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* THE WEATHER * Cloudy tonight and " i I * CIRC.l'L.4TIO\ * :as?JgttS I %PPIIp JP?IIti?I : ,.??&* : ****#**?? ********* VOL. XIII. FINAL EDITION. ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY EVEN INC, OCTOBER 17, 192:1. EIGHT PACES. NO. 241. ADDED PRIZES OFFER DOUBLE OPPORTUNITY Big Inducement To New Entrants Those Who Go in With a Will for Special Prizes May Jump to Lead ia Race for the Velie or Ford and Participate in Final Awards on November 3. With special awards, as an-1 nounced on page seven of this issue, | hunt; up as an inducement for im mediate and vigorous action, con-1 testant* in The. Advance "Everybody Wii i" race for u Voile tourlui nr, a Ford roadster, and many cash prizes are provided with a big incen- , ? tive to increase the speed and en thusiasm of their quest for prize wlnning subscriptions. For effort between now and 9 j o'clock Saturday evening, October 27, three special prizes are offered. ! Those prizes are given for the great est amounts In new subscription payments turned in during the pe riod specified, and it is possible for a contestant to win one of the spe cial prizes and a beautiful up-torthe minute automobile as well. 1 The ppeelal prises consist of three orders on the well known Jewelry firm of Louis Sellg of Elizabeth City ! for $25.00. $15.00 and $10.on re spectively. The next ten flays are certainly the golden porfod of the campaign. 1 both for contestants already active and those who enter now. It is safe tf>*predict that there will be a num ber of "upsets among the campaign leaders during the next-ten days, and more than likely that It will be a newcomer who will sot the pace. As a nratter of fact, there are no ditejjnct leaders as yet developed in the campaign, and no one has as^^t rolled up a daugerous total of votes. To quote the campaign manager: "It would not surprise me one bit but that the added prizes The Ad vance is offering for a special ten dav |>eriod will be the cause of the ultimate winner of the Voile car en tering the race, and in view of the frank, clear statement of The Ad vance's circulation condition both in Elizabeth City and the outside torri torv. I must confess that the added prizes m*ust~ap|>ear \Try-strongly to quite a few out-of-towners to enter the race without a moment's delay." To have "Opportunity" announced with a flare of trumpets Is unusual, but when it is, as in this case a "dou ble opportunity" knocking right at one's door, it seems impossible that It will not be heeded. - WAR FRAUD CASES ARE TO BE HALTEJD Washington. Oct. 17.?A score or more of Government prosecutions in war fraud, case* Involving construc 11ion of army cantonments probably will be halted In view of the deci sion yesterday by Federal Judge Kat er of Ohio in the test case relating to Camp Sherman. The Judge ruled that the Government must be speci fic In Its fraud charges. How seriously war frauds prosecu tions will be affected by the decision is not known. Action seems to be suspended until the opinion of the Ohio Judge ran be carefully studied. Nearly $100,000,000 worth of suits hive already been filed and others are ready for filing. Miner Pleads Guilty To Murder Sheriff Logan, W. Va., Oct. 17.?Edgar ' Combs, union miner, today pleaded guilty of murder of l>eputy Sheriff John Gore In the 1921 armed mArch and was sentenced to life Imprison ment. II AH MOVKD OPK1CKH OF WTI'Ali LIFR INS. CO. Robert M. Cotter. District Man after of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has Just moved Into n new suite of roomo on ! the fourlh floor of the Hlnton Building. The new of/Ices are Just ? across the hall from the old offices of the Mutual Life, having changed from 410 to 410-12. Thla office la j the Dlatrlct headquartera for Paa-: ouotank. Perquimans. Chowan. Car-' rJtuck and Dare counties. "orro?i makkrt Ne? York. October 17.?Spot cot ton closed steady. middling. 30.OS. Futnrcx. cloaln* hid. October 29.65. December 28.95, January 28.48. March 28.52. May 28.5?. July 27.98. New York. Oct. 17.?Cotton futu res opened today at the following levels: Oct. 30.10, Dec. 29.43. Jan. 28.86, March 28.90, May 2I;9S. GOVERNORS ARE IN CONFERENCE Meet at West Baden, Indiana, and Will Plan for Meeting With PresidenV"t*Dolidge on Saturday. fBr The Amdlltd Prru.! West Baden, Ind.. Oct. 17. ? The governors or the executive represen- : tatives of 37 states and territories ! mot here today for the fifteenth an nual conference of governors. They planned to discuss national and regional problems and organize a program for the meeting in Wash ington Saturday'with President Cool idge to consider the problem of pro hibition enforcement and related subjects. Governor Trinkle of Virginia and ( Governor Morrison of North Caro lina are among those attending. Trinity Team Faces Hardest Schedule Blue Devils Suffered Many In juries In Tussle With Car olina Last Week Trinity College. Durham, Oct. 17. ?The badly crippled Blue Devil ? ti-aw of Trinity College faces the I hardest schedule for the next few j weo^kH^that^lt^^h as^ ever been called ball at the college. The Blue Uev ! lis suffered numerous and s? rlous In | juries In the tussle with Carolina I last Friday, some of which are cal culated to keep varsity players out i of the game for the rest of the seas on, especially the two tackles. Hatch er and Williams. Saturday the Trinity eleven will journey to Itockv Mount to meet the I William and Mary Indians. The t teams have met twice before, with {Trinity, getting the small end of the ? score each time. The Indians, how lever. have always had to stretch to hold the Blue Devils, and this year the Blue Devils, nlthouuh crippled, are expecting to show theni a nifty struggle. Little Is known about the William and Mary bunch with the exception that they have played cred itable football against stronger op-1 ponents this season. The Carolina game exposed many wrinkles that Coaches Stelner and Burhage will have to smooth out before another game, especially In the Blue Devil line which failed to block effectively In the Carolina game. The end positions too will be Improved before next Saturday. The Trinity backfleld remains Intact tilth tho exception of a few minor f Injuries. The Trinity hacks had a jSlim chance to show up auainst the [Carolina team, every attempt being ?smothered from behind. HPEXT HTOI.KN MONEY AND NOW IN jail; Found guilty on a charge of re ceiving stolen money. John Wilson, colored,, was sentenced to three' months on the roads with Judgment suspended on condition that he make! restitution of the $12.50 stolon and that he pay the cotts and a fine of fin. rn*Me to comply with the condi tions of the suspended judgment, the defendant, who had spont tho utolen , money, was remanded to Jail. ? John Coopor. colored. In Jail for about ten days because he was unable to Hire bond for appearance to an-; swer charge of non-support and abandonment, was released on his own recognisance Tuesday for ap pearance on November 9. the doy ?et. for the hearing. VIRGINIA METHODISTS MEET AT KICHMOM) Richmond, Oft. 17.?The one hun dred and forty-flrat nemilon of tho Virginia conference of the Methndint | Episcopal Church, South, opened here today with niahop Warren A. Candler presiding. ' MONDAY BIGGEST DAY FOR CO-OPS llt'iioHfil Confidence Ex?| prrjsed from Every Section of the State in This Plan of Marketing. Raleigh. Oct. 17.?Monday was the biggest day in tin* history of the North Carolina Cotton Growers' Co operative Association with total re ceipts of 4,750 bales of cotton. Re ports from every section of the cot ton counties indicate renewed confi dence hi the association and deter mination "on" TKe pari oT~ffie~mpmber= ship to deliver their cotton. The clerical force of the account ing department is busily engaged In making of checks for the members for the final distribution 011 account of short staple cotton of the 1 !? 22 crop and while It will take several days to complete this work, the checks are going out as rapidly as poBsihlo, naturally, the members of the association will understand, that every check must bo written, exam ined, recorded and signed?this takes a bit of time. In view of the fact that this is practically the beginning of the sec ond year of the North Carolina Cot ton Growers' Co-operative Associa tion, sonip comparative statements are of Interest to the membership, now totaling almost 33,000 North Carolina farmers. At the beginning of last year an almost entirely un- | trained office force was working, I sweltering in the rear of an old gar- ! age building, and was forced to move | twice before permanent headejuar- 1 tors were secured. This year the of- ! flee forco I.* comfortably housed in well ventilated quarters in the . Wright building, corner of Martin ! and Salisbury streets. Last year the , force was entirely "green" as con cerned co-operative marketing: this year the 7G i?er cent of the employes have a year's experience and this 1 counts in efficiency. Last season the elapsing depart ment was compelj?;U to work in a poorly lighted and ill-fitted room for classing cotton, situated over a steam laundry. This year the department has the third floor of the Wright building, with properly constructed skylights, giving the association probably the best classing and grad ing room* in the South. In addition, classing department "IJ." located at the corner of College and Fourth street in Chnrlotto aids In promptly' classing and grading cotton. Last season the classing department was far behind at this time and fell be hTnd continually by ~rryf77nr of-s-n Jur sufficient number of classcrs and Im proper and poorly equipped rooms for their work. This season the classing department reports all cot ton being classed promptly, and at no tlnio has the department been more than two days behind with the classing. Samples are being mailed promptly from all warehouses ami classification sheets are being sent back to them dally In order that the cotton may be stacked according to grades. j Last reason at this time, the cot ton of the association was congest ed at almost nil concentration points, with over 2f?0 carloads of cotton standing on side tracks in Charlotte at on*- time and embargoes were placed against .the association by the railroads at Fayetteville and Greens boro. and the association was forced : to make shipments to Wilmington. Norfolk and other points In a chaotic manner. This year, the traffic man ager reports that no a single dollar has b?"ii paid out on account of rail road storage or demurrage. He also reports that up to this time there has not been a single case of congestion. Th? re have been 110 "kicks" from railroads or warehouses as to con Rest Ion ami the lnruo concentration points are ready for and are calling for more cotton, while last season at ttils time they were herein': the trsf flc department to let up on ship ments. Tho warehouse department re ports that tho. number of warehouses has hof?n rodueed from over f>0 to 70 and tho cotton Is holm: concentrated at tho mall concentration points whoro tho warehouse facilities have horn enlarged or new warehouses constructed. Last season tho asso ciation had almost a nepirift eon tract with every wac/>housc. from the smallest to tho largest. The ware house system has boon thoroughly standardized. Last season, by reason of tho con gestion at concontratlon points, sales could not bo mad?? and win n made tho cotton could not ho promptly de livered. Tho salon department did not actually get Into action until af ter tho first of January. This season, hy reason of tho marked changes In the warehouse system and tho Im provement In the cla?slne depart ment, the sales department was able to begin their work 'Immediately. Some good orders have been secured on a very favorable basis from both foreign Mid domestic markets, and also from people with whom the as sociation dealt last season The matter of gravest concern, to the management of the association. I Just now la that of securing the j largest co-operation on the part of j receiving agent* anil members, The receiving at< nis can aid materially the headqnartera force by following impllcltlv the Instruction* sent them concerning the shipment* of cotton. They can alno aid the office by see ing that every member uaes the con tract name and contract number on making each delivery. i>ki \i!omv kmkim;! s(; 1 ISOU (iltKM HOOD <.'kI; ';?oh:i r:i>. i>?-|. IT -Oklal o I ?ti:i r-'.iv u;i* ? i.icri'inu from Iho n;??-t i!Ua.-'r? !M llood it has i I i.-rn-. I iwaters ?>f tin- North Canadian r?\?r r?<*-d<d. T!mu?:.m!s are 1? ft homeless nnd !?roi?sty damage if estimated s?t $2. ">ei?.<???!?. Two persons are known to In- d. ad. Making Effort To Save School Trees ?? i Committees Will Report to the Board at Friday Night ~"j Meeting At a mooting of Che board of school trustees to be bold Friday night the matter of Having the Irocu on tli?' biub school grounds will bo ur^?-d. Som?> time last week the m w* went Trtfout that the contract for the building included the work of cuf tlni: down every troo on the ground*. Saturday afternoon committees of Rotnrians, Klwanians, and Woman's Club members called on the board with the request that these trees be saved. One of the trees, particular ity# a giant oak, Is priceless In its btauty, and it seems nothing short I of sacrilege to deliberately cut down Isuoh a sentinel. At Saturday afternoon's confer ence committees of three from the Woman's Club and throe from the school board were named to talk [witii the contractor nnd steo whit ho I could do in the way of changing his contract so that other w'ork might be substituted for that of.cutting the I trees, and the trees be saved for po t< rity. The board's committee, was made up of Mrs. J. (J. Fearing, Mrs. Albert Worth and N. S. Leary, the club's committee of Mrn O. W. Ward. Mrs. Ethel Lamb and Mrs. a. n. Hoots. The committees have talked with the contractor and are ready to r?' i port to the board. It is hoped that all the trustees will bo present. SHRINE CIRCUS IS i BEING CONDEMNED ('<1111111011 Itrport Is That It's Almost as Olijfi'tioiialilc in Way of (>?inlilin|! Devices a* llu- I'nir. A throng of people attended the Shrine Club "circus" on tin* opening night Tuesday, but not many of those who attended had a good word to any for the show on the "morfv.iig after." The flrst words Tin- 'Advance re porter hoard Wednesday morning uh be got out nn the afreet were: "That Shrine ahow ain't worth a continen tal," sbout? <1 across the street by one youngst< r to another. The word "continental," of course, Is a mere euphcumlsm for the stronger term used by the speaker. but then if there was no treat shaken of a show, what could one ex pect for a ticket good for Ave nights milling at 50 cents? -? That would be the natural ques tion If there were no objectionable feature of the show. Hut the main criticism heard on the street Is not based on the fact that one after net ting into the hi# tent on his season ticket ha<l to pay 2K cents for a bleacher seat or watch the \arlous act* standing. Common report has It that except for the fact that there were no pea and shell panics, the circus was as objectionable in the way of g.imhllng devices as the mid way of the recent District Pair. Of course the atmosphere Is dif ferent.And of course the rafTIIng off of a cake at a church social is as much a ramble as any device op ? rated at the circus. IIitt there are those who say that to make gamb ling respectable Is to make it more pernicious than when Its evil is un cloaked and open. The Klizaheth City pollc# are not exactly puritans. And yet members of the police force say that gambling was going on Tuesday night In the very shadow of police headquarters. If the show had not l-een sponsored by the Kllsabeth City Shrine Club and had been operating strictly on Its merits, one gets the impression that the police would close it up. "Treading on mighty thin Ice," Is the way County I'rosecutor Sawyer refers to the goings on under the circus tent. ISut Mr. Sawyrr takes the ground that It Is not up to him to act unless the matter comes up in court. "In that event," he says, "I will do my duty as I see It." Road Supervision Headquarters Here E- L. May, Successor to William Montgomery, to Have Offi ces in Elizabeth City Elizabeth City is to be mainten ance headquarters for the first high way supervision district of the State road system, it became known here today. Aulander has heretofore had that distinction. The change comes about as a result of the recent resignation of William Montgomery^ of Aulander! _aa-JltslrlcL-Supr.rv.iaQr o'f Sate IIigh^; ways. Mr. .Montgomery has been suc ceeded by E. L. May, formerly locat/ ed at Washington, N. C.. who was ; here -Wednesday with L. II. McDan iels. District Maintenance Engineer, looking for a location for his official headquarters. Mr. May and Mr. McDaniels i-*ft Wednesday afternoon for Currituck' where the State is now building an Improved topsoil road from Shaw j boro to Point llarhor in Currituck. The shell formation of the soil in | lower Currituck is said to be unus ually Mtlsfactory as material for a ; topsoil road and the completion of 1 the road, it Is bHIeved, will mean a dependable highway all the way from Shnwboro to Point Harbor. I The suggestion Is ir.ade that the completion of this road will be ! marked by the establishment of a ?bus line from Elizabeth City to Point Harbor, whence it is but n few miles to Itoanoke Island, birthplace of Virginia ;J>are . Those who make the suggestion believe that it offers a way to compensate Elisabeth City for the fact that the steamer Trenton has been taken off the Manteo-Ellz abeth City run. With a boat plying between Point llarbor and .Manteo and with a bus line from Poirtt Har bor to Eliznheth City the time be tween Elizabeth City and the county seat of l)are would be cut very near ly in half. CIIKISTIAN MAY BUY CLEVELAND AIUKIUCANS Wilmington. O., Oct. 17.?George II. Christian. Jr.. secretary to the lat*? President Ilardinv*. Is consider ing purchasing the Cleveland Amer ican Haseball Club. President Thanks Scottish Rite Men Washington, Oct. 17. ? Scottish Rite Masons, who refused to add to the burdens of President Coolidge by ?su4?J* eting him to a long handshak ? tng ordeal, today received from him ?a letter of appreciation for their thought fulness. Dramatic Club Is Beginning the Year Trinity College Got Fine Start In This Line During Last Year Trinity Colloge. Durham. Oct. 17. The Trinity College Dramatic Clul? In *tartlnu out on a year which bid* fair to be one of the ino*t no table In It* entire hlntory. The stag-! Ini: of "The Touting Place." a one-j act farce hy llootli Tarklngton, nt the Dtirham Klwauls Club's preaen-| tatlon of the "Jollle.* r?f gavei the Dramatic Cltih a successful start for the !< a*on. DramritlcM at Trinity have pro-1 gressed with rapid rt rides, ami the offering* of the cltih have proved nioft successful, being eagerly and | Appreciably received l?y every audl onc which lutf* witnessed their pro ductions. In the r-taging and pre sentation of the play "If I Were | Kin*" last year the Dramatic Club pcoied an unusually commendable j success, having favorable comment passed upon their efforts by many capable judges of pood plays and play-making. The college I* taking special Inter est In th? Trinity Dramatic Club and Is co-operating with the member* In their effort* to make the orgnnixa-| tlon equal to any of Its kind In the State. A special room In Went Duke ha* hern given by the college for th* sole ||fie of the club. Here the dra matic talent of the college will have ample space and equipment for prac ticing and rehearsing their sccnes. Necessary nttlngs and fixtures. In cluding dressing rooms, a small stage, draperlAs, curtains, etc., are being ln*tnlled under the direction of the club. A scenery store room I* being provided by the MllMC. A small though well selected and thor oagbly ample library containing all necessary Information pertaining to! the drams, plays, and plsy writing la to be a part of the arrsnegment' of the scene. PREMIER CANCELS HIS ENGAGEMENTS Lloyd (irorfso III and Doctors Order llim to IScmaiii ill lta'd and Itolricl His Speak ing IVojjrimi. lit* Th? A>?. itt.-d |*re??l Chicago. Oct. 17.?David Lloyd George, former premier of Great Britain, cancelled ull engagements today. . His physicians ordered him to re main in bed, owing to the continu ance of a slight fever. He hoped to keep his speaking engagement to nTghf at 'the-stock--yardsr Lloyd George ha* a cold, aggre vated by fatigue, bis secretary. Wil liam Sutherland. said. Ho Raid that with so much of th<> tour ahead of Lloyd George and with the example of President Harding's death and . former President Wilson's break down on a tour, it was felt that tho former premier's health must re ceive the best of care. The secretary gave out this state ment: "Mr. Lloyd George's doctors last, night found he had a tempera ture due to cold aggrevated by fa 11 true and ordered him to remain In l?ed. lie* is somewhat better this tuornlnu: but imperative orders have been given to restrict his public en gagements." Four Year Old Is Bitten By Rattler Little Son of Mr- and Mrs. Zach Owens of Powells Point in Serious Condition Powells Point. Oet. 17. ? Little Calvin Ow? ns. four-year-old son of Zachnriah Owens, prominent resident of the Powells Point section of Cur rituck County, was bitten by a small rattle-snake early Monday morning. Despite early attention by a physi cian the child's anil was rapidly swelling and dincoloring Monday night. and it was planned to take the littb patient to a hospital for an amputation. However, after a bad night, tho : child seemed so much better this morning that it was hoped such ex treme measures would.jiot be neces 1 sary. * -i Mrs. Owens, the child's mother, I hearing the little fellow's screams, ran to bis siid to find that tho snake had bitten the hoy's hand. 4 Thouvh n "FinalI young oiff, the reptile was so infuriat? iLLhat it tried to attack Mrs. Owens before it was killed. | It was thought that rattlesnakes were extinct in this community until last fall when one with five rattles was killed at the home of Walter ; Gordon, colored. \ ICi: PIlKSIIiLNT MU HKA l>!KH OF PNIJl'MOXIA Pittsburg, Oct. 17.-- Col. J. A. Me* Crea. vice president of tho Pennsyl vania system, died hero today of pneuinon tel. Phillipines Have A Stormy Session Manila, Oct. 17.?Tho Phllllpln? legislature lifter n stormy session to dny adopted a resolution approving the independence commissions' ac tion in demanding the recall of Gov ernor General Wood. KID GLEASON LEAVES CHICAGO WHITE SOX Chlcniro, Oct. 17.? Kid Oieason yesti rday resinned a* manager of the Chicago White Sox. spef.o boat ?;ets bic i.njitoit i,oao <Bf T>i? A??nr1?fr<( PfM.i Now York. Oct 17.-- The 80-foot motor nchonner, Three T,lnkn, carry ing $40,000 worth of whlnkey and a crew of four, was captured today by ? a Federal customs speed boat ns Mijcn? d to special rum running duty. hi %1 MH I MOM I t HKIIt I IXWIS CTT HM.F IN TK\ YK.WtH "No tuberculoids In Nortlj Caro lina In IfllSV Is to he the battle slo gan In the fight aiming tuberculosis for the ne* t ten yearn. A progrnm with such nil ambitious objective sounds well night Impossible of at tainment As a mutter of fact, to the skeptical It sounds absurd; but ten yerirn ago no one though that by faithfully working with the method* then know'for the cure and preven tion of tuberculoid* that the number of deaths In tho State could be cut In half, but thin Is what haa been done. Ten yearn ago, In 1913. there were 4,1100 deaths from tuberculo id*; In 1922 thin number had been reduced to 2,369.
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