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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 21, 1916
NO. 101
VOL. 1
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TEUIOIIS 11ICI;
IEHJEHIE
Are Entering Roumania
On Northwestern Fron
""tierTAnd Ha7e1jTaken
Stragetic Points
London, Sept. 21-Advance by the
Urlttoh Bouth of Ancre last night is
the announcement of General Hag
m0rning report. The 'fiercest re
stance was encountered in the
British attack and following the ad
vance the eGrmans made strong
counter attacks
against m
the British front
Zealand troops on
but were repulsed iwth
heavy loss-
es.
The French
made two successful
attacks northeast of
Verdun last
niriit. capturing trenches
south of
rpv,i,nt and advancing
hun-
dred vards toward Vaux in the Chap
itre woods. The Germans are mak
ing no counter attacks along the
Somme on account of the bad
weather. .
jackals and hyenas, creeping
down from the mountains along the
c;.Mon frontier, are feasting on
the bodies of Bulgars slain by the
Serbs .in the fierce fluting north-
ant of Lake Oatreno. mree
rnrnses piled in a heap in one
ravine were found stripped of their
flesh by Jackals and hyenas and by
the thousands of vultures that hov
. nvpr the battle field all during
the day. The Bulgars had been mow
cd down by mactrne guns. The
Serbs advancing after . the battle
found only skeletons and torn bits
o uniforms. '
The cooler weather is aiding op
erations along the Balkan front.
Dispatches from Paris state that
the French-and Balkans advanced
three miles last night toward hill
15, taking fifty prisoners.
Gains by the French . troops in
the Balkans - are also claimed by
Paris near the frontier to the south
west of Monastir.
Par's dispatches also report vici
ous counter attakes on the advanc
ing Serbs by Bulgarian troops. The
ButgaTS entered the village of Bor
esnies but were driven out by the
Serbs in violent fighting. East of
the Cerna river the Bulgars coun
tered strongly against Kamakcha
lhn mountain captured by the Serbs
earlier in the week but were driven
off.
ROUMANIAN1 RESISTANCE FIRM
The Russo-Roumapia forces are
admitted, in dispatches from Sofia,
to be malntaning their strongly for
tified positions in the DoKruja reg
ion in the face of heavy Bulgarian
attacks. The fighting in this region
is increasing in violence and both
sides are fighting with the greatest
stubbornness In Macedonia the bat
tle around Fiorina is developing fa
vorably to the Bulgars, according to
news from the Bulbar capital. Thf
allied counters in this region, says
Sofia, have been repulsed with
great loss.
Bucharest claims that the Rou
manians have ta'ken the offensive
on the Dobruja front.
NEW BALKAN OFFENSIVE ON
According to Berlin the AuBtro
Germans are advancing to a new
Invasion of Roumnnia on the north
western frontier. The official state
ment claims that the Teutonic for
ces have, already occupied heights
on the frontier on both sides of the
Vulcan pass south of Petrosney.
Berlin states alse that the Rouman
ians have been thrown back after
nn advance of ten miles into Tran
sylvania and that in the Pobruja
front the battle Is deadlocked.
AT AlKRAMA TONIGHT.
A pfcturizatlon of the popular
novel "Audrey" will be presented at
Ihe Alkrama tonI:ht,
11
Parents Refuse To Believe
JjThe Leopard Spots
Aren't There And Com
pletely Segregate The
Medlin Family
(Special Correspondence.)
Raleigh, N. C, Sept 19 Four
children of the Medlin family who
are "accused of having egro blood
in their veins," have' stopped the
Mount Vernon public school in
house Creek Township, Wake Coun
ty, locat?d tour miloa from Raleigh
and this in face of the fact that
both County Superior Court and the
State Supreme court have, decided
recently that there is no taint of
negro b'.ood in the Medlin children
according to the evidence produced
at the trial of the case In court:
The neighbors of the Medlin .fam
ily think the court does not know
Itself, or that they,know more than
the court. So the parents of all the
white cht'dit'n accompanied their
children to school on the opening
day of the new schoo lterm, and
when the school superintendent de
clined to bar the Medrhrywtnsstera
all withdrew their children from the
school. At present they have the
teachers and county superintendent
G!les "up a tree,' and there's no
school going on at Mount Vernon.
The county board of education at
last accounts had taken up the mat
ter, and is now wrestling with the
question of what is to be done un
der these remarkable conditions.
PAPER MILLS FOR NORTH
CAROLINA
Newspaper publishers and other"
arge consumers of paper will be In
terested in the efforts that are mak
Sr?r to establish wood-pulp paper
mills in North Carolina, The State
Forester is preparng a wonderful
exhibit for the State Fair at Ra
leigh, the third week in October,
showing the possibilities of North
Carolina in the field of production
of wood pulp arm "f high-grade pa
per from our native woods proving
that this State-can manufacture pa
per and can establ'sh splendid paper
producing mills here if the proper
efforts are made.
.The Slate Fair management this
year is particularly stressing the
economic value of the Fair to the
people of the State. The Better
Babies Contest will be under great
ly improved conditions, r.nd will be
under the dlrect'on of the Woman's
.Caib of Raleigh, and all parents are
requested to communicate with the
club for full information.
The Fair, through the North Car
olina State Bonrd of Health, will
put on a motion picture exhibit
equal to that of any first-class thea
tre as n free attraction. The black
tent will comfortably seat from
three to four hundred people, " and
there will be ushers and music, and
the films will be fine In every re
spect, ran?'ng from Charley Chap
4in and comic cartoons to illustra
tions of the origin and treatment
of typhoid fever, flies, tuberculosis,
etc. '"
RISKY THING TO ELECT REPUB
LICANS TO OFFICE
Apropos of the misleading "criti
cisms" of the "Butler crowd" and
the Republican spellbinders now
stumping the State, of the Demo
cratic ' State admln'stratlon of af
fairs, it Is pertinent to show how
the sixteen counties of the State
which have be?n under Republican
rule the last, twoyears or more have
fared. Take the tax rate levied In
thrt State managed by Republican
boards of commlsslonera In 1914,
the last year for which complete
figures are available. The tax rate
levied by thes s'xteen counties and
by the other eighty-four counties in
P14 Is shown ' on pase 282 'of the
0
IIW
iTo Speak To
Grain 'Dealers
ll-'y United Press)
AsHiry IV rk, X. J Sept 2 1 Great
importance is attached ' by Demo
crats to President Wi sen's address
next on-lay before the National
Grain Dealers Assnciat on at Balti
more. What the President had to say
on tMh aotecasion and the manner
in which his words are received,
party leaders le'ieve. will have a
strong influence in tie two most Im
porting voMng ttrinvholds of the
entire country.
Grain dealers, are of course, in
int'matp touch with the farmers of
the country, and are also nmoti?
the foremost shippers of the coun
try to whom the railroads will have
to 'pay the freight" as a result of
the President forcing the eiiht hour
legislation through Congress.
Appreciating the importance of
Monday's address, President Wi'son
has already begun work upon It. It
Is expected that he will open up a
counter attack upon Hughes for
the first time on the' e'ght hour isJ
rue. and he will leave Baltimore on
his western trip immediately after
Monday' speech.
annual report of the State Tax
Commission for 1915. This shows
that the average tax levy in the
sixteen -counties managed by Re
publicans (including the State tax,
which is the same in each county)
Is $1,019 on each hundred dollars'
worth of property. The average tax
rate iu the e'ghty-four Democratic
counties was 96.7 cents on each hun
dred dollars' worth of property. So
if Mr. Butler's premise is correct,
and the governing party Is respon
sible in each case for the increase
in taxes for public improvements,
the citizens of those sixteen coun
ties should retire their Republican
loarda of county commissioners and
put Democratic boards in charge.
And notwithstanding the lower aver
a;e tax rate in the Democratic
counties, those counties in the State
that huvo made most progress In
pub'ie improvements . will be found
In the Democratic list, of counties.
'Not one in the list of Republican
count ies has made a conspicuous
record lor building 'public roads and
other public imprbvements.
Comparisons of Democratic and
Republican records in this latitude
always show up the Republicans In
a bad li-;ht to say nothing worse.
W hen it wasn't incompetency it was
corruption that featured Republi
can direction of public affairs and
l heir past performances and the
great majority of voters know how
riskv a thing it would be to ever
giv?.ttiem anotner trial m tnis
State.
ALL THAT WAS EXPECTED
Democrats here who talk about
he Maine e'ection last week Invar
iably express satisfaction over the
result. The Republican plurality is
much smaller than it has been in
any presidential election year in a
generation, ' with the ninslc ' excep
tion of 1912, when the Republican
vote was split between Taft and
Roosevelt. If the same ratio shows
up In the doubtful States, Wilson
wfjl defeat Hughes badly in the
ffectoral college. The Democrats
who were In office in Maine were
elected In an "off year" when local
and State issues controlled 'the vot
ing. This year national Issues over
shadowed all other Issues and Maine
ought to have given the Republi
cans a majority twice as largo as
they received, and would have re
ceived If the Democrats had a less
popular candidate for President In
the field, For Maine Is normally Re
publican by from 20,wio to 30,000
In a Presidential election, when na
t'onnl Issues, the. tariff especially,
Influence the voters above local
questions, and policies of State gov
ernment. Cutting down the normal
Republican majority there was all
the Democrats expected.
WWW BU 1111
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Police And Dogs Give
Chase To Unidentified
White Man Who iEs
capes On Train
Ocur Rcdgas, eobreil and about
th rty years of at;e, famiiiYrly
iuunvu among bis associates as
Italy. " was shut through th- Ig
just l.elew the thign lust ni ;ht by
Mi undentitied white man. The
stunting occurr. d on Pennsylvania
Avenue in the neighborhood of the
residence of Dr. O. McMutlun.
According to "Baby's" s-tory he
miw a white man drinking from a
buttle on the street and stopped to
look, The stranger resented the in
spection and said:
What are you doing here?"
"Noth'ng boss, replied the nero.
Whereupon the stranger pulled a
gun and fired. He kept firing as
"I'aby" sought healthier surround
ings, ana one of the shots took ef
fect in the darky's leg.
winodhoimds were taken to
the
scene and trailed the gunman from
Pennsylvania avenue to the back of
Mrs. Dowry's residence
on Pearl
st refit. From there the hound fol
lowed the scent to Burgess street,
from Burgess to second and from
Second to the railroad where a
freight had Just passed and which
the fugitive is believed Jo have
boarded , ,
Mrs. Dowry, questioned by the
police, said that somebody came to
the house lust night and wanted to
get in but that, she would not open
the door. She thought there were
two persons.
TAKES PARTY OF GIRLS
TO ENTER SCHOOL
Rev. M. B. Cox of Manns Harbor
was in the city today on his way
home from Littleton where he had
just chaperoned a large party of
young ladies from his county to
enter school at Littleton college.
The members of .tils party were:
Misses ' Pecola Fulcher. Ruby Mann,
Hattie Beasley, Willie Sutton and
Ida Mann, of Manns Harbor; Miss
es Edith Meckins and Joscy Meek
ins of Stumpy Point, and Miss Mary
Midgette of Mashoes.
Shooting Too
Good For 'Em
(By United Presn)
London, Sept. 21- "I am not a
blood thirsty man but l say mat
shooting is too good ror tnein, de
clared Bishop of London today In
denouncing white slavery in a
speech on public murals.
AT BURNT MILL CHURCH
Herbert Pe.de will speak at Burnt
Will church in Camden County Sun
day afternoon at three o'clock, sup
plying for the pastor, Rev, E. F.
Sawyer. '-Z3
INFANT BOY DEAD
The infant boy of Mr. and Mrs.
J, L. Gregson, on Road street, died
this morning at seven o'clock and
was burled this afternoon at three
o'clock In Hollywood cemetery.
STEVENSON OUTLAW
Arthur B. Stevenson and Miss
Claudia! Outlaw, both of Nixonton
township In this county, were mar
rl(cl Wednesday evening at s'x
o'clock by Justice of the Peace, 3t
W. Munden at the residence of the
groom's broiher, Mr. George Steven
son, on Parsonage street. ..
I'inilOaVOlE
jJH- tylM"1
oh nmmi
Probably The First Time
In The-History Of The
World Given This Priv
ilege (By United Press)
Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 21
The Australian House of Represen
tative, adopted conscription today
by a vote or 47 to 12.
The wive and mothers of Aus
tia'!a will now within u' few we'ks
so to the polls and vote on the ques
tion of whether or not they wish
to send their men to- the war. Prob
ably this is the flrtt timo in the
histoiy of the world when the wo
men have been allowed a voice in
such a niat'er.
As soon as the senate passes the
measure it will be submitted to a
referendum by the people. It Is the
general belief that the women of
the counlry will vote for conscrip
tion. To Stir Up'
111. Feeling
(By United Press)
London, Sept. 21 "Germap prop
ogandists are attempting to stir up
bad feeling between the United
States and Great Britlan be means
of the circulation of false charges
regarding British censorship" offi
cials in the British Foreign Office
told a representative of the United
Press here thiu moruig. ,
"The German Wireless News A
grncy, and indeed the whole system
of the German propoanda, loses
no opportunity In the endeavor to
create "ill feeling between Great Bri
tain and her .friends," said, the
speaker,
W C TjU Held I
GoodJMeeting
. A
the
day
very interesting meeting of
W. C, T. U. was held Wednes
afternoon at the home of the
President, Mrs. Clay Foreman, on
Main street.. About thirty members
were present, and a report of the
treasurer was made showing that
over one hundred dollars had been
expended this your for the advance
ment of the work.
The Flower Mission Superinten
dent, reported 745 boquets, .454(1!
of literature distributed this year,
and 9 cottage prayer meetings held.
Other important business was
cPscusrcd pr.d M v. Roscoe Turner
war. e(creci cieieta'c to uic Htaie
Convention which convenes in Wil
mington Oct. 4th to tith. After
the meeting delightful refreshments
were served ty the hostess and all
enjoyed a social hour.
EUREKA LODGE
INSTALLS OFFICERS
The following officers were duly
Installed for the ensuing year in
Kureka Lodge number 317 A. F. and
A. M. Tuesday night:
W. P, Wood, Senior Warden.
H, G. Kramer, Junior Warden
A. O James, Treasurer
J. H. Snowden, Secretary.
P. G. Sawyer, Senior Deacon.
,T. IT. Lambert Junior Deason
R. V. Iamb and
R. Fmmett Wynn Stewards.
J. C. llembury Tiler.
Oyster season !s here and Good
wins restaurant on Matthews street
Is the place to get the hf-st, J. E.
Goodwin, Prop. It
TRACTION SHE
HEARS CRISIS
Ultimatum of Leaders Ex
pires Tonight, No Wav
ering on Either Side
(By United Press)
New York, Sept. 21 The pro
tracttd traction strike situation la
thfs city approaches a crisis.
The ultimatum of the labor lead'
ers expires tonight, and there ii at
yet no sign of wavering on . either
side,
Feeling is running high and a
sympathetic strike of half a million,
workers has threatened to support
the carmen.
Union Meets
At Shawboro
The next Union meeting of the
Camden Currituck Baptists will be
held at Providence Baptist church,
Shawboro, on October 27, 28 and
29th.
FRJDAY , .
11:00 A. M. Introductory sermon
N. H. Shepherd.
2:00 P. M. Devotlona.1 services
Milton Toxey.
, 2:15 P. M. The duty of Baptist
to Inform themselves concerning
their Denomination and its work.
a. 2:15 P. M. The distinctive Doc
trines. J. K. Henderson.
b. 3:
rell.
00 P. M. The work E. J. Har
SATURDAY
10:00 A. M. Devotional services
W. H. Pritcliard.
10:30 A. M. Conscience in service
S. N. Hurst.
11:15 A. M. Discipline Its laxity'
and remedy W. J. Byruin.
, -200 P. M. Devotional
M. P, Jennings.
services
2:15 P. M. New Testament iueth
od a of Evangelism N. P. Stallings.
, SUNDAY
11:10 A. M. Missinary sermon
I).P. Harris.
Cbuiches are urged to send large
delegations.
Assigned speakers will lead the
discussions, and other brethren are
ure'id to participate iu the open die
.cusslon. DOG AND NOT A MAN
Early Wednesday morning ' the
police court telephone bell jangled
excitedly and one of the police has
tening to answer was urged to come
at once to Pearl Btreet.
'There's a dead man right in the
street'' quavered the voice."
"Dead or dead drunk?" queried
the policeman,.
"Oh" he is dead, sure," was the
insistent and plaintive answer.
"We'll be there right away, then.'
And as the necessary men were
being dispatched for the tragic
scene, the phone rang again.
"I beg your pardon," said the
same voice, "It Isn't a man, It's a
dog. But I do wish you would come
and get him Just the same.'
And fo the police filed out to pay
their last tribute of respect to Bruno
instead of Hooligan.
WANTED We wanf a district life
insurance agent for this territory.
The right contract for the right
man. You must be honest and you
must be a hustler. White Marlon
Hnh, General Agent, Missouri State
tjfp Insurance Company, Columbia,
SC. Sept 21,22