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class, fo shot"
public have
intereHt and
comment. It
Tho Advance Is Pleven weeks old
with this issue. Few imperii of Its
a uuw bei'oie the
, attracted wider
more favorahle
looks cood to
people even out of itt) immediate ter
ritory, and many who have never
heard of Elizabeth City have sub
scribed to it for the sake of its fea
tures of general interest. Perhaps,
too, the edtor"s wide personal acquain
! tance, extending over two Btates will
help to account for the number of
subscribes who came to the help of
the Advance from afar.
The greatest obstacle that the pa
per has to meet is a certain indiffer
ence at home. This is not among
its,, -readers. JThey for the most
part are its ardent supporters. And
ln .cases where this is not true they
have either been hit or they haven't
the gumption to appreciate a good
thing when they see it. A buzzard
loves nothing but carrion and it's said
that sound meat will turn him death
ly sick. It's the buzzard that's to
be despised and pitied, however; not
the meat that's, to be condemned in
that case.
But there's a 1 . -w c-t.-iFfi of people
in bur midst, and they are good
folks, too; who has never waked up
to the Advance that lias been made
in the newspaper business in Eliza
beth City. In the habit of reading
their ffally and familiar with the
weakness of the average Country
weekly they feel that the Advance
has nothing to Interest them. It
is this class that this article is de
signed to reach and to call to their
attentipn special features of the pa
per which should epel fo their in
terest, whether they are interested
iu n jiowi ooiumns or not. 11 a
reader Is interested in only one of
toss features that alone would make
too paper, with the fifty-two issues
ft yoar, easily worth the subscription
price of one dollar. Now here are
some of these especial features
which the people of Elizabeth City
should get the" habit of reading and
of talking about.
I JUS SUNDAY SCHOOL LES
SONS written especially for the Ad
vance by a successful teacher trained
in one of our best schools for worn
en and at the State University at
Chapel Hill whose discussions are
always clear, logical, distinctive, in
teresting.
TMB ; SHORT 8TOftlES-by , P.
, vann ana outers, written some
times for children, they will general
ly appeal to all. "The Harmonizing
of Martha and Gepivieve" appearing
this week, is a better story than you
have read outside of the high-priced
magazines. j
FLOWERS OF FANCY In prose
and terse, by P. E. L., H. K. W.,
and others. Good reading for those
who know the spell of day dreams or
have felt the lure of the voice of the
muse. ' ' ' ' :'i
THE : STRAIGHT - FROM - THE
SHOULDER article and the point
ed paragraphs from the pen of te
only original Bob Peele, on of the
best loved and most widely known
preachers that has laborel in at-
ern oaroiiD aunug we pasi quarter
of a century. As incorrigible an op-
too, perhaps appear to the overcrf
ttcal, but these we hope to overcome.
The Advance is striving for the
first place in the hearts of the peo
ple of eastern Carolina. It will suc
ceed. It's editor Is a man who is
in the habit of getting what he
wants. Attainment is only a question
of time. . ''. -
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ber? Everybody will be taking the
paper one of the-js days. You won't
deserve any credit for supporting it
then.
Be a pioneer. Subscribe now.
Show your faith in the publication
that though only ten weeks old is
already a lusty infant, capable of mak
lug itself heard and felt In Elizabeth
City.
Still hut an Infant it do!h not yet
nptar what it shall be. But watch
it giow, in circulation, In influence, in
power. "The best Is yet to be."
WAS FIXED FOR
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
DIARY OK A DONKEY.
(Uy P. Vann,)
January 1, 1900
Yesterday mother gave me a diary
and .told me-to begin today and write
down the things I did. She said I
would enjoy looking at it in after
years. Well, this morning I got up
and. dressed in time for breakfast,
and fixed my hair smoothly for a
good beginning. And Just the first j draymen In this city, who abuses his
thing I saw when I got out of my horse is pulled.
room was Bud, busily and eagerly
Mr. E. L. Laselter, Who Conducts
the hauling for the street paving
as up . befcrp Judgo Sawyer last
-Vidav miming tipjn (he chaise of
nioity to finiimila. He was fjuml
v to the charge an was tinea.
He took an appeal and tho case will
be carried to the superior court
Numerous cases of over work and
over loading of horses, since the pav
ing began have been ob
served, and the people will learn
with a great deal of satisfaction that
t'i .tf ntive Uen taken t lr It
up; or break up the fe Ivv who is
r2.:iiiis!b!e for " ;
It is a Mfo hot that when Mr. l,-s
rlter gets I efore a superior ctt
judge la Nc-r'. Carolina, he will
not get off as light as Judgo Sawyer
let him off. This is an opportune
time to begin a cniBade against
cruelty to animals in this lty; am)
Mr. Lasslter Is as good as anybody
't of i start on; but . the ; work ought
to De Kept up until every last negro
Mrs. M. J, Sawyer and daughter.
Miss EiBe, spent some time this
week visiting Mrs. Willis Ferebee In
Camden county,
Mrs. Selma Ballard spent last Sun
day visiting friends in Weeks vi He.
INITIATED THIRTEEN
NEW MEMBERS
The Matoaka Council of the Poco
tioutas held a very Interesting meet
ing last Frfday night In which 13
new members were initiated into
the council. Seven of these new
members are young, ladies from
Jamesbury, who purpose to establish
a council at that place.
After the Initiation, light refresh
ments were served.
GONE TO HOSPITAL.
Horace Drinkwater passed through
the city last night on route to Norfolk
to enter Sarah Leigh's hospital to re
ceive treatment Mr. Driniwnter is
resident of Vl-p-ima Beach. He has
been spending some time on Roanoke
Island visiting his mother, tato ac
companied Mm to Norfolk.
Mr. T. H. Gibbe, a prominent citi
zen of Tyrrell county, was here this
week on business. - .
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Mr. Lafayette Gibbs, of Tyrrell
county was here Monday on business.
engaged with something, I couldn't
tell what. I asked him about it and
be would not tell me, so I got mad,
and maybe I wasn't very lady-like
Anyhow, he called me a silly old
donkey. I thought it was funny at
first and I laughed until Hud got
mad. Then mother came in and
made us learn some poetry I hate
poetry and while I was busy study
ing it I ot to thinking, and I am
like a donkey. Sometimes when
people want me to go on I stop right
still, and when they want me to
be still I go. Then some
times I am just all wrong an 1 don't
do anything; but sometimes I really
am real nice and proper. ,
When I had thought about all this
I remembered my diary, and I was
sorry, because I did want to be nice.
So just for an excuse I decided to
call my diary the ""Diary of a Don
key." You know donkeys are tnot
expected to be very good. ; l
The rest of the day has been very
ordlnary.only this afternoon I went
calling with mother and had to t'S.
up straight and quiet, an awfully
tiresome thing to do. When we got
back mother said I had been good
and she kissed me. I am not go
ing to tell how many times.
JANUARY 2.
Today it has been raining and
Bud has nearly run me distracted.
He is working over that same old
thing he will not tell me about He
teased me until I just couldn't stand
it, so I caught hold of his hair and
Mrs. H. D. 9wain, of Powells Point
was here last Friday.
R. G. Burgess of Old Trap was here
last Friday on business.
Mr. an if Mrs.W. E. Wood of Ja
cocks, were here last Friday.
j Miss 'Lizzie Whelber, of Hertford,
spent this week in Manteo visiting
friends.
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Mrs. L. J. Prltchard and daughter.
Laura, are spending a month visit
ing friends in Hickory, Va.
Miss Hattie Wheber of.Sunsbury
spent this week here visiting Mrs.
C. B. Masdn. -- -------
Messrs Chesson and Palmer are
spending some time in Edenton on
a big contract for L. D. Barnes.
Mr. and Mrs. Cropon, of Newbern,
spenj. Borne time here last week the
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Marshall
Poole In Church street
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, of Nor
folk, spent some time here this week
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Mann
(n Riverside avenue, '
GARRISON-BRIMMER.
Walter Roland Brimmer and Miss
Callie Garrison, both residents of Nor
folk, were united in marriage last
Sunday at noon at the residence of
Justice of the Peace J. AV. Munden,
Mr. Munden officiating.
Misses Mary Jenkins and Fannie
Grant have returned from Nags Head.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rucker spent
last week in Peterburg.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gherman and
Miss Mae Miller, after a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. Rucker have returned to
Baltimore.
Miss Ruby Jewell after a visit to
relatives here, has returned to her
Jiome In Portsmouth. ,
Claude Zeigler spent this week at
Naga Head.
pulled just as hard as I could
guess I would have pullel ft all out
but he screamed, and I remembered
poetry, so I ran out bafore noiWr
could get there.
It wasn't very cold out at first
and I went down into the orchard.
But the rain was falling and when ,1
got wet it was cold. I was stand
Ing by the fence Just shivering when
father '' came home. He ' scolded me
and made, jna jfo in the bouse, and
said that - a girl .ten years old ought
to have better sense. ' Then mother
helped me put on some dry clothes,
and she kissed me Instead cf being-
cross, but I don't, feel so very
good tonight S v ..
JANUARY 3. ; 1
I have been in bed all day and
tlmlst as Browning, as bold a t the doctor save me mean old roed-
believer as you can And in a day's
journey, his writings are wholesome
and inspiring. Everything from his
pen now appears first in the Advance.
THE EDITORIALS by Herbert
Peele. Strong, clear-out and always
worth while, they will compare fav
orably with the editorials of any
daily or weekly In the state.
Mr. Peele is not a broken down
school teacher. Neither does be be
long to the seventy-five or hundred
dollars a month class. Last year he was
receiving a larger salary than did any
man in the profession who graduat
ed with him, and was superintend
ent of a school system enrolling six
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editor of the college magazine, win
ner of an orator's medal and of a
twenty-five dollars in gold literary
prise. In all his writing In the Ad
vance you will find the subtle and
indefinable charm that goes to maka
what we call style. '
All these are special features of
the Advance. It has also the' good
point of the other weeVite. fur1
the most part Xaay wwik points.
cine. My throat hurts and I have
a sort of an aching feeling.
JANUARY 431.
PNEUMONIA
I
FEBRUARY 1.
All these days I have been sick.
I am better now and I am getting
stronger. Today I asked for my
diary and 'mother brought it Even
now I am enjoying looking it over
if I have written Just a little. Moth
er suggested that I fix It that way
about the sick days, 1 feel real queer,
as If I were going to be good always.
I am thin and father looks at me
strangely. 1 saw Bud for the first
time yesterday. It was a boat he
was making that day and he is going
to give It to me. He is at school
today and hasn't been in here yet I
wish he would come. Everybody is
good to me. I don't believe I win
have this bid diary. I am going to
start all over again and put ""Diary
of a Good Girl." I don't believe any
old donkey ever felt this way when
he was getting well.
MANN-DOXET.
H. O. Doxey, of Moultreville, S. C
and Miss Ada Mann of this city were
married last Saturday afternoon at
three o'clock at the home of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. O,
Mann. Rev. I. N. Loftin performed
the ceremony.
' Mr. and Mrs. Doxey made a trip
to Washington, D. C. and haye gone
to Moltrrille, S. C, their home.
MR. J. P. KRAMER
. HAS RETURNED
The friends of the family will Je
delighted to learn that Mr. J. P. Kra
mer has returned from 8t Vincent s
hospital, and that he has made a re
markable recovery. If nothing hap
pens, Mr. Kramer will be entirely
well within a short time.
. Mr. Kramer has been in bad health
for a year or more; has undergone
two operations and has spent most
of the time in St Vincent's hospital.
He says that he feels better now
than he has In a long time, and he
looks it ' 'And one who has put up
the fight for his life that he has de
serves to get well.
Mrs. W. J. Broughton spent this
week visiting at "WHloughby Beach.
Mrs. T. J. McCabe and daughter.
Miss Margaret, are spending this
week .at - Xrca Head. - -
Miss Grace White spent some time
at Woodville this week, visiting Miss
Beatrice Wilson. :
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Miss Pleasant Evans accompanied
by Miss Ada Flggs spent this week
at Liny, N. C. visiting Mrs. Frank
Sawyer. '
Mrs. George R. Bright and children
have gone to-Virginia to spend the
remainder . of the summer.
Mis Mildred 4peac spent this
week visiting Meade la Roanoke, Va.
MiBs Carrie Burgess is spending the
week in Old Trap. ,
CAUGHT 400 POUNDS
WITH HOOK AND LINE
Mr. Fred Zeigler brings from
Nags Head, reports of a wonderful
catch of fish at Oregon Inlet
Messrs George Leary of Edenton,
Frank Tuttle, Mr. Smith, George
Spence and Fred Zeigler went to Ore
gon Inlet last Saturday fishing -with
hook and line. They caught in a shor
time over four hundred pounds of fish
Among these fish were fifep-two fioun
ders and big one also.
Mr. Zeigler stated that the fish
were so thick and "bit" so fast that
be would catch , two and three at
a time.
The fishing party took the boat
load of fish to Nags Head and made
a distribution to all of the families.
After all had as many fish as they
wanted, they had fish to throw away.
Very probably this is one of the most
remarkable catches ever made in the
coast section.
R. E. Flora of Currituck was here
Saturday on Business. , -
Miss Annie Overton of Belcross
was here Saturday the guest of
friends..
J. B. Williams of Camden county
was here Saturday on business.
Harold Overman, Manager of the
City Drug store, returned Saturday
afternoon from a trip to Morehead
City where he attended the meeting
of the association of Pharmacists.
Miss Maggie Davenport has return
ed from a, visit to relatives in Bel
haven, where she has spent her vacation.
Miss Sadie Ange has returned
from Belhaven where she has spent
some time visiting friends. N
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Mr. and Mrs. John T. Davis havs
returned to their home in Pennsylva
nia after a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Ca
leb.
. . . .i
"Tran" Culpepper, Jr., has returned
from a trip to Raleigh where he
spent a week visiting John HaXL
Miss Mary Gilbert. Battle Bailey,
Mildred Broughton, Anal Gregory
spent Sunday at Nags Bead.
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