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-:V . ' . - .1 THE BESt ADVERTI8-! 1 n nnr- -i , -1 1 . , ; w m 1 iiU; In J. rn in a mmm A NEW PAPER WITH AN INCREASING! CHI--tULATION INQ MEDIUM IN ELIZA BETH CITY. U UUL JL VOL III ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY JANUARY 31, 1913 NO.5; fllZiEIII CITY 10 TO BE PORTSUOUT coihiected or uidit Present Legislature will be Asked to Grant Charter for Such Road It is altogether possible, that 'at some time in the very near future work will begin upon the road bed of a railway connect ins Elizabeth City and Ports- month. Whether this means that the. ;new road will be a trolley line seems! yet an open ; question Bat there is no doubt that plans looking toward the railway are on foot. ' ::"';-vv-;- ' ' In this issue of the Advance, on another page, signed by the attorney for the promoters of the scheme, will be found the follow tag notice : ' Pursuant, to Section -4418 of the revisal 1908, notice is here by given that application will be made to the present session of the General Assembly of North -Carolina, 1913 for a charter to 'build, maintain and operate a railroad to be operated by setam leotricity or other motive pow er from Elizalieth City, N. C, by way of South Mills, N. C. to Portsmouth, Virginia, said MANY CASES IN COURT Almost all last week was spent by the Superior Court in trying tne case of C P. Weston and others against the John L. Ro per Lumber Company. ' There was a large number of lawyers representing both sides of the case and' a large number of wit nesses. The jury rendered a ver diet in favor of the praintiff. oases in court this week are as follows: E. S. Gaskins vs. Foreman- Blades Lumber Company, verdict in favor of the defendants, plain tiff failed to recover. , Board of Elizabeth City Grad ed Schools vs. R. L. Hinton, et als, continued. Liouid Carbonic Company vs. W. T. Dean & Co., verdict in favor of thedefendant. Recovered T) . E. . "c " 7 of Crcswell. 7 "in TURNER JOLTS GUN TOTERS Things have taken a turn in police court circles within the past thirty or sixty days. Time has been when the ordi nary penalty for carrying a pis tol was a fine of five dollars and costs. Those disposed to be care. less about the handling of weapi ons were handed a severe jolt, last Monday morning when Hen ry McCleese, a negro was giver 12 months on the roads tor ear. rymg concealed weapons.) Mc Cleese, it is said, was drunk: and wanted to Bhoot" the "spirits", tnat were tormenting mm wnea he -was 'arrested. "-y. '-&t ": Judge Turner evidently Jn'1 ieuus , 10 preme a greater re spect for law among habitpal law breakers in Elizabeth City. Will Rodgers, another negro, got six months on the road for resisting an officer and another, offender was given a severe pen alty for using vulgar and pro fane language to a woman on the street. ' ' The police are working ill har mony with Judge Turner for bet. ter enforcement of , the law in Elizabeth City. They have pick ed up several-old offenders late-' My who in some way; or .other ave heretofore been able to es cape arrest. Nelson Whitehurst was quietly, nabbed by- the po- ice Snnday night. . Somebody broke in the City Drug Store Jast BOYS FIND GOOD LIQUOR i f pa tbw . niovui.. ij t-.,; wth - of . this agitation. less the proposed opening 'Albemarle and Chesapeake as a tree water route nas I-' the movement, and an 1 may have been given it irecent short-sighted and -arbitrary action' of the Norfolk - Southern in changing its sched ule. Furjher , details in regard to the movement Tire "not yet made public, but readers of the Ad vance may look for further an notmcements later. CROPSEY A SUICIDE News reached here yesterday, that William Cropsey, Jr., broth er of Nellie Cropsey, for whose death Jim Wilcox is serving his sentence in the penitentiary, committed 'suicide Wednesday night at his home in Berkley by drinking carbolic acid. Adversities because of being thrown out of employment be cause of strong drink and be ing pressed by his creditors was the reason assigned by his wife for the rash act. . Mrs. Cropsey is the daughter of Mr. A. C. Stokes . of this city. Cropsey drank the arid in the presence of his wife who rushed screaming from the house to find a physi cian, but life was extinct when medical aid " reached the unfor tunate man. A paper throwing some light on the nature of Cronsey's trou bles was a note for fifty dollars filled out on the blank of one of the Norfolk banks, and his wife said that he had attempted to get it discounted. Cropsey was employed with the Norfolk Southern Railroad filing clerk until two months when he lost out. A few h aso he got another lob with le Seaboard Air Line Railway. i T-V IS OP INTEREST TO WOMEN- This refers, of course, to Leiffh Kheep's ad on page eight of this k.ne. If you are a bachelor. - dont read it. - dv 7. Uallance. veiwt for r..f. 1 ant,' by which he recovers. ' L. Hoster B"ewerim Qomnanv vs. 0. C. Snires. verdict for de fendant, plaintiffs failed . to. re cover.. - - . ' A PROSPEROUS BANK Gatesville, N. 0., Jan, 28th The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Bank of ' Gates was held recently in that insti tution's banking rooms when ninety-nine of the one hundred shares were represented. The officers' reports ; showed that 1912 had been the best in the bank's history. The net profits for the year were 35 per cent . . Six per cent was voted as a dividend to the stockholders while the balance was left to the Undivided Profits account. The bank, which has $10,000.00 Capital, has now f 14,000. 00 un divided profits and assets of a bout $200,000.00. . H. All the old officers were re-el- ectod and" for the next twelve months the following gentlemen will be at the head of Gate County's oldest banking institu tion: L.L Smith, president: W. T.Cross, vice-president: Robert R.Taylor, cashier; R.M.Riddick Jr., and Lycurgns Ilofler, assist ant cashiers. The directors arj John J.Gatling, R.M. Rirtdick, L.W. Parker, Lvcurgus Hofler, H.C.Williams, W.T.Cross, L. L.Smith, T.A.Enre, Robert R. Taylor, A.P.Goodwin, and Na than Riddick, Jr. G. C. BOSWOOD, Sa., DEAD Mr. G. C. Boswood Sr of Gregory, N C, died at his home last Saturday morning. He was 81 years old and Is survived by two children, Mr. J. H. Boswood of Gregory, N. C, and Mrs. M. J. Seymour of Riddle, N. C. There are also a number of grand children. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. A physic Is a mighty poor sub stitute for exercise and temper ntm Mr night and robbed rthe of a f-nll amount her. -places, p. J. W. ie of tb w-.i.ulary Vvhu. L not" Sunday morning and the an. i took. the trail straight to White hurst's house and dashed up to his bed room. He had; "left home", however, at that time, so the police maintained a watch on ' the house ; and Whitehurst was arrested - upon his return , It Is " said that there are wit nesses who will testlry to hav ing seen him prowling with two other negroes, around the . City Omit Store at a late hour Sat urday .night. ; i,-' s Whitehurst 7 has been- bound over to the next term of Super ior court and is in jail awaiting trial. ; .' ; -- . v.. ,- -l! - Will Irvin a notori us law breaker, who seems ; never to have had to answer for various offenses is also in jail with sev eral charges against him'.; Things are not expected to go easy with him before Judge Turner : Report . of a find on Roanoke Island .that many would doubt less consider ample reward for all the excavations that have been made' on that historic- isle reached Elizabeth City last week. ' Two Meekins brothers, boys about ' fourteen or flfteeu years old, the sons of MrT,P. L. Meek in8,"who lives on the 1'Northi end" of Roanoke Island . about two miles "front ! Manteo, unearthed a ise of old brandy that has beeu buried in "the ; sands of the is land's shore- for- fifty years 6P more. . Indeed there are, it is said. Roanoke .Islanders i who clafnv. that this f'find?' -was con cealed by John White's Colonists when they -abandoned fort: Ral eign. .v, wore -proDaoiy, -nowever, it was hidtteu by the .Yankee sol diers ,v when the Federals held fort '.Hosef.. Mr. ' Meekins sets a' high tjrice upon this liquor, at any rate? vaiumg it at nity uoi lars a bottled As there were twelve Dottles... this would make his find' worth six hundred dol lars.'.;: -r . , The brandy was found by the two bors as they were strollins along4he shore line In the neigh borhooo-of old fort' Raleigh and jta'thin :flfty yards of fort Hncei. Thevsiw some bottles sti'kinfr up out of the watery and having their, onriositv aroused, thev made an investigation. " They dis covered that 'there " were " three rows f bottles, ,f our bottles in a row, 'securely 'embedded in the clay of the shore line. The bot tles wer removed and the" boys ''l the rntnnts of one to - ,.rf 0 . ATED F. 1.1. IKE - '11 TIIE qjCEOFU"- IHriQ. Big Surprise Sprung on Elizabeth City Cit izens Last Wednesday : - ! :' ' ' . The following communication from Washington .appeared in the daily papers of Wednesday: Washington. , D.C.. Jan.. 28 President Taft today sent to the (senate the following nominations for postmastersbips Channing M. Goode, College rark, va., John C. Tucker, Na tional Soldiers Home, Va., John 8 . Bateman, Crozet, Va., Flor ence Rambo, Damascus, Va., Wil Ham F. Kennedy, i Kenbridge, Va-James H. Hurt, Wytheville Va., Frank M. Grice, Elizabeth City, N. C., John F. Dobson Goldsboro, N. C. Mr. Grice nominated for post master at Elizabeth City the day after the withdrawal of the nora inatlon of William H. Keaton, is said to be a Democrat' though endorsed by influential Republi cans, including National Commit teeman, Alvah H. Martin of Vir- gju'a. . 'V': ' - The 'Democrats in , the Senate are still' holding out'againKt the confirmation of any of the Taft civil nominations, and it is not considered likely that the dead 'oplr would be brolcon for an in Hf.vid.iml case like that in Eliza beth City. , --.t Peveral ' candidates are 'in the field for appointment as post master there by President Wil on, amor?"' them E. F. Lamb ty dra.. to their ed their father and Mr.Meekiu Sr Immediately recognized the valne of the ui'flnd'V , The bottles were in" perfect condition and were securely cork ed, the top of the stoppers har- insr rotted away and tne mourns of the. bottles nad peen nuea with sand which had cemented over. LONG PARTED BROTHERS MEET Mr George Smithson, a ni tive of Pasquotank, but now. ot Rocky Mount, had the pleasure of greeting a few days ago a brother from whom he has been separated for fifty-three jtears and whom he had not seen since boyhood. - This fairy tale of fact runs on this -wise. la 1859. Mr. Smith' son, still no more than a bov left his early, home in Pasati . tank and cast his fortune With" Carteret county. This was la' 1859. When the war broke out two years later, Mr. Smithson answered the call for volunteers and for the four years of the conflict battled for the fortunes of the Confederacy. , ' j At the home of Mr. Smithsons early childhood was left a youa ' ger brother, L. W. Smithson, , whd upon the close of the war nought fortune, in the west. This brother, Mr. George SmithRoa . iad not seen since leaving Pa' quqtank county in 1S59 until a - few days ago. Long separated ,', they had, lost trace of each other." . But the two brothers have a' sister in Edenton, to whose home Mr, L. W. Smithson recently came from the west, on a visit. letter to Mr. George Smith- MISS YOUNG HERE. Miss Florence Young, ' well known in Elizabeth City through her work for the North Caroli na Florence Crittenfon Home at Charlotte, is in the city to-day. She bespeaks from the towns people the. liberal response that Elizabeth City has always given her efforts here. . i Miss Ruth White, the little daughter of .Dr. and Mrs. J. H. White, has been sick this week at her home on Main street with appendicitis. v It was thought at- first that an opera tion might be . necessary, but she recovering rapidly. Her brother, Buxton White, was op erated on for apendicitis at the Elizabeth Buxton Hospital in Newport News a few weeks ago. He is at home now, but expects soon to take up his work again at the A. & M. College where, he is a student. V ' fceir Hardie, the socialist says that even in the time of Eden, men hid behind women's skirts. The can't do it now,,'.. PROGRAM MINISTERIAL UN- A. -ION : . Jan., 6th, How will bur minis-- terial Union Strengthen the - Churches represented. . v Rev. I. N. Loftin . Jan., 20th, Do We Need an as sociated charities 7 ; ---- . Rer. J. H. Buffalo Feb.. 3rd What can the Church es do towards tne enrorcement of the Prohibition Law ? .. . Rev. E. F. Sawyer Feb., 17th;, Do we need a Re vival? J. Jj. Plyler 3rd., Social Services Rer. L. T. Reid 17th., Book Review Rev. J. C. Wooten Respectfully Submitted JAMES B. BLACK W. R. HAIGHT Mar., Mar., MRS MEEKINS GIVES RECI TAL. . This evening, Jan- 31st, Mrs. I. M. Meekins will give a reci tal,- with her music class, at her rhome on West Main street. Each pupil has the privilege of invit ing three guests. . An evening of rare enjoyment is in store for the music lovers who attend the recital. "FRECKLES' AT ALKRAMA Theatre goers will welcome the announcement that a dramatiza tion of the' popular nature story 'Freckles' by Gene Stratton Por ter, will be presented at the Ah krama on February, 18th. More extended notice will be given next week. today, was taken uy ... the telling of anecdotes and the discussion of abstract issues by the Democrats, among them Sen ator Swans of Virginia, who 1b said to have discussed at length the resolution to limit Presi dents to one term. This . announcement created somewhat of a sensation in polit ical circles and among the pub lic generally last Wednesday. There was a rumor . soon after the election that an attempt would be made, on the part of friends of Mr. Grice to have President Taft nominate him for the position. . It seems that Re publicans have been busy in his behalf and have secured the with drawal of Mr. Kea ton's nomina tion. Whether this was with Mr, Keaton s consent there is no definite information, Mr. Keaton emphatically declaring that he has nothing to say in re gard to the matter. Approached by an Advance re porter, Mr. Grice stated that he had hopes that his nomina tion would be confirmed. lie laughingly referred to the tone of tne vvasnington comm,uaica- tion relative to his Democracy! and said that he supposed his record an effective answer there to. . The other, candidates for the office, however, are not the less hopeful of success. It is point ed out that for the Democrats to confirm Mr. Grice's appoint ment would virtually compel the same action with reference to all Tafts appointments a remote possibility. Other candidates for the post mastership are Col. E. F. Lamb Dr. A. L. Pendleton, and Mr. B. B. Baxter. Mr. Lamb was especially optimistic yesterday. saying that he thoueht he had excellent grounds - for believing that he would receive the ap pointment. home. ILud t ing which- wa? the Lt t either had had of the-otL face in over half a century. ; LADY MINSTRELS , TUESDAY NIGHT The Following Young Ladica mil Take Part in the Lady Ukt ,v,atrel Newt Tueadoy Night.. Miss Emma Cobb, Interlocutor Miss Minnie Leary, Miss Mary Gilbert, Mrs. Zean. Fearing, Mrs Frank Jacocks, Miss Carrie Pap pendick, Mrs. Wilson Hollo well Mrs. Eugene Cook, Mrs.. Herbert Parks, Mrs. L. Skinner, Mrs. - Will Twiddy, Mrs. Will Duff, Miss Louise Markbam, Mrs. W II. Zoeller, Miss Gladis Kramer, Miss Goldie' Kramer, .Mrs.. .Way land Hayes, Mrs. D. A. Mor gan. . . Those In the bridal chorus are as follows: Miss Annie Lee Cohoon, Bride; Miss Bessie Cohoon, . and Miss Julia Wood, Attendants; ' Miss Helen Ardlett. Miss Nellie Eth- erirge, Almeda Carr, Elizabeth Derickson, Margaret Griggs, Maude Palmer,. .' ' ' The 'gentlemen that are assist ing are as follows: Mr. Phil Sawyer, John Har nenf, L. E. Skinner, Herbert Parks, Jim Newbold, Hon. Ras tus Herbert Peele, Bertran Cul pepper, Eugene Cook, Jim Fear ing, and Rev. Elbert S pence. Miss Byrd Kramer, one of the finest musicians In the state has charge of all the music. General Admission, 25 and 33 . cents. Reserved seats 60 cents now on sate at Seng's. Don't forget the date, Tuesday niAt Feb, 4th at . the Hl School Auditorium, Ppc'(VW ., W 1
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