- "MY SOX, '
deal with men
who advertise,
you will never
lose Jy it."
Benjamin Franklin:
WEATHER
Fulr tonigM and Tuesday, warmer
tonight except on the north coast,
war iiier Tuesday, central portion
r , '"rcte northeast to east winds.
VOL. 4
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTET.! CER 23, 1019.
NO. 230
SAVINGS BANK & TRUST COMPANY
PURCHASES IMPOSING NEW BUILDING
Store Now Occupied By The S. R. Siff Company
Will Be Quarters of Progressive Banking In
stitution as Soon as Extensive Alterations
Can Be Made
One of Elizabeth, City's handsomest and most modern bus
iness buildings changed hands with the purchase of the store
now occupied by the S. R. SilT Company by the Savings Bank
& Trust Company.
ihe deal, negotiations on
which were begun weeks ago,
was completed Saturday and
the deed has now been filed,
giving the Savings Bank and
Trust Company clear title to
the property.
The Savings Bank & Trust
Company will use all or most :
of the first floor of this build
ing, standing at the intersection
of the city's two busiest streets, j
s its banking quarters. Plans
for extensive alterations are al-
-
eady being prepared and will
..,,t ,t-: ...;tu n
jj uu Mauuu W1LU the rioting here is still in a criti-
.possible promptness. When caI cond;ti0n this morning, re
carried out these plans will give porls f rom the hospital indi-
' the bank one of the handsomest - cate
and beat equipped banking
. houses to be found in all this
section. Definite announcement
' as to the exact time when these
alterations will be undertaken
has not yet been made.
It may be expected, however, that
the Savings Hank & Trust Company
will waste no time in getting into its
new quarters. Though enlarged
within the last few years, the present
quarters of this progressive banking
institution are already outgrown.
The Savings Bank & Trust Com
pany was organized in 1903, with a
capital stock of $25,000.
In 1915 the capital stock was im-
creased to $40,000 when the Mer-
cantile Hank was merged with the
Savings Bank & Trust Company.
On July 1st, 1918 the capital
stock was Increased to $100,000 and
the present resources of the institu
tion aggregate about one and a quar
ter million dollars. k
It Is this rapid growth that for
some time has made the need of a
larger and better equipped banking
house apparent. In the acquisition
by the Bank of the' very desirable
building and site that it now owns
Mr. Harry O. Kramer, Cashier, has
seen plans that he has cherished and
worked for for years brought to fruit
ion. Besides Mr. Kramer, the Cashier,
ta.ie other officers of the Savings
. Wank and Trust Company are: P. H.
vMlliams, President; E. P. Aydlett,
face President; and W. H. Jennings,
Assistant Cashier:
The directors are: E. F. Aydlett,
L. S. Blades, H. E. Banks, J. W. Fore
man, J. B. Flora, C. E. Kramer, W.
T. Love. J. T. McCabe, W. W. New
bern. L. Sellg, A. Sawyer, J.H. White,
P. H. Williams, J. Q. A. Wood. W.
J. Woodley.
The building to be occupied by the
Savings Bank & Trust Company
: lands at the strategic business cen
ter of the town. Rising to a height I
of three stories and the newest of j
the four buildings on the four corners
of the intersecting streets, it overtops
r. I. . . 1 1 '1 1 i rro rxn ta rttam It n.li ann
IC uuillllligo vj ii nn vi tt ii uiuun miu
the buildings which face it on every
side. Its situation thus fittingly
symbolizes a bank's place in the bus- .
Vess life of its community.
The building which Is now to be
come the Savings Bank and Trust
Company building was built by E. F.
Aydlett and it was from him that the
property was acquired by the Bank,
ADVERTISING
A
ft ONE OF
THE SIGNS
AYOU ARE IN
BUSINESS
MAYOR SMITH
NOTDEAD YET
Reported Dead Last
Night Had Recovered
Consciousness This
Morning
(By Associated Tress)
Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 29.
Mayor Smith, who was in-
' : I i I... ...U tL. L
jurcu ycsicruay whch uic tiivu
lcttempted to jynch him during
It is stated that the Mayor
has recovered consciousness but
his physicians say it is too early
to mako a definite statement re
garding his condition.
The latest reports of the riot
ing estimate injured all the way
from forty-five to sixty.
Only two persons were killed
the negro who was lynched and
one white man.
GENERAL WOOD TO
SCENE
Washington, Sept. 29. Maj.
General Wood, Commander of
jne Central
Department, was
directed by Secretary Baker to
proceed to Omaha today where
Federal troops were sent last
night to quell the riot.
CITY QUIET TODAY
Omaha, Nebraska, Sept. 29.
After a night of mob rule
during which a negro was
lynched; an attempt made to
hang the Mayor of .Omaha,
Edward Smith; the county
courthouse burned; one man
shot and killed; and probably
forty injured, the city is quiet
today under the patrol of Fed
eral Troops.
The Mayor is at a hospital
and was stil unconscious early
today as the result of an at
tempt made by the moS to
hang him because he advised
against lynching the negro who
was in jail charged with at
tacking a white girl.
SHIPSTOENGLAND
ARE NOT TO SAIL
I
; . . Board CanccU Sa;H
- "
Orders Account of the Rail
way Strike. Situation Im
proved, However
(By Associated Press)
Washington, Sept. 29. All sailings
to Great Britain have been cancelled
by the Shipping Board on account of
the stralke of railway operators here.
j London, Sept. 29. Improvement
in the situation created by the gen-
erai strike of railway workers 1b an
nounced In official quarters this morn
ing. Distribution of food is being made
without friction and volunteer help
is being offered freely.
BEAUTIFUL MODELS IN LADIES
Dresses In all Rises and newest
styles, and In all colors; Taffeta
811k, Jersey Cloth, Satin Charmeus
and Serge. Tney are me season's
sensational bargain at f!9.7.
' MITCHELLS.
MR. J. U. LAMBERT
DIE3 SATURDAY
.Mr. J. V. Lambert, formerly of
Elizabeth City, died Saturday at
noon at his home in Clarksville,
Georgia, after a year's illness.
Mr. Lambert was superintendent
of the Norfolk and Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph Company here
for a number of years. When his
health failed he went to New Mexico
and other western points, but was
brought back to his old home in
Clarksvillf this summer with little
improvement.
His brother, V. R. Lambert of this
city had spent a week with him and
had just returned when the message
came telling of his death. His other
brother here, Mr. E. J. Lambert, left
as soon as the message came, to at
tend the funeral, which was probably
held today.
Besides these two brothers, he is
survived by his wife, and by three
sisters, Mrs. W. R. Moore of Black
shear, Georgia; Mrs. J. H Asbury
and Miss Myrtle Lambert of Clarks
ville, Georgia.
Mr. Lambert had many friends in
Elizabeth City who sorrow with his
loved ones in their bereavement.
WILSON SPENT
RESTLESS NIGHT
But Sic ;;!n- Quietly this Morn
ing. .'iwi'-ucnt Will Not Re
ceive King And Quc n Unlil
Their Return From Tour of
Country
(By Associated Press)
Washington, Sept. 29. President
W.lson spent a restless night but is
lei ping quietly this morning. Ad
:i: riil (Jviyson. the Pre -id -lit "s per
sonal physician, announced today.
The President will not receive
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth at
the White House until they return
from their tour of the United States
is a further announcement from the
White House this morning. The
President will remain in complete se
clusion for the present, says Secre
tary Tumulty.
BOSTON FIRST
Boston will be the lirst city visited
by the King and Queen when they
leave New York this week on their
tour of the United Slates. They will
visit Boston next Saturday.
BRITISH TRAINS
11 ft WllVC DftWIVhNaV'V' '"' Look 0('cas:on ,0 ''"Press
uLUIllilU 11 fill his. conviction that the naulon never
will return to its old standard of life.
London, Aug. 26. (Correspondence The tendency, often pronounced on
of The Associated Press.) British j the part of returned fighting men,
trains are slowing down and in some
instances hours are being added to
Journeys.
This is particularly true of trains
going out of London. The pre-war
time of a train from London to Bir -
mingham was two hours. Now it Is
two hours and a half. To Liverpool
the pre-war time was three hours
3 minutes, now It Is four hours and
a half.
The northeast coast has suffered
severely. The Sf express service,
formerly the best tall, is now looked
upon as quite thworst. For exam-
ple the Journey from Euston station
to Aberdeen, which during the rail
road race in August 1895 was ac
complished in 8 hours 32 minutes,
now occupies nearly 14 hours.
The trains which carry pleasure
seekers to the coast resorts in the
south also have slowed down, and
some of the best have disappeared,
never to return under government
control, many persons believe.
Opponents of government control;
point out that only one company baa
emerged from the war with an im -
proved service the Southeastern &
Chatham. As long as any one can
remember the Kentish lines were
spoken of with ridicule and abuse.
but for the summer of 1919 Kent is
the only part of the country enjoying
an express service which is better
than the best provided before the
war.
WILLIAMS' SINGERS
HERB ON WEDNESDAY
The Williams' 8!ngers, colored,
who were so much enjoyed her last
rear, will glTe a concert at ML Le
banon church, Wednesday night, Oc
tober 1st
Two hundred seata hare been re-
served for white people.
FOUR MEN ARE
BADLY BURNED
: lerult of Explosion on Des
troyer Green eff Key West
Yesterday
(By AsMiciuieU Press)
Key West, Sept. 29. Four men
were severely burned by an explosion
in th boiler room of the destroyer
Greene off Key West yesterday.
Vessels with physicians have gone
to the aid of the destroyer.
Reports from the Greene gave no
details.
SAYS T WORK
MUST GO
Wash.ngton. Sept. 27. Speaking
officially for the I'nited States Navy.
Assistant Secretary. Franklin D.
Kooeveh declares that the Depart
ment is opposed to the withdrawal
of the Voting Men's Christian Asso
e'atior.s as a welfare work agency
with the Nay. The War Department
has been d scums in-.; the possible dis
continuance or co-operation with the
army by civilian welfare agencies, a
type of service conducted by the V.
M. C. A. with the regular army since
Civil War days and by other organi
zations on a-saller scale since the
Mex'cun Harder (rouble.
"The Navy Department will not
take up regular welfare work." said
Ass'Y.tunt Secretary Hoosevell, at the
organization meeting of the Y
M. C.
A. War Workers in (lie Washington
District today. "1 am unalterably
opposed to the cessation of Y. M. C.
A. work in the Navy: The newly or-i-.ii
'i "(! Morale Section of the Navy
if left to itself, would either go on:
of existence or die a natural death
! in 1 1 sin-,':- i x !i i u si ion within six
years, did it lack the prodding of
outside agencies like the V. M. C. A
We need the "V" especially to prod
and jack us up, for that organization
has been a part of Ihe regular Navy
; .--I a 1I 'shiiient Tor more than a gen
era! "I tii-1 ii iii tin- concent r 1 1 iom of
eiVorl in i lew bodies. The irk of
the Y. M. C. A. must he continued
j through the " Y." I'raclically all the
vr:: ic.'sni of Its war work is baseless.
, u" 1,,M1Kl'' ,,r ( ,MI rs'' jl did make some
i). stains,
eliminated
All that criticism will be
by its service in the
future."
While Mr Roosevelt addressed
himself mostly to the work of the
I Red Trianule and its service to the
to dwell on "K he good
old days"
means nothing, he said.
"There is a new spirit of service
abroad in America." he asserted, "a
j spirit that haH come out of the war,
'and is being manifested more and
, more In civilian pursuits. It will
continue to grow through. the preg-
sure of such bodies as the Young
Men's Christian Associations through
.out the Pnited States, if they go on
In the same method of concentration
i which thev learned by their war
work.
i "We hear a great deal about un-
rest, and of strikes throughout the
country, bin I do not believe we need
he Bravely concerned. Americans
have Itarued th's new principal of
'service, a very delicate and distinct
service: To the government of the
I'nited States, in limes of peace as
v.eil as limes of war. Lubor- und I
have this on the word of a national
leader of the American Federation
of Labor for the last L'ii years labor
is reel'in: this same spirit of service.
Tli i: leader told me the other day
ltiiat he personally favors the Idea of
one big union of the one hundred
million people of these I'nited States,
in a union of service."
"The "Y" wh ch has always served
the Navy, expanded its forces meth
od ice Hy to meet the greater demand
'as our strength rapidly increased, and
i throughout the war carried on Its
I work with customary efficiency and
I good results. Tbs half million young
men discharged from the Nary, as
well as those remaining In service,
require the Y. M. C. A."
Post cards of the Methodist
Ground Breaking can be had at
Zoeller's Studio at lOe over First and
'Cltliens National Bank.
8.27-lw
FIRST MB CfiS NATIONAL BANK
GREETS CUSTOMERS 1 NEW BUILDING
Founded in 1S9! This Bank hr.s Steadily Typified
Community Progress Thru Years of Hardship
And Prosperity, War And Peace
Monday morning at nine o'clock the doors of the First and
Citizens National Dank swung or?. as is their custom, but it
wasn't "business as usual" that their opening declared this time,
but something like "Bigger Business and a Better Community"
that they seemed to saw
bank will shortly present en
Three Governors and Many lirely completed one of the
Men Gather to Honor Sol- handsomest and most conven
ders That Helped To Defeat ie-nt bank buildings to be found
Huns in the State. Thruout the bank
has been planned with the
uiwwr., thought of its customers in
Greenville. S. ('., Sept. 9. The . . (XT ,
commemoration or the first anni- mi,ld- Not for show n for
ver.sary of the heginniiiK of the drive spli'iulor, but for service," said
apa'nst the iiindeniiui'K line hy the these directing the work. "This
Thirtieth Division, which with the
twenty Seventh Division of New
Vory troops wis ihe lirst to pnercc
ihe (e rmaii bulwark, began today
'.villi many divisions present, in
.lulling men from ail parts-of the
country but the majority from North
('; i ol ma. South faiolina ami Ten
nessee. AT HOME AGAIN
i
A.ter Twenty-five Days Ab
sence Resting From Strain
Vlzr D 3c' o.-'s Orders
I!v Associated I'rcs)
Washington. Sepl. 29. Hack at j
I . V !::;. liiiit ::f:er an absence of I
! Ai'iily-li ve day, the President to
day was beginning a period of ab
solute rest prescribed by his physi
cian as absolutely necessary to his
recovery from the nervous exhaus
tion which cut short bis speaking
trip for the Peace Treaty.
BETHLEMEM IS
LITTLE AFFECTED
(Hy Associated Press
Bethlehem, Penna. Sept. 29.
-The
Ihe Bethlehem plant of the Bethle-
hem Steel Corporation Is very little
affected by the strike called from
Pittsburg and no semblence of dhv
order appeared when the shifts
changed this morning.
CLOSES CAFES
Berlin, Sept. 1. (Correspondence of
The Associated Press.) To conserve
Berlin's coal supply a move will be
made to change the closing hours for
cafes and restaurants from 11.30 p.
in. to an earlier hour not yet decided
upon. The treatres and restaurants
will be restricted In their use of light
and Berlin will have to expect a ma -
terial restriction even before the
w'nter so that coal can he saved.
The railroad service also will be
mulerially restricted -sleeping cars
and dining cars will probably be en
tirely abolished owing to the increas
ing shortage of locomotives.
Germany is now short of 6r0 loco
motives, while fourteen thousand
cars are due to France.
There seems no lack of raw ma
terials to the railroad foundries but
the workmen cannot or will not de
liver their peace time quality of
quantity of labor. A locomotive In ' The Norfolk Southern train due
peacetime could be built In a week here at 0:30 a. m. got In about 9:50
by 115 workmen. Now 213 work- Monday morning, having been de
men are necessary to buldl one. ' layed by a tire on the long Albe
The emergency workers of Greater marie bridge Just the other side of
Berlin have published au appeal to Kdenton.
the miners of Germany urging In- The fire was burning slowly when
creased production since they say a the train got to the bridge, and It
catastrophe threatens Berlin through Is supposed that it caught from a
lack of coal which makes it impossl- spark from the train passing there
ble to produce building materials, a'lout one o'clock. Four crossttee
notably cement. were damaged to an extent that,
Waterways are being used in all necessitated repair and one rail waa
possible cases as a substitute for warpM. !t took about three hours
steam transportation.
For the bank is in its new
building now. The remodelling
and enlarging that have taken
several months and cost $115,
000 are nearly finished, and the
thought shall typify whatever
is d;!ie at all times by the First
and Citizens National Bank."
And so, first consideration was
given to the comfort of custo
mers and employees. For the
out of town people especially
there will be every convenience,
i.ichnling rest rooms with read
ing rooms, libraries, and lava
'."I'ics, also a room in which the
r.i.iiK'is may hold mectiigs.
The interior of the new hank Is
spacious and iimined for quick dis
patch of business on t lie one hand
and for cordiality unci service to the
people on the other. The exterior',
when completed, will ho dinitled and
impulsive. btfiltiiiK the labors of
tiiose who have toiled for years to
: 'ive the com in unit v thru the Im
portant medium of u Hafe, reliable
and piiiKiessive banking Institution.
Coiinralulations are being received
on every hand upon the handsome
new quarters, and in this new day,
the liKiire of .Mr. Charles H. Robin
son, stands out pre-eminently in the
bank's history, for It was he who in
Ihe year 1S91 organized the Firet
National Rank with a capital pf $60,
000. He became the bank's first pres
ident, and today fills that honored
office for the big First and Citizens
Nati,ma. HanW nf Rtihih tim,
known far and wlde thruout Eastern
; North Carolmi for lu efficiency ,and
stability and likewise for its interest
in the development of the commun
ity, especially the back country upon
which It Is realized that progress so
largely depends.
The other officers of the bank are:
L. 8. Blades, Vice-President.
W. C. Glover, Vice-President.
M. R. Griffin, Asst. Cashier.
W. G. Gaither, Vice-President and
KaKlll,'r
Marshall II. Jones. Asst. Cashier.
The directors are:
('has. H. Robinson, L. S. Blades,
t W. ('. Glover, K. V. Aydlett, L. C.
: Blades. K. K. Daniels, W. G. Gaither,
O. F. Gilbert, ('. O. Robinson, 8. H.
' Johnson. W. A. Brock, F. M. Grlce,
.M. N. Sawyer. ('. E. Thompson, L. R.
Foreman. J G. Gregory, F. F. Spen
cer, A. L Pendleton, D. E. Williams,
T. P. Nash, J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus. N.
Hurloiit, M. . Gallop.
Capital and profits are M2.'i,000.00
and resources over $3,000,000.00.
TRAIN DELAYED
BY BURNING BRIDGE
t3 do the necessary repairing.