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Fill CLEAB CHI
Week Before Easter Desig
nated as Clean up Time
and Plans on Foot to
Make Work More Thor
ough Than Ever
City Manager Commi.nder's slo
gan uo- is "A c.ean Town for Eas
ter" Circulars have been liistii ! ntcd to
every honie in the city annouuc ng
the campaign for a cleaner city and
urging the i o operation of every
citizen; In this circular the Mana
ger states that'll" will designate
Aprtll 17 to 22 as chm up week;
hut he hones flint wiir1,- wT l.e he-
gun at once in the bonus and yards
of the c ty looking, toward a finai
grand attack upon trash and rub
bish during the final week.
Extra carts w-ill be provided dur
ing clean up week and the street
cleaning force will make special ef
fort to co-operate with housekeepers
and home makers in the campaign
to make E izabeth City the cleanest
town 'n the state. "We'll get the
town clean by Easter," says Mr.
Commander, "and then we'll keep
it clean.
Elizabeth City has already won
from visitors commendat'on as be
ing one of the cleanest and most
attractive towns In the stato. Since
the city manager form of govern
ment went into effect, marked Im
provement has been made; an ob
scure streets and vacant lots, as
well as the back doors of bus'ness
houses, have been rigorously in
spected and have Improved great
Jy in appearance and in a Fan'tary
way as well.
The campaign new to he inau
gurated will press this work to
further nchievment. Mr. Com
mander expects to devote especial
attention to the colored residence
d'strict for, as he points out, it
Is from this d'strict that most of
the house servants come, and
health among the babies and child
ren 's 'argely dep"iident upon clean
Jiness in the negro sections.
We must not only keep our
homes clean, but we must know
ab'Hit the cleanliness of the cooks
a,nd nurses who come Into thnm and
In c'oe contact with our children,'
says the City Manager.
VILLA ELUDES
mwm MEN
And United States Cavalry
Now Attempting to Cut
off Bandit's Retreat to
Mountainous Region
F.y r.g colnmi.s of American cav
alry nt.w are seek.iig to entrap
Francisco VI. a and his band by
seal rig up nil the passes iu the
nioiiiiUliio ,s disirct south of El
Valle.
With the out els barrel!, squad
rons of cava ry and detachment
of nfjntry, operating from the
base n ar Casa Grande, will coroi
the cruniry to dr ve the bandit in
the open.
TIi.h is the plan nill'tary author
ities are Mowing to capture Vil a
and his la ,d who are moving rapid:)-
oniony the footh lis of Sierra
Tarthumares hotly pursued by
three columns of Amerlctn cava ry.
Col. George A. Dodd Is d recting
the movement.
This Information, received only
this morning confirms reports
brcuvh'- to El Paso by American
tnve'ers from the Caeas " Grandes
district Saturday that Vll'a had
escaped from the Carranza troops,
Mex can Consult Carcla does not
credit the reports that the Carranza
forces furnished no real opposition
but on the other hand there Is no
evidence that the bandit had any
difficulty in finding nn open way
through the line of Carranza's sol
diers. his flight southward, and at one
Vi'la scattered his command In
h's fllnght southward, and at one
time, t Is said, led only a force or
fifteen or twenty men. The army
censor at Columbus has permitted
the Information to pass that Villa
increased his command at El Villa
by forcing thirty-five young men
nad boys to accompany him.
.Villi, .ry imn it; 1.1 I'umi say Ih s
ind.ratis that Vila liow lii'liews
that In" has t hid d li s pursuers
rnd in In n n-i'i(iii to move a large
1 ody of uii'M without fear of cap-fur-.
I'.r'Mdh r (ieiienu Pershing
thinks tl:t t will take months tj
ii l t ii rt- Villa.
Retmirtig Apr rirnn r ftr.'es and
latl ni'i) are tinai'lmous in their
( vniPM-imi that Villa i-ev.r w 11 he
tah'U. The nature rf the conn
liy i nd the fa t that Vil a is anions
his own people, make the bandits
i an' ure urn k' ly. they assert. The
CMcan country wnere ina is
fleeing is a land peni iar to itself.
regro sergeant, nn old campaign
r in the twenty-fourth infantry.
now In that r gion. sieamng 10 a
Casus Grandes rancher, puts it
thus:
"I have been in nearly every land,
luit in this part of Mxio there are
more rivers and less water; more
cows and less milk, and further to
look and iess lo .see than any coun
rty I have ever known,
try I have ever known"
Pursuit ofFxancixQVJla has
ow deve'oprd int o a race bi t ween
cavalrymen of the Lnited States
and the fleeing bandits mounted on
Mexican ponies. Villa having hrok
en through the Carranza line and Is
fleeing southward with the Ameri
ca., troops straining every nerve to
catch up with hlra before he reach
es the forbidding maintain waste in
the Guerrero district.
The one hope ol a speedy termi
nation to the chase 's that the flight
wil bring Vila's forces
wilt bring starvat'on to Villa's
forces and the exhaustion of their
t onles. It is known that Villa is
a'most destitute of both supplies
lin,i amunit on and the dead and
viylng horses found along his trail
evidence of his desperate
fl , V
hiRn and need.
Once safely in the midst of the
Sierra Tarahumares the task
running the bandit to his
of
lair
... , v..., one of tremen
win nayo -
(,os dfneui-y. This country
!..,.i.i.wi lv the Taranumaru
dinns. one of the most
distinctive
triles in Mexico,
o m'r.e ENGINEER
NEW
FOR SEABOARD AIR LINE
F' izabeth City
r.uv. Pir.ner
of
At Norfolk
Takes Up Duties
f. rmerly of Eliz
Mr. (juy . . - lntcd
C!y- " or the. Seaboard
bridge kus fc-wo of nU
;llR.hr:,e. and y-terday
tCm his new duties wit bead
.nnb iin his new
quartern at Norfolk.
V Pinner Is 1
p r.ner of tn a cuy. Tyrrel
county. We 18 bccn 8o-
at Edge Moore, Del
mi Ambridge Pa.
Pencoyd, Pa-
He has also
.fen connected with Post and Mo
Crd. rnrt 'Hh Herbert C. Keitn.
r-rsultn enneer of New York
city.
I , 19ir. Mr. Pinner was elected
ns-oointe membership In th
.n rlcnn
irlners.
Society of Civil En-
POTATO EXCHANGE ORGAN
IZES BRANCH EXCHANGES
On account of the good work
dene ly the Carolina Potato Ex
charge during the past year, ap
pl'eatioii has been made by . two
oin-r communities to enter the ex
change. ' These are Jarvishurg
and Poplar Pranch- n Currituck
Pountv. Mr. S. E. HasketK of
he IMv'sion of Markets. Bpent lust
n-p"k at these points.
Thrt members of the Caro lna
To'ato Exchange have held their
-nthusiasm for organization
fhr-nghout the past yijar and sue
ce ded In successfully market!ng
a large crop of sweet potatoes by
cooperat'on. U If expected that
the m"mbersMp will Increase three
Mil clurliu -tbe coming season, -
.FLOATING THEATRE HERE
The Floating Theatre has return
ed from a tour wh'ch included
Iler ford. Edenton and Columbia,
and opened its doors here last
night for a week's engagement.
HAD LEG BROKEN
Moyock. March . .26 Mr, William
Jarvls of Moyock had his leg brok
en while driving a two horse wa
gon Thursday morning loaded with
hay racks. . Dr. Mann dressed the
leg and Mr. Jarvis Is now rapid y
Improving.
SCHOOLS DEBATE
111 M RUNT
Elizabeth City Team Goes
to New Bern This Year
Accompanied by Princi
pal of High School
The Elizabeth Cily High School
wi 1 be represented bv Ciareuce
shby and Henry Lelcoy n the de-
ate with Washington Hish
.School next Friday night in the
high school auditorium here. Ashby
and LeRoy will speak for the affir
mative side of the query "Resolved
That the United States should
acli.i t the policy of 'grtat y enlarg
ing ts navy." Th exercises wi 1
b.'g;n promptly at e'ght o'clock.
Aubrey McCabe and Earl -Chess-
en, accompanied by Miss Catherine
Mbertson, the principal of the Eliz
abeth City High School, wil'. go to
New Bern Friday to argue the ne
gative s'de of the quest on with
the New Bern H'gh School repre
sentatives.
Over two hundred girls will par
ticipate in the triangular prelimi
naries for the High School Debate
on Friday. Six schools have al
ready not'fied E. R. Rankin, Sec
retary of the High School Debating
Union, that their teams w 11 be com
posed entirely of girls. In "eleven
other p'acea the teams will he com
posed entirely of girls. In eleven
other places the teams will be com
posed entirely of girls. In e'even
other places the teams . will be
composed of three girls and one
toy. There wil be an even sp'it
two boys and two girls in thirty
eight schools.
The six schools , which w ill be
represented entirely by girs are:
Edenton. Swannanoa. Kaison,
Townsville, Seaboard ( Xoitlihamp
1)cri county) and Manteo (Dare
eounty). The eleven . schools hav
ing three giris to the taiu are:
Purlington, K'nasinountaii. Fair
view, Pelhaven, Ite niont. l'olk
ton. Wadesboro. Mars Hill. Spen
cer, Vanceboro. and Tre'iton.
Among the thirty-eight schools
which have signified their inten
tion of sending down two iris and
two boys are: Durham Ashevlile,
W'ls'in. Wash'ngton. Lexington,
Henderson, She by, and Hender
son ville.
On Friday, 1,3"0 high school de
baters will meet in 325 communi
ties to uphold either affirmative or
negative a'de of the question.
These communitiei w'il represent
94 North CaroVna counties. And
It Is estimated by Secretary Ran
kin that fully 75.0UO people all over
the state will hear the preliminar
ies. On'y s'x counties in North Car
olina havo no representatives In
the contest. These are Bruns
wick. Clay, Grahami Hoke, Madi
son, and Watauga. The hack
wardnoss of these counties is to be
somewhat condoned because of
their geographical location. ' Ciay,
Graham, "Madison and Watauga are
'n the extreme western part of the
State, ad oining the Tennessee 1 ne;
Brunswick and Hoke are in the
extreme east.
In aP respects the debate "this
year will be the biggest contest in
the history of the union. More in
terest is being taken in It by the
h'(fh school facility and students
than ever before. Over 2,000 stu
dents from Manteo Dare county, In
the east, to Murphy. Cherokee
tounty in the west, strove 'to make
places on the 325 debating teams.
Thirteen hundred of these won out
in the flrsi preliminaries: and now.
on March 31st the second stage in
the elim ina t'on contest wil be
paired. For months these boys
and Klrls have been hard at work
on the subject of greatly enlarging
our navy. Vast quant'Mes of
material bearing either directly or
indirectly upon the subject have
been carefu ly read - and studied
nnd notes taken of more important
facts.
The final contest for the Avcock
Memorial ctip w'il be held In
Chnpel Hi'l on AnrP 14. The
same method of elimination will be
employed as hns been used for the
past three yeirs viz. two prelimi
nary contests for the se'ection of
teams which are to face each other
in fhe final contest in Memorial
Hall.
REVIVAL SERVICES POSTPONED
The revival services which were
announced to commence on April
2nd at the Pearl 8treet M. E.
church have been posponed till
further notice.
Visit The Red Front Furniture Store
Everything you need in the furniture line can be found here.
Call and see us in our large new store. We can serve you better
than ever before.
axnwLUMS
Chance For Glen Daniels
Continued From Page One
beyond his income Daniels nor
h s frienda have given any explana
tion of what the young nlan did
with the money that passed
through his hands without leaving
anything to show for It. Besides
his misappropriation of moneys .en
trusted to h m, he was a heavy bor
rower from his employers and
more than one member of the firm
by which he was employed is said
to have lost sevi ral hundred do -lars
by loans granted the young
man. Hes'des he had accounts of
considerable dinie'isions at various
places in the city and for some time
before his trouble he had pa'd lit
t e or noihing on these. Many do
not believe that he actually spent
all the money that he got hold of,
but believe that he must have
'ust ' it through speculation
t hrou h ill advised loans.
or
Dai ieis declares that he will
make good and reimburse ' 1 who
have siiri'tred loss through his
fault . The mom y required by the
court was prov ded by the young
matt with the assistance of a num
ber of friends. I "
YOUTH LOST IN STORM
SPENDS NIGHT ON ISLAND
Hei oris if last Wednesday's
storm In Currituck came to the
c'ty Saturday through prominent
citizens of that county lu re on busi
ness .
On of the most exctlng happe
lng if tbe storm as related by Mr.
E. M. Walker of Currituck, and for
the time being one of the most d's
trrsslng. occured when young WUIe
Davis a youth of eighteen, leavng
Currituck courthouse foi Belis 1b
land. a dls anee by water of three
ml es. in a small gas boat was seen
tosshig helplessly on the waves
when about a mile from shore. His
engine had stopped and he was at
the mercy of aa strong gale from
the south which was fast blowing
his craft across the sound.
In dredging the channel of the
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
the government had driven piling
across the sound,, and dyked the
channel aualnst lhe drifting in of
sand. It was feared that Davis
boat wou'd be wrecked on th's har
rier, so the young man's father,
Mr. Fred Davis sent a courier by
land to Bells Island and asked Mr.
Henry Morrisettn to go out on the
sound and look for the hoy along
the barrier. Mr. Morrlsette as
promptly as possible, got his boat
out In the sound but search fallel
to disclose any trace of the missing
youth. Running h's boat in at
Currituck Courthouse. Mr. Morn
sette reported his fat ure to Mr.
Fred Davis, and the boys father im
mediately got in the boat and the
two went out in the sound to re
sume the search. .When they got.
out to the canal channel the wind
veered suddenly and a ,jale blew
up from the north driving the boat
across to Knotts Island where the
n'ght was spent in suspense as to
the missing young man's fate
inir-nii.t; .twuiib - ty
Getting an early start the next'ftire entitled to send as many dele-
morning tbe two men resumed
their seaarch and putting in at
Mackey's Island found the boy safe
and sound. lie had managed to
et through one of the passages
left In the piling to permit naviga
tion across the sound and had
reached land with his boat In safe
ty. N. S. Fulford of Hertford
here ou business Monday.
was
We are agents for the
-Always 'Reliable"
Loth's stoves and ran
ges. Solid Carload Just Received
Corner Main and Water Street
FOR
New Modern Cottage
Selden Street
Price $2350
For Sale or Rent
, Residence on Baxter St. V
Price $1200
Rent $10.00 per month
Either of These Are Bargains
" J. P. Kramer
BARACA PHILATHEA CONVEN
TION MEETS IN GOLDSBORO.
What promises to be oni of the
greatfst Conventions ever held by
the North Carolina Baraca and Phl
latben organizations wU mee in
Go'.dsboro, April 27-30. ' Unusually
strong leader and speakers have
been seemed to take part on the
program. Miss Henrietta Heron,
of Eig n, 1.1.,' firs; Vice President of
the World Wide Baraca Fhilatbea
Union, and editor of the popular
Sunday School papers. The Young
Men's Class Week'y and the Young
Ladies Ciass Weekly, published by
the David C. Cook Publishing Co.,
has been secured to make a number
of addresses and to lead in some
discussions,
day School
Miss .Heron Is ,a Sun
worker of broad repu-
tatlon and tbe fact that she she has
attended sim'lar copventlog In
North Carolina befor will insure a
large delegation, because those who
have heard her once will want to
hear her again. She is an author
ity on Sunday School work and her
coming will mean much to the
cause of Baraca and Phllathea in
North Carolina
Dr. Chas. D. Bulla of Nashville,
Tenn., superintendent of the Wiley
Adu't Bible Class movement of the
M. K. church Rputh will be one of
the principal figures of the Con
vention. Dr. Bul'a's efforts In the
Interest of Adult Class work Is well
known throughout Southern Metho
dism. For a number of years he
has been consplciously connected
with the Sunday School work of the
Methodist church In the South and
the North Carolina Baraca and Phl
lathea and Phllathea organizations
ar Indeed fortunate In having se
cured his valuable services.
A number of other able speakers,
some of themf nation wide reputa
tion have been secured.
All Baraca and Phllathea classes
gates as they wish, and pastors,
superintendents and all others inter
estad In more efficient Sunday,
schools are extended a most cor
dial Invitation to attend.
R. S. McCOY
Whereas. The Great Spirit In His
Infinite wisdom has seen fit to re
move from the forest of I fe. the
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soul of our late Chief and Brother,
R. S. McCoy, and
W hereas, This Tribe has lost one
of its faithful and steadfast Chiefs;
his relatives a loving husband,, son
and brother and this commun ty,
an exemplary cit ien, and
Whereas, we mingle our tears
with the tears of all those to whom
our Brother was near and dear; we
grieve and they gr'eve, not that
the wi 1 of the Great Spirit is done,
but because there is an aony or
paiu when the ties of companion
ship and family-love are severed;
those bonds of kindred and fraterni
ty which the great ru'er of the Un
iverse has given us for our earthly
Joy. Therefore
Be ft resolved. That the sympathy
of this Tribe be extended to the be
reaved wife and other relatives, and
that we bid them remember that
the Great Spirit knows best, and
although our Brother has Journeyed
to a country "from whose bourne
no traveler returns," that he but
awaits our coming, having reached
the Hunting Grounds of the Here
after, where we shall meet the im
mortal soul of our Brother and
those of all our loved ones who
have gone before, and
Be it further reso'ved. That a
copy of these resolutions be for
warded to the fam'ly, that a copy be
spread on the minutes of the Pas
quotank Trrhe by the Chief of Re
cords, and that a copy'-bo published.
J. W ALEXANDER,
W. BEN GOODWIN,
W. L. JONES.
DR. RANKIN HONORED
Dr. W. S. Rankin, Secretary of
the State Board of Health, has
accepted an invitaton from the
Kansas State Board of Health to
deliver five addresses at the school
for Hea'.th Officers to be he'.d
Topeka, April 2429. Dr. Ra
kin on this occasion will speak on
the fol'owln subjects. Govern
mental Re'atlons in 8anltary Ad
ministrations, Rural Health Work
and the Med cal Profession and
Public Health.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Wiliiford
and daughters, Louise and Mareret
of Hertford were In the city Sat
urday. 9
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