North Carolina Newspapers

CORN IS KING IN PASQUOTANK; Hop ami Hominy Probably ?; Si ill the Biggest Cm|l ill County Despite Greatly In creased Cotton Acreage. North Carolina still holds her ! own as the fourth stale of the I'nion ? in value of the 22 principal national ?cio;?? and fifth in the value of all] crop-, according to Information re-( vol veil l?y The Daily Advance from| the North Carolina Department ofj Agriculture. Tlie report estimates the produc tion of cotton in this State as' 1,020,000 bales as opposed to j 825,000 of the previous year. The yield per acre increased from 250 to 29?? pounds and the acreage fromj 1.625,000 to 1.678.000 acres. It. also shows substantial increase in I ithe production of soy beans and other crops in which the Albemarle, fanner in Interested. Spme very interesting facts are le i r lied from a study of the compar ative crops in the Albemarle and other counties. I:i an attempt to find a crop In which Pasquotank County excels one meets with disappointment until the soy bean column is reached. Here one finds that Pasquotank loads not only the counties In the tidewater! /district but th^ entire state. In fact -while soy beans are grown In every ?county in the State except Graham, the figures show the western coun ties decidedly behind In their produc tion. Camden county is second to Pasquotank In the northeastern counties and is excelled only by j Johnston County in the central and southern coastal plain. Currituck and Perquimans counties are shown to be close behind Camden County and no other counties except Pas quotank. Johnston and Camden ex ceed the total soy bean production of eithet in this State. With the exception of Johnston County, there Is shown to be almost as little soy bean production in the central anil southern tidewater counties as there is in the western part of the State and one is impress ed by the fact that soys beans in the sixteen counties of the northeast all but equal those produced by the re ln lining 84 counties of the State. Why No IVjinutN? Another great crop for this section Is peanuts, and one "finds that the northeastern counties are far ahead of the rest of the State and produce four-fifths of the State crop. It is lvird to understand why Pasquotank County, leader In .the soy bean field, falls so far behlnil In the culture of peanuts with only 66 acres planted while the neighboring county Per quimans has 5.285 acres and other counties in the district over 25.000. -Camden County has the lowest acreage in peanuts of all counties in -the Stale with any peanuts at all and. with iXare anil Currituck and Pasquotank constitutes the only counties In the northeast which do not make a good showing on pea nuts. Practically every county in the tidewater raises more peanuts than the Albemarle counties Just named. Cow peas have a great hold on the eastern counties below Pasquo tank and the central tidewater countles raise five times as much and the southern tidewater counties ten times as much cow peas as the northeast, as companion crops with corn, while every other section In the State exceeds this at least three fold In the production for the peas. The larger acreage of soy beans ln_ ?Pasquotank accounts In part for the ?reduced acreage in cow pe?as. The northeastern counties make the poorest showing in North Car olina In hays and on acreage In Im proved cleared pasture lands. It Is hard to reconcile this condition with the presence of practically as large a number of work horses and mules as any other section and a number of milk cows that compares favorably with the rest of the State. When it comes to boss the northeast is again In the lead of all save the southeast and right with the fore most In the number of ewes of breed ing a ye. In Potatoe* Residents of Pasquotank may feci a sense of pride when tliey compare the potato farming In thin county with the other* of the sun*' Willi 3.416 acre* in potato*** Pas quotank County lends the entire State trail. 'd by Currituck with 3,20f?. Camden with 2.088 and T.vr r?Il-u:Un. J-.29 7. Very few counties In the State hftve more Irish pota toes than Tyrrell and the cither.* named are far In the lend. Here again Is a hard question to to understand. Surrounded by po tato raising counties Perquimans county has tint "293 acre* In that crop, almost as low as any county In the State. When It COmes to sweet potatoes. | all North Caro'lna counties have to hand It to Currituck. Htf produc tion of 3,f?08 acres is surpassed by only four counties In the stnte. all In the coastal plain below us. In field truck, berries, melons, etc. j Pasquotank Cobnty Is listed among the leaders In this section but there j are a number of counties with great * ?r production In the State. The neighboring counties have smaller | Continued on Pace I Hool> IIWK TO UK. i\roiti*i>ii \ti :i? moxi> \y Monday, Janu.i;> 11. lias !?? ? a s?'t as t li? - date for I It* ? incorporation of Hie new Hood System Itank in Eliza beth City. Tin* organization of a stork company ami election of a hoard of directors will take place at tli?? oflices of thi? Chamber of Com merce at 7:110 o'clock. Monday night. A telegram .was received Saturday hy tiurney P. Hood, originator of the system and one of tin- organizers of the new bank, to tin- effect that the charier had been' approved by the Secretary of State on Thursday. Plans were made at once for the first stockholders tneetinu. and. if Y>os&ibl< the first niH-tinu of directors will' take place Immediately following the stockholders' meet In u to elect olTi- ? cers and decide upon a location for' the banking house. COLLINS CASE WILL GO TO JURY TODAY Plymouth. Jan. 12. ? The case of Ralph Collins on trial in Washington j Superior Court here, charged with murder in connection with the death i of Dr. A. W. Disoswav last Novem ber I*, at a hunting camp in the Pea ; Uidge section, is expected to go to the jury early this afternoon, two attorneys' speeches and the Judges' | charge beinu the only remaining pro- i ceedinss for today. REVIVAL TO BEGIN SUNDAY MORNING Evangelistic services begin at C'ann Memorial Presbyterian church Sunday morning with the eleven o'clock service. Rev. D. K. Walthall. D. I), of Waynesboro. Virginia, is to assist the pastor of the church. Rev. F. H. Scattergood. Dr. Walthall is ex pected to arrive in the city tonight and he will preach at both the morn ing and evening services Sunday. Two services will held every day next week. Each afternoon at 3:30 a Bible lecture will be given and at 7 ::|fl each night evangelistic services will be held. A. .1. ('nine. State Superintendent of Home Missions will be in the city Tuesday and will speak on mission work in North Carolina. Pastors of ?ll churches in Ihe city are urKinK their congregations to al tend these services, to <;ivk i i ( . \ i All) ? <>?: THK It'KXKPIT OK WOMKN Raleigh. January 12 ? For the purpose of aiding those women who believe ihey lost property through ignorance of laws or otherwise. Mrs. I'. I). Arrington of Raleigh has organized the l^'gal Aid Society. Between 50 ?nd 60 natives of Ral eigh have signed the organization's roll and expressed a. desire to hlep in any way possible. Mrs. Arrington. who Is known to hundreds of legislators of North Car olina. and is a well known figure on Raleigh streets, states that the pur pose of the organization is to guaran tee to women the rights as to pro perty granted them under the sev enth section of the tenth article vf the" Constitution of North Carolina. She declares that the law guaran tees to women the real and personal property which was hers before marriage and she asserts that the law was passed back in the days im mediately following the Civil War.' She says that the date off the law was on ?he 14th of January and on this date nhe hopes the first meeting of the Legal Aid Society will be held. ?Mrs. Arrington, or "Aunt Pattie" as she Is known to natives of Raleigh and legislators of the past thirty yearn, states thuit years ago she was -Th*frau(lfefr out of a large \?st*te by a misapplication of the law and thai she wants others to he protected from similar loss. Her case is fa miliar to many and through every court in North Carolina she fought It without success. She asserts the value of the property would be close to $ ISO. 000 if she now had It in her possession. The exact meeting place of the organization has not been deter mined or who will act as officers Mrs. Arrington hopes that those who attend the call will decide on officers for themselves <ind pro ceed to organize in a business-like manner. IKN1H l\ SAI.ISIS1 ICV Salisbury. Jan. 12. Hogs in fly still ?>?? kept within the city limit h of Salisbury according to an an nouncement made here by clerk of council. II was brought up at a re cent meetlnu that the rules !>?? changed keeping ho?s n mile away from the new city limits but this did not pass and as a result the old law stands and In certain sections of the new olt* limits the animals will be permitted. - \i;\\ IIK.lt si HimiI, Salisbury. Jan. 12. The Rowa;' County board of education has d? elded upon a school pros ram which will Involve the expenditure of ap proximately $140,000. The first unit In this Improved school system will be the new high school to be erected at S|H?ncer al a cost of $40,000. The school board of the town of Spencer will bear half the cost of this piece of construction. Other schools will be planned and built as rapidly as It' Is possible for tlie br>ar?f to Mature Its plans, so as to give the entire county a system of schools to com pare with the best In the State, the board Jias announced. MELLON ANSWERS SENATOR COIIZENS Deelaro IVrci'iila^c of Tax Exempt* So Small a* to Make l)isru??i?n Like Tempest in a Teapot. Washington. Jan. 12. ?Secretary Mellon rliallfiiui'd by Senator Cou zens. Republican. of Michigan, to aj joint ilfhat" on the question of th?*f necessity of reducing income surtax- j es from 50 pt r cent to 2 5 and stop ping file issuance of ta\ exempt se- ; curith s as a means of diverting cap ital to productive enterprise, in a let ter to Couzens today declared that; thn percentage of tax exempts on I the market, $ 1 1 .000.no0.000, wan *61 small compared with the $125,000.-1 000,000 of other securities "as to: give an appearance to the whole dlft- j cusslon of a tempest in a teapot.'? ? FIFTEEN DOLLARS FOR FOUR DAYS IN COURT Judgment In tlu- sum of $15 was i awarded Paul Prttcliard in the case of I'ritchard and Griffin against 1 Hines. by a Jury verdict brought In Friday afternoon between A and 5 o'clock. William H. Griffin, the oth-j er defendant, failed to recover. This Is a case which, together with that of Plumlee against Hines. have taken up the better part of the* week in Superior Court. l'lumtee also failed to recover. All tlfree plaintiffs were suing as, paupers and the costs of both actions ? will have to be paid by the County. I Ali three defendants alleged treat ment contrary to law while they were) serving terms on the Hertford county roads, at which time the defendant,1 H. F. Hines, was superintendent of the roads in that county. The Jury verdicts could probably not be construed as giving the Hert- \ ford County clmingang under the Su- J perintettdency of Hines a perfect bill of health. The defendants charged that they were confined. in the same "room" with negro prisoners, the question of the violation of law ap parently hinging on whether there' was a closed partition between white and negro prisoners In the same cage, j The only case .tried -after the con clusion of thosp against Hines was an action to set aside a deed of trust, in which the Roanoke Missionary Haptlst Association was plaintiff and ('. K Thompson et .al. . defendants: T1T?- jury's verdict w*i s brought in Friday night for the plaiotiff. Court did not adjourn, however, until Saturday afternoon, the day be ing taken up with arguments on mo- i tions and such other matters as are! passed on by the court. Judge Oevin ; holds court next week at Washington, j Hoi u fort County. He will be in this' district until summer. STEAMER AGHOUM) NOT YET FLOATED Wilmington. Jan. 12 Tin- Amor Iran Steamer Springfield. laden with, cotton and phosphate for n rem en. which went aground ofT Cape Fear bar near the entrance <,>f South port harbor yesterday morning. the ^rounding belnu the second In two days In the effort to put out to sea, had not been floated at an early hour this morning. Her steering apparntus was dam aged nn'1 !? wp* ?cld yesterday that she would be brought here for re pairs when floated. FIUME QUESTION HAS BEEN SETTLED Rome, Jan. J 2.- -Rome's newspa pers today published a telegram from ReTgrade which asserts that the Plume question has ben settled by the annexation of Plume to Italy ami of Porto Rarros Delta to Jugoslavia < with both ports having a common ad ministration. DESTROYER FLOATED AND CREW IS SAVE!) Reaufort. Jan. 12. The Culled Slates Destroyer Coglan. which wac reported yesterday morning by a tug in Lookout Cov?* to be aground on I the beach half way between Rcau- J fort Rar and Cape Lookout light, his] been floated and last night was an , eli o red in Cape l^ookout Cove. The destroyer sustained ,no appa'* 1 ent damage and all members of . tie | crew were saved. j in roi.it >: hu mti Martha Itlddlck. colored, en a i charge of disorderly conduct, paid a fine of $1.0 and Charlie H. McCul | lough, also colored, for Interfering with an officer, was let off with th?-' eostS. They were the only convic tions In police court Saturday morn ing ttt'Y UltM MATHtXKRY A number of farmers made pur chase* at the Klizaheth City Ihiggy Company this we?*k to add to their stock of farm machinery and equip ment Among them were I \ Harris. Route 1. who bought 'a top buggy; ft. M. Burgess of Indiantown a cultivator: ao4 W. B. Copper smith,. Route 1, a cultivator.. , Mrs. Will Minor lef| FrlAiy for her home In Durham, after attend ing the funeral of her mother. Mrs. E. F. Aydlett, Sr. I'KOMOTED Here is a recent likeness of Wil liam Edward GrifTin, now assistant euhier of the Firm A: Citizen Na tional Hank, who wan promoted to this position at the annual meeting i of stockholders of this hank this jreek. Ho Is native born Elizabeth City stock, the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. It. Griffin, 600 West Church, street. CONVICTS DO GREAT DAMAGE TO MINE Montevalle, Ala.. Jan. 12. ? Dam~ age amounting to $30,000- was caus ed by 66 mutinous state convicts who last night surrendered after a day of terror at the mines of the Thomas Welter Company of Aldrlch .accord ing to the estimates by the president bf the company. The convicts took possession of the pit yesterday morn ing and defied the guards to enter. The Htrike was staged because of dis satisfaction with the warden who is alleged to have punished three con victs Thursday. BAILEY ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY TODAY Kaleigh, Jan. 12, ? Josiah William Bailey, attorney of Kaleigh, today definitely announced l?ls decision to he a candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination at the pri mary in June this year. |le declared in a letter to State Chairman John Dawson of the Democratic executive committee, today that on January 17 he would make public the platform on which he will run. CHINESE SOLDIERS FIRE ON AMERICAN Peking, J-an. 12. ? Chinese soldiers today fired upon Flavian Mullens, an American, and Arthur Benson at the , Passionist Mission, Supu Hunan [ Province, and then looted and wrecked the mission school, accord ing to a report from the American | consul at Changsea. Neither Mul lens nor Benson were injured. PASTORATE MARKED BY ACHIEVEMENT The treasurer's report for 1923 hIiows that the first year of pastorate of Dr. Samuel H. Templemn has been marked' by probably the biggest fi nancial achievement in the church's history, the sum of $16,670.78 hav ing been contributed during the year to all objects. The church's budget for the present year is $7,710. Dr. Templeman came to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church In the lat-1 ter part of 1922. Under his ministry all phase* of church activity have gone forward. The' attendance at prayer sprvice for Instance. Is now around l">o each Wednesday night. 'ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE TAI.KS ENFORCEMENT Washinuton. Jan. 12.' ? ltlnhop jThomflx Nicholson of New York was today rc-HeCled prpnldcnl of lh?? \r tl-Saloon I.eaKUe of America at a j meeting of the executive committee. Wayne Wheeler was again chosen general counsel. Federal and state officials who Tall to perform their duties cam*' un der lire of the hoard at the lueetfftu preliminary to the six days' annual convention. The dlrectorn also considered I means for flndinv weak spot* In the I enforcement l:*avti and procedure for ' t>r i n k in u about the enactment, of leu-, illation to strengthen them. TO PRESENT PORTRAIT OR. BARTI.ETT DURHAM Durham, Jan. 12. -Arrangements [are under way here for a portrait ! presentation In the near future when the picture of Dr. Ilartlett Durham, after Whom the city was named, will b?? presented to the city hy Mrs. J. E. SlavK of Durham. A cominlttie of various organizations will meet shortly to determine the time and pt&Ce Oif the presentation. Ooldsboro, January 12 ? For the purpose of building a new hotel at Ooldsboro a campaign wan started this week to obtain sub scriber* to the stock of such an enterprise. The plan Is for a 100 room structure. Wll. I. Ill ll.l? IIOTKI. Bonus Groggy But Still Has Not Taken The Kayo Decision Will ('.itnie \\ lien It U Found Vt lietlier W ays ami Mean* ( ("ail Keep Bonn* in llack^rmiiul Until Hiiiim- ami Senate Art oil lax Revision tt> ik. win i.i\viiK\i K tCosyrlfht, 1121. B, Th? Ad.inr-t Washington, Jan. 11. ? Decision of the Republican caucus to instruct the House Ways and Means Committee to report a tax bill before considering a soldier bonus measure does not mean that the bonus -hits been defeated. HAM - RAMSEY MEETING HERE liovival in All Probability Conducted Next Septemlwr ? Mr. Ilanispy Conferred With Minisitrrsi Saturday. ' The Ham-Ramsey evangelistic or ( ganlzatlon. which comes to a town i i with Its own tent, will In all prob I ability conduct a revival in Klizaheth ! | City parly next 'autumn. I The minister* of the city were In i j conference with Mr. Ramsey at the i I Chamber of Commerce rooms Friday I and as a result of that conference de- j I cid?*d to ask their congregations Sun- : I day to endorse an invitation to Evan- J gellst Ham and Mr. Ramsey to con duct such a meeting. ] The Ham-Ramsey organization Is | now at Washington. N. C.. and from that city, as well as from other North Carolina towns where Fvange- j list Ham has preached, come reports that were most pleasing to Elizabeth City minister^. and it was as a result of these reports and of what Rome of the city ministers knew at first hand that Mr. Ramsey was asked to meet 'the ministers of Klizaheth City Fri day. The favorable impressions of the Ham-Ramsev organization al ready made here were strengthened by that meeting, and the ministers accordingly decided to put the mat ter of bringing the organization here before their respective congregations at the next Sunday service. The tentative date for the begin ning of the campaign is Sunday, Sep tember T4. though this may be made a week ? irller or later, probably, if found expedient for any reason. | The only open dates that Mr. Ramsey could offer this year were in ! May and' September, and. by reason of the busy potato season In the spring, the ministers of the city were of the opinion that the early autumn would be the most favorable time to begin' the revival. SUIT AGAINST THAW PRIVATELY SETTLED Philadelphia, Jan. 12. It wan confirmed here today that the mil*, for $650,000 against Marry K Thaw, brought by Frederick Gump. Jr.. of Kansas City, has been private ly nettled for lenn than $100,000, the result of charges that Thaw whipped Gump In a New York hotel In 1017 and subjected him to "gross and sav age indignities." ABANDON HOPE OK SAVING THE CREV* London. Jan. 12 The admiralty -today abandoned all hope of? saving the liven of 4:t men who went down with the Submarine L-24 when It wan rammed by the Dreadnaught fiesolutlon off l'ortland Thursday. TO INHTAI.li XKW tfoCNTAlN A late type Improved Llpplncott soda fountain has been received by the Apothecary Shop and will be In stalled on the arrival of the factory representative who in expected In a day or two. The new fountain will enable tin? Apothecary Shop to ulve its patrons even better nervlce than heietofore. Larger capacity for syrup, and two draft stations instead of one will en able the Aprithecarv Shop to use four dispensers Instead of two. It ban 16 pumps for syrups, an improved milk 1 pump, four ice cream compartment!*, and a new type of cooler coll for chilling the soda water to Hit da ur?*es. The fountain is known as a "sealed" type and Is said to be the last word In > m ^t> - ?ntri Hon. It weighs 3J00 pounds. ROYS AND (;ilU,S WIN AT EDENTON Itoth Hie basketball teams, the boys' and the Klrl*'. of Kttzabeth City blab school, won In the game with Kdenton high Friday night In Kdeitton, The score was: Hoys. 21 1 ft : girls. 11-6. Today they play the return double header with Chowan i high school. GUNBOAT ORDERED TO SCENE REGENT RIOT (By !%? AMOrifttf* I Manila. Jan. 1 2 The Ounboal Sacramento wan today' Ordered to the province of Gurlgau where a .number of conatabufsryipcn have jbeen killed recently by religious fa | natlcs. ? The victory of the tax reduc tion forces who want to give right of way to a Uax bill is, of course, significant and never would have occurred but for the unprecedented How of letters and telegrams to Congress urg ing that taxes be made para mount. Hut t lie ftpht is by no means over. Tin- Republican members of tjie House were the only ones voting at the caucus. The vote of 100 to K7 on one resolution and 100 to 87 on another giving the tax bill priority over the bonus does not represent the strength of the honus in the House. More than half of the Dem ocratic membership is said to be pledged to a bonus. Indeed, if the | honus advocates wish to obtain a real I test of their strength they could I move to discharge the Ways and Means Committee and have it In structed hv a vote of the House it self to take up the bonus. If the ; Democrats voted on that measure as l so many Republicans did in their caucus, the Ways and Means Com mittee would have to take up the bonus first. The chances are, however, that the bonus advocates will not preci pitate a controversy In the House at thlsjtime on the question of priority but will reserve their energies for the greater fluht which will come when the tax hill has been reported about February lltli and the Ways and Means Committee brings out a bonus bill for action by the House. Little time is needed by the com mittee to consider the bonus meas ure as It has gone through Congress before and virtually flu* same meas ure Is ready for presentation at this session. Can the Ways and Means Commit tee keep the honus bill in Its hands long enough for the tax bill to go through both Senate and House? The tactics of the Republican leadership in the House at the moment are to get the tax bill acted upon, feeling confident that the bonus, would then lose votes because of the necessity of re-openlng the tax measure to fur nish the revenue needed to pay the bonus. A readjustment of the entire rate structure might become neces sary. The anti-bonus elements think that, in the fact of such a contin gency. public opinion would rise up and command Congress to abandon the bonus measure till it Is conclu sively demonstrated that the nation could afford a bonus and a cut in taxes such as has been proposed. Time. works In favor of the tax re duction group and against the bonus, in the opinion of the former. Thev lire playing for time constantly and their strategy thus far has been suc cessful for If the vote had been tak en In a He publican caucus before the holidays the bonus would surely have been given priority. As it stands to day there are votes enough to pass a bonus bill hut It has become doubt ful whether there are enough to ov er-ride a presidential veto. The ac tion of the Republican caucus will have an Indirect Influence. It will enable Republicans who favor the bonus to defer to the will of the ma jority in the party In helping get the tax bill passed and It may even en courage some members to change their minds on the bonus Itself. There Is no question but that the ac tion of the caucus is a sign of the weakening of the bonus sentiment at this time but It remains to be seen whether the sentiment Is strong enough to force the abandonment of the proposal altogether. MHS. CHINA DIES IN SUMTKH HOSPITAL Sumter. S. ()., Jan. 12. HrltiKlnw. mi end to the domestic tragedy which ctiltninated h? re ?everal_dnv -ntfi -bn ? fh" ? i|i-anr"f nTRT n xunahot wound of l>i .Vrphlf China. wenlthv ? physician and banker, Mr*. I.ouIhu China, bin wife, who wan chanced' with niutd?r In connection with th? shoot I ii u. died yesterday afternoon from pneumonia. which nhc devel oped after she was t h k ?-ti to a hoa^ ipltai In a collapsed eondfflon as a re suit of the murder charge held axuinst tier. COTTON MAHKKT New York. January 12 ? Spot cot ton closed quiet today. with no i hangi* almre the opening thin moro nic ,\l ((Idling 34.36. Futures, i closed at }he following levels: Jan uary 33:66; March 33:84; May JilTv ?Z:?5'. <Vlrthff 47.17. NV* York. Janunr j IS ? Cotton 1 future, oprncrt this morning at th? i following lfv?l?:' January J1:?0: .March 34: 10; May .14:20 July 31:11; October ?7:??.