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IofficiaCpAfz:. ItmWSJVlTHOVT if ' - OF urn rfrrs J j U l M M 1 vie ymwswnnom COUNTY f-PREJUDICE YTii ; ; ,7 ' A A 7 7 7 ., t I I i t A 7 7 y . 7 .J I uu L m YA M w i L.si. - l - V , U hi W Si - I iff. . li x ii f f 1 f i mt f f . m i r a I -v ' . 4VOL V FATHERS WfO I IY BQETTCHER 'ublic Accountant Wants To Know Why City Spent Money To Em ploy Him EL1ZABSTH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TVESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1915 BUSINESS PEHS IT'S A LOHG WAY HOIK Will AT HDJU I WATER STREET Red Acre Farm Will Be Presented Under Auspi ces Baraca-Philathea Un ion Soon. Stevens Jobbing Company Have Leased Building Now Occupied By Burgess & Aydlett t.'Mr. Win. Bocttcher lias addres letter to tin Uayor and board of aldermen of Iliiabeth City: 1NTLEMKN : "When I made my rvp01'1 a teek ago tKlay 1 stated to you Lontlomon in answer to Mr. An 'jderson's question who was to blame, that it was the lack l Lvstem, and that you were the fones on whom the blame rested. "On page 4 of said report i atnterl as follows: j m -wv- - .. "T have made several copies ' game (referring to 4 copies of the Delinquent list) so that you gen nt vour leisure go over tin names and see how much can still lh collected. By giving your as Liataneo. to the Tax Collector, and tellinft him where some oi tue rnl. can be found, you win m ,hu him. T am sure, to collect hundred dollars which W otherwise would not be collected. I left those four copies on your table, and I noticed that some ol JI ntlemen glanced over sauie. much to mv surprise. 1 found 'ou night before last that these I papera ..were . left in tbe custody of the tax collector, who lias no use for them as he has his own Ifets. "fv work in regard to the De linquent list will be in vain if -tati eeutlemen do not tonow iu advice, and each of you go over these copies and let the tax col lector know what, in your opin ii.... 1 in:ill( 10U, IS Still COIiei nun . Jour copies no that four peop1'' could use these papers at H"1 ame time and then hand them ' to the others for the same pur pose. Several of you gentlemen are business men. Would you. . t. ..lViii- , - in your own ftiiouths after the fiscal year tf"- r and then, without going ... "Un itemized list especially ireai for vou, charge off to Trout nrl Tsk some 47.-, bad accounts? - t am mw not one of you would i lo this, but you would scrutini7.e Mnarate item anil ee wut-iu r or hot it can be collected. You 'M m further than this! You would, in your own affairs, take .Steps to prevent sucn losses in hA fntnre as far as tney cuu v prevented. Now why " n the same ,thing in Town .".nftttew? Are they not a impor- to Ton as vour own business 41Taiit? They should be, because f; U tax payers who eiecea you - .JULrWkinff to vou to do all in JV StrTwer to see that any and ""' V2W belonging to the Town l-&illecteu "T fihbwed vou plainly in my re port Hder the heading 'Recom mdntions' how von can avoid frach a large Delinquent 'ist. My vflcommendation wais as follows: 'In regard to the delinquent list I have already in my report made A the recommendation that tne au TO SOUTH SEAS But This Letter Comes To The Advance All The Way From Distant Samoa wait six is (iv-over -f. I Much in Merest is licing taken in the play 'Ked Acre Farm' soon lo he presented ;it the Alkiaina. Ued Asre Farm' a rural com clvdiama tilled with stirring pa thos and rich comedy. Josiah Armstrong the owner of Ked Acre Farm, on which there hangs a mortgage, has two daugh ters. Nellie, the beautiful little school teacher and bread winner of the family, and Laura, who only wants tine clothes ail to see the pleasures of life. Amanda Josiah's wife, decides that she .. . i-. .i.i.. l.,. w ill tlive her vaniaoie m-n .. the necklace, that was given her bv her great grandmother, to iSquire llarcourt lo pay off the mortgage; Laura, whose ambition is to get to the big city, steals the necklace and sells it lo get money to mix fine clothes and get to .New oi k The theft is discovered, and the blame placed oil Nell who is driv ,.n from home. Nell goes to .ew York wher she becomes one of fli lwt actresses on the stage. ljinra. steals awav from home and mes to New York with Hurry llarcourt, a man of the world, but is found by N'ell in time to save her. Laura meets the man To whom she sold the necklace and marries him. and receives the necklace as a wedding present, Nell, who has married Dick Han dull, wishes to have the matter set aright with her parents and she with her husband takes Lau . . I I 1. i.. l.u rj nut In''' liilMiano ia k " A cr" Fai n', w here I aura confess cs lo t'i.e ihell. i.ud gives ihe neck lace back to her father, jii-t a Squire I l.u court is about to drive . i . i ii..... t i-inii i.'i-il her i.ii hit aim iih"" Acre Fa un losiah Ainistrong is played bv Mr. L. I. Sullivan who is assist ...i i... ii. li.n Twifort as AinaiKda. Miss Myra Ackiss, one of Norfolk's most talented ama ilteurs takes the part of Nellie. while Miss Marietta Shaffer, a student under the well known el ocutionist. Miss Francis tjtarr, whose readings through the btate have been crowned with success takes the nart of Laura. Mr Walter E. Jackson takes the pan of Dick Kandall, the hero, while Mr It li Vroctor takes the part of 1 Ti TI i vi Hill t the villian. Mr 11(11 I T lio" I - Jas E Woodhouse is the travel linte salesman, Tom liushby, who hnlfln the Morteaet on Ketl Acre Farm. The comedy is portrayed in the richest type by Miss Annie East as Junior and Mr. Earl lwi ford as Jonah. Mr J Ander son is the village gossiper. Mrs Strutt. and Mr T5 N l?aeue tanes the role of Col Barnaby Btrutt Kel Acre Farm is one of the most successful amateur plays ev pr nrpspnted in Norfolk, ana re- " r ceived the highest praise from ie nress. It is a may presenter! by .. .... - church rieonle in the interest oi the Chnrch work for the pleasure A new 1 1 l iii is to open up about Ihe lirst of March in the store now occupied by the wholesale (irocery tirm of Burgess and Ayd lett. The new concern i- Ihe Stevens Jobbing Company and is composed of Mr. 11 M. Stevens and Mr. J. II. Cartwright, both of this city. The Stevens jobbing company will do a wholesale business in wood and willowware, house fur nishing trisxls and notions. Mi Stevens has for thirty years been identiticll with the wholesale (In goods and notion business of the citv and was a member, until Ik hetian making preparations to start this new venture, ol the ( II Hobinson Company, lmth Mi Stevens and Mr. (."arfwright an now in northern cities making i,oo ,,f cincL-w for their bus I Mil t uanvo m ni-- -J inest. J. J. Hughes has bought Mr Stevens interest in the C. U. Hob inson Company. SCHOOL CHARTER TO BE GHflHGED And Cotton And Hosiery Mills To Be Exempted From Paying School Tax A COUBECTION The write-up of the Woodlcy Invention for refuse handling ap rwnr usain in this issue on ac- count of serious typographical errors in its first publication. For instance, it was stated that Ttie new system brought about a saving to the Foreman-Blades plant of eight per cent of the horse power required for hand linir this refuse when the reading 1- should have' been eighty per cent. There were minor errors also; no the entire article is reprinted COTTON KKFOHT Fiutou The Ahvam k : There were .410 bales of cot ton trinued in Pasquotank coi.n Iv from the crop of H'iL prior to lau 1st 1 !!." us compared wi L'.CiL bales ginned prior to Jan narv 1st. l'.M4, There were 4,160 bales of cot torn einned in Camden county from the crop of 1!U prior to . ,1 January 1st, 1915, as couipareu with 3,811 bales ginned prior to Jan.. 1st 1914. N. A. Jones, Special Agt. Km ii;: Tin: Aiv m - - I : i in : 1 1 ; ! I i i 1 bol li i 'asi-llot anU ( ' u 1 1 1 citizen, il'-iu j- m lathi'i 'inn- lies in l'erdiiiiir.', - Inn ; a ',,r nie, I am way douii here in III-. South Seas where the dor iii.:iis ;iKl i;n.:.!i a;-.- opcranu ipiile freely. li:i il.g heeii anpoinl dl here bv ihe Secretai.v of tin ay to the posilimi of Private Secretary and tii'l cleik to llu ( Jovernor. When I receivi-d orders I nun ie Secrelarv of the N ay on Au isi -'ml. I'.M t mo-imI to San Francisco am! there lake uassag on a sIcainMiip oi me . mo 'iiiMi.niiv on Seiilemher til' I '"1 American Samoa., 1 began lo won i . . i . i . ; iiei at once uiMer w iiai l iaj; i u. in u-:i. s.iiliiiL':. since war talk r " r at this time was occupying quit a prominent placr in llie topics for discussions, and I knew full well that shiis flying the Aineri can flag in transoceanic service were few and far between, so im agine mv delight when I learned the Samoa was an American ship stoutly built, and usina oil fu el and being of 1.HMI tons grow turnd out 13eam ago, but stm go?d for U'J1 ircts eaih Jipur. ..At two o clock -n the a: to noon of Seiden bcr 1st we untied trom (he dock and pio-reled out the I.omiii tful San iicim.. i.ay ami through the J-.k-.n tiat,-; here viewing on the :- tt th" famous CJnl House aid the c' Bocks mi winch were i erched neite a few of those sturdy inhabitants of the sea, as well as all the oih . . r ii.; ,.,..1 er natural neaiiueN m . . i . . inviting pol : taen we iiiiiiiti io i i i . ..,.,i wards .he Hawaiian im;uiu we passed through some coid and longh weather before we sighted i ;.,,i, mi-.. I Ilea. I in all its stateli ' i, ess and v'andeiir. proudly wav int; ihe American flag and guaru in. with an ever watchful cy our nossessions in the Pacitlic. I . .old that this tortitication i ten times stronger than Ayden and favorably conqiaren with dib ralter since its armament is more modern than that in use in the Gibraltar fortifications. NO 6 LITTLE HOPE OF BETTER MS Though Bodies Of Those Who Went Down With "Julia" Still Remain Un-found ''I iv. TT. niLI, CUAl'TER MKET8 TUESDAY The I). H. Hill chapter, U. D C. will hold their regular meet inr next Tuesday at 3:30 ociock with Miss Hallie Perry on Fear ing street. nt church poimr people, and all others interested in clean comeay and will be seen at the Alkrama Theatre on Thursday, January 28th. It is to be presented under the auspices of the Baraca-Phila thea Union of the First Baptist flhnrch. Tickets are already on sale and are being taken rapidly.' At 8:00 a. m., on the morning of September 7th we docked at the wharf in this tropicul city o. Honolulu, immediately .lescenu- m the rami plank and yoceed- im to the world renowned Wai- " m tiki Beach, where we had a su" bath iu the Pacific which was imst invigorating to a person who had spent seven uays uuu nights on board a ship at wa in anything but pleasant weather. A fact which quite clearly im pressed me as to our being in the trordes was a spider about three inrhps in diameter, which was frnnreonslv ornamenting the wall 4.f the room assigned me in the Moana Hotel bath house. He was the first thing to attract my at '(Continued on Page four) A bill amending the uraded i lioul charter ha been hi'! rod ne ed into Ihe C.eneial Assembly by N iialor Y. I.. Coliooii which will te nl consiileralile interest lo I ne leople o!' this city and its sub urbs. eel ion 1 of the bi;l changes the bounds of the graded school !istri.ii. making the (iMiici con form to the corporate limits of the town and provides that "no nipils hall be admitted into the i . i ' i: .. : 1 1. .... i SCllliolS Ol llllS (IISIIK l wiiiimiii ie payment of tuilion unless their parents are residents with ili- corjio'ate liinils of the tow'H" Itesnle- w I ! hdi aw nig ruin some lax pavers living out side of the city the right to semi their children to school heie with ut paving tuilion this bill in its present form would relieve the hosiery and col ton mills of the graded school lax. The third section of the bill is intended to prevent the city tax oollccfr from reserving commis sions from the graded school tax which he collecrts. The oflice of tax collector was so time ago mit n ii unhirv basii but the graded school charter in t Its pres- . t 11 1. .. . . v ent form allows tne collector com missions on the graded school tax iu addition to his regular sahin The Court'' section of the bill has to do with the election of the graded school trustees and provides that Ihe board shall con sist of ten iiieinbei-s, two trustees from each of the four wards of Kli.abeth Citv and two trustees at large, both of whom -.hall be women. The trustees from the various wards are t" be elected for a term of four years whih ih.. iruslees at larae are to bt elecbvl for a term of six years. Four of the male trustees are to be elected everv four years but both women are to be chosen ev ery six years and further Miss Ullie (Irandy and Mrs A. Ii. Hout7. are named as the first two trustees at large who are to hold oflice until IWl. Th- bill also provides that the chairman of the counv board of education shall be constituted chairman ex-ofllcio of the board of schoo' trustees and that no person "who is related to any member of the board of trustees of th traded school to a degree r that would disqualify one to serve as a juror shall be eligible to em ployment as a teacher in the grai! p1 school." The bodies of the three persons who lost their lives in the explo- ion of the acht Julia last Fri day morion" !i.ic not: yet ooen folllMl. The only : nniving passenger. Mrs J. V Murray, has not been Ie lo give a comprehensive ac count ol the disa-ler, but so far as .-be remembers, the explosion occurred about one o'clock Fri day morning ten mile.- off Lang Shoal Point in Long Shoal river. There was a lighted match, the ig nition of vaporized gasoline, a flash nihil next Mrs. Murrv found herse'f clinging to a lloaling tint her from which she was picked up b a tis'ierinan who saw the eX plosion. Mrs. Murray was taken to Kngleliard ami given niadical attention. The three passengers who lost their lives were J. W. Murray, president of Ihe Piedmont Trust Company of Burlington; Uusta- vus Dodson of Norfolk; and Mrs. V H Porch of Beaufort. The Julia was making the trip from Norfolk to Beaufort pilot ed by Mr. Dodson, who was ex perienced in handling craft of thin -ize ami ty. Mr. Dodson was in Elizabeth City last Wednewlay, stopping among other places in town at Pool's barber shop. Mis Muriay will be taken to her home in Burlington a soon as she is abie to make the trip and search for the missing bodies will be continued as long as there .. ....... . ti is anv hope ol tni'Ming uo-in. rllltlST ciiincii RRST SHM) COME FROM TYRREL The Men's Dinner next Satur day night promises to be a pleas ant affair. Mr. B. F. Finney, gei eral secretary of the south for th Brotherhood of St. Andrew will speak of this , work. Mr. V. S. Copeland of Newport iNewB, va., editor of the Times-Herald news pair will (talk of men's Bible (Mases. Mr. (Jopeiand U the teacher of a large class in New port News, the Hev. O. P. Parker ,.r Hprtford will sieak of a lay ...an'- i-osnonsibilitv. Beside tbi some of the men of the churck will be called on. Good mujic leing arranged as a part of the program. The Ht. Kev. T. C. Darst, D. Ii., Bishop of the Diocese, goes to' Wiudsbr, Winion, GatesviTle and Murfreesboro the first week in February and comes to Christ church on Sunday, February 7th. The first shad of the season went through the city last Satur day consigned to Kingsland and Oomstoi k of New ork. tuey were caught by Messrs. Godwin and Holloway, Tyrrel county tlsii ermen. ' t ZOELLEK, the rhotorapher is jnepared to make Banquets, Card parties, Family gatherings, ...hit. nnv time, nisht Of ' fay. 8TUDI0 on North Poindexter St ';tt i f (Continued on Kext Page) e J . I 1 k ' . ' V
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