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VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATI KDAY KVKNLMi, Al'tiUST 1!). VXl'l
FOUR l'ACHS
NO. 197
7T .111 L " "lir
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Breaks Off Negotiations
With Utility Corporations
MONEY FITID CASE
TO SUPREME COURT
DYNAMITE ROCKS jAII-Stars Defeated
RAILWAY TRESTLE Poplar Branch Team.
City Council In Special Session Friday Night
Goes Forward With Plans For The Erection
Of New Utility Plants Formal Notifica
tion Given Saturday
Ariiiintii Powell I'm I'ihIi'i- Itiinil Of
,(H For Assault Willi liilcnl
To Kill
Si ore
The City Council stands by" its,
guns and refuses to pay the aflill
uted corporations serving Elizabeth
City in the matter of light, power,
water and sewerage more than a
quarter of a million dollars for
their plants and property.
Formal notification to that effect
was handed the secretary of the af-'
filiated corporations Saturday in a
letter from Mayor W. Ben Goodwin.
This letter sets forth that the figure
offered by the city, $250,000, was
arrived at after careful considera-J
tion and was based on appraisals
made by experts, that the offer wasi
made In good faith with due warn-,
ing that it was final, and that the!
city must therefore decline to con-f
.sider the counter-proposals made bv '
the corporations following the meet
ing of their stockholders on Thurs
day. The letter referred to in the fore
going paragraph was drawn up by
Councilman P. H. Williams, re
drafted by City Attorney J. B. Leigh
and adopted by the City Council in
special session Friday night.
In line with its announced pro
gram, the Council, having definitely
abandoned the idea of purchasing
the existing utility plants here, set
about preliminary steps looking to
the erection by the city of its own
utilities.
One preliminary step planned
templated in the near future -is a
visit to other tidewater towns in i
Eastern North Carolina to study the)
plan of construction, the cost, and J
the manner of operation of existing;
utilities in these cities. This will!
be done, it was intimated at the
Council's meeting Friday night, be-!
fore any contracts are let or any
definite figures are set as to the cost
of the proposed utility plants. How
ever, in round numbers it is under
stood that the Council expects the
cost of the proposed utilities to be
in the neighborhood of half a million
dollari.
A matter that is giving members
of the Council some concern is the
fact that their term of office expires
next June and that work on the pro
posed utility plants can hardly be
more than got under way by that
time. Few members of the Council
purpose to offer themselves for re
election and they are concerned
about the carrying on of the work
begun without a hitch.
Seeking to meet this situation
Certain members, of the Council, not
ably P. II. Williams and L. It. Fore
man, favor the creation of a perma
nent commission to take the con
struction of the proposed plants in
hand and carry the work through
to completion. This proposal, how
ever, when put forward by Council
man Williams Friday night, encount
ered sharp opposition, especially
from Councilmen Cahoon and Stev
en. (Who believe, apparently, that
the Council has no business to dele
gate its powers to an outside body In
this important matter and that a
committee from the Council should
he named to act In the place of the
proposed commission. There was no
test of strength at Friday night's
meeting, as Councilman Williams
did not press for a vote when he
found that his proposal had run into
sharp opposition. This Issue will
probably have to be fought out, how
ever. In the near future. I
The Council adjourned subject to,
the call of the Mayor and another
meeting in the first half of next
week is the present outlook.
The formal letter from Mayor
Goodwin to President Crook of the
utilities advising Mr. Crook of the
action taken by the Council Friday
night follows:
"Whereas, It appears to the Board,
from a certain letter received by the
Mayor, from Howard E. Crook, Pres
ident of the three Public Utilities,
Lights, Water and Sewereage, and
whereas in said letter, there was en
closed three resolutions, made by
said Utilities, rejecting the offers of
purchase of the Corporation of Eliz
abeth at the price of $250,000.00,
and whereas in said resolution there
were certain offers pf arbitration, as
well as counter offers as to prices, at
which said utilities would sell their
properties to the said Corporation of
Uq& Up At
Soutlipori
Lieut
To
Hinton Forced:
Stop
Two cases involving live defend
ants, all colored," wi'iit up to Su
perior Court Saturday morning as a
M'liuel of a liml of live one hundred
dollar bills at the Five and Ten
Cent Store corner on Thursday,
July 20, by Minnie Howe and Eliza
Kidilick.
Minnie Howe. Eliza Kidilick, Dan
iel Riddick and Einmett Worsely
were put under bond of $25 for mis-
I use of the $500 found. Arnimta
Powell wit? put under bond of $500
for an alleged assault with intent to,
kill.
The montiy was found on the same-'
(lay it was lost bv 11. H. Bell of
AtTtlin On ' S,aw''010' l''erI lf Superior Court of
ACCOUnt vJl otOrmS' money about ten minutes, probably,'
after he dropped it. Arriving iir
the city from Shawboro Mr. Bell
drove his car to the Apothecary
Shop corner, crossed the street,
went from the First & Citizens Bank
to the Spence-Hollowell Company on
Water street, and when lie returned
to the bank found the five hundred
dollar bills and a check for three
hundred dollars misHng from his
pocket.
When Thursday and Friday pass
ed with no trace of the missing
money Bell had about lost hope of
recovering it. On Saturday, how
ever, one Emmett Worsely, colored,
while the bank was closed presented
at the Apothecary Shop a hundred
dollar bill in payment for goods on
an account. The Apothecary Shop
didn't have the change and Worsely
then tried D. Walter Harris, in the
same building, but again In vain.
He finally obtained the change at
the postofJlce, but the bill had at
tracted attention and it was not long
before Chief of Police Holmes was
inquiring of Worsely where the
money came from. From Worsely
Chief Holmes went to Daniel Rid
dick, colored city employe, and from
Riddick the Chief learned that Kid
dick's wife, Eliza, and one Minnie
; Howe, colored, had found $500 in
one-hundred-dollar bills. Kventu
! ally Mr. Bell got all his money back
but the check has never been recov
; ered and is believed to have been
' destroyed. J
j 'Now when the Chief got to Min
! nie and Eliza they had spent a part
I of their find Minnie $S and Eliza
$5.35. Minnie went to Walter
j Powell's store, on Southern avenue,
! corner of Park street, to get the $8
j she had spent there back. She got
; all but one dollar of it and would ,
have gone her way in peace had not
I Powell's wife, Arminta, come In at!
this juncture. Arminta wpn t fnr i
Other Outbursts Re
ported Throughout
Country As Railway
Peace Is In Balance
Was 1) to H In Friday After-,
i ion Game On Wi'sl Main
Slice) Diamond
Chicago. Aug. 1!' (By The Asso
ciated Press) Willi railroad peace
apparently hanging in the balance
until next Wednesday, when .-pokes-men
for the railroads and striking
shopmen are due to meet again,
(lynaiui'e blasts rocked the Chesa
peake .V- Ohio trestle near Hunting
ton, W. Va.. and tore up the track
of the Illinois Central at 1'adurah.
Kv., and other outbursts an
nyrted
Pacific.
from the Atlantic to the
Along The Coast
Southport, N. C, Aug. 19
(By The Associated Press) j
The seaplane Sampaio Cor
reia bound from New York to !
Brazil, is tied up here on ac
count of storms along the
coast. Lieutenant Hinton, ;
pilot, is doubtful whether he
will be able to get away be
fore the afternoon. He ar-l
rived yesterday from Manteo.
Vigorous Campaign
Waged in California
Last Vinule Injection Of Republican
Opponent To Hiram Johnson
Causes Kvcileinent
Leslie Mann Denies
Receiving Letter
St. Louis. Aug. 19 (By The Asso
ciated Press) Leslie Mann, St.
Louis National's outfielder, today'
denied having received a letter from
Phil Douglas, Giant's pitcher, barred '
from organized baseball for writing
a letter to a player of the "contend-
ing team" offering to desert the
Giants and thus hinder pennant j
chances, as claimed last night in a !
statement by Douglas. Mann also
denied a telephone conversation
Douglas claimed to have had with
him.
aforesaid letter, and resolutions for
warded to the said Mayor, W. Ben
Goodwin, by Howard E. Crook, Pres
ident of the said Utilities Com
panies, be and the same are hereby
rejected; and that the Mayor is
hereby instructed to communicate
the rejection of the said propositions
as aforesaid to the said Howard K.
Crook, President, as aforesaid.
"Be it further resolved, that the
said Mayor shall communicate with
the said Howard E. Crook, Presi
dent,, that it does not matter to the
Corporation of Elizabeth City how
the amount heretofore offered by the
said Corporation of Elizabeth City to
the said I'tilities Companies for their
properties be segregated or divided
between the said companies, for that
in no event will the Corporation of
offer or pay more than $250,000.00
for said Three Utilities in the ag
gregate, as upon Investigation by
competent Engineers, this is a full
value for said Utilities to the Cor
poration of Elizabeth City.
"The foregoing resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
"Upon motion duly put and se
conded, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted: That
whereas the Elizabeth City Light and
Power Company, The Elizabeth City
Water and Power Company, and the
Elizabeth City Sewerage Company,
have each rejected the offer of the
Corporation of Elizabeth City for
their properties, that within said
Corporation of Elizabeth City, and
belonging to said Companies which
said offer was passed by the Board
of Aldermen of the Corporation of
Elizabeth City on the 27th day of
June 1922; Therefore be It resolved
that the Corporation of Elizabeth
City make such preparations as may
lie necessary and proper for the
building, Installing and equipping of
a system of Electric Light, Water
and Sewerage plants, in and for
City of Elizabeth City."
Here is the letter of President
Crook which accompanied the reso
lutions of the several utility cor
porations declining to accept the
city's offer to buy the utility plants
and properties at an aggregate of
$250,000: -
Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 19 (By
The Associated Press)- Vigorous
1 campaigning by senatorial and gu
bernatorial candidates was the fea
ture of the weeks preceding Cali
fornia'', primary election, which will
be hold on August 29 and at which
candid. lies will be nominated for
'complete state ticket and for all
county offices.
Virtual last-minute injection into
the pre-priniary campaign of a Re
publican opponent against United
States Senator Hiram W. Johnson,
who had been expected to have, .a
clear lield so far as the Republican
nomination was concerned, aroused
old-time political antagonisms. Sen
ator Johnson's opponent was Charles
C. Moore, San Francisco engineer j
and president of the Panama Pacific
International Exposition at San;
Francisco in 1915. i
Moore's i aiididacy was announced
after a meet inn In San Francisco of
Republican leaders opposed to John
son, and following the announce-1
meat it became apparent that the
anti-Johnson campaign would be
based on the latter's opposition to
the Four Power Pacific treaty.
Early in the campaign reports I
were circulated that Moore had the!
backing of the administration of
President Harding and that it was a
fight of "progressive" as repre
sented by Moore, against a man who
was "at outs" with the national ad
ministration. Later reports from
Washington said the . President had
decided to take no part In the Cali
fornia senatorial fight. It also was
Elizabeth lily defeated Poplar
Branch Friday afternoon on the
.Main street diamond In a ragged;
game of baseball. Up until the lifth
inning the game was fast and very
interesting, but after that each team,
blew to pieces and each scored four
runs. Elizabeth City again scored!
live inns in the seventh. The most
exciting part of the game came in
t ho ninth inning. when Willi the
score .landing 1) to 5, Poplar Branch
got a batting streak and scored three
runs, with two men on bases when1
re. the final out was made. .
; George Siinnneroll started in the
I box for Poplar Branch and had;
tilings pretty much his own way un
til the fifth inning when a couple of
I hits ami A Jew errors proved his tin
' doing. Poyner replaciV! h'in. Evans,'
I started or Elizabeth City and he
also pitched a nlnaily game until the
firth, when if seemed like the whole
Elizabeth City team wetll to pieces.
Seymour replaced Evans in llid box.
The outstanding feature of the
game was the spectacular catch in
right field by E. Weatherly.
The score by innings:
Elizabeth City ....0(H) 040 500 9
Poplar Branch ....010 0 4 o (in. '58
Batteries -Elizabeth City, Evans,
Seymour and Jones; Poplar Branch,
Summed 11. Poyner and Corbell.
Umpires -Glover and Kodgerson.
GuareJoE'JGQ
TO SpGIlGGi1
Eight Companies En
train At Charlotte
Others Ordered To
Report Immediately
Begii negotiations
For Wage Agreements
Chicago, Aug. 19 (By The Associ
ated Press) The first actual nego
I nations towards a wage agreement
between coal operators and miners
j started today at the John meeting
In re of representatives of both sides.
1 lie miners were to present the re
cent Cleveland agreement for con
sideration and operators are ex
pected to reply.
declared by Senator Johnson's
'.Minnie with a razor and slashed her ' rrln(l, 'hat aside from his vote
up so artistically that Minnie spent ! aRainst tne Four I'ower Treaty,
two weeks in the Community Hos-! Jonns"n was a rm supporter of the
lital. Considerable infection fol-i Pre8i,,'nt-
lowed the injuries sustained from' Senator Johnson returned to
the cutting and Minnie Bowe's rght ("a"for"ia ann" was l'roil,It to take
arm may be permanently weakened up the "Kht. In his opening speech
was fined five dol
for violation of a
Seventy Seven Women
In First Olympics
Paris, Aug. 19 (By The Associ
jated Press) Seventy-seven women
athletes representing live countries
will compete in what is geneially de
j scribed as the first women's olym
I pics at Pershing Stadium tomorrow.
, The United States and Panama en
j tered a team of fifteen, Including
Lucille (iiulbold and Estllle Scan
; dolher, young women from the
.South.
Charlotte, Aug. 19 (By The
Associated Press) Eight com
panies of North Carolina
Guardsmen entrained for
Spencer this morning, where it
ir reported that serious out
breaks threaten. Captain Mel
Vin Caldwell of the Hornet's
Nest company was here mar
shaling the troops to leave on
a special train. Durham7
i Winston and Concord com
panies are also under orders
to report to Spencer immedi
ately, according to information
from local officials of the
. Southern Railway.
Governor Is Anxious
Kaleigh. Aug. 1!) (By The Associ
ated Press) Adjutant General Van
Melts announced today that Char
lotte, Concord, Burlington and
Mountgilead infantry, a Durham lna
: chine gun company, Llncolnton and
Hickory troops and cavalry and med
ical detachment from Graham have
been ordered to entrain for Spencer
Governor .Morrison declared that the
situation there is still tense and that
be has "become nervous and afraid
that tragedy may take place In spite
of cooler heads and the honor of
North Carolina may be degraded."
These are among his reasons for or
dering troops to Spencer in connec
tion with the strike of Southern
shopmen.
No Iteeenl Disorders
Salisbury , Aug. 1) (By The Asso
ciated Press l The sheriff's office
slated today that there have been
: no disorders at Spencer
nesday night, when a
special agents were not
i leave the train.
since Wed
carload of
allowed to
KIWANIS PICNIC
GREAT SUCCESS
Three Hundred
( lilldren Left
'Twas
Full Ami Happy
For Home When
All Over
Clyde Stevens
lars and costs
traffic ordinance.
Buck Llverman, Elijah Franklin
and Charles I). Klddick, all colored,
were tried for failure to list taxes.
They were taxed with the costs and
paid the taxes due.
Elizabeth City, and whereas after! August
mature consideration by the Board Tn the Honorable.
17th. 1!22.
S. C. Farmer Faces
Charge Of Peonage-
Aiken, S. C, Aug. 19 (By The
Associated Press) Brode Williams,
well known farmer of this county, is
today at liberty under a six hundred
dollar bond, charged with peonage.
He was brought before United States
Commissioner Morgan hep' yesterday
on charges of keeping Robert pel
linger, negro farm hand, in service
against Bellinger's will. He will he
given a preliminary hearing bete
August 2:!.
ANTHRACITE MEETING
ADJOURNS TILL MONDAY
Philadelphia. Aug. 19 (By Tin
Associated Press) The joint con
ference of anthracite coal operators
and union officials adjourned at
about 1 1 .:!( until Monday without
reaching an agreement for settle
ment of the h ard coal strike. No In
formation was given out concerning
progress made toward settlement.
I to the "home folks" lie declared that
'it was "the same old fight against
the same old gang" --men who op
posed him when he was governor and
fought the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company and other corporations.
Senator Johnson also declared that
he had returned "to the best pro
tected state in the Union" so far as
the tariff was concerned. He declar
ed that he had opposed the Four
Power treaty because fie was op
posed to "entangling alliances" and
because of the Japanese Immigration
Issue, which for years had been vital
in California.
Other candidates for the sena
torial nominations were William J.
Pearson, Democrat, of Los Angeles,
Upton Sinclair, Socialist author,
Pasadena, and H. Clay Needham,
prohibitionist, Newhall.
for gubernatorial honors, Gov
ernor William Ii. Stephens was out
to succeed himself on the Republican
Ucket. He also filed on the prohibi
tionist ticket. His Republican oppo
"ent Wih State Treasurer Friend W.
Richardson of Berkely.
Mattison B. Jones of Glendale, a
Los Angeles suburb, and Thomas Lee
Woolwine, district attorney of Los
Angeles county, were the lemo
cratlc candidates. Jones also filed
'in the prohibition ticket. Alex
ander Horr of Sin Francls.o was
the Socialist candidate.
,GRETNA GREEN
FOR LEGION MEN
Many Who Expect To
Go To New Orleans
Meeting Plan To Be
Married There
FREE STATE
REPULSE
or Aldermen, for the said Corpora
tion of Elizabeth City, as to the offer
made In said resolutions: It was
upon motion of Mr. W. H. Weath
erly, and seconded by Mr. W. H. Jen
nette that each and all of said offers
and propositions, as contained In the
TROOPS
IRREGULARS
Governor Thinks Bout
Will Not Be Allowed
W. Ben Goodwin,
Mayor of Elizabeth
City.
Sir:
I beg leave to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of August 9th,
1922, relative to the proposal of the
Continued on Page 4
Dublin, Aug. 19 (By The Associ
ated Press i -There was heavy firing
nil last nicht throughout Inililin be
tween national tinny forces niul Re
publican irregulars, the free stale
troops repul-ing the attack on their
'Kltlon.H iiy "ie Irregulars.
Indianapolis, Aug 19 (By The
ssociated Press ) - Governor Mc
f'ray today wrote Sheriff Ansilss of
I.aPorte County, declaring that he is
"onvlnced that the proposed Demp-"'y-Breniinn
bout at Michigan City
'i a prize flKht and prohibited by
! iw.
New Orleans, La.. Aug. 19 (By
The Associated Press) National
conventions and honeymoons are
seldom taken together, but the Am
erican Legion national convention
committee is face to lace with the
problem of creating a Gretna Green
for a number of Legion men who
will attend the national gathering
here October 16-20.
Committee members thought
they had worries enough In arrang
ing for tho entertainment of Hie
iri),iuii visitors expected, when in
come.- a letter from Comrade Oscar j
Mickelsoti of Brockett, N. I)., asking i
for information In n'garil to provi-l
sions being made for the perform
ance of marriage ci retnonles during
the convention. j
"Can a marriage take place under
the auspices of the American Legion j
at Hie convention in .New Orleans'
tills year or not?" Mickelson 1
queries. "If SO, I'd like to have full
details about everything like dress
to he worn, where to get license,
etc., and also what time to be
there."
Mickelson hopes for a favorable
reply.
During the Legion convention In
Kansas City last year twenty couple
were mairied In convention hall by
Rev. John W. Inzer, national chap
' u in. The Kansas City committee
-ia ill for the marriage licenses ami
'ncal merchants provided wedding
tigs and numerous presents.
Starting off with the distributing
and consuming of two hogsheads
of pink lemonade, mixed under the
master supervision of Jim Perry,
champion mixer of this universal
thirst-quepcher, the Kiwanls picnic,
held Friday afternoon at the: Fair
Grounds, was a success in every
particular.
About three hundred children
were guests of Klwanis and at least
one hundred other persona, Kiwan
ians, their families and specially In
vited guests, were in attendance.
The games were under the direc
tion of Community Play Director K
L. Traenkle, who made a special trip
homo in the midst of his vacation
period being spent at Virginia Beach,
especially to nerve In this capacity.
Hot dogs were roasted by John
Sallba who has gained the reputa
tion of preparing this toothsoino
food better than any vender at Coney
Island or elsewhere. The Kiwanlan
ladles rendered valuable assistance
in serving the children and in many
other ways. Twenty-five gallons of
ice cream served in cones gave a fin
ishing touch to the eats and when
tli o children left for home they
seemed to be full and happy.
The result of the raced were as
follows:
.( Yiinl Diisli (Hoy 10 Yeitrs
Ami Over)
1st Gilbert Doby.
2nd- William Metree.
:ird Reuben Berry. -
Time 7 seconds.
IOO Vunl Diioii (ISoys 10 Yours
Ami Over)
1st Gilbert Doby.
2nd William Metree.
3rd Dewey Copeland.
Time H seconds.
! 50 Yard Dnsli (Boys Under 10)
; 1st Claud Gregory.
2nd Doc Phelps.
I 3rd George Fearing.
, Time 8 seconds.
I Tho prize winners can secure
.'heir prizes by applying to C. W.
i Melick at P. W. Mellck Co. Store. ' '
Dr. II. T. A yd let t. of Greensboro,
vho Is lier.e on his vacation, left Sat
urday to spend a few days at Nags
lead with his brother. A. L. Avdlett.
DIAMOND HA It 1'IV Lost mox-
ilay morning on Main street, be
tween McMorrinu and Purse streets,
a diamond set bar pin. Kinder will
please return to The Advance office
and receive reward. aug 1 5 tC