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-'V-' -if', at" '-' '-.- ' . -V- ...... ' 3 i .- - ' v3CL N&WSW1TH0UT rwrrTA r dj dpi BIAS OF CURRITUCK COUNTY iyiEWS WITHOUT 0 ' PREJUDICE V ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1914 NO 100 Tr" 1 i-r - r i f rt V V n m 4 x'r- 1 . i r-7 -t- T-'. 7- I ' j . . ' l . : L V:. 3 .i 1 m DO PU iAEGE CEOWD AT FUNEEAL . OF AYDLETT TURNER PLAYMATES WERE PALL BEARERS. The funeral of Ajdlett Turner WSki conducted at the 'iret Meth odisrt Church yestterday afternoon at half past two, o'clock by the .pastor, Rev. C. F. Smith, assisted .ly !Re? G T Adams and Rev. JB 0 Henning. ydlett Turner was twelve eari -old; the eldest son of Ros coe Y Turner of this 'city. On Saturday morning he was a vigor ens, wholeouled, heaHhy boy. TSiat evening his young lorni lay ffltill in death. The accident, unspeakably sad and the first of its kind to occur iere, took place Saturday after noon a little after Ave o'clock. Aydlett, with his playmate, lies lie Spence, had been Lu the bath room for fifiteen or twenty min utes when a ne,gro boy coming to his house to see his mother, the ;ook, passing near that part of the hous-v, beard lalxreT breath ing inside. He told his mother. of what he had heard amd xlie "went at oii to the rKm where he found both boys unconscious ami she thought both dead. Hhe rushel to the street and within ' f a short time I)r Griggs. Dr. I. ,' v JTearing, Dr. Z. Fearing and Dr. CJ., B. Williams had arrived. Through their efforts Leslie fipence was revived but it was ipeen at once that for Aydlett there was no hope. The negro woman who discov ered their pflight is said to have found one boy in either end of the bath ttib." Aydlett had fal- r len forward and his face was lb merged fp. water. Leslie's feet ' rested against Aydlett's back aiyl it is thought that this may have 1 prevented his clipping down into the water. The cook says that when she entered the room the gas was burning both at the heait r and at the hoit water tank It is snpposed that asphixiation was due to the fact that the oxy gen in the small room was de pleted and became subcharged with carbon dioxide, Leslie Spence claims never to nave t entire consciousness. He says that he heard the colored toy come to the house but was unabfe to speak or move. He was in the midst of his bath he says when lethargy overcame him. The tragedy has cast a gloom over the entire community and thie sympathy of the town has gone out to the grief -stricken pa ts. Jutfge Turner was in Nor- k at the time and the fipt news '! reach him was the telecrnm of iia boy's death. The funeral was attended by a large crowd and the body was laid to rest in the Episcopal Om etery. A number of the dead hoy's playmates acted as pall hearers. Fishermen, ship nice large eels to R F Ilall Company, 37 Fulton Fish Market, Xew-Yonk,: In any VinanttfyTjfine'.week'rDecember 21st 22ml, 2,1rd and 24th. "V ? r - - (ad?.) ED T 11 m SILVER OFFERING BENEFIT RED CROSS WILL BE TAK EN AFTER INTERESTING! PROGRAM. The Red Crosw Committee will ,give a sacred concert in the Al kxama theatre, Sunday, Decem ber 20th, beginning at 3 o'clock p. m., for the benefit of the suf ferers of the European war A silver offering will be taken which may le handed to W G Gaither, Jr, the treasurer of the committee. The following program will be rendered : Invocation by Rev C A Ashby. '.My Country 'Tis of Thee', by t lie congregation standing. Tliirne is the Kingdom' render ed by the Choral Society Quartet 'Kock of Ages', by Mes srs. L E Skinner, S S Burgess, Arthur Biirgesti and W I Peal. Solo (vocal) "God Shall Wipe Away All Tears.' by Mrs M R Griffin. Address by Prof Spra,jrgins 'No Shadows Yonder', rendered by quartet and choral society. Tii 'I Will Lift Mine Eyes Fnto the Hills,' by Mrs. Wesley Foreman. "Solo (vocal 'Star of the Ori ent' by Miss Rose Gooklwin. 'Great and Marvelous Are Thy Works' rendered by the Choral So ciety. Benediction by Dr. Henning. The concert is in charge of Mrs I M Meekins and Mr. L E Skin ner. The choruses used in the sa cred concert "re taken from the oratorio, 'Holy City,' by Gaul. The entire oratorio will be render ed after the. Christmas hoMd.ivs. COLOMBIA REE (Columbia, N. C., Dec, 11th Messrs Ross Syain. Will Swain, and Arthur Swain of Aurora. Beaufort County, are in town this week visiting their mother and other relatives Howard Taft, while, wrestling at th school building yesterday with Franciii McMu'lan, fell and broke his right leg just above the knee, the bone sticking through the flesh. Druggist C B McKeel pronounced,' it a very serious break. Howard is the son of Mr and Mrs George Taft. Mr. J. M. Alexander, who has been taking Register of Deeds II S Swain's place during his ill ness, will be out of office af ter tomorrow, December 12th. Mr. Horton Corwin of Eden ton, president of yie Branning Manufacturing Co., is in town Miis week on business Last Tuesday nigBt was initia tion ntaht with the Jr.O.U.A.M. This order isy growing rapid'y at this place Dr. C.A. Flowers returned yesterday from Norfolk. , Sit now for Christmas picture before, the Tush.26ef7er can give you his hest service. '-Make an ap c one EA RAM pointment today. -, ' (adr) fSSii AND COLOJNEL FAIRBROTII ER TALUS IT A BIG STEP FORWARD FOR THAT CITY. The North Carolina city which has' most recently adopted the cjlty manager plan is Durham. In view of the action of the board of aldermen on Monday night of last week looking toward the adoption of such a plan here the following article from Col. Al Fairbrother's Everything is un usually interesting, "The'people of Durham have muKle a, great step forward. They are going to employ a city man ager. He will be a man chosen by a mayor and four a Mermen, and it will be his business to run the town to employ policemen; to employ all officials; to con tract tor street work ; to do ev erything in fact that a manag er of big businu-x would do. He is to be found He needn't live in Durham. He cau be picked up in Kalamazoo or Timbuctoo all he lM'ed do is to make good, and if he fails to make good he is to he discharged, just like the cot ton mill men would discharge the sujieriuteudent just like the rail -roavl lompany would disjieuse with the services of a man who didn't fill the bill. "There will be no politics in it. It will be business from the first base to the home plate Of course the mayor and board of al dernieji will be' consulted but if a little street needs something here or the street crossing needs something there a street light is demanded, tbi manager looks at it just as he would look at the demands of his big plant were it individually owned. "The manager is to be employ ed for four years provided he makes good. This is an ideal proposition, if you want a Com mission Form of Government. The 'way we have it in Greens boro we have politics entering into it that is to say, the three coniini'-'sioners who do things are elected by the people, and of course where politics plays its part it always interferes. If the Commissioners get awnv from politics there are those shrewd enough to force politics in the game. With. a manager and a board of aldermen representing the different 'sections oj a city, the board ku't consulted. See the manager' and the manager 'from a business stand-point acts intelligently'. Of course, there is one remaining if, and it enters into any and every plan, and that 'if is, if they select the right kind f a manager. The right kind of a man may not be found in North Carolina, but he is some where in the world waiting to be ailed. We expect to see Dur ham lead all olher cities in its form of Government ' Greens boro progressed when she adopt ed the Managerial system. That is the one that seems best, wher ever tried1, and we are glad so progressive a town as Durham, now in the height of a great pros perity, has concluded to adopt the newest wrinkle in city gov nimeit.v!" f?he is, jtoj'he congratu lated. X,&:X1?T71 ELIZABETH CITY ID I The motion picture show sched uled for next Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday evening at the Alkrama will attract a greater measure of popular interest per haps than any regulation "thril ler" that could be secured. This show will not be remark able for ypectacular.leats or hair breadth escapades, but the chil dren and the grown-upt will want to see it because it will show Elizabeth City which sjtells "home" and is dearer to the hearts of Betseyites than any foreign scene no matter how cost ly or famed. The School children of Eliza betli Tity will be seen on the screen, life size, and moving. Ev ery one will watch eagerly for their familiar faces. K)izabcth City street scenes will lie recog nized, Im!1i fn.ni the business and lvsideuce sectioi. And the 'thrill' wili he supplied when the Eliza belli City Fire D -part ment in ac tion rusher forth, showing iht many phase; of its work when ailed upon to save life and prop erly. IMizabi'th Cii'y will see its.'lt in real life at the performances al popular prices. FOR BENEFIT OF HOSPITAL I Attractive fancv work articles are now mi sale at the store of the L P Gilbert Company anil contributions of fancy work, mon icy, groceries, eakes, etc., will be rereived for the hospital equip ment fund by Mrs J W Modlin at her residence on Church street. LADIES CITY ROAD TO GIVE BAZAAR The ladies of City Road Metho dist Church will serve dinner and supper in the Hintou Building on next Saturday December 19th. Good music will be furnished and an appetizing menu will b? served, consisting of oysters, fried potatoes, pickle bread and but ter, and good coffee, all for twen tv-fiva cents. x . HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATED The Y M A Basket Ball team defeated the High School team Saturday night by a score of 29 to 20 in the first .game of the series at the Y M C A Buiidlng. The playing of Cropsey, Weath erly and Spivey featured. The following is' the line-up of the two teams. Y. M. A Cropsey F. HIGH SCHOOL Spivey F. Evan F. Williams C. Woodley G. nooper 0. Beveridge F Weatherlv C. Bundv G. Brothers (J . The second game of the series will be played mext Friday night in the Y M C A Building. RELIABLE FISn FIRM WANTS EELS The R F Hall Company. 87 Ful ton Fish Market, New York, wants nice large eels on Decem ber 2Ut 22r4 23rd and 21th, in flny."..qnantity ; - "., FARMERS FAVOR GOOD ROADS AND WANT TO ABOLISH OF FICE OF TREASURER AND SUBSTITUTE SALARY FOR FEE SYSTEM. The; rural census of Pasquo tank county taken during Com munity Service Week shpwed eighty jer cent of the farmers in favor of impioved highways for this county. An even larger jiercentage qf the niemliers of the Farmers Un ion, judging from the action of that body here last Saturday, are willing to vote the money for bet ter roaK And b'tter roads are not all tiiat body on last Saturday, are willin,,' to vote the money for bet- t r roads. And roads are nut all that the farmers of this county waut. They are jinxiou" to abolish the piesent lev ystem in this county and t, pu' all county officials on a salarv. They want, too, to do away with the dflice i f county treasurer nd l"t the city b;:nks handle the public uionev. The sentiment of the Farmer- 1'nion is set forth in the follow ing resolutions which were adopt ed bv a practically utnanimous vote: L Whereas, the Pasquotank Farmers Union, in general coun ty union assembled, hai leen made familiar with the provis ions of a bill, looking to the es tablishment of good and perma nent roads in Pasquotank county al'id which bill is intended to be introduced into our next General Assembly of North Carolina by Messrs. W L. Oohoon and W. L. Small, Senator-ellect and Repre sentative-elect of the next Gener al Assembly of North Carolina; and whereas this union realizes and appreciates the great impor tance and alarming necessity of good road- in this county; that whereas the bill proposed for en actment and this day submitted to this Union, projioses a bond issue and in the sum "of Two Hun dred Thousand ($200,000) Dol lars and whereat it is next to im- jiossible to secure good and per manent roadw withont such an is sue of bonds and whereas the an nual interest on such a bond is sue to this amount is less than the yearly expenditure in main taining the chain gan' of TasqiiO' tank county Therefore, be it resolved by the aid Fasquotank Farmers Union, in general county union assem bled, on this 12th dav of Decem ber, 1914, that we mdst cordially and enthusiastically endorse this movement looking to the o tab- lishment of good nd jermaneiit roads and that we endorse most cordially the proposed bill for a bond -issue and for the establish ment of a' highway commission and our representatives in the nfxt General Assembly, as above named, are most earnestly re quested to secure the passage rff the bill this day submitted. II. Whereas, the Pasquotank Farmers Imion. in general county union fse1ihl"d. lir the 12th ( lay of lenN!!l ?i 1911 has been ITHE BESTiPLAlT OF THE SKI "PRICE SHE PAID'? GREATLY PLEASED AUDIENCE AND DESERVED BETTER HOUSE Theatre goers attending the play at the Alkrama Friday night pronounced the production, 'The f Price She Paid,' the best offering staged here since the appearance of 'Within the Law' last winter. The plot held the interest tense and unwearied until the cli max, and the acting throughout j was quite above the average. The sar, MLs nelen Leigh, who played the part of the young sculptress Jane, had none of the ' ivordone makeup or stage manner ism of -the ordinary 'actress,' but impressed the audience with her simplicity and sweetness as well ; i,- by her ability and beauty. Cy- , ril Blake the millionaire and tempter, and in the end unexpect edly a real hero, portrayed his type with its sagacity, its cruel ty and its strength most admir- lbly, and closed the drama with a brjef sermon of considerable j force. ' Altogfether the p'ay was one that ought not to have been mis sed by those who believe in tha power of the stage for uplift and i ni t met ion or who appreciate a company that is capable of psy cmlogical interpretation. ' TO CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS To Christmas shopjiers who are in quest of usefuil gifts, which are likewise attractive, Mitchell Department Store is offering val uable suggestions in a well-displayed ad on page two of this is sue. Ladies gold and silver handled umbrellas. to fl.". at H 0 Bright's. fndv) made familiar with the provis- , , . ions of the bill which has for its , . purpose the abolishing of the fee . syntem of Pasquotank county and placing all officers of said county upon a salary and whereas this step is in accord with progressive . . communities elsewhere and where ' 1 as the salary system is more eco- , nomical and business like, there-' ' fore, be it resolved by the Union that we endorse the provisions of ' " the bill this day submitted to us by our representatives in the next General Assembly, to wit: W.L, 1 Cohoon, Senator-elect and W. L. Small. Representative-elect, re- ' spectively, in the next Genera Assembly of North Carolina; and whereas the said representative."' in the General Assembly express an unwillingness to assume the v . responsibility of working out ther lctails of the said bill, therefore . be it resrlved further that the' matter of fixing salaries of the said ;flices anil other details of wiid bill be left to the Legislative CoinmWtee of thA said Pasquo'1 tank Farmers Union, who are in structed to make diligent inquiry and fix such salaries upon fair and equitable basis commensur ate with the resjionsibility of the various offices and keeping in'mind tlw lii h ciiown- rf inert always required to fill thes offices' '
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