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VOL. 5
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 31. 1916
NO 96
11 1 illllllG
IS THE REPORT
AND SEVENTY LIVES BELIEVED
LOSt WHEN TORPEDO SENT
SHIP TO BOTTOM
1
f - (By Unltej Press)
London, Oct., 39 The steamer
Marina is reported torpedoed with
out warning with a possible loss of
seventy lives.
Of the crew ot 100. only thirty
lour are up to the present account
ed for. Four other ships have been
sunk within the last twenty-four
hours. . f,:
NEW CRISIS LOOMS UP
ClVnew submarine crisis with Ger
Lny loomed menacingly today fol
lowing the report of American Con
sul Frost at Queenstown that the
Glasgow horse ship Marina had been
sunk without warning.
Latest reports state that shell
fire and not a torpedo sent the ves
sel to the bottom. Two Americans
.are reported among the missing.
Consul Frost reports that the Fur
ness freighter, Rowanmore, was
sunk by a submarine while attempt
ing to escape. Two Americans and
five FhUipinos were on board.
Falkerihayn
Thrown Back
(By United Press)
London, Oct., 30 Falkenhayns
Invading armies have been thrown
tack more than three miles by the
Roumanians in fighting to the north
of CamDolunsr. according j to this
morning's advices fronTPetrograd
Fisrhtlnsr still continues as the
Teutons, heavily reinforced, are des
perately counter attacking in an ef
fort to regain the lost ground.
Other strong Austor-Uerman forc
es ere on the offensive northwest or
Campolung and at near'.y every
point on the Transylvanian frontier
The Teuton invasion from Transyl
vania, appears blocked at every
point, however, at least for the
present. On the north Transylvan
ian front the Teutons have 'every
' Vre been thrown hack against the
frontier.
In Dobrudja Mackensen's pursuit
of the fleeing Roumanians continues
FRENCH CAPTURE TRENCHES
During the night the French cap
tured trenches to the northwest of
Sailly, : say this morning's advices
from Paris, in a renewel of their of
fensive north of the Somme.
South of the river the Germans
attacked but were repulsed every
where except at the Maisonette
farm, where thtey gained a foot
hold. Beybnd artillery fire, there was
no act'on during the night on the
Verdun front.
Von Hindenberg
Visits Berlin
(By United Tress)
Berlin, Oct., 30 Arriving in Ber
lin for his first visit since the beg'n
nini jpf the war, Field Ma rshall Von
HhL'nberg, Chief of . the General
Staff Was the object of great demon
strations today. He dined with the
kaiser, , - -
"The Roumanians are still re
treating and their day of reckoning
Is coming," said '.Von Hindenberg.
"eGrmany wl'i press the war along
present methods and soon there will
i Roumanians left,
t'te French thow great tenacity
but their armed men are being ex
terminated by their present tactics
and soon there will be "hone of them
left.
"A similar offensive next spring
Will rob France of the rest of her
ermy and of her national srtangth.'
Ho declared that Britir.n has pro
duced no great strategists in this
ViORK BEGUN Oil
E
JUST A YEAR AFTER DESTftU
TION OF FORMER BUILDING
BY F(RE .AtM
Poplar Branch, N. C, Oct. 24.
The Pcplar Branch High School
was begun Monday. Mr. Joe Litch
field of Norfolk, has been awarded
the contract. He is now making
preparations to ge. al5 needed
material on the grounds. The build
ing committee has been greatly
handicapped, but now it expects to
carry things forward as fast as pos
sible.
It is needless tQ say that those
Interested in the building are re
joicing at the prospects, of their
school building being put back. All
hope vthat the work will now go on
rapidly. (It was just a year ago
Monday night that the building was
burned).
Messrs W. A. Doxey and D. W.
WoodhouBe spent Tuesday In Nor
folk. Monday was shopping day In EHz
abetli City for quite a number from
Poplar Branch. Those spending the
day there were: Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Baum, Misses Mildred Baum, Maud
Griggs, Nell Walker, and Mr. C. P,
Jerome. . ,
Robert Jerome who has, been
quite ill Is improving. His many
friends are glad to hear this.
The teach of -Poplar" Branch
went to Grandy Saturday, to attend
the meeting of the Teachers Read
ing Circle. Most of the teachers
were present, also quite a number
ot the ladles of our Betterment So
cieties. The work was conducted by Mr.
Lohr. President. Mr. Isley announc
ed that a plan for having all school
children of Currituck county exam
ined by a state physician was ex
pected to be carried out. Dr. V.
T. Griggs, here, gave a few Import
ant facts, as to why this examina
tion should be made and urged that
the teachers and societies fork to
gether to hive this done.
It is hoped that the. parents will
avail themselves of this opportuni
ty and have their children examin
ed. It is for the-good of the com
munity. The entertainment at the I. O. 0
Hall, last Siturdny night was very
much enjoyed . Thoe taking parts
in the p!ay, "Diamonds and Hearts,'
pleased 'the audience. Miss Maud
Sawyer sang several selections, and
there were enjoyed by the entire
airdience.
The Rebekah's expect to take the
play to Powells' Point.
REVIVAL AT FIRST BAPTIST
Revival services at the First Bap
tist church will begin Wednesday,
November 1st, 7:30 p. m.
Rev. R. D. Garland of Richmond
Va. to help Dr. Henlng. On Wed
nesday at 1:00 p. m. Mr. R. D.
Garland will reach Elizabeth Cltv
In order to begin that night a se
ries of protracted services at the
First Baptist church. Mr. Garland
is a splendid gentleman and a fine
speaker r He-is the secretary of Mis
sions' for the Baptists of Va., and
has several times been President of
the Va., Baptist state convention.
These meetings will be held each
day at 3:30 p. in. and at 7:30 p. m.
Tho public generally is' cordially In
vited to attend thes services and
hear Dr. Garland.
WANTED At once two live wire
Agents to represent Rates City Life
and Health ' Insurance Co., in Hert
ford and Edenten, N. C, none but
producers need apply.
A. IT. SAWYER. Supt.
205 Hinton Building.
O. 30 Hp Elizabeth City N.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Jennings of
Ep vortti were in tho city Saturday
; hopping.
SCUMS
Wilson,-The Workingman's Friend
By George Creel
As never before, the United
Stat?s is prosperous.
It is "loaded jlica" business that
Woodrow Wilson has hurt, not legi
timate business. In view of facts,
the cry th't "business men are a
Unst Wilson is tantamount to an
accusation that the business men ot
the UnitejJ States are a pack of
fools.
We wer.tb.ered the crash of the
European war without A panic such
as cursed the country in 1903 and
19Q7. '
In the last three years, manufact
ured froducts have increased by $9,
400,000,000, and less than one per
cent of this vast total is furnished
by munitions exports.
There are no more breadlines;
there is no unemployment; agricul
ture has been given new life and In
dustry Is driving forward with a
new and tiemendous energy. The
wealth of the nation lias Incresul
$11,000,000,000 under .Woodrow Wil
son. The answer is not to be found
save in the financial economics and
industrial reform effected by .the
Man in the White House. He drove
Lodge's Attack
Is Boomerang
(P,y United Pressl
Boston, Oct., 30 Henry Cabot
Lodge, United States Senator from
Massachusetts, whose attack on
President Wilson for the alleged
portscr'pt to the second Lusltania
note, was denounced as "beneath
contempt" by former Assissnt Sec
retary of War Breckenridge," will
make "whatever reply he sees fit
at the Republican rally at Pittsfleld
tonight.
Dr. Charles Harvey Bailey, on
whose authority Senator Lodge
made his charges, today re-iterested
that his raport of his conversation'
w'th Breckenridge was "fair, not
exaggerated." Ereckenridge wired
Bailey today 'as follows: "Your let
tter is a jumble of false statements
You are tin unconscionable wretch
for uttering it."
Wheat To Reach
Two Dollar Mark
(By United Press)
Chita so, 111., Oct. 30 Wheat has
reached a new hlj-'h level today and
appears to be on the way to tho
two dollar mark. It is now soiling
at ? 1.110 'j.
HALLOWEEN PARTY
The annual Halloween party of
the Canning Club g!r!s of the coun
ty will be given next Wednesday e
vening at the home of Miss Marcia
Albertson on Church street. Every
Canning Club girl, and there are
fifty four this year, will participate
in the gaieties accompanied by her
invited partner, and the occasion
will be a merry one. ,
A number of the girls gathered
at Miss Albertson's home Satur
day for their first lesson in crochet
ing. Now that the canning season
is over their" attention Is 'centered
on, crocheting, sewing and cooking
and their efforts In theite directions
are quite as enthusiastic as in their
work of the spring and summer.
WERE MARRIED SATURDAY
Trannie Crank and Miss Annie
Bisnight were married by justice
of the peice J. W. Munden Satur
day afternoon at 5:30. The couple
married wera divorced by a decree
of superior court in September,
WANTED An energetic ulngle man
to wait on rne, work by the month
or ye ir, Apply at once to Dr, ft. B
Davb, We kvllle, N. c.
Oct. 30.31, Nov 2 pd .
through the Federal Reserve Bill
that ended the selfish rule of Wall
Stieet, and that in the face of Re
publican prophecies of "ruin and
disaster."
This law laa lifted the fear of
panics; it has ended usury; it has
permuted p3vernment funds for the
movement cf crops; it has made
credit accessible to legimate enter
prise. The Rural Credits law is tTle
Migna Charta for the farmer; the
Clayton law took most of the hate
cut of Industry; the Seamen's law
has put American sailors back on
the high seis; the Federal Trde
Commission is waging a wfnnin?
fight against extort on end
ntonoply; the tariff commission has
taken a question of vitU importance
out of pclitics, and the child labor
law, the eight hour day and the
Workmen's Compensation have ener
gizrd industry as well as humanized
It.
And Mr.. Hughes asks that these
conditions te deserted In favor ot
a return trf pan'cs, unemployment,
breadlines and government by greed
Says He Is,
But Is He?
East Liverpool, October 30. Can
d.date Hughes rolled into Ohio this
morning for the wind-up of his cam
pa'gn in this state.
This Is his second visit to tho
Buckeye State, where the Repubii
cans at present are centering their
heaviest artillery fire. Mr. Hughes
expressed himself this morning as
supremely confident of election.
JAPANESE CROWN PRINCE
v PROCLAIMED
IS
By RALPH TURNER
(Written for the United Press)
'I oliio, Japan, Oct., 30 Crown
Prince Hirohito, fifteen years old,
was today his father's birthday, of
ficially proclaimed. His engagement
to M 'ps Asako Ichijo is soon to be
anuouncrd.
0Q0
Toklo, Japan, Oct. 2 (By Mall)
For the first time in the history ot
Japan there is but one available
candidate for the hand of the Crown
Prince. She Ih Miss Asako Ichijo,
fourteen." Her brthrotal to the
Prince ' will be announced soon af
ter he is proclaimed. The marriage
will be delayed several years.
Miss Asako, or Miss Morning, as
it would be in English, will become
the bride of the Emperor-to-be by
virtue of a peculiar set of circum
stances. She is without opposition
for the place despite the tradition
that permits the selection ot the
Emprror-to-be from any of five his
torical families, descendants of the
ancient house of Fujiwara.
In former decades the members
of the five famll es acted as courti
ers or regents to the Emperor. They
are still konnw as the 'go sckke"
(Ave regents.) The "go sekks" are
of the families of Konoye, Takatsu
kaHa, Kujo, Nijo, and Ichijo.
The circumstances which give
Miss Asako the clear path for tho
Imperial palace are:
The present head of the Konoye
family, Prince Fumlnaro has no
daughter; in the Takatsukasa fam
ily there is no daughter of ago to
make her available; from the Kujo
family came the present Empress
Sadako, blood relationship elimi
nates her family and the N'po fam
ily is on the 'financial rocks, the
present held, Prince Hiromoto hav
ing exhausted the treasury trying
to attain political power.
M. R.
ship was
business.
F-'etcher of Pools Town
ln thte ciy Saturday on
Mrs. Oliver Gilbert has returned
'rom a vjsit to rclottves in Phila
delphia. " f
Wilson In Lead
On Straw Vote
Quite & crowd are gathering dally
at the Standard Pharmacy windows
these days to see the result of the
straw vote on .the presidential elec
tion bow being taken by Rexall
druggists all over the country and
sent to Boston where the results
are complied daily and gent out to
every Reia.'l store in the country.
The Standard Pharmacy has been
receiving the results of the straw
vote for the last three days, and
every day has shown Wilson lead
ing by a nirrow margin. The re
turns posted this morning showed
150,327 votes for Wilson as against
122,930 for Hughes. Of the votes In
me electoral college, on returns
that have bo far come in, Wilson
has 283 as against 248 for Hughes.
Villa Occupies
Santa Rosalia
El Paso, Oct., 3Q 1he town of
camp Kosaua, su mues south of
Ch'huahua City, while bandits in
three trains are moving down upon
Jiminez and Parral, according to re
ports of United States agents,
jiminez 13 protected by several
thousand de facto troops. The gar
rlson at Santa Rosalia fled at Villa's
approach. .
One ManlKilled
Two Injured
One man wag killed another se
riously injured and a third slightly
hurt when a sneedinir antonmbii
skidded into a ditch and turned
turtle Sunday morning.
M. A. Hughes, an Edenton mer
chant, died instantly from a broken
neck. Hay wood Hughes his broth
er, was suriously injured about the
tact and may lose one of his eyes,
and John Brabble, uts0 of Edenton,
sustained minor bruises.
The three men Kit Edenton for
Norfolk via Sunbury and Suffolk
and hid covered six miles of the
journey when the accident happen
ed. The machine, a Ford tourina
car, was going at a high rate of
speed when it bean to skid. Be
fore ft could be brought Under con
trol it had whirled into the ditch
and turned over, throwing its threej
occupants out. Passing tourlst3
came to their rescue but M. A..
Hughes was already dead. Haywood
Hughes , and Biabble were taken to
Edentcn for treutment.
Accident
On Sunday
Another was addej to the list of
automobile accidents in this city
Sunday when the small Saxon au
tomobile driven by Mrs. Jesse Car
ter was strucksby a Buick touring
car driven by F. O. Elliott. Every
ocucpant of the smaller care ' was
thrown out. but fortunately none
were seriously injured .
in the car when the accident oc
curred were, Mrs Carter, Miss Ethel
Carter and three small children.
Mrs Carter wus driving along the
new street connecting Church Ex
tended with West Main and going
toward Main, The South bound one
oolock train was at the depot and
she wag just bringing her car to a
step and going not over five miles
un hour when Elliott's car. cominu
p 1m hind, struck the right rear
wheel of the smaller car and then
tho front Wh"e!,. The rear wheel
j demolished and the tiro on the
ront wnrel was lia'llv cut.
A warrant has been Issued for
Elliott's arrest on the clmrce of
tcklcss driving an, the case, it Is
xpected, will be tried on Tuesday
morning before the Recorder.
corn ii
II UKHMH
IN BUFFALO BILL SHOW WHICH
COMES TO TOWN ON NOVEM-
, BER 10th -'vt.,
-
While the new military spectacle
"Preparedness," puts a big 'punch.'
into the performances of the Buffalo
Bill-101 Ranch Snows, which comet
to Elizabeth lay, Friday, November
10th, the cowgirls constitute a very
Important part of the company of
strenuous people who give vim to
the exhibition.
The cowboys are ususally asso
ciated in the public mind with the
liveliest and most daring portion! ,
of the Wild West program. Aa a
matter of, fact, it is declared, there.
Is scarcely anything in the way ot
rough riding accomplished by the
tnost rckless cowpunchers that la
not duplicated by the cowgirls in
the show. The recklessness of tha
real cowgirl is proverbial, and In
stead of urging them , to perform
daredevil feats, the management, it
is said, is constancy under the neo ,
esslty of cautioning , them aginat
risking their Uvea and limbs.
la the -Buffalo- Bill-101 - - Ranch,
shows the cowgirls are always vary
much in evidence. They participate
In the exhilarating and dangeroui
round-up of wild steers, which 1"
one of the most distinctive feature
ot the show; they ride wild iteara
as well as rope them; they accom
plish wonderful feats tn high-school
horsemanship, and with it a!I they
give a'femjn'ne touch to the perfor
mance that adds greatly to its at
tractiveness. .
They are, It is announced, about
fifty cowgirls with the show, and
their strenuous riding, their pic
turesque ranch attire and their all-
round cleverness is said to add .
something to the show that would
otherwise be signally missed.
The cowgirls, the Indains, tha
Mexicans, and all the other ranch.
people will be seen In what is said
to be the most exciting performance i
ever given in a Wild West arena,
whi'e the great military spectacle,
with Kb troops of cavalry, infantry
and artillerymen, .loaned bv the
United States War Department,
gives a "go" to the performance
that no olhe-r outdoor exhibition hag
ever had.
There will be a big street parada
at 10:30, In which all the soldlera
and frontier notables, Including
Chief Flying Ifuwk, will participate.
The fact that tht. show is "doing
its bit" for Uncle Sam by carrying
a U, S. recruiting outfit, in charge
of an army office r.and has secured
many recruits for the government,
Js one of the many incidental feat
ures that will attract ettentlon loc
ally.
adr
"THE COMPROMISE" WAS
SUBJECT OF SERMON
The lilo of a man who made a
compromise, his sinful life, his sad
death and doom was the picture
from which Rev, I. N. Loftln spoke
Sunday night. This subject was il
lustrated by the lire of a girl that
Elisabeth City people knew. "A
compromise first brought tears to
her eyes,': said : Mr Loftln, "second
shame to her face, disgrace to hef
body, and the night, of sin to her
soul. When any Individual once
makes a compromise with sin the
way is wide open to hell with all Its
ruin on tb( way, and its hopeless
ness at tho journeys ..end , A com
promise is generally, the way of
least effort morally anl spiritually.
And a ruining conipronilsa is most
likely t be rhftde in the life of
yontif- men and womep in their so
club le'utions. We seldom, stop to
the subtle dangers that lurk thickly
in tho compromises that are made,
and of the ruir. that is most likely
to follow In their train."