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Boost Eliza. City On Good Will Day July 4th News Without Bias Views Without Prejudice VOL. 1 ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1916 NO. 27 MCI I HI 11 PLYMOUTH 'Will Leave That Place at Half Past Seven And Ar rive Here At Nine Forty iTiv An excursion train from Plymouth to Elizabeth City on Good Wilt Day July Fourth ia now practically as snred. Manager Pugh of the Chamber of Commerce wag officially notified by the Norfolk Southern this morning that this special train would be put on, no unforeseen contingency aris ing, and that besides, special ex cursion rates would be given on fhat day from points In Currituck Uraufort, Washington ant Tyrrell Beaufort, W'a-hington and Tyrrell counties. Thf spo; ial train will leave Ply month at 7:30 'in the morning and Arrive- et Elizabeth, City at 9:45. At Ma( key's it will connect with the early trains from Columbia an 1 Del r-avcn. Pe-mning'ln -the evening it will leave Eliza' e'h City at 6:3iv p m. The Norfolk Southern in als0 ar raneinw to distribute flyers adver tising the special service at points along the, rontij. Full details of the spcla''s sche dule and of the excursion fares will appear In tomorrow's paper. JUST ROVING AROUND AMONG , BURSTING SHELLS London, ' June 27. A Canadian ar . f tillery major played a side-splitting 'Joke on the Germans for the bene "lit of the three American news as sociation correspondents at the Bri tish war front In Be'gium last week From a commanding elevation and a safe distance the correspondents and the foreign office official " who was escorting them had bem watch Ing a brisk "straf" between the Canadian latteries and the German big guns on the plain below them. ' m The Canadian started the row. "Our airmen, you Bee", explained a. Ccnadian captain, "have located a lot of- Bosch dugouts and we'rs go- FOT ' ,Jng tp huPt 'cm . The "straf" was In full h'ast a few' minutes Inter. The Germans responded enthusiastically. "Don't stand up so's to Rhow a ftainst. the skyline," warned the colonel In charge of the party. 'The Bosches could land a shell here if they wanted to. "It isn't .this party I'm worried a liout", he nddMl. "but I don't want to get them in the habit of shelling . this position.. It would be bad for people who have to be here later." . II .. 1 0M i. J - .1 Alter nwniie uie simr mr'srieu. "T'ni lft vnn lilrp fi sfio nnc nf our batteries?" asked the Canadian Captain. The party , declared it would be more than delightd. The hill had to be descended and a big field cross ed to get fo the battery. .. "You three chaps go, ahead," . said the colonel t0 fife Canadian captain and a couple of the correspendents. "Now you two," he told the for 'after the first trio had gained a lead of 300 feet or so, "Now we'll go." he concluded -when the official and the aid had made a fair start. "If we all went in a bunch," he pointed out to the correspondent who accompanied-him, 'the Bosches might think it worth while to Tand on us with a whlzzbang." The battery was enconced In a liurrow with anybody could have passed unconsciously at a dozen-foot distance and an avaitor could hardly . find with a michoscope. It has been there for months said the major who'commandedd it. ,' "Would you like to see a shot fir cd?," he Inquired. TRDDPS HOI Oil BANDIT TOAII Strong Detachments Of Cavalry Acting With Automobile Posses In Effort to Effect Capture SIX MEXICAN BANOIT8 CAUGHT AND KILLED (By United Preu) Columbus, hew Mexico, June 18 S'x Mexicans, belljved tj have belonged to the bank that murdered William Parker md his bride were exterminated this slJe cf the border during the night. . .' Co'unituia, New Mexico, June 28 Government troops are crossing the 1 order on the h :t trail of the MYx lean bandits who nmrdej-el William Parker and his Irid early Tuesday morning at their ran h 35 miles soithwest of flac' ita, Nrw Mexico. Automobile i o; es are pressing (lie pursuit (lowest and these are l e ing suport'd by strong cavalry pa trols. The bcdlea of Mr, and Mrs. Par ker were taken to, Hachlta last night at about nidnlght. Detail's of the latest bandit out rage on American boII are particul arly revolting. Having lost a number of his cat tle to tattle thieves recently Parker attempted to drive the bandit's off. I hit rants.. . - t 'The trespassers drove the Ameri can back to his house, and there murdered loth him and his wife a I ride of five months. The remoteness of the region en ai led the bandits to put some dis tance between themselves and their first pursuers but It Is believed that there, is now a good prospect for for theif capture. The corn spondents and the fore ign official oflicl il certainly did want to. Harrd'y had the shell cleared th gun's muzz'e before a funny Idea seemed to strike the major he began to lair-'h uproariously. The others' eyes turned on him curiously. , "I was Just, thinking," said the ma jor, "how that one lone shot will puz zle the Bosches. At t first they'll think a bombardment's starting. Then, when nothing follows it, they '11 vet to worrying. "I'll bet they 1 se sleep wonder ing what we fired that single shot fer. "Besides, the 1 ombardment being over, Its Just time in tne arternoon for 'em to bp. taking a bite of eat and our shell must have landed just igbt to muss up the tea things." Three cr four Germans were kill ed, for all anybody knows, merely to gie a good laugh to three corre pondents, a foreign office official and a Canadian major. Earlier the sanie .day the colon"! took the correspondents and their guardian official to see one of Bel gium's ruined town. s It must have Veen cnce a quite a good-sized city, handsomely and sub stantlally built, but the German guns had battered It completely to piec es. Some tottering walls stffl stood, but there was n,t a whole building In the place. "And they're stl'l shelling it", said the colonel, 'so don't ' linger, and when you cross the grand squar keep close to wht's left of the walls. If a shot should fall In the square while we'ie in It, the walls are some shelter." ' Don't look as If it would do much good to keep on shelling this place,' commented a correspondent. "It does us good,' said the colonel, "for it wastes the Bosches' aramunl tion. In this town Is an emergency hos Proclamation Elizabeth City is preparing to entertain all who come within her gates on July 4th. The hand of hospitality is extended and the voice of our people raised in greeting to her visitors upon that day, which bids fair to be the biggest in the history of our City . It is eminently proper that every citizen take a part in the festivities of the day, and each of us do our full part in letting all feel that our one desire is to make all happy, feel welcome and carry home with them pleasant recollections of the time spent with us. I, therefore), as the Official Representative of Elizabeth City, sincerely ask that each mer chant close his place of business at one o'clock, July 4th, in order that his employees may enter into this joyous occasion and further enable all of us to do our best" toward the strangers who will be with us' Talk this: Do this: decorate and give one day to the town wtiich we all loveand which is rapidly taking its place in the great march of industrial progress P. G. SAWYER, Mayor Indictment Not Quashed (By I'ni ed I'nys) London. Juno 28. A ihotion by the defense, in the .trial cf S r Rod ger Casement, t() quash the, ln'lct- ment on the ground of its frailfty was lost this mcrning after a leng thy, hearing. Sir Rodaer took the stand In his own behalf later In the day. He de clared that the charges that the Irish Rebellion was Inspired In Germany were untrue. Hei denied that he had received any money from Germany and said that Ger many' had neither directed his move ments or offered to do so. He also denied that he had asked Irish prisoners in Germany to join the Irish Rebellion. NEW BUSINESS VENTURE A new business establishment he gan npe ation Tuesday on Toindex ter t treet just back of Mitchell's Be payment Store. The proprietors are Mers'B 'Junior' (JlPert ana wimani Jennings, Jr and the stock carried is mainly Pepsi C-la and chewing gum. The centlemen in harse. o$ this new bu iness are hustlers and have literally all ved no gra's to grow under their feet. pital in a ce'lar under a building which has not. ben quite so badly smashed up as the others. To got to it. yen go down through 'a kind of out door ellar stairway with a bomb proof cover. While the party sf.ocvd talking with the sirgeon In charge, a Ger man aeroplane appeared overhead. "Qul'k!" cried the oolone "Get cover!" The tourists dove Into the cellar like chipmunks and for about thir ty minutes .the aeroplane kept them copped up there. , . "The other day a group of Irish Guards stood gawping at an aero plane just like that," said the col onel, "and in less than two minutes a she ! dropped near tffem. The avl ator wirelessed their position to a German battery." This was the nearest the corres pondents and the foreign office of fto'als came to being under fire. The officers they nut did their best to mfke the visitors think they were in awful danger. They were continually saying things like: ' The road we're going over now Is shelled every day, 'You can't tellN what minute a shell will drop here' and "Keep your head down or you'll draw the Bosches" fire." But somehow nothing happened. There's no make-believe concerning the dinger involved In crossing the Channel, hut there doesn't seem to be much for civilians In roving a ,ound battlefields., jjj J JJJ iRMMUQ AQI M I11TrnrnT utfiitK mm Report That Roumania ; May Enter The War Causing Alarm And Excitement at Bulgaria (By United Press) London, June 28. Interest In the expected Grand Offensive of the Al lied Army lh France has suddenly shifted to 1he Balkans with revival of reports that Roumania Is on the point of enteMng the war on the side of the allies. A heavily centred dispatch from Bucharest via Athens, says that Bulgaria has close l its frontiers and is concentrating troops on the Roumanian border. Bulgaria, it is declared, Is uneasy about Roumanla's attitude, especial ly since Greece has granted recent demands by the allies. Villa Story 1 Pure Fake (I'y Unlfd Tress) Washington,. P. C. Juno 21. War minister Otreeon branded as a fake today tre report that Villa had hen tfven a commission in Carr;nza's army. "All - sueh reports." said the minister, "are fabrications pure and simple. Vt'la is outlawed and would not be given amne-ty under any conditions. MANW VIRGINIA WEDDINGS IN BETSEY THIS WEEK Cupid Is on the Job- again In Eliz nbe'h City after a two weeks vaca tion. On Mrn'day Miss Madeline' Frn ces Hebdden and Mr. Willie W. Frite, both of Prlncps-i Anne coun ty, were married here by justice of the pace J. W. Munden. Tme hiide is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hebden and the groom is the son of Mrs. Frances Brlte, all of Princess Anne. On the Bame day Miss Bessie Louise Smith and Mr. Aruthur T.loyd Hall, both of Norfolk county were also married here by Mr. Mutf den. The bride Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith of Nor folk County, and th groom Is the son of Mrs. Mary Hall of Ports mouth. On" Tuesrday Miss Jennie Vargnr et Habtead and Mr. PavM Thomas Mitchell, both of Norfolk were mar rled'by Mr. Munden. The groom Is the son of Mrs. Fannie Cohoon of Ocean View and the-l lrr'o Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. jSnieg Halstead of Noifolk. Reply of Carranza Is Looked For Oou Hourly But Only Thing So Far Forthcom ing Is Protest As To Treatment Of Mexicans By Americans (By Unlttd Press) Washington, D. C. June 28 From high administration officials it be came known today, that a reply from Carranza to the American note do mndlng the release of American prisoners in Chihuahua City ia ex pected totay. The be'i f ls"bas"d on a mesage from Jaeies Linn Rodgen. the Pres fdcnt'sN Representative in Mexico C'ty. dispatched from th"ro at nii.i rl?bt. APR EDONDO T-vprRlZES Af'D TRIFLES .MeH -an n:ba:;s!d.r . Arredon-to las s"ntn nete t th"1 R'nte Popart, iue,n' protesting ar'iiin-st alleged acts of raerhnn f rceq in Mexico and requesting that soldiers who com nil'ted the nl'eped acts bo punish ed. ' The protest wnre bnael on a dlsiatch from Mexico City pavlnu that 300 residents of La Cruz were arrested by the American punitive expedition and subjected , to mal treatment hefore beln? released. It was claimed also that a column of three thousand American soldiers proceeding from San Geronlmo to El Valle hud 'committed many. out rages which were attributed to the Apache sonts with the expedition. CONGRESSMEN NERVOUS, Seveiral Demotrfitic Congressmen were admltted'y nervous over the War scire toHav. fearing its effect on the party fortunes. While B"me polltlcans believe that a "War President" would.be unbeat ale news is beginning to come In from "back home" containing mut terlngs against open conflict In Met CO. A candid "te for governor of a Southern state is nu ted as saying that a canvass rf pe-sons shows that the invasion of MexP-o Is do eidely unpopular In his state. AMERICANS SHOULD LEAVE MEXICO . Tiin onvf-rnment Is redoubling It effrts t0 et the Amcl 'ns out or Mexico. TTnd"r the ireetlon of th Pepartment cf War, of Stat an I nf N"W the strongest -efforts nr bcln- readp to p-rsnado to Immedi ate departure from that coun'ry th" nemerons rnes who Insist on stay ing to tbe last minute. CARRANZA MU8T RELEASE PRIS , ONERS Carranza must release th Amer ican imprisoned In Chihuahua Citv by midnight or Invite Immediate in vasicn of his country by American troops who will undertake to effect the'r re'ease by force. 'Them will be no delays in the lieht of Arredondo's demands for the release of Mexicans now lm prisioned in California, and for the lifting of the embargo on food going into Mexico. "That" says Presi dent Wilson, 'Is another question.' J The president Is Interested now solely In effecting the release of the American prisoners In Chihuahua. Though Carranza's refusal to re lease these prisoners might not mean an immediate declaration of war It would mean that an armed force would immediately go to their relief and the Be Facto Government prepared to accept any sinister re sults that might follow it. The British consul at Chihuahua Clt.v, who Is looking after American Interests there, reported to the state department Tuesday as fol lows: "There are 21 privates and two HOPE OF LOOT INSPIRES PEOIIS Half Starved Men Told By Their Officers That They Will find Food and Clothes At El Paso (l.y I'nit d Tress) El Puso June 28. Hope of lopt hit; Kl Paso is said t0 be buoying up th'j half starved, poorly clothed poms in Carranza's Northern army. Reports teaching here from the In terlor of Mexico hay that Carranza's olfccrs have told their men they'll, have food In p'enty when they reach Ei Paso. Heavy troop movements north wnrit am In ntnd v. n border and it la estimated that a bout fifty-five thousand Carranzlstas are befng concentrated in Chihuahua City; but plans have been made to fiustrate any looting parties. The American troops, in the event of open hostilities, will assume the offensive Instead cf waiting for an attack. TO LECTURE HERE ON PREVENTION OF INSANITY One of the staff of the State Hos pital will make a talk on "The Pre vention of Insanity"' at 'the Court House on Saturday, July, 1st at 8.15 P M. Doctors, teachers and the gen eral public are Invited. The talk: will be non techlncal so that the lally may understand, The speaker will be Dr. A.' S. Pendleton of Henderson well known in the State and with a number of friends here. Pr. Pendletdn l a man of much ability and the news that he Is to speak will no doubt bring a good crowd at the court, house for the o casbn. Nothing Doing For Colonel (Hy United Press) Washington,' 1) C, June 28 There are too many deserving Democrats to be takn care of In the event of war. to give Roosevelt the tfank of Major-General on condition of his raising an aimy division for service in Mexico." ThlH Is wTiat army administration, officials here sal"1n reply to a re port, to the effept that some such proposal was in tne air. Mrs. A, K. Kramer is spending some time at the Albemarle cot tago. sergeants of Tenth cavalry and ne white interpreter interned In peni tentiary. Two are slightly wounded one through the shoulder and the other has ilenh wound In knee. Both recovering and receiving medical at tontlon. They are sufficiently fed and well treated. Tlioy have amplo room for exercises. Am assured that there Is no danger for their lives," ;
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