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TRIP AY, NOV. 25, 1921
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THE INDEPENDENT, ELIZABETH CITY, N.' C
PAGE.THREE:
I C. STATE NEWS
A Digest of Everything Worth
Knowing About Old North
State Folks and Things
Clii:le Morehead, Guilford county ne
' ill be electrocuted for the murder
0fhi wife. November 30.
Va"uer P. Creech, of Clayton, is rais
- a a nop of June apples, which he ex
pects to gather about Christmas.
Vrdon W. Taylor, sheriff of Lenoir
county. severely bruised when run
.over by an automobile in Kins ton.
Contracts for more than half a mil
lion dollars in street and sewer im
jrovfB" nts for Charlotte have been let.
Pr. Henry Tlato Underbill," pioneer
citizen and one of the builders of the
town of Wendell, died at a hospital in
Kaloigh.
w. II. Stone, of Greensboro, was
ncain chosen president of the State
Farmers
Union at the annual session
at Kaleigb.
J. M. Galloway, of Greensboro, who
fWffS more tobacco than any other man
hi tie world, has signed up for co
operative marketing.
Community Township Fair, held at
fiwan Quarter last week, "under the di
rection of the "Woman's Betterment As
sociation, was a big success.
Simon Levy, proprietor of a grocery
store at Durham, was assaulted in his
store and robbed of $2,500 in cash and
securities, by an unidentified negro.
Francis Matthews, five years .old, and
Mrs. E. A. Daniel of Washington, N.
C who were bitten by a rabid dog last
week, have been given treatment.
It has been announced that Marshal
Foeh will make at least two stops in
North Carolina during December, while
on his return trip from points in the
West.
Y. Y. Westmoreland went to his
death in the electric chair at the State
I'riscii Monday morning for the murder
one eleven
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Ons for mellowness. BURLEY
On for aroma, TURKISH
Ths finest tobaccos perfectly
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There is, a man in our town,
And he is wondrous wise.
He went to Hall for his
glasses,
And thereby saved his eyes.
"We understand eyes."
146 Granby Street
112 W. Plume St.
NORFOLK, VA.
RICHMOND, . VA-.
211 E. Broad St.
503 Franklin St.
DID PAIN DISTURB
YOUR SLEEP?
THE pain and torture 6f rheu
matism can be quickly relieved
... by an application of Sloan's
Liniment. It brings warmth, ease and
comfort and lets you sleep soundly.
Always have a bottle handy and
apply when you feel the first twinge.
It penetrates without rubbing.
It's splendid to take the pain out of
tired, aching muscles, sprains and
strains, stiff joints, and lame backs.
J or forty years pain's enemy. Ask
your neighbor.
At all druggists 35c, 70c, $1.40..
of J.H.Nantz in. Iredell county, 13
The North Carolina conference, in
session at New Bern last week elected
Mrs. J. LeGrand Everett of Rocking
ham, as its first woman delegate to the
General Conference.' .
In the closing session of-the. Baptist
oiate convention at Koeky Mount, Rev.
Dr. B. W. Spilman was cWtori t
side over the session ofi 1922 to be- held
at v inston-Salem.
H. D. Turpin will assume' the, affi
of sheriff of Stokes- county to succeed.
fci. U. Sshelton, who resigned to escape
prosecution for alleged conduct unbe
coming an officer.
John H. Dawson, treasurer of Lenoir
county for many years, and Mrs. Annie
yawson, W1u celebrate the 50th anni
versary of their wedding at their hom
in Kinston on November 30.
Mr. Dixon Greene Conn, a Confeder
ate veteran, for the past 15 years con
nected -with the State Department of
Agriculture in the capacity of bulletin
superintendent, died at his home in
Raleigh.
Ed Whitman, white, who was on top
of a 3(Moot ladder at the Exchange
Cotton Mills at Lexington, was injured
when a boiler exploded, blowing the lad
der from under him, throwing him to
the cement floor.
A scaffold on a building at the En
terprise Lumber Company's new plant
at Goldsboro gave vay, instantly killing
William Pride, colore and fatally .in
juring James Pollock, white, who died
a few hours later. . .
The contract for the new mechanical
engineering building at State College
has been awarded. The bid accepted
was from a Raleigh firm and was $88,
500' exclusive of the heating and plumb
ing, which will make the cost amount
to about $7,000 more.
The first woman ever to sit on a jury
in North Carolina was Mrs. J. H. Clark,
of Graingers, who took her place with
11 male jurors at Kinston in a divorce
case in Lenoir superior court. Mrs.
Clark decided in favor of allowing the
decree on statutory grounds.
Marshall Williams, of Fayetteville,
charged with the murder of Deputy
Sheriff A. J. Pate, who was killed in
a whiskey still raid last July pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree
and his sentence will be imposed today
in Cumberland. Superior Court.
A negro burglar entered the home of
Mrs, Olivette Martin at Asheville while
her husband was away, leaving her
alone with an infant baby, and took all
the silverware and money he could find,
then laughed at Mrs. Martin and took
his departure before the police arrived.
Harry Furman, 59 year old widower,
fired a bullet into the shoulder of Mrs.
Mary Talton, widow, whom he was
boarding with at her . home in Raleigh,
and then killed himself. Mrs. Talton,
woo Tint coriAii six- wnnndpfl. and told the
police vthat her refusal o marry Fur-
man was responsible or the act.
Sixty-four of the 100 counties have
applied for $3,311,100 of the five million-dollar
fund authorized by the Gen
eral Assembly to assist in the -construction
of school houses, and tentative ap
plications for the remaining 30 will re
quire the full amount made available
by legislative enactcment.
' Dr. John M- Manning, mayor of Dur
ham, and brother to Attorney General
J. S. Manning, of Raleigh, was arrested
by Department of Justice- agents on
charge of violating the Harrison nar
cotic law. The mayor was released un
der - $10,000 bond, furnished by
friends, for his presence at Federal
court in Raleigh this week.
Governor Morrison has paroled W. E.
Wooten, of Guilford county, sentenced
in May, 1921, to four years on the
roads for larceny of an automobile; E.
D. Corriher, Rowan county, sentenced
to two years on the county roads in
May, 1920, for simple assault, and
Frank Gregory, Harnett county, sen
tenced to eight year in the State's Pris
on in February, 1919, for manslaughter.
The story of how Mrs. Daniel A. Po
ling, wife of the associate president
of the United Christian Endeavor So
cieties of the World, knelt for more
than a quarter of an hour at the side
of her husband, who had been given up
for dead in a motor accident near Wil
mington, and by mental suggestion and
repeated calling of his name brought
him back to life is told by the Rev.
Dr. Poling to the Christian Endeavor
World. .
BRADFORD WILL CSE NOW
GOES TO SUPREME COURT
The famous Bradford will case, tried
in the Superior Court here last week
now goes to the Supreme Court. The
jury in the case here last week decided
against the caveators who sought to
break the wilL The jury found no evi
dence why they should set . aside the
will' of this late Elizabeth City citizen
who in his 82nd year married a 24-year-old
trained nurse and left her the bulk
of his property when he died less than
a year later. The caveators will carry
the case on to the Supreme Court.
The Swallow Dive.
Some boys were being r'ven lnrtruc
tlon In dlvlLg. The particular lesson
was on the swallow dive. "Now,
Jenkins," said the instructor, to the
most backward, pupil, "you ' take a
turn. Jenkins made a hopeless at
tempt and created an alarming splash.
That's not a swallow dive,' said the
Instructor. "Isn't It?" gurgled the un
fortunate Jenkins. "Why, I thought I
had swallowed the whole pool!"
Mr. P. LaDuke, Farmer, Says, "You
Bet Rats Can Bite Through Metal."
T had fPl bins lined with zinc last
year, rats got through pretty soon. Was
OUt $18. A Ol.ZO pKg. OI IVAl-cjar
killed so many rats that I've never been
without it since. Our collie dog never
touched RAT-SNAP." You try it.
Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25.
Sold and guaranteed by Culpepper
Hardware Store, City Drug Store, G.
W. Twiddy, John C. Bond, Edenton; W.
A. Leggett, Edenton; Sawyer's General
Store, Camden.
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BUE largely to exacting charter re
quirements, there are comparatively
few national banks in the United States
. States 8,143 in all.
State banks outnumber national
banks nearly three to one, yet the nation
ally chartered banks represent resources
totaling well over twenty billion dollars
nearly half of the total banking resources
of the United States.
Those facts are worthy of thoughtful
consideration in the selection of a bank. ,
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Elizabeth City, N. C.
Resources Over Three Million Dollars
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An Extra Pair
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With Every "NEEDLE-MOLDED"
SUIT, COAT AND TROUSERS OR OVERCOAT
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SOIL ROBBERY MEANS
FAMINE, SAYS EXPERT
Declares Conditions. Here Will Be As
j Bad As In. Orient Unless Fer
tility Is' Restored
That the .United States is threaten-"
ed with a future -when it will be unable
to feed its population, but will be faced
by famine conditions similar to those
prevailing m the Orient, unless adequate
steps are taken to restore the fertility
of the soil is the warning which was
conveyed by C. . H. McDowell in a re
cent address to the Chicago section of
the American Chemical Society, t'-.
Mr. McDowell contrasted the fertili
zer situation in this country with - that
in Germany, referrin to the explosion
of the huge chemical works at Oppau,
where the , Germans made fertilizers
through the fixation of atmospheric ni
trogen. Fifteen times as. large as Ger
many, the United States, lie painted out,
produces only the same amount of bar
ley and not quite twice as much oats.
Germany produces six times as many
potatoes and 12 times as much rice as
we do. Germany, when the war broke
out, had 5jOOO,000 farms, averaging 15
acres, to our 6,340,000 farms, averaging
138 acres.
Forty per cent more wheat, rye, bar
ley, oats and potatoes were produced
by these German farms than by our
farms. And within the last 30 years
Germany has raised her "per capita yield
from 15 to 29 bushels, while the United
States' increase is only from 14 to 16.
With only one-fifteenth of the land
area, Germany shows an agricultural
efficiency about six times thai of the
United States. i
Says We Are Wasteful People.'
-Mr. McDowell says: "We of .the
United States have been a wasteful peo
ple. We , have had too much land and
have moved from State to State in
search . of more fertile spots and neg
lected to maintain the, producing power
of our conquered area.
"Large populations and low crop
yields do not go together. In this coun
try our population is rapidly growing,
and we muft more fully utilize nature's
stores in our future development. Our
popualtion is increasing and our lands
at the same time are beini iep'eted.
Our ditches areyall lined with the ..fer
tility of our" farms that they were dug
to drain. From our r; ers we lose an
nually 500,000,000 tons of fertility,
thereby, diminishing productivity at- a
rapid rate. Our sewer pipes are taking
from our farms -K9,000;000 tons of fer
tility annually. The crops that are
taken from the field, and never set back
in any form, take 30,000,000 more tons
of fertility from our lands each year."
The population of the United States
will be more than doubled by the year
2000, according to Mr. McDowell, who J
cites the calculations of Edward M.
East, of Harvard, whom he also quotes
as placing the ultimate population limit
of this country at 197,000,000, according
to our present methods of- agriculture
and rates of food and clothing consump
tion. The engineer and the chemist must
co-operate, says Mr. McDowell, the en
gineer to prevent the erosion of tbe
land and the deforestation of woodlands,
and the chemist to perfect new and im
proved fertilizer methods, preventing
soil famine.
es and extravagances of ceery sort.
Nevertheless, we paid more "old debts' at
the stores and lifted more mortgages n
homes than ever before in the history
of the state. A thrifty remnant enabled
North Carolina to make a' better record
in these particulars than any other
state in America, Vermont, and Missis
sippi alone excepted.
Commenting upon the" above facts the
University News Letter says:
"To be sure, we have not had much
ready cash in North Carolina the last
year or so, but , manifestly we are not
yet bankrupt not when-'tour -fifths of
our home-owners live in debt-free
dwellings." .--- 1
CEMENT VAULTS Tp BE
USED IN ALL PRIVIES
Board of Aldermen Take Definite Ac
tion to Relieve Most Unsanitary
Condition Here.
Sixteen hundred and odd open ground
toilets in Elizabeth City will have to be
converted into sanitary cement vault
privies within the next thirty, sixty or
ninety days. The Board of Aldermen
in special session Monday night form
ally adopted" the cement vault type of
t privy as the most desirable type of
isuniiij ynvy mr mis cny ana real es
tate owners will have to install cement
vaults under the direction of , inspectors
from the State Board of Health.
A specimen of the type of toilet and
vault required will be erected bere next
week under the dirction of Inspector L.
E. Bobbins of the State Board of
Health, and exhibited so that citizens
may know what to build. Arrangements
are being made with a local contractor
with a view to adopting a standard type
of vault that can be built for about $15.
In most cases the privies now in use
can be used with this . vault.
The vault will not require an increase
in the scavenger service as the box and
can type of sanitary privy would require
and the Aldermen believe the present
sanitary tax covering scavenger service
can be materially reduced -with the in
stallation of the cement vault privies. ,
This, the most important sanitary re
form ever brought about in this city
with one effort is the direcj; result of
an' editorial in this newspaper calling
the attention of the State Board of
Health to an unsanitary condition here
that had long been neglected. Dr. W.
S. Rankin, Superintendent of the State
Department of Health read THE IN
DEPENDENT'S editorial and got down
behind the situation here with his usual
intelligence and enterprise. Elizabeth
City will have a cleaner, healthier
town and millions less of flies with the
Passing of the. Old Backhouse made fa
mous by Jomes Whtcomb Riley.
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WE LEAD THE SOUTH
IN DEBT FREE HOMES
North Carolinians Didn't Throw All
Their Money Away In
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More than four-fifths or 82.9 per
cent of the town and country home own
ers of North Carolina occupied dwell
ings free of encumbrance in January
1920. We lead the South in debt-free
homes, and we barely miss leading the
United States in this essei.tial particu
lar. Indeed, the only state that made
a better showing was Nevada, aud Ne
vada hardly counts as a state. There
are more people and more dwellings in
Mecklenburg and Gaston counties alone
than in the whole state of Nevada.
The common notion is that we threw
money : away like drunken sailors, in the
flush times of the war period. And we
did waste money in multiplied millions
in oil stocks, fertilizer stocks, and oh
er blue-sky stocks, in wanton .indulgenc-
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