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VOL. XI.
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1921
NO. 15.
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Fix Bond Issue
At New Figure
School Board by Close Vote Decides
$400,000 Will be Ample tq Provide
All Needful Buildings and Equip-ment
Four hundred thousand dollars will be the amount of
the bond issue for better school buildings and equipment if
the action of the board of trustees at a meeting held Monday
night is final.
At a previous meeting the- -
board, with, some . members n
dissenting, voted for a halt'i.
million dollar bond issue. At I
Monday night's meeting, in an
effort ' to get unanimity, an
amendment was proposed fix
ing the amount of the bond is
sue ' at $400,000 . and the
amendment was adopted by a
vote of 6 to 5, the chairman of j
the board casting the deciding,
vote.
. The attitude of those voting for
the amendment is thus feet forth by
C. O. Robinson, who voting origin-;
ally for the half,milllon dollar bond J mainder of liis stay
READYT0 MOVE
And Will Receive Few Visi
tors Except Close Personal
Friends During Remainder
of Stay at Marion
Marlon. ' Jan. 18. The press of
personal business before his depart
ure South is engaging President
elect Harding, and few visitors ex
cept personal friends are understood
to be expected here during the re
issue, last night' voted that the There was evidence of, early de-,
amount be fixed at $400,000: parture on the Southern trip today'
"It would hardly have been pos- when a moving van began carrying'
Bible to pass a bill providing for a 'away furniture from the Harding,
half million dollar bond issuo at this' residence. i
session of the Legislature. j : i
"If a bill providing so large an! IS POLICE COURT !
amount had been passed by the Leg-! - ;j
Mature -there is further, serious! Ab Whitehurst, colored, was taxed (
doubt whether it would have been;w,th the C08t in (0urt Tues,-j
ratified' J.y the people. ' . n c ? r ot iluU' "
"A great deal can be accomplish-, holding him tecan.rally guilty.
ed. and more than we have ever; hltehurst, it was testified, laitt
.dreamed of heretofore with $400,- haJ!da ,on and h?,d Fr,Ml Stege0r'
oOO. .Thii amount, by the time we wh,tf bo-v near tata own nge. Both
are ready to begin the actual work ',0" iu, l,heir earl' .tep
of construction, will do more than', ond Hosenian and George
$500,000 at the present time." oc were ,)e,fre, the recorder Mon-
There Is- a division of opinion ! f8 a f7u f 8 ahcuiiy at the
among those who voted last night for, BkatinS r nk Beman s fnnduc
the half million dollar Issue. C. P. w"not P'f33'"? ? U;e
Brown, for Instance, who Is one of of the k nd ,Kch undertook to.
these. Bays that though he voted for ave Boseman s skates. Boseman;
, i. amnt h rnnwP n,! was -fined o and half the costs and
. . t-ym ., n Koch was taxed with the other half
cogency of some of the arguments or
those who think $400,000 ample and ohtbe cost8'
that he has no reason to doubt the'
sincerity of their motives. "I am
not sure,'" he says, "that my own
-lews are always wisest in matter3
of this sort. It may be that the ac
tion taken last night was the best
course that could have been pursued
under the circumstances." '
The City's Opportunity
If there is one thing that Elizabeth City needs
more than any other, it is a Community Club where,
without regard to creed or party, without initiatory
ceremonies or pledges, except to pay the 'dues, citizens
may assemble for recreation, fraternal intercourse, and
the discussion of individual and community interests.
That is, Elizabeth City needs a Club which any citizen
may join by signing an application, and agreeing to
pay the membership fee; and a club whose money will
all be spent at home.
The Community Needs Such A Club
Of inestimable benefit to our business and profess
ional men would be a Club where, amid artistic and
comfortable surroundings, they might congregate for
pleasure, or for conferences with business or profess
ional associates.
When the men of a city come into frequent con
tact, fraternal and social e sentiments are developed.
Such contacts make for a united citizenship, and it is
the united town that grows most rapidly.
Again, there i3 nothing guests -of a city and its
citizens more appreciate than attractive, fully equip
ped Club Rooms, to which they may have free access.
And no other courtesy extended such guests ever
causes them to carry away a more. favorable impression
of a city and its people. And certainly the best and
most effective publicity is that given a town by its
friends.
Hew Eestcity May Have Such a Club
Few, if any, cities have ever had an opportunity to
so easily acquire the rooms and equipment for such a
club. Both are ready and scores of discriminating vis
itors have said that nothing better, except in size, can
be found in the largest cities.
Thursday, nigjit, January 20, the. Chamber of
Commerce, the 'Merchants Association and the Moose
Lodge, will meet in the Moose Club Rooms. Hinton'
Building, at eight o'clock 'sh&rp, for the purppsc of
-cons'dering the Community Ci"b project.
If you believe Elizabeth City should have the
kind of Club outline: i above, come to thmr't'thu'
Thursday nidi!. This is a citizen's r.vji.L:, a:;d, if
you live in Elizabeth City, and are interested in her'
future, your presence is desired. ,
Committee: '
.'. (I. Sawyer, Moose Club, '
Et'gar Stevens, Merchants Association.
A. R. Nicholson, Chamber of Commerce.
Youthful Bandits
Make Big Haul
Hold Up Mail Truck and Es
cape In Automobile With
Ten Bags of Registered Mail
Chicago, Jan. 18. Five youthful
bandits held up the mail truck at
the Union Station here early today,
escaping in an automobile with
twelve sacks of mail, ten of which
contained registered mail.
The police say that from the best
information obtainable It Is indicate
ed that the pouches contained part
FIRE ONCOSSACRS
Turn Machine Guns on Mutin
ous Ranks of Former Wran
gel Army Who Return Fire
With. Fatal Effect
Constantinople, Jan. 18 (By The
Associated Press) French black
troops turned their machine guns on
mutinous Cossacks of Wrangel's
former army encamped twenty-five
of the Federal Reserve Dank money mllea from hore Saturday night af-
shipment destined for the train
leaving Chicago for St. Paul at two
thirty o'clock In the morning.
Postal authorities while unable to
estimate the amount stolen, slid
I that shipments to the northwest
which usually go out at two-thirty
'average about $100,000.
ter the Cossacks had disarmed their
ofllcers.
! The Russians returned the fire
killing ten Sengaleie hiv.l wounding
liO others and two French ofllcers.
;
Swain Resolution
Passes Both Houses
INDIANS STAGE
BIG CELEBRATION
Stranger Steals From
The Good Samaritans
South Carolina j Borrows Mon-y and Accepts
Has Woman Judge I Hospitality and Then I.akcaj
: I Off With Jewelry
Would Make Wife . v
Husband's Employe
Such Intent of Bill Introduced
In I Cansas House cf Rcpre-
ntatives by Vorr.an
Passage of Swain resolution In
, both houses to invest:gate the ex-
JJUUUIlilIl'H Ul IUW OlillB 13U11U1UK
Pottawatomie Tribe Holds Two' Commission and the State Architect,
i it ' tl 1111 Introduction by Representa-
Day Feast la honor cf the tive Wola and Senator Carpenter,
New Year ' tanking for an appropriation. of $100,-
; k j 000 to complete the North Carolina
Mayetta, Kan., Jan. 18. The Orthopaedic Hospital for crippled
Pottawatomie Indians recently i'ul. , children and $37, COO annually for , Us
ished a two days' .dance and feast in maintenance featured today's ses
honor of the New Year. It was a sion of tlle legislature:
celebration which every Indian on 1,o!h houses passed resolutions
the reservation, a mile from here, at-1 providing for the celebration Wed
tended, and many white gaostu were j noHiny of General Robert E. Lee's
present, for the Pottawatomie feasts birthday,
are famous for their riualiiy and ex-j "
collence. Rurbccued beef i3 one of
the favorite dishes.
The reservation- is twenty-five
miles from Topeka, the capital of
Kansas, and contains about eleven
rquare miles of land. Approximate
ly five hundred Indians are living
there and the land Is farmed. Thei
while man's civilization has 'flowed
around the little reservation and left
it, a relic of pioneer days In Kansas.;
Much of the white man's civilization i
lias, of. course, been absorbed by the
f'ottawatomies; they all speak Eng
lish, and motor cars are coinuion
p'nce among the red men.
"I can remember," Mat Septa, a
young Potfftwatomie, said, "when
the dancers and medicine men used
to prophesy at our dances of how
the white men would one day ride
in carriages without horses, and fly
through the air like birds. We used
to think that was very wonderful,
but wo have seen it happen. Our
dancers also told of how there would
be a great war among the white men,
in which they would cross t lie sea ,
to kill one another. That was the l"'esent
Spanish Cabinet
Decides To Resign
Paris, Jan. 18. The Spanish cab
inet has reached a decision to resign
according , to a Madrid dispatch re
ceived here.
Mexican Congress
In Special Session
Mexico City, Jan. 18. A call for
a spec ia I session of the Mexican Con
gress was issued today by President
Obregon.
Brazil Wants
Bigger Navy
Rio De Janeiro, Dec. 25. The
Committee on Naval and Military
Affi.irs of the Rnizilian Chamber of
Deputies wants 'a bigger navy. It
has called urou the President to
to the next session of con-
Kuropean war. 1 was iu France six- Kre8S a Program or naval construc
tor nw.ntha mvKftif wUh iho F.icliiv-1 Ho" drawn up by the general stiff
ninth division. A great experience.
Topeka, Jan. 18.
Husbands
G. F. Seyffert, on the other hand,
Greenville. S. C, Jan. 18. The, Robert, Stark, recently discharg
first woman In South Carolina elect- 1 ed irom tne xavy, 'is in Jail here in
ed to public office is Mrs. Fannie C. default of the $300 bond required of
seems to be oi tne opinion inai me1 ' - ' v" hum uj juuc jfic iu v-uuh.
action taken last night was a bIun-jfiFe of. e ot the l,robate in Monday morning.
der and, perhaps, a serious one. jureenwiie Lounry. one naa no op-, starl ha, worke(1 for j. s. Pad- dutufe under the terms of a bill
IPos.uon, succeeding a junge recem- ,t gteam heat contraPtori for a
"Our plans are not definite ly killed In an automobile accident. ,.0 allnr J fnrmnP ...,. ,
enough, as yet," he says, "for us to
krrow what sum we shall nr We
have estimates on plans f t 'tted;
by architects, to be sure, 1 v
plans have not been -tfdor '
my mind they are not ; -T
Some of the class rooms .
small.' The auditorium has;
lng capacity -ot only 500. No
vision Is made for a new prim,
building which Is a veritable flretrav
and where sanitary conditions are
deplorable. Ifwhen our plans are j pubi.
anally adopted pnd w come to carry i jt jt
tnem out, i tt mat we areh9ii ha
police court from which he was let
Off by the judge. But he got out of
luck again and was borrowing from
those who would lend to him and
accepting the hospitality of those
who wore klndhearted, Mrs. Irving
Pool and Ralph Pool being among
the number. Sunday night he ate
supper at the Pool home en Harney
street. After he had gene Mrs.
e time will be of- Harry Dewey who boards with the
Pool family, missed her diamond
necklace and ruby rlu.i;. Ralph Pool
thousand dollar home for the teach
ers. '
"The board decided to let the-bill
tde for a bond issue of $400,000
r to make ample provisions
slble emergencies, We do
'o have to use as much
You know, what I liked about the!
army, you always had friends ami j
were not lonesome. But I was gi:'kli
to come home. j
"Our people live Bofter than tiny;
u. ed to. When I was a little boy.
would be placed on the status of cm-()ften they used to take us down to!
ployers with their wires as cm-; the bank . of the creek winter niorn-
loyes in their homes and permitted ;gB, tmd break tho ice and ma';e us
to recover damages for Injuries re- jump in. That was to make u;r
reived while performing household ii nrl nml strnntr Ttipv ilnli'l. (till
In-' that anv more with our bovs. '
"Our prophets tell of another
great war that will come among the
white men, and after that, they say,
there will be no more war. They
tell us that the whit man's heart
will be changed then, and that much
of the land that once belonged to
the Indlun will be given back to him.
I do not know. It is not good for
of the Admiralty and to lie carried
out for a lerm of years.
The reason given for this pro
posed increase is lh.it it is necessary
boeatifo of Brazil's new position In
the world as a signatory of the Ver
nailles Treaty and as an .effective
member of the League of Nations.
Another reason ascribed U the ne-'
cossity of defending a lens coast
line. ..
troduced into ilie Kansas house of
representatives by one or two wo
men members of that body.
V. W. A.
MKKTIXG
MONDAY
EVEMXO
The Young-"Woman's Auxiliary of
First Baptist church had Its regu
lar meeting on Monday evening at
seven-thirty In the church parlois.
After the opening prayer ami
reading of the minules of last meet
Ing, the treasurer, Miss Bernlc
S. C. Governor
.Begins 2nd Term
Columbia, Jan, 18. Governor
Cooper began his second term today
when be was Inaugurated before a
joint FORslon of the Legislature.
The Governor's' Inaugural address
was given over largely to education
.oroughly informed
$50,000 short 'of i'-Jr requirements! the contents of the bill
we shall have put ourselves in ani ..xne noar(j ag0 piu,sed on a sec
unenviable position. ' joni to be put through the Leg-
' Islature at this session providing
for a tax of 30 cents to maintain the
schools. This with the 4 cents pro-
i vlded by the State levy will give us
"I was anxious to see thh bond
issue put through in a liberal, a
handsome way, so as to provide for
all oniftrrpnnlag . onA t.hon tf VP
. a ... ' .. , .,. ample revenue to run the schools on.
found we had more than we needed , , . . .
f .i.i t,o,, f 11 wil1 mean n Increase of 20 or 25
It would not have been necessary to .... , ,
,,,. . ,,.n,-t, Per cen' in the school taxes.
expend the entire amount authcrlz-- ... ...
e(j I The board hai got the money to
s .. , 1 pay the coupons on bonds already ls-
The situation Is tiros summarized sued and to take up the bonds which
by E. F. Aydlett, , chairman jf the fell due In November so that the
b inrd, who cast the deciding vote: I credit of the board is protected and
"We had a committee appointed the creditors satisfied,
to look Into the cost of th.s''io':emiV "The board has heretofore been
buildings, paying off th.3 indcbit l- handicapped in having Insufficient
ness, adequately furnishing tlw new money to run the schools. The
and repairing the old builitlnss, ard banks "have nattyally not been in
buying the extra lots that will be cllned to, lend because the school
ipers of the city for
chey care to publish
wish that the people-and Harry Dewey thought at once ot Twhldy, gave her report for the past. . .,, ',. ,, ,,
as to the stranger. They secured a year. Various matters of Import- .... ; . '
search warrant and a warrant for his ne were discussed. The president,
arrest, found him at his room at the Miss Mary Owens, was instructed lo
Y and proceeded to seaili the room appoint a committee to elect new ( f
without success. While the stranger ncers for the year. Plan were
was being taken to Jail, however, he made to raise money In order to
confessed that the articles were In send a delegate to the convention,
his room and when taken back pro- which will convene at Rocky
duced them from the Interior of his, Mount In March, lu was erldcd,
pillow, together with a watch and lnce the auxiliary has chosen a;
roreign missionary, to have a Mis
sion Study Class once a month, two
j my people to have too much money j-and to a review of school work in
In their pockets, f-7 they spend It the state.
sw'tfy." ! ,
The Pottawatomies are proud 0.
1 the fact that Charles Curtis, senior
United States Senator from Kansas,
pearl necklace belonging to Mrs.
Pool. lie was taken back to Jail
for the -night to await his trial Mon
day morning.'
Ralph Pool Is an ex-service man
himself and a newspaper guy, too, so
he has a soft spot In his heart for
the fellow who Is dnwn and out.
But In this case the stranger who
was taken In, also "took In" the
good Samaritans.
weeks apart from the regular meet
ing, to meet at the homes of the
members of the auxiliary.
The meeting was then turned over
to the' leader, Mips Annie Weatherly.
A program of Interesting readings
and songs followed.
still count him a member of their
tribe, although they do not often see
htm on the reservations
"His time is taken up In tho city
Of the Great White Father," tho Pot
tawatomies expialn, "but his heart
Is friendly toward his people."
Goose Race Features
Annual Poultry Show
Lyr:c!?.in2r Witnesses
Before Grand Jury
Jasper, Ala., Jan. 18. Under
heavy military guard six witnesses
were examined today by tho special
grand Jury Inquiring Into tho lynch
ing of William Baird, miner.
required.
revenues were not sufficient to meet
1 the running expenses.' The Savings
"Basing their estimate on figures bank hag made'gome loans, but tho
submitted by the architects,, the National hank for the last four
committee decided that the amount years has declined to do so.
required would be $350,000 o , -The board now feels tlidt In a
kills mo no
Bruce Davis of Providence town
ship killed six fine Poland China
pigs Tuesday morning, the largest
$300,000. In 'the opinion of the hort while It will be able to escare one welKhlne six hundred nnun.li
coninilttPB th w
rover everything,
mrre- - rnrs nanfficnn and conduct the Mr. Davis is one of the
Including a ten school In first class condition."" farmers of this county,
progressive
Balloonists Appear
Befdre Court Today
Rockaway, Jan. 18. Kloor. Far
rell and Hinton were asked to ap
pear today before the second day'
session nf tha nnv n I - honrrt nf ln
qulry's session here to give first
hand reports of the balloon flight.
Eighteen Actresses From Lead
ing Musical Comedies of
Broadway Holding Reins
18. The Rpec-i
MADK MASON AT STOUT
Columbia, S. C, Jan. 18. Bishop
Wlllinm A. Guerry. of the Fpiscopal
Diocese of South Carolina, was made
Mason at sight here today. s
This Is the n rrft time la thi his
tory of the state that such a cere-
! mony Is known to have taken place.
HACK OX THE JOB
A. J. Armstrong is
his place ot business
back at his
at tho Farm
New York, Jan.
. .n . . t 1 . .1 n n
incie or i actrps.s,.s ,ruiu LKht nml Motor Company, Water
musical comedies on Broadway noiu-jB aftr nn UncH ,aBt wpek
Ing the ribbon r"ins in a gooso raeej
will be a feuture of the annual Madl-. ixsTALLIVO SHOW CASKS
son Squarp Garden Poultry Show I
opening today. The Standard rharmury ft In-
Tho web-footed racers will be. stalling a number of new snd mod-
groomed after the derby for a
night feasts for their drivers.
mid-1 em show cases this week.
W. H. GalTop, of Jarvlsburg,
in the city Saturday.
j norn To Mrjind Mrs. C. B. Mor
wai r!sette7 & son, at their ""SomftTon"
Burgess street Monday night.