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VOL II ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 2 1912 NO. 5 SESSION Of GREAT IMPORT PLANS FOR. A HOSPITAL TO BE TAKEN UP AND ALL CITIZENS INVITED TO ATTEND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST. ( The J Chamber '' cC; Commffcn will hoid a big. public :ieetL;r tonight hi the court house j. i il ih yiWIo is wged to attjut. : A nurabar of imjortan f'' I'' bgkj will bo discussed In the meeting and sjovements will be started to secure iaatitut'lons for this city - which are badly needed, y ' -'" - The hospital ftw Elizabeth City win come up tonight and this will fee the mailt subject discussed. There te a movement on foot to build and eauip a hospital here and this move Kent! is creating a great deal of in terest and is recelVing very, liberal rapport. The need for a hospital has teen apparent for a long time. This need has been impressed upon the people more and more each day. Sev lerai movements- have been started to secure one but these , movements fell through and never accomplished anything. The movement this time has been started on different lines, and it is . believed that the efforts will succeed and that the hospital will be built here In the bear future. The doctors held a meeting several nights ago, and.; they- heartily en dorsed the plan to have one here and they . have promised to aid in every way , possible to promote it. Last Friday night, -the Chamber of Onimerce held a meeting and the members of the chamber, were en-! thusiastic for the hospital. ?t was de- dded .In that meeMng of the Cham x her to hold a public meeting to in tereet jthecitizens of the town. Mr. : liOmo was' Instructed tn IhiiOneetlng im go ahead with the work, Mr. Lumb has received the -most encour aging promises of support His !a n which will likely be adopted is te organize a stock company, and so lvit stock subscriptions to secure, the 'feeds. It is his plan to have the lock distributed ' as much as possi ble by . having .everybody t 'ake stock, even if it Is for a sni..,l a ount. He has been promised con-' uiderable stock already, a number of people signifying their intention f of subscribing. Some of them have pf ferea to subscribe considerable i'ms. At the meeting Friday night, the proposition to hold ''an agricultural fair here this, year, will tome up for discussion. Arrangements will likely be made to secure the fajr grounds and plans will bo , outlined t for the hiargest Fair that has ever been held in this section. There was no fair kero Inst year and the business men keenly feel the need of one. , It -is I planned to make "this Fair an elab rerfo one, which will attract a large vmber of visitors. Special efforts win he made to secure a larsje num ber of . exhibits and enticing prom tams wilj be offered. The new depot matter will come for discussion too. The railroad enrn puijy has expressed a willingness to ulld the new depot just as soon aa tile people of Elizabeth City will a gree upon a site, somewhere on the Main iine. The company claims that H must locate the new depot on the main line as much time Is lost back Jnt: into the present station. , The eAcials desire that the people shall oJt on 'some location oa they have no desire to cauce any friction or antagonize any by locating the s!a tton against the will of the people. Immediately after the public meet inf , Friday night, the Chamber will have the annual ' election of officers ter the ensuing year. , .i i ue. pounc ra nrsw u turn out and ei'bd "this meeting. c' Mra. E. Jennings of Berkley, spent tibrae time visiting Ma parents . in tai cousity thi week. " hen in need of furniture call on Markhaa and Jooee,. Water Street. They have a flue liae to eect from . :r; prices. , , . ,.- FARMERS TALK BERRY CULTURE SOIL ADAPTED TO STRAWBER RIES AND CROP IS A PAYING ONE SUITABLE VARIETIES FOR THIS SECTION. The strawberry meeting was held in the court, house yesterday morn ing. The attendance of farmers was good, although there, were not as many present as could have been wished. ' Prof. Billsbury of the A. and M. College ' was present and. addressed, the farmers on strawberry culture. Prof. PUlsbury spent Wednesday morning making trips through the county to study the soil1 In regard to strawberry raising. He found it es pecially well adapted to strawberries and he stated that berries will do unusually well here. Mr. Johnson of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station was al$o present and spoke to the farmers on straw berry culture." He explained how the crop ccul.1 be made a very piofitable one. He rrged upon t.- i'trmers to put out o crop of pirn;:-, u.id "oogfn raising a crop. The kinds of plants recommended for raising berries to ship to North' era markets are: Missionary, K lon dyke, Excelsior, Success and Chesa peake.- . . ;.. A (representative of the Norfolk Southern railroad was present and explained to the farmers that trans portation facilities will be furnished for any quantity' of berries that the farmers may raise to ship, and that the farmers arenot compelled to en- tor upon this crop on a large scale, ontu thoy naT0 expertaBnted to their I Batisfactloa. Ia some shipments of berries, they can be shipped., on the four ocIock express, and when .they reach Norfolk they will, be placed in the proper kind of cars. ' v There will be another meeting in the interest of strawberry culture in the near future. BIG LAND SUIT GOT NON-SUITED This big case for thfs week's su perior court got . non-suited and this cleared the way for a number of mi nor suits hlch have been disposed of. of. The suit was C. P. Weston against the Richmond Cedar Works and it involved a large tract of timber, land in Pasquotank county. An able ar ray of attorneys represented both" sides, and when the case was call ed Monday t looked as if a great le? gal battle was on. The court open ed up the case and progress was be ing made in taking testimony, when Tuesday afternoon the attorneys for the defense attempted to get before the court some evidence, which the judge ruled out. This set up a con tention as to the evidence, end a tention as to" the evidence, and a motion was made for a non-suit. This was granted and the case will bo tak eu totha Supreme Court, when the admissibility of the evidence in question will be decided upon. This suit rew out a contention over a tract of timber land which is now of great value. ' Various grants and deeds have : been made to this piece of land, but one of the impor tant deeds got registered in Cam den county, while the land is in Pas quotank county. As soon as the plaintiff discovered this error in the registration of land deeds which was made nearly eighty years ago, he not up claim, for the land and began su't against the Cedar Works. to ob tain possession. , It was the attempt tt have Intro duced in couft this 'dee.i registered iii the wron? coun'y, that brought s nan in tn trial nc caused a nm s-.lt. . . J.Cr Meekina, Sr., of Columbia, spent somei times here this -aveek -visiting his son. " Deputy Marshal Jerry Wilcox spent spme time in Gates county this week serving papers in the case T J.' R. Lasaiter, administrator vs the Norfolk' Southern- railroad. THE WEEK IN TYRRELL ..,., , . . s HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST "AT THE THRIVING COUNTY 8 EAT. OF ONE OF THE BEST COUN- TIES IN THE STATE Columbia, N. C. Feb. 1. The home of Mrs D. W. Cooper, on Rider's Creek, was made sad last Tuesday morning when they awoke to find their baby dead in bed. We sympa- thise with Mr. and Mrs. .Cooper in their bereavement. .-' It has been rumored on the streets this week that Mr. S. M. Combs,; one of Columbia's "most successful bus!- ness men. will go north' in a few days to purchase an automobUev,to use in ms livery business, , . Mrs. Hugh Peid, of Norfolk, after sending several days with her pa- rents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. DucanJcfa pUDuc nature la Elizabeth City a Woodlawn Farm, and in town with her sister, Mrs. Benjamin Spruftl, on Elm street, has returned to her Mv TO T. TTrtati rxt f V. , flwm ff M. vuc R. L. Upsher Guano Company of Norfolk, was in town this, week m business. . . Mr. J. T. Alexander, of Scupper-. nong, was in town last Tuesday on DUBineSS. r City, maae a -Business trip to Tyr reU this week. - The - brick work on the new bank buildins ha3 been completed and the root put on. u win soon oe nnisnea and ready for use. Unless freezing weather prevents, work will begin on the new M- E. church the" first of next week. The building committee hope to have the building so that they can hold flerv- iceu ia it by late spring. " lr. C. A.' Flowers, who pujrehased Mie old home place of tba late Mrs. B. V. McClee3t. on Bridge ' street, ecme time ag, is making good n.ony improvements, building new borns, rebuilding fences, etc. Miss Mae Litchfield, who holds a position with Miller, ; Rhodes & HwnrfT In Nnrfnllr la at hnma for month with W narsnts. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Litchfield on Broad street ' We are glad to hear that Mrs. W. l. Coffield, who as been very sick Gold street, is rapidly imnroving. Mr. MarkfMajette, a prominent at torney of Columbia, made a business trip to Norfolk this week, . The Columbia high school is hav ing its mid term examinations this week. -. - Mr. Warren Davenport, of Eliza- beth City, made "a business trip to Columbia this .week. The farmers of Tyrrell are prepar- ins to plant a heavy crop of Irish potatoes this spring- Seed potatoes are now being shipped here by the on Gold street, is rapidly improving. carloads. We hope that a good crop will be raised aud that prices will be high. Messrs. W. B. Alexander and J.J,lls home in MoyocK, curntucn B. Holmes, of Fort Landing, were in town this we-k.on business. w MORE OF US OUGHT TO BE WOM- EN w m uouauj nLblsuuvv uaigtuuv - win be offered next week at M. Leigh", TTdllDiinlTu (..iwrtl.. n.lll uu 8heeps the "Woman's. Wear" store and the only tcre in the city cater ing exclusively to "woman's wants. On another patc of thl l3sue appears a big ad calling attention to some of the extraordinary values that are to be offered at M. Leigh Sheep's be ginning next: Wednesday. No "wom an who reads the Advance should fall to attend this sale. Mrs. A. S. Mann and children are spending some time in Moyock visit ing relatives. -When In need of furniture caJI on Markham and Jonee, Water Street They have a fine ttne to select from a wtfct nricea. LADIES ASKED TO ATTEND '' 1 ". THE HOSPITAL MEETING AT THE COURT HOU8E' TO-NIGHT AS THEIR HELP WILL BE NEEDED IN THIS MOVEMENT. - The women o Elizabeth City are I requested t6 attend the hie hospital meeting' to b heldr to-night in the I court house. Secretary Lamb of the Chamber of Commerce and the promoters of the hospital movement lard anxious to have tho ladies nres- lent; as their aid and cooperation will b Bought in securing this much 1 needed institution. I , Let the ladies attend and hear i the: discussions and learn of the (plans, for they will be called unon to help ' In the work; and, if this movement turns out like most things' tho ladles 'will he; expected to do m08t of tne work ftnd w, not faU fn tn,8 expectation either, for nearly F . , . ' trvement in Elizabetn uty tun fcJ,,;r bf . n carrle ,hroilgh by tne women or helped that extent ,t h0n ..n-o 1 SDecla, DreDaration9 will b. made jfor the mUm to attend tne MrrAM .... MRS. FRANK BENTON DEAD Lf m 8treet ,aBt ,j . . mt a. i ter an illness of several . pneumonia. v . 1 -M t of 'fThe funeral and entrni took t)fa'.:o osterdny. -. - i Mrs. Benton was about 35 years old. She is survived by, a husband (ihd three childrenN She was a most eieflffittble-wernaB- She-awaea-.daughK ter of Dr. Barret of North Hampton county and was reared in that coun ty. .. ; " vv"' 12,000 ACRE FARM One of the biggest feats in agri culture ever undertaken In this state, b&t been begun In the Mo- I a 1 n..H.U..U MA.mtir If p00" seciron. m vuinwu wu-, v Is the Fountain Farm Company, and the farm will embrace about l2,oou acres oMand which will be cultlva. cu uy a stocK company, - wua a cau ita! Fleck of $250,000. Engineers havo completed a sur vey ici a drainage district, and will Lejin in the near future to prepare IS? If nd for agricultural purpose. This farm will contain some of the richest and most fertile soil in-Eas- tern North. Carolina, , and iU yield of com and other products will be enormous. COULD NOT ATTEND FATHER'S , FUNERAL. Mr. Benton, father of Mr. . Frank Btntoh of this city died Monday at county. He was a good man and was neia in nign esteem ror nis tnonv vlrtntfa Mr. Frank Benton was .unable to attend the funeral and Interment of his father on account of the Critical illness of his wife . She too died i Wednesday morning. V; - o ; - MRS. F. F. SPENCER DEAD Mrs. Spencer, wife of Captain F. F. Spencer, died la a hospital in Nor folk last Wednesday morning at four o'clock.. . ' The remains were brought here Wednesday and were taken to Fair field, Hyde County, on the Steamer Alma Wednesday night Mrs. Spencer bad been ill for sev eral months. She was taken to a hospital about a month ago to re ceive treatment, but her condition was critical and nothing could be done to save her life. A fine line of new, furniture and house f nrnishings at Markham and Jones, Cut Rate Furniture Dealers, Water Street " . BRYAN'S SPEECH AT RALEIGH AND A DISCUSSION OF WHAT THE GREAT COMMONER HAS STOOD FOR IN AMERICAN POLI TICS HIS INFLUENCE STILL POTENT. V Mr. Editor: ,Mr. Bryan was in fine keep when he. struck Raleigh not frazzled as a campaign orator sometimes Is. No ortaor within my memory has euch a splendid physique, and no white man a hotter voice I believe the negro, Joe Price, had a more musical voice; and, by the way, if it were not for the color line, I would like to say that Prico was one of the best orators that the state has 1 ev produced. Mr. Darwin said In speaking of the pigeon family that the' pouters would not associate with the tum blers, nor the fantails with the pouters but that the old gray rock pigeon could consort with them . all. Bryan stood sun-crowned before his forty-five, hundred auditors stronger and more popular for having suffered defeat three times ia the cause of honest government and an honest dollar; and the pouters-and fantails buried their petty differences to hear a man who was Verily unafraid, who spoke with authority and Dot as a partisan. He had lost office but he has gained and holds what no office holder in this nation can claim, the confidence of three-fourths of the pure Anglo-Saxon papulation" fn the countryi- the confidence and political leadership of the most of those who are In touch with tho ; soil. Bryan, defeated as a candidate for the pres idency three times, 1b still far strong e" than any other man In his party, and has earned the political martyr's crown the enmity of predatory wealth. . "' - lie showed how the currency had been made dishonest by the machto- utlona "of the money trust and how the dollar had ' become so Inflated, from 1873 to 1893, in purchasing power as that it would buy twenty pounds of the farmer's cotton. The Country was never so near revolution since 1876 as in the cam paign for honest money and honest control of the money in 1896. Bryan led that fight. The most available method then in sight among the oth er things he then advocated was the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one. JWall street throttled the par ticular method that was then pro posed but was so frightened that its minions in congress, of whom there were and are legion, began to devise makeshift methods and temporary ex pan&icm by- credit, currency. ' But Providence took a hand in . the fight and uncovered' the gold In South Af rica and the Klondike.. SometUing like a hundred million dollars a year of the yellow" metal, in addi tion to the basic currency the world was then producing, was' ridded to the circulation. The Eoer war came on and Great Britain, to whom the world was then Indebted, Mr. Glad stone said, five thousand million dol lars (in tight money) became a debt o" to the world in the sum of two thousand millions; some three hun-' dred millions of which are said to have been expended In the Mississ ippi Valley alone for mules and war provisions. When Great Britain be came a debtor as well as a creditor its government, which appeared to control our financial policy during Cleveland's second - administration, suddenly became converted to the idea of an expanded currency. It's easier to pay debts when money is easy than with tight money. . Honest money is a relative term. Josephus says that when Jerusalem was de stroyed and the gold which the Phari sees had been heaping up in the treasury got Into circulation the "price" of It went down one half. After Columbus discovered America and the gold of Mexico and Pent got into circulation in Europe, ita value is said to have gone down a thous (Centinued on page four) SWISS YODLERS NOW COMING FOURTH NUMBER NEXT MONDAY NIGHT ONE OF THE BEST BEST STAR COURSE s ATTRAC TIONS Or Tnt sewn iw r PEAR ON THIS DATE TICKfc 18 ON SALE AT SELIG'S The fourth number in the Star Course, the Tyrolean . A'pine Sina- era and Yodlers, will be presented in the auditorium of the high school on the evening of February 5th. Tickets are now on sale at; Sellg's,- corner Main and Water streets. This Is one of the highest priced attraction to com here this sea son, but the price of seats will be the same as usual to give all the people an opportunity to hear this novelty in musical entertainment. This, number cannot fall to please an Elizabeth JCty audience. J 1 , The Tyrolean Alpine Singers aad Yodlers came to America from the Zillerthal, under the exclusive man i agement of the Alkahest lyceum bu reau. This company was one of the surprises and great successes of the p:ist season. Never before had' American audiences heard euch a unique program of fine music and ' entertainment . .With a velw to giv ing ever greater, variety, soma changes in the personnel of the com- ytfvj 'upvw wtrcui uiouQ iusv ?r. t From their Alpine homes these" singers and fnetdumentalists havje . been carefluly selected by their fam ous director, , ., Otto V ; Flechtl, " and trained and rehearsed In their world- J famous folk and 'i Inhkatable yodel . and warbling songs. They appeal n the picturesque national' costume of their people, the most attractive In all Europe. This ""company of Tyrolean Alpine Yodlers was organised originally ia Innsbruck, one of the most pictur esque places in . the Swiss Tyrol. This in the summer haunt of the fcustrian Royalty, and is the very heart and cradle of the music-lot Ing, music-living Tyroleans. Director Fiechtl's family has for , generations back been known as fending folk-singers and lotlera among their own people, holding un questioned rank as master artlsf la their craft. Only a few years back' Mr. Felchtl in a six days' yodel and song contest in Innsbruck made good the claim of his family for his gen eration by winning first prize from representative yodlers of the entire Tyrol lend. ; ' The concert is made up of varied fr lk anl yodel ( ngs and their na tive Tyrolean and rls0 English songs in the rende'Ins of which the troupe ru-fi uocome unusually adept through their long stays and extensive tours in this country; Mr. Felchtl making his first tour as far back .as he World's Fair in Chicago in '93. ' Since their' first tour in this coun try, they have added to their reper toire many of the favorite-national and popular songs of .America. Their - ijru&nuu ib repieie .witn variety; members of the company presenting some Instrumental music, as well as vocal, using the unique instruments ' of their native land. "v. ? In connection , with the musical program a number of reading selec tion will be presented, by Cora Gene vieve Ramsdena reader of genuine ability with several years' experience in lyceum work. - OR. 8LACKWELL PREACHES SUN- - '-. DAY Dr. C. & BlackweU will preach the dedicatory sermon in BlackweU Me morial church next Sunday morning. He will occupy the pulpit at both morning and evening services. Dr. BlackweU is well known here, having been 'a pastor for many years. He was very popular during his pas torate here ad fs now held in high esteem by the peopl of Elizabeth City. ' - ' . - The cburch'golag puellc is cordial ly invited to hear Dr. BlackweU next Sunday. .
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