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16 Pages In 2 Sections Section 2, Pages 9 to 16 MP 0 . H TT i T?TT TrTrVT? T T7T7 nrv vvtfz I I I " ' 11 Ll : ' ll I I 1 I 1 I I i J 1 1 ' IiV V- II I I I I - Ijv II I I v - ' - ., VOL. XIV. NO. 705. - - . Some Scenes From Snapshots of a Few Characters Employed m the Production of the State's Educational Film Just Completed Mm ym'MWm THREE or four centuries ago one coming upon an Indian village on Roan oke Island might have run across a group of aborigines like this telling tales. But the Indians in this picture are pale faces, natives of Roanoke Island, taking part in the moving picture which tells the story of the first settlement in America. It required a lot of persuasion to get these de mure maids of Mantep to face a camera in such scanty attire. But then they relied much upon the bronze paint. If the paint didn't conceal their graceful limbs, it at least hid the blushes. Photo by D. V. Meekins. ROANOKE HAD A GOOD TIME OF IT ANYHOW Bat Putting Brown Paint on Comely. Limbs of Manteo's Fair" Daughters To : Make Them Look Like Indians Robbed Them of Their Most Endearing Charms. By D. V. MEEKINS. Well, the business of making a mov ing picture is over on . Roanoke Island and a good time was had by all. I guess you heard we were having one. Everything pleaned up Tuesday and the film is on its way to Chicago to be made up. When it does get back in these parts and on the screen you can bet gome of. the- folk hereabout will shiver when they see themselves as they really looked. Not but what they looked all right; the appearance was somewhat dishabille. The women were mostly covered. They had a seymour coat that reached from neck to knees and didn't reveal auy more than one sees at Nags Head in the summer time. Consequently very little peeping was done after the first day when Steve Basnight and one or two others got kinks in their necks. The copper colored paint hid all the blushes 8Dd made the semi-nudity so unattrac tive that not even Horace Dough and Tull Lcnnon were interested at all. Pepping is out of style on Roanoke h everywhere else. The attendance of Manteo boys at Nags Head on Sunday diminishes ever summer. Five years ago such a movie couldn't have been staged on Koauoke. Then fashion has changed everything. Lee Dough said that was why th? folks didn't mind the costume pj much, because fashion is soon going to put 'cm in a fig leaf anyway. Of course a few of them kept sitting flat on the ground or behind a big tree after the proper positions of real In dians. Then there were others who walked about a lot, observing what was soiDg on, as other Indians do.- One or two came every day and watched the .scenes in costume maybe because it was much cooler. Now the men folks were different; if hey hadn't been painted they would have had on nothing but a smile and a towel. However, a few chiefs wore sheepskins and cowhides; but these made them smell so bad that nobody would associate with them. Anyway they made good Indians .and didn't fake anything. They were the real thing all Inn. One of them swung at me with a flub in the attack on the Fort and ;ny right arm is useless for osculatory si stance. Naturally there were a good .many siippoiifted people around. There were -me who hadn't been home in ten years -"fie a special trip to see the Indians, "til found they couldn't appear on the -'ric. Some had seen John White's i'i' turcs of the Indians and' grieved at sacrifice of historical accuracy. But " : there were bound to be a few such 'Mi. li so many took' part. Nearly every '''h within ton miles threw down every-'--i"K lo be in the pageant. They didn't Iidping at all. Some of the Eliz th 'ity and Edenton people stayed 'i; iy longer than they had planned. Atij-Lr.w the whole thing was fine. It ' vl to he because everybody took such '' in it Besides the $2,000 worth f rcufcil costumes, everyone had to -v.- Mhotlifr .and the characters' who loiihicl nredort two. Well, these folks" - ' fBntored aa Second Clm Matter at lit right in and bought 'em themselves, and the women folks worked night and day until they got 'em made up. They only had ten days in which to get ready. Nobody ever heard of such a thing be fore; a hundred and fifty untrained peo ple staging the most interesting, story in' American history in" ten days. ' They surprised even the movie people. Dr. Crosby says in about two months he will bring it back here, to be shown. He says the 'folks are entitled to it after giving so much of their time and . - "..- --v Miss Elizabeth Gfriinball, the director and a most capable woman, has worked hard. She left this week for her home in - New York. Mrs. Claire S. Thomas, librarian of the Extension Department of the State Board of Education, assist ed her in the work. J. B. Williamson, Director of Mechanics of the Extension Department, was the property man. Captain Albert O. Clement, Golds boro's photographer-artist, made the still pictures. That 'little man is some hustler. It was a sight to watch him lug two big cameras around after Harry Peterson, the movie grinder. He got one of everything worth getting. That's about all the news, except we had a heluva time Sunday when we went down to Oregon Inlet to make a picture of the ship coming thru. I won't have time to tell about that now as I've got to stop and shave. I've been letting it grow a week, especially for the movies. It feels better natural than having it stuck on. SENTENCED TO ROADS IN CHOWAN COUNTY Mack Gregory Charged With Theft of Parts From An Automobile ' Mack Gregory, an automobile me chanic of this city, who recently located in Edenton, was arraigned in the Re corder's Court of that county on a charge of theft and sentenced to 30 days on. the county roads. Mr. Gregory was accused of taking parts off an au tomobile parked on a public road and appropriating them for a repair job. He submitted the case in Court but when the Court imposed a fine of $25 and a sentence of 30 days on the roads, he noted an appeal to the March term of the Superior Court in Chowan County. He gave bond in the sum of $500., Mr- Gregory was until recently in the automobile repair business in this city and had a good reputation, both as a citizen and as jl mechanic. The news of his trouble in Edenton surprised and shocked -hi friends here. He has a wife and one child. VAULT DOOR WEIGHS JUST 20,000 POUNDS Carolina Banking &. Trust Co. Will - Open For Business Soon Now After an unavoidable delay of several weeks, the big vault door and steel vault lining fdr the Carolina Banking & Trust Co. of this city arrived Sat urday night and installation" is being made with all possible speed. The new bank will announce its opening date next week. The door with its ten inches of steel wall, massive steel bolts and triple time lock weighs 20,000' pounds. The steel lining for the vault weigh 33,046 pounds. The steel grille work, safe and safe de posit boxes to be installed in the vault cost $9,000. The new bank will boast the largest vault in the" city and has the largest banking room in the city. With the exception of the vault' and its fixtures, the Carolina1 Banking & Trust Co. has been in readiness for op ening for several weeks. The bank will open for business as soon as the vault is turned over by the contractor. tha Poat-offlo ELIZABETH the mo lb MSrf ;t&t rtC wAmSt . 1 . - A&L M ft J Ti-; THIS is little Miss M bel Wescott, of Manteo, dressed up like an Indian maid for a part in the North Caro lina Historical Movies. Photo by D. V. Meekins. DESERTED BY HUSBAND AND A BABY COMING But Local Welfare Officer Soon Started Her on Road To Her Friends Deserted by her husband and soon to give birth to a baby, a young white woman stranded in Elizabeth City this week soon found "herself in "sympathetic hands and is now en her way back to home and friends in Birmingham, Ala. The girl, apparently 22 years old, came to Elizabeth City this week and ap plied for menial work at a hotel on Poindexter St. She was given employ ment before her predicament was dis covered by her employers. As soon as her condition was known the hotel peo ple communicated with Mrs. Anna Lew is, Public Welfare Officer. An investi gation of the case revealed that the young woman had relatives in Birming ham, Ala. and arrangements, were made to send her to that city where she will enter an infirmary. The young woman gave her name as Otis Montgomery Sa liba. She was working in a restaurant in Birmingham, Ala.a when she married a- young man named Saliba. He left her in Norfolk, Va. HOMES WANTED FOR SIXTY HOMELESS BOYS Children's Home Society of North Car olina Appeals to People of f Pasquotank Who wants a boy or a baby? The Children's Home -Society of North Car olina, with headquarters at Greensboro, has a total of 60 boys and boy babies for which it is seeking homes with childless couples in North Carolina. The Society has written to Mrs. Anna Lewis, Welfare Officer of Pasquotank County, asking Mrs.' Lewis to try to find homes for at least three of these chil dren in this city and county. Here is the list of children available: Five boys 6 months to 15 months of age. Fifteen boys 2 years to 5 years of age Ten boys 6 years to 8 years of age. Twenty boys 10 years of age. Ten boys 12 years to 14 years of age. Application for any of these . children may be made thru Mrs. Lewis or direct to the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, at Greensboro. This Society placed 150 children in private homes in North Carolina last year. POULTRY ENTRIES FOR FAIR SHOULD BE MADE NOW The Poultry Club Boys and Girls who expect to exhibit at the Fair aext week are urged to make their entries of one cockerel and two pullets not later than Saturday, ,Oct. 1, and should bring their fowl to the Fair Grounds on Mon day. SAWYER FEARING Miss Submit Fearing became the bride of Lloyd Sawyer in a quiet wed ding in Norfolk, Va., Wednesday morn ing, Sept. 28. Friends of this popular Elizabeth City couple were given a mild surprise Wednesday jnorning when it was learned that they had eloped to Norfolk and married in that city. No previous announcement had been made. The marriage was at the residence of Rev. D." P. Harris, formerly of this city. Mr. Sawyer, a son of Mrs. Bettie Sawyer, is an employe of McCabe & Grice. "Miss Fearing is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Constance Fearing and an employe of Mitchell's Department Store. CITY, N. C FRIDAY, SEPT. J ' . .v. . .. " V THEY look (ike real Indians, but this is just a make-believe Indian f am- ;; ily, the parts? taken., by 'natives of Roanoke Island for the Movies. The big brave is iThos. ;D.?Etheridge; the quaw is Mrs. Leo Midgett and .the Mpeese h- Wji PstQoiU vtherldgew. aJL f Master vPheto; by Dt V. Meekins. ' LOCAL TELEPHONE CO. MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT Will Discontinue the Listing of So Called Restricted Phones On October 10 On and after Oct. 10,' 1921, the Nor folk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. will discontinue an ' unique service. When the company first started doing business years ago some old-fashioned subscribers had their phones installed with the understanding that they were not to be used for long distance mes sages. The subscribers', idea was to keep their neighbors from using their phones for long distance calls and leaving the charges to be made on their monthly bills. In time the company had a con siderable list of these so-called "re stricted" phones. Obviously, a growing exchange with new operators coming in all the time can not successfully keep track of "restricted" phones. A new operator has to go to the records and find out whether a given phone is on the restricted list or not before she dares receive a long distance message from it. Manager Grice announces that there will be no more restricted 'phones on .and after the 10th of October: BAGS TO BE FILLED TO HELP THE NEEDY POOR The Central Council of Social Service of Elizabeth City has placed a paper bag in every home in Elizabeth City this week .for the reception of gifts of used clothing, shoes and rubbers to be used in the relief of needy cases. Many children, of the unemployed in this city may "be prevented from attending school for want of a piece of clothing that some more fortunate home could spare. Fill the bag at your house and put it out on the front 'porch Saturday morning for the collectors who will call for it. If the- bag run over, make up another package. Renew your subscription when you come to the Fair next week. Daily Service To Norfolk On and after September 29th, 1921, we will run daily boats between Elizabeth City . and Norfolk. Leaving Norfolk, '5 p. m. Daily Leaving Elizabeth City 3 p. m. Daily, giving- you service equal to express. Your patronage will be appreciated. ( Elizabeth City Boat Line A. R. NICHOLSON, Agent , 30, 1921. PnbUahad quo amtmas THE MICROBE OF LOVE TO BE SHOWN TO-NIGHT Tickets are selling readily for the girly comedy, "The Microbe of Love" which will be presented in the High School Auditorium to-night, Friday, Sept. 30, by the Young Woman's Club. The best talent and the prettiest girls in town have been drafted for this play. There are 50 persons altogether in the cast, 30 of them girls. The play abounds with comedy and is enlivened by many musical hits, some of which are brand new. DENY REPORTS THAT MR. WILLIAMS HAS RESIGNED Reports current on the streets here yesterday that P. H. Williams has re signed as president of the Savings Bank & Trust Co., are denied unqual ifiedly by that bank. The reports are believed to have started from a casual remark made by Mr. Williams to the effect that he might not give all of his time to the bank next year. MR. NELSON TAKES OVER THE SOUTHERN HOTEL Petersburg Man To Carry on Hotel in This City E. H. Spnce Will Go Elsewhere Tho Smith ern Hotel in this city changes hands to-day, T. J. Nels'on, for merly proprietor of the Jefferson in Petersburg. Va.. having taken over the lease of E. H. Spence.. There will be no change in the personnell of the ser vice staff of the Southern for the time being. The lease held by Mr. Spence was for ten years, dating from Jan. 1, 1921. Mr. Snence and his family expect to leave Elizabeth City in a few days. They will go to Mr. Spence's country home in Princess Anne County, Va. Mr. Spence says he expects to take life easy for the next two months while looking around for another hotel proposition. . Kraxy Friday ' bj W. O. Sanndara at J- yaanni Bt-. ElUabath Oity. y. O. incoc noys suuereu mucn in ine proouction of the historical moving picture film on Roanoke Island. They were mde up to look like English; Cavaliers of the sixteenth century and they, felt like stewed owls in theirs heavy wigs, under a hot Roanoke Island sun. From left to right they are C. W. Dough, E. E. Meekins and D. V. Meekins. STATE FAIR WANTS OUR SOY BEAN EXHIBITION WJII Also Feature Fisheries Exhibit to Be Made At Elizabeth City Fair Next Week - The Great North Carolina State; Fair has its eye on two, riotable exhibits to be made at the Elizabeth City, Fair; nSxt week and has arranged for both of these . exhibits to-be sent .on to Raleigh when ElizAbeth. City is, thru, with them, i Olnrrese' the other is the exhibit to be made here by the N. C. Fisheries Commission. Elizabeth City put it over on the State Fair this year by planning these uni que exhibits. The soy . bean exhibit to be shown at the Fair here next week' will not only show all the varieties of soy beans grown in Northeastern North Carolina, but will show many of the unique prod ucts made from these beans, including paints, oils, soap, flour, breakfast foods, etc. Among other products of the soy bean is cheese. A package of this cheese was obtained for th exhibit, but it could not be kept except by refrigera tion and had to be thrown out. Lim ber ger smelled like a rose alongside that cheese when it began to go bad. State Fisheries Commissioner John A. Nelson writes from Morehead City that he expects to send a real shark, among other interesting things for the Fisheries Exhibit to be shown at the Fair, next week. Assistant Fisheries Commissioner, Theo. S. Meekins of Manteo, who. will have charge of the exhibit, says no pains are being spared to make the exhibit one that folks will go away talking about. JONES GIVES BAIL AND LEAVES TOWN QUICKLY W. M. Jones, committed to jail here Wednesday in default of a $500 bond, charged with the theft of an . automo bile, gave bail at ten o'clock Wednesday night. His brother-in-law R. S. Styr on,' Jr., of Hookerton, N. C, put up $200 cash on the bond and ten or a dozen good fellows about town made up the rest of the bond money. When the sheriff opened the jail door at 10 o'clock Wednesday night and told Jones he could come out, Jones didn't even wait to put his clothes bn,. but finished dress ing outside the jail. "Fve learned my lesson," he told his bondsmen and prom ised to be back here for. trial when the Superior Court convenes in November. "But if he never comes back, I got my money's worth out of his smile when he came out of that jail," declares one of his bondsmen. Jones left on the night train to join his wife and children in Hookerton. FREE TUBES WITH TIRES The D. M. Jones Co., of this ctiy repeats its recent offer of a free tube with every purchase of a Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup automobile tire made at their store. This offer is not perma nent and may be withdrawn at any time. D. M. Jones Co. have built up big sales on Pennsylvania Vacuum Cups and push it in preference to any other make. DUFF PIANO CO. WILL MAKE DISCOUNT TO FAIR VISITORS The Duff Piano Co. with its usual enterprise will make a special discount on all pianos, organs and talking ma chines purchased or contracted for dur ing Fair Week. This company will have a handsome exhibit at the Fair and their goods may be seen either at the Fair or at their big store in the Hint on building. $1.50 A YEAR on Island MAKING MONEY, : D1DNTKN0WIT Mr. C O. Robinson Discovers Difference Between $600 k . and $1,500 - Some, interesting inside facts, about bridge by Commissioner- Wm. A. Hart leaked out yesterday. Before ntering into an agreement with. 9. O. Robinson to open the bridge free to the public for 60 days, Commissioner Hart asked Mr. Robinson what the tolls taken by the bridge at Elizabeth City amounted to in a month. Mr. Robinson declared he . didn't know. "I don't expect you to know to a pen ny," .declared Mr. Hart; "but you are a good business man and you must know approximately. I am a farmer - and I don't know exactly what a bale of Cot ton is worth, but you can bet your bot tom dolar I have an idea as to its worth. What is your idea about the monthly gross income from your bridge?" . "About $600 a month," said Mr. Rob inson. Upon that basis Mr. Hart immediate- ly made his proposition to pay the Cam den Ferry" Co. its regular toll rate for all traffic passing over the bridge during the next 60 days. But an hour later when it came to putting the contract into writing, the books of the Camden Ferry Co. were produced. The books showed that the tolls collected on this bridge during the months of July and August amounted to approximately $1,500 a month. C. O. Robinson and his father C. H. Robin son fell on each other's necks for sup port, and Commissioner Hart fanned himself vigorously to keep from, fainting. Neither of the Messrs. . Robinson had any idea that their bridge was bringing in any such revenues. The Camden Ferry Co. had been operated at a loss for so many years that they had quit looking at the books. Within the past two. years, due to the increase in auto mobile traffic, the bridge had begun to pay and its business had increased by leaps and bounds before even the own ers were cognizant of it. After recovering from the shock the Messrs. Robinson and Mr. Hart faced the situation good naturedly and entered into the contract by which the state will pay the Camden Ferry Co. a flat $1,500 for the use of the property for 60 days, the Camden Ferry Co. to de-r fray all costs of operating the bridge in this time and to keep the bridge and road in thorough repair. Since making the contract with Com- mossioner fiart, C. O. Robinson has ad vised this newspaper that his company will waive its privilege of charging tolls after 9 o'clock at night. The company has heretofore obligated to serve the public only from 6 o'clock a. m. to 9 p. m. and, persons using the bridge be tween 9 p. m. and 6 a. m. were accom modated by the 'bridge keeper who re ceived double toll for his overtime work. The Camden Ferry Co. has made arrangement with the bridge keep er to serve the public at night at the company's expense during the life of the State's contract. - FAIR FREE AT NIGHT No admission will be. charged to en ter the Fair Grounds at night "next week. All of the. amusements .on the Midway will be operated at, night.'. Free admission at night is expected to swell the night crowds this year. ' Se tiMnetit ------ '--i mm ! i 'I 1 xm 1 V I ' -