In the colnmna of this paper you
will find the Advertisement! of alert,
progressive jnerchanta and manu
facturen who are telling you some
thing they believe you ought to
know.
WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and Sun
day, gentle shifting winds.
VOL 4
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1919.
No. 147
fc MATHIAS ERZBERGER SENDS NOTE TO
V PRES. CLEMENCEAU OF CONFERENCE
Asks Immediate Admission to League of Nations,
Limitation Of indemnity and that Ex-em
peror Be Let Alone
Berlin, June 21. Mathias
probable head of the new German peace delegation, is reported
to have sent a note to Clemenceau as President of the Peace
Conference, asking whether the
iate admission of Germany to the League of Nations, consent to
the limitation of Germany's indemnity to a hundred billion
marks in gold, and renounce the effort to have former Emperor
William surrender.
The note does not say whether Germany will sign the
treaty but the inference seems clear that she will accept the
treaty if these concessions are made.
ASK ABOUT PREPARATION CLAUSES
Paris, June 21. The Council of Four has received a note
from the German delegation asking if Premier Clemenceau's
note explaining the preparation clauses is binding as a part of
the treaty and has the same force as the treaty itself.
GERMAN SENTIMENT FAVORS SIGNING
Berlin advices to the American peace delegation summar
izing the situation in Germany up to midnight show that senti
ment thruout Germany favors accepting the peace terms. South
ern German states are favorable to the acceptance while the
Prussian regions are maintaining some opposition.
TO FORM NEW CABINET ,
President Ebert requested
cialist leader, to form a new
German cabinet.
Later dispatches say that
Mueller having failed to form
the new cabinet, Dr. Eduard
David, former President of the
National Assembly, has been
asked to assume the task.
LLOYD GEORGE ILL
Premier Lloyd George is con
fined to his room with a severe
sore throat.
SAMEL GOMPERS
IS RE-ELECTED
Atlantic City, June 21. Samuel
Gompers was today elected President
of the Federation of Labor.
In his Ipeech Gompers said that
his election was American labor's
answer to Its traducers and oppon
ents. YOU CAN LEARN A LOT
- FROM ADVERTISING
The main thing an advertiser
wants to do is to tell you plain-
ly Just hew and why his goods
are worthy of your consldera-
tion. You can learn a great deal
from that alone, because many
things you see advertised are
the things you buy and use In
your regular dally life. By read-
lng the advertisements, you can
learn the names and read des-
criptions of the things that are
best and most satlsfaotrcy.
But advertising teaches even
more than that. All advertisers
try to make their advertise-
ments themselves valuable to
you. r
, A good many people have
k learned a whole lot about good
' music, good books, good food,
good clothes, ways to keep
healthy, ways to live comfort-
ably, ways to keep the house
and grounds looking well they
have learned all these things
' and many other things just by
reading advertisements.
' Read the advertisements
right along, and you will learn
a great deal that will be help-
, ful and valuable to you aa you
go through life.
The whole story of the popularity
of Sellg's jewelry lies in. the fact that
most people give Sellg's jewelry the
' preference. !, .,.'.vv''U-''
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, JFred and .Howard Whaley of Bel
crosa were here Thursday.
Erzberger, mentioned as the
Allies will agree to the immed
VlMM IWINIfK
LANDS IN U. S.
(By Associated Press)
New York, June 21. It Is an
nounced here that Prof. Eduard De
Valera, President of the Irish Sinn
Fein republic has landed in America
and will be tri New YolK City Sun-'
day. Apartments have been en
gaged at the Waldorf Astoria.
BULL FIGHTING IS
PASSING IN MEXICO
Mexico City, May 24. (Correspon
dence of The Associated Press.)
The Teatro El Toro, once one of the
most pretentious of bull-fight arenas,
is now the home of grand opera as
a result of President Carranza's de
cree that bull-flghts should cease.
Interspersing grand opera, dancers
and concert artists have appeared In
the arena and it Is stated that these
various forms of amusement will be
offered until some definite action is
taken as to the future of bull-fighting.
It was in this arena that what is
said to be one of the most remark
able spectacles in the history of the
sport was staged. A bull El Bonito,
known as one of the fiercest fight
ers, on being brought into the arena
charged and killed three horses and
as many men without being touched
by the estoque of any matador.
As the bull stood bellowing de
fiance and with no one apparently
willing to attack him, Miguel Ballo,
a plcadar who has a spectator in one
of the boxes, leaped unarmed into
the enclosure. In his outstretched
hand he carried two lumps of sugar
which he nonchalantly offered to the
bull. The animal suddenly ceased
Its bellowing and In a tew moments
docilely licked the sugar from Ballo's
hand. The latter returned un
harmed to his box amid the plaudits
of the spectators. ;
STEAMER GROUNDED
IN FOG EARLY TODAY
. j
(By Associated Press)
New Bedford, Mass., June 21.
The steamer Northaldn, from New
York to Boston, Bastard's Bay Line,
was grounded in the fog early to-day.
Passengers numbering 860 were
taken off by a tug and small boats
and landed here.
STATE OF SIEGE IN
MUNSTER DISTRICT
' (By Associated Press)
Cologne. June Ji. A state of
lege baa. bees declared In the Man
ter district because of Spartacan
disturbances.'
PREPARING FOR
GLORIOUS 4TH.
A telephone message from
Secretary Case at Norfolk re
ceived at The Advance office at
one o'clock said: .
"We've got two hydroplanes
from the Naval Air Station for
the Elizabeth City Fourth of
July celebration.
"The planet will arrive at
about eleven o'clock that morn
ing, will give exhibit flight
over and about the city and
land where everybody can tee
them well.
"We're going to have a big
day."
Mr. John Long, an expert in the
staging of celebrations, is in the city.
He was sent here by the War Camp
Community Service for the purpose
of assisting the Chamber of Com
merce in Elizabeth City's big fourth
of July demonstration.
Mr. Long can be seen at the
Chamber of Commerce offices, where
he will be 'till after the celebration.
Citizens of this community are in
vited to call and meet him.
Mr. Long, and L. D. Case, Sec
retary of the Chamber of Commerce
left for Norfolk this morning, for
the purpose of securing a hydroplane
as one of the attractions for the
Fourth. An effort will be made to
get several machines. The War
Camp Community Service is co-operating.
FRATERNAL ORDERS
ORGANIZING W. S. S.
Washington, D. C, June 19.
More than 1,600 lodges of fraternal
orders in the Fifth Federal Reserve
District have endorsed the thrift
movement of the United States
Treasury Department and are organ
ising war pavings societies. These
lodges, according to figures given out
today by the War Loan Organization
of the district have more than 136,-
000 members. Not only are the mem
bers joining war savings societies
but the lodges are investing their
treasury funds in War Savings
Stamps.
In Maryland societies are being or
ganized in some 300 lodges with a
membership exceeding 8 4, 000, among
the orders represented being the
Knights ot Pythias, Shield of Honor,
Maccabees, Red Men, Knights of the
Golden Eagle, Woodmen of the
World and Knights of Columbus.
Woodmen of America in Virginia
are heartily co-operating In the thrift
movement. The 210 lodges are or
ganizing war savings societies among
their 7,435 -members, while In North
Carolina nearly 700 lodges are act
ively supporting the campaign. Those
lodges have a total membership of
about 69,000) representing the Sons
and Daughters of Liberty, the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows and
the Junior Order of United Ameri
can Mechanics.
South Carolina Knights of Pythias
the Red Men and the Odd Fellows :
are lending valuable aid. These
orders have more than 300 lodges In
the Palmetto State with a member
ship running well in excess ot 12,-
000.
Plans are now being made by the
Fifth District War Loan Organiza
tion to seek the co-operation ot many
other lodges. It is particularly de
sired to have the fraternal orders be
hind the sayings movement for the
reason that many ot the most prom
inent and influential men in every
community are lodge members and
their support of the United States
Treasury's campaign not only helps
the . government and benefits the
lodges but Is especially beneficial to
the members of the war savings so
cieties individually. Their example
is expected to stimulate thrifty
habits on the part of the rest of the
population.
AMERICA TO
DEPORT RADICALS
New tork, June 21. It was dis
closed here today that the govern
ment is considering the wholesale de
portation of Bolshevik! anarchists
and other radicals, using the re
turned troopships ' to take them to
their native lands.
SURFMENHERE
ONTO WEEK
Distinguished Visitors In City
During Annual Meeting of
Surfmen's Association
Distinguished men will be In Eliz
abeth City Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, June 24th, 25th, and 26th.
The occasion bringing them here
is the annual meeting of the Surf
men's Mutual Benefit Association.
Elsworth P. Berthof, Commodore
Commandant of the United States
Coast Guard, who Is the head of
that service in the nation, will be
here. Oliver M. Maxam, former As
sistant Assistant-General Superinten
dent of the United States Life Saving
Service, Congressman John H. Small
and Congressman E.' E. Holland, Sec
ond District of Virginia, have prom
Ised to attend the meeting.
The Coast Guard will be well rep
resented. Captain Edgar Chadwlck
is in charge of the meeting and an
ticipates that scores of the men of
the Coast Guard will be in Elizabeth
City next week.
The great social feature will be
the banquet Wednesday night. This
will probably be given under the
auspices of the Elizabeth City Cham
ber of Commerce, and will be open
to all who may wish to attend. The
distinguished visitors mentioned
Jibove will each speak, and local men
have promised to participate.
NEW DEPARTMENT
ROAD ENGINEERING
West Raleigh, N. C, June 19. To
meet the great and growing demand
for competent highway engineers In
North Carolina, the State College has
created a new department ot high
way engineering. The present de
mand for such a course is empha
sized by the fact that ejl ot this year's
graduates .in civil engineering are
going tnto state highway work. Cap
tain Harry Tucker, 105th Engineers,
who recently returned from France,
wnl head the new department, as
associate professor of highway en
gineering. This department Will a' sub
division ot the civil engineering, de
partment. The first three years of
the course will be practically Identi
cal with that of civil engineering, but
In the senior year the subjects of
least importance will be omitted or
abridged and the resulting time de
voted to specialized courses in high
way engineering. These courses are
to be such that the student who
specializes in highway engineering
will receive a well balanced training
along the lines of general civil engi
neering at the same time.
The prospectus of the course in
cludes engineering geology, with
spclal reference to materials used in
masonry and highway construction;
manufacture, use, and properties of
lime and Portland cement; methods
and costs of constructing founda
tions, dams, retaining walls, arches,
piers, and the masonry structures of
road building; study of road mater
ials found in North Carolina; study
of methods and materials used for
the construction of country roads
and city pavements; maintenance of
roads and pavements; economics of
highway location and construction;
surveys, plans, and estimates for a
section of country roads; study of
the road laws of Europe, National
road laws, and the road laws of
North Carolina; taxation and
methods of financing roadwork; re
lation of good roads to the economic
and social welfare of the people;
specifications, business law and the
law of contracts; reconnoissance, pre
liminary and location survey tor a
section of road, which Is cross-sectioned
and the earthwork computed,
and complete plans and estimates
prepared, Including a mass diagram;
location of highways and special
problems In highway engineering;
and the testing of materials used in
road building, Including sand, clay,
cement, and bituminous materials.
Special students, who have the
proper foundation, will be permitted
to take the work in highway engi
neering In one year, supplementing it
with some of the other courses In
civil engineering. This permission
will be granted only to those having
the proper training to form the
groundwork for the special course.
GLIDEWELL HUDSON
Daughter of Prof, and Mrs. S.
L. Sheep Weds Prominent
'Reidsville Man
The marriage ot Mrs. Pauline Hud
son to Mr. T. W. Glldewell was
solemnized Saturday morning at five
o'clock at the home of Prof, and Mrs.
S. L. Sheep on West Main street.
The home was beautifully decor
ated with palms and ferns, and af
ter the ceremony, which was per
formed by Rev. H. M. Preesley,
pastor of Cann Memorial Presbyter
ian church of this city, a wedding
breakfast was served. The bride was
attended only by her dame of honor,
Mrs. M. Leigh Sheep, and the groom
by his best man, Mr. Benjamin Trot
ter of Reidsville. Only the immed
iate family were present. After the
wedding breakfast Mr. and Mrs.
Glidewell left on the early train for
their wedding tour after which they
will make their home in Reidsville.
Mrs. Glidewell is the daughter of
Prof, and Mrs. S. L. Sheep and has
many friends here and thruout the
state.
Mr. Glidewell Is a prominent at
torney of Reidsville and represented
his district in the State Senate this
year.
MERCHANTS ARE
ALL INTERESTED
The local merchants are all inter
ested in the proposed Merchants'
Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
and the meeting at the Chamber's
offices Tuesday night, June 24, prom
ises to be a large and enthusiastic
one.
A committee on organization has
been at work, and the response has
been most gratifying. The By-laws
have been prepared, and provide for
certain things Elisabeth City has
long needed.
Every merchant in this city is
urged to remember and set aside
Tuesday night, June 24. The meet
ing will be held at 8 o'clock.
PROTEST AGAINST
WILLARD FIGHT
(By Associated Press)
New York, June 21. Every state
superintendent of the Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions is urged by
the Board to send messages io Con
gress asking that the Governor of
Ohio be asked to forbid the dese
cration of the Nation's holiday thru
the holding of the Willard-Dempsey
fight on July the Fourth.
COUNTY TO VOTE
ON STOCK LAW
Pasquotank County will vote on
August 6th on the Stock Law. The
election will liven matters up thru
ouc the county. Effort ws rauCe by
those favoring the stock law M get
Representative W. O. Sanndr j to pn
it over in the last legislator?. Mr.
Saunders thought it best to '.eave U
to popular vote, and now everybody
is excited on the matter, pro and
con, and to date there is little tell
ing which way the wind really blows.
COAL MINERS
BACK TO WORK
(By Associated Press)
Paris, June 21. Striking coal
miners returned to work everywhere
In France today with the adoption of
the bill applying the eight hour day.
NEW CABINET
FORJTALIANS
(By Associated Press)
Rome, June 21. King Emanuel
has requested Franesco Nittl, former
Minister of Finance, to form a new
cabinet, succeeding that of Premier
Orlando, according to a semi-official
newspaper.
HILL MEET MONDAY
The Mateca Council No, 10 will
meet Monday night at J;10 for a bus
iness meeting. , All Pocahontas mem
bers are urged to be present.
WATCHWORD NOW
PREPAREDNESS
Recent developments along
ooraer unange Attitude or
Watchful Waiting
(By Associated Press)
Washington, Juns 21. Re
cent developments along the
border and within Mexico, it
iwas learned officially today, has
brought radical change in theN
aiuiuae oi tne united states
toward Mexico.
It pan hp ar.ar.ari rViof "wofli '
ful waiting" has been discard
ed for "watchful prepared-'
ness."
'Ihe war Department has
perfected plans to throw a
punitive expedition of ade
quate strength across the Rio
Clra rAd of Vm mmanf n f
viiuauv tug 111 VAllC HI; VilC JXm
ficial word is received of re
prisals on the part of Villa for
me juarez incident.
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SIXTY BODIES '
ARE RECOVERED
(By Associated Press)
San Juan, Porto Rico, June 21.
Sixty bodies have been recovered
from the ruins of the movie theatre
at Mayaguez, destroyed by fire on
Thursday night. A hundred and
fifty were injured, many of whom
will die. Women and children were
trampled to death In the panic.
CHILDREN SAVE
MANY THOUSANDS
Washington, D. C, June 19.
More than 16,000 school children la
the District of Columbia have joined
war savings societies and are busy
turning loose change into Thrift and
War Savings Stamps, according to a
report just filed with the War Loan
Organization for the Fifth Federal
Reserve District by Miss MargaJ
E. Wbltzell, field director of tf
Educational Division for the Dlstril
of Columbia.
More than 700 societies have been!
formed, and their savings Invested In
Thrift and War Savings Stamps ex-f
ceed $13,600. This Is considered an
Unusually fine record and lends ma- I
terlal encouragement to the 1919 V
savings movement. Miss Whltieu
reports that the Wilson Normal
acnooi, wnere me uisirici oi Colum
bia teachers are trained, is doing ex- 1
centlonallv rood work in dsvelonlnf
and furthering the thrift principles.
The Minor Normal School where
colored student-teachers are trained.
Is also making its Influence felt,
Miss WhIUell says. ,
One of the great aids to the sav-
Inn nlan in thfl lower arradea of the
public schools appears to be the
Penny Savings Book. This is given -
to the pupils and for every cent
saved and deposited toward the pur
chase of a Thrift Stamp a little7 pic
ture of Benlamln Franklin Is stamned
in the book. In the Washington
schools Immediately after the books.
mrnwn I n is no1 Vt A savin trm 4ft t h A
schools practically doubled. So well
Is the savings program underway
In the National Capital that a plan
is now being worked out by which
school buildings as stamp centers
will be kept open during the sum-
mer.
AMENDMENT DEFEATED
BY JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Washington, June 21. The pro
posed amendment prohibiting the en
forcement of the bill giving the
President authority to repeal the
war time prohibition act In so far aa
It affects the sale of light wines and
beer was defeated by the Honse Judi
ciary Committee today.
ON HONOR ROLL
Ma,rvln Mann, Seldon Mann, Earl
Sutton and Joseph Pool are on The
Advance Honor Roll this week.
READ our Hooslened In thla is
sue. Call and see the Hoosler. M.
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