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I The Best Place on Earth to Live, Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County N. C'. 7 6 n i ' s p I, I. NAl FU VOLX ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH GAROLI IDAY, MARCH 17 1911 RING 'When Spring comes trlprlng gaily in Adorned with blossoms bright You'd think the world kept hol.day From morning until night ...But 'tts not so, niy friend, you know - Tla Natures busiest time, And she's at work and not at play. And all through Apr.l and through May. : ' ' . iuiunB idleness a crime .. MRS EMMET DEAD .The Spring with, dashing, crystal -r- rbowe? '' With shaft of golden sun. Is. laboring hey every tout. Until her. course la run. She weaves the greening forest roofs Of lovely Bliiuing loaves, ' And, deep beneath the earth her elves - ' ; Are toiling to surpass themselves For future autumn sheaves When Spring takes up ber urgent , wtrk '. " She carries it like play, .And of her busiest time, my dear. She makes a holiday. -.'.' -So you and I may learn of her. And- gaily take the road, - .And with blithe and buoyant heart' Bear our , heaviest load , ; -j ; f Margaret E, Sangster In The Chrl - Elian Herald,' ; POINTED PARAGRAPHS .Even the freckle faced girl has her good epota. . ' . ; ' a a man ceases tJ.lou$rfce .begins to do things. ; The funeral services over the ro jria'.ia of Mrs, arah Emmett an aged ani! most highly respected lndy of tL.i? city were conducted Thursday afternoon frprn the home in Parson age street -followed by the interraeot in Hollywood cemetery. The servi ces weie conducted by tho Uev.'W. R. Haight of thecounty and Rev. E. W. Stone pastor of the Firt Bap tst Church of ibis city. Mis. Emmett was 84 years old and had been In feeble health for sonic time. , ' ' " - She wn the vMcw of tba latte John EmTett a Well h(ni Confed erate Veteran and prominent citizen who fought valiantly iu the Civil War. A large number of children and grandchildren and ' great-grandchildren survive Notiii 'im rma MR MORSE HERE he-Site's Casefel Mr. J. J. Morno n prominent f'-r-ni.-jr of tin' Moyock hectlou rpent rone tHiii' hove thr week onuisiii- The Mystery i Naw Ju3t a3 Bnf iling 3s it Has Ever Been, With no Clue For The Officers to Work . Upon. ' e has boon a t ub'-'rib' r ; to the Tar Ilel t-iin-i it Mas or.ti.b- i Jiphed ten jenvs a0f x. e prl-j J Mm na one of our t fiicinirf ! NO. 30 DoarJ of Couifnissioncrs Meet. February the 6th, 1911. The Coun ty lioaid Commlsslodora met and the rolloivlag members present; J. T. Hampton, chairman; J.. A. DutcJier cr.d K. Biruey and -the following b.:h'ncs3 tra'tiSi'cted, ! Benefit Ordsr Ailowe'd i j Abner Bunch 4.00 MEEKINS-QA5NIQHT A promircut young couplo arrived here Vveuresdanicht on 'the Mea:n- Kd. Terklr.s W. C. Be'als Cliua Hayman Fi-Hnit P.odgtirs Jitmes Deaaluy and son ei- Alma trv.m Fvde c.ur.i in.l were ! Jamos Sawyer (effliet-Jii son) ii:t.r:!-'ii Tluuvday morolns by Jua- j Godfrey Trlfp Nothng has devIppod -t to clear 1 ceutjra of the fonJ.epd one half iorh I t.ice of the I'eaco T. II. Wilsr.n. Tbe j Joshua Baxter. lb inri CHSPOOti ICE Chapel Um N. C. March. 13' . '- ';'" :i:v ,.y ';rV' .The varsity representatives for th debate witb the universities of Geor g!a and Virginia .were held In. the literary society halls Thursday night and W. A. Dees and W. T' Joyner for Virginia and I.C. Moser and D. A. Lynch for Georgia were selected These men wer victorious over a feast field of . candidates. The qu ery Is; Resolved that the Federal Government should enact a national income tax law. ' On the night of April 881. Carolina will have the af firmative t- " V Geo'rita ii Chapel 1 rr. i t tive sgIiiRt Virjl- vp the Gibba murder myotory, al-t&eljjv the hair, though the oiCoers of tho law have done everything ' in r.he'r power to obtain some clue that will lead to the discovery of , the murderers. The coroners ' jury helS ' an Vxtra ression last weunesaay aiiemoon to jert nana mere wi re examlue new witnesses and a num-j throe of wiiich were made across th ber testified before the 'jury; bfitjhand necr the waif; other to lead their testimony did not help one ling from these downward toward bit,, and the mystery Is now Just j tho flngere. TliOBe inciBions were al as great as ever.. I so skin deep. Gibbs was murdered. . That is a ! . On the right forearm anteriorly fact that' everything tends to prove j and midway bet wen the wrist and butby whom it is beyond the know-1 elbow there wfB a tatooo mark le was a vcrU.al ,,r ctlatj iwi-tle? voco J;u j. r Mee- inolaion one and one-l alf inches kint; agod 21 and Mies Llna Bar.i- long ester ;ns to khe bone. Ou tU)flit aped ID boi.h of Kust IaVg back of th right hnudtbore was ai j tf e county, incision two lyia.aH'j-h.uf iLches long,-.skfn deej). on tho back of the live incisions And it's what a man has that makes him what he is. been It's funny how sympathetic some ,people are when it is useless. - Probably there is nothing more industrious than a idle rumor. Holding his nose to the grindstone will not sharpen a man's wits. I,ovo at first sight may look" like j.Wird lov3 to disinterested persona Mary a man acts like a genius -when all that alls him is Indigestion Some men go about seeking tem- tation in drder to test thelfy will pewer. ' ledge of the officers. The idea that be wa' murdered out of a sprit of revenye by an enemy has been ab andoned as impracticable. It is be lieved that he was met on this fatal morning onthe ' river road by more thap one person and when the meet ing occurred; murder -was not con templated at alt. This is evidenced by the kind of instrument used, upon Mr. Gibbs just an ordinary pocket knife.-' Ho was cut on the hands v 1 'rh Fn'pi., thnt h V98 pauie j - - . t - i the last u.ich for his ... . ... life. He filled the hands of his as-j K.3 Lnverbity Tennis Association I - . . 4V . . . I j they bad to kill him to . get clear of him. - Just whether the murderers will ever be discovered can not be fore casted now. , It lookB exceedingly doubtful now. " Every indication is triuf ill 1 a mvataiiV' will trn tlrwu n til held at eatfi of the colleges in turn. ' . . .r ... history as one of thegreatest that 0 THE ROADS -FOR .MVEHTIOM 1.50 6.09 COO 10.00 6.00 4. CO 3YuO 4. CO isfd I.aruaid ..' . 3.00 iriitd Bell 10.00 Tack Epeace ., 7.('0 dwrd Oneal v 6.00 Levi Johnson . . . . ...... .... 2.00 Sponsor Old 2.00 Alex. Mercer .... 1.60 with the following description: Two hands . clasped as if shaking , hands extending above these and adjoining to them was the picture of the burst ct the. sua. '.' Just below these bands there "were three distinct letters, viz; E.' P. G. ' I next made a cir cular Incision just above the ear and ground the top otthe Bkull I found no marks r of violence on the bone Money Finding Machine Fraud Sends Hcddricks and Webster "to Chain Gang . JohnHeddrlck and Daniel Webster two white men were tried la Super ior Court this week before Judge Justice , upon the charge of obtain Mary Lindsy .... Dcrcas Dough .... Mahaley Waterfield Fanny Wicker .... Ludlcy Waterfield . Chloe Co well . .". , Betsy Robertson . . Lydia Acklin .... , Emily Acklin .... Sarah Sprewill .... Zelpbla Harrison . Adella Laton Adline Frost . ... Polly Twlddy .... Bailie Sawyer . Dorcas Halstead ... Fanny Rodgers is making an attempt to organize the State Intercollegiate Tennis Associ ation to include A. & M. Trinity Daviion, Guilford, Elon, and Caroli na. ' The plan is to have an annual inter colleaiate tournamer'l to de cide the State championship, to be Carolina invites the essoclation to meet for thefrst tournament in on either side of the ' pternum "and the ' heart f ud lyund the; rut feuie fall of blood, the left side very Iltfle blood,. . ' :, ' ';' ' .. I next removed te ' trachlft with the-lunKs and; nisd,eianlncisloni of ach' lung I found Jjo 'Wter In the lunrr.. I . alfio mado a vertical Inci sion in the trache ; add found no water or fereigr substance . (The toomach was empty , ' -lu 'some way inkiiown to me the 'has ever occurred n Eastern Norih ! bo iy ruutt. have .been rendered u.i- or braii I next made en Incision lng'aney under false pretense and were ...ictd cf the cnarf?. Thry VT'fl ppTifmv..- i ti ftia li.i I..; ' 4.00 3.00 20.00 6.00 1.60 2.60 2. 00 8.00 3.00 2.00 7.C 2.00 3.60 6.00 4.09 2.00 3.00 The Following County Order Issued J. L. Dunton for services f.r Carolna. Chapel Hill the week after Easter j w Dr ,,. . . . . .... . letts report of the . examination of will l.rt In rr (rrnf: a ' A inn will nfl - T. 11. hJJ 1M UlVglVMH . " - ' n . . . . . awarded annually to the winner of j the championship, j ' -I Iconsoous and placed in the-water. The followlrtgr Is ti9 -vjrdict of ths Coroner's Jury: v- "; .V " Professor Marvin H." Stacy addres sed the Tuesday night meeting of the y. M. C. A. this week on the importance of Retails in college life and In the bigger struggle. for which college life is the preparation Dr. W. R. L. Smith delivered the third of the series of addresses be fore tho Y. M. .C, A. njisaion study classes of China. Report of Dr H T Aydlett county Health office who held the autopsy on the body of Captain E. F. j Gibbs. , pCilwd ii t..ii. ' AiiCL. C-.vl." ' Ai.triti spent four months in jail Judge Jus tice sallowed this from the sentence. Thine gentlemen are the very shrewd geniuses who went Into the bucaoss of manufacturing money fa dlngmaohlnes which they Bold to Ig norant people at a hundred dollars each; and jiot a few even mortgaged their ' homes to get one. The co.i trivbice8 were frauds of course cou ftrj'tod In tiirh a manner as to in dicate that tbeir makers knew that they weie frauds,' and, (be trick was coon exposed with the result that bo.ththcbe gantlemen got into trj- We. the jury jm'pallcd by tho. cor- j w of tJll 1 'A tha Jh A mn in never too old to learn tho.t he knows-a lot of things' he ;eliouM forgst. ... It isn't difHe"!t for a man to got -a wcmMnto rsreo with him If eho Isn't his wife. --. uccamoiiaitjr iu-i w" ..... , mark in the world ' tesaur'o hTs wife : th Civil War whether on the . ejde irakes him .toe it ;of the . Confederacy cr the 'Union. . , ' ' .' I.In'thfi act the Uasn'sly ot North "-.xn,0'--wAi, o'-.r man sav that ' Carolina Is the first educational ii- he f .wis bettor when he works it's your cne to make a getaway. On examination of tho body ofCcp tain 'B-JP. -Gibbbs at Zeiglars undcr- f, taking' esjfjlinient on Road Street March 8t.h aK8 P' M. I found' the I The Univerbity will confer as of , following marfisof violeiToe: In the, their classes the academic degree j .rrr::- upon every etu'lent during the p r j Danks-Young iod from 1SC1 to 1805 leu cuapei. oner to investigate the cause of the death of Captain E. , P.' Gibbs, find that the said Uibb came to his i death bymeanS ot souio . -foul play by pei sou or ' persn'as fir known to the jury. .- ' ,. .' V '. J. R.lFEfcBBKM W. H. BALLARD,. W."P.vKNOWELS A . E. - BltOTMKitS J. A. OI'CIJ. . J. A.oBYRUil " ; emer Is hard fin la evidenced by the fa to' of HedJrick and Yebbter. i3-raj-a- : i ; ft 1 AHl 90 " hs , in;t for n.ival or military service in ! Miss Katherine IlaiiKS of this city :and Mr. William You.ig Jr. cf Ral 'e'Sh.N. C.'W'ire married Wednes day night at the brides homo in th:s c'.ty in the pitsence cf a nuiiber 'cf intimate friends. - Kev. il. B. Juhn pr.esiii'ns e!.!-;r A Printers 'Lovo Letter U?-tc Dia A i-ritur iij-u wa.t onco asifeiied- Ey Clrpid and hU .hefirt impalt-d, With love's Keen dart This priiiter rpn a .Lhiutypu. . One day 'he thought th time wan ripo To shuw h8 besrt, He sail: 'I guess I'd lc'.terrwrite stivotion Korth or South that has thrown aside the bonds of fccolioiia.! i . if m and conferred the 'o-ree opon-pj Favettville district Performed Du'iaro myelf in b'.c nnd vhue a, tnn ilnr'tho- men who foight on both sides. . imai-cKsive i Ml send a leUer ,y w "'-I'l-' - - - " . , . , I --- --- . - , ln'sr" lifo while ea enitnph doesnt More" than one h.iudred men an mt)X)ner w-ns tne ring ccrmcny. I But I in to busy I can't think, .Ig. .TVihn Ivr-r(.in- Forehand; of "Ty ,,i r w-;3 here thin week on busiaeB. Tv'rs. B' H..Or'cef of Manteo pass ed tiirofuoh here. this week enroufe for l.TJtii'Vo.-o Maryland" where she hys ivone to purchase her spring in.lKnrry i-TlcV. JU-crrs. G. V., and T. It' Cr?of of Mantiv) nffrr makia an extended 'iJow-Tin until after deme. ovn to Le U5b!e for 13x0 j Mr. and Mrs. Youig left on the To put it down with pi and . visit pnd through towa this week Caught In the Rain J m . r.. -. T I . . m. I tr . cr till ; ... .... Chicago News . "u '"-"' VUd"u u South round trtm lor a trip toJ;ic- enpcmsioa ot ur. j. u. ' Renville.. Palm - Beach and oother Hamilton is working hrd to Iota e -,-., ... M , Southern resorts. f these men and nrevail on thera o . . to come back nd receive the honor j 'W111 "U,J,W b I A general reunion ot all the war -after April 10th; x Douglasvllle Tex.Flve years ago .c,nFSe8 be heli at the coming I was caueht n the rain at the wrong ccmmenceinei)t" and it is probcble time- writes Edna Ruthford1 of Dou- :thRt a number of alumni glassville "and from that t!me waa n tj,, than tt any taken with dumb chilla and 'e 'time during recent years, and su'ered more than I can telL I i . ' Dr. Henry van Dyke of Princeton i Prominent Citizens Dead wiU deliver, the John Calvin McNair lectures in Chapal Hill Friday and tried everything that I thought wou ld belp and had four doctors but got no relief. I took Cardul the wo- 'Sm,d.T lllTch 25 28. mans tonic. Now I feel better than i - , A ' I During the coming week the Unl- ln many months." Cardul does one I , , . ... 'Brim ' .verslty OIn Cli'D will give concerts thing and doea. it well. Thata the Te:ty Gle6 Clc0 vm concerts secret of its fifty years of tuccess in stxtesvllle, Ashvllo, Morgantown, v - - - - Try CaruuL iiic ,uiA.a Gi .0. Two proialnont Oklsco citizens have died during the past week. Mr. Israel Perry an aged and highly respected citizen died last week after a brief illness. Mr. Henry Thompson of the same County died this week. Both of these gentlemen were very promi nent in the pffalrs of the County. On my machire I'll set 'er" 'i)e;ir Maud' this way the letter ran Id like to atk you if you can . Hecome my, queen? I loveyoii like agenthngybee. Pnff;-nihbz 4158 thnrnthenthbam boo tree lirthiifahprinthls machine" fxeiiBe mistakes I'm In a hurry I l-jve you dear, so don't you worry This I mean. I love yon like Raphnma; thljiwone Thangntmsn thepthnabethen ahtcurs This inactJnel' The maiden at once understood. As any printers love one would, Th's language dhn. A case ot "pi" she knew, I trow, Deciphered It; this inaidea now Hakes pie for himt --The. Evhfut n; Cilciii enrouto for their horai. Omitted From Honor Roll . The following names were omitted from the Honor Roll of the City Graded Schools for week of March 3rd; ' Fifth Grade Hazel Sykea, Nellie Gregory, Lonnle Cooper Graham Bell prd WUIlain Ballauce. Henry Clay hd just made hia fa mous remark. Sir, I would rather be right than the presldentl Imagine Lis chagin when be found out that he had stolen the Idea from a. f . uarco lor oju ieei vypr- r ess lumber, Bridges Church . ea Island .... .... ...... 18.85 T..C. Sanderson for one day services judge of election .. 3.00 T. J.- Davis for 86 days bed and . ; attention .Wm. Taylor prls . one .. ..... .. ...... .... 17.60 Dr. ll. M. Shaw for 3 months services as health oiOcer from November 1st 1910 to Februarjr 1st 1S11 .. .... ..'25.00 D. L. Miller forservices as register and raftMng relurnB 12.00 D. L. Milleh for servieen r. registrar and Judge of elec-.... tlpn ...... .... ........ .. 10.00 II. H. Simpson for services as Judge of election 2.00 J. E. Bonney for services as Judge of election 2.00 J. R. Jarvls for Cypress lum- . bor for repairing Moyock bridge nails and labor &c. - as per till filed 91.S2 Kramer Bros, for 00 feet ceil Ing to build a case for tux books .... .... Edwf.ids & Broughtoit Print ing Company Chattel Mortg ego book; Vj doxon Mgis trn to Dockets ...... ...... .1. Kenyon Wilaon for services to Board .......... .. 13.00 F. Bonney ono day ou Board ana mnepge ...... .. .ov J. A.Dutr.her for ono on Boar! pncT i.iUoavio .. .... 6.50 T, T. Hampton for, cue- day j on board and mUaje ..... i. 50. IE. W. Antell statoiury &c for 1 offloa as per bill filad ....... 14.55 P. N.Bray as per bill filed.. 30.50 Ordered that G. W. Walker be givet the contract to furnish jtha timber delivered to- the rcsd to re pair Colnjock Ceuaeway at 38.00 per thousand fect leg measurement. Ordered that M. P. Powell bid to f urnlBh heart Cypress lumber de livered at 335.00 per thousand feet to build Gulna Mill bridge and Ko land bridge. Ordered that the bids received from Mrs. John Brabble and John ' Callop for the keeping of the poor . to rejected. . .'.. '.'' J.T. HAMPTON, P. N. BRAY, Chairmaa Register of deed3 ail ex-officlo clerk of Board County Commiss
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