LDITORIAL
Joseph Peele, Associate Editor.
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"Entered as secondclass matter,
May 19, 1911, at the Post office at
Elizabeth City. North Carolina, un
der the act of March 3, 1879.".
LB.'GRAHDY & CO
CCTT(L ,;i!AL 11"CL"
llizahlth city. s. m.
January 25th 1916
BUYING TO-DAY
COTTON
h'tri.-t Middling IK-4C
M.ddl.ng 11 Uc
FKAS
lilack eie, rer bu . $1.75
Black per 611 $120 to 11.25
Soja IVansi per bu. $1.10 to S 1.15
lien 'j;4;s, ptr doz 11 22c
SELLING TODAY
FLOUR
I'at;ipsco, bt'r-t patent $'1.73
GRAIN
Oats, per bushel 57c.
Cum, White, per sack . J1.C0
MIDDLINGS
Winter, per Dab' 1.60
MEAL AND HULLS
Meal, per ton 38.00
Hulls per ton . $15 .00
SALT
Ground Alum, per ba? C3c.
KODAK WORK
FINISHED EVERY DAY
AT ZOELLER'S STUDIO
LLAVE YOUR FILMS THERE
IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY .
There is little time now to ac
complish anything; but The Ad
vance hopes that the 27th day of
this nion'h will not be' permitted
to pass without Klizfbith City's
having made Home contrlbut'on to
the fund fo Jewish Relief work
which is now . boinn raised in this
country.
A unique race in the hls'.ory of
the world, there is no people who
have so strong a claim upon wes-
teru civilization th . Jewi-
One can not believe that the
heart of Ellzabeh City is hardened
that it can not hear the cry of dis
tress and of need; for again and
again there has been ready re
sponse when the people knew of
Buffering or sorrow . destitution
and were given opportunity to ex
press their sympathy.
No matter from what distance, the
call has come, in this city of warm
hearts and kindly spirits, it has al
ways been heard. ' The Belgian
Relief Fund was liberally subscribed
to among us.
Let the ministers of the city, let
All who are touched by the cry of
distress which comes from a people
whose homes have again been left
desolate and who once more have
jfiea led away into captivity let
levery citizen pt the city contribute
his share to malre their lot less
wretched.
In practically every church of the
city on to-morrow night will be held
the regular weekly prayer service.
The Advance hopes that the service
will not pass without an invitation
to those present to make an imnie
diate contribution. We hope that
other plans may materialize to bring
the matter to the attention of every
'benevolent organization within the
city..
, THE GOLDSBORO LYNCHING
It was two years ago that The Ad
vance said that Archibald Johnson's
,vas the most trenchant pen in North
Caroi:na Journalism; and there are
none today who will deny him place
tmong the most brilliant editors In
the state. We 'quote his comment
cn the Goldsboro lynching:
"Two hundred or more men call
ing themselves citizens put. on
masks, surrounded the Jail In Golds
boro, battered down the door and
took a prisoner from the cell who
pad murdered a good citlzen of the
county, and hanging him to a tree
where the murder waa committed
riddled his body with bul'cts. Onco
more our stale has been, dealt n
foul blow from which it will tako
years to recover. Thcso Wayne
county, people probably Imagine
that they, are brave nnd manly men.
"Ph wad some power the glftie
, gie us
To see onrselws as lthers see us."
"Is It a brave cr manly thing for
wo hundred full grown men to
'rample the law under their' unhal
lowed feet and drag one poor
trembling culprit to the woods and
do him to dea'h? Is It a brave and
manly thing to sneak under the
cover of darkness and stab the
state? We were tempted to say the
mob had a sufficient sense of shame
conceal their fnc.'S but tha', would
not le true. They had no sense of
shame, but they are craven cowards
and love the darkness because their
deeds are evil. Are we to remain
forever in1 the du-t? Is there no
hope that our poor old s'ate will
evesrisR and take her place anion;
the civilized comnionweilths of the
nation? The mob spirit is the di
rect resu't of ignorame. That is
nil. It -is not Southern chivalry."
It Is not neighborly fidelity. It is
not the fault of the courts it is
pure miadtiltera'cl. bald Ignorance
that lies at the root of the lynch
ing of the law. The courts would
have speedily put an end to the life
of the negro R'chards. IThe-moh
wna uruetl. on, not, by Indigmthm nt
the wnnton crime, but because of
the exquisite pleasure these refined
nnd elegant gentlemen derived from
agony and blood. Thank God the
reat heart of the State Is hurt at
this painful nnd savage orgie.
Goldsboro is grieved because of her
deep disgrace. Rut for the pre
sence of the law abiding and hon
erable element life In North Carolll
na would be Intolerable. How about
the arrest and prosecution of the
criminals! Will anything be done?
We will wait and see".
ever in the dev io; nu nt of charac
ter. I'erhaps many have fallen
: efore the temptations of the poor
whose weakness would never have
i.een manifest if they had been
p.uied in comfortable circumstan
ce s; and we do not d ny that
Ai re many be Instances where a
hos i!e environment, has done to
death quaiU.i of. ...character which
under thi different conditions
mifdit have tlover-d into beauty,
loveliness and grace. Hut the per
nicious doctrine that all sin and
crime and vice would vanish if
the race were secured against pen
ury and hunger and want is as fool
ish as it is false; and we do not
wonder tha.t one should grow
weary of the tiresome necessity of
repeating the lesson.
The Advance does not believe
that to remove the danger of ma
terial want would In any appre
ciable degree lessen crime; for if
one sort of character is brought in
to most perfect flower when pro
tected from stress and storm,
there is another which never comes
into its full strength unless it may
tA the hurricane's breath and the
tooth cf the cold.
We might ..have beautiful .forests
if the ear'h knew no storms; but
there would be no oaks in them.
LINE UPON LINE
We emote from the lialelgh 'Times'
"One of the duties of newspaper
life that has been so often perform
ed as to have become almost formal
in the wearying necessity of Its re
petition Is that of protest against
the Radly stupid notion that low
wages and Immorality are comple
ments one of the other.
'The latest offender in the em
brace of this pernlcIoOs fallacy Is
the Illinois Senate White Slave In
vestigating committee, which brings
the usual charges on which to base
a plea for a minimum wage for
women and improved conditions for
domestic service.
"There Is something to be said
for a minimum wage, and a great
deal to be said against it. Cer
ta inly, there should be a readjust
ment on economic lines of the ut
terly unorganized conditions that
every where surround the problem
of the domestic servant. But that
the condition of low wages for do
mestlc service predispose to vice
is a statement at once cruelly , un
just both to employers ' and their
labor.
"As to the causes of vice, those
simpler people of an older genera
tion who attributed their beginnings
to the series of , events which sep
arated the race from the garden of
Eden were probably as near the
truth as the later cult that sees
everything in the environment and
nothing In the life. Sin Is more or
less chiefly more universal. Vir
tue is a fight "that must be under
taken by rich as well as poor. Per
hapa tho poor fight for It the more
s'rongly because they need it more
In their poverty."
Tho Advance 1b glad to have some
body eay ap.aln what it feels -can
hardly be sa'.d tco often In this time
and In this country. . We do not
wish to bo understood as maintain
ing' tho position that there is no re
lation between poverty and crime
nor do wo hold forth the doctr'no
thatf-environment has no place what-
MAKING A MARKET
FOR DAIRY PRODUCTS
Mr. W. W. Lon,'. Director of
Kxtension Work in South Carolina
is solving the dairy 'irollem by es
tablishing a chain of co operative
.creameries across the state. He
asks business men In each center
to Join farmers la " establishing a
creamery with three conditions:
(1) Dividends on capital stock
shall not exceed six per cent, all
other profit3 going to patrons;
(2) Cleinson College shall name
the huttermakers;
(3) "Palmetto State" brands shall
be adopted.
The wisdom of these plans is eas
ily apparent. With all profits go
ing to the patrons, every man teels
like giving the creamery hla .best
support. Wi'h Clemson College
naming the buttermaker and enfor
cing uniform rules for the care of
cream and butter, expert supervis
ion and quality production are In
sured. With good butter turned out,
the uniform brand will make a
price; compelling reputation worth
thousands of dollars.
The wisdom of the second-men-Uoned
rule will become still further
apparant when It is known that sev
eral Southern creameries, lacking
some centralized expert supervision
have turned out a quality of butter
during the recent warm weather
that has deplorably injuredthe rep
utation qI all our local Creameries.
Something must be done to insure
greater care and cleanliness in milk
ing and handling cream or a great
Industry will be terribly set back
Fortunate Indeed Is South Carolina
In starting out with Mr. Long's plan
whereby the state will keep the
power of supervision and compel
uniform quality production, selling
under one brand name. .
SALE OF VALUABLE
PROPERTY
I will sell for cash to the highest
on Thursday Febuary the 10th,
1916,beginnlng at ten O'clock A. M
the following personal property to
wit: One cart. One Buggy, One Spring
Wagon, two plows, one Harrow,
one cook table, one bed stead, two
mattresses, one coal stove, one
pair of scales, soveral pairs of
shoes, threo show cases, one lot
of drugs and pa'ent medicines, one
cook stove, one lot of pants, shirts
nnd notions, three store lamps, ono
kitchen safe, one peck measure,
and cne half bushel maasure, and
ono jersey heifer about one year
old.
Salo to bo had at ntoro at Wood-
vl'lo now occupied by Paul Gregory
l:tu;njan24' Mrs. C. W. Munden
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY MEETS
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
I hereby give noti 3 to the voters
of Currrituck County that I am a
candidate for representative to re
present the voters cf Currituck
County In the next General As
sembly of North Carolina and I
most respectfully a?k every voter in
the county to vote for me and I shall
surely be elected.
Respectfully,
J. B. EVANS.
Harbinger. N. C.
tl.
WANTED
All the old rags scrap iron, rubber
etc. We will pay l ets. per. lb. for dry rags
of all kinds delivered to our door.
I
MILES JENNINGS J
Elizabeth City N. C.
NOTICE OF SALE CF GAS .
J BOAT "NO NAME"
By virtue of an order of the Dis
trict Court of the United States for
the Eastern District of North Car
olina, I shall on 2S day of January,
1916 at 12 o'clock M.. at the wharf
of Lee's Fish House, Elizabeth City,
N. C, expose for sale to the high-,
est bidder for cash one Gas Boat
"No Name", her engines, tackle, ap
parel etc. -W.
L. DOrUTCH, v
United States Marshall.
JOHN R. WILLIAMS,
Deputy Marshal.
C. R. rUGH,
Proctor for LIbellant.
jan 2123
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
Having qualified as administrator
of the la'e t hus. Cherry I hereby
give notice to all persons indebted
to his estate to come forward and
make ininied'iite settlement and
hose holdin; claims against the
same to 1 i.nt them for payment
wi;hm twelve months from the date
of this notice or it will be pleaded
in bar of 'heir recovery.
Jan 17 1916 -
... W. A. BRITTON.
By Attorney.
Jan21 fit.
Notice
To the people of E. City:
As I have bought out the Road
St. Grocery Co, Would be glad
to have your patronage and will
serve you in any way that I can.
S. S. Leary,Prop.
Phone No. 187
t&I2t ... TftTTJ
PENNSYLVANIA
REPAIRING CO.
Iifl Place You Get Your Shoes
' Repaired Right -i-mi
We make them loolc better than new
Shoes Made To Order
CLARENCE LABRUZZO
Manager
152 North Poindexter Street
Geo. Madrin
Still at his old stand and in
same old business
Repairing Furniture Up
holstering Recaning
Chairs and Making Old
Furniture New.
405 South Road Street
4t IT Jan. 18 25 Feb. 18 -
Tho Woman'B Auxiliary of the EHz
aboth City Hospital will meet at tho
Southern Hotel Thursday afternoon
at threo o'clock.
Attention
mourns
Forapples, oranges, bana
nas, Lemons; Limes.
Cabbage, Potatoes, Onions
and Ruta Bagas
A. B. Seeley and
Son
WholesalelFiuitsandtPjodvee
CALL ON
ELIZABETH CITY, K. C.
WE BUY IN CAILOTS
FARMS ATTENTION
We have a limited quantity of 5-6-5
Potato Guano, also 16 per cent Acid Phos
phate to sell cheap, delivery about February 1
This potato guano is this years goods just
mixed and guaranteed to have 5 per cent
Potash.
IF INTERESTED GET IN COMMUNI
CATION WITH US.
Elizabeth City Milling
Company
Norfolk O outhern Railroad
EW OhORT IYoUTE
Freight Service
If you value quick transportation; route your
shipments via Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Watch the time made by their package cars,
arid you will find that your interests are best
served by patronizing them,, as "Time is
Money,"
OOOOOOOO 0000000
What Is Crisco?
nHERE is nothing strange
or unusual in the make-up
of Crisco. It is simply the
cream of the highest grade
vegetable oil, Without any
animal fat added to it.
It is prepared and packed in
a building which is one of the
wonder places of the manu
facturing world. Every pos
sible precaution has been
taken to make sure that
Crisco shall be pure.
Crisco takes the place of the
best creamery butter as well
as of the beet grade of lard.
It is the ideal cooking fat.
Try it, and you will see for
yourself.
ISc per can
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