????????? * THE W EATHER. * * Partly cloudy tonight * * and Saturday. Probably * * showers on coast. Gentle * * to moderate winds. ********* m p m CIRCULATION Thursday 1.705 Copies VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA,; FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1923. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 102 Finds The Albemarle Much Favored Section Crops in Three Counties to North of Albemarle Sound Set Standard of Excellence Unsurpassed in Two States Says Elizabeth City Merchant Liack from a one week's motor' trip through Eastern North and South Carolina, C. A. Cooke returns to say !t&at the crops in the three countlea'north of Albemarle Sound,! Pasquotank. Camden and Currituck, 1 excel any. that he aaw In any three I counties of the two states, though he travelled all the way across East ern North .Carolina and as far south 1 ?s Georgetown County In South Car-| oltna. Not oaly does Mr. Cooke say that the crops of the counties bordering I on the northern short of Albemarle Sound excel those of any like area he' passed throaghTbut also he Is of the opinioa that business conditions are I as *.ood In Elisabeth City as In any town in the eastern half of the two ! states; and that too despKe the fact that Elisabeth City last year weath ered a period of very decided depres sion on account of heavy losses by the farmers on their Irish and sweet potato crops and the further fact that in the case of the towns to the south Mr. Cooke passed through them when the tobacco season was at Its heicht. Mr. Cooke took the trip to make a visit to his brother. N. W. Cooke, at Andrews. South Carolina. But he chose different routes for the going and the return expressly that he miuht get a line on two things; first, crop conditions in general, and. sec ond. the ravages of the boll weevil in particular. "We left Elizabeth City," says Mr. Cooke, "on Sunday, August ID, go Ins by way of Rocky Hock. Coleraln, Windsor. Williamston, Wilson. Fay ette^ille. Lumberton and Florence to our dfestination at Andrews. George town County. South Carolina. The return trip was made by a different route entirely, Columbia, the state capital, being our first objective on leaving Andrews. "In Perquimans. Chowan. Ilertle and Gates we found the crops very nearly as good as in Pasquotank. In Wilaon. much to my surprise, they were not so good, though in Johns ton we came again to crops that compare very favorably with ours. In Cumberland, again, the crops were not so good and from there on to KiTipstree conditions seemed to grow woiae and worse. I was rather sur prised to see the extent of boll wee vil damage around Fayetteville. "Very little cotton, comparatively, is being planted in those counties of South Carolina last affected by the boll weevil. The farmers, apparent ly. are relying altogether on their to bacco patches as a money crop. Oth erwise, they are^ trying to live at home and wait out the scourge of the boll weevil's first arrival in full force. They seemed in the main to be eking out a bare living and that was all. "When one gets into the belt where the boll weevil is In its third year of heavy infestation, cotton cul tivation is being undertaken again on a scale of about one-third the acre age put in cotton before the weevil's coming and I found the farmers In this belt looking for from a half to three-fourths of a normal yield. "My brother's farming operations are a case in point. IMfore the boll weevil reached Georgetown County he used to plant about 4 00 acres of cotton a year. From this in a normal year he expected a yield of from BOO to 600 bales of cotton. In 1921 he put In his usual acreage and got 60 bales. In 1924 he practically quit cotton altogether and tried to grow truck, but with 111 success, and the same thing Is generally true of the South Carolina cotton farmer. He can t make a success of truck, either because his situation is not favorable and his lands suitable for it or else because he doesn't know how to grow It. This year my brother has 136 In cotton and expects a yield of 115 bales. "Ho good a crop In a belt in which the damage from the weevil was so heavy only two years ago Is due to two factors. One of .these factors Is the fight being made to combat the weevil. The other Is the exceedingly favorable cotton season this year. Cotton thrives and the weevil pines : in dry weather. And in the belt of which I am now speaking the dry wrather lasted this year until August "To combat the weevil, my brother is using the methods of cultivation j recommended by the Government, he is burning the squares and he la pole onift* with Hill's mixture. He use* Hill's mixture in preference to cal cium arsenate ^iot only because It at tract- the weevil as well as poisons him. hut also for the reason that the [ powfh r has to be used at night while | the mixture may be used in the day. The machine that is used to pbt out the mixture is drawn by one or more mules or horses. The one-mule ma chine sprays two rows at once; the two-mule machine, three rows. \ "The method of poisoning used by my brother is expensive, the picking ui? and burning of the squarea and ?he poisoning process together, with very cheapest sort of labor, cost him about $10 an acre, nbt I id a very clear and forcible dem istratlon of the value of poisoning comhst the weevil. When my bro ler went to South Carolina took mother Ilertle boy along with hfm. TWO ARE KILLED IN EXPLOSION Philadelphia. August 31. ? Two workmen were killed to day and ten others Injured when a large nathaline still ex ploded at the dye and chemical works of Barrett ? Company. The bla?t rocked the neighbor hood and the flre that followed destroyed a buildir^. Two of the Injured nay die. Saturday Dawns September Morn Stores' Half Holidays End And Many Vacationists Come Home With Saturday of this week comes the dawn of September morn. With It also comes the end of Fri day afternoon half holidays for local business employes and employers, the settling down to work and the open ing of fall ibuslnesB. 4 Many vacationists already are back on their jobs again. and soon the Old Home Town will welcome others ! back. Club meetings will (begin I again, both the serious kind and the more frivolous sort. College girls and boys will be get ting off to their taskspretty soon, armed with new clofhes'and vacation jsmiles, ready to tackle the problems I of higher learning, not to mention ! social and athletic activities. The Elizabeth City schools will be gin later than usual, and Sc'outmas .ter Scattergood expects to have time I for a cruise with his scouts as soon | as their bout can bo got ready. ' Pastors of churches, most oJf them, .will be iback in their pulpits Sunday, : expecting their congregations to be present In full fore? of numbers. | Sunday school attendance it is hoped I will show gains, also. | And so. whether one feels that "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year," or whether lone greets the new month with xest for work to be accomplished, the > time at hand. The summer season came to a fit ting climax Friday afternoon with the Kiwanian outing on which sever ! al hundred boys and girls were the 'guests of the Elizabeth City Klwanis I Club, with a big picnic of the Wood men of the World, at Dawson's IBearh. and with other smaller af fairs of the kind. DECIDE OPERATE FLEET INDIRECTLY 1 i Washington, August 31?\t a con ference with President Coolldge yes terday It waiT decided to operate the Government fleet indirectly by the Government through several subsi diary corporations. FOUR ARE INJURED WHEN AUTO JUMPS ' Ashevllle. August 31.?Four were seriously Injured, one probably fa tally. when an automobile Jumped off the road near Rat Cave last night and landed 76 feet below. The auto was comparatively undamaged. NEW BERN OFFERS JOB TO ALABAMA MAN New Bern, August 31.?The por tion of secretary of the local Young Men's Christian Association, recent ly made vacant by the resignation of Beemer Harrell, has been offered to C. R. Coons, present secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Ressemar, Ala., who formerly was of Hickory, according to an announcement by L. R. Smith, 'irp.trtfnt nf Ihe local y. M. C. A. They bought their land together and 'then divided It and are now farming ?Ide by tide. The other Bertie boy *u John White. He Is unlng the ??me method, exactly to combat the weevil aa my brother, except that he I* not putting out polenn, and my brother will make a quarter of a bale for the roads of South Carolina which, he say*, compare very favor ably with those In North Carolina, especially when the sharp contrast between the prosperity of the North Carolina farmer and the distress of his South Carolina neighbor Is re? m" mbered. "It took longer." savs Mr. Cooke, "to go the miles from here to Wlnton than It did to go any other 100 miles of our rntlrr |rmrn?-v. When I hear a man say In public or when he tella me In private that our section Is getting more than Its share of the State's road money. I consider It sn Insult to my Intelli gence." New Series Open In Building & Loan Bookings Now Being Made Of Subscriptions To Stock In Seventeenth Serie* The seventeenth series of shares in i the Albemarle Building & Loan As sociation will open Saturday. Septem-j ber 1, Secretary-Treasurer W. Ben Goodwin announced Friday morning, and stock subscriptions in this series are already being booked. Now In Its ninth year, the Albe marle Building 6 Loan Association has had a steady and substantial growth, and has played an active part In helping to make Elisabeth City a community of beautiful homes, many of the most attractive of the new res idences on Main street West of Elm and on Church west of Culpepper, admittedly the most attractive of the newer residence sections of the city, being the direct result of money made available for home building by the Albemarle Building it Loan As sociation. No business organization In Elisa beth City has a sounder or more progressive directorate and manage ment than the Albemarle Building A Loan Association, with J. I\ Kramer, himself a designer and builder of modern homes, as president. W. Ben | Goodwin, secretary-treasurer. has .held that ofTice from the organisa tion of the association. Other offl Icer8 are W. H. Zoeller, flrst rlce ? president, and S. G. Etherldge. sec ond vice-president. I The following are the directors: J. i P. Kramer, J. B. Leigh. J. C. Saw yer. A. G. James. W. Ben Goodwin. I A. R. Nicholson. S. G. Etherldge. M. iG. Morrlsette. Noah Burfoot, Jr., W. H. Zoeller. W. H. Weatherly, Jr.. and O. P. Gilbert. I The members of the loan hoard 'are M. G. Morrlsette, J. C. Sawyer, i A. G. James. Livestock Show Offers Many Prizes Will Be Held At Kansas City In November With $25,000 In Premiums I Kansas City. Aug. 31.?Premium money to bo offered for four breeds 'of beef cattle at the American Royal Live Stock Show, to -be held here j November 17 to 24, will total more ! than $25,000. according Jo an an nouncement by show officials. In I addition, there will be silver trophies ! valued at more than $2,000. There will be cash prizes also for hogs, j sheep, draft horses and mules. Cash offered In the cattle carlot [classes eyeeds $7,000; for six breeds I of hogs, more than $7,500; carlot swine classes $1,800; seven breeds of sheep, more than $2,100; carlot !sheep classes, $740; for draft horses {and mules. $7,800, and for the even horse show, $14.00. A class for boys' and girls' live ! stock clubs of Kansas City's trade i territory has been added to the of ferings this year. The cash prizes offered amount to $1,800, in addi tion to special prizes. ?College students will have an op portunity to win cash prizes In Judg ing contests and herdsmen, grooms and shepherds may try for cash priz es for the best kept and most appro j prlately decorated exhibits. 'MANNING OFFERS NO HOPE FOR RELIEF | Raleigh. August 31.?Attorney General Manning last night Issued a statement on the oil situation sug gesting that certain conditions would be a remedy but offering to officials {hope for relief In the situation In this : State. ? | Retailers claim that they are be ilng stifled by big competitors. The Attorney General said that the vary ing prices are due to freight charges j varying. MORRISON AT HAMI.ET | Raleigh. August 31.- Governor Cameron Morrison, who left the cap-1 ital Wednesday night for Hamlet, where an uncle was reported ill. will go to Ashevllle Friday or Saturday to All an engagement with a dental specialist. It was announced at the Governor's office. Monday the Gov-, ernor has an engagement to speak at a Labor Day celebration at Canton. MIHM ? ATHKItlNR AI.UKIITSOV I.KAVKH FOIl NKW I'OMITIOX Miss Catherine Albertson left Thursday for Greensboro where she has accepted a position In the Rxten tlon r>rpartment of the North Caro lina College for Worn e a us secretary of the State branch of the Parent Teachers Association. This office was created in July when the college agreed to co-operate with th?> State branch of the P. T. A. In '?Jtahllshlng the office In order to orrinla.- local branches of the association In as many *chi ols as possible In th<* state. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Prltchard and son, Clsrence, snd Mrs. L. C. Darls. returned from Norfolk Wednesday after visiting relatives there. 1 COTTON FORECAST BOOSTS MARKET Government Reports Based 011 Conditions of Crop on August 25 Predicts Crop of 10,888,000 Bales. Washington. August 31.?This year's cotton production was forecast today at 10.888.000 bales of 500 pounds each by the Department of Agriculture. | The forecast whs based on the con dition of the crop on August 25 which was 54.1 per cent of normal. Indicating a vleld of about 124.8 pounds per acre. The forecast for Virginia is 93.050 bales and for North Carolina 71,885. Fhre Dollar* llulge New Orleans. August 31.?A bulge of $5 a bale was recorded in tke cot ton market hers todsy in discount ing the government's report on the growing cotton crop. Cotton Option* Jump New York, August 41.?Active cotton options Jumped a hundred points In the local mar':*;! today af ter the ?;overnm.?nt ren .u was pub lished. MINERS HAND I PINCHOTANSWER Willing lo Negotiate Further j But Dissatisfied With De tails Operators Withhold Response from Publication (llr The AuorliiMl Pr?M) Harrlsburg, August 31.?Miners' representatives today handed Gover nor Pinchot their answer to his pro posal for settling the anthracite labor controversy without suspension. / j . The reply declared themselves I willing to negotiate further on the | basis of his suggestions hut dissat isfied with several particulars of his ofTer as made. The operators withheld their re sponse from publication. ltgV. X. K. (JKKHll AM (X)MKH HACK ON VISIT ?Rev. N. K. Gresham, formerlj ! member of the faculty of Shilol; 1 High School, now pustor of Daptisl ? churches in Sampson county, passed through the city Friday on his waj to spend two weeks with Mrs. Ores ; ham's parents. Mr. and Mrs. I. L, 1 Gregory, of Gregory. Plan To Change Bogs To Gardens Massachusetts Expects Won derful Transformation To Take Place 1 Boston, August 30.?The trans formation into pastures and market gardens of hundreds of acres of !swamp lands and submerged areas, is j foreseen by John W. I'lalsted of the I Massachusetts Department of Agri culture under the state drainage and | reclamation law passed by the 1923 legislature. The wet lands of the state, it is Estimated, cover from 300.000 to ! 500.000 acres, and range from small jsized bogs to one large swamp of 7, lOOO acres. Many accessible swamps can be drained and tilled, Mr. I'lals ted points out, and the soil may be made to produce crops of hay, vege tables or pasturage, thus helping to meet an ever growing ne?*d for agri cultural land In these days of rapidly expanding towns and cities. Financing has been the main prob lem In former reclamation projects in Massachusetts. The present law provides thr?s separate methods: Funds may be raised by assessments in a given district, and deposited with the state treasurer; the mem bers of the district may vote to incur debt, to be liquidated according to Che terms of the law; or the old method of financing by appropria tions by county commlfudoners may l>e adopted. The law Is held alf?o to apply to lowlands In need of Irrigation, and It Is believed that such territory may be developed with the dlMrlct meth ods outlined. The Intent of the art Is declared to be to help the people to help themselves. It Is a private matter supervised and encouraged by the state, and. according to agricul tural authorities represents a move ment of the greatest promise. pfc?nr at ciM.vriixv ?Mr. snd Mrs. Thorburn Hennett. Mr. snd Mrs. J. F, Hughes. Mr and Mrs. W. L. Small. Mr. and Mrs. Har old Foreman. Mr. snd Mrs. Frank Sellg. and Dr. Linwood Iolnts of inter ' , e?t the Scouts were to visit are Fort Monroe. Mount Vernon, the Norfolk ? i Navy yard. Arlington and the Na tional Opltal, where they were 40 '.visit President CooHdge, if arrange j ments for the visit, could ?be made. I They are expected to return hero September 8. (STOCK EXCHANGE SUSPENOS HICIITEK New Yo?k, August r. 1 ? Suspen sion of > rnt*'*l Rlehter of Ricnter & i Company of Philadelphia was an jnouncod today from the rontrum of the Consolidated Stock Exchange at | the openlnc of business. ? Bailey at Rockingham For Labor Duy Speech Raleigh, A it east 31.?Joslali WI1-1 Ham Bailey. attorney of the State capital who Is mentioned In political circles a? a gubernatorial candidate In the 1 f?24 elections, has been In-' vlted by the Woodmen of the World 1 of Rockingham to he a speaker at a 'Labor Hay celebration at Rocking ham next Monday. HOSPITAL XEWH 1.1*0 Anderaon of Parnonnge street returned home Tneaday after an op oration for appendicitis. Capt. Albert Drlnkwater of Fast Rurxeni *twt la at the hospital for medical treatment. Fverett Arnold of Relcrosa la Im proving aftter an operation. | R. L. Owona of Routhern Avenue who auffered a broken leg returned (home Tneaday after ibelng at the ho?nltn1 for treatment. Frank Cohoon of Eaat Lake re turned home Thursday receiving .treatment for a cut foot which wan I the result of an accident while cut ting loga. I Mrs. Agm-s West of Columbia la I Improving after an operation. Leonard Morrlsette of Orandy re Iturned home Thuraday after an op erallon. Mra. If. C. Harrla of Weat Main itreot and little aon who waa horn Aumiat 22 will return home Sunday. Mlaa Oracle Mae Whit* of Route One who underwent an operaHon on August 26 la Retting along well. Harry Perry of Weat Church street nad hla tonslla removed on th#? 28th. I Mra. A. O. Tlllett of Washington. D. C.. underwent an operation on the 2*th and la getting alone nicely. 1 Mra. J. D. flavin of Route fine Is Improving, after an operation Thura-j ] dav | fleorge William* of Cvprena street Ih*d tonalla removed Wednesday. j I Mlsa Minnie !/>p Thompaon of (Rerklev. Virginia, had her tonsils re-! ; moved Wednesday. OUfftev Neodham of Colnjock had 1 hla tonalla removed Wedneaday. Chrlatopher Perry of Camden had hla tonalla removed on the Iflth, Mlaa Elisabeth I?ayden of Charry, street had har tonsils removed on the 28th. GREEK REPLY ? NOT ACCEPTED Agree to I'art of Italian Ulti matum With Hcuprvalions, But ('annot Accept Rest and Situation Is Serious.