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VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1922
EIGHT PACES
NO. 11!)
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Interesting Facts Came Out
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At The Merchants Banquet j
Banker Says Conditions Are Definitely Better,!
Highway Commissioner Hints At Future Road
building Activities, And Merchant Points Out;
Valuable New Trade Territory j
i
Tht' development of Elizabeth City-
alow? trade and industrial lines was
lie theme of the speeches delivered
Thursday night at the Merchants
Association banquet at the Southern
Hotel, after due attention had been
given to the excellent banquet supper
served by the hotel management.
The feature item of t lie bill of fare
was home-cured country ham, spiced
and baked to culinary perfection, and
served with delicious trimmings of
potatoes, green peas, canded yams,
celery, and other acessories.
C V Melick, vice-'president of the
Merchants Asociation, was the toast-
master. After a series of song mini-
bers in which all present whole-
heartedlv joined under the leader -
ship of L. E. Skinner, Mr. Melick in-
troduced M. P. Gallop, president of
the Association, as the first speaker,
President Gallop emphasized the
function of the Association in encour
aging clean business methods, in
bringing about a more friendly re
lationship between the merchants
themselves, and the public In general,
in effecting a closer co-operation of
all for the advancement of the best
interests of the city and section, and
in correcting the abuses of the credit
system. His address was clearly put,
and was heard with general interest.
.Must Protect Credit Record
Gurney P. Hood, vice president and
cashier of the Carolina Ranking &
Trust Company, was the second
speaker. He dealt with the methods
the Association should adopt in the
dissemination of wholesome publici
ty throughout the trade territory of
Elizabeth City. "We must keep
clean this city's reputation as a good
credit risk," he declared, "and we can
only do this by educating all the peo-
pie thoroughly in the truth that they
must pay for the goods they buy.
Most business failures are due to the
inability of the unlucky ones to col
lect their outstanding accounts.
Elizabeth City is now known as a
good credit risk; and it is to the ad
vantage of the whole citizenship to
keep it so."
The value of a cheerful, courteous,
attitude on the part of the merchant
was forcibly brought out in the "ad-dre-s
of Oliver F. Gilbert, the next
speaker. "I started out as a clerk."
he said, "and I'm glad of it, because
it broadened my outlook. In those
early days when my employer came
down in the morning, and spoke
gruffly to me, or criticised something
I had done, it spoiled the day for
me. But when he came in with a
smile on his face, and paid me some
little compliment, 1 went to work
uHtll riillplL-nH QnorLri' Clwiiirfiiliuiuc
, . . . . ' , . '.
toward your assistants, and toward
the public, is worth a great deal to
every one of you."
J. C. Sawyer, former president of
the Association, was next called upon
by the toastmaster, who character-
ized him as "the man who has given
more thought and time to the Asso
ciation than anyone else here, and
who has contributed more in mil It
on its present footing." Mr. Saw-
yer told of the advantages to be gain
ed by a closer affiliation with the
State Association, and urged that at
least two members, besides the Bee
retarv. be sent hs deWate to the
State convention at Wrightsville
Beach in June.
Hanks Kcpalit Million IollarH
With one of his characteristic an
ecdotes, Marshal H. Jones, cashier of
thp First x, rtiiTPn. vati',i
opened a short address on business
conditions, in which he described the
outlook as unmistakably improved.
"Good times are just around the cor
ner," he declared, "and each day
brings nearer an era of more depen
dable prosperity than we have known
in many years. For instance, the
banks of Elizabeth City have paid
hack a million dollars of borrowed
money in the last year money paid
In by the people of the city and sec
tion. Steel and other lines show de
finitely the upward trend of business.
It Is time now to put on steam, and
go aiiead:
TPm-l l Jin., - Pliuuiu irr- nurni inini, miiu ll I a lc
P 4 CnnT J" ,l,'rt,, "criminations are found, an effort
hnsinp,, ! 7 It f P'an for should he made to have them done
business expansion that drew thn tm , ,
..,i . , away w th. The people of Hat eras
close attention of everybody Dresent j . . , ...
"inst u,.j (V, " present. an(j npari)y roilst points work the
Just lieond the Chowan R ver in .. - 1 . c a
nortin rn,.nt . . . j ' ' 10 ear round, except on Sundays, and
Fliahe Ih m ry Whk'h 8hld ' -Pent here."
f,llabeth City should reach. .
.un . . Tne banquet concluded with a
ed Id fri, . T, u a(har",urfaR- ' ten o'clock, and everybody
Tnd there u T Mt with the '""ng enlng
rity runnin roTl08," 'l ,hat had bePn one of 1 Inspiration, and
Hon of Wn , m" ,he dlrpc- ' keeping with the Merchanta A.so-
iln ofthe n fr?m ,er" Clat,0n S,0Kan of "The Interest, of
J Center Hm I f ' " ? m,U"l EIImMI" Cltr "rst. our own after
to tenter Hill, snd six miles from I wards."
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rOSlUlllCC UlClKS
Arrested ForThief
New York, May 19 (By The Asso- j
catfl(1 press) Seven postoffiee
(. jr s wpn arrested today in con-1
npr,ion wjt, the million and a half'
rt, ,,.,,. )0M( t Ijof t from the mails last'
Ju)y foilownf, a confession by Mark j
Vonps(.nen. ;
j
,
CONSIDER CONSOLIDATION j
Houston, May 19 (Hy The Assoc!-,
ated Tress) Consolidation of thej
Brotherhood of Firemen and En-
ginemen and the Urotherhood of En-i
gineers is being considered today by j
the convention of the former.
.
there to Rockyhock. on the Chowan j
Hiver 16 miles in all from Hertford.
"From Rockyhock, a gasoline
barge makes the trip to Colerain, !
the shipping point of the trading sec
tion I originally mentioned in just 17
minutes. Colerain is the center of
one of the best farming sections in :
Bertie County. The people are
mostly small farmers, but they diver-1
sit'y their crops, and all have money.;
At present much of their trailing is;
done at Norfolk, but much of this;
business should he brought here, and i
can be, if you fellows will get behind :
Highway Commissioner Hart, and in
duce him to use his influence to se
cure the improvement of the unpaved
Intervening roads."
It was then that Oliver F. Gilbert'
gave a hint of the possible future
roadbuilding program of the Pasquo-
Iliirliu-nv Pi-, m til Will ftp be-
))y (ha( a npw
road, built jointly by Pasquotank and
Perquimans Counties, will probably
be opened to traflie within a month.
It leads, he stated, from .Mount Hei
mon township, in Pasquotank, into
the Helvidere section of Perquimans,
and will bring the people of that
section four miles nearer by highway
to Elizabeth City.
PrNectivc New Paved Iload
Mr. Gilbert also mentioned the
Acorn Hill road project connecting
Newland township with Gates Coun
ty, and predicted that this road will
be completed by the State Highway
Commission within a year. "The
Pasquotank Highway Commission,"
he told the Association members, "is
now having surveys made of prospec
tive routes to connect the Weeksvllle
paved road with some point on the
Sound, by hardsurfaced highway.
Ve are considering Lister's pier and
, ... . , .
Hobbs's pier as possible terminals for
this road. Hobbs's pier is only three
miles from the Weeksville road, more
than one farmer of that section has
offered to contribute $1,000 toward
the cn8,rcti('n ()f thet Proposed
roao, HUH 111 ll lien I Irtl i:iutriiB fi
Columbia. Tyrrell County, are inti
mating that, if the road is built, they
erect a P,er th"'- in "r'Pr.t0
gain more direct communication with
Ellzabeth City."
The possibilities of Elizabeth City's
regaining the trade of Hatteras and
other town-the-Sound points were
M r "y NV ' 1,i,lley' wno nPXI
addressed the Association. "Wash
ington. N. C. sends six boats weekly
to Hatteras," he said, "and these
boats go heavily laden with freight.
T,u' lt"K,e is greater. If anything.
h.Hn ',,at KHabeth City, hut the
'"," M sending boats
mere iiiiiiy, aim Mizanetn l it y is not.
You merchants should et some ad-
vertising to the Hatteras people, and
an effort should he made to improve
the boat service to that point from
here. '
Freight Hate Discrimination?
"Recently, a Hatteras merchant
told me that he could get goods from
Norfolk via Washington as cheaply as
he could by routing theni via Eliza
beth City. This should not be the
case, for the distance via Washing
ton Is much greater. The matter
1.4 Krt l..nlULi,l n,l l t
BEAR CUBS AND OTHERS
f
Camden Ferry Road
Has Become A Canal
High tides Thursday and Friday
made of Camden Ferry road literally
a canal from the bridge connecting
Machelhe's Island with the mainland,
for a distance of more than a quar
ter of a mile. Sidney Buffkins and
.Malcolm Gregory padded over in a
skiff shortly after eight o'clock, and
found an automobile party on their
way to this city stalled in the road.
They started the car without getting
out of their boat, and the machine
proceeded safely to Elizabeth City.
The two boys in the skiff paddled
on down the rod, and soon met a
second uar in the same predicament.
They started this one. also without
leaving the boat, and it went on safely
toward Norfolk. Not observing any
more automobiles' stalled in the deep
water on the road, the boys returned
to this city.
The people of Camden County are
looking forward to the early paving
of Camden ferry road by the State
Highway Commission. The project
has already been approved, and it is
indicated that actual construction of
a sixteen-foot concrete highway will
be begun in the near future.
AT HKall S( HOOL TONIGHT
The public is cordially Invited to
attend the declamation and recita
tion contests between Elizabeth City
High School students, which will lie
held at the high school auditorium
tonight, beginning at eight o'clock.
Gold medals will be awarded the
winners.
Jl'IKJE OVKRItl'LKS MOTION' TO
DlltKCT VKIMMCT NOT (il'II-TV
Charleston, W. Va., May 19 (By
The Associated Press) Judge Woods
today overruled the motion to direct
a verdict of not guilty In the case of
William Blizzard, charged with trea
son as the result of an armed march
last summer against Logan County.
The judge limited the state as to the
Overt act on which it relied to eon
vfet to the defendants presence with
the armed marchers In Logan County.
One million dollars damages Is ask
ed In the suit of the I'nited Mine
"Workers tiled in Federal court. The
not Ion Is the result of shooting up the
Willis Branch Coal Company prop
erties during the strike in 1919.
Start Seizure Big
Vineyard Properties
San Francisco. May 19 (By The
Associated Press) Federal officers
today started the seizure of the two
million dollar vineyard properties on
the Theodore G!er Vineyard Company
under the prohibition statutes.
WEEK KXD SPF. IAI.H
Week-end specials for men and
boys are featured In an Interesting
advertisement of T. T. Turner &
Company on the back page of this Is
sue of The Advance. The specials
Include suits, underwear and straw
hats Tor men and suits, blouses and
underwear for boys.
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i Hl - ' "
Three weeks ago today Ed Sawyer
and Calvin Brickhouse of East Lake
caught these two young hear cubs in
the woods of Dare County. The fol
lowing day they brought the cubs to
Elizabeth City, stopping by The Ad
vance office to introduce them to this
newspaper and its cubs. From The
Advance ollice they went to Zoeller's
to have these pictures mde., The
upper picture shows Messrs. Sawyer
iiiid Rrickhouse with a cub on each
shoulder. In the lower picture John
1 le. Little Editor of The Advance,
has captured the bears temporarily.
SHRIIIERS CAPTURE
HANDSOME TROPHY
Victoriously bearing a handsome
silver loving cup. Iifeen inches high,
the Jir't priz awarded for the best
lloat at the annual ceremonial of the
Ancient Order of the Mystic Shrine
at Kinston Thursday, the thirty or
more Elizabeth City Shriners who at
tended the big event returned jubi
lantly to this city Friday morning.
The cup is on display at the Savings
Bank & Trust Company.
More than six thousand Shriners
and visitors were in Kinston Thurs
day for the stunts and doings inci
dent to the ceremonial. Mayor Hap
pen of that city, himself a Shriner,
turned over the city's keys to the
delegates, telling them "Boys, have a
good time, but please don't leave any
dead bodies on the streets."
The winning float, built by Jimniie
Whitehurst and J.'C. Munden, of
this city, at Kinston the day before
the big street parade, was a gorgeous
affair in red, yellow and green, sur
mounted by a big shrine emblem In
gold and silver. The whole was ten
feet across the top. and four carpen
ters were employed in the 'building
of It.
Among the Shriners who attended
from this city were the two candi
dates, Hon. J. C. B. Ehrlnghaus and
W. T. Culpepper, and the following
veterans: Dr. J. B. Griggs, W. P.
Wood, Harry G. Kramer. Dr. J. W.
Selig, W. G. Gaither, Frank Sclig.
Frank Jones, S. H. Johnson, L. E.
Bray, H. P. Smith, ("apt. J. II. Jones,
Ed. F. Spencer, T. A. Commander, N.
Howard Smith. C. H. Robinson, How
ard Flora, W. P. Duff. A. It. Nichol
son. George Beverldge, R. Latiner
Commander, Charlie Griggs. Latham
Cox, T. C. Sawyer, of Camden and
Claud V. Ballard.
LATE BULLETINS
Washington, May 19 (By The As
sociated Press) A joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Fed
eral constitution giving Congress thj
right, to regulate or prohibit the em
ployment of children under eighteen
was Introduced by Senator Johnson
today to meet the situation resulting
from the Supreme Court decision
holding the child labor law unenn
stltiitlonal.
Washington, May 19 (By The As
sociated Press) Recommendations
for the acceptance hy the Govern
ment of the Ford offer for the de
velopment of Muscle Shoals was made
to the Senate Agricultural 'Commit
tee hy Thomas A. Edison today.
Chatham, Va., May 19 .(By The
Assocluted Press) W. 1). Coving
ton, a policeman of Spray, N. C, was
found guilty of manslaughter here
today for the killing of George Rry
ant whom he suspected of being a
bootlegger. He was sentenced to
seven years Imprisonment.
SATURDAY LAST DAY
FOR REGISTRATION
Tomorrow. Saturday, is the
last day upon which citizens
may register for the coming
elections. The' registration
places in 'the city are as fol
lows: First Ward. II. O. God
frey's store, Cypress and Second
streets; Second Ward. Wil
liam's store. Parsonage and
Harney streets; Third Ward,
Whltehurst's store, Fearing
street; Fourth Ward, City Mar
ket. Folks who do not regis
ter and vote have no right to
kick over the outcome of the
elections.
FREIGHT EMBARGO
HAS BEEN LIFTED
The freight embargo on shipments
of potatoes to New York City, Jersey
City anil Brooklyn, announced this
week by the Pennsylvania railroad as
effective Thursday, has been can
celled, and potato shipments for
those cities will be handled this sea
son as heretofore, or at least until
further notice. This information Is
contained in a telegram received
Thursday afternoon by M. E. Dennis,
freight agent of the Norfolk South
ern railroad tit this city, from J. F.
Dulton, of Norfolk, the general
ff eight agent of the road.
Manhattan Yard, which the Penn
sylvania railroad otlicials Intended
to use as a receiving station for early
Irish potatoes consigned to New
York, is nine miles from that city,
according to information received
here Thursday. This would, as may
readily be seen, have imposed a tre
mendous handicap upon shippers and
IIOllI t() (It'll ll'ftf
The rescinding of the embargo bv
the Pennsylvania is the result of
strong pressure brought to bear by
New York commission men and hy
the Chambers of Commerce of this
and other interested cities.
The city Chamber of Commerce is
now making an effort to bring a
Government representative to Eliza
beth City for the duration of the po
tato season, to receive and give out
dally market reports, and to make re
ports on the local market. A Cham
ber of Commerce committee will go
to Washington Monday to appear he
fore the Bureau of Markets, and urge
the sending of a man here.
STEWART III CITY
OIIVAYTOSHILOH
Edward L. Slowarl of Washing
ton, candidate for solicitor from this
district, was in the city Thursday on
his way to Shiloh, where he delivered
the commencement address of the
Shiloh High School Thursday night.
Asked about the campaign, Mr.
Stewart's eyes twinkled as he said.
"Why don't you know, every one of
us in this race for solicitor Is going to
win, if you'll take each candidate's
own word for It."
"Small and I had a regular love
feast over In Hyde." continued Mr.
Stewart. "It had been long since
we had met and each of us fell on
the other's manly bosom and went
with joy at our reunion. Then we
broke bread together."
Mr. Stewart would make no reply
to the suggestion that the tears shed
at the hapvpy meeting were of the cro-
codile variety.
SOI TH MIMH HIGH KCHOOL
Nil. I, PRESENT PLAY HERE
The play "My Irish Rose," which
was given by South Mills High School
as a part of the school commence
ment program, will he presented at
the High School auditorium at this
city Monday night. The curtain will
rise at eight o'clock and admission
will he 1 !i and 25 cents.
"My Irish Rose" is a comedy-
drama In three acts and four scenes
dealing with lite on the Emerald
Isl"- " a Pronounced hit at
South .Mills, and people rrom this
city who saw It declare that It was
ZyVX "rm,,"'llm,H
;MT,n.CII CANCELS PETITION
San Francisco, May 19 (By The
Associated Press) Fred Glotzbach,
chauffeur, today cancelled his di
vorce petition against Mme. Mar
garet Matzenaure, grand opera sing
er, saying that he would not oppose
her suit In New York.
KEMENOKE ORDERED RKLKASED
Cecil W. Morris, formerly man-
ager of Morris's Cafe on Matthews New York, May 19 (By The Asso
street. has Bold out his Interest In elated Press) General Gregorie
the City Vukanlzing and Repair sta-( SemenofT. former Ataman of the Cos
tlon and has taken over the manage- sacks, was today ordered released
ment of the popular restauraurant f rom arrest by the appellate division
again.
SHOULD NOT DIG
GREEN POTATOES
Growers In Tyrrell,
Camden And Curri
tuck Urged To Wait
Until May29
! Elizabeth City shippers and potato
j men are much concerned over report
! reaching here this week to the effect
j that potato growers In Tyrrell and
'some even in lower Camden and Cur
! rit u k will begin digging potatoes
next week.
. Potatoes in those counties are not
mature, potato men lien maintain,
and to ship now would he a grievous
j error from every standpoint. Jt is
argued that if Tyrrell, lower Cant-
den and Currituck will exercise a
little restraint and defer the begin
ning of digging operations until the
week or May 29th, they will not only
greatly add to their yield but will
;h1m get a better iprice for their po
l ta toes.
; There are two reasons which com-
mission men and shippers here put
forward as ground for these rather
sweeping assertions. In the first
place, they say, the South Carolina
potato season is now at its height and
potatoes shipped from this) section
now will in their immature state
have to compete with the 'ream of
the South Carolina crop. In the
second place, they declare, while the
price on well-graded potatoes of
good quality in northern markets is
holding up fairly well, that on in
ferior grades Is much lower and
heavy shipments of the poor grades
will paralyze the demand for this
class of potatoes completely. "If po
tatoes are allowed to mature," said
a Pasquotank potato grower Friday
morning, "they tend to grade them-
tlH ,i,,urR l"'t' eiiig of
f:lil- ,,n i,'",'m whpn im-
1,lat,ir"' h'v'r. many of the pota-
;,l,' i,r r'r n,?rb'.""
and are black wiien they react! tue
market.
"At this stage of the crop." he said,
"I do not hesitate to say that a delay
of only a week or two, with the
ground moist as it is, will in many
cases actually double the yield.
"There Is certainly no occasion for
undue haste on the part of our
neighbors to the south and east of
us." went on this grower, "for pota
toes around Washington, New Bern
and Aurora have not begun to move
yet. And certainly the moderate
price at which potatoes are selling on
the northern markets Is no incentive
to break one's neck to get his pota
toes out of the ground.
"As lo the Pasquotank crop, I can
say authoritatively that there will ho
no digging in this County on any
large scale before the week of June
0th and that potatoes from Pasquo
tank will not begin to move north
ward In bulk before the week of June
12th. Tyrrell, Camden and Curri
tuck growers, therefore, may delay
their digging certainly until May 29tu
with every assurance of beating Pas-
quotank 'potatoes to market,"
It Is a fact that leading farmers
in this County, such for instance
as J. A. Byrum and J. N. Wlnslow,
w''o are perhaps the pioneer potato
growers of this section, never begin
shipping their potatoes until the crop
i well matured.
The matter of immature shipments
from other counties is of concern
here through the fact that the arrival
n northern markets of potatoes uf
inferior quality from this section
all Northeastern North Carolina
potatoes are given a black eye. Such
shipments in years past have been
held largely responsible for the un
satisfactory prices which Northeas-
tern North Carolina growers have
received for their potatoes.
The matter of the digging of Im
mature potatoes In counties on the
Albemarle Sound was the' subject of
a meeting of shippers and commiss
ion men called by the chamber of
Commerce at the ('hamlier'si head-
,..,. in tM (-01,mlllIli: v Huilding
Thuri,lluy niK,u ,, w.iys aIuI m,.aI14
(lf k,.nK , IIlmiim )0,ato,.H off
tnH mark(,t WHr ((H(.11SS)M, at ,..
slderable length,
Position Of Relief .
Workers Jeopardized
Constantinople, May 19 (By The
Associated Press) Publication of re
ports by American relief workers in
the Interior of Asia Minor concern
ing the systematic persecution of
Christians by Turkish Nationalists
has jeopardized the position of the
workers.
of the Supreme Court.