VOLIX
ELIZABETH CIT NQRTH 2i, 1910
NO. 19
MAN m YE
MUKOERE
Paspuotank County
Home Tragedy .
THE ViEAPOU WAS A BROOM STICK
Griffin Jennings, the Man Charged
"With the Crime is Out on $500 Bond
The Victim is R. M. J. Ellis
M. Jennings, . 75 years old and
an inmate of the Pasquotank County
.almshouse, is charged "with the' mur
der of R. M. J. Ellis, another inmate
of the county home.
It is reported that Jennings and
!Ellis fell out over some discussion
at the breakfast table last Sunday
morning. A fight followed and Ellis
was beaten up terribly and had an
, arm and his skull broken. The com
- -batantswere separated and irii&dical)
attention summoned and Ellis lived
nntil that afternoon about dark.
Both parties have been inmates of
the countv home for several years,
and had never gotten ( along well .
Ellis came here from Chowan Coun
ty and so far as it is known he has
no relatives living. Jennings has a
son and daughter living here.
Forty years age Griffin M. Jennings
was among the most prosperous mer
chants in this city. Rev.-O. C. Hor
ton was his chief clerk in the Gn
-eery store. We were a school boy
and assisted Mr. Horton Saturdays.
TA R K I NGTO N MOORE
Cresswell, N. C. Jan. 17, 1910
"Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the
Rectory was a scene of a quiet but
impressive marriage when Miss An
nah Moore became the bride of Mr.
Ralph Tarkington amidst the glow of
lights and music, and 4 in the pres
ence of a few friends. Rev. Luther
.Eborn performed the solemn and im
prssive ceremony which made them
cone until death do them part.
The bride was becomingly attired
In a navy blue going-away gown. The
groom wearing Conventional black.
Immediately after the ceremony,
Among a shower of rice andi good
wishes, the happy couple repaired to
the home of the groom's parents in
Tyrrll County, where a bountiful re.
-ception was tendered them. The
bride is the eldest daughter, of Mrs.
Sarah Moore, and is a sweet Christian
woman. Her, devotion to her widowed
mother has ever been a cardinal vir
tue, and when the evening-, shall
dawn upon her, she can revert back
to this virtue with the assurance that
it placed her high in the esteem of
her friends and loved ones. r;,
The groom is a native of Tyrrell
County,, but ntfw resides in. Norfolk
Mr. Tarkington is a promising young
man of sterling ability, -and he isto
be congratulated upon his success in
winn ing one of earth's fairest daugh
ter.' ' '' '- : . '' .
Mr. and Mrs. Tarkington left this
morning for their future home. :
ARS OLB
D ANOTM
Norfolk and Southern :
Railway's Great Bridgb
Announcement by th.e Norfolk and
Southern Railway of the opening of
the 28,000 tfoot bridge across the Al
bemarle Sound . Monday last is prob
ably the jnost important . announce
ment affecting Elizabeth City and
Eastern North Carolina that has been
made since the railroad was built.
Monday afternoon the first North and
Southbound passenger trains passed
over the bridge and it required 28
minutes in each direction. The first
freight train of thirty-five 'cars cross,
ed from hank to bank in 53 minutes.
To transfer the three trains across
on the steamer Garrett, would have
required about twelve hours. Dkiring
the period required by the steamer
Garret in the transfer of the three
trains, one thousand and eighty cars
could have crossed the bridge, one
half in each direction.
he handling capacity of thfe road
is . increased one thousand per cent,
each day, at no time have over one
train, on the bridge.
The time required
between
the two states for p&ssengers service
will be cut by an hour and a half,
and the freight service will be im
proved more than seven hours, in
many instances this amounting to a
full day's earlier delivery. Regular
service over the great bridge, which
has attracted the attention of engi
neers of the world for the past year,
and which called forth investigations
by the United States Government En
gineers for a long period before the
construction of the bridge across th
Sound was permitted, began on Mon
day and for this week the regular
chedules will be in effect. On Monday
however the new schedules, taking
advantage of the time saving bridge,
will be effective.
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The Albemarle Sound bridge is one
of the most important engineering
feats that has been undertaken in the
history of the South, and means
much for the commercial and indus
trial development of that section of
Eastern North Carolina that has here
'toforo been cut off from the centers
of trade by. the greait expanse of
water which has required the transfer
of all passenger and freight trains
on the historic steamer Garrett. The
old steamer, which is now discarded
by the Norfolk and Southern, had at
one time performed similar service
for the Baltimore and Ohio R. R.
between Baltimore and 'Canton, and
was discarded by that system when
the city of Baltimore was tunnelled.
It is said that during its useful life
The Garrett has : transported about a
quarter of a million passenger and
freight cars and far more than a
million passengers' Just what will be.
come of the famous transport has not
been definitely announced.
' The construction1 of the bri ig. was
beeun Julv 20th 1907 but was dis
continued in November of that year
on account of a lack of funds on the
part of the owners of the , property .
Shortly after the property passel in
to the hands ofr receivers, the matter
of completing the bridge was taken
up by Messrs Wolcott and Kerr and
fthe late Thomas Fltzgarld;; with
Ignited - States Judge WaddiU. who
ordered the issuance of receivers'
certificates for i$dQ$d0 the 'larger
"part oi which was used in tl i coia
.pjetion of this gkntio underiikiug.
Work;was..:Wta-?teda'gaiii" in earnest1
on February 20th 1909 and the ac-J
tual number of working days includy
ing I cth 'perior to and : since the Iio
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lift
oil
cehership wis 36?.
Tht completi n of the. .Albemarle
Sound bridge has iequired mora than
three hundred cars of lumber ncaiiy
one thousand cars of piles two huua
red and fifty cars of steel, a train
feet in length, the longest being 95
365 days of active labor. The piles
used in the construction roff the
Dridge were ail in excess ot seventy
feet in length, the longst bing 95
fet. These wero driven into the bed
of the sound forty to sixty feet, and
no other fact i3 needed to give as
surance as to the stability of the
structure. At high, tide the deck of
the bridge is thirteen feet, two inch,
es above water.
The Albemarle Sound, contrary to
the general impression, is shallow in
the main and there are but few
spans necessary on account of .the
depth of the, channels. There
five spans fifty-one feet and
"!ve
Inches each. At the Scherzer Roller
Lift draw the water is 22 feet deep
and there is one hundred and forty
feet open space at this draw, and at
the smaller draws there is a clean-
ance of 35 feet on each side of the
swina .
WEEKSVILLE NEWS
There is mnny changes being made
in our vicinity this yi.ii:' ?Ir N. D.
Pendleton has ?"M c;i L stock of
merchandise and Mr. .7. n. Walstoa
has succeeded him.
Mr. R. D. Raper hza soid out his
stock of merchandise and Ivir. . S.
Knowls has succeeded him Mr. Ra
per has purchased Mr. Knowles farm
at "Weeksville.
Mr. William Chory has moved to
Weeksville.
Mr. D. G. Wilson and family are
going to move to Eden ton, and so in
business there. We wish him ncli
success in life. He is an enterprising
citizen, and takes much interest in
his home town. We are sorry to learn
that all of our shop men are gone. It
seems as Mr. Wilson and -Knowles
have made money enough in their
shops and Mr. Wilson has become a
railroad promoter and Knowles anier
chant. It now leaves us without any
one to repair our carts, buggies or
farming implements or to shoe our
horses. So we will have to try to get
some one to come to Wieeksville and
run a repair shop. We believe that
this is one of the finest stands for a
shop in the state. We are glad to
know that it is one of the most pro
gressive places in North Carolina, so
we open our doors, our hands and
hearts to bid people to come in dur
vicinity, We always have room for
more. We have all the convenients of
almost any city. We have lawyers,
doctors and phone system we can call
up a man in E. City or Norfolk in
one minute time. We have the same
freight rate3 from Weeksville that
they have in E. City and good mark
ets. But the best of all we expect to
have anelcctrict railroad from E.
City to the Albemarle Sound, then we
will have a fine summer resort for
our - people to keep spending their
money and time at home. We believe
success awaits us.
Simple Remedy for LeGrippe ,
LaGrippecoughs are dangerous, as
they frequently vdevelop into pneu.
monia. Foley's Honey and Tar gen
uihe, Foley's Honey and Tar contains
nd harmful drugs and is in a' yellow
- i package. Brown's Pharmacy,
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Estel
Randall
Burned
The Farmers and Merchants North
l-Carolina Line sustained a severe loss
1 by the burning of- the steamer Estell
Randall af its wharfs in Columbia, N.
Cvlast Tuesday night. '
The crew were asleep and barely
had time to make their escape from
the burning boat.
No knowledge of how the fire oc
cured. -The loss is estiamtedSHRDLU
cured.
The loss is estimated at $25,000
with but little insurance.
The company is handling thfeir bus
iness as best they can with one of
their other steamers.
A TRADE CENTRE
With the completion of the Albe
marle bridge, by the Norfolk and
Southern Railway, the transportation
facilities of Eastern North Carolina
have been improved very much. A
sort cut from Fairfield to Columbia,
via Gun Neck, would come near put
ting on the finishing touch.
The building of the hridke has
helped the Cresswell and Columbia
sections so. much, and the Fairfield
and Gum Neck sections would be so
greatly benefitted by the road to CpL
umbia, thus having quick transporta
tion to the markets, that we doubt
he success of the once proposed Eliz
abeth and Albemarle road. Yet this
link of road, from here to Lister's
Pier, would doubtless pay if the boat
trad 3 of the lower sounds should con
tinue Either view of :he matter makes
one thing plainr New and more ex
tensive tracre, with the sections south
and south-east of us, is now possible
to the business interest of Elizabeth
Citj ..
The people of Norfolk are setting
our people an example by increased
efforts looking to the entire control of
the growing trade of Eastern North
Carolina.
If any one says that Norfolk is too
near us for fiuceessfullv.... lo compete
with her, we rply that the Virginia
city is 53 miles distant, that Dallas,
Texas and Fort Worth, Texas are on.
ly 30 miles apart, each has more than
75ip,0q people and each is growing rap
idly. Elizabeth City has just as good and
in many respects better surrounding
country than have these Texts cities;
the main difference being that their
lands are being improved . and their
resources are being developed, while
much of our best -land is an utter
waste as yet, and many of our re
sources are, scfar wholly undevelop
ed. . - v
If our people permit Norfolk to
capture what rightly should belong
to Elizabeth City they will have no
one to blame but themselves. And no
one can deny that position and asso
ciation make Elizabeth City the trade
centre and natural distributing point
for all henorth-eastera section of
North Carolina. But" progressive ac
tion and united effort on the part of
our people are necessary J to capture
and hold this trade.
Mrs . Sara Sawyer Nixon gave a
delightful - Tea Wednesday : evening at
the Broadway Central! complimentary
to Mrs. William Oscar lemple of
Denver, CoL The guests werer
Mrs . Temple; Miss ; Sac Bussell,
Mrsr"W. W
Griggs.
Griffin, Mrs. W. W.
JOHN
LEWS
HINTIIN
DEAD
Mr. John Lewis Hinton departed
this life on Wednesday of this week,
after a long and active career covers
ing a period of ninety years. . The
death of this man remove's one of
the most prominent citizens within
the history of this section. Mr. Hin
ton was, beyond question, the wealth
iest man in Pasquotank County and
it is impossible to estimate (his
wealth. Many citizens " place the
value on his estate of three-fourths
oj a million dollars, whHe others
consider the estate worth one miL
lion dollars. The bulk of his real
estate is in Camden and Pasquotank
Counties, where for miles, along both
sides of the country road, stretch his
wide and neglected acres . He owns
real estate in other states . ; Mr. Hin
ton was in many respects a very pe
culiar man. He was very scretive
in that he let few men know his
business affairs". w- an -eminently
successful business man and Ps
sessedj intellectual capacity far su
perior to the average man.
Notwithstanding his many peculiar
ities .and mode of living, he
was a very, good man. Hundreds are
the, poor people that he has helped
any many are those among the poor-
er classes who will feel the loss of
his death most' keenly. Many years
ago, when the writer of these lines
was sheriff of this county, he was
in a position to learn much about
the manner in which M.r Hinton
transacted his busines. It was char
acteristic of him that he never op
pressed any one for a debt, and the
impression is current that several
thousand dollars worth of notes are
long since out of date and barred
by the statute of limitation.
He leaves five sonseand two daugh
ters, his wife having preceeded him
a few years since.
The remains of this towering char
acter, in the business life of this
community for vmore than half a
century, were interred iu the pri
vate burying grounds at the -s old
homestead about twelve miles from
this city. ' J
Mr. Greenleaf Improving
Yesterday, the writer called on his
long time friend, H. T. Greenleaf,
who suffered a stroke of paralysis
about three months ago. It .will be
interesting to the many friends of
Mr- Greenleaf to know that he is
much improved and gives promise of
getting out within a few weeks.
Before this affliction, Mr. Green.
leaf was among the most actiVe bus
iness men of this section, and , his
abence from the buiness circle isK
keenly felt. It is safe to say that the
absence of no man from the business
lirnlut! nf l-Vii.CT rH"rr hc hoon mftfA
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comment., ' than that . of f Mr.
Greenleaf. He has been a very use
ful citizen and his popularity is at
tested by the . uiversal sympathy,
which has been extended to him in
his trouble.
? . The writer vividly recalls a tinie,
about 25 years ago, when the writer's
life hung by a thread, and" it was
Harry Greenleaf who stood watch by.
his bedside through ..the lonely hours
of the "night and ministered in every
possible way to the . comfort of his
friend. As long as memory lasts the
writer will Thold his now, . afflicted
friend in the highest esteem and will
never cease to remember, and appre
ciate the many acts of kindness ex-
. tended by him througlr a friendship
fc "more than-a -quarter of a century.
TRYING TO HAVE
GATES
MOVED
.,' The Tar Heel has heard many ex
pressions of disapproval because of
the condition of the gates across the
public roads on" routes one and two.
To those who ,jOTemaking.;-.such: com
plaint it will bo glad news t know
that a petition is now being circulat
ed, asking for the removal of .these. .
gates, as well as the-fence- surround--ing
the stock law territoiry in Nixon
ton Township . This" petition' will her
presented to the February, meeting v
of the County Commissioners, ask
ing that an election be called for
the (purpose of abandoning the pres
ent stock law territory.
It seems as if the promoters of
this movement are determined in the
matter, and if their petition before
the Board of County Commissioners
should fail, then they propose to take
the matter "up before the" next ses
sion of the General Assembly. Tfie.
Tar Heel has been charged with
neglect in doing its duty in not ex
posing some things of a public
this, we plead guilty to some extent,
and our excuse is that it is against
every impluse of our nature to be n
a wrangle. Then agai th. Tar JEjtee!
has" long"' since hefen in possessio of
facts, the publication of which would
be very embarrassing and humiliating
to a certain individual.
The Tar Heel had hoiJed
that this individual would have
enough common decency to desist in
a flagrant mis-management of things
-The public may be assured
however, that unless matters are
gjiven a djecided change, that The
Tar Heel, will turn the full glare of
the lime-light upon this matter of
the stock law territory, and the , pub
lic will have the opportunity topasa
judgemen.
LAKE LANDING
NEWS
Lake Landing, North Carolina Jan 14.
The Farmers. Institute of Hyde
County was begun yesterday January
13th 1910 at the Graded School house
near Middle ton, Hyde County.
This was the first of a series to
be held in this county. Two more to
come off, , one at Fairfield on the.
14th-and on account of the Lake
Drainage Meeting at Swan x Quarter,
the meeting at Swan Quarter will be
on Saturday 15th., inst.
The same programe, carried out at
Elizabeth City on last Monday, Janu
ary 10, 1910 which appeared in last
weeks issue of the Tar Heel, , was
fuWy carried out. ' . ' "
Mrs. Tom Leary, on Tuesday even
ing entertained the 'Bridge Club' at
her home on Church street. The
guest of honor was IHrs. W. O.
Temple of Denver, Col. There were
three tables, Memebers of the club
present were. -
Mesdams . H . ZOeller Dan Mor
gan; George Little; R. T. White
hurst; F. F. Cohoon; Tom Jones;
J. B. Griggs. Misses Marcie, Minnie
and Cathrine Albertson
: Dainty refreshments w ere served. -After
voting the evening as ... nrostv
pleasantly , jsperit iand Mrs. Leary-a
charming hostess the guests, departed '
44ortheir respective" homes. '
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