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: r . r I i n nrZD n7r i OFFICIAL PAPER NEWS WlTBOVTl BIAS ; i CURRITUCK. IV WS WITHOUT I f. COUNTY PREJUDICE VOL IV ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY JULY 6, 1915 NO 53 LU It! tJi I I li 1 ) i A IrZE . Li ' ... 1 liif HIES PROTEST V Increase in Assessment out of Proportion to that in Other Counties A, mass meeting, the object of which was to devise ways aud means for effecting an equtable aiJjastinent and reductionof the assessed properety valuations in this county and the call for which was issued about ten days ago,was held at the n'ourt house yesterday morning af ten o'clock aad was attended by a iarge crowd of interested citizens and tax-payers. I The meeting was called to or Oer by F, F. Aydlett. who nomi W MEETING , nated Dr. O. McMullan as chair man.. J. C. Terry ami tier bert Peele were Dominated as secretaries of the meeting. All were unanimously elected. Dr. O. McMullan stated the object of the meeting and call ed for expressions of opinion from those present. Mr. Aydlett took the floor. Ajb one of the signers for the call for this mass meeting,' ' he aaid, "I wish to make my po sition clear in this matter. I am heartily in favor of the county's paying its just taxes, but the valuations here have been -rmiaed out of all proportion to tttee in adjoining or neighboring counties. Property in Pasquotank should, not have a higher value muiwi iiTHHi ii riistn i . i it. ii i. . wooertt in other counties of the state. In this matter the interests of our people are at stake and unless some action is tnLrii a trravf iniiistiep will ho done the county. For if our taxes are higher, in praportion.than in other counties neoule wi'l be kept from buyin land, buying rib lots and building .houses. This would atfect every citizen of the county, as it would mean less work for the. laborer, loss trade for the merchant and a poorer market tfor the fanner. , "I have nothing to say,'' con tinued the speaker, "against the men who have acted ' as assessors this year. I have no doubt thai, acting upon in jCTUctions sent them by the (Corporation Commission, they u l nave int;n i ousi k-ii i iuiis , iiiiu have used their best judgement. At the same time I feel certain that they have erred and that the (error shiiuJd be corrc,ted. For instain .. I was tanking the other day with a promi nenl menilier l the Senate dur ing the last session of the Gen ?ral Assembly, and he said that lie felt sure an increase in property .valuations of twelve per cent would meet the expec tations of the Slate anrl would, be about on par with what is being done in other counties, i ''Now in Pasquotank the propertyv valuations have been raised A went v five, fifty and even 100 per cent over those, of ifour years ao. I know, for instance of the farm of a widow the valuation on which has been increased one hundred Ier cent. This is exceeding ingjTy unfair to the eiti7,ens of our county, Isilh those of the country and those of the town. Konie are belling you. perhaps, that an increased valuation willl reduce your tax rate and jierhaps even lower your taxes; but this can not lie true so far as the state is concerned', for the levy has already leeii made viol an increase of twenty five jier cent in the valuation of your property will mean an increase of twenty five percent in your taxes as far as they g to State . purposes. Pas- HOLD CANNING UN Ii - 9 Pasquotank Tomato Clubs Make Good Showing in Work Done This Year Miss Ruth Evans, Field Ag ent aor the Girls Canning Clubs, met Thursday afternoon at the home of Miss Marcia Albert son, with the Tomato Ctob (iirls of Pasquotank, de monstrating to them methods of putting up fruits. The meeting was held out doors and after the demonstration A f 1 uaTTiiy reiresnmeuis were serv ed. On Friday morning Miss Kv ans and Miss Albertson went to the home of Miss Linfla ICetNl at Nixon ton and gave a demonstration to the (Hub Girls of that section, enjoying a suniplious country pinner at its close and going on to give another demonstration in the afternoon at the home of Miss Winnie, Wood of the Corinth section . Miss Kva s expressed much gratification at the work done by the girb. who are undertak ing their work for the first time this year. One girl last week sold a bushel of first elass ripe tomatoes aud the work of cannfng will be on with much rush and hustle in another week. quotank is already helping to pay the school tax of other counties, and already, I am told, ranks third among the counties of the 8tate in the proportional valuation of its projMrty and this proposed increase will put on us fnr more than our share of the general burden. I am willing and anxious that Pasquotank shall bear ita pro rata share of this burden, but none of us wants il to pay more than that. We must adopt some plan whereby Che error of the assessors may be corrected. ''The boa it 1 of equalization! meets next, Monday. 1, for one, am willing to trust the judgement of a loard of repre sentative citizens of the county to do the right tiling when they know the general conditions. I suggest that we appoint a com inittee and ask for a square deal and a fair increase." ' Further expressions of opin ion wen- then called for. Sev eral citizens responded and en dorsed Mr. Aydlett's remarks. Among these were R. I!. While, lu S. PrifiJiard. Fd Gordan and Walter Small. Mr. Gor don cited a piece of laud which soiii at auction a vear airo for i bout six lmmlred dollars and is now assessed over twelve hundred.. Mr. Small, l'asqiio tank's representative in he House during the last session of the General Assembly, state! I that as a member of the Finance Committee of the house he had had opportunity to know that no extreme increase in prop erty valuations in the Slate at large is looked for this year. lie said that the mat ter came up ami that many members of the committee fav oren" a new method of assess ment : Me fet't (hat some Hew method would halve leen adopted had it not been for the depressing influence of the European War on business ami property interests generally. This, he said, led most members ; to think that nothing radical should lie attempted at this 1 i time and he expressed himself as confident that a ten per cent (Concluded On Page Three) HHflUT To-Night and To-Morrow at the Alkrama ' - v V ' y I 111) -j rWj Lynch Trio. Also Butler and Sawn tri Good Clean, Refined Vaudeville ludging from the applausean;! tomorrow night the house these two acts received last will eb crowded uaidn as a com night and from the comments of the pulio on leavbinir the theatre, these aer the best vau devil'e acts which have ever visited Rixabeth t-itv Tacked to the doom hist night The Alkrama's offerinc seemed to pleam everybody in the big audience and no doubt tonight FIIIE SPEECH Splendid Impression Re sults From Address at Poplar Branch School Pop'ar ltranchu July; 4 Fourth was celebrated at la r Itrauch on Saturday The .'lul In an bv an educational rally at the the BICKETT TIES nign scnooi ouiiuiug unuerjday alternoon at about auspices of the Woman's o'c ock . Forls-s who Hettennent AssnK iation . (loin has a day passed p'easantlv in the historv Sel more of this coiiiiiiiuiity . The Henry M. Shaw amp of the Confederate Veterans and the Seventh gnule Mi m Ik of Currituck county were the guests l honor on this on tins occasion and tell aged guests viewed' with the school children in their en jo ineiil of the hospital ily extended them, erale reunion held years in this brought them more No Con fed in recent county has enjoyment and real pleasure. cM The hij feature of the day was an it I dress by Attorney General, T. W. ltickett. Many who hcitrd it pronounced it the finest address ever heard at Poplar Mranch and every one p resen 1 was charmed at once by the shakers ready-wit. his choice diction and the inspir iig eloquence of his message. Many were heard to express the opinion that North Card lina wiiii make no mistake in making him her next governor. The meeting was cjilled to order at e'even o'clock bv Dr. W. T. Griggs who wefeomed the guests of the day in behalf of the communitv. Speaking i especially to the veterans Dr. Griggs paid a splendid tribute to their valor during the war .,,,,1 M.j,. heroism when they returned to the ruin that was home after the four years of conflict. He then introduced (Continued On Page Ttco) -J - plete ehaneg of prorum wos an- nouncixl for evgery perform- a nee. uriag tue cui.uren, says Mr. Allen Kramer. 'and let them see little Taddy Lynch, the youngest performer on the stage,' ' adv Cale Forbes Shot and In stantly Killed by Ben Hewett Sunday Evening News reached here yesterday that Cale Forbes was shot and instantly killed by Men Hewitt at the bitter's home last Sun three ocock. rorhes who livw i ; abou i three miles from the Hew ett home, ciinie up to the house ami was talking to .Mrs. Hewett through the litijien window when Hewitt appearel on the scene and ordered Po rites off the premises. Hot words en sued and Forbes who was a i man of .,,!, I,., ...i.i,. ,,i, , i strenuth. is reported in ' have threatened to tear Hewett limb from limit. At any rate Hewett picked up ;i shot gun and standing Imrely six feet away from b'orlM's shot him down tlead. the load entering the ill fated man's body below the left breast and teaiini: a treat hole through his side. ' That Hewett objected to Forties intentions to his wife is the reason assigned for the alteration. Mrs. Hewett was formerly Mrs. George Sawyer. She was (divorced by her first husband who married again af ter she had left the state with Hewett. Mr. and Mrs. Hew ett returned to Canideli county after Sawyer's second marriage. Hewett was still at large yes terdav afternoon pending the lection of the Recorder before whom the preliminary hearing wjts conducted. The Itoa in regular this pit per I of aldermen session to dav goes to press. ire as No meeting was held last night on account of the fact tlmt day was Hie day given I for celebrating the fourth ' Julv. Mori- over of mum 1HITER RECORDS STRIKEII Solicitor Abernathy Clear ed of Aspersions Upon Character and Conduct Newbern, July 2 The final act in the famous Judge Frank X la Her Solicitor Charles L. Abernethy contempt case took place today when Judge George W Connor, before whom So imiior Aoeraetny maue an ap peal to have stricken from the records of Craven Court the various records made thereon by Judge Frank Carter and which were detrimental o his official aud personal charter rendered his derision. This de cision covers more thon a doz en tyH'wntteii pages am! tue jurist goes fn ly inlet the details and makes each one plain. In the whole it orders that all the records paced on the records tf Craven Superior Court, with the exception of that in which Judge Carter held that Solici tor Abernethy was acting in contempt of the court by re fusing to sit down when told to do so should be stricken off and the clerk of the court waa oidered to do this. Id the handing down of thin decision, ftolMtof Abernethy is completely vindicated. Ev ery record made by Judge Car ter with the exception or one and the legislative iuvestiga ting committee held that Solici tor had enough provocation to make him act in contempt of the court, has been ordered wiped otf of the court records and, so far a they will hence forth show, the incident never occurred. In concluding his decision in the case Judge Con nor has this to say : '"The undersigned Judge finds the following facts: First, that at the time the said pa lters were tiled and ordered entered upon the minute dock et of this court, no matter was pending in this court or before the presiding judge at said term to which the said papers or either of them had any re lations which they or either of Ihem were in aiiv way connect ed. 'Second, that, said paper con tiiined reflections upon the per sonal and ollicial conduct of Charles Abernethy, the solicitor of this district, made by the presiding judge without any. lawfi authority ami not in exercise of any jurisdiction conferred upon him by law. Third, thaf sa:d papers were tiled and entered upon the record of this court over the protest of the said Charles Ij Ahcriicthy. are prejudicial to his rights a s a citizen and as a public officer and are not now ami haw never been any pro per part of the records of the court. Jl'DGF'S OK Dili: I'pon the foregoing findings and citni litrtions the undersign ed judge holding the courts of the fifth judicial district and presiding at the June term .1015 of the Superior court Craven County orders: "First, . that the clerk of court will withdraw from recorjds of this court the lowing patters: A that Of the the fol cer tain pa ter entitled, statement of judge (presiding which f be directs to lie entered upon the minutes of the court signed Frank Carter presiding: 15 that .certain paper being a reply to the foregoing state incur, addressed to Hon Frank Carter presiding ami signed ) Continued On Page Three) MUST APPEAL TO ASSESS Board of Equalization Think General Reduc tion Would be Beyond Their Province ll whs the sense of the rouutf commissioners in regular sess ion yesenday that the county board of (Equalization would be going beyond their right in mak nig any general or sweeping re duction in the property valua tions of the county assessors this year. This does not mean that the county commissioners are out of sympathy or not in accord with the action taken at the niasN meeting at the courthouse yesterday morning. but ther feel that the proper court appeal i this matter is the the be- county assessor instead of board ol equalization. Their was litt e busiuess fore (he commissioners yes- terdav and their session would have ended before noon but for the faci that they breame cog nizant of the action of the mass meeting at the court and wanted to make their attitude plain In time to pre vent misunderstanding tad confusion , They, therefore. summoned Mr. Walter Small, chairman of the local committ ees appointed to take the Blat ter of a reduvflon of assessment up before the board of equalisation, and sug gested to, him that the commltt ee go Itefore the county assessor first at any rate and see if a satisfactory adjustment could not lie made. Mr. Smalt, therefore, ha culled the local committees to meet him at the court house next Thursday and it is proba ble that an understanding may be reached at that time. If not there will lie left time for an other meeting before the session of the board of equalization. 11 THE WH OF THE OH No person with a discrimina ting eye can walk along Bast Main Street without making a special mental Jiote of the al ways attractive show windows of the Woman's Wear Store of the M. Ieigh Sheep Compa ny . At present The Sign of the Door' shows a marvelous clear ance Sale on for July lasting until Saturday July 17lh, The woman shopper )has supposed thiil the last word hits already beifi sii id in summer bargains, perhaps. If so. she was mistaken, for the prices there advertised for the femanine necessities of summer time are but shadows of forinerpriccs for these goods. Slaughtered devas tated, and starved out by a xlestriu tiev hand, they are there, and the goods are there, new, fresh, dainty, and attrac tive. ;is only goods from the Woman's Wear Store can be. The opportunity to fill the need of lingerie, hosiery, laces, em broideries, silk (Ireswes and suits wil not lie seen again this season. To get ready for a va cation will take very little time and very little money; for the woman who knows that this ia the time and place to find everything jneeded and find it 'just right." This sale began Saturday morning and the Wo nion's War Store bos been th busiest place in town evetf Adr. I .' ' : t 1 v siuce. t St 4 .ft.'
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