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-Vi 6 3r mst E 539 w at Hard- ils, ens of undigested vegetable, gentle, - - !1 vr thB lation, indigestion. vr IVE f r: YRUP The Best Place on Earth to Live, VOLX ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH C AIWUNA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1910 NO. 18 1 : : : r : ; ; "- ' - " i l ty, Pasquotank County N. C, A.. HADING PLANT DESTROYED PftVING CONTRACTS ADVERT) SING FOR The loading plant of the Bare Lumber Company, located at Dare Forest in Mill Tail Creek in Dare County, was totally destroyed by fire last Sunday causing a loss to the company of about $10,000. The plant consisted of wharves, steam hoisting machinery, derricks and other appliances used in loading mill los from the cars on the bar eges used in transporting these logs to the mills here. The loss of this plant will seri ously interfere with the operation of the mills here as the company will experience a great deal of trouble in getting the logs on the barges. A HONOR-ROLL SHO -r - - - . --cm . i:4 T IN FACE WHILE MENT Mil. KRAMER S OFFICERS ABLE TO RETURN At an adjourned meeting of the Board of Aldermen held last Friday Messrs. N. R. Parker and D. M. Jones and Mayor Fearing was ap pointed a committee to advertise for bids for street paving contracts. The proposition for contracts calls for asphalt, Belgian blocks and bricks. The bids will close at i2.00 o'clock noon on the second day of January 1911, The aldermen are now going after bids in earnest. A number of move ments have been started and they have fallen through, but this (time the Aldermen are determined to carry the plans for street paveing out, so that the work may begin on the street paving in the near future. The following pupils have made an average grade of 95 per cent or over for the tirst three months of this school year and have an almost perfect percentage of attendance and rank as "Very Good" f Ex cellent" in conduct. Several more students have attain ed the honor roll for two months and flome for one month bat tBe distin guished honor of making this high grade for three months belongs to the folio wing students : 9th grade, Ralph Fool; 8tb grade, Mary Bright; 7th grade, Helen Bell Maud Pastorfield, Henry yvhite and Vera Mae Waters; 6th grade, Min nie Toxey ; 5tb grade, Amy Haight, Eleanor Hall, Mildred Homer, Thel ma Sykes, Graham Evans, Kramer Davis and Norman Ward; 4th grade Mary Banks, Charles Balfour, Mar guerite Leroy, Frances Williams, Pauline Skinner, Dorothy Gregory and Katherine Jones; 3rd grade (A) Louise Jennette, Martha Cofield, Annie Harris, Alice Bundy, Marion White. Eloise Cahoon and Mabel Bright. Primaiv School, 1st grade (C), Vivian Belanga, Evelyn Bright Wilma Lane, Elizabeth Wood and Robert Byrum, Haywood Duke, Jack Jennett. Alonzo Rollinson, and Curtis Berrv; 1st grade (B) Em ily Jennings, Frances Harris, James Davis and Sidnev Evans; 1st grade (A), William Houtz, Thomas John son, Claude Jones, Robert Kramer, Selden Lamb, Parker Morgan, Geor ge Madlin,Graf con Love, Melbourne Parker, Clarence Simpson Charles S'yffert, Fannie Banks, Paten Bar clift, ;e Jnice Goodwin, Katie Lav- enste.n, Katherine Skinner, Goldie Stokes, Eva Sawyer, Ester Sawyer, Ruth White and Courtney Seymour; advanced 1st grade (B), Charlie Bell' Jesse Buuch, Alphonzo Baker,Bruce Carter, Jule Modlin and Gladys Puckett; advanced 1st grade (A), Lucille Armstrong, Lottie Drink water and McJXinley Sawyer; 2nd grade (C), Alma Hayman, Eva Win- slow, Dave Feating, Bruce Puckett, Norman Trueblood and Pauline Sheep; 2nd grade (B), Clarrene Bright, Margaret Hill, Elizabeth Kramer, Mahalah Meekins, Helen Williams, Robert Berry, Charlie Davis, Wm, Dawson, Harry Forbes Ralph Lane, Wesley Morgan, Ed- waid Pappendiek, Francis Seyffert COMING HOME. After an absence of three years in his adopted tar-away home in the Northwest, Mr, A. E. Cohoon will return to Elizabeth City tomorrow. 4,- -9 Very likely Will lose his leMowing nominations for The friends of the family will be MmM,. . wtn AfToliila dplitrhtfid t.n Iftarn that Mr. J. P. eyesight. In a critical Fmnmonh Tn Uat Mnndav Kramer has recovered from the ef- Condition nOW I jN De loted at the meeting fects on operation, sufficiently to be I next Monday evening. ahle to return home. The condition of Frank Fletcher T A Oommander, H. P.; W. J. Mr, Kramer underwent an opera was reported Wednesday as being Broughton, C. P.; J A. Rucker, S. tion about two months ago in a Nor- very cnwcai. w . j B .p j. w.; M. N. folk hospital for appendicitis, and jsir. riewoer was snoi inxne terj Wesley Williams and W. his recovery has been very slow. ny a companion wane ou nunwng H Weatherly, Trustees: H. O. Hill on the Davis farm about 8 miles E g WeSiey Williams, F. & ; W. irom tne city last naay aiiernoon g White, Treasurer. i . At m . . 3 i 1 just now xue acciueut ocourreu ua not been fully determined. The wound was a fearful one, the whole, load of shot striking him in the face and several shots penetrating the eyes, He was brought to this city Fri day night and Dr. O. MoMullan rendered medical aid until Satur- CALENDAR. PASQUOTANK SUPERIOR COURT JANUARY TERM 1911. FIRST WEEK. ESPOHOENCE. C. B. Spencer, of the University Chapel Hill. G.. t,rr; pasued through the city Wednesday - i fUBCWUU KM tlJC KJVcbW x J. ai v o uuivu 1 - day morning, wnen ne was tasni jn 0reeilBboro, Deeember 14th, were -- to a Norfolk hospital. ivery pleasantly received at Chapel His face has remained sine in alHiU. The Union nut itself on rec I Carrol Gallon and Leslie Hooper terrible swolen condition and the or(j m gtr0ngly in favor of a sutfe-1 of Tyrrell are spending Christmas surgeons nave not yet oeen aoie to uient appropriation by the Stat for with their grandfattier Mr. W. K, uBwiuuue iuc catoui v j the suppart ot the otata instisuiions snaiungton. injury done lo his eyes, out it m Nearly one-third of th sfients in feared that he has lost the night of tilft TTnivftrsifcv this vear are the both of them: Mr. Fletcher is a L 0f farmers, and it is the natu yon eg man about 25 years" ddF; thera thing that North Carolina farm m -mar . S - ar ITT Tb W-.m a i , . ... son oi mr, ana mrs. w. rwtonerj ew 8hoold be favorable toward the of this county. He is held in high two State institutions, the Univer- 13 esteem. "W FROM COnOH LAND" i&a most appropriate gift that you can possibly give to a literary friend at Christmas, is a volume of poems, entitled, ''Lyrics from Cot ton' liand" by the universally hi mented, late John Charles McNeil, the young North Carolina Scotch poet. The construction of the volume is a work of art, done in bandanna by Stone and Barringor, publishers, of Charlotte, N, C. The printing is excellent and the engravings are especially fine. From the stand point of mechanical construction, its' well worth the price, and when 11 1 111. nuA nlrAA in- : . , . will return to this city in the next m Messrs. J. Lev McCabe, Elisha Harris, Tom Hughes and John Wood of Chapel Hill, John Rollin son, of the A. & M Peyton Smith of Chapel Hill are home to spend the holidays with their parents. Gordon-Richardson. A great surprise awaited their friends when a telegram was re ceived from Norfolk Monday after noon stating that L. S. Gordon and Miss Minnie M. Richardson, both residents of this city, had been mar ried at the home of Rev. M. Smoot, pastor of the Epworth Church, of th.t citv. Mr. and Mr. Gordon j jr sity and the A. & M, College. The annual soph-junior debate between the Di and Ihi societies Thft -Knnner Marv E. Barrows was held Friday night. The Phi Captain H w. Twiford of Stumpy rSenwivn, awssrs. a.4 uwir pnt eft tbis city Wednesday iiton and L. A. Johnson, who sup- f w;h nhrietniAs sroods for the ported the negative of the qeryT ftaiawinW tfWSi resoivea tnat rsrty Aiiegiaacu is L. Meekins, J. G. Gray and Miss L. preferable to Independence in poll- j Masson. tics, were victorious over the rep times the price. "Lyrics from Cotton Land is a collection of the best poems written by the soul poet, McNeil. They deal with the merry and the sad, and there is a rythm about the poetry that rings in your ears long after you have read them. The dialect poems are true to life in which the sentiments and thoughts ot the Southern negro is expressed better than he can express them himself, his poems on more solemn themes breathe a true spirit of bouthern Cauntrylife. There is just a touch of something inexpressible in Mc Neils' poems that lew poets feel or attempt to express. MclNiei was truly a poet of the Sunny Southland, and in his short career he Dune a "monument more lasting than brass in this little volume. "Lyrics from Cotton Land" are on sale-during the holidays at Melicks in this city. few days and will reside here. Mr. Gordon is a prominent busi ness man, and ia well known as a manufacturer of farming imple ments. Mrs. Gordon is a charming young lady who is very popular in a large circle of friends. MRS. JENETTE SICK; Dr, Carter and his brother Clay Carter, of Washington, N, C, were this week attending Mrs. W. H. Jennette who is critically ill of pneumonia. Serious complications have set in and her condition is such as to give the greatest alarm to her family. resentatives of the Di, Messrs. R. W. Scott and R. A. Freeman. The series of talks t h at have been delivered turnout the fall at the Tuesday night meetings of the Y. M. C. A. on Choosing a Profession, came to a close this week with an address by Professor Graham on oower. A vounsr mans choice of w w a profession should be made entire ly on the consileration of this thing Power, uower for achievement, power for good to the iellow man. The 30 graduate students of the University have organized the Grad uate Students Club. They will hold five meefings duing the spring at which members of the faculty will talk to them on some of the most interesting and most important C. Mitchell of the University of South Carolina in an andress deliv ered in Chapel Hfll on University Day, Fai dthat to his mmd one of the greatest gloriee of the Univer- eity of North Carolina was the con SPECIAL PROGRAM The Senior Epworth League of City Road Methodist Church will render a special Christmas program next Sunday night in the Annex oft the City Road Church. The prog ram will consist of songs instru mental music, etc. In place of the regular Sunday School exercises next Sunday mor ning the City Road Methodist Sun day School will hold a Christmas Intertaiment. Monday 16th. Civil Cases, 3 The Camden Ferry Co., V An drew Saunders. 4 William Burden V Georgia Burden 6 James E. Bryant V Jane C. Bryant 7 L. S. Blades V W. H. Goler and John C. Dancy 9 Maggie Brown V S. Brown 10 Henry Bowe V Lena Bowe 12 -rorfoik'& Southern Ry. Co. V Board of Commissioners of Pasquotank County Norfolk & Southern Ry. Co. V Corporation of Elizabeth City 14 Miles Jennings V Farmers Man ufacturing Company Et Al ""f 1 5 Miles Jennings V Farmers Man ufacturing Company fit Al 16 Miles Jennings V FarmersMan nfacturing Company Et Al 76 Mary L. Lister Et Al V John T. Davis 69 Dora A. Johnson V Simeon Johnson i ' Tuesday, 17th. 25R, W. Stokley V A, R. Miaeli 17 H. T, Greenleaf V W. T. Old 18 L. Hirschman Et Al V Cbaa. A. Johnson 19-W. A. Saunders V W. L. Cohoon 21 R. L. Hinton V Noah Overton 23 R. L. Hinton V Claud Hobbe S8-2aches O'Neal V Mattie O'Neal 39 Cornelius McMoraine, Jr., V ; Frances McMoraine Wednesday, 18th. jiiii-rR.A. Hopkins V, R, E.Quinn '" Furniture- Co;," IneX n4 J. H. Wilkins. 26- C. C, Thompson V MafcrA Loomis Company. Thursday, 19th. 27 DEMANDS FOR BOOKLET. Mr, Lamb of the Chamber of Commerce is receiving many re auests for the booklet issued by the nvmmher of Commerce to advertise Mrs. Cook Tells Truth section. These booklets are Dexter, Ky. In a signed state-; being sent, out far and near; and ment, Mrs. Cook tells the truth ' iMr. Tmb is receiving letters from tbtnt hov Cardui brought bact DersonB, who say that they ;K intena her health and strength. She says to visit this section to look it over "I could not get any relief, until I ; with a view of locating here. tried Cardui, the woman's tonic. I suffered more or less for 10 years and was so weak and nervous I could hardly do my house work. TsTnw I am in better heaitn man BRACA'S ELECT OFFICERS The Baraca Class of Blackwell Memorial church held a business meeting last Monday night at the home of Miss Vareena Perry. The following officers were elected for ihe ensuing year. Paul Trueblood, president; Ida Roughton, vice-Preeident; Courtney Jones, secretary; S. S. Burgess, as" Wm. S. Baugh V a B. Bartlett EtAls, 28--W. E. DunstoU V Norfolk & Southern Railway Co. 29 M. R- Fletcher V J. C. Blount and E. C. HarrelL Friday, 2fth. 30 John Simpson Et Ais V Lovie Ann Morris. 31 Alexander Anderson V Chs. Morgan. 34 Wiley Moore V Henry Lindsay. Saturday, 21st. 35 G. "vV. Whitehurst N Norfolk & Southern Railway Co. Et Als. 37 B. L. Banks V Vorfolk & Sou thern Railway Co. 52 Empire Furniture Manufactur ing Co, V C. W. Harnew. 53 Alice Bell V George Bell. sistant secretary; Mrs. Selma Bal structive scholarship of the members i ard, treasurer; W. H. Sanders, For Sale, A "National cash register, in good waid PaDoendiefe ijrancis oeynert jnowj. m . --. - nA 4 HiJ. ond JL (A) ' ever before, am regular as aoekCODdition C08t $so.OO- Will sell a.iO jirnebt Williams, uu g. i . v ... Hnffer at ail, and gain c loon f Vian Via If Trie. x Ida ESallance. of its faculty and its advanced or graduate' student3. The Y. M. C A., now has 325 members and with the close of the canvass for membership now going on will include over hhlf of the stu dent body. About 35P men are members of voluntary bible study groups, 555 of the 768 students now enrolled at the University are com municants in some Christian Church There are 168 Methodists, 132 Bap- oists, 116 Presbyterians, 84 Epis copaleans, and 52 from other deno minations. Practically every fam ily represented at the University are affiliated with some Church. porter; Daisy Palmer, pianist. ELECTRIC THE BEST FOB C V CI HVAWi V, U . , vv 7 work, do not suffer at ail, and gam ; - legB than baif price. strength every day," 'lhoueanas or , mstbqNG, wnmen have been neipeu w It Elizabeth City, N. C. fmitS 0E1NOL4X4TM Tor Stomach Trouble andCoNSTiPATtgri. NOTICE. The annual meeting of the stock holders of the " MERCANTILE BANK QF ELIZABETH G1TY "NORTH CAROLINA will be held at its banking house on Tuesday, January 10th, 1911. From 10.00 A. M., to 4.00 P. M., for the election of directors for the ensuing twelve months, and for the transaction of such x6ther business as may properly come before it. ATTRACTIVE - LOW ROUND-TRIP FARES GREATLY IMPROVED SCHEDULES Pullman Sleeping and Parlor Gar Service. Close Connection to and from all points, GOLDS- BORO via RALEIGH, WILSON via NORFOLK. Tickets on sale December 15, 16, 17,21:22,23, 24, 25. 31, 1910 and January 1, 1911. Final Limit for Return Passage January 8, 1911 : : : : CAPE HENRY AND VIRGINIA BEACH Delightful Winter Recreation Resorts. Lynnhaven Oyster ROasts : : : : Get Compiete Information from Agents December 21st, 1910. , B L. BUGG W.W. CROXTON, W.H.JENNINGS, Traffic Mgr. Gnl.Fass.Agt. Cashier. Norfolk, Va. m y-V. v m am ''I In mm ) health by Cardui. Try it. v- i BITTERS aets- v i m
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