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.J. . I 'i THE WEATHER: Occasional showers tonight and Suaday variable winds. VOL. 5. ftanl. Banks; of Baltimore is Here To See About City Water Works Promises Pure Water Just As Soon As? Filter Ordered to Make the Water Pure For Us. Gas Plant Plans Are Under Way He Says. Mr. Diniel B. Bankf. of Balti more,' who holds the franchises for Iba water works, the electric light and power plant, the proposed street railway and the proposed gas plant is in the city today. Mr, Banks came to town over the Nor folk and Southern Railroad, from Norfolk, arriving here Rt noon. Mr. Banks is at th9 office of the Elizabeth City Water & PowerPC, with Mr. H. Olay Tunis this after noon. He is as cheerful and de ferential as usual tut with it all reticent, as becomes an astute fin ancier. Mr." Banks " is here rektive to the water situation. He is inter ested also in the progress of the plans for the gas plant for which the city gave him a franchise in June . He sa s that he wants tp give the people of Elizabeth City goo.i wa ter. He gave an order for a Greer filter, which he says ought to pre- par.-4 the water to come up to the! conditions required by his fran chise. That filter ought to be here now he says and will be put in op- oration at once. "We are giving this water situation nere a lot of thought," he says, "and we believe that the water will be beyond criticism in future." Mr. Banks says that plans for the gas plant are being made and that no delay will occur in putting the plant in and getting it in op eration. Orders for much of the material have been placed he says. The exact date on which the gas will be turned into the mains for the use of consumers is not stated. The plant will have to be complet ed in twenty months however or he will have to forfeit his franchise and risk a competitor getting it Besides he will have to pay the city 15,000 for violating his fran chise. Mr. Banks will be in the city until Monday. While here he will . devote nearly all of his time in conferences with local representa tives of his franchises. Vaults Walls ' Are Four Feet Thick The two new Vaults for the offic es of the Clerk of the Court and Register of Deeds, in the , county court house, stand completed to day with the exception of doors and furnishings. The doors and furniture for the two vaults are ex pected on the next incoming freight and workmen" are waiting to put them in position. It is hop ed to have the vaults completed and ready for usb Monday morn ing. These vaults were built by the J. F. Smith, Fireproof Construc tion Co., of Washington, D. C. They will cost the county $5,500. They are said to be absolutely fire proof. They are built of brick, cement, steel and iron. The walls are about four feet thick. Da ly POSTAL WIRE OPEN MONDAY . MORNING. The Postal Telegraph & Cable Co. will open its new office, next door to the Arlington hotel, in Water St., Monday morning. . A young lady operator will be in charge of the office. She will be sent to this city from some of. one of the large offices, of the company elsewhere. Mr. J. F. Heard, District Fore man, of the company, who was re strained yesterday, in putting in call boxes, as told in this newspaper will go before the Board of Alder men Monday night and ask for for mal permission to put in the call boxes in commercial houses here. It is understood that there will be some objection to his request offer ed by the Western Union and the Elizabeth City & Norfolk Telegraph Co., the rival line. LAZINESS IN CHILDREN IS A DISEASE. That is The Interest ing New Theory Ad vanced By "Ameri can Medicine." Certainly not" all lazy persons suffer from disease of the brain, but, according to an editorial writ er in American Medicine (Philadel phia), lassitude in children is often a cerebral symptom, and should not be overlooked as such. Says this writer: "Change of disposition in chil dren is often wrongly interpreted, and both parents and teachers have recourse to various means to secure improvement, such as reprimanding forcing, depriving of food, etc. al tho conditions grow worse instead of improving, A child, for .exam ple, enjoying heretofore good health, all at once undergoes a radi cal change: he becomes slow in his actions, takes more time than usual in eating, dressing, studying. His intellectual faculties becomes less vivid, memory fails, he lacks atten tion. The condition is diagnosed as 'laziness' and bodily punishment is inflicted. A child like this is certainly ill, and coercive training will not improve the condition, but strictly medical attention. The subject is certainly important from a practical standpoint, as the future of such a patient depends upon the early recognition of the pathologic condition. It should be borne in mind by every parent, or teacher. Cheerfulness, - laughter, vividness, are all attributes of youth, and if these chaiacteristio features of child hood are rapidly replaced by lassi tude and impairment of intelligence the condition is u'ndoubtely mor bid." Ye Old Fashioned Plain Stick Candy. Best for children. 'As good as any for Grown-ups. W. T. Dkax fc Co. i ECONOMl ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. EVcN THE WORM WILL TURN. Time was when the Russian array officer could insult and ruthlessly shoot down an inferior without justification, and the rest of the inferiors would silently submit. Time is when A NEW R. F, D. WILL BE PUT ON AT ONCE Mr. W. S. Plnmmer, Rural Free Delivery Agent, of Washington, who has been engaged for the past few days in going over the R. F. D. Routes in the upper section of this coHnty with a view to making changes, improving the service to the farmers of that section informs this newspaper that he has rearrang ed route no 4 and has proposed the establishment of a new loop route to be known as route N6. 7, to serve the people in the North Wes tern Section of the county. -With the rearrangement of Route No. 4 and the establishment of the" new loop route No. 7 it will be possible for every body in that section of the county to get their mail every day at their very doors whereas heretofore 'many have had to go three or four miles to route no 4 and get their mail from boxes ex posed to any possible pilferer. As it stands rearranged Route No 4 will serve patrons over a route of 21 miles. Loop Route No. 7 will extend over 1 7 miles. - ' Mr. Plummer says that he is very well pleased with "the Rural Free Delivery Service in this coun ty as it will be carried out when the proposed change and addition has been brought about. Hotel Guests. Followering are the guest regis tered at , The Arlington: L. B. Howell, St Louis; E. S. Smith, Philadelphia Pa J A. T. Evans, Baltimore, Md; W. G. Brinkleyand wife, Norfolk, Va; Chas. E. Simp son, Norfolk, Va; Morris Brenner, New York, N. Y; W. A. Hespel. Baltimore, Md; W. T. Cox, Nor Norfolk, Va. A Little warm, Y Elizabeth City had a foretaste of a threatened hot wave this morning At noon the thermometer was regis tering 00 degrees in many parts of the city. Only a few thermometers in doors got ny where near, the 80 mark. f SATURDAY AUG, 5. 1905. Elizabeth City Merchant Claims Kin To The the poor Russian private will rebel. THREE BIG MEETS NEAR AT HAND The County Commissioners will meet in the court house Monday at noon. The Board of Aldermen will meet in the city hall at 8 o'clock Monday Evening. The Chamber of Commerce will meet Monday night week. - Important matters concerning public interests are expected to be taken up at all of the above meet ings. Matters bearing on the news of the week will be an application, to the Board of Aldermen, by the Postal Telegraph Co., for permis sion to put call boxes in commercial houses in this city, and the presen tation of a bill for $5,500 to the County Commissioners for the new vaults in the court house. Owing to the absence of City At torney Thompson some matters to (come before the Aldermen'may have to be laid over until the September meeting. . , Saloon Men Wanted at "Anti" Meet. The Anti Saloon League of Eliz abeth City, will meet at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the North ern Methodist Church in Pearl St Rev. H. M. North, pastor of the City Road Methodist Church, and a prominent Anti Saloon League worker in speaking of this meeting to be held tomorrow said that he wished that more of the people wht are opposed to the Anti Saloon work would attend this meeting He says that very few of the Sa loon people attend the meetings. Personally he invites the attend ance of every Saloon man in the city ilaV Sh Was Put Out An Edenton girl who is taking singing lessens asked her teacher; "Do you think I can ever do an f thing with my voice" The professor very cautious replied: "Well, it may come ip handy in esse of fire." .-- -: .1. ST. Famous Pirate "Teach ANOTHER OF OUR POPULAR TEACHERS FUSS flARY HcMULLAN A question wmch should deeply concern all parents is that of educa ting their children. That which should as deeply concern them is those to whom the education of these children is to be entrusted. This newspaper prints here today a picture ot Miss Mary McMullan who was recently re-elected to the faculty of the Atlantic Collegiate Institue for the session of 1005-6. Miss McMullan will fill the chair of the assistant Intermediate. Miss Mc Mullan filled this position last ses sion. Her re-appointment is alone sufficient testimony to her effi ciency. Miss McMullan feceived her pre paratory education at the Atlantic Collegiate Institute, She graduat ed at Winston-Salem. A daughter of Dr. O. McMullan, from one of the oldest families in Eastern North Carolina, Miss McMullan is promi nent socially. She became a teach er through a noble desire to do something toward assisting ' the cause of education in the Old North State. , Other pictures of popular school teachers will appear in this news paper from time to time. PHILOSOPHY OF DIVERS KINDS A man should not blame bis wife for being fond of dry gods so long as he is equally fond of wet goods. The way to get rid of the rascals is to stop being fools. Greed is a disease that ought to be dealt with by lawtbe: same as smallpox. If you allow your wife to have the last word the row will soon end. For a poor man to steal a loaf of bread is robbery, but when a rich man steals a railroad it is called a "transaction.1'! . All the people in the universe be lieving a lie would not make it a truth. Tom Watson's Magazine. Sunday Excursions To Nags Head. Steamer Tourist leaves her dock at foot of Fearing street every Sunday at 7:30 a. mv arriving at Nags Head at 13 m, and returning leaves Nags Head at 6:30 p. m., arriving at Elizabeth City at II p, m. Round trip 1.0. Meals aarved aboard the ateampr I 1 Juj.CiuUS AOVERTIS' Advertise In The f ECONOMIST Bsoause the People Rr NO Says Pirate's Name Wa Tukes Commander. His Home Was Ne! Nixonton and He Thought to Hal Buried His Plund On Buzzard Island. Since tlio publication in newspaper of the fact that a newed search r-einu inae the buried treasure of the Pn;; Teach many now stories of tlj once famous bngaud have be going the rounds. Particulae interesting is the fact that it raif pires that Mr. J. C. Commanded promioent merchant of thiB c' claims to be a dependent of tf pirate Teach. Mr. Commander, interviewed 1 a representative of this newspap tbis morning said. "I hatealwa been of the opinion . that Pira Teach was an ancestor of mine. 1 the first place his real name w not Teach. Hi'h name . was Tul' Commander and . he was callt Teach, as a nickname. He we? by this name and by the name Black Beard' because of a Ion; black beard which he always wor "Teach had his headquarters ; the mouth of Simons Creek ne Nixonton. Mv brother Mr. R. ! Commander now owns the propc ty on which Teach lived." Mr. Commander says that he b; lieves it is extremely foolish fc any one to hunt for money whu' Teach may have buried. If h buried any money at all says M Commander I believe he sunk on Buzzard Island, in the Litt River. ' ' Mr. Commander says the belit maintained for years that Teac sunk a lot of his money in a bi kettle in Simons Creek. Accort ing to Mr. Commander this kettl was located many years ago ar many attempts have been made raise it but no one ever succeeds He says that he has seen two v ' sels, equipped with heavy windh es, attempt to raise this kettle without avail. . ' But he. thinks the kettle is that was used for boiling salt du. ing the revolutionary war and the it fell into the creek upside dow and has become so set in the mi of the creek's botton that the suk tion holds it down against effort, made to raise it. j Mr. Commander can give som interesting stories abont tbis pir ate to any one who cares to aj proach him on the subject. j Reports from Mr. C. W. Hollo well's farm are to the effect the the unknown parties who hav been digging into his property presumably for this treasure, ha discontinued their operations fc the past two nights. Try a cup of - Gillies Mokajav Coffee at Dawsons Cafe. It wi cheer your baart Poindexter strep Notice. There will e a meeting of tl stockholders of the Carolina Pu1 Co. Monday Aug, 7, 1905, in V- office of Williams and Leigh, in t' First National Bank Building, 8 o.clock p. m. for the pcrposs making conveyances and ' ot' things. J. II. LeRov, Pr W. L. Svtth, Soc'y.
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