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ELIZABETH CITY; N. C. FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1919
NO. 599.
THOMPSON MAY
LOSE HIS LATEST JOB
And They Look Like Football Players
MRS. SANGER TOLD THE
TO
JIM
j0f Harmony in Pasquotank Board of Appraisers
Calls Forth Order From State Tax Commission
1 i ; t-
aevii to pay in Jras-
There
tsnfc tvwitics again, me same
(pot
jjf qine 0 1 TI1-K: U1 politicians
and poHticp.1 beneficiaries to rule
niin- T- I"- Thompson, county
nfrnsor of taxation under the
A A..,tr,v, net. together with T.
1 4 -T- T V 4 . k
Wilcox and J. Walter I'erry,
....onnrm'sprs liavp hffn nrri-
counu ifi
Bed that they are no longer de-
ciraote
A FERTILIZER
PLANT HERE
$200,000 Concern Will Begin
Operations In A Few Days
The Albemarle. Fertilizer Co.,
Inc., autliorlze-rtipital- $200,000,
of which $100,000 has been paid
in, will begin operations in Eliz
abeth City in a few days, to man
ufacture high-grade fertilizers at
the rate of 200 tons a day at .the
start. v "' V
The plant, occupying 150 by 200
feet on Knobbs Creek, adjoining
the plant of the Eastern Cotton
Oil Co., is practically completed
and equipped with the most mo-
j dern fertilizer grinding and mix-
tor their respective of fi-
T3 HI
0ams ana the aoatxa ot county
oinmissioners will appoint a new
guilty PUpcI Vl&UI illlU. x new
ford ot appraisers. -:
j p. Thompson is the only salaried
.aPt-r of the retiring board and the
j, ne who is hurt by the order. And
fririas of Thompson are saying that
jj j the man the interests have sought
t, destroy and that Wilcox and Perry
g( king sacrificed along with Thomp
fin just as a blind.
Tt, rtate lax Commission is say- jner machinerv and eauionlent.
ii that Thompson hasn't been able to 1.1 u w
to harmony with Wilcox and Ferry f " V " '
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ai tkat the best way to get narmony anu nas gone up wiimn ine past
r appoint a new board.
I would be interesting to know why
Jia Thompson hasn't been able to work
fckwmony with Wilcox and Perry. Some
hat may clear up things and- Mr.
ltoMpsou will endearor to lay these
few before the State Tax Commission
ei e Board of County Commission
's at a special meeting to be held by.
Commissioners in this city Saturday
kumag.
ft kas been- generally known for some
tbat Supervisor Thompson was
lit ( harmony with his board of ap
airs. Jim Thompson is an efficient,
i-werking, conscientious, independent
f a fellow who plays no favorites.
it act uuaer wuau 11c uwiuo w..i-v.
iiatids him to put every item of real
fit
tfc kave watched nis work believe that
i conscientiously tried to do this.
84 Mes.srl Wilcox and Perry do not
m W be so inclined. Their tendency
'tn en to reduce values. They cut
iowB tie values in Mt. Hermon Town-
im t an extent that put Pasquotank
trarT at the foot of the list in point
rfm-reaFcd valuaion of property in this
?r.ii t. llr. Thompson cnarges inac
I. Walter Perry himself listed his own
property
few months without attracting
the attention of the public gene
rally. p
" The officers of the Albemarle
Fertilizer Co. are T. S. White, of
Hertford,-N. C, president; J. G.
Levering, Baltimore, Md. vice
president; Wm. G. Canne, Balti
more, Md., treasurer; J. H. Le
Roy, of Elizabeth City, secretary
and manager.
The company will manufacture
tertilizers peculiarly adapted to
the soil and crop conditions of
northeastern North Carolina and
rsonal nroDertv m this county on
fix books at its true vaiuationvTJfcoW T ti
will begin as soon as materials are
received and three ship cargoes
of materials, including about 1,
500 tons of fish scrap, are now
on the way. Other material is
on wharves in Baltimore ready
for shipment.
The company will use fish scrap
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t about half its reai vaiue. extensively in its lertiuzers, ior
Mr. Thompson charges also tnai one
.,..v.r ef tliA .hoard of county com-
ine incorporators 01 the new
company are experienced fertili
zer men, not only knowing the
manufacturing details but iully
acquainted with the fertilizer de
mands of . this territory. Mr. Le-
aismonors iiscea nis uuprucu
4c !i ivn'-o of unimproved lands in Mt.
Hnacn t'-.-Tt-nship.
Sot 1 tl t all. In Mt. Hermon town
ip B'on Thompson put 1,100 acres of
icd on tho tax books that were not pre
wi!t lised. Some of the people-claim-
ft y ' ; I
Unique Climax to Fvirst Birth Control Meeting in The
. South, at Elizabeth City "Last Sunday
When7 laws prohibiting the dis
semination of scientific birth con
trol information are swept away
MITCHELL'S NEW MANAGER
HERE then is a photo of the Elizabeth City High School Football Eleven, as husky a bunch of youngsters, as one VII f'.nd
in a day. The names of the players are: Standing; from riht to left, Captain Avery Jones, Haywood Duke, Robert Lowry,
Coach Holmes, Grice McMullan, Thomas olloman, Managsr. Kneeling, from left to right, Joy Sykes, James Hathaway, Ro
bert Kramer, George Modlin, Charles. Seyffert. S:t ng. in left to right, Francis Seyfferc, Ernest Wiit.ams, John Bro
thers, Leslie Sherlock, Ray Quinn. Photo by Leon Sklar of Elizabeth City.
McCABE & GRICE MAKE
SENSATIONAL DEAL
Buy $30,000 Worth of Ladies Coats,
Suits and Dresses for Special
' Sale
.J . . . 1 nA ViriA-n navinc tftTPK OT1
that Sheriff f -R.oy manager 01 me piant, is pe
culiarly fitted for his position
thru several v;ears experience a.
representative of some of the
is lan.l iust the same;
Ro! collected from them every
w. It not known" whether Reid
iasdonc ."s and put them on the books
is "nick -i, t axe s". He could have done
4t. If hp as been doing that, he shouia Dlggest aiStriDUtors OI commer
ce bcor reporting those unlisted pro-1 caj fertilizers doing business in
Crtis to "he tax assessors. He could, , , .. i , .
. V- anil i LlllS SllC. Ill ctUUlllUIl IU Ilia
ttw put money in- his pocKet, ana j
m ui'-ht have been the wiser had known executive ability develop-
.Km T' mpson come nosing around. e(j tnru fUe management of seve-
ral big enterprises in the past.
The Albemarle Fertilizer Co.
will give employment to a skill
ed superintendent and about 40
common laborers in busy seasons
and, while much of its capital
comes from Baltimore, it will do
its banking in Elizabeth City.
hi nncc.v -ing unlisted property in one
wkip -. Thompson found one tract
f 1BO0 a- s formely owned by Aydlett
I SimpKo'
takks
md in .Tu
If aktMl a ;
that had never been on the
ydlett & Simpson sold this
1918 to W-. W. Widgin, o
. Thompson says that when
Widgin why this land had
tot berti 1 d. he said that Mr. Ajru
1. .
m karl t'
ftat Mr.
itk ka.-k
tint ho -.
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'foiii t!1(.
politi
eouEty. ;
tlois of
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en fop
The n.
He iir. T
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"t rev
'e old i-'
frtain tr
tbat he -it(i
trno
of a W,.
wuld Im
Toinps
Monday P
PPointmo
Hi
th-
him that it had never been
books and that it wouldn't
to put it on. All this means
'idgin has to come across
xes for five years. He will
k to Aydlett & Simpson to
m for taxes unpaid at the
le the purchase, prior to
foregoing it can be seen that
on has been making power-enemies-
in the city and
' one who knows the me
old line politicians in this
in this attempted removal
-i the fine Italian handi
iticians who have wrecked
far less than Thompson
of what is happening to
iltering into the county and
ri'lignation of country peo
' rnpson has about complet
ation of the county. The
'.on is in the town,where
al interest have always en
" less immunity from taxa
untry people believe that
'lgers in town are seeking
moval because they know
1st their town property at
mtion. The appointment
1An to succeed Thompson
thousands for these city
as expected to resign last
t the commissioners and
"illiams proceed with the
f his successor. But Jim
a fighter. He told the
'issioners that he did not
h ewas getting a fair de
FOR SALE: 1 house and lot on Green
leaf Street. -7 rooms. 2 houses and
lots on Bell Street. 2 houses tnd lots
on Sixth Street. 1 house and lot with all
modern conveniences on Dyer Street.
MEGGS-GAL.LOP REALTY CO. Eliza
beth City, N. C. v . cN7-tt
FOR SALE: Two Ford Cars and one
Ford worm-drive truck. MEGGS-GAL-LOP
REALTY CO., Elizabeth City. N. C.
cN7-tf.
FOR SALE: Four passenger Kline au
tomobile, 6 cylinder. Continental engine.
Has run only 18 mos. REV. R. H.
WILLIS, Elizabeth City, N. C. pN7-2t
FARM FOR RENT: 2 miles from the
court house at Elizabeth City; in high
state of cultivation. The whole farm
planted in Soy Beans this year. 1,000
or more loads manure on. hand for next
year's crops. 102 acres, 62 acres in cul
tivation. F. F. COHOON. cN7-lt
and he thought he was entitled to a hear
ing before the State Tax Commission.
Or is representative. . Upon motion of
Commissioner J. E. Corbett is was decid
ed to postpone the appointment of a
successor to Mr. Thompson until Mr.
Thompson could lay his case before the
board and before, a member or 'repre
sentative -of the State Tax Comsission.
The-motion was carried. There should
be something doing at the commissioners'
meeting at the courthouse Saturday
when" Jim Thompson opens up.
AleCabe & Grice. one of Elizabetu
City's oldest and busiest stores, has just
made one of the most remarkable mid
season purchase ever made by an Eliz
abeth City store. A few days ago Mr.
McCabe purchased more than $30,000
worth of new, smart ladies coats, coat
suits and dresses from one of the lar
gest manufacturers in New York City
and is now offering these goods at the
manufacturer's cost price.
This statement was a little , hard to
.swallow, ."but -' tM' newspaper, has ,eeiif
every one of Mr. McCabe's invoices and ¬
ean vouch for the genuineness of the ad
vertisement appearing elsewhere in this
newspaper.
An unusutl opportunity to make this
purchase at a third less than market
prices came to Mr. McCabe while he
was in New York recently as an arbi
trator in the reorganization of one of
the biggest manufacturing concerns in
that city. Mr. McCabe never was or?
to neglect an opportunity and he Is mak
ing a showing of woman's wearing ap
parel thfa- week that is truly out of the
ordinary.
This latest deal of Mr. McCabe's is
quite as spectacular as his plunge last
season when, just after the signing of the
Armistice, he went into New York City
and bought $70,000 worth of piece goods,
fortyfying himself against the subse
quent shortage and excessive high prices.
M. LEIGH SHEEP BACK
FROM ANOTHER TRIP
Is Showing Women Some Real Fussy
' Things in Coats, Suits and" Dresses
Mr. M. Leigh Sheep, proprietor of M.
Leigh Sheep' Company, the Woman's
Wear Store, is "back from something like
his tenth trip to New York this season,
bringing with him a beautiful line of new
things for women. Mr. Sheep says his
new purchases quite excell anything he
has previously offered the discriminat
ing trade which his store commands.
Particulars may be found in his half page
advertisement on page 12.
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HOW IT FEELS TO GO UP
IN A FLYING MACHINE
Elizabeth City Boy Tries Flight . and
Gives His Experience For Readers
of This Paper
Duke jCropsey, of the Texas Co. staff
of this city tells this newspaper how it
feels to spend five minutes in an air
plane at $3 a minute. Mr. Cropsey waf
one of a number of Elizabeth City young
folk who took joy rides in a Curtis Hy
droplane which stopped at Elizabeth
City Sunday on its way from New York
City to Tampa, Fla.
"I'll tell you how it feels," said Mr.
Cropsey in reply to a question. "You
feel like a dead game sport when you
shell out $15 for a five minute flight;
you feel like an angel when you get
up 1,000 feet in the air; and you feel
like, a darnphool when you get back to
earth mjnsjB $15 for your, five mniutes'
experitfJ&." .
Others who tried flying were Miles
Clark, Kramer Davis, Wesley Woodle
Miss Pauline Beveridge and Miss Gladys
Spence.
The flying boat belonged to C. D. Grif
fin, an air pilot who was on the NC4
which recently crossed the Atlantic Grif
fin was six hours n coming from New
Yrk to Elizabeth City.
FOR RENT: Store and hotel at Pow
ell's Point: one of the best business
propositions in Currituck county. Will
rent hotel seperately. JB'or rurtner par
ticulars apply to C. tt BROOK, Pow
ells Po.int, N. C. pN7-2t
THIS building, built and occupied by the Citizens Bank of Elizabeth City berore
its merger, with- what is nbw the First & Citizens National Bank of Elizabeth City,
was recently purchased by C. W. Brown, a Negro attorney of this city who has
leased the building for a term of years to the Albemarle Bank. The Albemarle
will be the first Negro bank in northeastern North Carolina. Its promoter is J.
S. Jones, secy-treas. of the Tidewater Banking & Trust Co., of Norfolk, Vs.
Over one half of its capital stock of $25,000 has been subscribed as required by,
the laws of North Carolina. The bank will open for business December 20, 1919.
The board of directors is composed of C. F. Graves, R. R. Cartwright, F. W. M.
Butler, F. C. Cooke, Truxton Sykes, W. H. Case, J. B. Elliott, S. D. McRAE. W.
B. Sharpe, C. W. Brown, Spencer Elliott, J. R. Fleming, L. D. Overton, J. SU
Jones, L. S. Wescott, S. H. Jenkins, P. W Moore, E. L. Hoffler, C M. Cartwright,
representing the highest the highest type of Negro citizenship in Pasquotank and
adjoining counties. Dr. E. L. Hoffler, of this city and Dr. C. H. Hines, of Ecen
ton, are being mentioned for the presidency of the institution., Photo by W. H.
Zoefler. '.' ' ' ' '
P FI T 17
TICKETS
To The Fair Next! Week
The Independent Will Give Away
200Tickets While They Last
Co-operating with the Merchants Association to make
Fair Week Bargain Week in Eliabeth City, THE INDE
PENDENT will give away 200 tickets to the Albemarle
Agricultural Association. C
One 50 cent General Admission ticket, good any day of
the Fair, will be given to the first 200 persons who come
to the office of THE INDEPENDENT and pay for a year's
subscription to THE INDEPENDENT at $1.50. This offer
is made especially for new subscribers, but old subscribers
will be permitted to extend their subscripijtons and take ad
vantage of this offer.
The Albemarle Agricultural Association would sell this
newspaper only 200 tickets to be used on this offer.. Get
your ticket by coming early. If you can't come early, mail
your remittance and ticket will be held for you.
A ticket free with every yearly subscription. Brign
two subscriptions and get two tickets, or three subscrip
tions and get three tickets.
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F. CLYDE TUTTLE
j Mr. Tuttle assuuici his position as
Manager of MITCHELL'S last ' Satur
day and the appearance now. i,s that
Elzabeth City is going to find some in
teresting reading in the papers about
that popular department store, and even
more interesting things in the way of real
values inside Mitchell's.
. When the advertisng department of
this newspaper approached Mr. Tuttle
on the subject of special sales, they found
his remarks ringing true with the idea
that the public likes honest advertising,
honest values, honest servce. Amnoth
other things he said. "My idea of special
sales is very conservative I don't believe
in offering things that can't be produced.
Great, make-believe, price-cutting sales
where no real value is given will bring
the crowd once, but every; person that!
comes looking for a real value and does
not get it, as is the case with the most
sp.les, goes away with a bad impression
of the store and less confidence in the
word of the management. When we ad
vertise special values we. intend every
one to be a real value that the public.
will see and appreciate. W want the
name of Mitchell's on any package, letter,
or advertisement to be an absolute as
surance of quality, value. That" can. on
ly" beone by giving the people what
they want, telling them what they" are
getting and advertising nothing that
can't be done.
RED CROSS DRIVE
MAKING HEADWAY
A total of 258 members was enrolled toy
the Red Cross on Tuesday, the first day
of the Roll Call Drive here. The people
are responding generously to the appeal
of the Red Cross workers, . and indicaf
tions point to the raising of the de
s'rel amount by the latter part of next
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BURFOOT GLOVER
M5ss Harriet Emiline Glover was mar
iied to Mr., Noah Burfoot, Jr. at First
M. E. Church South, this city, at 8:30
o'clock Wednesday evening. A prettier
"liurch wedding has not been celebrated
in Elizabeth City in many a day, the
decorations beng surpassingly beautiful
and unique. Many out of town guests
were present. Following the wedding
there was a reception at the homes- of
the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.' W.. C.
G'over. The bride and groom left on
the soutmbound night express 'fdf e
honeymoon in western North Carolina
and points south.
. The ceremony was performed by Rev.
J. M. "Ormond. The organist was Mrs, I.
M. Meekins; solo by Miss Eunice Hall.
The bride was given away by her bro
ther Mr. Duckworth Glover. Mr. George
Beveridge was Best Man; Miss Frances
Long, of Greensboro was Maid of Hon
or. Dames of Honor were Mrs. F. M.
Grice, Jr. and Mrs. Ada Lester. Brides
maids were Miss Margaret Griggs and
Miss. Nellie Wood. Ushers were Wm.
Lumsden. W. P. Wood, Julian Selig and
Buxton White.
When trying to rescue a dropped fish
ing pole and a big fish from the Neuse
river, for a friend. Sam Bridgers, Wakt
county Negro, was drowned. . The ac
cident happened less than half a day af
ter Bridgers had placed $100 in the
bank as his own burial fund.
A total of 114,56',715 pounds of leaf
tobacco were sold at Winston-Salem
during October, which is" the largest
quantity ever sold there in a single
month. The tobacco brought $6,896,-878.90.
(advertisement)
NO EXAGGERATION
I do nt make exaggerated state
ments about my work. Very re
markable results often follow the
correction of bad vision by proper-J
lyfitted gl: ises.- It does not fol
low that bad eyes are responsible
for all ills and that the fitting of
eye glasses is- a panacea for every .
ailment. My especial claim to your
patronage is based upon my long
experience coupled with my unusual
facilities for testing the vision, grind
ing the lenses and fitting the glass
es on the premises. Upon investi.
gation you will find that I can give -the
same service yon would expect,
to. find in a metropolitan city.
DR. J. p. HATHAWAY
Optometrist
Phone 999 Bradford Bldg.
women are tree to control -
trie size of their families, prosti
tution will cease to be a cancer
upon the social body"; the race'
Avill be .stronger, healthier, hap
pier and longer lived. This was
one of the arguments for family
limitation or scientific birth com
trol advanced by Mrs Margaret
Sanger, of New York City, in an
address to a mixed audience of
800 or more persons at' the Alkra
ma Theatre in this city Sunday,
afternoon. -
If. was the f?rst public meeting for the
discussion of the subject of birth con
trol ever held in the' south. The audience
that greeted Mrs. Sanger was recruited
from very walk of life and many earned '
mm miles away, braving inclement wea
ther to hear the message. It was a
timid audience at first, an audience that
seemed to -fear being shocked But
Mrs. Sanger's charming personality put
the audience at ease at once and she
carried it with her for an hour and '
half. -
At the conclusion of her lecture about
200 women remained and crowded around
her to ask questions. . She had told them
that the time had come for women t
assert themselves and refuse to wreck
fheir health and happiness by being
mere hild-breeding machines. And the
women wanted to know just how ther
owkl do this. Out of her practical ex- -perienee
of fourteen years as a trained.
nurse, supplemented by her researches
in the clinics of several European coan?
tries, Mrs. Sanger told the women what -they
wanted to know. A more astound
ing, a more revolutionary thing probab
ly never occurred in the staid, conserva- .
tive old state of North Carolina.
No, the police did not interefer witfl
Mrs. Sanger. They couldn't There is
no" law on the statute books of North
.Carolina to prevent the dtsseminttion of "
birth '".control1: information by ' word otV
moutfil " Doctors" and lawyers have made -the
people believe that such laws existed
in this state, but North Carolina is one
of five states in the union in' which the
old time law makers forgot to enact a
law to prohibit the giving of such infor-r.
mation. ' - "
Probably no speaker, excepting speak- V
ers for the Red Cross and kindred phil-
andthopie'te, ever had a more sympathe-... '
tic audience than that which heard Mrs.
Sanger. Mrs. Sanger is an unusual wo
man, a feminist who has endured years
of misunderstanding without getting
soured. Thru all of her harsh exper-.'
iences she has emerged still fresh, sweet,
modest and radiant with human kindness
and genuine good will. Only such a per
sonality could have discussed the deli
cate subject of birth control before a
mixed audience .in a small southern town.
Mrs. Sanger told her audience that
3(T 0C0 babies died in the first year of
their infancy in this country each year.
She told them that 1,000,000 cases of
r.bortion were reported annually by the
'ediral profession; thousands of mothers
braving death itself rather than go thru
the agony of bearing unwanted children.
She gave the audiencg out of her exper-
Mrs aSnger .declared, that when infor
ience as a trained nurse many stories of
wretched and quarrelsome wives and mo
thers, - husbands and children inloved
nhd knowing none of the beauties of
home life and mother love because the
mother was sick and worried and fretted
eternally with too many children.
Mrs. 'tSnger declared that when infor
mation was available to all women,
there would be more marriages and ear
"pf rarriaes with . a consequent disap
pearance of the social evil; that millions
ofj young men and women who wanted to
marry were evading the- responsibility,
an resorting to immoral means of . sat
isfying their sex life, only btcause they
could not see their way clear to enter
into a contract that meant children for
which they were not able to provide.
She said that m this new era of civli
zation women are taking places side by
side with men in every occupation and
department of life and women can not
accept this new responsibility without
being permitted to say when they should
or should not become mothers. . -
Mrs. Sanger made a strong plea for
the -small family of two, three or four
jehPdren. She declared that any able
odied man could support a wife and
two children, whereas many were brok
en th the struggle to feed the mouths
of five or six or nine.
Spoke to Negroes
Speaking to a colored audience at Cor
ner Stone Baptist Church on. Martin
Street Sunday evening, Mrs. Sanger told
the Negroes that they especially should
limit the size of their families if they
would better their own economic con
dition. - She said the ' Negro ' cheapened
his own labor and his own productive
power by overbreeding. "JTou make
anything cheap . by making it plentiful,"
declared the speaker, And human, life
is: not an exception.
FOR SALE:- Used tabes all rizes. Re
paired and in good condition. THE SER
VICE GARAGE, Deans & Winder, Hin
ton Block, Phone 1029. cOSlr?
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