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VOL. XI.
FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENINC, JULY 13, 1921
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NO. 161.
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PLANES OFF TO
SINK DESTROYER
Thirty-five Bomb-laden Hopped
- Off Langley Field to Test
Tf- Effectiveness Against Sur
face Sea Craft
Newport News, July 13.
The former German destroyer
G-102 was sunk off the Vir
ginia Capes today by a Martin
bomber.
Newport News, Va., July 13.
Thirty-five bomb-laden airplanes;
hopped off from Langley Field and!
winged their way today out to the J
Atlantic where they will attempt to
sink a former German destroyer,
t Brigadier General Mitchell is lead
ing the airmen tests which are de
signed to demonstrate the effective
ness of planes operating against sur
face sea craft.
SOME POTATOES
STILU10VJNG
Jlise In Market Quotations
After Bulk of Crop Moved
Was of Little Benefit to
Growers
After the bulk of the potato crop
had moved, prices, rose to $4 and
$4.50 last week, to the delight of the
comparatively few growers who had
held their potatoes. This week
quotations are practically as high
for first grade etock, but, due to the
intense heat, nearly all potatoes
shipped recently have reached their
destinations in bad condition.
M. E. Dennis, general freight
agent ef the Norfolk Southern
railroad here, stated Tuesday
that shipments over the railroad
from Elizabeth City for July through
Tuesday aggregated 87 cars. Move
ments are continuing at the rate of
around two cars a day, and the crop
Is practically all gone.
R. C. Abbott, one of the largest
local potato commiwsion merchants,
reported Tuesday that his total con
signments to date had been 160 solid
carloads, or around 33,000 barrels.
He Is still handling around a car a
day. John B. Fearing of this city
is still holding between 1,500 and
2,000 barrels of his own crop in
storage, which he preferred not to
..dispose of at a dead loss.
Brock & Scott, heavy planters of
potatoes in Pasquotank and Camden
Counties, are cleaning) up their
crop this week. They shipped a car
load Monday and another Tuesday,
and still have one more car load of
disappointing spuds to market.
Earl Of Brandon
Taken Back Home
Cork, Ireland, July 13. The Earl
of Brandon, who was kidnapped by
Sinn Feiners June 21, was brought
back home today and released by his
captors.
Fair Association To
Stage Amusement Day
Series of Automobile and Motorcycle
Races and Other Amuse
ments August 10
,t The Albemarle District Fair As
sociation announces through the sec
retary, Mayor W. Ben Goodwii . that
'a series of amusements will be given
at the Fair Ground on Friday after
noon, August 19, featuring automo
bile and motorcycle races, and per
haps a 'boys' bicycle race, together
with other good attractions.
The Association has chosen a Fri
day afternoon for the festivities in
order that the merchants and clerks
who enjoy the summer-time half
holidays may be present. The people
living in the rural districts will have
their work practically done by that
time, and every preparation will be
made by the Association to give
everybody a most pleasurable after
noon of sport events and amuse
ments. At present, the attractions for the
' day have only partially been decided
upon, and Mr. Goodwin Indicates that
additions may be made later. Only
a nominal admission fee will be
charged, and every possible arrange
ment will be made for the comfort
and pleasure of those attending.
LOST SATURDAY, BUNCH OF
keys. Reward if returned to Ad
rance office. lt-np
MOVING PICTURES
FREE OF CHARGE
Thursday Night at Court limine
Seven Keel Hliow of Delightful
Vurlely Will lie Shown
Thursday night at eight o'clock at
the court house a delightful moving
picture show, seven reels long, of
splendid variety, Instructive and en
tertaining, will be given free of
charge.
A cordial Invitation Is extended the
people of the country ;id the town
to see this show.
The following brief summary of
the program merely suggests its high
quality:
The Vosemlte Valley, one reel.
Richmond, Virginia, one reel.
Farming vith a Fordson, two
reels.
Where and How Fords Are Made,
two reels.
"All's Well That Ends Well," a
clean, wholesome, Jolly comedy in oije
reel.
The public is given this opportu
nity for an evening of pleasure by the
Auto & Gas Engine Works, Inc. ,
WALTON-MOSS
One of the most attractive mar
riages of the year was quietly
solemnized Tuesday afternoon at
two-thirty at Christ Epfscopal
Church, when Miss Evelyn Byrd
Moss, of this city, was wedded to Mr.
Theodore Garnett Walton, of Great
Bridge, Va. The wedding music
was rendered by Miss Emerald
Sykes. The ceremony was perform
ed by the rector, Rev. G. F. Hill.
Among the out pt town guests
present were Mr. and Mrs. Colan
Hall. Stanley Hall, Mrs. Ada Thomas
Williamson,, and Miss Anne C. Wil
son, all of Great Bridge, and E. A.
Stephens of Norfolk. The newly
married couple will make their
home at Great Bridge.
GRANT AUXILIARIES
INDEFINITE LEAVE
Dublin, July 13. Lajge bodies of
police auxiliaries have been granted
indefinite leave as a result of the
truce now in effect in Ireland.
PRESENT EDITORIAL
CHAIR TO HARDING
Washington, July 13. An edi
torial chair was presented to Presi
dent Harding by 600 newspaper edi
tors today, among whom was Demo
cratic presidential nominee, James M.
Cox.
Thousands Have
Been Discharged
From War Department to Cut Ex
penses, Stilton Secretary
Weeks
Washington, July 13. Secretary
Weeks announced today that over
21,000 civilians have been discharged
from the War Department since
March, reducing the expense of op
erating the Department by about
$25,000,000 annually.
SENATOR WATSON
FLAYSHARDING
Washington, July 13. Senator
Watson, of Georgia, today criticised
the President for asking for a re
committal of the soldier bonus bill,
saying that Harding exceeded his
presidential powers. 1
Will
Not Allow
New Trials Asked
Macon, Ga., July 13. The federal
Judge here today denied a motion for.
new trials in all except one case of
j seventeen men charged with robbing
j the American Express Company of
!one million dollars.
SHIPBUILDING
IS FALLING OFF
New York, July 13. Merchant
shipbuilding In all countries fell off
nearly 900.000 gross tons for the
quarter ending June 30 as compared
with the previous three months, ac
cording to the report today of the
register of shipping.
FIRST BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL
Excursion Is Thursda'y, July 14.
.Tickets are now on sale at O. W.
Twlddy's Grocery Store and at Cul
pepper's Hardware Company. np
STRESSES NEED
. OF A HOSPITAL
, . .
Interested Citizen .Expresses
Sentiment of Public on Mat-
tor Now Claiming Much At-
tention Here
A Community Hoepltal is an es
sential public service Institution and
should be non-xecretarlan and non
(lenomlnatlonal and non-partisan. It
provides for and welcomes uny suf
fering fellow being and endeavors
lo give the best care and attention to
his needs. It has for its purpose the
cure, of curable diseases, the relief of
suffering and the prolonging of life
and is a place of first resort In sick
ness or injury of any acute or serious
nature.
The extensive advances In medicine
in recent years make it necessary
that the physician have access to a
hospital with its well equipped labor
atories and facilities for caring for
the sick or injured and where he
can give his patient the 'benefit of the
later and better methods of diagnosis
and treatment.
The public is coming more and
more to appreciate the handicap of
physicians attempting to perform
their Important duties in a commu
nity without the aid of modern con
veniences and modern equipment and
to see the value of hospital facilities
in the saving of life and preserving of
health in the community. They are
more ana more in need or the aid or ,
hospitals, well equipped with labor-1
atories and other essential furnish-'
ings and the high rate of mortality
in the rural sections is causing the
American Medical Association to
make a careful audi detailed investi
gation and its conclusion is that this
condition is due to the lack of hos
pital facilities In rural sections.
The community of Cincinnati, .
Ohio, comprising 250,000 people,
built a $95, 000100 hospital and will- '
ingly taxed themselves to the extent
of $800,000 a year Tor its mainten
ance and support. If longevity of
life is being promoted in the crowd
ed cities where diseases are so easily
contracted, by proper medical and
hospital facilities, is it not time that
our rural folks, with every natural
advantage in their favor, be given 1
more attention and better facilities
for the care of the sick and suffering
and the promotion of longer life."
From a study of the vital statis
tics of this country, it is plainly pa
tent that within the last twenty years
the line representing rural1 death
rate, which started below the re
presentative urban death rate has
ascended and in many localities at
least, has crossed and now stands well
above the line representing urban
death rate. This fact is not due to
prevention of the communicable di
seases but instead is 'largely due to
the superior facilities for diagnosis
and treatment. The people in our dis-
trict who need medical or surgical
care are now compelled to travel
some distance no matter how greatly:
they may be suffering or how great
the risk of life to hospital facilities
for the relief of the suffering they are
doing. iney are compelled to go
to Norfolk or other places, incurring
great expense, great suffering and
great risk of life and they are com
pelled to do this because of the deaf
ear and the Indifferenee of our
people to this great crying need ot
their fellow beings.
Our community
and counttes In the district embarrass
the poor, the person of moderate
means, and the well to do, and the
person of moderate means Is often
taxed to the limit of his capacity to
pay for treatment in these foreign -institutions,
besides suffering these
other Inconveniences, and the door Is
practically closed to the poor and
those without means to purchase
these facilities. We have hosts oflck
and suffering at our door at this time
who are compelled, because of these
farts tn Pnriuro Buffortno- ,,hi
haps, death terminates It
In a community hospital It Is aim-
ed to give to the poor and unfortunate
....... . .....
the same facilities for relief to suf
fering as to the man of means with
out even the suggestion that that he
is an object of charity and a burden
upon the community life, and he is
entitled to this consideration, for
Is he not a member of the Brother
hood of mankind and In our day of
boasted Christian enlightenment
should It not be a pleasure for his
fellow beings to come to his rescue
in. the time of suffering nnd distress?
A community hospital will make
special provision for that large class
of persons of moderate means who
do not want charity but who can
neither afford expensive private Ber-
vice and the expense that must
needs be Incurred now nor can they
bring themselves to accept the condl-
tlon of the charity ward In the hos-
pitals of the larger cities where
AN EXPLANATION OF
A MISUNDERSTANDING
Willi reference to the misunder
standing ut (ho last City Council
'meeting relative to the payment of
I11()MPyg Ctlloctf'd by former City
Manager J. C. Commander to Cliy
Tax Collector G. II. Wood, City Audi.
I tor M. E. Hell explained Wednesday
i morning how the situation came
! about. He declared that the city
owed W. A. Jones $300 which could
not be paid because the city funds ;
i were low, and that Mr. (Jominander
voluntarily went out and collected;
bills in this amount, and turned the j
money over to Mr. Wood, together
with a list of those from whom he'
had collected. In taking down the
names, Mr. Wood overlooked those :
of T. F. Dartlett and C. A. Spruill. j
As soon as he learned of the -error,'
Mr. Commander, who now is living
on his farm In Virginia, came to
Elizabeth City and assisted the tax
collector in correcting it. I
Mrs. Kaber Has !
Hysterical Faint
Cleveland, July 13. Mrs. Kaber
went into a hysterical faint today!
while her brother was testifying in!
her behalf in the trial here in which
ith murdering her
she Is charged w
husband. She screamed while being
carried inio the judge's room. Doc-
tors were called and court adjourned
until afWrnoon
BI,A( KWKLL BASEBALL TEAM
DEFEATS CITY
koai) club
In an interesting game of baseball
Tuesday evening the Blackwell Mem-
oriai baseball team defeated the team
representing city Road Methodist
Sunday school The score was 5 to 2.
The game was full of excitement from
start to finish. During the fourth in-
ning the game was called on account
of rain, but after the rain ceased play
was again resumed and ended in a
victory for the newly organized
Blackwell boys. The batteries were:
City Hoad, Bob Elliott and Rogers:
Blackwell, Cliff Ward, Ellas Pvlt
chard and Kirby. Umpires Ferre.ll
a ii il Wood Iey
IT PAYS TO CABBY A SPARK TIKE
Much of the pleasure of a motor
trip is lost when part of the time has
to be spent at the road side making
a tire repair. The large number of
tire repairs being made along the
highway today undoubtedly results
from the experiment bf
the drivers
who try to get along without a spare
tire.
"Our advice to car owners," says
It. K. Fo'rbes, of the Auto Supply &
Vulcanizing Co., dealer In United
States .tires, "is- always to carry a
spare of good quality. It is the tire
you rely on to get you home and it
is a false economy to attempt to get
along without it."
OBREGON INVITES
SEND DELEGATES
countries
Mexico, July 13. All
wh()8e natlonal guardg Buffered dam.
aKR from Mexlcan revolutions are in-
vlted by President Obregon to name
delegates to meet Mexican represen-
tatlves here and pass upon the
claims.
SAWYF.R-PAYNE
Ic-inp V S:iivvpr nnd MIkm Jean
Paynfi boUl of snowden, were mar
ried here Tuesday at noon by Justice
of the Peace T. B. Wilson.
I committee, he had intendod to leave
they are compelled to go. ;for Baltimore on h'st Sunday night
Of the rich and well to do of the to confer with Mr. Morris. On Sat
comiminity, it may be said that he urday K. G. Wartleld and Attorney,
is financially able, with his ailments Walsh, of the New York Canal and'
and afflictions, to go to the city hos-: Great Lakes Corporation, arrived
pitals and buy the best private ser- here with the statement that their
vice8 aml trefttmmlt but ls ne not a
nrotner of tne unfortunate men and
can can we brlng oursftlves to he-'
Heve that he would object to con-
trlbutlng of his means of which he
'has been blessed to a home communl-
t V Vi ra nil a 1 urliara Ya an ft orln rr tiA
, , , '
lowbelngs can receive the same care
and treatment?
And further, a community hospit-
al. modernly equipped and properly
conducted. Would be of Inestimable
value to all persons in the community
who irrespective of other means, are
not physically able to make a journey
to reach hospital facilities without)
placing their lives In peril or who, j
through delay incurred in going;
where they can receive proper sur
gical aid, suffer more intensely and
often die, and furthermore, who
would have another advantage In a
local hospital because of the ability
of his friends and relatives to visit
him often to visit and comfort the
patient and relieve relatives and
(friends of much anxiety of being
separated during the time and of
much loss of time
A Home Towner.
and money.
Barge Service Is
Now a Certainty
Job And Robinson, of City Chamber
Of Commerce, Succeed In Effort
To Bririg Government Line To
Elizabeth City
FIRST BARGE TO
New York Canal And Great Lakes Corporation.
Have Not Purchased the Line, As Warfield
- Stated Here Saturday
Through barge service between this city and Baltimore
ancl Philadelphia is now assured, and the first barge will leave
iialtimore on Monday, July Zb,
Wednesday, July 27, and leave
This is the news Secretary R.
C. Job of the Elizabeth City
Linamoer or commerce Drougni
back Wednesday upon his re
frQm conference at Bal.
,
timore Tuesday with franklin'
c. Morris, general manager and ,
. ffi(J manajfer of the United!
" .
States Inland and Coastwise
Waterway Service, Intracoast-!
i niviirn I
It has developed that the New
York Canal and Great Lakes Cor
poration, whose ollicers demanded a
guaranteed freight revenue of Eliza
beth City in the amount of $100,000
annually, did not purchase the gov
ernment Imrge line, as they had
stated. The line is still owned and
operated by the government, and
will not be sold except with the stip
ulation that this service is to con
tinue. The steamers used in the barge
service are oil-burners with a cargo
capacity of 250 to 300 tons. The
barges carry 500 tons each. They will
not stop at Norfolk, Va., for the rea
son that It is felt that this would
serve to compete too greatly witli
local water transportation agencies, j
However, shippers at Washington
and New Bern may get the advantage ,
of through water transportation to I
Norfolk by having their consign-'
uients transferred to a local boat
.line upon arrival here. j
I Freight rates by government barge j
service will be approximately twenty !
per cent below the existing railroad'
.nt W!iiiPth ntv HhlnnerH will
be given the advantage of an aver -
age differential of two cents per hun-1
dfed d8 frelght over New Uern
and Washington. Mr. Job has on file
a the Chamber of Commerce offices i
the schedule of rates adopted on va- j
rj0Us commodities, which he will be;
glad to-show to anyone Interested.
I Secretary Job made puoiic on
Wednesday an Interesting bit of in-
side Information on the barge line
negotiations of last week. Ho stat
d that, with C. O. Robinson, of the
Chamber of Commerce transportation I
oncern had bought the government
barge line, and would bring the ser-j
vice here for an annual freight guar-,
antee of $100,000. ,
( Messrs. Joo and Robinson can-j
j culled .their plans for the Baltimore j
. i i . a t u s ii'..nnj. i
;'n? me Bire..Ku. u, ...
r.ir(.SRntatl()ns. hut. w shine to
vurifv his statements. Mr. Job wired
General Manager Morris on Monday
concerning the corporation's, purchase
0f the line. Morris telegraphed back
jit once that the government had not
K0ld the line. Hence, Mr. Job and
Mr. Robinson left Monday night for
a conference with Morris himself,
with the result that the barge ser-
vice was secured for Elizabeth City
Wide commercial possibilities for
this city and section are opened up
by the new through water transpor- Carolina's transportation facilities,
tatlon line to Baltimore and Phlla- A weekly barge service will be un.
delphlu, and leading local merchants dertaken at first. If justified, this
are much elated over the success of ( will later be amplified to a twlce-a-the
Chamber of Commerce move to week or dally schedule. Any com
brlng It here. As stated, there will modifies not requiring fast freight
be no demand for a guarantee of service can be handled, and it Is be
frelght revenue, but shippers are re- lleved thrt the new service will work
quested to lend their support to the greatly to the advantage of shippers
line, and thus assist In making It a throughout this section.
ARRIVE JULY 27
and arrive at
about July H0.
this city on
WIRELESS SAVES
INFECTED HAND
;
Surgical Operation Performed
at Sea Two Hundred Miles
Out Under Direction Sent
By Radio
New York, July 13. A surgical
operation 200 miles at sea directed
by wireless from Brooklyn was de
scribed here today by Dr. Raymond
Barrett, of the Brooklyn Uoppltal.
The captain of the tanker, Vesta,
! performed it under Dr. Barrett's
wireless instructions on a man's In-
' fected hand. The operation was
' successful.
Predicts Improvement
In Business Conditions
Chicago, July 13. Steady Im
provement In business conditions
waa predicted by Josiah Kirby, of
Cleveland, addressing the convention
of the National Association of Real
Estate Men here today.
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BY MOONLIGHT
Middle Went Htill In Grip of Heat
Wave Tn Deaths at Chl-
ciiro Tuesday
Chicago. July 13. The torrid
wave continues to grip the Middle
! West. Farmers are doing their field
work by moonlight. f
T
attr
two deaths nere yesterday were
United to the heat.
IIOUV-A SON
Word has btfen received here of
the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs.
T. A. Sawyer, of Edenton, on Sun
day morning. Mrs. Sawyer was tor
nierly Miss Mary Sanderlin, of this
city.
HE ANTICIPATED
WAR WITH JAPAN
Will Charles Fritzche, of Pat
terson, N. J., Who Died In
Dresden, Germany, Leaves
Strange Will
Patterson, N. J.. July 13. The
llrst American crew to capture or
sink a Japanese war ship In the
event of war with Japan and the
United States would receive a prize
of f,000 German marks by the will
of Charles Fritzsche, former Patter
son engineer, which was made pub
lic here today.
The will was received from pres
den, Germany, where Mr. Fritzsche
died the first of January.
permanent addition to Northeastern