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VOL. XII. FINAL EDITION
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1922
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NO. 259
llnobb's Creek Bridge
Still The Big Jinx
If State Specifications Are Complied With To
The Letter, As State Highway Commission
Maintains They Must Be, County Will Do
Well To See Bridge In Use By Next Spring
Knobbs Creek Bridge still stands j
out head and shoulders above every
thing else in this section as the big
jinx of the road builders.
First the County Highway Com
mission could get no steel for the re
inforcement of the bridge and every
body prayed for a speedy settling of
the railroad strike so that steel could
get here and the people of the County
could use, without detours, the new
road from Elizabeth City to New
land. Finally the steel came; but glee
reigned for a very brief period, for
after it came it was no earthly good
to the builders when they got It.
Another difficulty had arisen.
The specifications of the bridge
stated that the piers must be started
at a depth of nine feet below lo
water level. This seemed easy
enough and the piling was started;
but before the piling had reached
the required depth, it stopped and
could be driven no farther. Exam
ination disclosed that about three
feet below the surface of the water
there was a veritable network of
Juniper and cypress stumps that
could not be penetrated.
Accordingly work stopped until
the State Highway Commission,
which had made the plans and spe
cifications, could be appealed to.
At the request of T. L. HIggs, en
gineer for the County, State engi
neers came to Elizabeth City to view
the situation. Mr. Higgs explained
to the State officials that it would be
a wasteful undertaking to cut out all
the stumps and asked if he could not
build directly on them, explaining
that those stumps would probably be
there as long as the bridge and
moreover would, be as solid for foun
dation purposes as the piling would
be.
But the State engineers were im
movable. Those specifications said
nine feet below low water, and nine
feet they had to go if it took a year
to do it. So today workmen dig and
dig with grubbing hoes and axes to
remove the; stumps from the founda
tion sites of the bridge.
Present- Indications are that if the
State Highway Commission's speci
fications are carried out Elizabeth
City winV.be fortunate to see the
KnobbstCreek Bridge completed b
next March.
Many
Foreign Entries
In Automobile Races
Indianapolis, Oct. 31 (By The As
sociated Press) For the purpose
of receiving foreign entries in the
1923 International 500-mile automo
bile race, to be held at the Indiana
polis Motor Speedway, May 30, 1923,
T. E. Myers, general manager of the
speedway, has sailed for Europe, ac
cording to an announcement of Carl
G. Fisher, president of the speedway
company.
Indications point to the largest
foreign entered field in the history of
the race, according to Mr. Fisher.
Foreign manufacturers, he pointed
out, have been experimenting with
cars of the smaller dimensions for
more than two years and, with the
reduction of the size of motors elig
ible for competition here next year
from 183 cubic inches piston ais
199 n,i. inohoa En.!
,on .inmnhii0 onHnAAra r said
. .
to be making plans to retrieve the
lost lionors of the automobile classic,
Foreign cars took the honors at I
the speedway from 1916 to 1919 In-!
elusive, but. in 1920, when the size'
of the entrants were limited to mo-
tors of 183 cubic Inches piston dls-j
placement, the Americans were vic
torious, repeated in 1921 and again
last May,
Mr. Myers will spend six weeks or
more with W. F. Bradley of Paris,
the speedway's foreign representa
tive. Together they will confer with
the majority of the larger automobile
manufacturers of Europe, Mr. Fisher
said.
New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. 31 (By
The Associated Press) The past of
Mrs. June Gibson, eye witness to the
Hall-Mills killing, was investigated
today following reports that she is
the wife of William Easton, of this
city In' tend of the widow qf a clergy
rn. ;.r.'- ! ' t' reports. Eas
! i ' ' t to say.
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Fascisti High Com
mander Order Demo
bilization Situation
Normal Again
Rome, Oct. 31 (By The As
sociated Press) The Fascisti
high commander today ordered
the demobilization of the Fas
cist!. The troops in Rome will
leave after a patriotic demon
stration tonight. The situation
is regarded as normal again.
Slain By Snipers
Rome, Oct. 31 (By The Associated
presg) Twelve are reported dead as
the result of attacks yesterday In
which the Fascisti were Involved.
Four Fascisti were slain by snipers
firing from windows In the work
men's quarter when the party pass
ed. Eight were killed in a clash
with Communists in the Siburtino
quarter.
Cabinet Takes Office
London, Oct. 31 (By The Associ
ated Press) Members of the new
Italian cabinet headed by Mussolini,
leader of the Fascisti, took their
oaths of office before the King last
night and assumed office immediate
ly, says an Exchange "Telegraph dis
patch from Rome.
Count Sforza Resigns
Paris, Oct. 81 (By The Associated
Press) Count Sforza telegraphed
his resignation as Italian ambassa
dor here to Premier Mussollna to
day, explaining that he was not in
accord with the new government.
Household Furnishings
Are Needed At Once
The County Welfare Officer Is In
immediate need of such articles as
chairs, bed linen, blankets, quilts,
dishes, kitchen utensils, a heater and
a cook stove, and will appreciate the
assistance of any who will send these
articles to her office at the Chamber
of Commerce rooms, or phone 532
and 586.
It is probable that many such ar
ticles could be rescued from the at
tic and made of real use at this
time. Those who can help in this
phase of welfare work are urged to
do so at once.
Gun Identified
In Burns Mystery
Cleveland, Oct. 31 (By The Asso
ciated Press) Identification of the
mud-crusted revolver found last
night in a marshy grave near Paines
ville in which the mutilated body of
Mrs. Hazel Burns was found recent
ly as the gun owned by Burns was
made from a photograph by Mrs.
Ml
I .lianl namotA rrlanrl nf iho fl PO M
cha.e Damato, friend of the
woman This and the finding
blood-stained raincoat, near the
scene were developments today in the
murder mystery.
T..p.fi IlrrC" frrt
I WCtklJ likl&wa ItlU
Burn:d To Dcsth
Chicago, Oct. 31 (By The Associ
ated Press) Twenty horses were
burned to death and a hundred per
sons are homeless as the result of
the fire that destroyed a stable and
a three story hotel here today.
UNDERWOOD IS WINNER
A. H . Worth, loci! Underwood!
typewriter salesman, Is In receipt of Stumpy Point spent the day here
the following telegram from the Un- visiting friends and relatives,
derwood Typewriter Company: Miss Blanche Hooper spent last
"World's championship contest! week end with Miss Annie Douglas
was won yesterday for the seven- of Salvo.
teenth consecutive time on the Un-I Miss Eliza Goule spent a few days
derwood typewriter. The world's j here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
champion, George Hossfleld, made J. A. Mldgett Sr.
144 net words per minute. George! Elery Midgett, George Mldgett.
Gaskill, world's amateur champion, 1 Miss Gertrude Mldgett and Miss Sid
made 137 words. The world's novice Sidney Baulderllne who are attend
champion, Ida Hillcoff, made 109.lng school at Manteo spent last week
The thousand dollar trophy and all
medals in every class were won oni
t" ' rv o;:i."
Climbing To Crest
Of Prosperity Wave
Business Of Nut ion Milking Strides,
Says It. V. llriKlit, Just
Hack From North
That the country Is rapidly climb
ing to the crest of h wave of pros
perity unequaled in the history of1
the nation, is the opinion of H. C.
Hright, manager of the Bright &'
Company Jewelry store, who has;
lust returned from a trip to the1
North.
"Never in all my buying expedi
tions have I found the spirit of con-,
fldence t hat now prevails among the
big business concerns that are man-!
ufacturing and marketing the staples
of the world," said Mr. Bright. "The:
factories are back on a hundred per J
cent working basis in so far as it;
has been possible for them to fill
their work rooms with the skilled
labor that is necessary to them." j
"During the past war period, it
will be remembered, business came
to a standstill, factories were closed. ;
mills were forced to cease production!
because of no outlet for their goods, j
and a mar panic ensued. During
this period the bread lines of Newi
York lengthened, unemployment :
throughout the country was general.
and the manufacturing centres of the
nation became seething caldrons of
economic anarchism."
"It was believed that a period
of at least ten years would be con
sumed in bringing the economic sit
uation of the country to normalcy,
but the present conditions of the bu
siness, according to statements of
some of the keenest business minds
in New York City, have proved the
falsity of that belief by the progress
that has been made in the last six
months.
"First," continued Mr. Bright, "to
show marked improvement, was the
Middle West, and today the situation
and prospects, for that section of the
country have never been equaled and
it, perhaps, at this moment, has
more buying power than it has had
since in became a great part of the
nation's active business. In the
offices of the large manufacturers in
New York, they will tell you, without
hesitation, that your orders will be
subject to delay in shipment because
production at present is away under
demand. In most cases, they will
conservatively allow themselves from
three to four weeks in which to start
shipment from their factories and it
is hard to get a substantial promise
from them with even that much
leaveway."
"We can well afford, however, to
put up with this condition it the bu
siness expansion demands it, and it
seems to be the intention of the
manufacturers to give every advan
tage they can, to the South, knowing
as they do, the disadvantages that
the South labors under, in the ac
cumulation of its stock of goods."
"The patterns this year," contin
ued Mr. Bright, "are the most beau
tiful I have ever seen, and the gen
eral trend of prices are astonishly
low."
Search For Bodies
Of i:zz Girls
New York, Oct. 31 (By The As
sociated Press) Search for the
bodies of several girls believed to
have been lost in the fire last night,
which destroyed a manufacturing
building in Brooklyn is under way.
A man who Jumped from the fifth
floor was killed and eight others In
jured. ,
MARRIED HERE MONDAY
James E. Meador of Washington,
D. C, and iMIss Mary Dickson of
Baltimore, Md., were married Mon
day morning by Dr. S. H. Temple
man at his home on West Main
street.
RODANTHK BRIEFS
Rodanthe, October 24 Captain J.
A. Mldgett and Ira Midgett spent
Wednesday In Manteo on business.
Miss Ellie Meeklns Is spending the
week end in Manteo attending court.
Mrs. E. M. Hooper of Stumpy
Point spent Wednesday night with
her daughter Miss Blanche Hooper
who Is teaching here.
Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Twiford of
end at home with their parents. j
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Midgett are.
visiting at Harbinger.
IS
Out Of Question
Constantinople, Oct. 31
(Dy Associated Press)
'l he abdication of the Sul
tan temporarily is out of
the question under the
truce with the Nationalists
whereby his status is held
in abeyance pending the
conclusion of the Near
Ea3t peace conference,
according to the chief of
staff and Nationalist gov
ernor of Thrace.
AMERICA SENDS
FORMAL REPLY
Declines Allied Invita
tion Jr or Participation
In Conference At
Lausanne
Washington, Oct. 31 (By
The Associated Press) The
formal reply declining the Al
lied invitation for American
participation in the Near East
conference in November at
Lausanne was forwarded from
the State Department through
the British, French and Italian
embassy today.
The reply was brief and directly
worded informing the European gov
ernment of the American attitude
and reasons tor sending only observ
ers as already set forth in instruc
tions to American embassies abroad.
JUDGE KERR SPEAKS
TO SCHOOL CHILDREN
Hertford, Oct. 30. Superior
court for Perquimans County con
vened at 10 a. m. on Monday, Judge
J. H. Kerr presiding.
A large part of the morning was
taken up in Impanelling the Jury.
A departure from usual practice
was noted in the number of school
children that were present lo hear
the Judge's charge to the Jury. It
was ascertained, however, that the
children were there at the request of
Judge Kerr.
This is an innovation in this dis
trict and bears the imprint of a well
designed plan to instruct the future
makers and dispensers of the law.
As his reason for taking this step
Judge Kerr said in part: "Not
many years hence these children will
be taking the place of the adults of
today and the youthful minds should
receive training in the best form of
government as soon as they are old
enough to assimilate that knowledge.
"In my belief," he continued,
"mankind is a pretty good sort of
J animal, made in the image of God
and closest of all created creatures to
the spirit and general conception of
the Father and with proper teach
ing Is Inclined to be a law abiding
unit in the scheme of the universe.
For teaching them the glory and maj
esty of the law, there 1b no better
time than at the very first stepping
stone of citizenship, when they are
In the public schools. At this time
they may easily acquire a love and
respect for the law which Is indelib
ly imprinted on their mind in the
days of their youth and which wil
last them through life."
Many expressions of appreciation
of the Judge's demonstrated interest
In the growth, morally and mentally,
of the youth of the city were heard
in the streets of Hertford, and his
charge to the Jury was pronounced
a masterpiece by those who heard it.
Carnival Train Hit
Thrcs Arc Killed
New Orleans, Oct. 31 (By The As
sociated Press) The Southern Pa
cific passenger train west bound from
New Orleans crashed Into the rear
end of the Wortham Carnival Com
pany train early today near Ade
llnela. Three are reported killed
and six injured.
BREAKS COIXAR BONE
Wayland Brltton, ten-year-old son
of Mrs. Mary L. Brltton, suffered a
broken collar bone while playing at
recess Monday afternoon. He was
taken Immediately to Dr. C. B. Wil-
Hams' office to have the bone set,
and Tuesday he was getting along
well hut compelled to stay in bed.
Abdication I
Bankers Launch Campaign
Take Mystery Out Banking
Talks On Elementary Principles Of Economics
And Banking To Be Made By Prominent
Bankers To Pupils In Advance Grades Of
Public Schools Every Month In School Year
I'nder the direction of Marshall
H. Jones of Elizabeth City, chair
man of Group One of the North
Carolina Hankers Association and ex
ollicio chairman for this group of the
Public Education Committee of the
State association of bankers, elabor
ate plans are being worked out for
Ihe presentation, in the higher grades
of the public schools of the fifteen
counties embraced in this group, of
a course in the elementary prin
ciples of economics and banking
whereby it is hoped to take out of
these subjects much of the mystery
with which they are enshrouded in
the popular mind and thus to
lay
the foundation for the inculcation of
the lessons of thrift and sound busi
ness practice in the minds of the ris
ing generation.
This course will be presented
through a series of talks on banking
land elementary economics which
'win
by the co-operation of the
teachers and of the county and city
school superintendents, be made be
fore the more advanced grades in
practically every school in each of
the fifteen counties embraced in the
territory of Group One of the North
Carolina Bankers Association.
In this work Mr. Jones is co-operating
not only with the Public Edu
cation Committee of the State asso
ciation but with the same commit-
tfie of the American Bankers Asso
ciation as well. Every state in the
Union is endeavoring to equal the
record of Pennsylvania which has
succeeded in organizing this work in
every county in tnat state. Mr.
Jones has an unusually wide terri
tory to cover In the group of which
he is chairman, but his plans to make
the organization one hundred per
cent efficient In each of his fifteen
counties are already virtually com
plete. In Tasquotank Gurney P. Hood is
County chairman, and associate
members of the Pasquotank Public
Education Committee are Superin
tendent of City Schools S. L. Sheep,
Superintendent of County Schools
M. P. Jennings, Principal A. B.
Combs of the Elizabeth City High
School and Editor Herbert Peele of
The Dally Advance.
For Camden County P, H. Wil
liams of Elizabeth City is chairman
and Superintendent of Schools L. L.
Stevens is associate member.
For Currituck County W. W.
Smith, cashier of the Bank of Cur
rituck at Moyock, is chairman and
Superintendent of Schools W. D. Cox
of Moyock is associate member.
For Perquimans County L. W.
Norman of the Hertford Banking
Company is chairman and he will
appoint associate members of the
committee to serve with him.
In Dare County R. Bruce Ether-
Idge of the Bank of Manteo has been
j nam(i county chairman and he will
appoint the associate members of the
Dare County committee.
In'each of the remaining counties'
of the group a prominent banker has
been named as chairman with au
thority to select the associate mem
bers of the committee to act with
him.
The plan as formulated by the
A m r lean Bankers Association is to
have one talk for each of the nine
months of the school term. In Pas
quotank and the other counties em
braced In Group One of the State
association, owing to the shortness
of the school term In many instances
and to the fact that the plan has
been a little slow in getting under
way as a result of the late opening
of many of the rural schools, It is
planned to have one or more speak
ers at each school for two days dur-l
Ing this month.
In (be rural schools the talks will I
be given probably on Friday and pat-
rons of the school will be invited to!
attend.
"Thrift," says Chairman Jones,
"Is one of the fundamental virtues.
"Not only Is any true financial
success Impossible without it, but
experience and observation confirm
one's faith that the lesson of thrift
early learned is the best Insurance
for the Inculcation of common hon
e it y. integrity and uprightness.
"Let the young man get the habit
of having money and It not only adds
to his financial resources. It multl-
plies his usefulness in every field of
h imtin endeavor.
"Much of the carelessness about;
I
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i
y;ung people, is due to Ignorance. : give the national organization hearty
Ti dissipate this Ignorance In youth, (and, I hope, complete support. I re
a:id so make the path to thrift easier j gard this campaign as one of the
a:id more attractive, is the object of . biggest things North Carolina bank
the educational campaign uponjers have ever nn-lert-'ken."
I 1 I 1 V f (' H H
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naisn
London, Oct. 31 (By The As
sociated Press) The so-called
co-operative pact of Govern
mental Conservatives and Lloyd
Georgian National Liberals to-
day seemed near a smash-up
that may force Lloyd George
to carry out his threat and
wage a finish fight on the men
who brought his downfall.
The trouble seems to be that
Conservative candidates bob
bed up to oppose the candi
dates of the Lloyd George
banner in places regarded im
mune from Tory attacks.
HAD TO PAY DAMAGE
DONE NEW FORD COUPE
Taxed with the costs and required
to pay the damage done to the car of
L. C. Fletcher of Weeksville Satur
day night and put under suspended
judgment of a thirty day Jail sen-"
tence was the Justice meted out in
police court Tuesday morning to
James Itodgers, colored resident of
Sawyertown, this city.
Mr. Fletcher lives below Weeks
ville, and he It was who won the
Ford coupe awarded as a prize by
the Albemarle Fair Association this
year. Fletcher was returning home
in his new coupe about midnight and
stopped his car when he saw another
car stalled in the road ahead of him.
The negro, who was driving behind
Fletcher, crashed Into Fletcher's car
before he could stop and was before
the recorder on a charge of reckless
driving.
The estimated damage done Flet
cher's car amounts to $50.
PADRICK YOUTH
PREACHES SERMOn
Statesboro, Ga., Oct. 31 (By The
Associated Press) After leading
the court room in prayer and taking
the stand in his own defense, Rev.
Elliott Padrick, youthful Methodist
preacher, on trial for killing his wife
and her mother, preached a sermon
from the text "Thou shalt not."
During the sermon Padrick became
excited and was ordered to sit down
by his own attorney. Padrick stop-
ped in the middle of a sentence,
walked to the water cooler for a
drink, returned to his chair and
went to sleep. s
In his sermon Padrick blamed wo
men for the downfall of man. He
singled out his father-in-law and ac
cused him of forcing his marriage
with his daughter.
DAIRY WAGON' WEDNESDAY
Wednesday will probably bring the
delivery wagon of the Oak Grove
Dairy on the streets of Elizabeth
j City, according to Mills Bell.
They are now milking cows that
are producing from four to six gal
lons of milk per day and with 82 of
these the proprietors of the dairy
' ink they will have no trouble in
supplying the demand.
The proprietors of Oak Grove
Dairy are Dr. C. D. Bell and Mills E-
Bell of this city and A. G. Root, prac
tical dairyman who comes here from
Wisconsin. Mr. Root is general
manager.
Explosion Kills f.lincr
McAllster, Okla., Oct. 31 (By The
Associated Press) Hall Stephenson,
miner, was killed in an explosion in
I the McAllster-Edwards Company
mine at Pittsburg, near here, yester
day. fhlch the American Banker Asso-
1 elation Is embarking. The North
Carolina Bankers Association will
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