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inAY. JUNE 20, 1919
THE INDEPENDENT. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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Mail Orders Given Prompt Attention
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Norfolk's Biggest Store
"Big Doings" This Week
In Wearables For
Children
We had planned to hold this event earlier in the sea
son, but delay in securing shipments of "specially pur
chased merchandise caused unavoidable delay.
2sf0w tomorrow we are ready with a tremendous
stock of timely wearables for the younger generation of
all ages, from the cradle up. Styles that are newest,
qualities that are thoroughly dependable, and values that
are without rivals.
Here are eight good items for the older children:
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Children's wash GIngrham
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111 Sizes iruiu u iu jli
years, ma.ue ui &wa
ana chambray, in neat stripes,
plaids unci solid colors, trimmed
with contrasting colors,
priced from $2.50 each.
Children's White Dresses
suitable for commencements
an-i recitals, made of organdy:
chiffon and Georgette, in the
loveliest styles, with lace trim-
Priced from $8.75 to $29.75
each.
Boys' one-piece Suits, made
of good quality chambray and
ginghams, in gray, blue, green
and white, with contrasting col
lars and cuffs. Sizes 2 to 8
years.
Priced from $2.50 to $6-50 each.
Children's short Skirts, sizes 6
months to 6 years, made of good
material, neatly trimmed, hem
stitching, tucks and ruffles.
Priced at $125 to $2.98 each.
Children's new Summer
Dresses, sizes 6 to 10 years,
made of fine Chambray and
French Gingham, shown in the
most attractive styles, neatly
trimmed and made.
Priced from $3.50 to $6.50 each.
"Wash Dresses, sizes 2 to 6
years, made of chambray, mad
ras and gingham, shown in a
large assortment of styles, at
tractively trimmed.
Priced at $1.50 to $6 each.
Children's Rompers and
Creepers, made of good madres
and chambray, in a variety of
colors and in plain white, ail ex
cellent values.
Priced at $1 to $3.98 each.
Children's Middy Hacs, all
sizes, of good quality drilling
brim finished with fine rows of
stitching.
Priced at 75c each.
Summer Cloths For Wee Tots
Such a collection of prettily styled Clothes for Wee
Tots as is to be seen displayed in our Children's Store is
enough to gladden the heart of any mother.
Such dainty styles and each garment so prettily made
a variety to meet every requirement an inspection will
prove values to be much better than you had expected.
Baby Boy Dresses, sizes 1 to
3 years, made of good quality
noplin and madras, in plain and
pleated models, plain white and
white with colored collars and
OUft'ji.
Priced from $1.50 to $2.98.
Infants' long and short coats
of fir. cashmere, crepe de chine
and wool meteor, trimmed with
hand embroidery in neat designs.
Priced from $6.75 to .S16.5C
each.. 1
Infants- short dresses, sizes
6 months to 2 years, made of
fine sheer materials, daintily
trimmed with fine lace and em
broidery, in a variety of styles.
Priced from $1.75 to $5 each.
Children's crepe kimonos, in
sizes from 2 to 6 years, made of
good quality crepe in neat floral
and striped designs.
Priced special at only 59c each.
Infants' flannelette wrappers,
shown in all white and in fine
stripped " effects, neatly trimmed
and carefully made.
Priced at 79c to $1.25 each.
Infants' Diaper drawers in all
sizes, made of good materials,
trimmed with ruffles, lace and
embroidery in dainty patterns.
Priced at 25c to 39c.
Infants' all wool Sweaters
Sacques, made of fine wool, in
the link weave, shown in all
white and in white with light
blue or pink trimmings.
Priced from $2.50 to $2.98
each.
Infants' Teddy Bear Blankets
of the best Beacon quality shown
in a large variety of patterns and
styles in pink and light blue.
Priced from $1.25 to $1.98 each.
Infants' sleeping cribs and bassinets, shown in the plain willow
and enamel "finishes; also a large display of toilet baskets, in the
natural and enamel finishes.
Priced from $1.25 to $27.50 each.
Do Your Part
In The Making of
A City Beautiful
Get a sightly, dog proof garbage can in place of your old
one; put a lawn mower on your yard; get a reel of hose
for your front lawn; replace old and warped screens
with new, tight-fitting screens. And if you buy these
thing here you'll find the prices economical.
Culpepper Hardware Co.
IT No. Water St.
Elizabeth City, N. C.
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1 NEW PRITCHARD IMPROVEMENTS
MAKES CONVERTS
TO SINGLE TAX
Tells Elizabeth City How To
Shift Burden of Taxation
To Real Estate
John Z White, lecturer for the Henry
George Association, talked for an hour
and fifteen minutes to an audienca of
nearly 300 men and women at the Al
krama Theatre in this city Sunday aft
ernoon and did not talk in vain. Mr.
White spoke in behalf of the Single
Tax and comments on his lecture indi
cate that he made a good many Single
Tax converts in this city.
Mr. White pointed out that one half
the wealth of the United States is in
land and that this land pays only one
fourth the taxes. He says the land
should pay all the taxes.
We put a tax on dogs and the pur
pose is to suppress dogs. We put a tax
on labor and industry and while our
purpose is not to suppress industry,
that is exactly what taxation does. -We
penalize every form of industry and
make the industrious man carry the
burden of taxation. If we did the sen
sible thing and penalized the holder
of unimproved lands, we would have
more improvements on land and the
masses of the people would have easier
access to the land. By taxing industry
and exempting land, we force millions
of our most industrious people to seek
homes in the most outlandish places,
away from the world's markets, while
millions of acres of the best lands close
to the best markets lie fallow. He as
serted that nearly half of the best in
closed farm lands in the United States
are idle as a result of our unfair tax
ing system.
Mr. White cited scores of cities that
have adopted the Henry George scheme
of taxation and suggested that Eliza
beth City would profit by giving it a
trial. He didn't urge that the Single
Tax be adopted all at once. He said
the best plan was to start with a ten
per cent, exemption on personal prop
erty and license taxes the first year and
see how it worked. He said it would
work so well that a 20 per cent, reduc
tion would probably be found advisable
the second year. The city could follow
this ten per cent, reduction for a period
of ten years when it would have ex
empted all personal property from tax
ation and put the whole burden of tax
ation upon the land. There would be
no reduction in the amount of land,
said the speaker, because man didn't
make the land in the .first place and
couldn't. God Almighty created the
earth for the inhabitants thereof and
the land tax is the only method avail
able to modern society by which every
inhabitant may derive some measure
of benefit from it. Since there must
be a monopoly on the land, let the mon
opoly pay the cost of running our gov
ernments. The speaker thanked God
that the sun was 94.000.000 miles away
where monopolists couldn't get their
hands on it.
1 am now manufacturing harvesters with five new improve-
S menu including this beater reel. The hood of these new machines
5 is quarter round instead of half round, preventing beans from fol- j
5 'owing the rim and being thrown out the front. High tongue and
- 'oor entrance. Regulated at rear end of tongue instead of yoke
2 end. Regulated on axle for different heights of rows. The body is
5 made up strong with brace rods in front, and will have attachable
5 separators which are sold separate from the harvester. I can supply
S your wants in Soy Bean Harvesters, as I now make a full line.
GEO. E. PRITCHARD, Manufacturer
5 604 N. Road Street Elizabeth City, N. C.
COTTON PRODUCERS
ON ROAD TO VICTORY
From every county, town and ham
let in Texas come reports that farm
ers are signing pledges to curtail
their cotton acreage this year at least
30 .per cent of last year's acreage.
&ue indirkraal farmers even limit
their planting to one-half of their
last year's acreage.
Reports from other cotton states in
dicate a like action by the cotton
growers.
ia nauseal feature of the movement
is the active, enthusiastic participa
tion of bankers, merchants and profes
sional men. Ail classes have awak
ened at last to the necessity for co
operation in an effort to secure a
legitimate price for the south' cot
ton. Hitherto the farmers have not act
ed is concert and they had little as
sistance from ether classes. They
did the best they could to control the
market for better priees; but without
organisation their efforts culminated
in windy, wordy resolutions and still
lower priees for their cotton.
The methods by which the govern
ment secured co-operation in prevent
ing foodstuffs going too high in price
during the war have been an object
lesson to the cotton growers, and they
are appropriating in some measure
those methods to prevent cotton from
going too low m price in time of
peace. They are signing pledge cards
to raise less cotton this year and
by limiting the supply increase the
demand and the price. They have
passed beyond empty resolutions for
publication. They are doing some
thing tangible. Actions speak louder
than words. They are in the road
to the goal. Let them "keep in the
middle of the road" and they will
reach. that goal.
Once they have demonstrated their
power to secure living prices for their
great agricultural product,. tne will
hare won economic independence for
themselves, their children and their
children's children in the years to fol
low. Cotton and Ootton Oil News.
His Favorite.
Brother was attending a party at
which the refreshments served were
Ice cream and cake. The hostess saw
that brother wasn't making much head
way with the ice cream, so asked him
if he didn't care for it. "Oh. yes."
he answered. "Ice cream is all right;
but turkey is my favorite."
The Sayings of Shinbone.
"Ah done heard Brudder Jones pray
in' las' night to be delivered frum his
upsetUn' sins,' remarked Shinbone,
"an' Ah reckon he mus' hab referred
to de sin of toxication." Boston Tran
script. Where the Folly Lies.
It is hardly ever foolish to do a
thing because we want to do it. The
folly lies In doing a thing because
other people think we ought to want
to do it, and we do not. :
THE BOY SCOUT
(By J. H. Taylor.)
He's a clever little fellow with a smije
and with a will.
And he looks just like a soldier, but he
isn't trained to kill.
A boy in size but watch him in his
doings he's a man;
He's on the job and pledged to help,
' where, when and as he can. t
Beside the schoolwork training, he "has
just the right amount
Of common-sensish learning to produce
the things that count;
His , eye is peeled for action, and his
hand for work is bared,
And he's marching to the music of the
motto,
"Be Prepared ! "
He's not a gallery artist, he's in line
for something higher;
Scouty knows the way to help 'em in a
wreck or at a fire,
And many are the wounded ones that
owe the lad a debt,
For he it was who knew the spot to
twist the torniquet.
And the boy from out the river that
seemed drowned beyond a doubt?
Why, Scouty did his first aid stunt and
soon put fears to rout.
It's look around and help for his the
utmost never's spared,
For he's marching to the music of the
motto,
"Be Prepared!"
Hold still you rrfen salute him
seems like you clean forgot
Take off your hat to Scouty; he's the
biggest thing you've got.
A dozen years, and he will show the
measure of his worth,
He'll make a better homeland of his
precious bit of earth.
There's three hundred thousand like
him, fit and snappy every one,
You can hear them listen! tramping
louder, louder, coming on!
He's the sample of a legion that .to
righteousness is squared,
And he's marching to the music of the
motto,
"Be Prepared!"
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S. R. SIFF CO. ANNOUNCE
USUAL SUMMER CLEARANCE
S. R. Siff Co. announce their annual
summer clearance sale in a full page
advertisement in this newspaper to
day. The annual summer clearance
sales of this Elizabeth City firm are
usually great money saving events for
economical people. There is usually
very little camouflage in price reduc
tions at Siffs. The prices announced
in their advertisement this week in
dicate substantial price reductions in
every advertised line. In view of the
recent advance in prices along all lines
in every wholesale center in th coun
try, a cut price sale right at this time
is out of the ordinary and doubtless
hundreds of readers' of this newspaper
will take advantage of it.
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Pee Gee Portlanite for Concrete
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Are .You Interested in Having in
Elizabeth City
CLUB ROOMS - READING ROOMS
LOUNGING ROOMS - LIBRARY
LUNCHEONETTE - SHOWER BATHS
BAND - DANCE HALL
ORCHESTRA and GAME ROOMS
With a fraternity 700,000 strong in the United
States to back it up and pay you $7.00 weekly in
case or sickness or accident.
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1 New Arrivals
I Hot Weather Suits
E The unusual demand for our ready tailored Palm
Beach, Kool Kloth and other light weight suits this sea-
E son has forced us into the market for more suits and E
E these new arrivals will look good to you. E
E if it comes from Walter Harris your summer suits will E
E have style and fit. Our tailors on the premises will, see E
E to that. E
D. Walter Harris i
The City Tailor Hinton Building
' ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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satisfied return them at our ex
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and state whether clincher or
straight side is wanted.
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