cooling tower on which he was working kbo plant l?u r. vjvt'.rn CURRITUCK SOUND WILL BE BRIDGED ANYHOW But It Looks Now As If Private Local Interests Are In A Fair Way To Beat The Public To It Thru rain and mud came fifty or more citizens of Dare and Currituck Counties W ednesday to appear before Lieut. Col. Henry C. Jewett of the War Department and oppose the petition of the Currituck & Dare Bridge Corporation to bridge Currituck Sound. And it is the guess of this newspaper that the opposition will cut little ice with the War Department. ? - IVx tttUU fliA mnfotn; rtf 1" I/V^IJI ?1(U? U1C jiivuivv*.?o V?. tlic proposed bridge tcok mucb of J the winds out of the sails of the op- ; position hy coining to the hearing with a petition for a bridge located at least two miles further South than their original survey con templated. offering a route that is in > effect a c< mpromise with the large j' public that wants a bridge direct J from Point Harbor to Kitty Hawk. .J The bridge promoters originally planned to luiild u bridge from a point near Hog Quarter Landing in ' Currituck, a distance of three miles or more nhove Point Harbor. Their present plans put the bridge within -J.tKi'O feet of Point Harbor. Everybody wants a bridge across ']i Currituck Sound; the opiionents of ' the bridge to lie built by Elizabeth City capital want a bridge; but ,j they want it where they want it; they want it straight from Point j Harbor to Kitty Hawk. And if it were put to a .vote of everybody in ! the Albemarle region there wouldn't lie a corporal's guard to vote for si bridge farther .north (than Kitty ) j Hawk. But the thing that some lose sight I of is that if private capital wants to ' build a bridge to suit itself, then | that is Hie business of private capi I tai and the War Department's only I concern is as to whether the propos- * ; ! ed structure will lie a hindrance to | navigation. The War Department. ?' doesn't give n hoot wliat/the fellows * on shore think alioiit it. A sad fact maybe, hut it is all too irue. Cold, practical, hard-liended L". S. Army engineers will in all probabil ity hold ttrat If private capltal'luJC pirivc^ an iilogical louitlou, . prli-ateVaplfars own erm- Anj' 1 if another bridge is lucre desiriftle, , then let other interests build'-an other bridge. Here Is the situation: Local in terests composed of W. G. Gaither. M. P. Gal lit p. M. b;. Sawyer. L.C. Blades, S., B:, Parker and possiljly a few otliersiwwu several tihoukaud i acres of land North of Kitty Hiiwk, , including Martin's Point on Jean Gwites Creek. It is said tyx he the . nu.st iieautiful piece of coastal proi?- , crty in America. Leonard Tuft's of PiiieliurKt who visited the prop erty two years ago raved over it and wished he had found it iiefore ,, he put his money in Pinehurst. 1 lie rjllMMl'lll ? 11,1 llism nuv vnu . the Martin's Point pro|ierty have great faith in it;; future as a rich mau's playground where millions will lie silent on private residences, h< tels club houses, golf links, etc, ? Hut in order to develop their prop erty they must have a bridge to It. . They realize that if tbey wait for a ' public bridge across Currituck ' Sound that bridge would in all proh 1 ability he built to some other point | than their own property. ^ Anil so. taking advantage cf the fact that the counties of Currituck and Dare -are not able to get to- . . I gether on a bridge project and the ? fact that the State Highway Com mission is not in position to consider '? building a bridge over Currituck ; Sound at this time, the local men have organized a company and ar ranged for financing a bridge of 1 j w i their own to lie operated as a public > (toll bridge. of course they have expectations | of ultimately selling their bridge to the State Highway Coin mission and ' they will court I lie Highway Corn- * inissh n for approval of its plan and specifications. This does not mean >? < i of course that the State Highway * J i Commission will lie committed to the new route and when the State finds, a way to bridge Currituck Sound it. may ignore the Martin's Point bridge ?' ^ and follow a more Southerly route. ! In that event there, would be two!' bridges across Currituck Sound and ? everybody would lie happy. The State will eventually throw * it* highway across Currituck Sound, 't ( Frank Page himself no longer liesi- j fates to say that he will not be satis- ' j fied until there is a paved highway j from Miiiitoo to Murphy. Mr. Page's j I (Continued on page Four) YOUR EVES AT WORK $ ! Constant use of your eyes in &ny\?f' i line, working all day by sriLn.iai'c'? light will lower their efficiency. Jt& is wise to help your e.vti; wtiu a# I pair ghissc , correcly prcc:iibcd.jj? | Consult i.ii eye socialist, j'j S.I J. D. HAT&AWAY, C-.-.r^i rfuakg I B'ii!ai27. gdvA ?!
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