'VOL. XIV. FINAL EDITION.
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA .MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10. 1924.
SIX PAGES.
NO. 267
Overflow Inquiry Room
At Sunday Night Service
Section (Irarrd in Main Auditorium Tabernacle to
Take Ore of Those Concerned About Their Souls
? Influence of Meeting Seen in Every Church
The Inquiry room of the Ham-|
Ramsay tabernacle overflowed
Sunday night w.ien the evangelist
Invited those who wanted an .an-'
swer to the old question. "What
must I do to be saved?" to come
forward.
For awhilu the overflow was
taken care of In the smaller room
without seats under the other side
of the rostrum, but when that too
overflowed a section had to be
cleared in the main auditorium
for anxious ones.
All previous records of attend
ance at the meeting were broken
Sunday. Despite a light drizzle
on Sunday afternoon, the auditor
^ luin was pscked from front to
? tiack even after Chorister Ramsay
? had Ailed every vacant Beat .in the
choir, every unoccupied reserved
seat on the platform, and had
stacked little people on the steps
leading to those seats. No mes
sage delivered by the evangelist 1
has made a deeper Impression up
on the great body of his hearers
than that of Sunday afternoon.
The quickening Influence of the
meeting on tho church life of the j
town, visible from Its very first
week, was even more strikingly j
In evidence at the Sunday morn- 1
ing service In the various church- j
es No longer are the pastors of
Klliabeth City preaching to emp- 1
ty pews. On the contrary almost
every church auditorium in the
city was practically filled Sunday
morning and late comers found it
difficult to secure seats.
Marked, however, as has been
tho increase In attendance even 1
more striking is the quickening of 1
Christian zeal and the deepening,
of Christian Joy and Christian ex-,
perience in every church in the cl- '
ty. "Every hour of worship in the ;
city churches was marked not on-|
ly by an ingathering of members
but by an atmosphere so deeply
cpirltual that even visitors in the
various congregations could not
be unaware of It.
"Never have I heard you
preach as you have for the last
two Sundays," said a member of
one of the city churches to his
pastor at the close of tho Sunday
morning service.
|H "The Joke's on you, brother."
VKitld the pastor. "I preached both
* of those sermons before. Hut for
the last two Sundays your mind
has been prepared to receive the
Evangelical sermon* HtrcusiiiK
the doctrine of blood redemption
were heard from very nearly all If
not faem every pulpit in the city
Sunday. Typical of many other
utterances is the following quota
tion printed In Sunday-* bulletin
of the Firat Daptlat Church and
reiterated from the pulpit: "The
pastor of this church was called
to preach to a people who believe
In blood redemption. He han nev
er preached anything else and will
have to be xhown that he is wrong
before he does. He believe* that
thin church holds to redemption <
alon?* through the ltlood of Jesus
Christ. Through all of the gener
ations that have gone, men have
preached the Illood of the I?amh
from this pulpit. Venlck and
Rlackwell did a tnlglity work for
thi* city by preaching the blood
and both went hoine to Cod with
their trust unimpaired la the effi
cacy of the death of Jesus."
In hla church bulletin for Sun
day Dr. Templcman. paator of thr
First fiaptlxt Church. also met
squarely the Issue rained by the
Independent last week In Its *en
sational attack on Evangelist M.
V. Ham and tho meeting he Is con
ducting here. To quote:
"A local publication has this to
say about the converts of the pres
ent revival: 'It produces a lot of
?mug. bigoted, conceited, sancti
monious pig-heads who think that
little blood of a lamb that they
?Wver saw has washed them whlt
than snow and made them so
darned superior to everybody
olae.' ? ?? ? Now It seems a
pity that some one should come
aad Insult the Chrlat of Calvary
by speaking lightly and dlarepect
fully of the One In whom this peo
ple put their trust. This church'
Is not perfect but It claims a per
fect Lord. Thla church has never
demanded that any one accept Its
belief hut lis membership Is sad
dened hv the arraignment of the
men and women who come and
bring their broken and sorrowful
Uvea and ask for a home with 11a
because they have a like precious
promise With us We elsirn when
we take ihem In that we are dem
onstrating that we have a religion
of hope snd truth and frlendli
naas. We take them In and do not
reproach th?*m with the charge
that they are 'the dregs of society
generally.'
"This publication makes an ap
peal for support to fight the things
for which the chiirchea of this
town stand, and asks that we sub
scribe to that publication The
pastor of this church has been a
^eebscrlh. r to that paper ever sine
W?>s has been a resident of this city.
" But the declared fact that the pol
1 icy la to be one of enmity toward
revealed religion and that the man
who subscribes will be counted to
faraiah alnews of war to repudiate
the things fer which the church'
that called ne stands, forces me
KOBBEKS TAKE OFF
TWELVE THOUSAND
Westfleld. N. V., Nov. 10.
Robber* who forced their wyy ln
lo the First National Hank here
during the night and opened a
vault with an acetylene torch es
caped with $12,000 In rash, of
ficers of the bank reported to
day.
IjOHHK FOKI> (X)|'|*K
J. Q. Cartwrlght. baker. has
lost his Ford coup*' which he had
parked on I).ver street in front of
the horn* of Cliff Wood to attend
the meeting at the tabernacle.
Sunday night. When the service
was over the coupe had disap
peared, iliizabeiii City. Edenton.
and Norfolk police are on the
lookout for It.
MRS. IfARDINt; IS
AGAIN IMPROVED
Marlon, O.. Nov. 10. ? Mrs.
Warren C. Harding's general
condition was slightly Improved
today, according to Dr. Sawyer,
her physician.
J. P. KNAPP GUEST
OF COUNTRY CLUB
J. 1*. Knapp of Mackeya Island,
New York business man and golf
enthusiast, was the guest of the
Elizabeth City Country Club at
an informal luncheon Saturday at
tho Southern Hotel. After the
luncheon Mr. Knapp went over
the groundH of the Country Club
aud expressed himself as h? ing
much pleased with the site, which
he said offers tho best natural ad
vantages that he has ever seen.
Mr. Knapp has personally
helped In the planning ?f famous
golf links in this country and has
kindly offered his servlcs and ad
vice to the Elizabeth City Coun
try Club.
OlHi A M/.K ASH< M I ATIO \
PAItKXT AND TEACHERS
Camden. Nov. 10. A Parent
Teacher Asnoclatlon whs organ
ized at the Mlldam School Friday
night, following a very interesting
program given by the pupils of
the school. Mrs. Ed Davis was
elected president, with Mrs. Hill
Sawyer, treasurer.
FOUR DEAD AFTER
GASOLINE EXPLODES
SlMtersvllle, W. Va.. Nov. 10. ? ?
Fourteen year old Harold Scott
whose mother. father and aisler
met death yesterday when 4.000
gallons of gasoline exploded on i
the Rigics farm, died today.
to decline to read that paper any
more or to fclve it my endorse
iinent. If 1 should do ho. I would ;
h?' and of riKht ought to he count- |
ed m onn who opposes the things
that 1 ha vp preached ever since
the I^ord called me into h in ser
vice. I shall not try to dictate to
, othera hut the enemy of the
church will count all who line up
with him aw opposing the church.
Any one who can afford to bf
counted aa HneerinK at the hiood j
of Jesus will not be censured by
me. Hut the churchea can not af
ford to pursue any course that
will bring reproach upon their !
Lord."
VJesAa la in the Rible." Ur.
Templeinan said In the courae of
hia sermon "from Genesis to Rev
elation. The man who repudiates
the Old Testament shown himself ,
an ignoramus about the New. The i
[old Testament I* fulfilled In tho
New." {'reaching from the tex'
"Ye have not passed this way
i heretofore." he declared thst
three events in the passage of the
Children of Israel from Kgypt to'
Canaan were of surpassing and I
tremendous importance: the blood-,
'stained lintels, the crossing of the*
j Red Sea and the Crossing of the i
| Jordan, the first representing the,
death of Jesus; the second, with J
! the walls of the Red Sea and the I
pillar of fire above* them forming,
I r. coffin, typifying d"ath to the
old and resurrection to a new
j life, as does baptism; while the
third, with Joshua typifying Jesus
as b-ader. represents the passing
Into our earthly rest.
"Home have thought," said lie,
"that the Jordan represents
death, and Canaan heaven, but
not so. When the Children of Is
; rael had crossed the Jordan thev
I had to fight to possess th?? land.
'There Is no warfar* In heaven."
He characterised "sneering at
the Rlood of the Lamb," as in his
view "the qulnteacfne of hlij'
phemy."
Evangelist Ham's subject Sun
day evening was "Sudden Death."
Hefore treating the subject aa ap
plied to the Individual he stated
< that In a measure God haa "applied
Continued on Page 4
ARGUMENTS ON
I IN RE SWINDELL
Slate Offered to Submit'
Case to Jury Without Ai
i:uineiit hut Defense I)e
eliued Proposition
"Everybody lies but Joseph. he ?
t"l Is the truth all day."
"That." said J. C. U. Ehrlng
haus, who opened the argument
for the State In the Swindell case j
Monday morning at half past 11
o'clock. " Is what you gentlemen 1
of the Jury would hare to!
hellev* in order to bring lu a 1
verdict of not guilty against this
defendant."
It w an Swindell's use of the 1
I term "He" on the Btand that. In
all probability suggested the fore-)
going couplet to Mr. Ehringhaus.
"That Is a lie," said Swindell. .
in the course of his testimony, re
ferring to the Ford coupe incident
at Herea testified to by Harkley.
"That's one of his own make." j
i was again the term Swindell used
in referring to the testimony of
I Otto noettcher relative to Swin
d. ll'B alleged boast that he didn't
Intend to let getting stuck in the
mud cheat him out the "fun" he
had in prospect when the accident ?
| occurred.
Hut the most damaging evl- '
dence against Swindell, or cer
tainly the most damaging evidence
put on since Harkley went on the
stand Friday afternoon was that
of George Steger. tinner, connect
ed with K. J. Cohoon ? Company.
Mr. Steger testified that on Thurs- '
day or Friday prior to Swindell's j
arrest that Joe came Into the shop
where Steger was at work and in
the course of a conversation
boasted of the very act of which
{he stands accused. Swindell, ac
cording to Mr. Steger, did not call
any name but referred to his con
quest as In high "society."
Swindell, recalled to the stand
by the defense in rebuttal, denied
outright any such conversation as
that attributed to him by Mr.
Steger. Mr. Steger had testified,
however, that far from having any ;
ill will against Swindell he had.1
always liked the boy and had:
' warned him at the time that auch
conduct would get him Into trou-!
ble.
Court opened Monday niomlnK
with thr introduction of charac
ter witnesses on both aides, the,
defense an to the character of
George Ward and McKinley Midg-j
ett and tho State hk to tho char
actor of Elwood Bark ley. Teatlfy
Ing to tho character of Ward wore
Sam Leigh, Ned Ithodea, Oasie
West and A. T. Davis; while W.
D. I>cn and Police Officer George
Twlddy testified aa to that of Mc
Klnlcy Midgett. On tho other
hand. Marlon Lore, Horace Cul
peppor and Dr. Z. Fearing testi
fied aa to the good character of
Harklcy.
Tho defonse drew from Barkley
when ho waa recalled to tho stand
by tho State admlaalon that he
had dono aonio drinking at tlmea.
that ho bad shot crap, and ho had
been auaponded from achool.
Any advantage thla adiniaaion
might bare gained for the defense
seemed offaet when Sinclair Ball
oy, put on by the defenae, testi
fied that prior to the police court
hoarlng Karkley had confided to
him. In aoeklng legal advice, an
account of what happened on the
night in question that coincided
completely with Barkley'a testi
mony in police court.
"Ho told me the atory," said
Mr. Bailey, who la a young law
yer, "and aaked mo if I thought
ho had better leave town. I told
him to atay right here."
The dofonse had sought to em
phaalzo, through Mr. Balley'a tes
timony, tho putting In of detalla
by Barkley when on the aland In
Superior Court that were omitted
in the trial before the recorder;
but Bailey's testimony on this
point wont for little when Soli
citor Small trapped the witness
into saying that Mr. Small had
conducted the examination In the
recorder'* court, when. In fact.
Mr. Small was out of tho city at
the time. The State explained
thrao omissions on the ground
that the State did not dealro to
reveal all the cafda In Ita hand
and that Iho examination was con
ducted by different attorneys and
that different queatlons were
asked.
Herbert Wlnalow. wltmsa for
the defenae, went on the atsod to
corroborate McKinley Mldgott's
testimony to the effect that at the
tillxabeth City hospital Barkley
had admitted lying on Swindell at
the police court hearing. Aa young
Wlnalow told it, kovmb Swin
dell accused Barkley of lying on
him and Barkley promised only
"to tell the trutn next time."
"That's all I want," waa Swin
dell's reply, according to Wins
low.
When both State and d?*fena?*
had restod and the caso waa ready
for argument by coun lei, the state
off# red to auhmlt the cane to the
ijsiry on the court's charge and
without argument, "so convinced
are we of the Justice of our
Remise," said J. C. B. Ehrlnghaua.
I However, the defenae would not
| agree to thla. and at last each side
was given three hours in which
to argue the case. If each side
takes all Ita time, argument can
I not b?* concluded before the reg
ular time for adjournment of
Tabernacle Progiam for the Week
Man (lay
7:30 P. M. ? Special service for the colored people with
pr.stors and^clmirs of the colored church
es occupying the platform and the main
body of thi Miditorium for colored people.
Tuerilnv
10 :<>() A. M. ? Special service for men and boys only.
Subject: "Adultery."
f
3:00 P. M. ? Special service for women and gills only.
Subject: "Why the Devil Is After Our
Women."
7 :30 P. M. ? "The Christian's Experience." Life and
Death its viewed by the Apostle Paul.
Wednesday
10:00 A. M. ? "Life's Highway."
7 :30 P. M. ? "Cod Our Refuge."
Tharndnv
10:00 A. M. ? "The Healing of the Paralytic."
7 :30 P. M. ? "Repentance and Faith."
Friduy
10:00 A. M. ? "The Overflowing Life."
7 :30 P. M. ? "The Overcoming Life." Special sermon
to young converts.
Saturday
10:00 A.M. ? "Heaven." Special arrangements will be
made to have the older people and shut
ins present for this service.
7 :30 P, M. ? "Xnr.man, The Leper."
Sunday ? Closing Day of Campaign
TTirejp Service*
11:00 A.M. ? "The Fruit of the Spirit."
3:00 P.M. ? "Lesson for This Age Drawn from the
Sinking of the Titanic."
7:30 P.M. ? "The Great Salvation." Final service.
court Monday afternoon.
Meantime J. I). Farrior. aged
grandfather of tin- wronged kIt! In
the cam-, Nil 1 1 awaits sentence in
the County jail, where Im has be? n
confined since Friday afternoon.
Representing the defendant in
thin case are A yd left & Simpson
and T. J. Markham. Assisting
(ho State are Ehringhaiit a Hull.
McMultan & Leltoy. and A. I).
Ward and W. F. Ward of New
Bern.
Outright denial hy Joe Swindell
of the testimony of El wood Bark
ley an to Swindell's misconduct on
the night of June is with the i
year-old granddaughter or J. 1>.
Farrior of Wilson was the sensa*
tlon of Saturday afternoon's evi
dence in the Swindell trial.
Swindell took the stand at the
opening of Saturday afternoon's
session of court. His testimony
was in virtual agreement with
that of Harkley as to the circum
stances of the automobile ride,
except for the fact that Swindell
claims It was not himself but
Harkley who suggested as well uk
delivered the invitation to the
two girls In their party to go for
a ride, until they reached Corinth
Church. There Swifidell testified
that they did not even stop and
that Barkley's story of what hap
pened there Is pure fabrication.
Swindell also branded as fain*
Barkley's story of two pairs of
legs extending out of the door of
a Ford coupe Hack of Herea
Church and Otto Boettcher's tes
timony to the C 'fleet that Swindell,
on the way to town for another
car after his own had got stuck,
complained that he had got stuck
Just as he was ready to have sotne
fun which even yet he did not
propose to be cheated out of.
Swindell testified with great
posltlvenees, not only In denying.
Ills guilt In the case In quest h>n
but also in denying having done
any wrong In other instances in
which his name has been bandied
about with that of women. Once
when his name got In the pap?r
in connection with an escapade ?>f
two girls at New Bern, Swind- II
said that at the time he Van ar
cused of spiriting those girls
away from that town he was at
his home here. Again when his
name was mentioned in a local
newspaper. In connection with a
'ywinfr married woman';) attempt
at ? it if Id e, Swindell paid that gos
sip hrd fastened on him without
Judtii.'ration. He even denied that
he had wronged in any wny a girl
ion Southern avenue, thin city, to
whose attorney he paid a mini of
money when thia girl was about
to heroine a mother.
"I wan not the father of the
child," he testified. "I paid her
that money because I had been go
inn with her and ahe had treated
' ni" all right and I wanted to help
her get ">it of town. Her father
told me that ahe wan in wrong and
that he was not able to make pro
vision for her."
Swindell also testified that up
to the night of June 1R he had
never known or talked to the two
'girls that went with him and
Barkley on the automobile ride
and that until they got in hia cur
and Dark ley Introduced tlieni he
did not even know their names.
'He did not even know, lie testl
flerl, whose daughter the girl sit
ting beside him on the front rent
of his car was until she had talked
|to him awhile.
After turning around at Ijerea
Church. Swindell testified that he
Intended to bring the girls on
back to town.
"They asked me where I was
going," he said, "and I told them
i back to town. They said It was
'too early, and 1 turned to the
right, taking dirt road that I
had travelled before, intending to
drive back Into town around by
Fork School and come In across
the railroad at the end of Main
street. It was there I got stuck."
When Hoettcher came by^SwIndell
teatifl'd, he urged the girls to
come hack to town, hut they said
they did not want to. "Alex was
Just a boy," he aald, referring to
Klwood Harkley, "and I did not
like to leave him alone with the
two girls; but he would not come
to town for help, and so I did.'
He testified that he borrowed a
car from Claude Ives and started
back to the place where hla own |
car was stuck, but that the lights
went out and he had to get an-|
other car, a Nash, , belonging to
Alfred Lane. "I got hack to my
car," he testified, "and the girls
seemed afraid, f called to them
that It wan nobody but me, and
11 Died at This Crossing
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Ml- tl? Nir *? ?X*
WU IS PLANNING
REASSEMBLE MEN
<Bf T\t A*ix ? trd I'rm >
Chefoo, Nov. 10 ? Wu Tel Fu.
commimlcr in chief of the Peking
military forces, who is aboard a
transport here, announcod today
his intention of going to the
south to reassemble his forces and
to return later at the head of a
punlt.ve expedition.
ANOTHER FLOOD
OF BUYING ORDERS
/New York. Nov 10.-- Another
flood of buying orders poured In
to today's stock market carrying
more than a score of issues to
new peak prices for the year in
the first fifteen minutes of trad
ing. On total sale* In excess of
100.000 shares the Initial gains
rangoi from fractions to four
points.
M MIiKJl OFFKMUCILS
policy oorcvr mommy
IV'm-ey Morris, for violation of
parking ordinance paid the costs
of court in recorder's court Mon
day.
Charlie Corbett, colored, for
passing a pedestrian on a bicycle
without diamountlug paid the
cost*.
Oeorgo Warden on a simple
drunk charge was fined $5 and
costs.
Ross Hrlte for possesion and
transporting was fined $30 and
costs, on a drunk charge, was
fined $0 and costs, and for op
erating an automobile under the
Influence of liquor was fined $50
and costs.
Frank Turner, colored, for car
rying concealed weapons was
given a sentence of 90 days on
the road and for assault with
deadly weapon was given an ad
ditional 30 days on the road. He
took an appeal.
W. !!. Lane for speeding was
fined $10 and costs. ?
REVUE PRODUCER
ACQUITTED TODAY
New York, Nov. 10. ? Earl Car
roll, revue producer, arrested on
i charges of having exhibited Im
moral pictures In advertising his
productions, today was acqultte.!
' by threo judges who deliberated
less than' three minutes.
told (horn lo come on and let'a go
home. Th?y got into the car and
I brought them back to town. In
tending to take them home, but
when we got to Broad street they j
again Raid It wob too early and ho
I turned liy the Norfolk Southern
Station to the State Highway to I
Hertford I did not have but a
callon of ens and I did not want
to rlfk going tno far, no at Simp
son's earnire ! turned around ?n<1
brourht Die Rlrls hark to town and
pn* them out on Center atre?t. at
their requeit."
"Did you stop at Corinth?"
aaked E. F. Aydlett. Swindell's at- ;
torn?'V.
"Absolutely not/' was Swin
dell's reply.
McKlnley Midgett, Second
street, native of Dare County, at
one time a truck driver and prior
to this employed at the Standard
Pharmacy, friend and companion
of Swindell, testified that on the
night of June 18 h? went out on !
the Nowland brick road and !
pulled Joe Swindell's Durant out
of a mud hole and got hack to j
town at 10:50 o'clock. He also
(??stifled aa to having had a con
versation with Klwood Berkley
shortly after Swindell's arrest In i
which Ilarkley told him that there ,
was nothing to the charges
nsrslnst 8windell. and that Mr.
Blades had offered him money to
"go against" Joe. but he had re- 1
fused It.
Midgett also testified that while j
he was a patient at the Kllsaheth
City hospital, following an Injury
to his hand which resulted In the
loan of several Ameers, ltarkler j
came to visit him on Sunday. Oc
tober 5.
"While we were sitting there i
talking." he tcatlAod. "Joe came I
In. Mv hand was paining me no |
much that I did not pay much at
tention to the conversation until
I heard Alex say. *1 lied on you !
Joe. I did It because I was scared. '
but I am going to tell a different j
tale In th* next court. I am go
ing to tell the truth.'
" 'That is all I want,' Jon told
him.
"There were ten pi in Alex's
eyes while he was talking ."
Midgett also tnatlAed that he,
had been on the dirt road whare
Swindell's car gpl stuck since the
nlaht h? pulled Swindell's Durant |
out of the hole on It. and that It I
leads by Charlie I'rltchard's a nisn
named Bright and some colored
people's houses through to the |
Fork School road.
"Why did you happen to be
travelling that road?" asked So
licitor Small.
"Oh, I waa Just out riding.'
was the renly.
"With all the paved roads that
there are in the County, why did
you choose an Infrequently trav- j
?lied read? "
"Oh I Just (in leave travel on a I
wrods path as a boulevard/' re- i
I piled the witness.
Th? State brought out on cross |
examination that Midget! was *
v/ltne-a when Swindell's wife oh- j
tained her divorce on statutory I
grounds.
Former Governor Kitchin
Dies At Scotland Neck
Van Member of Kainily I-oni Prominent in the Public
Life of North Carotins and the United State*
?Funeral .Mond:*y \fternoon
J. P. KRAMER
FUNERAL TODAY
Death Came Early Sunday
Morning to One of tlie
Community Oldest and
Best Citizens.
Joseph Perry Kramer, 57 years
old, died suddenly at It In horn**, '
207 East Main street. Sunday
morning at 12:30.
A heart attack which resulted '
In Mr. Kramers death lasted
hardly more than ten minutes. He
had retired but had not gone to
sleep when he complained of dif
ficulty In breathing, and a few
minutes later suffered his last 1
heart attack. Dr. Ike Fearing
was summoned, but his patient
was uncouscious when he arrived
and died within a few minutes. ,
suffering Intensely for about Ave
minutes.
A strange, coincident Is the
fact that both his brothers, John
and Allen Kramer, died in their
57th year. Knowing that he was
subject to heart trouble, Mr. Kra
mer naturally dreaded his fifty
seventh birthday.
Mr. Kramer was active In the
civic and religious interests of the
city, holding membership In tho
Klwanls Club and always showing
personal Interest In the work of
tho Chamber of Commerce. Not |
many hours before his death Mr
Kramer Invited }?v*ngellst Ham
ito hold services In the lobby of
the Kramer Building.
J. P. Kramer wan the son of
the late D. R. Kramer, who moved
to Elizabeth City from Watson- .
town, Pennsylvania, when Joseph
'wan a boy four years old J P
Kramer became Identified with
Kramer Brothers Compiny In
early manhood, and was **>crefnr'*j
of the firm at the time of Its li
quidation In 1917. Mr. Kramer
was director In the prenenf Kra
mer Brothers Company, director
of the Savings Bank k Trust
Company, vice president of the
H. C. Bright Company and for
many years President of the Al
bemarle Building & Ix?an Asso
ciation. He had been a registered
architect since 1915 and drew the
plans for mbny of the cltv's most
important structures. He was
superintendent of construction
for the First Methodist Chnroh
the largest house of worship In
this city.
Educated In the cltv school*
Mr. Kramer began working In tho
Kramer Brothers Compnnv whll'
ho was still s boy, and at the ag?? >
of 17 taught school for one
torn. At the time of his death
Mr. Kramer was a trustee of ih?? j
First Methodist Church, and had
held Important offices in the
church and Sunday school during
his long life of service. His first
work was In the Sunday school
where for 25 years he served as
llbrsrlsn.
Mr. Kramer was married In No
vember. 1901, to Miss France*
Kudora Willis, who survive him:
he Is also survived bv one daugh
ter, Miss Elizabeth Kramer; four
sons, Robert. Willis, Joseph and
Albert Kramer: four sisters, Mr*
A. T. Davis, Mrs. Annie Banks.
Mrs. P. H. Williams, all of this
city; Mrs. C. W. Edwards of Dur
ham.
Funeral services will be con
ducted at the First Methodist
Church at 3:30 o'clock Monday af-l
ternoon. with his psstor. Dr. N.
H, D. Wilson, conducting the ser
vices. Dr. Wilson will be assist
ed by Rev. G. F. Hill, reetor of
Christ Church. Rev. !>anlel Lane,
pastor of City Road Methodist
Church and Presiding Rider C. B
Cutbreth
ATTEND < ONFKItE\< E
The Met hodlat North Carolina ,
Conference, in s?nslon this week
st Wilmington, will begin Wed
neHdsy morning. Among those
who will leave from Elizabeth
City to attend are Presiding Elder
C. B. Cillhreth. Rev R H Willis
of Fayettevllle, Monday night;
and Dr. N. H. D. Wilson and Rev.
Daniel I,ane Tuesday night.
NOTED SCUIJTOH TO
SPEAK AT TRINITY
!>urham, 'Nov. 10. ? Uutton
Borglum. sculptor, who Is now
engaged In the carvlnjr of the
Confederate -Memorial on Stone
Mountain at Atlanta. Oeorgla, |
will address the student body of |
Trinity College and the Durham
Woman's Club on November 17. j
It hss been announced by Frank
C. Brown, chairman of the lec-|
ture committee of Trinity Col
lege. Mr Borglum will lecture on
the work of carving the Memorial
on Stone Mountain His appear
ance at the college waa procured
by the Durham's Woman's Club 1
and the college officials.
Harlow Hsrrell spent Friday I
In Bdenton on bnslnWs. 1
Scotland Neck. Nov. 10. ?
Ham Walton Kllchln. former gOV
crnor of North Carolina and for
mer representative in Congreap
from the fifth district, died bar*
Sunday.
The funeral will be held at four
o'clock here thin afternoon. ^
Former Governor Kitchio wae
a member of a family Ion* protaW
nent In public life of North Car
olina and the United States. H?
was born at Scotland Neck, Oc
tober 9. 1866. tho son of Ct|?
tain William II. and Maria P. Ar
rlngton Kitchin. Captain KtchlO
was a member of the forty-sixth
congress. representing the second
North Caroliua district, while
Claude Kitchin. a brother of the
former state executive, represent
ed the same district from 1801
until the time of his death.
After he had served the fifth
district In congress from the fifty
fifth to the sixtieth session, Wll
! Ham W Kitchin was elected gov
ernor of North Carolina and
served from 1909 to 1913. He
was defeated for the United StatQB
Senate by Senator M. Sim
mons in 1912. 1
Returning to private life, the
former governor practiced law, i
but retired from the firm of Mm- ,
ning and Kitchin in 1918 6 Witt 4
to ill health.
In 1884, Mr. Kitchin v received
h!a A. B. degree from Vita ke Pot
est College and a year later be
came editor of the Scotland Neck
Democrat. In addition to ilia du
ties as editor, he studied law awl
was admitted to the bar In 188?,
beginning actual practice in 18ft
man of the democratic counff
committee in 1890 and two jreArt
later was the nominee for the
state senate.
The former governor held an
honorary degree of LL, from tfea
University of North Carolina. Ow
IveemW 22. 1892. he married
M's?t Musette Hatter field of Rox
Horo who with one daughter,
; Mrs W I .loyner, of Raleigh, Bur*
rlrfu him.
HM >1,1, FlltK SUNDAY
*?? n'.-i'tn Kiven from Box 14
Sunday aflrmoon at 5:25 o'elook
? ?r.d th? H-f company to the
'?ciip|r?d by Annaalaa
f""' ? ??'??! It waa a chimney
flto, rvnd ih'r.' was no damage.
i.I'MUtSMKN SENT
SCENE KACE HIO*
r ?r??| I'rrHl
Fr i?. . i>?n Ky. Nov. lO.?Jfcn
l oiial Ounrdsmen ere hurriedly
dlspntchfld to Dlx Klver dattt Idj
Merccr County about 25 miles
I southeast of Frankfort today
wli?n reportn of rare rioting
; reached the adjutant generul'a of
fice her?. The trouble In believed
to have started with the robbery
and slaying luHt night of Bdwaird
Wlnkley. dam worker.
Harrodsburg. Ky.. Nov. W.? j
Armed white workmen drov?r<Mit
npproilmately 500 negroes' flrrttn i
the construction camp of Dlx Rlv- j
er dam after Rdward- Wlnkley,
aged 18, bridegroom of only*-4^ ,
few days, had been fatally shdt Ky
a negro highwayman. 1
OFFICIAL CANVASS
WILL BE NECESSARY
llnlolgh, Nov. 10 The fate of
the Confltltutlonal amendment In
creasing the nalary of member* of
| the Legislature Is likely not to bs
I definitely nettled until the official
canvass of the vote by the Slat*
Kleetlon Hoard. With 1,311 pre
cincts heard from the majority Of
3,7fi3 Is recorded against ft. tit#
vote being 83. *>93 for, 97,417
against.
The other uuiendiiienta appear
i to have paused nafely. ' "V**!
(IATKH <OI\\TY VOTII
(Jatesvllle. Nov. 10.- Kollnwlf*
l:i the official Oaten County Vote In'
the reemt election:
Davis <79. Coolldge SIB. I
McLean d fi 4. Meekln* 195. '?
Port Terminals, for 23, Against
IS*.
Veterans Loan, for 78, again**
2*0.
lOx'mptlon homestead, fOf 14f,
against 93.
Sinking Fund. for 227, agafnnt
4?.
Increase Pay L" k Is la tors, ' for
14 2, against 314. ..
Limiting State debt, for 3&V
against 28
rnfTO* MAItKKT
New York. Nov. 10 Hpot not
ton closed steady. Middling S4.lt.
an advance of 46 points. Futures,
closing bid. Dec 2 4.1 S. Jan. 24.M
March 24. Si. May 24. IS. July
New York. Nov. 10 -Cotton ft*
tnre?. opened today at (he folk>?*
Ing In vets: Dec. 23.50, Jan. 11,71.
Marrh 14.04, May S4.SS, July
14.10.
.. ;
Rev. R. II. Willis of ravettV
vllle la In the city to attend the
funeral of J. p. Kramer. n a