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ItDITOfUALl 7hMml EDITQR-I of other local interests hag also been enlisted in thin work, which while designed to lament the terri tory has ali tlie feature of as 'sisting in the great rescue which the American people are now undertaking for the relief of the Iielgians." To this story we subjoin the fol f shame. There is where man from SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ?100 Six Months 50 Published Tuesdays and Fridays. NORTH CAROLINA FOR THE BELGIANS Prophets are telling us that after the war this country will be over run by a flood of immigra tion such as America has never known before. Also there are coming to us stories of Belgians not starving but in danger of it who must look to this country or to other neutral countries for food until the war is over. It has or cured to us that there might be some of these Belgian refugees ready to seek a home in America if the opportunity were offered to them to do so. Now comes the news that already the first of these immigrants are be ginning to arrive. Moreover. .... BOBae of them are coming to North Carolina. Daily newspaper reports last week told how the first of these refugee immigrants had arrived 'at Wilmington aud t'rom there gone to farms in adjacent coun ties. One party went to Rol'oii in Columbus county; another con fisting of a dozen families, went to St. Helena, near Ituieaw. in Pender County. Concerning the arrival of the Pender county party the Wil mington Star carried the fol 'lowing interesting story : "Farms have been especially prepared for the people and houses of neat design and iir per feet order provided for each fam ily. The houses were completely furnished and the lands of the small farms thoroughly drained i ,and a large part of it in cultiva tion. On each farm prepared for a Belgian family the Devel opment Company has jtrepared two acres which has been limed &nd fertilizer!, plowed and bar jwed, ready for immediate planting. Tools, and seed have .Jeen made available so that th first partv to arrive went to work the first day on the land planting a variety of crops with the idea that those first produced should provide as fully a s pos sible for the food required by th family. Farm Demonstrator J. P. Herring of this county, and other expert fanners of New Hanover have co-ojierated with suggestions as to the first crops which the Belgians will plant. ''The families which have arriv Al were secured by Mr. Frank Mead who is abroad in the inter 'st of the Carolina Trucking . Development Company. He has 'onud that only a small per cent (jrf, the refugee Belgians are the 'ort of skilled intensive farmers hat he was seeking but he has 'pen successful in securing a fine roup for this district. The "ork of securing the Belgian '.Mnilies has been materially aid ,tA by the cooperation of the ,) -iciaJa. otit6 r. Jtflantic,, CoasJ I4e Railroad, f" ah4 co operation lowing editorial comment the Pender Chronicle: On last Minuay anernoon a family of Belgian refugees ar rived in Burgaw, and will make their home at Kt. Helena. ''We have heand a great deal about the desirability of Belgians as colonists to this Country, and we liepe that those who come to Pender will live up to the repu tation that seems to exist in in regard to them. -The very fact that sven mil lion eople developed the resour ces of so small a County as Bel gium sufficiently to support their population bespeaks for them en ergy, industry, and conservation. Belgium is about four times as large as Pender County we are informed, and its population is 'about three times that of the State of North Carolina. "We hope that the coining of the Belgians to Pender w ill mean the beginning of intensive farm ing among our people, and that they will apply the principles of conservation in this County as thev have so successfully done in Belgium"'. The Advance told its readers many months ago how the savan nah wastes around Burgaw were iM'ing transformed into fertile farms by the energy of Italian and German immigrants. Prob ably the Belgians are the fittest and most carefully chosen of the homeseckcrs yet brought into that region. And what they can teach the farmers of Pender is yet to be seen as is also to be de monstrated how productive waste farming lands in the South can be made. Here in this section there is much land uncultivated, some of which has leen but re cently drained and made tillable. Belgian refugees might here not be found undesirable neighbors; and it may be that we could bring these families here and sell them homes with more profit to ourselves than we get from sending food to them. what we are to wear as any town we know. ' But the fact has obtained and will obtain that man suits himself and' if he wants to go to a full dress dress dinner in a Jim Swinger. Custom has decreed that he has the right and no one cries him beats the woman.'' While the women folk are medi tilting upon the approach of mil liiirrv openings and the Easter parade Everything speaks a word on fashions for men : "It causes us to rejoice in the last knowledge wafted from Chica go where the National A woe i a tion of .Merchant Tailors held out in an annual gathering iliey tell us that mens spring styles will be decidedly militar istic. Slender and high wast ed effects will be' quite the thing Coats will be slightly longer and waists (high and close fitting. And the trousers oh, hear me, oarling, will continue nar roV am slightly shorter. That is the stuff. Our trous sers have, hern continuing short er for some time and to know that they can be made shorter saves us a new pair if the scis sors will do the Work. But think of the military effect think of the ten million men wearing some hand me downs bagging at the knees and lack iuir style, symmetry and the proper plunge, as we would say in France, caring anything about what the Merchant tailors did in Chicago. Happily the men tailors or the tailors for men never got. hold of the pop ular mind. Women go crazy over fashion plates but your Uncle and many of his friends are satisfied with any old thing that looks good. With the war on across the pond we are getting but few fashions .from .. abroad and Chicago' might as , well decide AS WE SEE IT I The Advance followed with close interest the election contest case in Currituck county but we have iel rained from taking sides in this issue until the facts were before Is. .Now having heard the test i moily on both sides we feel less diffidence in expressing an opinion. Even, however, bad the editor of this paper been able to attend the trial throughout and give close attention to the great mass of ev idence, we should express our selves not without hesitation for there are questions of law involv ed on which we are no competent to pass. We do not nov therefore, uu dertake to say how the referee should rule in this matter. But in our opinion, and we offer it only for what it is worth, be will not sustain action of the board of canvassers in cases where all the returns from any precinct were thrown out. For it appears to us that where this was done it was in technical grounds, and the election was too loosely conduct ed all over the county to hold any precinct or township to strict ;ic count. This case., which is going to cost some individual or some set of individuals a pretty sum before final decision is reached, shows the need in North Carolina of a legalized statewide primary. If such a primary is not given to North Carolina by the present leg islature the people will want t6 know the reason why. THE WRONG SPIRIT The Advance heard over in Cur 'rituck county last week expres sions from two or three of our fgood friends living in Jarvis burg township which indicated that they were disposed to vent part of tlie displeasure which they felt at having their votes thrown out in the late election on Solic itor Ehringhaus merely because he was representing Baxter's side of ihis case. This is all wrong. All good men must in their saner moments desire in any matter of this sort nothing except to see justice done, and with such al.'e counsel rep resenting Mr Bray and his friends as Ward and Aydlett it was up Ito the other side to secure as good legal talent as thev could also; and it was nothing short of Mr Ehringhaus' duty for him to do all within his power for the cli cut who'u he hud agreed to repre sent. In his conduct of the case Mr Ehringhaus was unfailingly courteous and considerate and 'nothing that he said, we believe, except rir the high pitch of feel uig in be court room at Curri tuck while this :.se was under way, would have laid him open for Vritici -m. HOUSE FOR RENT City Road m.. ju parsonage, on Koad Stret ready furnished or unfurnish ed to suit renter. Apply at ROOM No. 220 Hinton Building or 'phone 260. dec.18.tf. FOR SALE! FOUR, (4) Jersey Cows, will be fresh in thirty days. Apply to S W HASTINGS, Stoke'ey Farm near Elizabeth City, N. C, feb9 3t.pd. FOR RENT Liver Stables Corner Martin and Matthews Street. Apply to, J. P. GREENLEAF, Box 2."), Elizabeth City. N.C. -tt.T&F.n.pd. FOR SALE OR RENT Type writers New or second hand. Only a few machines for rent. Any person wishing to rent should make arrangements to do so in advance. ADVANCE OFFICE WANTED Copies of the Ad vance of December 2it, 1914 and January 19, 1915. An Appetizing Meal Everybody wants it. Everybody likes it. Everybody's looking for it. -BUT- You can't get it unless you have the right kind of groceries Get 'em HERE! M. P. GALLOPCO. I HAVE YOU A HUSBAND m Perhaps he would like an easy chair this spring, or some porch furniture, or a new mattress for the bed, or something else in furniture. Why not pick out the article you want, tell him about it, and thn see how quickly he will hand over the price, and the price by the way is quite enticing. jaw R QUINN & CO 3C A mau without constant knowl edge of local conditions can not intelligently discuss local issues. The Advance gives its readers the home news in KM install ments at a dollar a year. The jingle of the dollar doth no hurt. It dropieth on the ear as dew on grass. It blesseth him that spends and him that gets it. So when you buy at home your dollar does double duty A brilliant assemblage, repre senting several hundred of the most distin gufsed, women of the Democratic party, gathered at Washington for the annual Dolly Madison breakfast given by the Women's national Democratic league , , - f TORE The James Adams Big Dramatic and Vaudeville Company Band and Orchestra 24 IN NUMBER WILL PRESENT A NEW AND THRILLING WESTERN DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS, ENTITLED "SELF DEFENSE' A Story of the Unwritten Law of the Plains One Night Only-SATURDAY FEB. 30th Strictly Moral, Refined and Up to the Minute An Entire Change of Program Never Before Presented in Your City. Band Concerts Noon and 7:00 P. M. Gen. Admission Ghirren. 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