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ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY "EVENING. JANUARY 17. 1917
Jcrman Raider Sinks
Twenty Two , Sliips
All Merchantnien Accord-
ing to Reports and - Last
Sliip Sunk Without Warn
irig With Loss of Four
Hundred Persons. -
SUrMllfORS LAHDiriG AT PERnAUBUCO
Rescued by Japanese Steamer Hud
sonMaru. News Goes by; Wire
From Pernambuco and Rio
' - i tBj United Press)
Buenos Aires, Jan. 17 The Ger
"man Raider, first thought to be the
VIneta, now reported as the Vined,
has eunk twenty merchant . steam
ers and two French schooners in
the South-Atlantic, according to
dispatches from Pernambuco and
Rio de 'Janerlo.
The last ship reported sunk was
sunk: without warning with the loss
of four hundred persons.
The Japanese Steamer, Hudson
Maru, ' landed sailors from five
steamers sunk by : the raider fif
teen miles from Pernambuce.
This latest German raider, on tha
face of present dispatches, sejs a
Tecord for destructlveness only ex
ceeded by the famous Emdsn, Ger
many's" prize raider. The Em
den sank 23 vessels besides the Rub
elan cruiser and French destroyer.
The new raider is now credited
with. 22 and is still at large. The
Germah raider Moewe captured 15
vessels, j The Kron : Print' Wil-
nelm, Prim , Eltet and Freledrica
Were other famous raiders.
ADMIRALTY. CONFIRMS
REPORT ; ;
London, Jan . 17 The . British Ad-,
mirality confirms ' the sinking of
eight BrltiBh and' two French mer
chantmen by the German raider in
the South Atlantic.
BELGIAN REPORTS
New . York, Jan. it The Befgian j
steamship ' Samland arriving from
Rotterdam' reports that she was
stopped . byvthe Raider on December
: 4th off the Irish coast but after
searching hef and finding that she
was a Belgian food ship the raldor
'allowed her to proceed.
The first warning from the Bri
tish Admiralty of the "raider was
flashed from warships on December
Vth, No definite reports were had
' until . press ' dispatches . were receiv
ed from South America. - .
' POSSIBLY THREE RAIDERS ,
The Admiralty statement now in
dicates that ,' there are possibly
three raiders , . at large, declaring
that the ' steamer St. Theodore
he captured was manned with a
prize crew and became a raider,
i and the British, steamer . Yarrpw
dale was captured , and 'a crew of
400 from other sunken vessels plac
ed aboard.
MRS. SKINNER "HOSTESS
Mrs. L. E. Skinned wag; hostess to
the Ladles Aid Society of Black well
Memorial church at her home on
- Ke'rth Road street Tuesday . after-
nooui ' , ' .
The treasurer : read the annual re
port which showed nearly four hun
dred dollars raised during the year..
The following officers for 117
reflected: President, ' Mrs. A. T.
Ty: vice president, Mrs. C. F.
n treasurer, Mrs. T. S. Dav
c'.,rort; secretary, Mrs.. C, BLvOrr.
T6mnies!Said
Take 'em Away
. London, Jan. 17 Signs printed In
German and hung in. Charing Cross
station have been -emoved by the
railroad authorities.'' , These . signs
merely caution German ' travellers
to "beware Of pickpockets", but the
wounded British .Tommies arriving
in hospital trains sairi ''hey grated
on their shattered nerves.,x
Odd Character
Of Southwest
.' (B United Prm)
El Paso, Tex, Jan. J?. They have
taken "Arizona Charley" away. No
more will the llghthearted trans
continental tourist catchv a glimse
of the bent, grizzled old. man trudg
ing' along the lonely tracks of the
desert as they t flash by. He was
one i the best known characters
of the Southwest ,
- - .
Twenty years ago -Arizona Char
ley" was an engineer on the South
ern Pacific. He resigned and began
walking the tracks over the five bun
dred mile stretch of desert between
Yuma, and El Paso, looking for brok
en rails. With a blanquet and. a
frying pan slung over his shoulder
he hag tramped his beat winter and
summer for tnty years, reporting
defects in the track to the nearest
section house. He has sever ridden
on a train since his wife was killed.
Nearly every .tourist over . the
southwestern- route has seen "Ari
zona Charley." Conductors and Pul
man i porters always point him out
as the train speeds past leaving
him a speck in the desert.
Of late yean the old man has be
come feeble and now the Cochise
county court has adjudged him in
sane , and . committed,'. him to the
state asylum.
Negro Man
Is Mystery
(ByVnlted Press)
Harrisburg, Pa., Jafl' 17 The mys
terious negro, John Nelson, who ap
peared from nowhere on Hallowe'en
night, 1915, rushed, up to J. B Sic
kler, a. farmer, and ptabled, him to
death for no apparent reason,,', will
get one more chance to talk to 'the
pardon board about hig death ' sen
tence.'.' Nelson" Is a well. ' educated,
intelligent cultured negorr about 60.
Some of his features are not Afri
can. He is a true 'man of mys
tery. - ITa SDneared suddenlv ont
jot the Carle wlJiout provocation at
No Witnesses
Were Heard
V
ishiag
(By United Press) ' ; t
Washington, Jan. 17 After "ar
ranging to extend the lite of the
House Note Leak ' Committee thirty
days, adjournment , was taken until
tomorrow without hearing any tea
timonj: today. ; " '
I The House unanimously author
ized the toafc committee to employ1
counsel and . accountants' and to
hold hearings' here and elsewhere.
Elsewhere may be. Wall Street.
SECt;V GROSBV
HI COUNTY SCDDLS
SPEAKING TO 'TEACHERS STU
DENT AND PATRONS THIS
WEEK ON COMMUNITY SER
VICE WORK IN PASQUOTANK
' Supt. w: M. Hintpn has secured
the co-operation of more than five
hundred helpers in the active work
of Community Service Month and
the campaign' is in full progress
this we 8k with Executive Secretary
W.' C. Crosby Speaking at schools
throughout the county.
Mr. Crostryaddressed the people
of the Rverside Community at Riv
erside School On Monday morning
at ten o'clock; Mr. Crosby spoke
at Berea at two o'clock in the after
noon on Monday; on Tuesday he
spoke at Brothers Schoolhuse at
ten o'clock and at Palmer school at
two o'clock; On Wednesday at ten
o'rlocit, his' engagements was; . at
Forks and at two o'clock at Perry'n
Bchool. '..'
At ten o'clock Thursday morning
Mr. ' Crosby will speak" at ( Oak
Grove and at two o'clock Thursday
afternoon at Sandy. Bidge, , . f
On Friday morning at! ten o'clock
Mr. Crosby will speak hL Salem
and again at two o'clock iir the af
ternoon, this being the date of the,
Farmers Institute at that placet .
On Saturday morning at eleven
o'clock Mr. Crosby will be in Eliz
abeth City and will be one of the
speakers at the Alkrama on Com-:
raunity Service program 1-. Dr Ran
kltt of the State Board of. Health
is,! expected at that time and the '
subject of preventable disease will
claim the attention of Community
Service workers..
HONOR ROLL FOR '
FOURTH fJOIIIII
NAMES'- OF . THtSE IN THE
1 FRONT RANKS . FROM FIRST
i GRADES TOs.. HIGH SCHOOL
, "TUDENTS
t
Will CkleWtfe;
Lee's Birthday
The U. D. C. with theJiigh
school pupils will carry out a very
attractive Southern program next
Friday afternoon at ' half past two
o'clock in the high school auditor
ium. . '' '
A speaker has been secured and
a number of interesting features
have been arranged. Tne pro
gram, given on the - birthday of
Robert E. Lev will also .commem
orate, the , birthday, of V Stonewall
Jackson, which follows on the 22,'
At one o'clock Friday the U. D.
C will serve i lunch to the Con
federate Veterans of the county at
the Y. M C. A. Building ."
INFANT CHILD DEAD
The Infant daughter of r- Mr. and
Mrs.. Ellas Williams wag buried
Wednesday afternoon at Corinth,
Rev. D. P. Harris conducting the
service. The little child had nev
er been well and its death occurred
Tuesday afternoon.
i Following Is the honor ' roll for
the - fourth - month of the "first
term in Elizabeth City schools. .
! , . . HIGH SCHOOL .
Thelma Sykes; t Ruth , Wnslow;
eari Hugnes; Mabal Bright: . Mar
garet LeRoy; Wilma Sample; Del-
la Williams ;vJanle ' Mercer:, Clar
ence Ashby; Graham Evans; Lloyd
Lane; Francis Seyfert.
.. ' . ..... . ... , , ...
v - GRAMMAR. 8CH00L
---- FOURTH GRADES
,' MISS HOLT, TEACHER Ruth
Bright, , Rebecaa Miller, Lavinla
Rogerson; Sarah - Carter; Oscar
Williams;. Thomas Johnson. ,
j , MISS OOBB, TEACHER : Eliza
beth LeRoy;. Elizabeth Harris; Mary
Harney Pritchord; Selma Madrin;
Ada Belangia; Mary Horner; Emily
Commander; Sarah Bray ;Mary Do
sier; William Britt ; v William . Dud
ley; Jambs Hill; Joseph Ferubee;
ICrausg, Walker.
MISS WEATHERLY, TEACHER:
Margaret HoUowell; Mary Lee
Jabkson: Leona Munden: Marga
ret Nash; . Nannie Mae Stokes;
Rachel Williams; Wllmer Bal
lard; tommie Gray; Harold Gibbs;
Burgess Perry; Edward Old; Ma
rion" Seyfert. : '
FIFTH GRADES
MISS. FAISON, TEACHER: He
len Dawson J Leona Griffin;" Lillie
Ma Harris; - Ida-Joaes; Elisabeth
Mann;. Elsie Pughi Rosa ' lies
Wood; Nellie Gray; Bradford San
ders; Elliott Ward; Marvin Wil
liams,'' ; i '
MRS. PEARSON,
Margaret Commander,- Maxine Fear
ing ; Evelyn Lamb; Ellen Mellck;
Helen , Li tte; Lillian Harris; - Mary
Trueblood;,. Catherine White; Al
bert., Bright; Lemuel Blades; Har
vey Dawson; Constant Fearing; Jd
lan Hill ;. Constant Fearing ; Sam
Hendersin i '' 4Zack Owens ; Oscar
Self ; , Stewart Wood.
MRS. ATWATER, TEACHER:
Maud. Sanders; Margaret Bondurant
Mary Hooper; Mary Copper;. James
Porter:. Wilborne Htrrell, Carlton
Woodley; .Earl Sutton! Guy White.
For National taj) JJO,
c;:.i,; i
Prohibition
TEACHER:
WANTED Copies V The Dai!y Ad
vance of the following dates: June
IB, August 4, :916.' ; , ; i
k . '-- i .... rr.
tacked three men standing , In front
ef a door and Slckler ( died frorrt
knife wounds.. . ,
Until two days before . he . had
never, been seen in the community.
He declines to talk about himself
or where he has been., . He has
manifested no interest in e?orts
to save him from tie f'-rtrla
chair,' ' i .,,'. . . ;" ,
SIXTH! GRADES
MISS LASSITER, TEACHER:
Annabel Abbott; Sarah Hill; MilH-
ceht . Hayman: Matein
Eva .Walstoa; Ranlel Lamb;
:"MISS JONES, TEACHER: Pa
tle Barclift; GuBflie Sample; Rosa-
He Stevenson; Alvlna Turner; Mil
dred Stokes i Charles Ashby; Wil
liam, Ballard: George Godfrv:
Lo'ufs Roughton; Larry Skinner.
OHOja BM;B ; mOA; .e4 I..ffl Ya
MRS. POOL, TEACHER: Ernes
tine . Ballance; Sybel , Benbury;
Ruth Bunch; Emily Commander
Leona Lewi-; Susie Rhodes; Ruth
Williams; Cecil Carter; fielby Cart-
wright; Weymouth Davis r Hav-
wood Duke; .Erskine Duff; Dennis
Oasklns; William, Prftchard; Clai
borne Qulnn. , j
SEVENTH GRADES
Margaret Chesson; Lottie Drink
water Elisabeth Etheridge; Eunice
Goodwin; Alma Hayman; Emily
Jennings; Margaret Mann; 4Laura
Prltchard; ; Gertrude iStokely; Gol
dl Stokes; Nellie Hastings; Doro
thy Zoeller; Sidney Evans; Billie
llouts; I Grafton tove; George
Owen; Claude Ward. . , 1
MISS' HARNEY. TEACHER: So
phia Davis; . Elizabeth Hathaway:
I Mildred 1Jnrhnm 'noil r
1 o-'--" t Wv.-1 f ilCI
He Meades; Esther Miller; Ghdys
Sexton; Frsnk Dawson; Wilbur
Gregory; Wergman Mundan:.' Chas,
Seyfert; Harris Parks. , r
. ' , PRIMARY SCHOOL
' FIRST GRADES
MISS GRIFFIN, TEACHER:
Dorrls Cartwright; Effle Lee Cox;
Ruth! Overman;. George Benbury;
William ' i Davis; Aubrey, Gallop;'
Carter Jennette, Hallle Payne, Ju
Han Raper. t . J ...
MiSS. STEVENS, TEACHER:
Vlrgilia Banks; Grace " Dudley;
Carrie Card; Flora Orijrss; Ksther-
The national organization of the
W,,, C. T. U. has set apart Thurs
day January 18th, as a Day of Pray
er for National Prohibition.
, The ' Elizabeth City W. C. T. U.
will hold tbres services on Thurs
day as follows:' On Thursday1 mdrn
ing at ten o'clock, at, Black well Me
morial, Church; at three-thirty p.
m. in the annex of the First Metho
dist church; at 7: SO" at the First
Baptist church.:, , ' , . j
Rev. C. A. Ashby will deliver
the address Thursday ' night. ...
Interesting, instructive and help
ful programs have .been arranged
for the three meet.ngsV Elizabeth
City people are urged, to ' attend
Jhese meetings and thereby express
their . Interest in this nationwide
movement for the betterment of hu
manity. t ....
GOOD, ROADS AND REF.
TIVEFEREBEE BOTH
LAR AT STATE CA
OTHER IMPRESSIONS C
GISLATURE
CHAPPEL CHAPEL
; Robert Sanford Chappel and
Bliss Ebbie Martha Chapel, both of
Providence township were' married
by Justice of the Peace. J. W. Mun
den Wednesday- ,
JBtokes; Olive Skiles; .-') Hallle
Silverthorn; Roy Boyce; Carl Com
mander; James Ferebee; ' Jesse
, ughes; John Kramer; Major Mor- L. r.,.,v a v
rlsette; Leslie , Pool: William Puck- lu.v
'Attorney p. HTillett of (
wag in the city Wednesday
way home from Raleigh v,l
has been " since Inareuretii .
and gave the, Advance, a few
ed but interesting 'impress
his visit and of the' work of th,
eral Assembly. - t ,
"Good roadg ' legislation is
popular this tefntf" said Mr. T.
"and 1 everything " on , good r
passes without-much controvert
, "Representative Ferebee of X
den, who is by the w.ay making i
generally in the. legislature, has i
sed his Road Commission Bill wl
names E, Mitchell of Old Trap, ..
B. Williams of Shlloh. W. S. I
ry of Belcross, D. E Williams
South Mills and C. Tl'4 Hodges t
South Mills as Commissioners, r,
grantes them - the privilege of t
rowing $10,000 to begin the work c
food roads immediatey, and ' r.
vldeg for a valuation tax of 10 to i
fer cent and a poll tax of three p.
cent The bill Is modeled after t:
ett; Selby Stokes; La Verne
son; Charlie Spear: Milton
Robert Williams;; Hallet
Hams. '
MISS ZOELLER,
Josephine Britton;
Margaret ' Fearing;,
Simp
Self;
WU,
TEACHER:
Lydia Cahoont
Rutlii; Jones
Julian, Aydlett;
Thomas Harris;
Charles Munden;
Bertrand White;
Theresa Swain:
Winfield Baker;
Francis Jacobs;
Fearhtf Owens:
I Nathan White.
' MRS FEARINO TEACHER:
Ruth Dosief; Inez Hill; Louise Har
ris; Cornelia x Jenkins; Monterey
Lomax; Belle MUler; Frances Mc
Clenny; Clara Pritchard; Julia Tut-
tie; Vivian Turner; John Chad wick
Rolllds Daniels ;" Elijah " Hai
rel; Monford Jones; Ty.er Sawyer,
MRS. BROOKS. TEACHER:
Nellie Boseman; Sudie Baker; Vio
let Baker; Mary Dudley; Len
Bell Hopkins; KaUe . Rogerson ; No
rean Williams; Henry Bartlett; Ray
Davis; Sam Forbes; Adam Lay
den; Charles Twiddy; Lee Richards
SECOND GRADES
MISS WILLIS, TEACHER:
Mary Gladden Gregory; Helen
Leigh; Virginia LeRoy; Anne Me
llck;, Emma Owens; Evelyn Shores,
Maxine Sheppard; Ruth Williams;
Roy Berry; Blacknall Cooke; Cur
tis Forbes; Bobbie Fearing: Biilie
Fearing; Rosooe Foreman; Wood
ward Hu?hes; Wesley Sheap.
MISS BELL, TEACHER : Helen
Kramer; Mary Owens; Bessie Hor
ner; Lillian Twiford; Oretha Mitch
(By United Press Ji '
Durham, Jan. 17 FJre of un
explained origin drove :. the occu
pant, of the Bahama .Agricultural
I aL r J' MarRaret f6"8! ' the snow-povered streets in their
Allen Bell; Rufus Bundy: Wil- I
v
Camden County expects to accom
plish ('substantial sesults in ro.v!
improvement within the netx twelve
months.," "
- Speaking of the prohibition bl'.I
Mr. .THlett said that the bill a
drawn by Senator Weakley of'A!
kama-W'aJrUghtnd.r.l ('
less1 be modified before., its pass...
is' secured) but that a ' strong pro
hibition bill, will pass.
Of Mr. Bryan and his personality
he was most enthusiastic and said
that' Mr. Bryan'a audience were re
strained with much difficulty . from
continued applause even within the
stately and ecclesiastical wallg ot
the First Baptists churchof Ral-
Sigh. " ! "
Mr.V Tillett's greatest ' measure of
praise however was reserved . for
North Carolina's governor, Thomas
Walter BIckett. ' Ot the inaugura
tion address he said," "It was count
ed among1 the great ' inauguration
speeches' of the State; and few if
any criticisms have been made " of
any measures which Mr "BIckett
proposed." : '
Pupils Driven
f- 4r C-avw-f
lard Jackson; Clarence Pritchard;
David Straughanj Archie Turnflr.
, MRS ETHERIDGE, TEACHER:
Margaret , Conneryi Susie '
Edna Morrisette; Julia Sawyer; tva
Mae : sprulli;. Martha White; Mar
vin Cartwright; "toward Jackson;
LeRoy Tillitt.
THIRD GRADES
The building . was totally destroy
ed and most" of their" personal be
longings lost, but no one was in
Jured, ',.-" , ',;(' f.
SALE BEGINS THURSDAY
The big Muslin , Underwear Sale
of the 8. R. Biff Comnanv ' hesrtns
MM MARSHALL ,TEACHEIl:-i 71n4If January ,I8th and., lasts
Winn us t,a wiiu wsuf . yeiiiui ui-
known Dove
OUvla Benton; Katie Carter; , Viv
ian Copeland; ... Roth Gasklns Wal
ter BetU; Frank Homer; vThomas
Jennings; , Ernest Williams,
MISS FEREBEE. TEACHER:
Katherine Davis; Sarah Helen Lew
Is; Annie Midgettf Eunice Over
man; Mary Tarkington; , Elizabeth'
Williams; Mary Whit .Winslow;
Laurence Aydlett; Charlie Price;
Edward Duntan. , .
MRS. SKINNER,' ..TEACHER:
Minnie Lee Brockett; Lydia Craw
ford;' Camilla JennetteLurlle jen
nette; Mary Louise Jones; Mary
Meekins; Bonnie j Parks: Ada Pal
mer; Margaret W. 8awyer; Ma
Kgaret E. Sawyer, ' Annie Seeley,
Camilla Hobklns; MarJorie Skin
ner; Elisabeth Thompson.; Louise
White; Lillian Wllklns; Carroll
Abbott; Vernon Chappell; Walter
Cobdo!; Kennedy IIots!; V -
ferlngs in the v well
Dove UnJeTmuBllns are. noted for
thejr exqulslt trimmings and sheer
fabrics and at thli irIa will nln a
reputation also for their moderate
prices. ' ....
To offer something better., than
the average, this . Is the ... idea of
the S. R. Slff' Company when it
advertises i Sale or a' Bargain,
and shoppers will be delighted to
find, at this sale the most satisfying
bargains to be . had ( anywhere in
undermuslins. . ." df
IVES MOTHERHEAD
Moyock, Jan. M6 Mr. Tennyson
A. Ives and Miss; Minnie Me"
head, both ef rrinco r
, Vi.,