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VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATl'RDAY EVENING. JULY 28, 1923. FOUR PAGES. NO. 171. Sweet Potato Shipments Now Total 500 Barrels Movement to Northern Market Gaining Headway With In dications of Reduced Crop But Higher Prices than Last Year ? Big Currituck Cotton Crop Nearly 500 barrel? of sweet pota toes had been shipped to Northern markets at 2 o'clock Saturday- *? of these potatoes were from Currt tuck County. One hundred and nine barrels were shipped on Friday and 300 had been loaded at 11 o clock | Saturday. I "Prospect? as to prices are the best I have ever seen." N. Howard Smith said Saturday afternoon. "The best grade of potato is bringing ten dollars a barrel on the Northern1 market. It is my opinion that the market will remain high if the fcrm crs will keep the trash off the mar-I ket. But If the poor grade potatoes ! are shipped In any large quantity the market is sure to drop and if it | ever gets down it will be hard to 1 bring It up again. The price paid 1 for the poorer grade of potato is ex- j] ccptlonally low this year." "I can see no reason why there! should be any rush of the potato to! the market." S. G. Scott of Brock & Scott said Saturday morning. "Sweet potatoes next week will bo in better i condition than they are this week.I but I do not think they will be prop erly developed until week after next. The Eastern Shore potatoes, will not get to the market before the 20th of August and shipments from every I state South of us are extremely light except in Alabama and the quantity of potatoes moving from that state is averaging only a few cars a day. If sweets are graded and dug after they are mature I believe the mar- 1 ket will bring an average price of $6.00 a barrel for the next two wt-eks. but if farmers continue to dig (?otatoos before they are mature and rath them to tht market before grading them you may look for a slump in the market." J. B. Owens, former Currltuckian who still spends a considerable part of his time in that county, savs that the sweet potato acreage is about 30 1 per cent less than last year. "But | prophets are that the total ship ments will be greater as last yenr only half of some of the" crops were dug. The farmers In Currituck this y< ar, on an average, will raise prac tically enough corn for their own needs. Cotton has been planted too and the Currituck crop, I believe, has a better color than that .of Pas quotank. The farmers of Currituck last year, after losing heavily on sweet and Irish potatoes, made up their minds that they would not again put nil their money crop acre age on Irish and sweet potatoes." Former Sherfff Bob Griggs of Har binger, himself a large potato grow er, who shipped the first potatoes from Currituck Inst year^ is In no such hurry this year, believing that the markoj will hold up. If the farm ers will grade their potatoes and keep trash off th?i market, for sev eral weeks yet. Last year Mr. Griggs shipped 30 barrels on August 19 that sold nt $10 a barrel nnd on Aug ust 25 shipped more thnn 100 bar rels which sold at $7 a barrel. Be ginning early. Mr. Grlgus was able to dispose of most of his crop be fore the price got ho low as to make shipping unprofitable, whereas most growers left 1 alf their potatoes in the uround for the hogs to harvest and in Isolated Instances less than 10 per cent of the crop was dug. This year, however. Mr. Griggs has not yet dug his first potatoes, a re porter for The Advance learned while the former sheriff was in the cltv Saturday. Though believing thnt prospects Indicate a fair yield of potatoes this year If rains do not become excessive, Mr. Griggs thinks that the acreage this year has been greatly overesti mated In newspaper reports and by the public generally. He thinks that this year's sweet potato acreage Is hardly more than half and perhaps little over a third of last year's. "In some instances, crowers planted only Ofle hnrrol of potatoes this year to ' ten last year," he said. The loss In potato acreage Is off set by the gain In cotton acreage, ac cording to Mr. Griggs. He says that 10 acrcs of cotton this year is plant ed to one last year and that the crop gives promise of being the biggest and best in Currituck's history. PEACH SHOW SUCCESS Hamlet. July 28.- With 10,000 people present the third annual Peach Show ofthe Sandhill Belt was held here yesterday and declared a tuccees. _ PltOIM'tTION OK PINE SHOWN HOMK I>E<IIEAHK Washington. July 28 ? Produc tion of southern;plne lumber during Juno amounted to 450.408.000 board feci as compared with 499.247,000 hoard foot in June e yoar ago. It Is announced by the Department of Commerce. V Stocks on hand at the end of June aggregated to 1.054.1.13,000 bokrd feel as compared with 1.095.580.-' 000 board feet on June 30. 1922. 1 Production of oak flooring In Juno 1 omounted to 34.342.000 board feet i as against 34.636.000 board feet In j May and 23.495.000 hoard'feet In ! June a year ago. Now orders hooked called for 15, 081.000 board feet as against 22. 677,000 hoard feet In May and 24, 472,000 bo*%' feet In Jane lilt. Next Association To Be Held AtBerea Time is Changed From July To April at Eden ton Meet ing Friday The next meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union of Chowan Asso ciation will be held at Ilerea Baptist Church on the Tuesday and Wednes day after the second Sunday in Ap ril. The place and date were decided upon at Edenton Friday where the 1923 session was held. The Edenton meeting was well at tended and the Edenton people were most courteous and hospitable, visit ors returning with enthusiastic re ports of the pleasant stay there. Reports on the various phases of work were encouraging. The ad dress by the State W. M. IT. presi dent. Mrs. W. N. Jones of Raleigh, was greatly enjoyed, and so was the mission study pageant given by the young people on Friday afternoon. The association voted to send a young woman to the Louisville Training School next year, a task which had~not been undertaken in several years because of many other duties. The young woman who will go is Miss Mattie Macon Norman of Edenton. Mrs. Blanche B. Sawyer of Bel cross who has been superintendent of the woman's work of the associa tion for a number of years, tendered her reslgnation-.- which was regret fully accepted, and Mrs. T. E. Gard ner of Edenton was elected to All this position. Crowd Tears Down And Burns Red Flag ! New York. July 28.?A crowd to J day stormed the Hoboken-^lieadquar ers of the Industrial Workers of thf World, whose longshoremen are on a strike, and tore down the^-red flat floating over the buildjifg. The flag was burned, according to New York headquarters of the organization, ; tvhich charged that the attack was I made by members of the Innterna Itional Longshoremen's Association, J which had called back those of its 1 members who walked out. The at tackers numbered about 50. BOLSHEVISTS-ISSUE MILLIONS OF BOOKS Bucharest, July 28.?Figures re ceived here summarizinz the activi ties of the publishing business in Russia which is purely an enter prise of the Soviet state, indicate that agreat effdrt is being made to convince the usslan people of the correctness of Bolshevist political, so cial and economic theories. The Soviet publishing house is sued from its presses In Moscow and put into circulation throughout Russia during the last 12 months no less than 14.500,000 volumes cover ing the fields of economics, politics, history and even fiction. Aside from the obvious propagan da tendencies of the volumes on pol itical and economic subjects, the Soviet historians have sought to show how the world has suffered bo cause of Its hostility to Bolshevik odctrlnes, and In many of the fiction volumes the endeavor has been to prove that opposition to Soviet doc trines has warped, limited or dis torted Individual lives. REPORT CAR IX>AOIN<JS l/OOKH LIKE PROSPERITY Washington, July 28.?The week ly average car loadings for June amounted to 1,005,162 cars as against 851.700 oars for June. 1922, the Department of Commerce an nounced. ?I At'CHI COX l>K.U> Jacob Cox died at f? o'clock Friday at the Community Hospital after be ing at the hospital for two weeks and having been sick since last March. Mr, Cox was 72 years old. and la sur vived by his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Margaret McHar ney of Currituck; two (laughters, Mrs. O. C. Dowdy and Miss Ruth Cox. of this city; three sons, David Cox of Brooklyn. N. Y., Luther, Cox of Los Angeles. Cal.. and Hal and Ja cob. Jr., of this city; and by two sisters. Mrs. John Flora and Mrs. Ed Snow of Norfolk. ,Mr. Cox was born and raised in Currituck and hioved to this city five years ago. The funeral will be conducted at the home on Morgan street Sunday at 1 o'clock, by Dr. 8. H Templeman, and burial services at the grave by the Masons. Interment will be made In Hollywood. Mr. and Mrs. John Forbes of Knotts Island are the guests of Mr. and Mm. W. M. Perry on North Road ?treet. ^ * NEXT WEEK FOR SCOl'TPLEDGES Aim It* to Raise 82,500 for Boys and Girls Activities in Elizabeth City Beginning Campaign on Monday. Camp Robert E. Lee. July 28.? Everybody had a wonderful time down here Thursday evening. The Home Town Folks came down to see [ the camp and brought along the sev en baskets of good things to eat. i The social service committee of the Woman's Glub made the Scouts friends for llfcN The purpose of the gathering, as ] was told In The Advance Tuesday, was not only to create sentiment but | to help put over the permanent pro gram of boys and girls activities for Elizabeth City. Talks were made by Rev. S. H. Templeman. Rev. H. E. Myers. Presi dent Houtz of the Rotary Club. Pres ident Williams of the Kiwanlansv fol lowed by Mrs. Ethel Lamb vice presi dent of the Woman's Club. Harry G. Kramer. George R. Little, N. Will Dally. Will G. Galther. All talks were Inspirational. Each speaker spoke of the Importance of training the boys to real manhood activities and urged upon all citizens to make appropriations to this end. It is the aim to raife $2,500 during th^, next week. W. G. Gaither, N. NIT Daily. George Culpepper, and Winfield Worth, constitute the coun cil to whom all pledges will be made. Scoutmaster Scattergood outlined the program and needs of the camp, chief of which are a bunk house and iboat. He said: "I feel sure that you will so value lyour boy's life as to make possible this most Important of all activities. "The Scout law and pledges are as follows, and constitute the law o.' governing conduct for all: Scout <)?til "On my honor I will do my best* 1. To do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout law, 2. To help other people at all ? times, :i. To keep myself physically ; strong, mentally clean and morally ? straight. 'I Scout Ijiw ' 1. A Scout Is trustworthy. 2. A Scout is loyal, ?j 3. A Scout Is helpfut. ? 4. A Scout is friendly. >! 5. A Scout is courteous. ? H. A Scout is obedient. I ? 7. A Scout i? kind. >' 8. Scout is cheerful. 9. A Scout is thrifty. ? 10. A Scout Is brave, i 11. A Scout is clean, j 12. A Scout is reverent. .] "These laws as well as the oath i' constitute the full trend of a well : formed character and to havo this ^advantage over other training, th.it :these points are kept ever before a Scout's mind. .j "Your knowledge of a boy or Klrl ' knowledge of agriculture, angling, archery, architecture, art advertis ing, ntheltlcs, bee keeping, hirrl study, woodcraft, samping. first aid. cooking and many other actlvitien too numerous to mention, and for which he Is awarded merit badges. "Your knowledge of a bay or girl will enable you to appreciate the more Just what a schooling anions this line wllP do and mean. We 1 mention this beraupe we want your heartiest co-operation. It Is not a money-makiiiK proposition. We sitnply carry on 'because of our love for the young. Can you do more? "Will you not call on the commit tee ^Monday and advise them as to the amount of your pledge. We shall publish a list of pledges In The Ad (vanco ?->ach day." HELPING HUM FLEET WITH PRIVATE YACIIT i1 New York, July 28.?Julian Mak er. brother of former Secretary of jWar Newton D. IJaker. was yesterday fined $1,000 for attempting to land ll'iuor from his rum fleet in his yacht and his yacht was seized. FOUR MEN ARE KILLED IN RAILWAY COLLISION Quebec, July 28/?Four men were Ikilled in a railroad rollMon on the eastbound transcontinental train near Plckard today. Meagre detalh Indicated that the train collided Jn a fog with a freight. Affirm* Conviction of Former Publisher New York, July 28.?The Tnlted Stat*?a Circuit Court of Appeals today! affirmed trie conviction of f?r Ed , wiird Rumely, former publisher of th*> New York Evening Mall, and Walter Kaufman and Norman Unci | helm, attorneys, for defrauding the alien property custodian In their re port on the paper's ownership. The three were ordered to nerve sentenc j en of a year and a day. i MONDAY KJUTHMIO* TO Itt'X TO COMMIUA The Vanaclver will leare here At eight o'clock Monday morning for an eicoralon to Columbia. Mualc, re* freahmenta and a pleasant day gen erally are expected. FRENCH SEEKING FOK FI LL ACCOKI) (Br Th? imrliiid rrw.) Paris. July 28.?The French reply to British suggestions as to a Joint response to Ger many's reparations memoran dum was said authoritatively today to have been drafted with the determination to exr haust every means of reaching full accord with Great Britain. Seed Growers To Meet In Raleigh Farmers Who Arc Improving Seed Hold Meeting On Tuesday of Next Week Raleigh. July 28.?Growers of im proved seeds infNorth Carolina who are members of the North Carolina Seed Breeders' Association will meet at the State College during the Far- , mers' State Convention on Tuesday! afternoon, July 31, according to an! announcement toy Dr. R. Y. Winters,! 1 Argonomist in Plant Breeding for the [State College and Department of Ag i riculture. "Our association consists of far mers who have secured the best avail able farm seeds and are constantly j'making them better by selecting I their seed in the field each year," | said Dr. Winters. "The association ] has been formed for several years ?now and has a number of local or ganizations in different cou(V*es"oT J the state. Our membership Is drawn ifrom those farmers who are con vinced that seed grown and selected [In North Carolina are the best that can be secured for use In this state and their conclusions are amply justified by the great number of tests that have been shown with cot ton, corn, wheat^oats, rye and soy ?Leans." Dr. Winters states that the asso jelation was organized primarily for (the purpose of bringing these seed breeders together to discuss problems Of mutual Interest and to secure ! benefit and enthusiasm from the ex l perlence of others. Another im portant thing that the association ! does. Dr. Winters asserted, is t.) j bring the growers into closer touch jwlth the seed breeding work being ; conducted by the agricultural work jers of th?- State College sLiff. "This work under the leadership of Dr. j Winters is the most extensive pro gram of its kind to be found in any ! state of the south and has caused j caused many other experiment sta tions to undertake simller activity," according to a Department announce ment. Dr. Winters Invites any farmer [who is breeding Improved farm seeds J to be present at the meeting. "Tho 'purpose of the association Is to en courage the improvement and the use of North Carolina grown seeds," Dr. Winters stated. The program as arranged for next Tuesday afternoon Is-as follows: 1 Progress of Seed Improvement In our State. Dr. R. Y. Winters. Some Results from Selecting Seed in tho Field, V. R. Herman. I The- Va-Jue of Recleaned Cotton Seed. Zene Moore, County Agi-nty, Edgecombe county. My Experience with Improved Seed. B. F. Shelton, Speed. N. C. The Relation df Beed improvement to Marketing Cotton, U. B. Blalock, Manager. Cooperative Cotton Market j ing Association! The meeting fteglns at tho College iat 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and j concludes with the election of offi cers for the new year. DARES GOVEKNOK TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION Raleigh. July 2k -Commissioner! Maxwell yesterday Issued a atnte mcnt challenging the CoviTnor to call the Legislature in Hpeclal stdon and lav the fact* of the audit and finance* of the State befor# It for prompt action. Ho said that the Cov-j ernor has shifted ground a* he at flmt said there wan no deficit and now chargea iilm with responsibility for a deficit. Juilgr Driiico Motion For Chungr of V'rmir Cumberland Courthouse. Va.. July 2H.?Judge White's d? clalon yester day denied the commonwealth'* mo tion for a chant:*- of venue and the in a r re If trial Win fiR-Tr TuTT"Til esdfl V morning The Judge. after ^clarlng that the *tate had not convinced him that a fair and impartial trial could not he had In Cumberland County, late yesterday afternoon, adjourned court until Monday morning. HI Mil NO CLASH HKRK Rev. A. H. Harne*, Supt. Methodist Orphanage. Raleigh, with Miss Rhrea. dlreetor will arrive Saturday after noon with algteen membera of the singing class of that Institution. While in the city they will be the guests of the two Methodist church"*, and will give tarred concerts In the Flrat Church and at 8 p. m. In City Road. The class will leave 'Monday for Manteo. William Perry, Jr., of Mortb Road street left Friday to visit relatives on Knotts Island. Baseball Mass Meet To Be Held Monday At Eight O'clock At Court- j houte Fan* Decide Whether Baseball Will Continue Baseball fana who want to ?ee real I baseball in Elizabeth City for the rent of the season are asked to at- j tend a mass meeting to be held at I the courthouae Monday night at' eight o'clock. The purpose of the meeting is to' determine whether Elizabeth City I wishes to continue baseball for the I month of August. Fans In Elizabeth City for the past four weeks have been witness-1 ? ig a style of baseball that is Just I about as good as the big league1 s'uff itself and attendance at the' games has been very good except | during threatening weather. But the basebull association Is up against a Tew hard facts. Without ' a fence around the baseball park the | ? xperlence of the last month has j proven that expenses cannot be met ' on gate receipts. The two days I that games scheduled were not play ed on account of rain were the days on which no rain insurance was car | rled. The fact Is insurance for games has to be taken out live days 'ahead of time and many of the I games scheduled have not been ar-1 j ranged for that many days ahead. | But the experience of Elizabeth l C'ty In iiot being p.h!i) to meet ex penses on gate receipts is the ex j perlence of practically every baseball Hssnclation of semi-professional baseball in other parts of the State. For Instance. Bill Poyner of Poplar Branch, who before signing up with 'the local fans, was employed by the ,(baseball club of the little town of Marion, says something like a dozen I men. forked out fifty bucks apiece i to start things off. Tom Nelson, president of tJie ?l;ib here, has been watching the flnan 'cinl status of the club here with some suspicion and on Friday gave the visitors supper without expense to the association. - "This is the most hospitable trtwn I've ever been in" the manager of tho visiting club said Friday arternoon. "and we certainly want another game with 'you next week." ; The advertising value of a good hall team In JCllsabeth City is not properly appreciated?perhaps. For instance, the record of the local team this season has been hailed as far as Charlotte and games In Eliz abeth City have brought fans here from several adjoining counties. The Edenton aggregation has dis banded for the rest of llie season but the Norfolk police. Roanoke Ra pids, and the South Norfolk teams j11 re all anxious to play in Elizabeth City next week. Dempsey and Firpo Fight September 14 New York. July 28.?Jack I)6m|i ??")' will meet Luis Tlrpo In a 15 round bout to tin- decision for the j world's heavyweight rhnmplonnhli) Irt the l'olo Grounds on Friday ? September 14. Tex Rlckard nn i otinced today. . In making the announcement of It If date and place, the promoter .Mated that lie had completed nr i ttigements whereby he would have t ie use of the Polo Grounds for all lnture boxing matches there. r.a FOLLETTE PREDICTS THIKD PARTY COMING Washington. July 28 - Senator I*a \ "ollette declared here vpMerdiy Hint "iilep* the major parti*** nominate' beral* In 1024 a third party will If illow. Iff any* Harding Ih a ro-ac-1 jt onnry. ' >IL SHARKS SUFFER IN BEAR ATTACKS JN'-w York, July 28.:?Prices today > 1 1 inhle<1 In the stock market In re-, f lovyle to another aerie* of bear at t <ck*. Oil share* wer?? hnrdeat hit, I iiil hammered down from one to three point*. Twenty Eight Men Entombed By Blast (Bf Th? AaaorUt?4 Pmt.) Sheffield. Kngland. July 28.? Twenty-eight men were ell tombed by an explosion In Malthy Colliery to- ! day where Are ha* been causing "trouble for aeveral week*. The t?*r- j rifle nature of the ex|ilo*lon made operation* to ?et In eomvntinlratlon i with the men Impossible hut rescue; partlea were on hand ready to start I a* noon a* conditions permitted. STEAMSHIPS COLLIDE SAYS WIRELESS REPORT H<att1e. Wwh.. July J*.?The /*p Iane*e strainer. Mandn*nn Maru, In bound from the Orient, today collld jed four mile* went of Port Angeles ,wlth the *tf>am*hl|i Ranter, outbound from Seattle for flan Krandaco, ac Icording to a wlrelesa report. HALLET S. WARD SPEAKER OF DAY Two Thousand People Ex pected to Hear Him Next Saturday, Which In Pleasure Day in Currituck County. Congressman Hallet S. Ward will be the principal apeaker on "Pleas ure Day." which la to he observed at Bible School Park of the Church of Christ at Point Harbor. Currituck County, on Saturday. August 4. Congressman Ward la one of the moat popular apeakera In the Flrat Congressional District, and the news that he la to apeak In Currituck on thla occasion will add to the number who are planning to attend the cele bration. Plans are being made to take care of not leas than 2.000 peo ple. and already workmen are en gaged In erecting a speaker's stand and seats for thosip who will hear Congresaman Ward. Resides the apeechmaklng, other events scheduled for the day will add to the Interest in the occasion. Chief, perhaps, among thffM nre the boat races. In which provlalon will be made for every type of craft that It Is dealred to enter and prlzea will be awarded In each class of race In which there are participants. Own ers of speedy craft may enter their boats during the morning of the day. |the races taking place In the after |noon. Dinner, of course, will be provided on the ground, and everybody who knows Currituck knows that provis ion will be ample. The charge for dinner and other refreshments, say (those In chirge Of arrangements. I will be reasonable and nobody need fear that there will not bo enough to eat and to spare for all who at jtend. I Resides a eood country dinner, other things that will be provided In ? 'abundance are confectionery, cool drinks. Ice cream, fruit nffil home made pies and cake. | The park at wliich Pleasure Day is to be observed Is situated In a |beautiful grove near what is known as the Indian Old Fort. From the i waterfront, one may get a view of Albemarle. Croatan and Currituck Sounds, while in the distance gleam the -whit.* sands of Kill Devil Hill, (where the Wright llrothers made their epoch-making experiments with the first successful heavier-! han-alr living machine. The wide scope of ,water* surrounding the park makes it one of the coolest places In Cur Jrltuck County or anywhere In the ? Albemarle region short of the ocean* | tiathlng, boat-riding and fishing ar*' some of the things that are counted on to make the occasion a real pleasure day to those of all agea who attend. . IIAKD1NG AIS'D PARTY ON WAY TO YOSEMITE in* Th? AaaorUtad Prm) On 'Hoard the President's special train. July 2X. ?After a rail and water trip of more than 5.000 miles ito Alaska. Canada, and return to Seattle. President Harding and his party were again aboard the train which left Washington June 20, trav elling South today to the Yosetnlte National Park. He and Mrs. Hard ing spent the day In relaxation from the htirrled and strenuous program ,!n Seattle. ASK PEttSON COUNTY SHERIFF TO RESIGN ttnlekh. July 2?.?The county rommlMHion'-rM yesterday asked Sher iff J. Melvln I?ong of I'eraon County to iTHitin hi* office because of reports of his alleged misconduct, advices re ceived here state. I KM; KII.I.S CHILD; OWNER IS ARRESTED North nrrgen, N. J.. July 28. ? While DO persons were looking on. two great Danes yesterday tore to pieces Joseph Oonatt. nine yearn old. Tin owner of the dogs wan arretted for technical manslaughter. IW?I?Y OF .IAMI1S COI'KMNI) FOl'.ND N K UI ?? \UK hilts isl.K H?nufort. July 2?. -The body of Jame* Copeland of tho Tug Juno, who wan drowned In Iteaufort Inlet last Sunday afternoon, win recovered yesterday. Driven by winds and tide the body had floated Ave miles and n-ached Harkera Island Tuesday ev ening. Willis Nelson, n fisherman. saw a squall coming up and getting out to sec tTYjf his boat was secure found the corpse tangled up In his anchor chain. He reported the dis covery and this mornlnK the coroner and a boat frmo the Toast Cuard sta tion went to the spot and brought the body here. It was considerably swollen ami crabs or fish bad bitten the face. The remains of the unfor tunate man have Jff?en shipped to his relatives at SoutWport. tWTOJf MARKRT New \'orV, July 2H.?Spot cotton, closed quiet. Middling 22.45 a de rllne of 3f? points. Futures, closing hid. Oct. 21.14-19. Dec. 21.01-04. Jan. 20.KS-D2. March 21.02-05. yflhj 20.*7-21.01. New York. July 28.?Cotton fu tures opened today at the following levels: October 21.20. December 21.40-48. January 21.30-25, March 21.45. May 21.46 I ; ? i
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