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VOL. XI. FINAL EDITION ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 19
FOUR PAGES
NO. 181.
More To Eat For A Dollar
Than In Summer Of 1920
Consumer Now Pays a Fourth To a Half Less
For Groceries In Elizabeth City Than In
Year Of High Prices
As illustrative of the general de
cl'ne in retail grocery prices during
the last eight months, averaging 25
to 60 per cent, a leading grocer
called attention yesterday to the
fact that he had Just sold an order for
lard, sugar and flour for $21.50. The
same order, bought on the identioal
date last year, cost the purchaser
158.50. Lard, now $6.00 a tub, was
then $16.50; sugar, now $7.00 per
100 pounds, then brought $26.00,
and flour, retailing today at $8.50 per
- barrel, was $16.00.
Reductions are seen in practically
every item that the grocer carries,
though bigger drops are to be noted
In staple groceries than in package
tr.d canned goods. Cheese one year
ago was 40 cents a pound, and to
day it is sold at 25 cents a drop of
37 per cent. Sugar, of course,
lias taken the most sensational
tumble of all. Twenty-eight cents a
pound in the summer of 1920, it is
today worth seven cents.
A comparison of prices on a mul
titude of other articles shows gen
eral decreases all along the line.
The following table gives approxi
mate figures taken from local gro
cery stores selling both for cash and
for credit. No effort was made to
Include temporary startling fluctua
tions, and the figures 'given would
have been comparatively lower on
certain articles had they been taken
In stores selling on the "cash only"
plan. An approximate comparison
between prices in 1920 and 1921 on
a number of the principal food items
follows: I
Article 1921 1920
Flour, 12 -lb' sack .$ .65 $ 125
Flour, barrel 8.50 16.00
Sugar, pound 07 .28
Cheese, pound 25 .40
Lard, pound 18 38
Meat, dry salt, pound .18 .40
Ham, pound 35 .55
Tomatoes, can 15 .25
Corn, can 15 .25
Peaches, can 30 .50
Corned beef, can ... .25 .50
Xobster, can 40 .70
Soups, can 11 -15
Eggs, dozen 32 .80
Butter, pound 48 .80
Coffee, pound 35 .50
Milk, can 20 .30 i
The foregoing table has reference
to no particular store, and is mere
ly given as an indication of prices
as compared with a year ago. It
can be continued almost indefinitely,
but the same general ratio will be i
found to hold all along the line.
Prices for fresh vegetables aid fruits
are somewhat lower than last year.
It is, of course, impossible to say
whether the bottom has been reach
ed, or when it will be. At any rate,
the consumer can now obtain far
more for his dollar in eatables than
e could in the summer of 1920.
Similar sweeping reductions have
also been made in clothing and dry
goods. In numberless cases, the
price tumbles have been far greater
than in the grocery line, in which
certain staple food articles are now
reported to be showing a slight tend
ency toward price increases, notably
eggs, lard and packing house pro
ducts. ;J
CUBS AND DAVIS
THANK ALL DONORS
John Snowden, secretary of the
Elizabeth City Baseball Association,
writes the following open letter: ,
Mr. Editor: j
Through your paper, I have been j
requested by the Cubs baseball team
and Charlie Davis, whose leg was
broken Jn the game Saturday, to
thank those who attended the benefit
game played Wednesday for him, and
who generously contributed to the
fund for his benefit.
The generosity and fine spirit dis
played by them Is greatly appreel- j
a ted by all players as well as Mr.
Davis. j
Respectfully,
J. H. SNOWDEN.
SELLING LUGGAGE CHEAPER
M. G. Morrlsette, ot M. O. Morrl-1
ette & Company, the Main Street
Furniture Store, reports a big busi
ness in wardrobe trunks and other
luggage as a result ot the liberal dis
count on goods In this line recently
Advertised In The Advance.
Welfare Meeting
Tonight At Eight
Tonight at eight o'clock in
the Cluinibfr of Commerce as
sembly hall a very iniMrtant
meeting will bo held. W. B.
Sanders, field agent of the State
Hoard of Charities aiul Public
Welfare, will tell the people
about the welfare work now be
ing undertaken by the State
through the county welfare de
partments. G. R. Little, Juve
nile court Judge, will preside at
the meeting. It is hoped that
officers of the various organiza
tions doing social service work,
church workers, pastors, and all
who are interested in helping
the children and the young
people of the community will
attend this meeting, for it is be
lieved that Mr. Sanders can
make plain the way in which the
community has been struggling
without a very definite plan.
Four Children Are
Burned To Death
New York. Aug. 5. Four children
burned to death and seven other per
sons were seriously injured in a fire
sweeping three tenement houses in
the Bronx early today.
Comptroller Says
Too Many Banks
Philadelphia, Aug. 5. The coun
try is getting too many banks. Comp
troller of Currency Criss declared in
an address here today. He said he
was convinced that many applications
are made with the intent of creating
a place where the promoters can find
easy access to credit.
Young Gardeners
Have Worked Hard
Have Good Gardens Considering Dry
Weather and Are Planning An
nual Exhibit In September
The School Garden Army boys and
girls have worked well this year, re
ports their leader. Miss Hattle Har
ney. The gardens are looking well,
considering the dry weather. The
young gardeners are now preparing
for and planning their annual ex
hibit which will be held at the court
house about the first of September
As usual, prizes will be given for
the best displays.
Following is the honor roll for
July: Tyer Sawyer, 95; William An
derson, 95; Vernon Chappell, 90;
Stuart Wood, 90; James Hill, 90;
Ernest Provo, 90; Alvina Griffin, 85;
Annie Horton, 85; Ruth Holloman.
85; Laura Lee Gray, 85.
BARGE LIXE EQUIPMENT
HAS BEEN OVERHAULED
Franklin C. Morris, general man
ager of the Baltimore, Philadelphia
and Southern Transportation Com
pany, operating a line of barges to
water points in Eastern North Caro
Una, announces that every vessel in
the service of the company has been
carefully inspected and overhauled,
and that the company is now able to
give the shippers prompt and regu
lar service on a weekly schedule.
HARDING VISITS ARMY
Lancaster, N. H., Aug. 5. Presi
dent Harding interrupted his vaca
tion today to visit the army tubercu
lar hospital at Gorham, twenty-rive
miles away.
Bill Introduced To
Help Tennessee Hero
Washington, Aug. 5. A bill to
give Sergeant Alvin York, Tennessee
war hero, the rank of captain with
retired pay was Introduced in the
Senate today. York is said to be In
bad financial circumstances.
BARGAINS AT OWENS
In a big advertisement In this Is
sue Owens Shoe Company Is an
nouncing extraordinary values
throughout their big shoe store and
the advertisement Is worthy careful
reading by prospective shoe buyers.
ORIGINAL DRESS
WAS A SHOCKER
!
Miss Mabel Evans Found It
Necessary to Amplify Primi-!
tive Indian Woman's Ap-j
parel For Big Picture j
"Almost as modest as the present-1 Washington, Aug. 5. Health offl
day bathing suit," is the way Miss cials from twelve Southern States in
Mabel Evans, director of the cast for conference with Public Health Ser
the moving picture production of vice officials regarding the pellagra
Carolina's early colonization ven-
tures to be made at Roanoke Island
in September, describes the costumes
to be worn by the Indian maidens ,
in the mammoth historical drama. '
"It makes one blush just to look at
pictures of the original Indian
dresses," Miss Evans continued, "and
so we have decided upon certain!
modifications, the most radical of
which will be the addition of should-
er straps."
Between 50 and 75 people were
present at the mass meeting held at
the court house here Thursday night
for the purpose of making clear to
the citizens what would be expected
of Elizabeth City In the production
of North Carolina's earliest history
before the movie camera. Miss Ev-
ans, principal speaker of the evening, J r A CT ADTII I FDV
stated that this city will have thel1 " I
responsibility of furnishing most of
the characters for the first episode in
the great production namely, the
coming of Amadas and Barlowe, ex
plorers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh
in 1585 to select a suitable location
for the planting ot an English colony .
in the New World.
' Seventy-fjve characters from this
city and section will be needed, of
whom perhaps a dozen are women.
Miss Evans plans to have the com
pany assemble at Nags Head, to stay!
several days in cottages there while bodies are to be exhumed in the in
the last rehearsals are gone through, family in an effort to trace down
and the pictures are made. As vestigatlon of deaths of the Kolze
planned, the trip will be much of a
vacation for those who take part,
Miss Evans called upon the people ot
this section for the fullest assistance
and co-operation possible. She'
s'j.tes that primitive Indian utensils
and relics, as well as early Colonial
weapons and implements, are par
ticularly needed. These will be in
the care of Miss Margaret Hollowell,
who will alsist Miss Evans in col
lecting and returning them.
A local executive committee com
prising Mrs. Bessie Stewart, Mies
Margaret Hollowell, Miss Hattle Har
ney, Mayor W, Ben Goodwin and W.
A. Worth, appointed at the close of
the Thursday night mass meeting will
have charge of local arrangements
for the big film project. Miss Evans
stated that the participants in they n Woman
1 .1 ! .,, .1 1 .1 II -I I
prouueuou win practice iiere me urni
week In September, and that the pic
tures will be made about September
20th. Assurance is given that the
costumes worn in the pictures will
not affront the modesty ot the most
exacting.
The dress of the Indian women
will be a
loosely-hung affair of
coarsely woven material draped
across the figure at the shoulder, and
terminating in a skirt slightly over
knee-length. A workshop will be
established at Manteo, at which all
costumes and stage properties will be
made. The Indian men will wear a
very similar style of garment. The
clothing of the English sailors will
be made of material closely resemb
ling homespun, and it is believed that
each costume can be made at a cost
not exceeding one dollar.
Because arrangements had already
been made for the staging of a mu
sical comedy by the organization at
the time when the pictures will be
taken, the Young Woman's Club of
this city has found It necessary to
give up the sponsorship of Elizabeth
City's part In the undertaking.
Mayor W. Ben Goodwin pledged the
assistance of the local Red Men, and
agreed to round up 25 male charac
ters for the Indian scenes
Local ex-
uprvlcp mpn will he called unon. us
well as the citizens generally, and
the organizers of the epoch-making
educational-historical production are
counting upon the support and help
rst , nUl.anahln rvf 1T1 ?i hot h
City and Pasquotank County. Miss
Evans left Friday afternoon for Man
teo, where she will continue the
work of preparing for the big un
dertaking. Armour Adopts New
Industrial Plan
Chicago, Aug. 5. An arbitration
plan affecting 30,000 Armour & Com
pany employees In all parts of the I
country was adopted at a meeting
here today of employees and the
management under the Industrial1
democracy plan.
Similar plans have
been prepared
packers.
by the other large
OFFICIALS DRAFT
RECOM'ENDATIONS
Public Health Service Favors
Co-ordination of Public
Health Activities and Bal
anced Ration In Rural South
situation in the South are todav
drafting reccommendations. The
conference adopted the report rec
commending the co-ordination of all
public health and welfare activities
into one department and urged the
advocation of balanced rations in the
rural districts.
Denial that, thpre is a condition "an.
profcehing famine in the South was
made In the report unanimously
adopted by health officials from a
dozen Southern States. They de-
clared that there is no occasion for
extending charitable measures for
relief of conditions in any State
where pellagra Is prevalent, and said
that pellagra had steadily decreased
in the South,
IS lUBfc REDUCED
Washington, Aug. 5. The reduc
tion of all coast artillery stations ex
cept three In the 'South will be effect
ed soon, the War Department an-
nounced today.
BODIES EXUMED
IN POISON PROBE
mOre
Chicago, Aug. 6. Two
'what may
develop to have been
series of murders by arsenic poison
Ing.
j
Do Not Believe
Prisoners Released
London, Aug. 5 (By The Associ
ated Press) American Relief offi
cials In London place very little
faith In reports that American pris
oners in Russia have been released.
ELECTROCUTED
BY SUBWAY RAIL
Flees Down
Tracks to Death Running
x:u r . F-m '
Taxicab Driver In Brooklyn
New York, Aug. 5. Katherlne
Wnvan ufpri 24. was electrocuted by
oii in nmnkivn uhwv to-i
,! down the tracks1
taxJcab dHver whQ had car.july 23rd. Their advertisement will
ried her an(J tWQ gJrJ companlong t0 be found in this issue.
the station. They said the driver
offered to carry them for nothing and I
when he asked for his fare they ran.
UMPIRE WALSH
FINED HUNDRED
Winston-Salem. Aug. 5. Umpire
Walsh, who .was arrested here after.;
h a hall frnmp VPfct erdav. was today
m the charge of credtlnKj
a nuisance and using profane langu
age. Two fans were fined $50 for the
same offense.
8MALL FIRE FRIDAY
The city fire department was calW
to the home of Fred Davis, on Bur
gess street, at 9:30 Friday morning,
to put out a small fire In Mr. Davis's
hnrlt vnrrt A shpd had cauehf from
sparks falling from a tree in which
Mr. Davis had been burning out
erplllar nests. The fire was quickly
extinguished, and the damage was
nocrllcrlhlo i
IN COURT FRIDAY
Charlie Pugh, of Old Trap, paid
the costs of a hearing in Recorder's,
Court here Friday morning for fall-j
ure to display a 1921 license tag on
his automobile. I
Stephen Brothers, of Weeksville,'
was taxed with the costs ot ar hearing
on a charge of speeding.
GOT FIFTY THOUSAND
Greenville, 111., Aug
5. Fifty
thousand dollars It Is believed was
obtained by two bandits who board
ed a Baltimore & Ohio train at
Beecher City today, held up the mes-
jsenger and escaped with express
I packages.
Suffers Fearful Hurts
In Motor Car Accident
Seaton Cohoon, of Riddle, Mutilated Beyond
Recognition When He Tried to Avoid Hog
In Road, And Lost Control of Machine
His nose crushed, practically every tooth knocked out,
and his jaw broken in half a dozen places, Seaton Cohoon is
hovering between life and death at his home at Riddle, Cam
den County, as the result of an automobile accident near Rid
dle Thursday afternoon between one and two o'clock.
EVERY CLERK TAKES
STOCK IN HOSPITAL
The. clerks In Mitchell's De
partment Store Friday after
nooji registered 100 per cent in
stock NiibHcriptionH for the Muni
cipal Hospital. Every employee
In the store now holds shares in
Elizabeth City's most needed
community awset. Mitchell's Is
the first store in the city to take
up the Hospital Drive in this
way, and the clerks have set a
record of public-spirited gener
osity that others will liave to
work hard to match.
SPURGIN'S TRAIL
IS LOST AGAIN
1 Fugitive Hanker Is Somewhere In
I M !. nn, Vvtmllllnn la
" Planned If Found
Chicatro. Aue. 5. The trail of
ajWarren c SpUrgin, missing bank
president, has been lost in Mexico,
but authorities are making an ef
fort to have him extradited should he
be located.
ULSTER CABINET
DISCUSSES PEACE
London, Aug. 5. Another meet
ing of the Ulster cabinet has been
called to discuss the Irish peace ne
gotiations. AMERICA WINS IN
FOURTH YACHT RACE
Cowe, Isle of Wight, Aug. 5.
America today won the fourth Inter-
national
British.
yacht race against the
EXTENDING SPECIAL PRICES
The Gallop & Toxey Shoe Company
today is extending the special prices
on shoes which have been on since
BANDITS GET PAYROLL
Hackensack, N. 'J., Aug. 5. Six
armed bandits held up the paymaster
of the Barret Manufacturing Com
pany today, and escaped with tha
payroll of about forty thousand dol
lars. PERSONALS
Prof. S. L, Sheep returned Friday
morning from Chapel Hill, where he
jhas been teaching mathematics for
i the last six weeks at the University
Sumnwr School.
D. II. Walston, of Salem, motored
to this city on business Friday
morning.
Miss Kathleen Homan returned on
the ear,y "",rnnK fain Friday from
cat-JCha,el Hl11' wnere 8ne has beea at"
tendln th 8 weeks summer
scho1 ,or leache t the University
ilUHU Vl UllUtt.
B. T. James, of Sound Neck, was
In the city Friday.
W. O. Etherldge,
in th city Friday.
of Nevvland, was
D. D Dudley is ill at his home on
North Road street.
J. A. Harris, of Winter Park, Fla
i..:,i ho. k,. in
&
again this morning.
J. M. Burgess, of Old Trap, and
w A oregory, ef Shiloh, were in the
city Friday on business.
Mr. and Mrs.
returned from
W. M. Martin have
a vacation visit to
Mrs. Martin's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T, Perry, in Chowan County.
J. F. Forbes and Silas Greg
ory, also of RidTlle, who were
in the car with Cohoon at the
time, escaped with minor in
juries. Dr. V. L. Stevens, of
Shiloh, remained with the in
jured man until midnight. Co
hoon, he says, will recover un
less complications set in.
The three men left this city at
noon Thursday for Riddle, 14 miles
away. It is said here that they
were in a cheerful and boisterous
mood. Cohoon was driving the car,
and the two others were in the rear
seat. A quarter of a mile this side
of Riddle at a turn in the road, the
driver swerved out of the track to
avoid a hog, and lost control of his
machine, which shot across the ditch
and down a barbed wire fence for
nearly 100 yards, and turning over
several times, finally stopped on top
of Cohoon. The Bteerlng wheel of
the automobile struck him a terrible
blow in the face, and when he was
taken out, he was disfigured beyond
recognition.
Forbes and Gregory were thrown
out shortly after the tar crossed the
ditch. It Is said that Forbes pants
were torn oft by a glancing contact
with the barbed wire fence, and
that, frightened and dazed, be im
mediately ran half a mile to his
home without waiting to see how the
others had fared. Gregory escaped
with minor scratches. The machine
Is declared to have been totally de
molished.
Cohoon, pinned under the steering
wheel of the automobile, was quickly
taken out and rushed to his home,
where he was given prompt medical
"ent'on by W. L. Stevens The
injured man Is 30 or 35 years old,
and has a wife and several children.
He moved to Camden County from
the Weeksville section in Pasquotank
several years ago.
REACH BASEBALL GI-OVE
FOR BEST BATTING AVERAGE
The Culpepper Hardware Company
will give a $9.50 Reach baseball
glove to the player making the best
batting average in the post season
series now being played between the
Elks and the Cubs on the Main
street diamond. This offer Is creat
ing no little rivalry among the lead
ing batters of the two teams.
BACK FROM NEW YORK
M. Leigh Sheep has returned from
New York City, where he has been
buying goods for fall trade for the
Woman's Wear Store.
TO INVESTIGATE LYNCHING
Petersburg, Va., Aug. 5. A spe
cial grand Jury was today ordered to
Investigate the lynching of a negro
at Lawrencevllle Thursday.
Invents Machine To
Harvest Sugar Cane
London, Aug. 5. A mechanical
sugar cane cutter which is expected
to solve. the labor difficulties of
planters the world over, has been In
vented by Sir Percy Scott, the gun
nery expert.
The machine Is hand propelled,
weighs about 200 pounds and has a
projecting knife which makes 3.000
revolutions a minute.
"In the trials," said Sir Perry to
the Dally Mall, "I have used pieces
f very harrt bamhoo two ,nrnes ,n
diameter, which I consider offer two
'or tnree t,mPB tne resistance of sugar
ranes. In each Instance the knlfo
Wfint throu)?h the buhcnPg llke bllt.
ter."
BAHEBALL TODAY
There will be a game of baseball
this evening at 6:30 on the West
Main street diamond between the
Cubs and Elks. This li the fourth
' game Irf the series. th IClk. havlnr
won the first three games,