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ADVANCE
Vol. 1
Elizabeth City. N. C, Thursday Morning, June, 8 1916
No. 10
CONVENTION SCENES STIR '
VISITORS IN CHICAGO CITY
Republicans hear Keynote Speech and Progressives
Adjourn till this Afternoon. No Nominations Un
til Leaders Trv to re'arh Acrprmpnt
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Chicago, June 7 Jostling crowds
on Michigan Boulevard, the blare
cf band., wriggling lines of densely
hacked hiimmttv tn hntol 1,V.iiIco
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boribboned and Le-bfidgjd visitors,
and the buzz, buzz of talk this was
the opening day of the Republi
can and Progressive National Con
ventions. Four years ago the steam roller
stalked Its Gargantuan way through
Chicago's a'reets, down and through
the f'o'i !"um and back into the
rcuv.dhouse of o'ltlcal history, (f
the steamroller hadn't performed,
there would have been only one
nation .1 convention today. Rut
those who were squashed by the
pancake making wheels of the'
Juggernant arose, brushed off their
dusted garments and assuaged
their mangled bodies with the balm
of a convention candidates and
mpchinery of their own. It ap
peared to-day that the bruises the
steam roller of four years ago in
flicted might be entirely healed.
The Republcan man in the street
and the progressive man in the
street hailed each other as brother,
not as political enemy. There will
be no nominations in either con
vention until the leaders can meet
and attempt to agree on a candi-
The business scheduled in both
rational gatherings was more or
leB perfunctory today. Calling to
order, prayer, introductory speeches
by the national chairman and the
setting to work of the convention
committees is about all either the
Republican or the progressive lead
ers expect to accomplish in the
first day's sesHons. .Tonight the
ReHolutlos Committees are begl
nlng their long grind of
hearings and closed sessions, lead
ing up to the formulation ' of plat
forms .
It wns national chairman Charles
D. Hlllia whose gavel banted t
.order the Republican conclave, at
11:25 Hours befcre that minute the
great galleries of the Coliseum had
teon packed to their utmost capa
city. A band, tucked far up above
in a gallery tooted cheerfully away
at (he popular airs of the day and
kept the waiting thousands in good
humor. On the floor, where stan
dards bearing the names cf the
states marked off the space reserv
ed for the actunl participants in
this eu .d iennlal festivity, the del
egntes were slower to arrive. There
v;as a constnnt roar of noise from
the floor and the galleries, the bus
zing of thousands of voices bler.d
rd n'o one indescribable merlley.
This ledlam of confusion and tc''
r.nd starajieg of feot and whisper
ing and Fhoutfm rolled up to th
speaker's platform like a giant
wave. The noise of eiht thous
and sots of vocal chords must be
heard to be understood; words
can't convey the impression. On
the speakers platform the officers
of the convention were holding
the little conference that really
amoun'ed,to something. As Chas
D. Hi'lts enrae f-.rward there wn
a vociferous outburst, a sort of
tidal wave of noise that dashed
against the platform and finally
subHided in what would have been
merely the murmer of expectation,
if it hadn't been for the fact that
eight or ten thousand murmurs of
exportation from the audience
blended together, made a fairly
creditable amount of noise.
Finally, BANG! went the gavel,
(Gavel only by courtesy, be it un
derstood, since it was really a gl
ganlc mallet, the only kind whose
staccato raps could be expected to
penetrate the convention noise).
The noise subsided a little. 'There
were more BANGS and BIFFS 7nd
ultimately a semblance of order
was obtilned and the Republican
Convention of of 1916 was in sess
ion. The keynote speecfc by Sen-
MISS BOWDEN MS UP IRK
Miss Beulah Bowden of Charlotte
ai rived in the city Tuesday night
from Norfolk to take up her duties
as pas;or a assistant of Blackwell Me
rn trial Baptist church and is stopp
ing for the present at the home of
Mrs. R. T. Venters on North Road
street.
V.Ua Eowden was employed by
this church a few weeks ago aa a
regular assis'ant to the pastor in
his ever increasing duties among
his members and her work will be
in line with the Church Emelenc.v
Movement of the Baptist churches
of the State.
A graduate of Morodith College,
the Louisville Training School,
with four years experience as a
mis ioinry in Mexico, and several
yea-b of city missionary work with
rr. Tine, rastrr of the First Bap
tist church in Charlotte, Mins Bow
den's work here will, it Is believed,
rrean nrch in the movement for
ln"roas"d efficiency in Blackwell
Memorial church.
The statements made in a news
paper yesterday thnt MIrs Bowden
will hold meeting? here during this
week, and that her work is in con
nection with all of the churches in
the city, are erroneous.
ators Harding, temporary chairman
of the Convention was the feature
of the first day. Over in the Audi
torium very much of the same
scenes were being enacted on a
slightly smaller scale'. The Audi
torium was likewise packed, "but it
wasn't nearly bo large a hall as the
Coliseum and its theatre like pro
portions didn't create the impress
ion of vastness such as struck the
onlooker on entering the barn-like
interior of the Rpublican meeting
place. The progressive conclave was
more mixed also. There were
women delegates. But there was
the same noise and clatter and en
thusiasm. The fiery red head o'
National Chairman Victor Murdoclf
moved eomeMike on the sta?e.
"Original Roosevelt men" and
women renewed ' their fealty to
the Sage-of Sagamore Hill. The
Progressives adjourned at three
o'clock to meet Thursday afternoon
at two o'clock.
BAPTIST ASSEMBLY MEETS
AT WRIEHTSVILLE BEACH
Raleigh, N. C. June 7th With the
IwLliiaUon cf the complete program
of the second annual Summer As
sembly given under the auspices of
the North Carolina Baptist State Con
vention, the interest In that ap
proaching event 1b growing. The As
sembly will be held at Wrightsville
Bench and will open Sunday June 25
and continue through Sunday July
2ud.
Speakers of national reputation
have been .Fecured and In addition
other special features whyh make a
program Btill more attractive than
that of the season of 1915. The new
auditorium at ' Wri?hrsville Beach
will be u:ed for the t morning and
night sessions and the afternoons of
each day wi'l be given over to rec
reation. The .Assembly, furn'shes
an Meal vacation for the, thousand
of Baptists of the State and the ten
days at the beach can be enjoyed nt
a minimum expense. Rev. J. A. Sul
livrn Wilmington, will gladly answer
all inquires as to boarding rates
while Secvreta'y K L. Mlddleton,
Ralelth, will send programs cn oppll
cation. Special reduced rates nre
authorized by all railways.
LUSCIOUS PEACHES ARE
GROWN IN PASQUOTANK
The first peaches on the market
appeared in . the attractive display
window at the grocery store of Mr.
George Twiddy. Passersby almost
invariably stopped to exclnim at
their beauty and to ask "Where
were they grown"? The answer
was surprising, "Pasquotank Coun
ty' If we advertise them as home
grown" said a member of the firm,
"Nobody would come to .look at
them. They would think that they
were necessarily knotty and wormy"
These peaches grew on the farm of
Dr. F. W. Lowry and are a practi
cal demonstration of what proner
care of fruit trees will do and what
can be done in Old Pasquotank. A
MAN 8HOT BY WILLIAMS
HAD THREATENED HIS LIFE
Additional details of the shoot
ing at South Mills Tuesdav
evening trickled into the city Wed
nesday but the reports given of
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