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he Daily CO.NOMI VOL. o. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 1905.' NO Baptist Par sonage Finished Athetotics. Will Be Encouraged 'The Clansman" Seen by Many Court Ended Until Mar IT WILL BE OCCUPIED BY REV. J08IAH CRUDUP ON 27TH IN STANT WONDPWTUL GROWTH OF THE MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Contractors Burton and Lamb have just finished the work of building one of the most handsome dweTliflgs on North Road street, for Mr. M. N Sawyer. This house wil be used for a parsonage of the Memorial Baptist church, which is across the street on the next corner. Its first occupant will be Rev. Jo Biah Crudup, of Washington, who has SCHOOLS OF CITY DEVOTE MORE ATTENTION TO DEVELOPMENT OF BRAWN OF STUDENTS THIS YEAR THAN EVER BEFORE. It is understood that the schools of the city this year will encourage athletics to a greater extent than ever before, and the students 'are uircady showing greater interest in attending. It Is realized and acknowledge that not enough attention has been given to the brawn of the students in the work of developing and shaping been called to the mentioned church, j them for their future careers and thi and who will arrive here on Wednes day, the 27th instant. The erection of this house makes the possessions of the mentioned church complete. The church itself is the handsomest in the city, it now has one of the ablest men in the dis trict to fill the pulpU, and its mem bership roll is lengthy and snows the names of some of the most devout Christian workers of the city. The history of this church is an in spiration. The Baptists In that part of the city decided to have rj cnapel. A small wooden building was erectei and a minister was called. In these proportions it continued for sometime but its membership grew and com stantly became stronger. The ultimate decision was that the church was too small and the mem hers went to work to put up a larger and finer one. The manner In which they succeeded is the Inspiring part. Each member gave his proportional part, some far beyond their means and the result was that in a short time they had put up a creditable church and were worshiping in it. It has continued to grow constant ly and is now one of the strongest churches in the State. Many Improvements At Y. fl. C. A. ' During the past week there have been many improvements going on at the Y. M. C. A. preparatory to the -opening of the fall work. The bath and wash rooms have received fresh coats of paint and present a very neat appearance in their new dress. .The gymnasium has been lined off and put in readiness for basket ball and next Tuesday night, September 26, will witness the opening of the fall gym nasium class work. On Wednesday afternoon at four-thirty o'clock classes for juniors will be commenced. About the first of October classes for students at the A. C. I. and A. H. "S. will be organized. The following is the outlined sched ule of class work for the year: - Students, Mondays and Fridays, at 5 p. m. Young men, Tuesday and Thurs days, at 8:15 p. m. Boys, Wednesdays, 4:30 p. m., Sat urday, 10:15 a. m. In addition to the announcements already made for the night school at the Y. M. C. A., which opens October 2nd, it has been thought wise to add the common school branches to the business course under Prof. Boettcher and these will be taught by Mrs, Boettcher, who has had : valuable ex perience in night school work while assisting Prof. Boettcher in his work in Maryland. year will mark the commencement of the efforts to reduce the discrepancy between developing brain and mirs ck. It is reported that this fall, each of the larger schools of the city will put a foot-ball team in the Held and that a series of games will, be played There are three schools here with students enough to organize excellent teams the Atlantic Collegiate Insti tute, the Albemarle High School and the Elizabeth City Public Scnool. For the past several years the first two mentioned have played foot-ball against each oth-jr, but th idea is to get all three of them Interested and to play a series of games. Both the A. C. I. and A. H. S. will organize teams, but the public school has not been heard from. All the year around some form of athletics could be entered into, and besides the bene- fit to be derived by t'nti students, the schools themselves could not have a better system of advert islnr;. MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK. Rev. A. P. Tyer will speak tomor row afternoon at 4o'clock at a ten perance meeting in Blackwell Memo rial church to which Ihe public is in vited. The committee hopes that those who are for saloons will feel welcome at these meetings a3 well as those who are against. There will also be a meeting in the Y. M. C. A. hall at the same hour which will be addressed by Rev. J. M. Bandel, of Baltimore, Md., who is here to till the pulpit at the Presbyterian ehurrh to morrow" morning' arid evening. At the court house Tuesday nisht, there will be a mass meeting for men conducted by the anti-saloon league. Wednesday night there will be a union meeting of all the churches in the city at the First Baptist church to take the place of the regular pray er meetings at the different churches. GastonLitcrary Society Formed HIGH-FLYER CLUB MEETS. The A. C. S. High-Flyer Club met last evening at the home of Miss Bes sie Weatherly on Riverside avenue. After playing many now games, In cluding the new Road Dan4e, the members were Invited to the dining room where delicious refreshments were served. Music for the occasion was rendered by a Phonograph. The members present were: Misses Laura Bartlett, Mattle Whitehurst, Bessie Weatherly, Mary Pendleton, Carrie Alexander, Minnie Leary, Lizzie Grlf- Elizabeth Sawyer, Myrtle Robert- i, Cornelia Nixon, Maud Grlce, Jen- Simpson and Carrie Jewell. Messrs. Ralph Ives, Roy Banks, Joe Wlnslow, Vernon Godfrey and Roy Kramer. The Gaston Literary Society, of the Atlantic Collegiate Institute, held it first regular meeting of the year last night at the school building on Road street, and formally organized by electing officers and enrolling mem bers. It was a large meeting and the students manifested sufficient enthu siasm to make it apparent that It will be a most auspicious year for the or ganization. With the exception of the choice of officers and enrollment, no real work was done last night fur ther than to decide upon weekly meeting nights, which will be Friday as heretofore. This society Is almost as old as the school of which it forms a most Im portant part and the faculty consid ers that some of the best literary work of the school has been done by the society, and urges every student to become a member. It holds debates on important sub jects and when the public Is invited, they are always heard by a crowded house. It Is stated that quite a num ber of public debates, mock trials and other features will be given the pub lic this season. The Beef Trust Attorney: "Now, Judge, how can you have the heart to try such a poor, innocent, helpless, law-abiding angel as my client?" The Beef Trust trials will begin on September 18. News Item. THEATRE TRAIN CARRIED ABOUT ffeO 'PEOPLE FROM THIS CITY BUT MANY OF THEM WERE OIS APPOINTED, BEING UNABLE TO ENTER PLAY-HOUSE. Mother Deserted Infant Child in Dense Swamp ITS STIFLED CRIES ATTRACTED ATTENTION LAST NIGHT TO SPOT WHERE IT HAD LAID IN BUSHES TfOR .TWENTY-FOUR HOURS MOTHER ADMITS DEED. If you want your little ones strong, healthy and robust, give them Hollts ter"s Rocy Mountain Tea. A tonic for the whole family. - The children'? friend. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Standard Pharmacy. - - - One of the most unusual cases to come before the attention of the local police was brought to light last night and it involves one of the most cruel deeds that could be performed by a mother deserting a new born baby. and in such a manner that bespeakes hardened cruelty to an unbelleveable degree. It was only by chance that a crime, intentional or otherwise, is it may be, of a hideous nature was prevented. '"'.".,' Infant Found in Swamp. Last evening at about eight o'clock a number of negro laborers were passing the swamp which makes up on South Road street, near Overman' cemetery, and at the intersection of Road street and Boston avenue, when their attention was attracted by a noise in the swamp which resembled the cry of an infant. In'listenlng some of them thought the noise was made by a frog, but it grew louder and the men entered the swamp "to Investi gate. The cries were traced to a dense clump of bushes, surrounded by a literal quagmire, but the men ex tracted a bundle of something they saw, and unwrapping it, found as they had feared, a tiny infant, not more than twenty-four hours old. They carried it to the street where it and the bundle of rags In which it was wrapped were placed in a chair. That a crime had been com mitted was evident and the police were sent for. The officers took the child in charge and began an inquiry. Suspicion was directed on a woman named Mary Ann Godfrey, who lives on Boston avenue, and Chief Bell questioned her thoroughly, but she flatly denied that the child was h.rn and that she had placed It In the swamp and there the matter rested for some hours. Its Mother li Found. Later In the night Dr. H. D. Walker the city physician, was called Into iHei inquiry and again the house of the Godfrey woman was visited. By an examination the doctor secured strong indications that she was connected with the case and after telling her what he had found threatened to have her arrested If she refused to tell all she knew about It. The threat lo cause her arrest had the desired ef fect and she was soon telling one of the most miserable stories the offi cers had, ever listened to. After tell ing many different stories about It, she finally said that it was her child they had found and that she had wrapped it in the bundle of rages and hid it In the swamp. She said that several months ago, and since then she had been unable to make a living. She said she did not want the birth of the child known and at once decided tc carry it to the swamp and leave it, in the hope that it would be found and cared for by some one. At first she said that.she secreted it in the swamp Thursday night and that she carried it back home Friday morning, but her last admittance was that she had not seen tt since she first placed it in the bushes. Heard Its Cries For Hours. The place of concealment wa3 only a short ways from her house and she must, have heard the cries of tho baby from Thursday night until Fri'lay night. For at least twenty-four hours the child laid among the bushes sur rounded by the pools ot stagnanv wa ter, reeking witb. foul odors, entirely without nourishment and a mot ier s care, but when it w'as finally returned to its home it seemed to have not been seriously hurt by the brutal treatment it received ami after the doctor had used his skill, It was seen that it would not die from the effects. Mother Not Arrested. Bo far, the mother, who confessed to have deserted it in the swamp "for someone else to find," in a place where no one has walked in years, perhaps, has not been arrested for an attempt at infanticide, but all the evi dence has been secured by the po lice and she may be arraigned at any time before Mayor Leigh. It is the greatest piece of brutality heard of here in many a day. If the child had been murdered at once, it would have been far better than leav ing it in a foul swamp to die slowly of hunger or from other causes equal ly as bad. About one "hundred and fifty people went from this city last night on th "theatre train" to Norfolk, the attrac tlon there being Thomas Dixon's fa mous play, "The Clansman," which was presented at the Academy ot Mu sic. Quite a number among the 150 had secured seats by telephone or telegraph and managed to see the show, bnt many of those who went depending on securing seats at the box office met with disappointment for among hundreds.. of others, they could not squeeze in, sldewaya, lengthwise, or any other way. The greatest crush ever seen at a show In Norfolk was met with and many gave up seeing it and sought other amuse ment;!. Those who did get somewhere near the stage saw one of the most stirring and realistic plays "ever put on boards." Its plot was a combination of the "Leopard's Spots" and "Th-j Clansman" and besides appealing to sectional prejudice, it presented many scenes of unsual merit and interest. To those who had read the books from which the play was extracted it was doubly Interesting. REGISTRATION BOOKS OPEN. . ' r1 " The registration books for the ap proachlng election on the whiskey question opened this morning and are being examined with Interest by all voters. Everyone desires to make sure that he will be duly qualified to vote on the important question to be at issife on October 9. It is said that quite a number will be unable to vote on account of not having paid their poll taxes. SKATING RINK RENO VATED FOR OPENING KILLED HIS BROTHER. her husband bad left p Death Caused by Shooting With Wad of Paper. Raleigh, N. C. Kept. 22. Charles Doane, a young white man eighteen years old, was brought from Yancey county and committed to the peniten tiary to serve five years for the kill ing of his brother. They were out hunting, Charles shot several times at game without effect, and his little twelve-year-old brother began ridicul Ing him. Charles became angry, load ed his gun with powder and a wad of paper and fired at the little boy, say ing at the same time that he would teach him how well he could snoot The wad of paper struck the boy on the side of the head, killing him al most instantly. The older brother was horrified and declared that he only intended to frighten his little brothe. The court found him guilty of murder In the second degree. The proprietors of the skating rink over the wholesale grocery store of the C, W. Stevens Ca on Wjater street are now renovating it thoroughly and the lovers of this popular sport cin "swing" to their 'hearts content whea the season opbns, which will be lu about two weks. The principal im provements being made are on the floor, and practically a new one, well suited for the purpose, will be put in. The work will require about two weeks, and the rink will be then open ed to the public. It was one of the most' popular places of amusement in the city last season, and the improvements being made now, assures that it will be even more attractive this season. Will Increase Local Chain-Cang JUDGE'S CONFERENCE ' GRAND JURY COMPOSED . TERDAY'S SESSION CC CONVENED TODAY AT N LASTED ABOUT 20 MIN AND FINALLY ADJOURNEC TIL THE SPRING. There was no court held yes The grand. Jury, wajg still In however, and during the day, ( O. W. Ward held a conferenc the Jurymen .Jn reference to It; The extra work of the body Is no end of .speculation and con and It attracts the keenest int the public. Something new r expected has been anticipated j people since it became knot the Jury was working full tin court had adjourned, but so f known, nothing has develop noon today Judge Ward c court, and a session lasting twenty minutes followed. T term, whTcfi has been one of t Interesting In years, was tl eluded, not to convene agal next March. With the knowledge that tl an exceptionally large nu criminal cases on the docke generally thought that the t ended would last a full wee the conclusion of the State c civil docket was ended in ! day, to the surprise of all, are generally enough suit ,Ci to last a week. Two Boys M( Horrible I FLED FROM ONE ,TRACI OTHER TO ESCAPE TF WERE CRUSHED UN WHEELS OF ANOTHEI There will be services In the Pres byterian church tom'orrow morning and flight at which Rev. J. A. Bandee of Baltimore will preach. The pub lic Is cordially Invited. - ----- - Perquimans Superior court will convene Monday morning at Hert ford and It will undoubtedly be the most interesting term held there in years, as can readily be seen by an examination of the docket which ap peared in full In yesterday's Issue of the Dally Economist. On the crim inal docket appears a murder case, a criminal assault, assaults with dead ly weapons; In fact, the whole cata logue of criminal offenses are gone through with, even the familiar "blind tiger" cases. Nearly every lawyer of this city will appear In the different cases, and the legal battles will be severe. Hert ford is expecting a crowd all the week and the hotel and boarding houses are preparing. There is one interest Pasquotank feels In the session her chain gang will evidently be increased In numbers. Several Elizabeth City men are In volved In some of the civil suits- cases. Greensboro, N. C, Sept. : Craven, aged seventeen, a and Leslie H. Gerringer, ; operator . for the Southe block signal office at the limit, were found dead track near the new shift! mile from the passenger j nine o'clock tonight. A pe Ing near the track as the ! passenger train No. 35 tlced two men on the trac great haste from In front senger; Close following gine No. 4C1, going to 1 hook a freight train foi The bystander, after this ( ed failed to see the tv hearing a groan after the vanishing engine ceased, j vestlgation, and found t badly mangled men besl a hundred yards distant. men's head was complc The bthe, who possibl few minutes, had a leg a severed. The bodies v an undertakers and i burial. ' Both young men wen well connected. The i pany has had this tra protect trespassers fro city makes the fact of a misdemeanor, and on ago several parties wen by the moyar for using a place as a sidewalk. ELKS WILL GIVL The local order of B. now perfecting all plat ments for the holdir "Smoker." . It will be magnificent home In building next Friday r. member of the order it with keen pleasure, members only and will every detail. Previ have been given by th a number of outsid and they are remem' ure. A sumptuous Friday night' will furnish t I A
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