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t - r u -4, v - .. i . "s . . ' . . . , 1 . , . . it' ' -j - 1 ' . . -A ' ; ' ' -;.' -. , . , i V . .i- j . - i - w.-i v ... t v ... - . i i. . - . - - . t ....... . . . i t fr ELIZABETH r --Ti'r-T' - PREJUDICE - - . v i S 5 ' PAPER V ( ! VOL fV ELIZABETH CIT, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21,1915 I UU i-3'V,i 'Y:;') I. ;Ar , COUIIIV BOARD OF ELECTIOHS lit! COnMISSIOHEtIS DECIDE CONTEST . Supreme Court's Decision Correct as Reported Except as to Effect 'W. F. Leary, K. N. Hamp ton, Jr., and W. S. Harrison are the men upon widen rests the 4pciion as to who will fill the office of Begister of Deeds in Currituck county, for the re mainder of the two years term, ibegun by T. W Baxter in Jan airyi of this yeaf. The case has been one which has been at tended by confusion bitterness and doubt from its beginning. In the first place the contest for he office of Register of Deeds between Baxter and Bray was a fl--t warm and -close one. As the t "votes were counted in the sever al precincts Bray was the winner by a majority of about four votes; but the county board of canvassers threw out the re turns from Jarvisburg precinct, , on the ground that a number, of votes in that precinct were ille gal and declared Baxter elected. Neither Bray nor his friends were satisfle'd with this decision and the case was taken before iSi$$rior court at its January term. Many, hoped for a final ..settlement at that hearing but Judge Justice, who was the presiding judge at that term, named W. B. Pruden of Eden ton as referee. Judge Leigh was later agreed on as referee when it was found that Mr. Pruden would not be able to serve. Neither the referee nor the su perior court judge sustained the aurtnn nt th hoard of cahvassers in throwing out Jarvisburg pre cinct, but after hearing all the evidence on both sides the refeJ ree lidded that Baxter was rightfully elected by a majority of three votes. Tie decision of the raferee was sustained by the superior court. z Believing that he still had ground to fight ou, Bray up pealed to the supreme icourt and the case was heard by that bod(y at its regular sitting this month. The supreme court j held that three votes for Hrav at! G randy which were thrown i out should hnvp Ip(ti roiniTen'oui a nun uiai for him, that the vote was a tie and that the cause should be re manded to the County Board of Elections to determine which shall be elected. The mem lrs of tli is board are the ineu whose names appear cinning of the first nt the be - jiliragraph of this article. The decision was sensational enough in itseli : but further confusion was brought about by the reports in the daily press which -stated that the decision . i . i l r now rested witn me uoam canvassers. The Advance re lorter. not being himself a law yer, attempting to correct the error made another in stating that the county Board of Com missioners would tiecidc the contest. The Charlotte Obser vor had the case correctly re ported, but unfortunately that paper does not arrive here on the date of publication.. So it teas not learned that the Ad vance reporer had been misin formed until it was too late to make correction When the .board of elections will meet and decide the con test nag not yetTeen announced Property at corner of Read and Church streetFor Sale cheap. J. G. MILLER S ON 111 MM Next Week is Set Apart all Over Country as Gas Lighting Week Next week will be National Oat? Lighting Week. From Monday 8ei)teinber 27 to Satur day, October 2iid, this commu nity is due for a lesson in the possibilities of modern gas llluuiinaton . Gas companies the world over are planning to turn these six nights into days, and Elizabeth City will have splendor . " For montihs the gas people have been (getting ready for 2gnting Week. It is felt by the leaders of the industry that enough really big, revolu tionizing things have happened in their world in the past few years to warrant the settling apart of a week f r telling the public about them. Pra"rtically unknown even to many who have used gas all their Uvea, there are yet won derful new ways of lighting, new types of light!, new meth ods of control all of them the result of the recent work of the man ' in the laboratory, and all of them full of interest to the man on the street. I f you shou a happen in - the office of the local gas company net week you will get a glimpse of some of the devices which get such transforming effects from the ordnary gas you are want' to see burning in an open name irom an oruiuary Top; mantles not much larger than he tip of your thumb;, giving ... i i reaches to every corner or tne room ; uie gteat, lumnious bowls of the semi-indirect - system dif fusing their soft and very per fect light; exact and easy sys tems of Control, masterpieces I of their kind: and everywhere vou wculd notice the elimination 'of chimneys. gauzes and stacks-the triumph of simpli city. This was a triumph when only after long and) almost heart breaking struggles, in a little New Jersey Laboratory, Howard Lyon one of the most loading experimenters in gas. set to work to devise a better gas light thau any then known. He worked for several years, and at the end of that time he had a tube, not so long as a pen cil and taneriaa cnrionslv in the middle, and a mantle the size of a thimble. That doesn't sound impreaoive, but Dr. Lyon Lyon had what he went after, and his case is typical of tne labors, of his fellow scientists, of the gas industry all over" over the country . TVy work ed to cut down,' to eliminate, to simplify. and . tney made a tremendous scrap heap. But they got what they went after. There "was a long period in i ) Continued On Page Three) E 10 PLEASE Play Which Vas Success of Two Seasons in New York on Way Here The theatrical season will open uienuy at the Alkraina Tneatre, on Monday u.ght Sept. 27th., for Abe i'otash and Mttwruss Perl uiutter are to be there fresh from the Cohan Theatre, New York. Abe and Mawruss have promised to come with their entire Btaff and complete, original outfit guar anteed to turn out a thousand laughs fter performance. They are said to be most modest and lovable fellows in suite of the fact that a million people laugh ed until they cried .over them in New York, and they are very proud of the important part they have played in making the world happier. Abe and Mawruss are the crea tures of Montague (Mass' brain, lie wrote about them iu the Sat uraay Evening Post and manager A. li. Woodsy put them on the stage. Their reception was in tEe nature of an ovation and ever since their first appearance they have been among the most wide ly talked of characters of present day drama. The story of "Potash and Perl mutter" deals with, the adventu res of Abe and Mawruss, their friends ancTtfielr rivalfc The'Twof partners despite tttriip Continual quarrels, are shown to: be gene rous, and loyal to a fault. Troub les pile up fast upon them. Their rival has a designer whose goods make those of Potash and Perl mutter the laughing stork of their customers; their lawyer Henry Feldman proves to be a rascal; the Russian government has their book-keeper arrested on a trumped-up charge, and in or der to save him from extradition they risk their fortunes and are on the verge of bankruptcy. Then enters Ruth Goldman the design VIOLET BARNEY er of the famous Arverne Sacque and with her enter sunshine and happiness. She secures a great politician' to help the book-keeper she gets out new tacque for Potash and Perlmutter that brings in trade with' a -rush : ; she helps to rout the rascally laifye and, finally, she consents to be come Mrs. Perlmuttefl, while the joung book-keeper weds the char tn'ng young daughter of Abe Po tash. Love and Law, Pinochle I L i - j ....' & mm' SOWS BIG EMU Substantial Increase Over Last Year Especially in High School School opened iti llliiabetfi City yesterday morning With an enrollment of 170 students iu the u.gh schpol, 477 iu the gram mar school, and 504 in the pri mary school. These figures show an increase over last year's opening of forty eight iu the high school, -3 in the grammar school and seventeen in the primary school, a total increase of eighty stu dents. The High School class rooms are practically filled and) the grammar and primary grades oven low their bounds in spite of the fact that a row of desks was aimed in eacu of tnese rooms lat vear. m mnmt mum The M. Leigh tSheep Company has been very fortunate in se curing the services of a first class tailor to take charge ot their alterations. This store .has always prided itself and . established quite a' reputation for its system of fit ting and Mrs Hart the late addition to the deparment tuimm whu i itc uigucoi lie; dentials from some of the lead ing tailors of Lexington, Cin cinati and Norfolk and . the new up to djate methods which she brings with her will doubt less, prove very satisfactory to the public generally. Mrs. Hart will be glad to meet the ladies of Elizabeth City and demonstrate to our custom ers what real tailored alter ations mean. ... adv Mm. FLORENCE GUNDY DM The funeral of Mrs. Florence U irandv will be conducted this afternoon at four o'clock at the home on the corner of Matthews and Koad sreets by her rector, fiev. '. A. Ashby. Interment will follow in the Episiopal cemetery Mrs. (irandv was seired by an attack of heart failure suddenly yesterday' morning just after finishing her breakfast and died while still silting at the table. She was ocr sewntv ve:irs of ai but had M-eined in her nsual heilth unt 1 the attack came upon her which resulted in im mediate death . lr. I . Fear ing was called at once but life was already gone. Mrs. Irandv is the widow of ('. Wv Grandy of the law firm of Gran dv anil Avdletl. She is sur vived by several children. and IPolltids, Fashions and Fun are all a part of this most delight ful of comedies. Manager Woods is sending a strong company for the interpre tation of the various roles, fcacn member has appeared during the New York engagemfeqA and no member or tne ainereni -roiasu and perlmutter" organizations wss finallv siened until he or she had "made good" before a metro the play is elaborate! -. The scenes are laidL first, in tW little down- town fafctory and salesrooms of the firm, then in the itylish Finn Avenue establlshme and finally in Abe Potash' boiie This company Is the same that appeared in Norfolk recentlv. SCH00 . i ut,r THE DISMAL SB EU1F ni A Picture Which Should Affoird Basis For Interesting Comparisbft Mr. Editor: '"b ). notice iu Wiley's North Carolina Header, published in 1853; an item which may be of interest to your jieople, unless father Creecy published it so often that it still lingers in their minds: "The little county of Pasquo - tank alone exports skx ihun- uredf thousand bushels of corn. Deep wide ditches like canals niu round every field ' and nearly every former is his own shipper: the d,fcep creeks rivers and Imvovis affording means of nloopf navigation through the whole country . power to move machinery Great quant. ties of fish are miles indeed the monorail with also caught and the cypress and the stabilizing gyroscope comes ' -juniper trees furnish another to cheapen land transportation source of wealth. ' below water rates. f - From the Pasquotank river to Bv tne way, has anybody ' the waters about Norfolk is a heard of "' of the Panama . -canal nearly through j machinery 'being used on any the center of the great eanal8 South of the Mason and .' Hismal Swamp twenty two I DixoD Une op did entire"; miles long, and the earth taken oP" not further needed .on t from it affords an excellent toll the Canal, fall into the innoc road aong its. .; banks, and belonging to the same company that owns the canal. About midway this road just on the 'North Carolina line is a public , laveru ; una wis is uie oniy ! uua iiuk inrougn vTirriuJCK '' house in all the great Dismal sound is better than no link j'at Swamp. The road and canal, 'all. A school boy before the however, are like the streets of late Armageddon struggle 4 a populous city; they are began told, me that he crowded with people from end liked the history of Wesern En to end. A large amount of (rope better than he did that -of produce goes over this canal j North Carolina or the United ' and it is jnerhapn the best stock J Htatos Itecauto there was moM in the country. i doing .ver there. Get your ' A strange interest attaches fanrl lfwn ngeiit to be more to the half-way house. this mouthy if invthing is being solitary dwelling in the Dismal '''"'C down Hcio. Fven the Swamp. From the canal at(5mk could not fight the Tro- this place to the lake is a smull feeder canal, the most practical route to Lake Drum mond. You go up in a canoe or a small boat; if you travel in the Spring the air is loaded with the perfume of flowers and vocal with the song of innumerable birds. On each side are stately trees and a thick tanged mass of irapenetra ble shubbery; about you i an atmosphere of romance., a re gion abounding in legendary history. You are in the conn ty of the run a way and the her mit; and near the half-way house have been acted manv jloody crimes. Duelists from North Carolina and Virginia oine here to fight; and the places which have witnessed the sanguinary encounters have also Ixen celebrated for clangs tine marriages." The part of the picture which struck me most was that which photographed the transportation facilities of Pasquotank county and doubtless of the adjacent counties as well; and the pic ture of the rush of travel along the canal and of the canal stock being in company with the Lake Shore and Hudson river rail roads, if .there were any such railroads at that time. I hope the canal will live on it history if it should ever get short of business, for 1 notwjth standing the proposed mistakes of the engineers and the sup posed .influences which guided the inland , waterway out ihtov the shallows of Currituck Sound1, there will be a great canal from the Pasquotank to the Elizabeth River and it will be a sea level cnnnL if twenty five or nflimanrmnr , xhirtj feet in debth will- make it so. Canals are I ' hundred times easier to dig now than they were when this uanal was begun ; and in another de cade or two they will be many- times easier to d?g than the are now. Jn fact the Texas law 'to promote waterways in which i ; i the ytate subscribes one third of. " . . ! the expenses the Ideality bene- fitted another third and the - general government still another would solve the problem in most ' 'any wide awake community "led ' v by a wide awake man without ' waiting for the invention of sun cons desuetudo. By the way, also, toe press ' ' agent of-the Inland wuterwar . 1 lis not as active as he used to be: we all know that a North Caro , j.iiis without Stentor. W. J. PEELE. -i 1 Hunts! ones wop . Tomorrow the fa'l millinery openings will be the feature "of interest iu the shopping section ot Elizabeth Cty and in Spite of the liigciiug of summer they will no doubt attract large num bers of women shoppers from city and country. Announcement ot the millinery event of the season has been made by dainty caid invitations, by attractive newspaper adver tising, and by window oards in the various stores. Miss Sallie i'eny, I'ritcliard Millinery 'Com pany, Mrs. M. Hill, The L. IV (i. I bert Company and Walker &; Company are the stores of the' city that cater entirely to the millinery trade. andTfhtTS. 1ft Si If Company has a large and attractive millinery depart-, incut on the second floor which extends its invitations to visi tors to-morrow . The M. Leigh Sheep Company Wonians' Wear Store adjvertis- - es its opening display of fall coat suits and dresses on these two days also. RECEIVES HFrOTftll George Wl Hartley, now ofTSfor folk, but formerly of Eliaabeth City, has been appointed by Pres. , ident Wilson supervising inspec : tor of the Third Steamboat, In-. spection District 'this district v; includes Norfolk. Baltimore,Char ' lestony Savannah, and Jackson ville. Mr. Harney is a brother of " Mrs. V H. Zoeller of this city and is well known here. : It F . ..;t . 'r. , 't'i
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