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STATE DEPARTMINT ANNOUft
( CES ALL HAD MADE ESCAPE
'WHEN VILLA ENTERED TOWN
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tBr United Pre") .
Washington, Dec. . Afl Ameri
can citizens bad left Chihuahua City
before the town was attacked by
Villa, the State Department hag an
nounced. The announcement Is
tased on information received from
special representatives of the Gov
ernmert sent to the border to In
vestigate rumors that a number of
Americans had been killed.
Details of the fighting preceding
the fall ofthe city arrived here this
morning, giving account of some of
the bloodiest engagements7 in Mexi
co'g blood-smeared history.
Reports are agreed that Trevino
evacuated the city Monday omrning
The fighting was moBt desperate a
round Santa Rosa Hill which ehang
ed hands several times.
Refugees said that after the fall
of the city Villa ordered no looting
and thev believed that Chinese were
the onlv foreigners killed.
a SITUATION NORTHERN ARMY
DESPERATE
V El Paso. Dec. 2 The situation of
IUVJ Ibarra ai mj in iivuuviu
' Mexico . Is desperate following the
Capture of Chihuahua City bv Villa,
General Gonzales. Carranaa's com-
:anaer mi "Juarez, aamuwn luaav.
'5 TfTfe a 4 Kal A I ant tro nit tA tnram
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scattered over the state of Chihua
hua, the Carranza leaders are await
lng Vl'la's next move. Military offi
cials hire nelieve that Villa will
move1 westward along the Mexican
Northwestern Railway and reorgan
ine his forces.
LBEPTY
USHERS
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ILLUMINATION OF STATUE TO
MARK BEGINNING OF NATI
ONAL ELECTRICAL WEEK
(By Unitej Press)
New York, Dec. 2 Liberty en
f lightening the world will herself bp
enlightened permanently in New
York harbor here tonight. Flunked
by United State battleships on one
sidy and thousands of men. women
nrwl rhi'rlren mi Mi BiirrmiTiHinnr
shores, the Great Iron (11 rl will
blaze frrth in electricity to the
boom of naval guns, the shouts of
her fellow countrymen and women
and the benediction of President
Wilson's personal representative.
This, perhaps, will be the premier
event of National Electrical week,
which ocgan today and is being eel
ebrated In every city, town and vil
lage In the United States.
A cable has been laid to the is-
t, land. Liberty completely wired and
A special plant built under the base
of the statue- "Liberty" was pre
- Bentedto' the United States by
V France 1884. It is by the
Trench svVltor August? Bartholdl.
One hand yTxV statue Is 16 feet
long. T'A
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MARRIED ON THANKSGIVING '
lack H. Kelley of Charleston,
8- C and Miss Virginia L. Shreck-hlse-
of Harrison' ur. Va.. were mar
rled on Thanksgiving Day at 1 : 30
1 m. by Rev. I N. Loftin at his
residence on Pennsylvania Avenue.
REWARD FOR INFORMATION
My red Irish tetter dog, with "O.
F. 0." cut into collar, is being held
by ( tome person 1 want to know
who thai person is. O. F GILBERT
Sat and tnon. " 1
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY EVENING DECEMBER 2. 1916
NO 158
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TOWARD GOUL
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Make further' progress to
ward BUCHAREST FROM THE
WEST IN TODAY'S FIGHTING
(By United Press)
London, Dec. 2. Admission that
the Roumanian forceg defending
Bucharest from the west hove been
pushed back, by persistent Teuton
attacks, t0 the banks of the river
Arses is admitted in otriclal repors
from Petrograd, this afternoon. This
morning the Roumanians were re
ported to be loldlng their ground.
In Dobrudja. Petrograd claims,
the Germans have- been compelled
to retire southward from several
he'ghts around Ko'a Klol.
Undiminished violence Is reported
in the Rusian offensive in the Car
pathians. ThP last twenty four hours has
been a period of general calm along
the Western front.
From England
To Virginia
(Bv Unl ed Press)
Esmont, Va., Dec. 2. TI ere he is
at last, getting all ready to be mar
ried in January.
the itinerant nobleman-janitor-soldier
cowboy-sailor-fortune hunter and
sky pilot has won and wed Miss
Florence Boltwood In this little val
ley vil'age o the Blue Ridge Hills,
it was announced today.
Afler his checkered, not to say
Scotch plaid career, Sir G- C-B-C got
religion from his job as janitor of a
Salvation Army hall in Manhattan,
fame ben among the hills, met
Miss I) It wood and started in to
bi'i'd a church and a romance, both
of which are now about complete.
This man with two excavations
and a relor for a name, and the 12th
ban net of his line, ran away from
his home in Leicester, England
when he was 13. Me has since 8ail
ed the seven seas, fought insurrec
tions in Egypt in which he was
wounded and captured by natlces,
fought London moneylenders, killed
big game in India, wandered thru
the Orient, lost a fortune in San
Francisco, dug ditches in Kansas
City, was a cawboy In TexaB. Okla
homa and Wyoming and became fa
mous as a broncho buster at fron
tier exhibitions, returned to England
fought the money lenders again,
then hurried back to New York. So
matrimony holds no terror for him.
It va. on that return to New
York that his Sir-ship announced
thi't he wanted a wife.
"She may look as she pleases if
she bts the tin." said he. 'I'll bar
none under TO." Ueting no applica
tions, he took tickets in a movie
theatre then turned janitor and got
religion.
The moonshiners here fought his
church idea, but the Rev. Mr Cave
Browne-Gave built in and won them
over. He and his bride are coming
to New York fwr their honeymoon,.
He is now an ordained minister and
has given up his estate In England
because of the heavy mortagages on
It.
FEDERAL COMMISSION FINDS
FOREIGN TRADE HAMPERED
BY ORGANIZATION INEFFECTIVE
(By United Pret.s)
Washington. Dec. 2. Legislation
permitting American exporter to
combine export trade Is urgently
recommended by the Federal Trade
Commission in an exhaustive report
on the foreign trade situation.
The world wide investigations of
this Commission show; first, that
"other nations have a marked ad
vantage because of effective organ
izations, second, that the fear of
legal restrictions prevent American
from developing equally effective or
ganization8 for business overseas,
ad that consequently the foreign
trade of this country 18 suffering.
Crime Decreases
In Bess City
The passing of the last two weeks
marks a new record in police court
anna!8 in Elizageth City.
Not in the ast five years certain
ly, possibly not since the police
court was established, ha, the
WILL PLAY BERKLEY
FRIDAY OR SATURDAY
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Elizabeth City highs will meet
the Berkley Rraves in a football
match next Friday pr Saturday. It
is epeted that the game will be
hotly contested as the locals are
;inxl us to avenge the defeat of
Thanksgiving Fifteen of the squad
will go BCiMnpanled by Mr. Ford,
the mch. It I hoped that as many
as can will take In the game and
girt th boys some support from
the grand stand, A large crowd U
anticipated. The game will be play
i4 on th? Navy grounds In Berkley,
so eventful and peaceful.
Only two casee have come before
Judge Sawyer within th last two
weeks and there wag conviction in
on'y one of these.
Judg Sawyer expressed the fear
that unless something happened in
his department the peopIe would be
gin to say ilmt the county had no
need of h police judge.
Friends assured him that the
pear-able and law abiding course
pursued by the citizens of the coun
ty under his administration, was the
best possible recommendation for
his continuance in office; as the
old saying that an ounce of preven
tion is worth A poun4 of cure ap
plies wth even mre force to crime
than to disease.
Mindful of the fct, however, that
eighty per cent 0ft.ta.e caseB coming
before him for trial have been di
rectly attributable to the drinking
or Belling of whiskey, the Judge hes
itates to appropriate all credit for
the quiet diys of peace that have
settled upon Pasquotank in these
latter times. He is bound tG won
der if the fart that Norfolk is dry
and thai the Pasquotank resident
has to grt his sacred quart from
Raltfmore or some more distant
point doesn't have some little bear
ing on the situation.
FUCK 1 CAPITAL
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CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS
GETTING READY TO BEGIK
BUSINESS MONDAY
(By United Press)
Washington, Dec. 2. Flve hun
dred members of Congress, with
hundreds of camp-followers in their
wake, invaded Washington today,
plngly and uy groups to take up the
business of the nation at noon Mon
day. Downtown U tela were filled to
capacity with the law-mr.kers. their
helpers and the usual gallery at
trat'el by the glamours of an open
lng s-tsion of Congress, featured
by a personally delivered message
from the President.
The Capitol Is newly washed and
renovated to receive the members.
Washington, used tto being a news
centre for legislative and political
news, brightened up at the prospect
of a lively, if short session between
tomorrow and March 4, when wi"'
sound the swan song of the sixty
fourth Congress.
While many older Representatives
and Senators in the confidence
heir office had established perma
nent homes here, and were able tc
,o at.ofice to their domiciles, oth
ers, dependent on hotels for accom
modation, scrambled with the ordi
nary public for rooms, and the at
CLOTHIIIG CAUGHT
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So Here's To ;
WakelForfest
The Ladies of White RoaVChav
ter Order Qf the Eastern Star haje
consented to serve A banquet to the
Alumni of Wake Forest college on
next Thursday night. One hundred
covers will be laid, and the ban
quet will be given in the llasonic
Hall. .',,
As thla will be fight ibout the
middle of Convention weeW It is
thought that a very- enjoyable even
lng will pfi had. Alurmtf'jfrom aft
over the state will b here.''
INFANT CHILD DEAD
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i ue im-iiii cui'u in Air, , anu irsy,.
irreemnn riled at their borne;.' to
x.rth PolndoxteT street Frlday.jn
tennent was tnsde In; the tamfly
burying ground- near. Broth ere
school house, jj' v ' '
WANTED Girl that can' r4 ptd
. write. .Apply 162 ,'i Po'n : iter
Street; A pt.0. j, 2
Since the c'ose of the memorable
session of last summer, climaxed
I y th . passage of the Adantson 8-
hour law, the Capital's legislative
building had been Inhabited princi-
pally by mice, and clerks, busy here
while the metniirrs bark home re '
built po itica fenceR (r found them
past rebuilding. In the Senate and
House office building, the. chief ac
tivity had been the swishing of
painters' brushes. In th0 Capitol,
the Supremo Court was the only
active agent except the Capitol
guides.
Seventeen Senators are attending
heir Ihm session. W. E Kirby, nam
ed to fill the unexpired term of the
late Senator Clarke of Arkansas,
was expected (0 be about the only
new novice In the Senate until
March B. Eulogies of Senator Clarke
who died during the recess, were
expected to be a part Of the Senate
business tomorrow or next day.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, Representative-elect
from Montana to suc
ceed Rep. Tom Stout, was the sub
Ject of much discussion. She Is not
here, as her term will not begin
up til' next session but members
Cbul( not wait. They faced such of
them- as will come back the pros
pect"jbf getting along for two years
withiithe first woman ever elected
to Congress without making any
breaks. One question as yet undecid
f d la' whether she' will be called the
"Lady from Montana." And Rep.
6tout;"wbpm the succeeds faced In
Iderttallji' the hardest assignment
c( al-alibing him&elf for defeat by
i" woman.
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Bold Bad Thief
Gets Glad Raiment
WELL KNOWN MAN AT BEL
CROSS SUFFERS SEVERE
HURTS IN UNUUAL ACCI
DENT
Gilbert Evans, of Belcross. about
thirty years old, was brought to the
Ellaabeth City Hospital Friday af
ternoon with broken arm and leg In
addition to severe bruises on head
and body. Mr. Evans' hurts were in
curred when he was "aught in the
machinery of a cotton gin at el
crosg Friday morning.
Mr Evans is foreman of the gin
of A. Sawyer at Belcross. As ho
was oiling the machinery yesterday
be stcoped to pass beneath the
shafting and. supposedly, straighten
lng up a fraction of a Becond too
eocn. had the tall of his coat caught
ty the shafting.The unfortunate man
was caught up, the clothing with
the exception of underclothes," socks
and Bhoes stripped from his body,
and then hurled to the floor a dis
tance of eight or ten feet.
Dr. R. L. Kendrick and Dr. O.
McMullan were called by telephone
and gave Mr. Evans prompt surgi
cal attention. They found his left
arm broken, aVove the elbow, the
right leg broken and lacerated be
low the kne?, fpractlca'evcry bit
of the skin scraped off his back, and
.ho-.taca. .UruixU-wt4-. -ite- mwsiTIeiT'
strained, and also a cut on the
head which, thought serious at first
was found to i bp only a scalp
wound.
The accident occurred at half
past ten o'clock Friday morning.
After Doctors McMullan and Ken
drick had dressed the hurts, ' the
southebound through train was stopp
cd and Mr. Kvans was brought to
the Elizabeth City hospital, where
he is now getting along as well as
could be expected.
greece mm
TO RESIST ALLIES
t (
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BELIEVED CONSTANTINE WILL
' NOT ACCEDE TO ALLIED Of
MAtiDS OF DISARMAMENT .
ARMISTICE EFFECTED
IS LATEST REPORT
, . : V e
(By UniUJ Press) '
London, Deo. 2.-1:20 p. nv
A Reuttr dispatch from the
Greek capital received hart thla
afternoon states jthat an armls-
tlce has been effected between
allied troops and the Greek re f
servists called to the colors bX
Klnq Constantlne.
Under the terms ofthe srmls
tlce the King has agreed to de-
liver six hundred batteries to
the allies and In their return ..
the allis have agree0 to with-
draw their troops from Athena
pending the reference of an a
greement to the allied govern
ments. " , e y
The Armistice has apparently
terminated thv Immediate crls's.
Western Union
To Install Office
Some person In this vicinity Is
hatter off today to the value of one
pair.-of shoe and several articleg of
clothing as the result of a theft
made last night from an oyster
.boat, lying at the foot of Main
street.
tVhe to.it belongs to Mr. K. D.
Mrdgett wbo a!s0 owned the artl-
leu "stolen. Ih and his brother,
reclf MlrtgpU, have been here for
several, days with a load of oysters,
they are rrbm Stumpy Point. The
boys went Op to take In tha show
and whlle waj the theft was
inade;..- :V.-Vr,'..v.'-
STEfkLtNtJ 1 - SILVER HATPINS
lw0 , fortwenty flv, cents, II, , C.
THeht Co!, Hinton building. - StM
During the sessions of the Bap
tist State Convention, which Is to
convene here next week .the West
ern Union will run Its wire directly
into the church building and main
tain an ottice In the church during
all sessions of the convention. This
office wll lbe In charge of Mr. .1. D
Sykes, who had charge of the West
ern Union's office in the First flau
tist church at the Convention's last
session here.
The telephone company will also
run Its wires Into the church build
ing during the Convention and the
Post Office will establish a branch
office In the building for th con
venience of the Convention's dele
gates .
GREGORY HAY
RESIGN OFFICE
(By United Pressi
Washington, Dec. 2. Official com
ment Is wltheld on reports that At
torney General Gregory will resign,
but close friends of the cabinet of
ficer torbiy stated that they would
nt he "surprised" at such an eventuality.
London, Dec. 2 That the die Will
be cast today in the Greek crisis
is the expectation here today.
Admiral De Fournet, according to
dispatches from Athena, hat grant
ed an additional day of grace for
the enforcement of hia demands of
ilsajmajnaftLJor ,tha AnfikJroQpaui
Meantimes X appears that killed
troops are pouring into tha country
around Athens. Several Important
clashes have already occurred with,
the Greek reservists caled to the
colors by King Constantlne.
l is said that preparations are'
being made to resfst disarmament
by "force .
BED
FOB THEIR DEFEAT
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LACK OF AMMUNITION AND
ARMS RESPONSIBLE POR LOSS
OF CHIHUAHUA CITY 18 THI
CLAIM
(By United Press)
Washington, Dec. 2 The Ameri
can embargo upon the shipment of
armH across the Mexican border
promises to become a llve issue be
tween this Government and Mex
ico. The Mexicans here frankly blame
the loss of Chihuahua City to Villa
on lack of ammunition and are not
pleased 'with the regulations. Am
bassador Arredondo has called the
attention of the State Department
to the situation.
. The United States can make spec
lal exemptions for the passage of
shipments across ,Jhe Mexican bord
er but this is rarely done, for fear
that such shipments may fall Into
the hands of the bandits and be
come a boomerang.
FOR HALK AT BARGAIN l'Inte
Glass Floor esse. Apply to II . C.
Bright Co., lllnton building. SM
Ladles suits beittlful In quality
and style. Special values that can't
be matched at any other store 1 1n
the' section. You'll find those, Iff
easy to eucks where at Mitchell's
Department Store, adv.. '
8END $22.80 'TO ORPHANS
ThP puiiils ofthe city High school
and Grammar school on Wednesday
morning contributed 122.80 to the
orphans. The amount was turned
over to Dr. Orlggs to be forwarded
to the Oxford Orphanage.
The students had als0 expected to
mak a contribution for the Pr of
the city, but found that The Asso
elated Charities had disbanded and
that there was no organisation to
whom such an offering could - ho
tnrjied over for disbursement. ',
WANTED Capable young man' to
do lenerat work in warehouse,
and office. N. 0. GRANDY,
' Foot of Matthews Street
Deo. i, 4, I.