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PAY YOUR POLL TAX IF YOU WANT TO VOTE IN PRIMARIES ELIZABETH CITY'S BIAS SEMI-WEEKLY ITTETZS WITHOUT PAPER PREJUDICE VOL V ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY APRIL 4, 1916 NO 27 r . '-' i f - - tu u RevJ.Y.Old Dies of Heart-Failure Prominent Methodist Minister Suc cumbs at Snowden to Attack Not Thought Serious The body of Rev. J. Y. Old, mho died at Snowden Monday ev ening, waa brought here this morning and the funeral services rlll be conducted by Presiding Elder Adams and Rev. J. L. Cun ninggim at the First Methodist church Wednesday afternoon at' two o'clock. The active Fall Bearers are aa follows:. " W. G. Galther Jr. M. R. Griffin. H. O. Kramer, G. R. Litt'e. C. W. Meiick, 0. F. Gilbert, V. A. Worth, T. T. Turner. The following are the Honorary Tall Bearers: C. E. Kramer, C. W. Grlce, F. M. Grice, Rev. E. F. Sawyer, E. S I'hesson, W. C. Glover, J. M. Mar tin, Dr. L. S. Blades, C. H. Rob inson. Dr. O. McMullan, D. B. Bradford, Dr. S. W. Gregory, R. W. Turner, J. Q. A. Wood, P. H. Williams, R. J. Williams. F. p. Snowden, Snowden, N. C, J. J. Ferebee. Shawboro, N. C, R. O. Bagiey, Moyock, N. C. G. F. per riekson, M. B. Culpepper, N. P.' Parker, The Board of Stewards ' of ' the First M. E. Church, are invited to attend in a body. Mr. Old's death was due to heart failure and though sudden, the shock to the family was some what relieved by the fact that It had long been realized that the .end might come at any moment. Ji was seventy two years old. Mr. Old left Elizabeth City Mon day morning to conduct the funer al of Cadet Phill'p F. Northern at Snowden. After the funeral ser vice and while on the way from the grave to Snowden station, Mr Old's horse, frightened at a passing au lomobile. Jumped from the road und landed In the bottom of a big ditch alongside Fortunately the lorse took the ditch almost at rieht antic to it and as 't was abort twenty feet widi. the buggy was not overturned. Ne'ther occu pant whs throvn out. tb? buggy waa not damaied, and not a strap of the harness was broken. ' Mr. Old suffered not. a scratch In the accident, got out of the buggy and walked tn Mr. Snow Oen's house, a distance of about two hundred yards. He was com posed, discussed the accident quiet ly and humorously and stated that like a good Methodist he bad es caped without a wetting. Near'y two hours after the acci dent, Mr. Old sa d thai he would like to go to his room. When It was suggested thnt a physic'an he sent for he reluctantly consented. The doctor ..had. been with him for about nn hour and the patient, was resting qulentiy. when suddenly the end came without warning.. - Dr. Coweil who attended him stated that In his opiuion there was no connection between1 Mr. Old's death snd the accident. JampR Young Old came to Eliza beth C ty about twenty years ago, being at that fine engaged in the lumber business. He established the mill now bwned by Kramer Bros. & Company on Riverside Drive and later entered the mer cantile business, operating a men's furnishing store on Water street, ln the bu'ldlng now oecup'od by Spence & Hollowell. Later sttil Mr. Old entered the ministry under the North Carolina Methodist Conference. He held a - number of charges ln this section 'among wh'ch wer the Pasquotank tlrcu't, the Camdn Circuit, the BESS CITY TWICE BEATEN BUT. WASHINGTON WINS Washington goes to Chapel Hill from the Washington-New Bern-Eitx abeth City Debating Triangle; win ning against Elizabeth C ty here last Friday night and a'so at Wash ington on the same night. New Bern' won at New Bern against Elizabeth City, but lost at Washing ton. , In the debate in the HIgn School auditorium here Friday n'ght between Elizabeth City's and Washington's representatives the decision o'f the. Judges, Attorneys Geo. J. Spence, and C. R. Pugh and Rev. C. B. Culbreth. however, was not unanimous. It seemed to be generally admitted that Eliza beth C'ty had the better argument but In the opinion of two of the Judges this was more than counter balanced by the superiority of the v's'tors In the'r grasp of what they bad to say and In their delivery. Elizabeth City upheld the affirma tive side of the question. Resolved thut ' the"" United States 'Shou'a Greatly Increase her Navy, and the speakers were Clarence Ashby and Henry LeRoy. Washington upholding the negative, was repre sented by Miss El'zabeth Mcllheny and Miss Freda Williams. Miss Lou Kelly chaperoned the visitors and officers of the McNeil Literary and Debating Soc'ety were In charge of the exercises. That the navy should be greatly enlarged for defense not Egression, was the op ening argument of the affirmative speakers. It was pointed out that w'th I s' extensive coast line and Is 'and possesions to defend and with its responslbil'ty. for the good con duct of Its South American nelgn lors. th's government needs a strong navy if it is to maintain its pbu'p among; the nat'ons of the world and protect its borders against agress'ou and Invasion. The negative on the other liana contended that with the European nations engrossed in war there can be no immediate dnnirer and that as a result of the weakening wastes. of war it will be twenty-five years before any nation of Europe ts strong enough to attack us. Al ready the United States Is better prepared aga'nst war, so far as its navy Is concerned, than ever before In Its history and that to further increase it would be justifiable onlyrKh on the ground that the country is preparing for war not against it. Preceding the debates, Superin tendent S..H. Spia;ins spoke for a few m'nutes upon the Increasing demand for public speakers and the work of the High School in supplying this demand. Belhaven Circuit and the Currituck Circuit. Compelled by failing health to retire from the active ministry he was without a reu'ar charge for a number of years, but two years ago when the Perquim ans c'rcult was suddenly left with out a pastor, he undertook the work first as a supply and later as Its regular pastor. Mr. Old was a native of Virginia and a Southern gentleman of the highest type. He is survived by his wife and three sons, W. T. Old of Norfolk. President of the Seaboard National Bank. L. E. Old of this city with the firm of Culpepper, Griffin O'd and Grlce, and Walter Old of Colera'ne, who 's with the Dare Lumber Company FOR DOLLAR Merchants of City Co-operate With This Paper to Save Shoppers Money Next Saturday, April 8th, will be Dollar Day ln Elizabeth City. The last issue of this paper car ried to Advance readers a story of the Interest 'n; values ln seasonable merchandise offered to the spring trade, by the progressive merchants o Elizabeth City, and the largest crowd of out of town shoppers seen In the city th's spr'ng was on hand the following Saturday. Now an event is scheduled for next Saturday which It 'a believed will bring Elizabeth C ty merchants the busiest day In their history and will offer the Elizabeth City shop pers the best larga'n opportunities ever displayed here. Four or five Weeks a?o a repre sentative of the Advance 'nterview ed a few cf the city's leading bus' ness men relative to the advisability of having a fare refunding sale In Elizabeth City dur n the opening weeks of fpring trade. It was the coucersus of opln'on among those seen that a Doliar Day would give the merchants opportunity to offer a mere inviting and attractive list of birgiins and Insure better satis- f.tctir n among the Fhoppers who vould not then be reiuired to spend ton or flften dollars before draw beneflt from the vent. -In th's Dol ar Day movement The Advance has 'been assured the cc-operation of nearly every mer chant ln the city and already these wide awake hustlers' are busy preparing their offerings for the bargain hunters who wili throng the city on Dollar Day. Unusual ef forts are being made for the at traction of out of town customers to the city for Inspection of the array of bargains which will be presented by local Arms. Partici pating stores are making an early start toward listing their Individual contributions to the l arga'n total and a vigorous advertising cam paign will be pursued ln advance of the occasion which Is expected to eclipse In scope anything hither to at'empted along s!inllar lines. Rpeehl at'ention will a'so be paid to attractive window displays for th""day; this phase being em phasized as an important, link In the success of the event. The approaching 'Dollar Day , which the merchants of El'zabeth City are to stage on Saturday pril 8. will offer a sp end'd oppor tunity for the friends of the city from outside of its bounds to visit its shops and Incidentally see their friends, take in the show at the A' krania to be offered especially for e rccas'on and in general enjoy an Elizabeth City hol'day. ln putting on an event of this kind for the first time E Izabeth City wishes to establish a reputa tion of not fooling its friends. Seriously, the essence" oF 'Dollar Day' lies largely ln the throng of out of town shoppers thereby at tracted wlth'n the city gates It's good business to offer bargains to home folks and mighty good busi ness, too. But it's even better business to get these bargains be fore the eyes of people from Curri tuck and Camden and Perquimans and Gates and Dare and Tyrrel coutles. More and more folks from the sections mentioned are find'ng out that it Is quite un necessary to pend to New York or Philadelphia or Chicago or At lanta for many things they cant conveniently obtain at ' the cross roads. They are din covering that the parwilH lost will bring the needed articles from Elizabeth City quite as rellab'y. about as cheaply and ln very much less time Saving Money On A Pleasure Trip GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED FRIDAY NIGHT A. Good Roads Asspciation for the six counties of this section Ira- niediaU'IyliortETof the A bemarle Sound was organized at the court house Frday night. J T. Mc Cabe was elected President of the association and Frank V. Scott. Vice Fres'dent. Judging from the small crowd present Friday nUht, the associa tion has heavy work ahead of It tut those who gave in the'r names that n'ght as charter members were enthusiastic as to results which may be attained by rers'stent effort It is hoped that the membership will soon be materia ly Increased and that the merchants and busi ness men of El'zabeth City part'e ularly may be Interested ln It. Saturday morning at eleven cc'ock the-e were mov'ng picture slides and interest ng "ectures on the subject of gocd roads by H. D Winslow, superintendent of road construction of the national Bureau of Good Roads by S. N. Fallis. a prominent road engineer of this state. The Alkrama Theatre was the place cf the morning meeting and the crowd attend'ng was con sldcrahly larger. At Saturday's meeting vice pres idents from the foPowIng count'es were elected: Ml'es Ferebee. Cam den; F. II. Johnson, Currituck; Tom Whl'e. rerqulmans; FranK Wood. Chowan; Mart'n Ke log, Cat".- Pbctors from en"h county were 'hos.n as follows: James Aydlctt, raiquntank; Dr. W. T. Griggs. Currituck; W. S. Berry, Camden; Cbar'es Johnson, Chowan; Be(ijl mtin Banks, G'Ues; Jack McMullan. Jr., Perquimans. . . V. R. Lambert was made secre tary of the organizat'on. and a mem bership fee of one doilar a year was adopted. 1'ITS TO SILL CIIUUIET Alderman Owens Thinks New Building a White Elephant The proposition to sell $10.00( worth of market bouse bunds, put leS..re the aldermen at their meet ini.R yesterday afternoon by a mo tion tr.'in Alderman l'uppetidb'k, developed tbj act that" at leuM tlnee members of the present bund are opposed to this action. The addit onal money I required ir the new market is to have cold Ktorago facilities. Mr. I'appendick's motion was not acted upon. Aldei men Owens, who has oppos ed the market house since the present site was decided upon, made the suggestion that the city sell the property.- He contends that the bu'ldlng wi'l never be a source of revenue and that If the town could get sixty six eeni on the dollar for the structure it would Lu well out of - bad bargain 'Dollar Day" gives the.su folka an opportun'ty to come in and look the city over and wbut's more to savs money jby so doing. Dollar Day. furthermore. Is more thai likely to send them home anain pleased with the day's shopping, and as a necessary consequence, p'eascd with thn city In which It was done. Thereafter the Dollar Day shopper ,1s more or less a booster for tho tlty and retains a warm feei ng for Its up to date merchants which In turn leads to further business transactions. Merchants who are now prepar ing for the Dollar Day event are keeping In mind Elizabeth City's reputat'or, for not fooling Its visi tors. They have said and are saylnj that there will be bargains to be had at that time. That's a sufficient guarantee. win m you Advertisements in This and Next Issue of The Advance Worth Close Study la one sense of the word this evening's paper Is better wortn read ng than any issue that has appeared In many weeks. The headlines on the front page may not convey any more startling" In telligence than usual It Is Imposs ible as this is te'ng written to pre dict as to that ' for since civil ra tion ln Europe devoted itself to a life- Ike imitation of an old fashion ed shambies and the Mex'can bor der went in for a repetition or Donnybrook Fa r on a continent w'de scale, less than ever me can tell what twenty-four hours wi'l I r'ng forth. The editor ial comment may or may not io mere weighty, the soc'al news may or may no be more than unusually sc'ntllat iig. ' Aside from these features however, tody's Advance can- ot fal to bo of unusual Impor tance. ' The part of the Issue which Jives rise to th s unusual Interest "ons'sts of tlics pages which carry the announcements of the mer chants of Elizabeth City us to the bar'nltH which will bo offered on Dollar Day, Saturday, April 8th. For son e time 'preparut'onn for this event have been ln the making. It Is already an nssurid fact that the rr'ce concessions which will be made on the approaching Dollar Day and the values which will then be offered will be 'of the most ad vantageous character from tho standpoint of the buyers. This as surance arises from experience. Whenever El'zabeth City mer chants announce a special barguln event, and particularly when other merchants arc offering similar bar gains the'r reputation 's nt stake tnd It. Is up to each firm to ee that their reputation on Dollar Day suffers not in the slightest. Further Details Friday Further details of the offer'nus will bi made public with Friday's Issue of The Advance. On no other occasion has bur- gn'n offering been so widespread throughout, the entire list of .Eliza be h City merchants as will be the ci'se on next Saturday. On 'Do other occasion have price concess- ons been so niarKeil or .values of fered been so good. , This, in brief, Is what the merchants have author ized this paper to. say and' thostrnth of their .proclamat'on and further more Its conservatism rather than the reverse will be amply demon strated by a perusal of today's ad vertisements and those which wi'l appoar in the next issue. Should Be Read Carefully ........ - V Therefore,..,,,, advert is'ng ,., .columns are net to be glanced through and turned aside -that Is if the reader desires to reap the full benefits to be found in the 'Dollar Day' bar gains, The advertisement have not been hast'ly prepared and their full meaning Is not to be grasped nf a glance. They are prepared wltn a view to their careful study by tho prospective customers and such a study wi'l be well repaid. Thev should le cut out and carried with the shoppers on the'r tours of the business district Saturday. Only In that way can one be sure that some Important item some rare gem of a bartra'n which may not he again obtainable for a long time has not been overlooked. Muslin underwear w II be sold at bargain pr'tes all this week at M. I-elgh Sheep Cos. adv in have enn -DF COf.lMFnCE Organization Effected Last Night Promises Big Thing for Town's Future In spite of the bad weather last nljjht about seventy five of Eilza teth City's business and profession al men at a meeting at the Court Houue organized a Chamber of Commerce for Elizabeth City. W. G. Galther. Jr., was elected pret! dent of the new organizat'on. U. Leigh Sheep was elected Vice Pret. ldent and J. T. McCabe Treasurer. The fol owing Board ol Directors were also elected: H. O. Kramer, O. F. Gilbert. Geo. A. Twlddy, P. G. Sawyer, Geo. J. Spence. S. H. Johnson. T. Deles Crary and Wal ter P. Wood. Attorney C. R. Pugh called the meeting to order about 8:15. He stated that in spite of the many organizations ln the city none of them were work ng to , stimulate ' trade to boost the city. Mr. Pugtt then introduced Mr. H. F. 8m!th of Richmond. Va., who spoke for more than an hour on the essentials of an effective Chamber of Com merce and cf the work of that organ lzatlon at Richmond. Mr. Smith pointed out ln the be ginning of his speech the necessity of an eflie'ent secretary for a sue cessful Chamber of Commerce. "You may select the best possible Board of Directors" he said, "but you must have an al'-time wide awake Secretary or it is good night Chamber of Commerce." Mr. Smith mentioned as a special '.ad , vantage to this section the large trade territory which surrounds It and stated that the co-operaton of the towns-people w th the country people should be the flrBt work of. the orguu'zutlon here Following the address of Mr. Smith twenty-five of the number pledged yeariy membership fees ranging from ten to fifty dollars. A nominating committee, at the bub;" gestlon of Mr. Smith, was appoint ed by the chair consisting or .Messrs I ou's Sellg, Frank Scott, Harold Averman. Joe W'ns ow and J. T. Rtnlliu'a who nom'nated the ofilcers who were unanimously elected. The Board of Directors will hav a nieetiu-r at en early (late for the puriose of electing a secretary and launching a membership campaign. Mr. Snii h stated that n organiza tion of 2r( members would be of creditable size for Elizabeth City. Just before adjournment those present extended to Mr. Sm'th a rising vote of thanks for his efforts toward the organization of a Cham ber of Commerce in Elizabeth City. The young business men present were very enthusiastic and" optombv tic In regard to Elizabeth City's future Chamber of Commerce. THESE ARE Hit! DAY FIRMS j t THE APOTHECARY SHOP H. C. BRIGHT CITY DRUG STORE DEANS ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY FOWLER & COMPANY GALLOP A TOXEY SHOE CO. ' MARKHAM & FEREBEE THE GAS COMPANY MITCHELL'S dEpT. STORE P. W. MELICK COMPANY D. R. MORGAN A COMPANY MORRISETTE A PERRY McCABE A GRICE M. LEIGH SHEEP COMPANY OWENS SHOE COMPANY PRICHARD MILLINERY CO. THE PEOPLE'S BARGAIN STORC R. E. QUINN A COMPANY LOUIS SELIG S. R. 8IFF COMPANY SHARBER A WHITE WALKER A COMPANY WEEKS A SAWYER . '