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msiA n im mm ELIZABETH. XI2T7S U2TU0V. BIAS k h 4.1 CITY'S SEMI-WEEKLY a mEWSwrniouTA PAPER ZJ I PREJUDICE I VOL V ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY APRIL 11, 1916 NO 29 '- '-' i i i ii i - FEDERAL COURT f II In Charge to Grand Jury Judge Connor Reviews Principles Upon Which American Government Was Builded and Ex presses Faith in Rule of People Judge Connor arrived In the city yesterday afternoon and Federal court convened here this morning at ten o'ciock.. Two criminal cases were before the grand Jury for con sideration this morning. Edward nd Morris Beals, both of Curri tuck, being under Federal indict ment for violation of laws for the protection of migratory birds. A true bill was looked for in each case. A true bill Is also expected against S. J. Barnett, accused of robbing the mails. Barnett wast 1u the employ of the Major Loomis Company of Hertford and carrici the company mail from the post office to the plant. He broke -open a letter addressed to his employers and extrac ing a check changed the name Major Loomis Company to Major L. Weast and endeavored to ash it at a Hertford store. The amourt of the check was about $750.00 Petitions for naturalization pa pers ''from II. 0. Paulos. Greek, and John G. Tash?a'n, Armenian, lave been presented to the court and were favorably passed on dur ing the days session. Ciril cases scheduled to come be fore Judge Connor for trial at this time are as follows:. .Willie Evans . Dare Lumber Company. Rich mond Cedar Works vs. Foreman Blades Lumber Company. Martin Lee V8..D. V. Hoggard. Ttlghman Johnson and wife et als vs. Farm ers' Manufacturing Company. B. F. and Isaac Powell vs. Farmers Mfg. Company. Richmond Cedar Works -vs. R. S. Str'ngfellow. United States vs. Mary S., Wood and the town cf Edenton, .Mrs. Lou'a M. Anderson vs. A. D. McLean and John L. Roper Lumber Company. The following case in admiralty Is on the docket for disposition: Enoch WTis vs. Schooner Georgia A. Gasklns. Judge Connor's charge to the Jury was instructive and impress ive. An outline of it will appear In the next Issue of this paper. ANOTHER CANDIDATE FOR FOR TRIAL JUSTICE George J. Spence, a rls'ng young attorney of this city, has this week announced h'mself a candidate for the office of Tr!al Justice for Pas quotank County, making the race for this office a three cornered one. Mr. Spence was at one time city attorney, and was the last duly elected secretary of tb1 Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce, and as one of the younger members of the "bar is forging to the front In his profession. His friends think that he will make the race 'nteresting for the other contestants. FORK 8CHOOL CLOSES The closing exercises of Fork school house, about three miles from here in Providence township, -will take place on Thursday and Frl day evening, AJl 13th and 14th. be ginning promptly at ei?ht o'clock. The commencement address will be delivered by C. R. Pugh of this city Thursday. A small admission fee will be charged Friday. DIRE.CTORS IN SESSION THIS AFTERNOON The directors of the Chamber of Commerce are In session this after noon in the office of Attorney C. It. Pugh in the Hlnton Building;. CAPTAIN PARKER'S FUNERAL HELD HERE LAST SUNDAY The funeral of Captain John A. Farker was conducted Sunday after noon at half past three o'clock by the Odd Fellows. Ernest Belang'a, Nop'e Grand, and Rev. E. F. Saw yer, Chaplain, leading the service, and the members of the Order at tending in a body. The pall bearers were ,T. D. White, C. C. Mann. C. W. Whaley, C. W. Hussey, J. H. LeRoy and Noah Garret. The funeral was conducted at the home on West Fearing street and interment fol lowed in Hollywood cemetery. The body of Captain Parker was found Saturday afternoon by Capt. Gordon of Pasquotank, not far from the spot where the Sunol went went down on March the second. Cap tain Gordon had found the body of Captain Parker's mate, Wallace Po'iehton Just a week before while fsh'ng his shad nets, and h's dis covery of the body of Captain Par ker came about in the same way. Capta'n Gordon et once sent a mes sage to Elizabe'h C'ty saying that he had found the body and Mr. Zei;rler brought it here and prepar ed it for burial . HAS ESTABLISHED CAN NING PLANT ON HIS OWN TRUCK FARM An li'tfrps"i"g experiment is be- frg imdfrtak"n -about"- four "miles from here by Mr. Frank Upton, a prominent farmer of Camden coun ty. Mr. Up'on Is owner cf the Bel- cross- iTruck Farm and in addition to raising the usual truck crops rTown for the market in this sec tlon. he has estallished a cannerv to take care of a large part of the truck grown on his neighbors' farms as well as that grown on his own land. The plant stands In the open field and some of the truck raised tor the cannery will be growp at its very door. Mr. Upton is specializing on to matoes. "I have . he said to a reporter of this paper, "ten thous and tomato plants under glass and to-day they are twelve Inches high end in blossom." In additlon to tomatoes. Mr. Upton expects to tin sweet potatoes, str'ng beans, and May leas. The peas, how ever he is expect'ng his neighbors o raise, as he has planted none of these this year. Mr. Upton his guarded against disastrous droughts by an irrigation system nnd by water works. He can either flood the ditches on his land or sprinkle the so'l,' "I have bedded", he said, "one hundred bushels of sweet potatoes and these are Bprout'ng nicely. By the time the weather is warm enough they can be transplanted." LEVEN STALLINGS DEAD News reached here Saturday of the tudden death from heart fail ure of Mr. Leven Stalllngs -at his home in South Mills Thursday night. Mr. Stalllngs was s'xty-four years of age and pppeared to be in his usual health when he retired at nine o'clock. His death 6c cured at nine-thirty without pre vious warning. The funeral services were con ducted Saturday st two o'clock by the Baraca Clasps of Trinity church t South Mills, W. T. Halstead, leading the service. Interment fol lowed in Pearcevllle burying ground. Mr. Stalllngs Is survived by two sons and a daughter. The daugh ter and one son live In Virginia, wh'le the other son, Wlll'am Stall hiss, lives at South Mills. CHRIST CHURCH CHOIR TO GO TO HERTFORD The choir of ChrlHt church will go to Hertford on the afternoon of next Wednesday, April 19th. to sing at the evening service of Holy Trinity church of that city. Mr. Ashby. rector of Christ church, will conduct the services. i ,..-. , S '" ' -'i .... : . . """ " is f ; t ' ' ' l s V-' i 1 Picture ' ) Picture v . - A DITCH IN A JIFFY Picture No. 1 shows a tangle of swarrp growth near y up to a man's waist. How would you like to shovel out a ditch through that material? Some nasty, hard Job, you say, and you are right. ' But look at p'cture No. 2. There's the ditch, all right and a pretty one too you will say it is. "We'l, I didn't dig it; I shot it;" says Mr. Orion V. Dudley of Deals, "Yes, sir, with dynamite." "In picture No. 1, we are shown lutt'ng dewn the holes, for the charges. A pointed Bteel bar will make the ho'es easily enough in soft, wet ground. A line or two of holes in the earth, sunk to within six to twelve inches of desired bottom grade; each hole loaded w'th the proper charge of dynamite (the amount depending cf course, on the size wanted) some tamping, unless water fills the holes, in which case even that is unnecessary; lighting the fuse in the center hole which contains the blasting cap and the dynamite does the rest. "Sometimes a little trimming up with shovel Is "necessary, but gener ally the flow of water will wash out any rough and uneven edges. "When t'me Is an object, no other method of ditching compares with blasting. Ditches in a Jiffy cannot be had in any other way' NOMINATE WOOD FOR AUDITOR G entboro. Y C, Apr'l 7 At a meeting of the Republican State Executive Committee here to-night candidates were endorsed for State offices to be voted on at the State wide pilmary June third The following were selected: Governor, Frank A. L'n.iey, of Watauga County. Lieutenant Governor, L. L. Jen kins, of Asheville. Commissioner of Agr culture, A. L. French, of Rockingham county. Attorney General, Zeb Vance Walser of Davidson county. "State auditor, J. Q. A. Wood of Pasquotank , The mert'.n,r of the committee' was for the purpose of seeing to it that at least one candidate for each office is on the offlc'al pr'mary bal lot in June. Other candidates aside from those endorsed by the com mJt'e? may enter the primary if they desire, it was stated by Chairman Lln rey, of the committee, that Judge J, C. Pritchard of Asheville, would have been placed before the 1 rlmnry for the Presidency but for a ruling by Attorney General B!ek ett to the effect that in ttrfl Pri mary the office of President and Vice President may be left blank and each voter allowed to name his No. 1 No. 2 individual choice. 'Mr. Waser, who was endorsed for attorney General, is state chair man of the executive committee of the prcgresslve party. ELKS INSTALL OFFICERS At a nieotlog of the E izabeth City Elks Friday niRht the following officers were installed: Exalted Ruler. P. G. Sawyer; Esteemed Leading Knight. 9. II. Johnson ; toyal Knlnht, J. B. Mora. Jr.; Lectrrlng Kn'ght. Ira U. Parker; Secretary D. Guy Brockett; Treas ured, J. M. Martin; Tiier. J. H. Kramer; Esquire E. It. Spence; Inner Guard, M. B. Simpson; Chap'ain. J. B. Culpepper; Organ ist J1. M. Harney; Trustees. T. P, Nash. Louis Sollg, and Dr. I. Fear in'; . Following the instalation of offi cers a gold headed cane was pre sented - to the Ret'ring Exalted Ruler, W. G. Galther. Jr.. as an expression of appreciation from the Lodge of his services during his term as Exalted Ruler. , After business matters bad been disposed of the Lodge enjoyed a banquet. LODGE MEETS TO-NIGHT Eureka Lode meets to-night for work -in the third degree. A full attendance is desired. THREE NEGROES IMPLICATED IN KILLING OF COEFIELD A CurrituA county coroner's Jury l.eld an inquest Friday even ng over the body cf James Cofield, kill ed cn Cleveland Dowdy farm near Gregaiy Sunday n'lit byfore last. The ji.ry's verJI.t hods that Coe Se d w.s k ll d by a gunshot wound from a weai on in the hands of a negro ly the name of Luther Ro ter son and Implicates two other negroes for complicity li the crime. The three defendan's were tried be fore Fecorder DeCorntmls at Curri tuck C urt Hcuse Monday morning snd all three we "6 bound over (to the next term of Superior Court. Coeneld was a fugitive from Jus le. having escaped from the Pas iuotark cha'n gang several months ;go. Last Sunday he came to Gregory, having learned that his wife was there, and "wanted to take her away with him. It Is reported that ehe demurred and that her part was taken by Robertson and a number cf other ne?roes and a fight ensued. Coefle'd was attack ed wl;h clubs and finding himself out matched and outnumbered start ed to run. Three shots were fired it h m. one from a p'stol by a ne gro by the name of Dick Ferehee and two from a shotgun by Robert Hcn. KxarolnatLn of the body, however showed only one wound, a load of shot hiv ng entered Coe f.e'd s body in the right shoulder t e w the "Hhculder blade and near he spiral column. Cceflcld's lody was found Wed nesday in a ditch several hundred ya ds from' the scene of the fight. It is thought that h'B slayers threw it In the d'tch after the darkey had been shot down. There was ev'derce th".t Coefie'd was still alive at the time. STOLE CASH REGISTER FROM HOTEL MARRINER J. W. Shores returned yesterday afternoon from Mackeya where he was railed Saturday night to trail the thelf who had stolen from Ho tel Marrlner a cash register with twenty-five cr thirty dollars in it. Mr. Shores and his dogs left here on the night express, reaching Roper about midnight, struck the trail within half an hour and came upon the cash register about a quarter of a mile from the hotel on the road to Roper. It had been broken entirely to pieces with a p'ece of iron and the ntoney taken from it. Following the trail on they found the man at Roper at three o'clcck Sunday morning. He was Sylvester Peacock, a man of we'l to do fnm'ly, who Is married and has two small children, but is said lilmseir to nave oeen some thing of a black sheep for some time. Peacock was tried in mag's trate's court Monday morning and Is now In Plymouth Jail under a five hundred dollar bond for trial at tbe next term of Washington coun ty superior court. KU KLUX KLAN LIVES AGAIN The Birth of a Notion' will be seen at th? AlVrama on April 24- 15 20. Petersburg and At'anta. Appomattox and Ford's Theatre, the foothills cf South Carobna find tho wl'd rid s of the Ku K nx Klan live again In Mr. Grlfffith's 12.HO0 feet of superb mot on pic ture which It took ek-ht month to produce, cost- B0').000, employed 18,000 people and 3,000 horses. Tho great spectacle is an epitome of scenes, ine'dents, characters, passions and emotions of the whole period from 1861 to 1870 the pe riod occupied By the Civil War and Reconstruction. Suggested by Thomas Dixon's 'The Clansman' and .'The Lcopnrd's Spots', it has an enical oualitv of its own which stamps It as a niaslcrp'ece of gen ins. The enormous popularity achieved by it in New York, Boston, Chicago. San Francisco and Los An ge es h"s been repeated in ail the towns of the route, and the pros recta are that it will crowd the local theatre at every performance. advt BILLY SUNDAY IS FORCE JFflR GOOD That is Mr. Lof tin's Opin ion After a Special Trip to Baltimore to Study Noted Evangelist, whose Books He had Already Read, at Close Range "I went to Baltimore." said ReY. I. N. Loft n in beginning his ser mon Sunday night on "Billy Sun day as a Christian Factor in Our Nation", ''to study Billy Sunday at close range. I had read a great deal about him and all that I could find that he had written. "I remember ten years ago when I was in the University of Chicago, first hearing cf Bl'.Iy Sunday. The student brdy at that time, and the faculty also, referred to h'm if at all. in a Ighter vein. He was loldlng meetings in the small towns around Chicago at that time, having been converted a few years before in a mission in Ch'cngo. He had gained h's phy-Tal and mental training on the (apeba'l diamond. "He is a positive proof that God , can take the weak th'nus to over come the mighty and the Ignorant to confound the learning of this world. He has not had the colle giate and academy training of the professors of the University ,of Chi- cairo but he speaks to a thousand pecp'e to their one snd he is be- ccm'ng a national flrure no less co-'splc'ous than President Wilson himself. "What is tbe secret of his won derful success? "First, he s dominated by the Lord, and Is ready to take the word of God Just as It Is and to speak it 'n te-ms of common peo- speaklt In terms of the caommon people's consciousness. "Seoond. he democratises religion. One of tho saddest features in the , life of Christ was the fact that he bad to go out of the church of that day to reach the multitudes. Our churches today have become too rit ualistic. They are 'h'gh church', not only among the Cathol'cs and Episcopalians, but the Bapt'sts, too, We surpress and depress our highest powers ant the devil leads us to call It reverence; whereas B'lly Sunday is teaching the world that the Ird II to lead his people out in the freeest and most dem ocratic manner. And this, after all, is what Jesus did. The church that wi 1 follow In his steps and make religion democrat'c and free can do the same work that , Billy Sunday is doing for God. "Third, Billy Sunday is succeed ina with such large crowds be cause he knows and uses the phy chology of crowds. He , knows that humanity loves to move en masse. Tbe reop'ftv follow the crowd, and the crowd drawB when nch Indlv'diial In it is made to feel that he is an integral part of the crowd. "Fourth, he popularizes Chris tianity. He makes Christianity a ; matter of living every day in the week, not merely at church but In the realm of pol'tlcs, society and finance as well. Fifth, Bl'ly Sunday advertises. He conducts h's religious campaign upon absolutely business like prin ciples and is thoroughly systema tic, I received a card since my re turn stating that a man from Eliza beth City had been converted in the Billy 8unday meetings, wished to unite with a church here and named me as his pastor. This plan Is an example of the system used in the great meetings, as is al so tbe system of tickets by which admission Is gained in the always crowded building. " Last, and to me the greatest rea- (Continued From Tago One)
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