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Ul. c. i Hiram RAGE
10 BEGIII SATURDAY
Starts at Seven O'clock on That
Date From The Y. M. C. A.
Building and Ends Wednesday
Evening at Seven at the Starting
Point
An enthusiastic gathering of
:young men' In the, Court House
Monday night were addressed by
Mr. W. J. Woodley in behalf or
the trustees of the Y. M. C. A.
Building and by Mrs. J. W. Mod
lin in behalf of the Ladles Auxil
iary, other members of the two
bodies also being present as evi
dence of their interest in, and de
sire to cooperate with the young
men in their effort to organize a
T. M. C. A. here.
About a hundred and fifty new
members were secured and the
work of organization was begun by
the appointment of twenty team
captains, who were told to select
four assistants each and start upon
a canva s of the city for mem
bers. The Canvassing work of the
young men has beenvery success
ful and the membership actually
numbers now around three hun
dred. The Cap'alns of the teams are:
Miles Clark, James Weeks, Duke
'Cropsey, Camden Blades, Deles
Crary, J. K. Wilson, A. E. Bur
gess,' Joe Wins' ow, Herbert Peele
Thorburn Bennett. George Wright,
Emmett Wynn. William Weatherly,
Arthur Brothers, J. T. Stallings,
John L. Wells, L. R. Fpreman,
'Tommie Hughes, Calvin Twiddy,
"Ned Hughes.
"LaBt night the captains were
tailed in Mr. Markham's office for
Conference on further plans ana
to report upon the work done. Af-
ter Mr. Markham had stated that
ihe membership had reached the
three hundred mark, he proposed
the fol'owlng p'an, which was en
thusiast lcally adopted:
The team captains were divided
Into two d 'visions; the Reds under
Division Captain 'A. B. Houtz and
the Wh'tes under Division Captain
Clarence R. Pi'gh. Saturday
morn'ng wiil begin a contest be
tween the Reds and the Whites for
additional members and the goal
now amed at is five hundred mem
bers instead four hundred which In
the beginning was regarded as the
Wghest posslb'e limit.
Rivalry will be keen throughout
"the contest, not only between the
two divisions In the attempt on the
part of $arh to gain more members
I than thy ether, but each captain
wjll pvfT forth every effort to make
his own team the 'leading group In
liis division. It is expected also
that interest in the race among the
townspeop will rise to such a
pitch that every redblooded person
In the city will be working his
"hardest to put his own favorate
group in the lead.
, This result would seem to be as
bv a most unlaue n'an: To
fcvery group has been assigned the
name of an automobile. The Ford
and the Packard, the Saxton and
the Cadillac' and sixteen other cars
are entered, with practically an
even strt. John L. Wei's, for In
stance, drew 'The Little Old Ford.'
Tvery member secured by him and
the four men under him counts ten
miles for the Ford, if Wells got
four members Saturday and each or
Lis helpers gets two, the Ford will
mate one hundred miles the first
day. Whether the Ford will lead
or not depends upon the speed of
the other machines.
The Y. M. C. A. Building will
be the finishing point of each day a
race and those who will be in sight
,ri i n , r-
ELIZABETH
A FAIRY REPLICA OF
UNCLE SAM'S
CAPITOL
All children have heard the
fairy story of the beautiful candy
house in fairyland and have dream
ed not only of its palatability but
of its beauty. On Saturday morn
ing at nine thirty will be unveiled
In one of Mitchell's show windows
a fairy palacs that will rival even
their fairest dreams. No chi'.d in
the city wants to miss seeing it;
and the grown people, as they a:
ways do. will pretend that they are
going mere'y to take the children,
whereas they will be impelled by
their own personal desire to see
th's really unique creation.
Briefly, the attractionn is a min
ature model of, the United States
Capitol building at Washington,
ronplete with its mammoth arch of
cf triumph, ornamental columns or
liberty and (bar'ot cf progress its
vast halls, flanked with smaller
halls running through the center of
the building and reaching upward
to the great dome, which is crown
ed with the American Eagle. The
National Flage will wave from the
fa'ry building and the Capitol
grounds will complete the beauti
ful sceno.
The material wh'ch the builder
will use is Royal Cuticle Soap, and
tha wonder grows how even an ex
pert decorator can construct such
a marvel. Everybody is invited to
see this unusually handsome win
dow display, which will be lighted
by many electro lights. Mitch
ell's Department Store for a few
days is selling Royal Cuticle Soap
at ten cents a cake, three cakes for
twenty five cents, which is the reg
ular price for one cake.
They are sole agents for the' fol
lowing towns:
Moyock. Snowdcn, Shawboro, Bel
cross, Camden, Manteo, Weeksville,
Hertford, Oklsko, Chapanoke, Wood
vllie, Currituck, Jarvisburg, Pow
ell's Point, South - Mills,- Sh'loh,
Old Trap, Coinjock, Poplar Branch
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ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Griggs Commandery Number
will hold the'r annual election
officers on Monday evening at 7:30
p, m., after which' the Templars
Degree wiil be conferred upon
three candidates An address on
Temp'arism will be delivered by
Em. Sir John B Griggs. Past Grand
Eminent Commander of North Car
olina. All Knights in good stand
ing are requested to be present.
Light refreshments w'll be served.
WHITE SAUNDERS
Hermon White and Miss Sanders
were married Sunday afternoon
at the home of the bride near this
city. The bride is the daughter of
Mr. M. W. Saunders.
MCCALL -SUMMERS
Charles E. McCall of Norfolk was
married Wednesday to Miss Chris
tlna V. Summers of Aulander, of
this state, the ceremony being per
formed by Justice of the Peace J
W. Munden.
cf that point at seven o'clock Sat
urday night will see the relative
position of every car. The race
will close Wednesday night.
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CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MARCH
VOTER REPLIES
10 "ATAXPAYER"
Is Especially Interested in
Good Roads and Thinks
Chain Gang Expensive
and Inefficient
To The Advance:
An article in a recent issue of
The Advance signed Tax Payer
calls attention to the advisability
of making some changes in certain
laws. Whle some of the pro
posed changes are worthy of con
sideration the two most vital ones,
the ones that every taxpayer is di
retcly interested in, namely,
1st, Taxation,
2nd. The Chain Gang,
are not given sufficient attention.
It is known to every tax payer
from the humblest negro to the
largest property holder that the
tax assessments have been increas
ed year by year until there is much
property both in town and county
that wouid not bring' more than the
value assessed against them by
the tax taker at a forced sale. The
time has come to take stock. Why
re tiixfs so greatly increased?
How and by whom is the money
ri'd from taxation spent? Are
we g ttin value received? Have
we tuRiciently economical officials?
If net, why not? We have- the
remedy in our hands.
The next and by no means the
least po nt for consideration is the
chain gang sometimes spok
en of as 'The GoodTfroad Move
ment.' It is well known that
some of the beBt farmers we have
are either the town man who never
plowed a furrow In his life or the
country bred boy who has gone to
town, gotten a clerical position and
by virtue of his great advancement
over his former friends can tell
all who i ll listen how to set
rich farming.
So it Is a fact that the most ex
pert road builders,, the men who
know most about our roads, all
about the nature of the soils of the
roads, who know how to give the
people 'bricks without straw,' con
trary even to advice of government
experts, are the town men who
have ridden over these roads a
few dozen times, more or less, in
their 1 ves, usual'y In good weather
with sun shining. The country
mrn. according to tnese town ex
pe ts have learned nothing of the
nature rf our soils from the exper
lrnce of plowing land alongside the
roads nor from traveling over these
reads night and day, good weather
and bad, all their I ves, and who
are today the most eager for good
roads of any of our citizens
Now ask any of these country
men if, after twelve years trial
with the chain gang system of
working roads at a cost of well over
one hundred thousand dollars, we
have any better roads than former
ly and what percentage of this
money has- been wasted. You
will find the concensus of opinion
Is that it has been, a very unsuc
cossful experiment for the tax
payers.
The lust legislature, as we all
know, unsolicited by the voters
gave us a Highway Commission
that has been at work for twerve
mon'hs. .What has it accomplish
ed?
They bought a lot of expensive
equipment for good roads, have at
least eight men on the pay roll to
direct the energies of about twen
ty convicts. They have made
few roads wider with convicts
when we now have more roads than
they rtm work properly; they have
cut down thousands of dollars
worth of good trees, suitable for
timber that were growing In value
every day, cut the shade trees on
certain church yard, hauled off
Into the road earth from another
church yard. Rone into a cultivated
WAKE FOREST GLEE CLUB
PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE
A large aulience in tho A krama
Thea.re Wednsday night listened
Qjchoruses, quartettes, solos and
orchestra numbers by the Wake
Fcrast G ee Club and Orchestra
From the hear y swing of the
Stein Song which was the opening
uml er of the program, to the rous
g college ye.l which marked the
encert's close, there was enthus
lastlc applause for each number
and frequently a second encore.
From the dignified to" the absurd
the young mus clans varied .their
ppeal again and agaiD, never fail
ing to carry their audience with
them wholeheartedly.
The spontaniefy with which the
program was carried out, the ease
manner and evident good feel
ing cf the college boys and their
rector swept care from the minds
the entire aud'ence and for the
me being everybody was young
once more, wnetner musi ai gen
ius, vorked the magic spell, or pre
vlous untirin? practice, or whether
was largely a mat'er of person
ality, no one stepped to determine,
nor could .they have done so had
they tried. Two hours of thor
oush'y ' enjoyable entertainment
parsed quickly, and friends of the
ro'lei'e and the Glee Club hastened
crngratulate and to thank the
younc men for jlhe pleasure which
they had so generously Riven
Fol'owlng the concert the Glee
C!ul and Wake Forest Alumni of
the. city .met at Deans for a ban
quet, at which Attorney T. J. Mark
ham was master of ceremonies.
W. Ben Goodwin's office in the
H nton Pul'ding have been selected
as the hendquurters for the Alber-
male Building and Loan Associa
tion.
field and carted off the soil down
to the c ay in another instance, and
caused some telegraph poles to be
moved on private property.
These so called Improvements
have been dope without any notice
to or over the protest of property
owners, and, as far as 1 can learn,
without any recompense whatever
to them. Also the farmer own
In ditches aiongs de the roads
must petition the highway commls
sion to- allow him to drain water
from his farm into his own ditches
I have heard of no farmer asking
for this favor and I not'ee the
water still seekB its level as it did
before the blfl was passed to make
it run uphill contrary to the laws
of nature.
The Highway Commission just!
fy their actions by saying the law
they are work ng under gave them
power to use "any earth or cut any
trees within seventy-five feet on
either side of the road, in other
words, to us3 private property for
public D3nefit. It would require
only a litt'e stretch of the imagl
ration to say if they have that.
right, why not the right to go into
the farmer's barn, gat his forn to
feed the chain gang mules, or in
the Rmokehouse and feed the con
vlcts with his meat, The convicts
and mules are used on public work,
Suppose the C ty Manager would
decide it was necessary to widen
Main Street to a un'form width
from the river to the railroad. Do
vou think the property owners
would be paid for land taken
and trees taken, or would
they be told as the country
property owners: "Your property
has increased in va'ue by this Im
rrovement"? This did not satis
fy a certa'n property owner on
I awrence Street recently.
I am forced to the conclusion
that our Highway Comm'psion as
far as the country property owner
Is concerned, agrees with Cornelius
Vanderblit who upon one occasion
said, "The Public be damned."
Now, in conclusion, I would say
that we need a man to go to the
next legislature who will not bur
den us with a lot of "useless laws,
but will ' pledge himself to repeal
some that have been weighed in
the balance "and found wanting.
A VOTFIt.
10, 1916
BUYS AUTOMATIC
BAB DEVICE
The First National Bank
to Have New Burroughs
A dding-Substracting Ma
chine to Keep Books
A real mechanical marvel is the
new bookkeeping machine that has
Just been bought by the First Na
tionaL Bank. The machine is the
Burroughs Adding Substractlng Mo
del and will greatly simplify the
work of keeping the bank's books.
One should see this Burroughs
n operation to fully ' appreciate
what a wonderful thing It is. It
au omatlcally prints dates, sub
tracts checks, adds deposits and
computes neW balances, all in one
movement ot the carriage across
the page, and with a speed that
seems' incredible. That is to
say, the machine not only posts
figures to the ledger page, but com
putes l alanc s automatically as the
pcBtlng is done. 1
Error-prcof 'Ctje Brains'
And this automatic bookkeeper
can't make a mistake." His "stuel
biaind' are mathematically error'
proof. Duinessini; the keyB puts
liguns 'into' the Burroughs. Touca
iDg h bur aJils or subtracts the
ilgutes "aud -pr.nts them in even
rows. And no ma;t::V how fast
or how long you reea ngureB into
it, lbs machine -never gtts tired,
never lets errors creep in. througn
brain fa.' It has just as lively
an appetite for large numbers, as
for small. As a depositor, you
might deposit $10,000,000 tomorrow,
but the machine would not have to
exert Itself to enter the amount,
add your old balance, subtract, your
checks and automatically compute
the correct new balance of your
account. The only time it balks
is when you have an overdraft.
Then it warns tbe operator, by the
simple expedient of refusing to
figure any " more without the sub
tract lever is held down, that your
account is overdrawn, and there
upon proceeds to print a red 'OD-
signal opposite the amount you
need to get square with the bank,
Heretofore, in posting to the ledger
it was necessary for a list of checks
and deposits to be entsred by hand
in order for the bank to properly
debit and credit each customers
account. The bookkeepers had
io add inch list of checks mentally,
also had to add all deposits and
comb'ne their total with the cus
tomer's old balance. ' When this
was don 9 the total of all the checks
had to be deducted from the sum of
old bilance and deposits to deter
mine the new blaance. With the
machine ail this !s accomp'lshed
automatically and without any men
tal calculation whatever. The
operator has enly to depress the
nroper keys and touch the op
erating bar.
Burroughs posted ledgers have
many advantages that even a per
son who Is not familiar with book
keeping wiil .recognize. As explain
ed all figuring Is handled mechan
lcally, the opprator lelng obliged
on'y to watch the amounts he is
entering.
Then, in addition to the speed
and ccrnomv which such a method
affordB, thrre is the infallible ae
curacy accruing to the use of tbe
machine. The precision with
which the Internal mechanism op
erates Insures an exactitude here
tofor unknown In figure work.
The adaptability of the new ma
chine is another feature of its use
fulness. It can be adjusted to an
infinite; number bf . (combinations
It may be used as an ordinary ad
ding machine, or as a straight sub
trading machine. It may be used
for posting to the lodger or making
out depositors statements. And fig
iiri! whether simple or complica
rmws without
BIAS I
WS WITHOUT!
PREJUDICE
ZEIIAS FEARIH6
Aged Citizen, Christian
Gentleman and Confed
erate Veteran-has Fought
Life's Last Battle
Zenas Fearing aged seventy
seven years, died at his home here
Thursday morning at five minutes
after two o'clock.
Mr. Fearing has been in bad health
for the last month and though suf
fering from no disease serious In
Itself has been gradually losing
strength. The end came not uu
expectedly.
Zenas Fearing had lived all of hit
life in Elizabeth City and was one
of the town's beBt known and best
loved c tizens. After serving, wltn
distinction throughout the civil war,
he returned home and in 188$ mar
ried Miss Mary Green, sister of Re?
George F. Green, now of Richmond.
Of the eight children born Of
this un on six are still 1'vlng. They
are: Constant G. Fcarinir. Dr. I.
earing, J. G. Fear'ng, Dr. Zenas
enrinir, Robert S. Fearing, all of
earing of Washington, D. C. , ,
Elizabeth City; and Henry Martin
Mrs. Z. Fearing has been ill for
longer per od thnn her husband
and no hope for her recovery is .
held out. At ten o'clock last night
she was barely living.
CHRIST CHURCH
Services today at 5 p. m. Sunday
at 11 a. m. and 7:30 ft. m. Subject
In the morning, The Temptation of
Jesus; at night, Ezeklel "And he
snoke to tha man olnthen with l'n.
en, and sVid, Go in between the
wheels, ven under the cherubim and
fill thine hand with coals of flre
from, between the cherubim, and.
scatter them over the city."- At
night Mr. Arthur Burgess will
s'ng a solo. Men's Bible class at
10 a. m. Services during Lent
every Monday. Tuesday, r Thursday
and Friday at 5 p. m.T Wednesday
at 7:30 p. m.( The Gospel ac-
cording to St. Matthew will be
studied this Lent. St. Cathar
ines Guild Mifslon Study Class will
meet in the Parish Room th's af
ternoon promptly at four o'clock.
B. P. O. ELKS ELECT OFICERS
Elfcabeth City Lodge B. P. O.
Elks elected officers Friday "night
as follows: Exalted Ruler, P. O.
Sawyer; Esteemed Leading Knight,
H. S. Johnson, Esteemed Loyal
Knight, J. B, Flora; Esteemed Leo
turing Knight, I. B. Parker; Tyler
Howard Kramer; Secretary, D.
Guy Brockett; Treasurer, J. M.
Martin; Trustee for three years,
T. P. Nash.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Dr. B. C. Henn'ng will speak at
both morning and evening services
Sunday, having as his subject In tha
morning 'How, to Get the Meaning
of the Bible.' This sermon is one
cf a number of sermons whic . Dr.
donning is now preaching on 'The
lillile'.
At Sundiy even'ng's service Dr.
Ilennlng will continue his series of
sermons on practical conduct, the
subject of thin sermon being 'The
Mar'. , '
Fred H. Shinp, formerly of this
city, but now of New Bern was In
the cty visiting his parents, Mr and
Mrs. P. S. Shlpp, this week.
ted, are gobbled up and digested
with equal facility by the insatiable
appetite of its mechanical 'works.
There is no human being who can
list and add a lone column of fig
ures at the same time with speed
and with absolute accuracy, but tha
Burroughs does. edf
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