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ALTOGETHER PERSONAL
News, Anecdotes, Gossip and Reminiscences About People You Know or Know
About. Contributions Welcome and Should be Addressed to the Columnist Eliz
abeth E. Saunders, Care The Independent.
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Mrs. J. F. Warren of Norfolk spent'
lartt' week end in Elizabeth City as
{he guest of her sisters Mrs. Lati- 1
more Commander and Miss Bcssioj
Kodntz.
Judge W. Clarence Morse has an- i
other title now?last Sunday he was!
elected a member cf the board of;
deacon- of the First Baptist Church, j
Maxinc Morrisette. attractive
daughter cf the M. G. Morrisettcs
left Tuesday for Baltimore where |
.?he is studying at the Maryland Art
Institute.
Campbell Cannery has returned to
Baltimore a iter spending the past
two wrcks with bis parents on
Cjrprcss street. Campbell is a stu
dent at Loyola College.
Percy Sandets, -manager of the
Master <Texa^o> Service Station.;
Main and Water St*, has set the:
pace for other service stations by'
providing a ladies rest room that I
is a rest rcom. In addition to com
plete wash room facilities with hot;
and cold running water, tftcrc is a
comfortable lounge room furnished
with testiul wicker furniture and a
dressing table. Some class.
Mrs, J. B. iOlivia Benton' Chcno-?
wcth has returned to her home in
Norfolk after rpending "onie time
with her father. Frank Benton. Sr.
For seme time. Mack Stevens off
Stevcas Tire company has had lots
of expensive brnke equipment in his'
ihep which has not seen much use. .'
Hoping to put this idle equipment j
.o work, he has engaged the services,
of Mr. Wm. G. Burns, who for the"'
past four years has operated a brake i
service station in Norfolk. Mr.
Burns has had two years' special
? j
training on mechanical, hydraulic [
vaccum and air brakes and is
thoroughly experienced in all brak
ing problems.
Miss Alice "Valeria Scott returned
tb Raleigh Monday after spending
the past ten days with her parenis
on Selden street.
Mj?s Dorothy Scott of Norfolk ;
spent the week efld with her par
ents the J. A. Scotts here.
Curtis (Muddy) Berry left Man-1
day for New York City to join,
Harold Mickey's orchestra, that will
play cn a steamer belonging to the ?
Muncic Line, that runs from New
York City to Bermuda each week
during the winter. "Muddy" may
get a job in Bermuda; he was form- i
erly with Tal Henry's orchestra.:
which has disbanded for a while. !
While A1 Howard was visiting
Phyllis McMullan last week several]
of her friends dropped in to see her!
one aiternoon, and she introduced
A1 to them as "A1 Ballou." Phyllis,
used to with A1 Ballou of Rich
mond, and most have had him on(
her mind.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. (Red) Mc- f
Pherson and little daughter Mary .
Frances left this week for Florida,
where they will spend the next two >
or three months. The McPhersons
went by automobile and will live in
:hc trailor, which is fixed up as a
house on wheels.
State Senatori
Dudley Bdgley
cf Moyocy was (
one of the fir~t
members of the
General Assem
bly from this
district to go to
Raleigh. M r .
Bagley went to
Raleigh Monday
night. "I am go
ing early to look
for a place to (
live, because I have a hunch:
this is coins to be another Ions j
session." he said.
Around five-thirty Monday morn
ing Mrs. C. O. Robinson awoke an 1
missed her husband. His clothes
were still in his room and she
could not find him in the house so
she became alarmed, telephoned the
police station and told them that,
she was afraid something had hap
pened to Charlie. Office; Twiddy'
rushed to the Rr bins on home on
Main street, found Charlie in the
basement fixing the furnace. ? |
Chief of Police Leon Holmes csle- <
I brated his 55th birthday anniversary
Monday.
W. R. Old. of South Mills, dropped
I in this week to renew his subscrip
ton to The Independent for the 24th
I time; he has been a constant and
| enthusiastic subscriber to the paper
for nearly 25 years.
Anderson Radio Company is cx
! hibiting a bridge table with a me
| chanism that counts and deals the
! cards to the player. Two decks of
(cards are used and as fast as a game
} is played a new deal of cards is
j ready for each player's hand. Next
i thing we know somebody will invent
I a machine to think for folks. It
would not require a very elaborate
or complicated machine to supply
fhe thinking for a lot of folks we
know.
Mrs. Harvey Goodwin and twins.
Betty Jean and Ben. of McDonald
Georgia, are the guests of the W.
| Ben Goodwins on Church street.
Harvey (Knotts) Goodwin will join
his wife and babies soon.
Miss Sclma Manise who has been
visiting her sister, Elsie Manise at
the Albemarle Hospital has returned
to Norfolk, where she is training at
St. Vincent's Hospital.
When Luther Jones, of Indian
town. Camden County, failed to get 1
his Independent on time last week I
he put in a long distance call for j
his paper. "It upsets my whole,
household when The Independent |
fails to show up," said Mr. Jones, j
Among those who attended the In- l(
auguiation and ball at Raleigh yes
terday were Attorney and Mrs. John !
Hall. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Saunders. J
Phyllis McMullan, Mary Byrd j
Saunders, Kathleen Harrison, Hugh |
Sawyer and Joe Perry.
Gertrude Glover attended the In
augural Ball in Raleigh last night,
while in Raleigh she was the guest |
of Valeria Scott.
Mrs. Bessie Stewart. Glenna
Glover and Ned Wood arc in Ral
eigh as the guests of the George
Folks. j
At last Calvin (Apothecary Shon> |
Morrisette has gotten rid of his
Hudson and bought himself a new j
car. It's hard to get accustomed to ;
seeing Calvin driving a Chevrolet j
instead of the old Hudson that he -
drove for nearly seven years.
Dr. J. D. Hathaway, whose Nags
Head cottoage burned completely ,
down last week said he was hoping
to rebuild in the near future. Said j
Dr. Jim: "When we do build again 1
at Nags Head we will build right
on the spot where the other cottage
was. 'cause we are Sound side folks, j
and not beach folks."
J. H. LeRoy, Jr., will move his j
law offices next week. He is mov
ing to the offices formerly occupied ;
by W. L. Jones Construction Co., on !
the third floor t>f the Carolina j
Building.
Rcba Coppersmtih whose real
name is Rebecca was in Raleigh this,
week.
W. P. <U. S. Coast Guard) Twiford !
who has been transferred from Oak
Island to the Cape Henry station iSr!
delighted with the change. Bill
rays he is glad to be nearer home. [
Corporal Gecree Bis-ette of thej
State Highway Patrol is in Raleigh
for a few days. !
Visitors in Elizabeth City this j
week from Manteo were Theo. S. '
Meekins, Mrs. Alma Mcckins Lewis
and Mrs. Mae Headley.
The Frank Sticks of Skyco Lodge j
were the guests of- their daughter j
M.s. J. B. McMullan Wednesday.
/Vo, They Don't i
Teach Kids to
Spell Out Words
"My child can read three times
as rapidly, with much less eye ptrain
and fatigue and with as complete
and thorough understanding of what;
she reads as I am able to do," states
Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent
of Public Instruction.
Dr. Allen explained that by the ,
method by which he learned to readj
was by spelling out the words first j
by seeing every letter separately, as'
was the case with practically every i
adult person in the State today, j
This, he stated, is a tedious and tire- j
some method, viewed in the light.
of present-day methods and educa
tional developments.
On the other hand, the child en
tering school in this generation, docs
, not lea:n to spell out the words, bur
sees the word as a whole, the word
itself creating a picture on the
j child's mind just as the object lor
which the word "tands creates a |
(picture, which, when once fixed, is
. there to stay. The word method, a
i development of the past few years,
results in a much more rapid read-1
, ing. naturally, than is possible under
the former plan of spelling out each
letter.
i Reading of this kind, probably
three times as fast as may be acquir
l ed by the old letter method of by
! gone days, is of inestimable com
j mercial value. Ninety-nine per cent
! of all the reading done is silent read
j ing and the ability to glance at a I
' word, or a phrase, or a sentence, or
j even sometimes an entire paragraph,
| and take in its meaning, is an
| achievement over the labored spell
l ing out of words that compares in
I travel with the horse and wagon of
I yesterday and the automobile or
j flying machine of today.
! This improvement in education
methods, keeping step with advance
ment in transportation, in industry,
in commerce and other present day
J achievements, was not attained by
i accident or by chance. Just as the
j automobile, the airplane, the radio,
j the refrigerator or other modern
j appliances, did not come by chance.
It Is the result of a long and in
: tensive study of the child and of
! the best ways to open his mind,
j Time, money, study, energy and
strict application, spent by great uni
J versities. educational leaders and
big foundations have gradually deve
loped this one phase of learning
j that eclipses all efforts of "the good
; old days."
3,417 BANK FAILUES
IN AMERICA IN 2 YEARS
In 1931 2,298 banks in this coun
try failed, involving $1,691,510,000;
In the first 10 months of 1932 there
! were 1,119 bank failures involving
! $604,583,000. And still, about the
I safest place to keep orje's money is
i in a bank.
AN ECONOMIC NOTE
Industrial experts say that. 15,000.- I
| 000 persons could do all the neces
| sary work in this country, leaving
135,000.000 potential workers; unem
i ployed.
:
| If There Were No Takes You
Could Take Four Months' Vacation
Every Year and Still Have Just as
Much Money as Now. Read About
j It in The American Weekly, the
I Magazine Distributed With Next
Sunday's Baltimore American.?adv.
Bride-To-Be
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MISS Lcis Olive Jordan attrac
tive daughter of Mr. Joseph E. Jor
dan of Shiloh will take the mar
riage vows with Mr. Glenwood
Crowder < "Biddy" > Meads on Satur
day evening January 7 at eight
o'clock in the First Baptist Church
oi this city. M'ss Jordan has been
employed in the store of E. S. Ches
on and Son for past two years.
Fhoto by Frisby's Studio.
Dr. J. W. SELIG
Optometrist
: 407 E. Main Street
Eyes Examined?
?Glasses Fitted
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WPNCES!
On Stoves jj
Every stove in our stock substantially reduced for
final closing out. We are overstocked, we need the
j! room, we need the money. 10'; ott on any stove on
our floor this month.
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17,542 Fewer |
N.C. Marriages
1932Than 1920
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If recommendations of the State j
Tax Commission are followed by !
the 1933 General Assembly the
North Carolina law requiring a
mcdical examination of applicants ,
for marriage licenses will be re
pealed and hundreds of doctors
will be deprived of an easy source
of revenue. But the State will be j'
richer. :
Our marriage laws, subjecting lov-11
rrs to much frivolous red tape and 1
unnecessary expense have reduced j1
the number of marriage licenses is
sued in North Carolina from nearly ! 1
30,000 in 1920 to a little more than |
12,000 in 1932. To-day the State is j
in dire need of a recovery of these'
lost revenues from a former thriv- !
ing license business.
Rather than subject themselves
to the medical examination required i
by North Carolina law, and pay the |
doctor's fee for such an examina
tion. thousands of North Carolina?
couples slip over State lines to be
married.
And the worst of it all is, the law
requiring applicants for marriage to?
present certificates from a physician !
is a joke and fraud. Theoretically'
it is fine, but so lax is the law both j
in its letter and in its administra-j
tion. that it has probably never pre- j
vented a single marriage that it was!
theoretically designed to prevent.;
The syphilitic, the tuberlular and
the idiotic who can provide the die-!
tors' fee ro right on getting mar- j
lied, the average examination con-,
s.&titig of a few questions a~krd by!
the examining physician who ac
cepted the statements made by the
part es examined, writes out a cer- i
tifUMc and pockets his fee. The
State Tax Commission in its recent >
rencrt says:
IIow Our Fees Have Fallen
"Jn 1920 the number of marriage I
lic<hs:.e irsued in the state was,
29,754. In 1921, when a vital re- ,
visbn of marriage license laws was
made, the number dropped to 20,
737 In only three years since 1921
has the number issued exceeded this
.igtirc, A further sharp drop fol
lo\4ri the amendment of the law
in 1929. In the fiscal year ending'
June 30, 1932, the total number of.
licenses issued dropped to 12.212.
"With eleven years of popular on ;
increase it is a reasonable presump- '
tion that more people living in'
North Carolina were married in:
1931-32 than in 1920. We ail know
that the explanation is that, as a
consequence of our restrictive law
many North Carolinians who marry i
cross state lines into South Caro- J
lina, Tennessee, or Virginia for that
purpose. An item in the press a
few days ago told of the issuance
of 55 marriage licenses in one day
in one county seat town across our
border line, with the further infor
mation that the larger part of the
number were North Carolina couples.
"If we assume that the number
of marriages last year by citizens
of this state was no greater than'
11 years ago, the state lost in rev-:
enue $52,621, and the counties one- |
third of this amount, in licence fees.
"A much more important consider- i
ation is that our restrictive mar-!
riagr ? laws place no restriction
whatever upon marriage?any point
in the state is within three hours;
of auto travel to the state line?1
and that under these laws it hasi
become the rule rather than the ex- j
ception that the legal record of
marriage of our own people is be
ing made in other states. The next
generation of North Carolinians
will have to go to Virginia, Tennes
see, or South Carolina to find any i
legal record of marriages of their
parents. Seriously, we raise the
question if experience has not dem
onstrated the utter futility of our
well-intentioned restrictive legisla
tion on this subject."
This Reporter Has
His Doubts About |
All The Depressionj
Is there really a depression, or |
have the people of Elizabeth City
been kidding themselves these past i
three years? Certain events of the |
holiday season have caused somcj
Elizabeth Citizens to ask themselves
this question. And, judging from ob
servation, it would appear that the
depression, lfke Santa Claus, just
"ain't."
In the first place. Elizabeth City
merchants last month sold more j
Christmas goods than they have sold j
in many years. In fact, some of.
the merchants reported that the!
business they did the week prior to!
Christmas was the largest in the,
history of their stores. The throngs j
of shoppers who filled the local j
stores and went home laden with |
Christmas packages certainly gave;
no inkling that there is or has been.
[such a thing as a terrible depres- \
Ision hereabouts.
| Then there was the Christmas
dance at the Virginia Dare Hotel, I
to which one hundred and ten per-'
sons paid admission at the rate of,
$1.65 each. And this was not nearly
so much as was spent for liquor,
rooms, food and other incidentals.
The Carolina Theater cashed in on
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the small town desire to ape the i
larger cities, by staging a midnight
show on New Year's night. The ?
theater was packed and many I
patrons were standing in the aisles.
Hundreds stood outside the theater
and shivered for nearly an hour
while waiting to gain entrance to j
the theater. There was a total of J
987 paid admissions.
Then there was the New Year's j
dance at the Hotel, at which a large '
number couples thronged the floor,
and the Leap Year dance put on by
the Junior Woman's Club last week,
with 57 paid admissions.
And still they say there is a de
pression. -
i.t iasi, next >6 <x ceuucipiece tun
will not crowd the rest of your table
appointments.
The bowl is smaller than usual, yet
its capacity for water is generous,
thus assuring you of fresh, unwilted
flowers. , >
This set will also go beautifully on
that petite console table in the foyer,
where it will not look top heavy.
All Fostoria Glass is of crystal
clear perfection, exquisitely col
ored. practical and very moderate
ly priced.
Bright Jewelry
Company
A. G. JAMES, Mgr.
ELIZABETH CITY, N. C.
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A CAMDEN COUNTY
DEMOCRAT WRITES!
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Editor The Independent:?
I have been wondering to myself /
Tor some time just why you are al
ways roasting Mr. J. M. Burgess of j
Old Trap, N. C? and never mention
Mr. J. B. Williams of Shiloh, N. C.,
a relative of Mr. J. M. Burgess and
far more embarrassing to the Demo
cratic party than Mr. Burgess is to
the Republican party. Mr. Bur
gess docs stand nationally loyal to
his party, which is the highest office
a person can vote for. Mr. Williams
in the A1 Smith-Hoover election
four years ago resigned as chairman
of the Board of Election in Cam
den county and used his influence
for the Republican party. He and
Mr. Burgess together gave the true
Democrats more trouble in Camden
county than they had in years with
the Republicans.
In Camden county he Is known
to be a Hoovercrat. In Raleigh he
claims to be a Democrat. We have |
a man in our county who was elect- i
cd for a high office on the Demo-1
cratic ticket this time who is being
guided and directed by Mr. J. B
Williams. lie is taking the advan
tage of the Democratic party.
His past experience as cx-senato
years ago from the first senatorial
district has given him a little pres
tige, and he is still trying to use it
but for the past few years has mad
a damnable failure of it. I don't
know of any other man in Camden
community who feels his importance
as much as Mr. Williams who is
trying to handle both parties. I
have been informed that he is ad
vocating holding some of the Repub
lican postmasters. I don't think
Mr. J. M. Burgess, Mr. J. B. Wil- j
liams or Mr. Herbert Hoover will be
! consulted after March 4th, 1933.
, During the campaign he was scon j
[ in Elizabeth City so often poeple ]
wondered if he didn't have an office
i for his Republican henchmen to
imect him.
I am writing this letter to hand
this infoimation to our true Demo
crats of North Caiolina, and if some
one in the counties of our state
would publish the Hoovercrats that
has given them trouble I think it
i
j would be a great favor to our party
I and the state officers, so they can be
aware of false Democrats.
From a True Democrat of Camden
! County.
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Moving Days
are Here
Which reminds us of I he shahhiness of sonic* of
the furniture we've been getting along with and tarns
our thoughts to our furniture needs.
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mit you can buy two ortfiree complete suites tif I
beautiful furniture to-day for what it would have cost I
to furnish one room two or three years ago.
We are taking inventory too and onr inventory is I
turning up a lot of odds and ends that may he just what!
you want and which you can buy at ridiculously l?*|
prices here this month.
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