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VOL V
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY JANUARY 25, 1916
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Ml CDUIITY
IY LIS STATE
-Ledford Hall Name of
Youth Who Won State
Corn Growing Champ
ionship Last Yea
As a result of the work of the
Boys' Corn Clubs during the year
1915, reports sent in by the boys
hOw that 70.040.4 bushels of corn
have been prodced by the 1,308
&oys reporting. Fifty boys made
400 bushels and above. The aver
age yield if these fifty boys was
111.7 bushels per acre.
As an indication of the Interest of
the boys this past year,, 37 310 per
, -cent of the boys enrolled reported,
against 21 310 per cent for ' the
year 1914, an increase of 16 per
?ft for the year.
(Ninety Ave out of the 100 coun-
1 Hies in the state had boys enrolled
sthe 95 sent in reports. . The 12
remaining counties of the state
from which no reports were re
ceived had only a combined total
membership of 1?.
The following facts show some
Total number of boys
enrolled in the Corn
Clubs 3,505
Total number of boys
reporting 1,309
Total number of bush
els reported in tTie
''. State 70,040.4
, . Total cost of produc
tion ...$30,458.74
- Average cost per bush
el 43.4 cents
. .Avererage number -of
bushel per acre .... 53 . 5
Wins Scholarship In Ninth
District
Garland Hoover, of Caldwell
County, won the scholarship in the
Ninth District offered bv Congress
man Doughton. Garland niaded a
yield of 125.8 bushels on his acre
at a cost per bushel of 22.6 cents.
The acre yielded him a net profit of
197.37.
The scholarship which was offer
d to the boy making the best
record is worth fifty dollars and is
.given on condition that the boy is
ready to enter the Agricultural
and Mechanical College the follow-
'ig 'fall.
Chapion Corn Qrowi
Ledford Hall, age thirteen, and
a native of Rowan county, is North
Carolina's champion corn grower.
Young Hall, who is a brother ot
Dudley Hall, last year's champion,
is a flaxen haired, sunny faced boy,
and takes the year's honors with a
production of a hundred and forty
two bushels of corn which was
grown on an acre of his father's
farm five miles from Salisbury. To
produce the acre cost $15.93, of
-which $2.41 was spent for fertilizers
Tte nt profit of the acre was
$125.46. This is the best record
mra natohllntiori hv a. Nnrth Cnrnli-
na Corn Club boy. ''
Hall did all of the work on the
acre except some of the deep plow
ing which was done before the seed
-was put in.
. I General Club Work
! Under 'the general title of "Boys
Agricultural Clubs" there are la
operation in the State to-day the
"Boys' Corn Clubs, the Pig Clubs,
the Poultry Clubs, the Crop Rota
tion Clubs, the Negro Boys' Farm
dubs, and a few members each
in the Peanut Club, Potato Club,
and Cotton Club. In the Corn
Club work the increased interest of
the members is shown by th de--cidid
increase in the number of
hoys who have completed the year's
work and sent in reports. Im
jrovement is also shown n the mat
ilfy of keeping a report and writ
ing a history of the work. Another
encouraging fact Is that of th- boys
ELIZABETH CITY .COUPLE
WED IN RALEIGH
Raleigh. N. C. Jan 20 A beauti
ful wedding was celebrated Wednes
day evening at 8:30 o'clock at the
home, of Mr. and Mrs. J. Carl
Marshburn, No. 8 Glenwood avenue,
when Miss Vertie Frances Brothers
and Maurice E. Pappendick, both of
Elizabeth City, were united in mar
riage, the ceremony being performed
by Rev. J. W. Potter, pastor of
Jenkins Memorial Methodist church.
Miss Brothers was on a visit, to Mrs
Marshburn and it was decided to
have the wedding while here in the
city. The residence was beautifully
decorated in a mass of green stuff,
ferns, evergreen, holly and spruce
pine. A wedding bell hung over the
ariiscally arranged altar, where the
wedding vows were exchanged, and
the ring was given and received.
Mrs.. Marshburn rendered the wed
ding music. Lohengrin's wedding
march being used as the processional
Schubert's Serenade was softly play
ed during the ceremony. Little Miss
Julia Pennal, ring bearer, was the
only attendant. The ring was hid
den In the heart of a wfiite carna
tion surrounded by a fringe of lilies
of tho valley. The bride wore a trar
eling suit and hat of navy blue. Her
bouquet was of bride's roses and li
lies of the valley.
Following the wedding an informal
reception was held, the bride and
groom receiving the best wishes and
hearty congratulations of many
friends . They afterwards left for a
wedding trip to Florida. On their
return they will be at home in Eliz
abeth City, where tl3 groom is a
prominent and popular business man
The bride is a charming and attrac
tive girl. She has made many
friends in this city during her visits
here.
Thomas L. Green left today for
Edenton where he will make an
address tonight.
reporting. Emphasis has been
placed upon the raising of pure
bred breeding stock for the State
rather than upon the growing of
meat hogs as thf producing end
of the swine industry has been sad
ly neglected. Economy of pro
duction through the use of grazing
crops and farm wastes has been
stressed. Corn as the sole ration
for hogs has been discouraged as
being too expensive and poorly
balanced. The value of good
breeding and good individuals has
been emphasized and the proper
care, feeding and management has
been stressed On all occasions. The
results obtained in this work in
dicate that the .instruction given
is bearing fruit.
Te!ling results have boen secured
in the work of the poultry clubs.
This work was begun at the first of
the paHt year and has J,een pushed
along such lines as the best time
for hatching the young chicks, rare
and feeding of the young chicks,
proper feeding of the farm flock,
and proper housing of the farm
poultry. More than one thousand
members have been enrolled Curing
the' year. Fifty per cent state
that they have cover crops of clover
rye or oats on their acres for 1916.
Work in the Pig Cluba has been
equally as successful. Hundreds ot
of modern poultry houses have
been constructed over the State as
a result of th work done at thd
district and county during the
fall. The showing of the boys and
girls at the fairs was also encour
aging, as these young farmers
took off some of the best prizes of
fered. The Crop Rotation Clubs and the
Negro Boys Farm Clubs will begin
active work during the coming sea
son. Work with these clubs has
already been outlined and begun.
TbJese club members will receive
the monthly letter that is mailed
out to all club members once . and
sometimes twice a month. These
letters have come to have an im
portant effect in the club work and
help to teach in the simplest terms
the fundamental principles of
plant and animal sowing.
HONOR ROLL FOR
FOURTH MONTH
The honor roll for the fourth
month, ending January 14 of Eliz
abeth City's schools is as follows:
HIGH SCHOOL
Mildred Commander, Bessie Rich
ardson. Eleanor Hall, The!ma Sykes.
Winnie Wood. Delia Williams. Hel
en Wood. Mildred Tool, Clarence
Ashby, Graham Evans, Marvin Mer
cer. Lloyd Sawyer.
Fourth Grades
Miss Ward, Teacher: Janie Hales,
Iceoline Owens. Cora Ssnderiin.
Elizabeth Mann. Lou'se Grant,
Mary True,lood, Nellie Jordan,
1 eora Griffin. Grace Jenkins. Eve
lyn Hooper. Christne Taylor,
James Steger, Elliott Ward. Ran
dall Hollomin, Erwin Midgett,
Bradford Sanders, Marlon Harris.
Carlton Wood'ey. William Dailey,
Lemuel Blades.
Miss Cobb. Teacher: Mary Gverf
Rosa Lee Ward, Margareondu
rant Maxine Fearing, Helen Lit
tle, Beulah .Winslow, Lillian Har
ris, Mary Hooper. Mary Owens, Mar
vin Wllliims Constant Fearing.
Miss Weatherly, Teacher: Ida
Jones. Mary Saleeby, Emily Mann,
Margaret Commander, Stuart Wood.
John Crank.
Fifth Grades
Miss Webb, Teacher: Elizabeth
Saunders, Estelle Leonard, Fannie
L. West) Haywood Duke, Charles
A sbby, Lu her Pav is -
Mrs. Pearson, 'Teacher: Anna
belle Abbott, Evelyn Bright. Maud
Jackson Maggie Murden, .Mae Price
Susie Rhodes, Gussie Sample. Mary
Chadwick, , Curtis Berry, Erskine
Puff. William Garrett, llary . .Hen
derson, William Pritcliard, J-arry
Skinner, Clyde Gregson, Alonzo
llollinson.
Mrs. .Atwater, Teacher: Leona
Lewis, Sarah Hill, Eunice Sylvester,
I.illie M. Smith, William Ballard,
Cecil Carter, - Claud- Ferrellr Wey
mouth Davis.
Sixth-Grades
Miss Jones, Teacher: Lottie Drink
water, Laura Pritchard, Annie White
Arkie Jones, Goldle Stokes Eva Mc
Mullan, Clara Bateman, Lucille Ben
ton, Elizabeth Wood, Thelma Grey,
Courtney Seymore, Wilbur Gregory,
Claud Ward. Roscoe "Smith, Claud
Carter, Grafton Love, Wesley Mar
tin, Sheldon Hales, Wergman Mun
den. Miss Lassiter, Teacher: Sophia
Davis. Elizabeth Etherldge, Margar
et Hancock, Fearl Hones, Nellie
Meads. Esther Miller, Stella Thomp
son, Sidney Evans, Claud Jonos.
Mrs. Pool, Teacher: Margaret
Foreman, - Eunice Adams, Lucille
Armstrong, James Brite, Frank Daw
son. Robert Kramer. Elizabeth Hath
away, Margaret Raper, Katherlne
Steger, Evelyn fTolson, Vivian Belan
go, Margaret Cltftsson, Mary Gas
kins, Ruth Johnson. Seldom Lamb,
Robert Lowry, Charles Seyfert, Shir
ley Williams.
Seventh Grades
Miss Elliott, Teacher: Margie Bell
Carr, Adelaide Dunstan, Clyde Har
rell, Hargaret McCabe, Loola Mann,
Fannie Madrin, Milllcent Pool, Eva
Sawyer, Pearl Ballance, Gladys
Spence, Mary Wright, Mae Hall
White. Willie Lee Turner, William
Jennings, Harry Forbes, Ray Quinn,
Norman Trueblood.
. Miss Harney; Teacher: Margaret
Hill, Ellen Bell, Lillian Hooper, Eliz
abeth Kramer, Maude Leigh, Ina Mae
LeRoy, Elizabeth Nash, Helen Wil
liams, Clarissa Winslow, Mary Wis
ong, Oscar Gre?ory, George Modlln;
Walter Price, Francis Seyfert, Roose
velt Stowe.
PRIMARY 8CHOOL
First Grades
' Miss Griffin, Teacher: Glcnnie
Cartwrlght, Monteray Cartwright,
Mary Owens, Evelyn Shores, Lillian
Twiford, Blacknall Cooke, Lloyd
Richards, Wilson Sanders.
Miss Stevens, Teacbjer: Martha
Archbell, Nina Adklns, Helen Bright
Clara Lee Carter, Mary Gladden
Gregory, Bessie Horner, Helen Kra
mer, Helen Leigh, Edna Morrisette,
Virginia Owens, Julia Turtle, Emma
Owens, Annie Sue Williams, Marvin
Cartwright, John Chadwick, Edward
FARMERS INSTITUTES
- IN PROGRESS THIS WEEK
Tomorrow a Farmers' Institute
will be held at Newbern's Landing,
with Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Hutt in
charge, and a number of other
speakers on the program.
Thursday at Camden courthouse,
the Farmers and farmers' wives
ere urged to gather and hear those
in charge of the Institutes. There
will be opportunty for questions and
discussions, and much helpful in
formation will be given in regard to
this years problems on the farm.
Institutes were held at Moyock on
Monday and at Coinjock today.
On Friday of this week at Forks
Schoo'house the Pasquotank people
v i'l gather, and ou Saturday at Sa
lem.
FIRE AT HERTFORD
Hertford, January 20 At five
o'clock this mornln fire was dis
covered in he roof of the residence
fo Mr. Newby on Church street.
Md was given by the local fire de
partment, who succeeded in saving
the kitchen and the greater part of
'he furniture, although the main
building was lost. IThe property
was owned by Miss Tattie Whedbee
of this city and the loss was cov
ered bv insurance.
GREGORY HUNTER
Hertford, January 19 Mr. Mack
Gregory and Miss I'enrle. Hunter.
I oth efr f lils-eHy-ww quietly mar
ried Sunday evening the home of
the bride by Rev. W. 11. Carter.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
aid Mrs. Henry Hunter of this
city and the groom is Manager of
the local five and ten cent s'ore.
Gnsklns. George Guskins. Willard
Jackson. Joseph Kramer, Ralph Par
lfpfl Clarcfn(:e-Pritchard, Ralph Wtl-
cor
Mrs. Fearing, Teacher: Katberine
Duff, Ida Perry. I lazel Perry, Grace
SylVestur, Annie White. Roscoe Fore
n an, UlnckweU Barkley, Allen Bell,
Ru8st;ll Tasker, Llnwood Basnight.
i iss Zoeller, Teacher: Margaret
Corfnery, Maxine Sheppard, Margar
et Wells. Martha, "White. Ruth Wil
liams, William Britton. Bobbie Fear
ing. Isadora Siegtd, Herbert Siege:,
Archie Turner.
Mrs. Brooks, Teacher: Evelyn
Baker, Maude Evans, Ruth Gaskins,
Ruth Jordan, Marlon Jenkins, Effle
Madrin, Mary Owney, Alethla Parker
Elizabeth Carter, Margaret Toxey.
Reuban Berry, Howard Johnson Os
car McttgH, Charles Jenkins, Clar
ence Sanders, Irving Swain, Carl
Walston.
Second Grades
Miss Willis, Teacher: Minnie Lee
Brockett, Bonnie Parks, Rena Crank,
Sarah Helen Lewis, Lillian Hunfler
Wilklns, Camilla Hopkins, Carmen
Saleeby, Eunice Richardson, Margar
et Williams Sawyer. Joe Tool, Wil
liam Perry. Vernon Chappell, Ernest
Williams.
Miss Bell. fTeacher: Olivia Benton,
Kathterine Davis, Lucille Jennetto,
Viola Russell, Annie SaleehJ, Mar
Jorlo Skinner, Elizabeth Williams,
Mary Winslow, Annie Overman, Car
roll Abbott, Wallace Bagley, Frank
Horner, Frank Hollowell, Nathan
Mnnn, Roscoe Turner,
Mrs. Etherldge Teacher: Louise
White, Ada Palmer, Vera Self, Ethel
Mae Pdgh, Josephine Lambert, Lori
ta Lowry, Viola Walter Betts, Wal
ter Cohoon. Lawrence Aydlett.
Third Grades
Miss Ferebee. Teacher, Dorothy
Baum, Pattle CapehJeart, Hattle
Gregory, Mary Horner, Mary Hamer
Prlehnrd, Mary Dozier, Leona Mun
den. Nannie Mae Stokes, Gertrude
Smith Grace Flood, Earl Baker, May
nard Burton, Oliver Evans, James
Gregory, James Hill, Lorlmer Reed,
Marlon Seyfert, Herbert Winslow.
Miss Strahl, Teacher, Ada Belanga
Margaret Hollowell, Rachel Williams
Willis Kramer, Oscar Williams.
Mrs. Skinner, Teacher: Ellen
Melick, Sarah Carter, Elsie Pugh,
Ruth Bright, Nennie Jones, Margaret
Nash, Ruth Scott. Elizabeth TjeJtoy,
Wilmer Ballard, Merrill Brlggs, Bur
gess Perry, Joseph Ferebee, Edgar
Stereos.
CHIEF WILLIAMS TELLS
WHEN TO USE LIME.
Raleigh, N, C. Jan. 24th. Mr. C.
B. WiLiams, Chief of the Division
of Agronomy of the Department of
Agriculture and North Carolina Ex
periment Station, says there is some
danger that in our enthusiasm with
reference to the use of lime we may
fall into the error of recommending
tLe use of this material in such a
way as not to obtain the greatest
fcood. Again, tome of us are apt
to draw faise conclusions from re
sults obtained under certain condl
t ions where this material has been
u.ed on n very sour or acid soil. It
l."s bten fi -queutly observed that
fanners have used lime under such
t ".Miiitioiu and had the productivity
t the so l greatly increased. In fact
i lias changed the production from
not paying the expense of cultivation
into) a go?d money making proposi-
tion.The danger from these results
has been that the conclusion may be
drawn that" lime is' the only thing
lacking in the soil and is all that
should be applied from that time
on Smh a conclusion will general
ly lead to a syam of agriculture
lased upon false principals that
cannot survive for a great length
of time.
Inhere is no question but What
with some of our soils (but relatively
a small number in all probability)
lime needs to Li added to the soil
is a plant food. It is believed from
.1 itnlv niarto i( llm noli in tho Stnto
tor a., number -til years that the chief
benefit derived g. neially from the
ui-e of this miterial is indirect rath
er than directly as a plnnt food. Its
greatest usefulness Is therefore as
a corrector of soil acidity and, the
makiiu i f tli" soil suitable for the
growth of bueteni, which bring a
bout decomposition of organic mat
ter and favor the growth p'f bacteria
that "form nodules on the roots of
leguminous crops. It Is not believ
ed that ordinarily the use of very
small amounts of lime added fre
quently will Im the most economical
way to use thin material. If the
soil is in need of lime, a few hundred
pounds will not meet the require
ments, We would say in a general
way that at ieast from 1,000 to 2.000
pounds per acre should be added
whore lime Is required.
Where corn and cotton and other
no-leguminous crops are being grown
continuously on average soil, contain
ing but little or no acidity, It is not
believed that the use of a Bmall or
even a large amount as a ton per
acre Is going to give very marked
results. But If our farmers are to
build up their soils by a rational sys
tern of rotation of crops. In which
leguminous crops are brought in at
frequent intervals, it Is believed that
the liberal use of lime will pay. In
fact, in order to 'et the best returns
lime must be used liberally under
such conditions.
The form of lime that should be
used will depend largely upon the
cost of actual amount of lime per
pound delivered at the farm. It is
absolutely impossible for any one in
buying this material to do it intelli
gently and wlsoly unless he requires
the sf-ller to give him the guaran
teed composition of his product and
the price at which It can be deliver
ed to the buyer's nearest railroad
station. When 'this Information Is
supplied it wlil be easy for. the buy
er to calculate which will be the
cheaper source , for his lime. It
should be rerrtembered, however,
that there are three forms of lime
and that 56 pounds of pure burnt
lime has the same amount of lime
that Is contained in 74 pounds of cure
hydrated lime and 100 poundi of
pure carbonate of lime ground lime
stone.
IN POLICE COURT FRIDAY
Ellis Hasriel, colored, was given
four months on the roads in police
court Friday for beating his wife.
This is Hansel's second offense,, and
the complaint against him was filed
by his wife.
Henry McClese was fined ten dol
lars and costs for drunkenness and
disorderly conduct On the streets
Thursday night.
ULWU nilL III
disi ra
Nation Called on' to Ex
. press Sympathy for Suf
fering Race in Desolated
Europe
On January 11 th President Wilson
issued a prcciamution call.ng ou the
people of the country to contribute
to the relief of the suffering Jews in
thj war region of Europe and this
pioclamat.on fixed January 27th as
the day for making contributions to
thiit object. '
The President's proclamation was
issued in response to resolutions'
sent the President by the United
States Senate, asking him to name
a day on which the people of. the
United States might show their sym
pathy to a stricken nation by contri
butions to a fund for their roller. .
The proclamation has won re
sponse from almost every corner of
this great nation, and on last Sunday
the Christian churches of the land
contributed thousands of dollars
to this cause.
Up to this time the churches of
Elisabeth City .have contributed noth :
In Greensooro lacsar Cone pur
chased space In the dally newspapers
and inserted advertisements of the
relief fund movement. First a full
page advertisement appeared In the
Greensboro Daily News embodying
the President's proclamation and
setting forth the conditions which
the fund was' designed tdmeet. This
was followed by other advertisements
giving a list of places where con
tributions would be rctelvedi;
There does not seem to be a Caesar
Cone In Elizabeth City. Indeed, up
to this time, nothing has been done
here toward giving the people of
Elizabeth Cltv nnnnrtunltv tn enum
erate with good men and women all
over the country who are working
to relieve misery and suffering and
want among the Jews.
The following facts as to condi
tions among the Jews in the var
ious warring nations of Europe are
authoratltative and unexaggerated: '
Russia
1. Nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion men, women and children of
this faith are homeless
2. The expulsions' started last
May were systematically followed up
with decrees covering a very much
wider territory.
3. The notices to the Jewish res
idents to leave their homes varies
from three to twenty-four hours.
4. In addition to the physical and
mental agony caused by these ex
pulsions, a far more serious result
was the breaking up of thousands of
families, members of which were
losJ on their way.
5. Old men dropped on the road
from exhaustion. Women in tra
vail died. Children took ill.
6. The congestion of the refugees
in unsanitary quarters in the Jew
ish ctles resulted in the out break
of Infectious and contagious di
seases, so that the infant mortality
in cities like Lodz and Warsaw
mounted alarmingly.'
7. In May of last year and after
the first expulsions had been put in
to effect, the following number of
refuges were reported by the Jewish
Colonization Association: Warsaw,
75.000 people; Vilna 12,000; Kielce,
3.000; Konsk, 4,000; Minsk, 2,000;
Prassnysh, 1.500; Random, 2,000;
Gussiatln. 1,200; . Shakl (Suvakli).
1 500; Lomsha, 5,000; Khmelnlk,
Prov, Klllce, 1,500. ' Since that
time, these numbers have increased
almost tenfold. No accurate fi
gures can be given of the number
of refugees because hundreds of
thousands are eating up their little
savings, t and have not registered at
any relief agency.. These are
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