? I ?*<***??? ? I THE WEATHER * 4 'Rain tonight. Much cold ? * *',rr Tuesday. Fresh South- ?' nest shifting to \orth ? i rest winds. . , l I I r ? * * * CIRCULATIOV Monday 2.326 (.o/iies * ? * ? ? K I CI IT I' AGES. Many Residences Built In This City Last Year Total Number of Permit* for This ('.lass of Building was 6 I. Not Including Additions Value of ('oiistruetion was Prolialily Between .">() and 60 Thousand Construction to tlx* value 'of prob abb* between $50,000 and $?5o.<hm? w.v authorized by building permits i?s-::?-d during the ,viiar by the city un i ding inspect or. I t may as well be admitted, how ever, that the foregoing figures are. pin-* guess work, no record of the valuation of the buildings -erected "having been kept prior to October 1. 1023. , However, the records are clear as to the kind of building cohered by e^ch permit, and. basing the valua tfo: on the average cost of the kind ci* building specified, the foregoinu figures are arrived ? ? I . The outstand ing building ncyevemertt of the yeUT. Is. of course .The completion of the new high school building, at a cos? of $250,000; hut this building was begun prior to 1923 and does not figure in the building permits issued that year. Home building led all other build ing activities in Elizabeth City dur ing 1023. the number of dwellinu "houses erected during the year be-^ Jni 63. This does not include ad-' ditions to residences , ii\ the way of kitchens and outhouses: Next In order numerically were -garages, of which there were 20. in cluding both, public and private ga rages. < It has been an off year in business building for the city, but Water street, as for the last several years, lias seen some building activity. No table among the new buildings on this street is that being erected by N* G. Grundy & Co. just south of the State bridge across the Pasquotank river, to he occupied V- the Tide water lUitck Company and others, with a Valuation probably of around S11,nffo to $12,000. Tlicn the Auto & Gas Engine Works is building an addition to its building, increasing t-ie frontage on Water street from ?0 feet to 80 feet, at a cost of ap piCNimately $3,000. Farther north on Water." W. J. Woodley, wholesale grocer, is 'completing an addition to 4. is building on Uurgess which will increase his floor space by about <?. <?00 feet and will cost approximately S3.000, Finally, the Globe Pith <3o:nj?any has just occupied its new quarters of brick constVuction and erected at a cost , to make a broad ?ue?s, at something lik" $5,000. However, both the "Woodley ware "hOuse and the Globe Fish Company "building are not covered by the building permits issued for 1023. as each was begun in the fall of 1 022. Other classes of buildings for which permits were Issued were: Stables. 0: apartment house, one: filling stations, two: combination dwfllinu house and store, two; churches, two; store rooms, nine; sbops. one: stores, two; shed, one; "hen house, one; kitchens, two; wood houses, five; factories, two; office, ^one; washroom, one. Paving has boon practically at a standstill in Elizabeth City for tin last several years, duo to the uncer tainty as to the outcome of tin* ef fort on the part of the city to estab lish municipally owned public ntlll ' ties. ?Jt is held by the cltv authori ties t|iat It would be the height of folly to Bperid large sums of money on costly street paving that might - have to be torn up in a year or two for the laying of sewer and water mains. Two years a?o, more or h?s. the city issued bonds In the amount of $800,000 with which to build its i nwn utilities ? It .nffp.rrii tin- I wl.it Ing private corporations now supply In* the city with water, light, power and sewerage a quarter of a million dollars for their properties. The utility companies refused that offer: but intimated that they would sell for around $325,000, A deadlock ensued and when there appeared no prospect of the deadlock's being brokep, the city authorities proceed ed to Institute steps to erect munici pally owned and operated utllitV plants In competition with the priv ately owned properties. Then it was that the private corporations con trolling the city's utilities stepped In and by a series of injunctions ihfew the flght into the. courts. .Thefe It has remained ever since At every pitched battle, the cltv comes out the vie tar.; but the cor porations take an appeal and so te dious are the processes of the law In such matters that to many mem bers, of the present city administra tion final settlement seems farther away than It ever did. V recent vote of the City Council disclosed that half of tlit- members of that body are favorably disposed to re-opening negotiations for the purchase of the privately owned utilities now Kerf lop the^ty. ^ I'^r.^pld'Walk paving hfs been' llmit^^porictblna less thsil a mile ha\ln W>een put down duilr^?the entire year The paving- C# side walks on the Nofth and , Soutn tides of Fearing street from Dyer to _ I'erasc was the principal sidewalk project of the year. ' flu sines* outlook Is good except for those wanting something for nothing. They may get the nothing. OWNERS OF AUTOS SHOULD LOOK OUT Police to ( llran I j? List of Those With IVrmits for Klizalx-tii City, AImi to 1>> sppct Building-. In' checking over the list of those who have permits and comparing it day afternoon Chief ^pf Police Greg-j orv discovered that of 85 <iutonin-j biles for which ?>tate licenses have bepn issued to the people in this city whose names begin with th*? letter "\V" there were 22 who had not securcd their city permit. The number of permits issued dur 1ns the year is 704. The indications are that a good .many cars are oper ating without permits and the police department is planning to clean up. The inspection of all the houses in the city for conditions lending to increase the fire hazard will be the ? task of the police department short ly. This inspection takes place In the residential section^nive a year 1 and in the business quarter. Highway Commission Buys Second Tractor With Two Hoped that Superin tendent May Keep Dirt Roads Good This Winter ? So favorable a report was made by Superintendent of County Iloads . Provo at (he January meeting of J lh?' Pasquotank Highway Commls j s'lou on the work of the Fordson I tractor with pneumatic* tires last i month a* motor power for a road drug in Pasquotank, that the Com mission authorized the purchase of another machinc forthwith, of the same son except that the new trac tor is equipped with a caterpillar drive and is to be used as motor power for a one man grader* Mr. I'rovo says that with this first tractor he can drag the County i roads in Salem township in two day*. I It would seem possible to drag the dirt roads of the whole county in two weeks with this machine. The new midline will be used to grade and widen the dirt roads. Since the chain gang was abolished nearly two years ago. the dirt roads of the County have greatly deterior ated. The attempt has been made to get the roads dragged and othnr wlne worked by farmers. who live on i them; but this method has been found too expensive and too Ineffi cient. it is hoped that with these two tractors to lie used in maintaining the dirt roads. Mr. Provo may now be able again to keep tin* dirt roads of the County in as good condition as they were under tin* chain gang regime. The Commission held a short ses sion Tuesday, adjourning at 12:. To. (ilVK KNTKHTAINMKNT AT CAI.V.AItY THIS KVK\I\(J ' A Christmas entertainment, "Santa f'lau? and Hlf Friend*. '* wPI given by Calvary Hip tint Sund ly School at the church tonight prompt - ' ly ?it eignt o'clock. Th" public i rurdiall) invited. WKSTKII.X I X IOX Wil l. . < l.osi : II sl\ n? VXK K The lorfll Western Cn ion offlc will close lit 6 o'clock this evening i ii st ??:? ?l of o'clock. 1 1) if* !>??( 11 a Iflll holiday. Th* oftirr would hfl \ ? cibM'Tved Sunday hours except for the sake of vcttlriK the telegraph I** now* to The Advance throughout the day. TWO Ml I I I) AM) SIX AKE INJURED Atlhrita. Jan. 1 . ? Two were killed and si* were injured In automobile accidents here on Niew Year's eve. HKRK ATTKXMXO Ft \ i i: \i Among those from out of the city attending the funeral of Mrs,'E. F\ Aydlett. Sr.. fct Blackwell Memorial RdptMt Cli ii r< b Tuesday afternoon were Mr. and Mr*. J. A. Hrigg? of Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. Willi* Hi-Irk? of Raleigh. r*ib 11 r i g g * ??f Richmond. Dr. H. T. Aydlett of Green?boro .and W. T. Minor of Durham-. ? I Hny a new dress. Tell him you ! made It. Claim your clothe* cost a ! dollar a month. You can marry him. LIEUTENANT WOOD AND WlKlv so\of to lKv Th?- above picture Is of Lieute.iant Osborne Cutler Wood. and ? his formerly Sliss K. Thompson of Philadelphia. Lieutenant Wood, General Leonard Wood, is now in the Philippine* and is reported vo made nearly a million dollars through Wall street speculatiou. A J t 1 ; Suzanne I^on^lon. world's cham pion uuinRi) tennis player, has a;?rc? d lo represent France In the Olympic I emits matches. Tills means that Franco' will probably win this event easily, unless Mille. Lengien has lost some of her cunning. ( MIKK FI/MCA IIK\V \ltl)S HIS ItltAVft gi II KSTKIS Thief Flora of the KUtllhofh Clt Fire Department made the Quickstep hook and ladder company * a New Year's girt of helmets, raincoats and hoots, anil the brave Quicksteps, who swear by Chief Flora and would 1 it - ? rally lay down their lives for him. are hnpplri than ei'er today. 'I lie k i f t was made possible by g? nerous Kllza belli City citizens in appreciation of the services of the fire department. Til II EE DYING AETEK W il l) 1 *)2 I WELCOME San Antonio. Tex. Jan. 1.? Six persons-are fn hospitals and t'hfee of them ate reported . -dying in conse quence of one of the wildest wcl pities ever given a new year here. DOZEN ARK SHOT ON NEW YEAICS EVE Baltimore, Jan. 1. ? At least a dozen person- were accidentally shot In* I he 5T?w Year celebration here last night, the pojice reported today. Til It EE Kit. I. El) IN HEAD ON COLLISION Xanesvltle, O.. Jan. 1. ? Two men and a young woman were killed and five others were brought to a hospi-. tal here badly injured six miles from hero early this tnornijiK when two automobiles collided. Hov. Stephen Brock Din* nt Wiiislon-Sulciii WlflHIon Sale in . Jan. 1. ? U-v. Stephen Rhodes Brock, <iged 611. well known Haptls^ minister, died at the home of his son. Judge Walter E. Brock, hen- today. The funeral will i.1?e held afc* Wadoeboro Wednesday. kiyoura Succeed* Premier Yainumnto ? l?? Tf.. A>?rln..| l?r. ? . ? Tokio. Jan. 1. ? Viscount Kie^o Kiyoura. prenlili'til of the privy council, wuh today summoned by Prince Recent Mirohito to form a cabinet to siiccc fl that of Premier Yama moto. which resigned. follow ing the attempt to assassinate Hiroliito last week.. CANDIDATES ARE WILLING TO WAIT McLean anil Bailey. Eaelt Hoping to l?e Nexl (Gover nor, Kolli Will Abide liv < iliairman Diihsoii' Keenest UalciKh. Jan. 1. ? Atmus 'Wilton McLean and Josial) William Pal ley have both complied with the rec|ut'?t of Chairman John Dawson of th?? State Democratic executive commit tee that protective candidates . for the Democratic n<Vminat ion Yor th" major Slate offices Vefcain front an nouncing themselves at present. Mr. Halley stated Monday luorn Ii?k that although he had prepared to declare himself that day for th?' liuhernatorial race, he Would observe Mr. Dawson's request. Mr. McLean said last nicht. "My attention has been called to th. - 1 a lenient of CHalftnan Dawson and I ran see no objection to it from the partN standpoint. I have not ulVeir any definite consideration to the mat ter of flxinu any particular date up on which I will make formal at^> nouncement." IOKD PLANNING l ()l{ M ANY I.M l*l<< > V'KM HINTS Detroit, Jan. 1. ? Extensive Im provements in waterways looking to the development of an all-water route from Green island to New York to Detroit, completion of the plant started at St. Paul, additions, to the Kansas ?'it\ assembiv plant, find extension of business through out the West and South Were amont the items named in lite statement of the IV>rd Motor Company's expansion prouram in 1924. The improvements will call for the expenditure of $ 1 1 0.tfTm.hOO to $ | Ro.nuo.ooo during the year, offi cials of the company said. I fSIIIMJ I.KSS ritOFITAIILK TII.W I IK I NCi PIUmXiltAPIIKP New Yorl:. J?n. I. At Capri ? here Is a *liite haired "fisherman" ?? ho haunts the landtag where tour ists disembark, says Dwijjht I#. Kl mendorf, the famous worljl traveler and lecturer in The Mentor for Jan uary. This fisherman h/?s not ca*t n net r?r line for many year"*. owing to the demands of tourists fur pose* ? - which requests lie fraciottfllv fffanfs for a small consideration. These requests Jmvc be?n so num erous that this old fnan has' found It more prof{tnle fo grant tourists' ft Quests than to fto out flshng. HKCTOK TO hK TKIKI) ON HKKKSY CHAHGK SfW York. Jan. I.?Rev. I .po W W<nton or Port Worth, central fit tiro In 1 >10 controversy In thf? Prot>-(< tant K|?l*roj>nl Church between tlx* moriernfotfl and t ho fundani^ntajixtx. ; tod.n ct rl \ I v?'it frl? HflH heri- That 1 1 1 wn - j op Moore? of Dalla* has rcjocttd th.* | fulvlrf reported to have 'h??-n ofTi-redi htm ?>? fill imp Man nf a* of N>w York and wn?v ntlcklnic to hlw Intenthuv of bringing thp Fort Worth nrtor to trial on chargea of herear. <:ooi.iim;k bk<;ins STKKNl U4jv?v\l{ Washington. J^Tn 1 Presi ili-m ro?li(U<> joda> beuaii the new Miir b> in'iihablx undtr ii4*inu the greatest |?>i >'?? strain ever iilaci'd on a ? I* ? i? t . 1 1 1 ? * Nhw Year's r?*c? p t i??t? . Precautions w?*re taken auiiiu.it a repetition of Ho \?re .-train" impo>e?,l on l'r?"*t detit and Mrs H.inlint: in tt'l.ftt S ,1'imi fhook hands witn tin-in. Tmiaj 's reception was ' limited to thn-r and a half hour*. Negroes Observe ? Emancipation Day Colorful Parade More Than Mile 'Long Was Event of -New Year** Day Here ; Led by . .the ".ICIi&iihci h City Cos ? mopolit.m Hand." a colorful 10 man cipation Day parade said to have | been more than a mile long was st-4Ked_by Klizaheth City negroes Tuemiay, January 1, 1924. The marshals were Alex Wilson and \V. II. Hawkins, resplendent in stoVepi pe ha is and Kay Wishes. In the procession were vehicles 'ranging from limousine to biljy goat ran. one oxcart finding place uoine wlti re between the two extremes. Cp toward the front of the parade was tile Quickstep He/ok and Ladder Company, Klizaheth City's crack ne gro* lire company, each member im pressive in new helmet, boots anJ raincoat, the Christmas gift of the citizens of this city. It is estimated that fully two hun dred decorated automobiles took part .in the parade. Then, besides, there were floats and decoraleif trucks, ? i troop of trim colored boy scouts and a troop of even trimmer colored girl scouts. .Thirty -if Ivo participants mounted on horseback occupied prominent place in* the parade. Seldom - has a parade staged In fcliZMbeth City attracted more at tention. Indeed. Uim crowds that lined the streets to see it were sug gestive of ?lirrus day. and were fully as large in the white residence sec tions as in the colored residence sec tions of the city. The parade sMrted from Itoanoke ; Institute, tin Body Koad, at 11 o'clock Tuesday inornng and ended at .Body Koad High SchTiol a little more than an hour later. ANTKI.OI'K IIKItll Sl Itl'UISKS KKDKKAI, TICAITKIl l\ NKV \l>\ I If- no. Nevada. .Mimiary 1 ?-??(). (!.. Woods, a Federal t nipper, reports th-it recently lie was intent on skin 11 ill K a coyote when he looked lip ?<> find himself Surrounded hy a herd of fie vera I liundn ?1 antelope*. As I hey milled around hlni. eying him cur iously. ho counted 31 S of the crea ture!!. A recent animal census taken hy Federal tivippoj*s estimated the num ber of tntelopes in this vicinity at I 1.500. This animal, however, is said to lie vanishing rapidly, and t li?? herd in northern Washoe county. NVvada. is behoved to be the largest in the t'nlt'-d States. CANAL TOLLS BKKAK ALL I- OK M Kit KKCOKDS 1'aninia. Jan. 1. Five thousand ?mil for L> ~aix ni' iThaiil shlpa paused through the . -Panama Canal during tin v -ar 1 !? 2 '5 ;rnd pal'l $22,?ei.OOO in toll*. breaking ^ll records for a calendar year. ?HOP. w M. MINION will. M\kl. IIOMK IN (iltCKN VII.I.K 1'fof. W. \V. 1-1 In ton lias pone to Oreenvlfle t'? make his home with his younp'^t dauu lit ?-r . Mrs. J: It. Klt irell. He has for the las! GO years been closely identified with the af fairs of the County, and has always taken a ken interest in everything that looked to the educational and moral uplift of hi* County and town. For many year* he Was principal of ll??- public school^ of the town, and for. a number of years superinten dent of pnhlie instrifcttoi) of th" Cooni y. Hi n fir '? M nt< ?' 1 1? ?r Coilfil v in fb?- (Jein ral Assembly one tevm, and has nerved lu other public ca pacities. in i:HT\ FACTION IS MAKINi; OBJECTION ** Wa?hlnt:fon, Jan. t. HeprewJiitil llvfs of t1i?- I)* In Hm-iln cjroup laat hlKht tiihiIo a formal "pro tent to tli" I nlted state* Onvtrnhieht ? u:? 1 n rt It* <1< rMoii to gcll war i:tat< ria Ih to the government of fit* Ac rat Obrejton In Mexico, IT'S S()MK ( IIM KK\ A Marred Itpck chicken that has rn nntly h?>en nold. by Howard Hat trick for $50 can be iwn In Ituxton 'White Seed Co. window Wednenday I afternoon. LYNCHINGS FEW j IN THE YEAR 1923 l)rcrca?fd More Than Fifty IVr Onl from Figures of ! 1 ')22. Says Tuskegee Re port Today. Tusk?cge?\ Jan. 1.? Lynchings iu ?lie Cnited Stales decreased more than Silly per cent during 19 23 a.t ct?r.i|i;ir?'(! will* 1922. according to figures rifr iJirTirdrryrr Normal and i Induct i'ia 1 insNt ut y. Tin' tola) wa?yfS us compared with I ."i7 the previousS^ear. Twenty sir ! were negroes and^t wo 'whites. Two I women were amonS t lit* victims. .Mississippi and Florida h*id eight ' each. Georgia four. Arkansas and | Texas two each. Virginia: Misouri, I Oklahoma and Louisiana one each, i There were none in North Caro lina. South Carolina and Tennessee. EIGHT CIVESCOST IN CHICAGO MONDAY Chicago. Jan. 1. ? Speed aided by I thi lizzard . took a toll of eight live.* ? in the vicinity of Chicago yesterday. I Three men and one woman died in i Cook county in automobile accidents, , making the total of fatalities 725 for the year. WOMAN AND MAN INJURED IN BRAWC Detroit. Jan. 1. ? One woman was shot, probably fatally, and a man was wounded ar what the police describe as a free-forall brawl which was the climax of the New Year celebration 'at a McComb county road house last I night. Thirteen men are held, while the police continue their investigation. I'lllLADEM'HIA HAS NKW YEAR'S PARADE Philadelphia. Jan. 1. ? Kings and .clowns marched today in the annual "mummers" parade, climnx of the New Year's celebration. , More than in. 000 were In line. Many of the costumes represented mouths of effort on the part of those hoping to win" prizes by the beauty or grotesi|tieness of their appearance. PKESS ASSOCIATION MEETS AT PINEHURST Pinohursl. .Inn. 1. ? With editors " iiixl publishers from all sections of North Carolina ex period to ho pres ort!. I h?? mid winter meeting of the North Carolina Press Association will open lu re Thursday morning for a two-day session. The Associated \ Press Club also will hold Its quar terly meeting preceding that of the association on Wednesday night. Though the sessions of the asso eiation convention will not open un til Thursday morning, a meeting of the e\??cutive committee will take place W? dnesday night with Charles % \ We l?b of Ashevlllo, president of the association, in tlo- ehair. Other members of the e\erutivo committee expected to be present are Miss Ilea trice Cobb of Morganton, secretary; i Sanford Martin. Fred H. Hay. It. E. Price. J. P. Hurley, and H. FJ. Var ner. In addition to the regubir sessions mornlim. afternoon and night during the two days there will be various forms of recreation for the members. Golf matches, a target shooting con test. jiii auto trip over the surround ing country and an entertainment for the ladles of the convention at the pinehurst Country Club will be anion? these features. SI I Kill IT CONSPIKKI) AOAINST DKY Itaiigor, Me,, Jan. 1. ? Sheriff Ed inund W. Grant of Aroostook courtly ami Willi im If. hewln, attorney, w r?- today convicted by a Federal Jury of conspiracy to defeat the op erations of prohibition and sentenced to two' years in Atlanta penitentiary. y Hot!) fled exceptions and provid'"'. bill. One witness tent Iff that he paid Gram and I.ew In $625 monthly for a monopoly of the liquor trade, the sheriff agreeing to notify In ad Vance when raids were fcontemplated. OrAI.HA RAkKRY IS IN NEW QUARTER** On Tuesday the location of fthe Quality Bakery was c hinged ?rom Southern avenue and Shepard street to a portion of the building at) Main street occupied by the Main Hit"**-! Grocery. O. I). J ones, prar . prietof of the bakery, made arrange ment with the grocery to use ih* rear of lh"lr store "for baking and the grocery will handle the baked go'>d s at retail. A clerk will be placed .In charge of the retail bakery depart ment. Mr.. Jones will devote his time to the management of the business and to the- wholo?a1e bu*i ncsH., . Mr. Jones skirted his bakery career In Elisabeth City In October of tost year when he bought out the Cart wright Bakery here last October. ; Before coming to Kllxabeth City. Mr. Jonea was for several !?& ! the bakery business In Norfolk. 4

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