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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
MAY PEAS ICED
GET MORE COIN
First Refrigerator Car Service
For Early Iruck From.

Refrigerator cars are being used for
the first time in the history of the May
nea movement from this city and sec
ton. The first refrigerator car of May
peas ever shipped from Elizabeth City
was dispatched from here last Friday.
The peas brought 1925 to 81 and $4.25
on the New York market Tuesday. The
car was shipped by r. G. Abbott and
Mr.. Abbott is the only shipper using
the refrigerator car service. Mr.. Ao-
bott is one of the biggest receivers ano
shipping agents for peas and potatoes
i'm this city and has been trying FOL
several years to get this refrigerator cal
service.
The peas shipped by freight in re-
frigerator cars last Friday brought
more money by a dollar a basket thar
express shipments from this city sole
on the New York market the same day
The refrigerator service costs no more
than the old way Of shipping. Ord1n
arily peas are shipped from El1zaoetf
City to Norfolk by express and ther'
transferred to fast freights for Ph1la
delphia and New York. The express
charges between Elizabeth City am
Norfolk absorb the cost of icing.
R. c. Abbott will ship about ~ car
of May peas this season. He shlppe'
two cars Tuesday of this week, one ca
Wednesday, and will ship three car
to-day.
The pea crop is woefully short. Their
is only about third of crop in thl
county which means that only abou
25 cars will move from here this seaso1
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
]. H. LEROY SUES
DR.. JOHN SALBA
Asks for $500. His Alleged
Share of Hospital Kite

J. H. Leroy has instituted suit in the
Superior Court of Pasquotank County
against Dr. John Saliba, owner OF the
Elizabeth City Hospital, in which act
ion Mr.. Leroy asks for $1O,50O.0O.
On or about Oct. Is, 1918 DR.. Saliba
made a contract with the government
by which he was to reopen the Eliza
beth City Hospital, which was then
closed, to convalescent marines and
sailors from the U. S. Naval Hospital
at Norfolk. DR.. Saliba was to receive
81 a day for the entertainment and
board of these convalescents.
Mr.. Leroy in his suit makes the claim
that DR.. Saliba entered into an agree
ment with him to feed the inmates Oh
the hospital Mr.. Leroy was to employ
and superyise all the help, purchase al
provisions and look after the k1tcher
and table generally. DR.. Sahoa got D
q. day from the government for eacf
service man sent to the hospital. MI
Leroy alleges that DR.. Saliba agreed u
take s1.OO day per man as his chargf
for the use of the hospital. Out OF TN
remaining So per diem Mr.. Leroy Wa
To rim the kitchen and dining room ant
was TO share equally with DR.. Sa1b;
all the money left over after paylns
the help and buying the provisions.
! The hospital opened Nov. 1, 1918 an
the government kept it going unit
Nav /. 1919. In that time, Mr.. Lero
claims. about $1,000 was made Off tn
kitchen after DR.. Saliba had got nj
dollar ner diem for each man in tn
bosnita1. Mr.. Leroy sues for, half Q
this amount. He has employed Meekln
E. MCMILLAN and Thompson & W1lso
to conduct his case. DR.. Saliba has ena
, n1oyed Aydlett, Sawyer & Simpson.
DR.. Saliba pooh poohs LeRoys SUI
uo saws he employed Mr.. and Mrs. LIE
r row for s125 a month and there was
, be no division of profits. In reply
1 the question whether he empioyeo W, ~
y M and Mrs. Leroy for that sum, II
, ksa,iba said: "We1l, Mrs. Leroy was M
of much use anyway. All she nao
D do was to sit around on the SOFA an
v ring the dinner bell; except on SUI
[aays when there was ice cream
= make"
The case is arousing considerao
:, interest and will make interesting tes
= in,onv when it comes up in court.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
WANT $22,5OO.OO
ALL ONE SUNDAY
First Methodists Plan Sensa-
tional Drive For Mission
ary Centenary

The Methodists of Elizabeth City are
going to lose no time in rolling up:
their quota of the $35, 10000 Mission.
ary Centenary Fund of the NJ. r.
Church, South. which sum the church
will undertake to raise during the week
of May 1925.
The First Methodist Church of this
city has been assessed $22,5OO as its
quota of the $35, 100000 fund. There are
863 members of the First church and
seven of this number have already sig
nif1ed their desire to pledge $4,000 OF
the church's quota. This Will leave
s12,5OO to be raised next week and the
church purposes to raise the entire sum
in a day.
L. r. Foreman is chairman of the
First Methodist Campaign Committee
and he and his associates have planned
an all day drive for Sunday, May 1S
Immediately after the close of the morn
ing service at the church, sixty can
vassers will sit down to Luncheon
in the church annex. From this lunch
con they will go forth to visit every
member Of the congregation and Sc
cure his or her pledge to the fund.
Mr.. Foreman is confident that b!
Sunday night the so canvassers will
return to the church with every mem
ber pledged and the full quota SUB
scribed.
y! Members have five years in which t
redeem their pledges. which mean
THAT the contribution of the entire con
gregation to all the missionary Wor
Y of the church at home and abroad WI
amount to only about $4,000 a veal
The First Methodists do not conside
this a big sum at all, in view OF tn
) fact that they raised about $65,OO0 fo
a, new church building in a campalg
of a few weeks. And speaking OF thl
building fund, nearly $4,000 OF 1t
r in the bank drawing interest.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
GOVT. TO CARE FOR
TUBERCULAR SOLDIERS
Treatment and Educational Hov~
+..es Given Free BY Uncle Sam

North Carolina soldiers who nave
contracted tuberculosis can on dpp-
cation be received at the tuoercoios-s
sanatorium at Sanatorium, the govern
ment paying all bills, and thirty DOL
1.rs ner month in addition. Whlie tnere
the so1dier-patient also may receive
instruction in mechanics, agriculture
tbandiwork or in books. Later ne may
he sent to any sort of college ne cnoos'
es at the expense of the government
persons interested should write 10 Dr
T(R McBrayer Sanatorium, N. Z. tol
full particulars.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
CAMDEN COUNTY WOMEN
MADE A GOOD SHOWING
Put That County Over
The Top

Camden county women made won
derful record in the Victory Loan
Campaign in their county last week
and without the work Of the women
that county might not have gone over
the top. Camden county's quota of the
Victory Loan was $4,000. The women
raised S26,5OO of this amount. Miss
Ireden Kight, chairman of the women's
organization in Court House township
turned in s15,O5O. Miss Emma Love
Snencer and Mrs. J. B. Williams did
exceptional work in other townships
The chairman of the women's orgam-
cation in Camden was Miss Mary L
Stevens.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
CHAUTAUQUA OPENS
HERE FRIDAY JUNE Is

Chautauqua comes to Elizabeth City
on Friday, June 13 this year. The
Chautauqua Association met in the
Court House Wednesday night and or
ganized. They have been assured
program up to past Chautauqua stan
dards. The lecture features this year
will deal with vital problems OF re-
construction. Full details of the pro-
gram will be published at an early date
and season tickets placed on SALE
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS

The National Cash Register COM
nany's System expert and salesman VIII
be here for ten days installing $2,50O.O0
worth of Cash Register Systems TOE
the Standard Drug Co. Investigations
made of store systems and essential IN
formation for the proper rendering OF
the Retail Merchants Income Tax maze
without charge. If you have any leaks
or losses our investigation will disclose
them. Correspondence invited. Phones
rs or 425, or address j. M. Murray care
of Scott & Twiddy Confectionery, Ellz-
abeth City, North Carohna,-advertise-
ment-pd.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
The Gang Died Hard

Even the Second Ward, the. strong
hold of the Mack Sawyer gang redeem
ed itself in Tuesdays election and elect
ed out and out anti Sawyer men. There
were seven candidates for Aldermen
in the Second Ward. Everything was
done to confuse the voters and split
the vote. to enable the ringsters to
slim their men in. But the Second
Ward is wise in Politics. Old Man
Mack and his gang had fooled most OF
the voters in that ward for ~ years
and the crowd had learned their tricks.
The old gang died hard. Matthias
Owens and Jim Ferebee in the Secono
Ward bit the dust only after haro
fought battle Every trick was played
in their behalf but most of the tricks
were fool tricks. An Owens man play
ed the fool when he tried to induce one
VOTER to s1ip in two tickts for Owens
by folding two Owens tickets together
Mayor Sawyer played the tool When
ba challenged the vote of o. F. Gilbert,
one of the Oldest younger fesloehIs
of the ward and one of the city S leao-
ing business men and big tax payer
SAWYER challenged Mr.. Gilberts Vote
and got away with it. 0. r. Glloer'
didn't vote. But the effect of Sawyer
challenge was to make 0. f Gllper'
roll up his sleeves and go to work Iol
the overthrow of Owens and Fefepee
And when O. F. Gilbert gets his dandel
up there's something doing. Ihe Ga1ls
killed his vote, but before TuesdaV
sun went down o. F. Gilbert kllle'
manv a vote for the Gang that hao 81
often profited by his support.
Matthias Owens got just 63 out OF IN
2O4 votes cast in the First Ward. jill
Ferebee. a little more respectable Ind
Owens. got just 70. G. Frank Derr1ck
son walked away with 155 votes an
T r Bowden, a man personally un
known +o half the voters in the ware
got 11s votes. The First Ward sho"e
exactly what it thought OF the I"
men, Ferebee and Owens, who mao rel
resented that ward on the Board Oh "A
dermen for so many years. ). Il. Do"
den. who polled 119 votes IN the rAl'
Ward. never made a canvass. Scor'
of men had never seen him TO kno
him. One man who voted for him saae
81 don't know this man BoWden' o.
when 1 get ready to kill a snake
not particular what sort Of stick L
to kill him with"
Back To Burke Culpepper
The defeat of the Mack Sawy
machine in Elizabeth City began WI
the Burke Culpepper revival in Eli
abeth City in the autumn of 1917.
that time an effort was made to reco
cile the warning elements of the toy
who had been at odds for a good ma
years. The people of Elizabeth @
were at loggerheads because shre7
politicians kept them at loggerhea
By keeping one half the town mad W
the er9half, the politicians fore
treaded upon hatred and prejudice a
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16

wholesale
partial view OF tne OF
OF 2 0ra Co.. win the
home OF A. Co. occupy
Co
contractor was = r
ade by W..
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16

Salvation
Service Fund Campaign poster de-
evolved
striking artistic creation png the hand OF the Army
Salvation Army principal figure and the scarlet lining OF n
of brilliant color The background m
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16

PRIVATE PRicHARD is now with
the Army of Occupation on the Rhine.
He says in letter to his parents, 81 am
enclosing a clipping from "The Watch
on the Rhine," you can hand it to Mr..
Saunders with my compliments, and
tell him that his paper has been in
Germany for have copy of it." Pri-
vate Prichard was glad to receive THE
INDEPENDENT which his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Prichard OF Bel
cross, NJ. c., sent him. He asked for
another soon. Private Prichard has
been in the service since August Z,
| 1918.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16
ELIZ. CITY TURNS OVER
A NEW POLITICAL LEAF
The Last of the Old Line Politicians Swept Out o
Office and The City Will Try New Broom

For the first time in years the
,,oters of Elizabeth City display
ID an active and intelligent in
forest in a municipal election
and the voters of Elizabeth City
svept the last of the politicians
from Office in Tuesdays muni-
cinal election and elected a citi-
zen's Board of Aldermen.
Elizabeth City's new, Board of
Aldermen which will take Office
on Monday, June 2, as a result
of Tuesdays election, follows
First Ward: G. F. Derrickson
and ]. R. Bowden-
Second Ward: J. B. Leigh
and C. NJ. Cooper.
Third Ward: P. G. Cahoon
and w. A. Worth.
Fourth Ward: H, G. Parks
and Bascon Sawyer.
These men succeed Matthias Owens
T 3. Ferebee, L. w. Anderson, P. G
Cahoon, C. C. Pappendick, H. G. Parks
and J. ]. Pritchard, Messrs. Cahool
and Parks succeeding themselves.
The election was a clean sweep TO
good government. No one believes tina
the old line politicians in Elizabeth Cit!
can control a single vote on the nev
board. 1t means that Phil. Sawyer will
eo out of the Office of Mayor on tn
first Monday in June. It. means tina
many another favorite and henchmal
of the old Mack Sawyer gang will hav
10 make way for new material.
The vote by wards follows:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16

Want ads get results.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-05-16

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Want ads get results.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08
ReOiew of Weeks
Trade in Richmond
Wholesalers Haze Some
thing of q Lull-Re-
taiters Getting Busy.

II. G. Dun e Co.'S review of trade
conditions in and around Richmond
compiled especially for The Times Dis
y scasonable slackening of is noted
IN some wholesale lines. but In others
the usual pre- holiday dullness has not
appeared Holiday trade is opening up
fairly well with retailers. hut there are
indications that consumers are curtail-
ing their purchases TO some extent
Collections are generally good al
though retarded in some Instances
where merchants are giving most OF
their attention to sales.
In groceries wholesale trade is quite
active with pls,es of, some commodi-
ties advancing and others firm. Can
ned goods are scarce and deliveries OF
same snort. The produce market IL very
dull after last weeks activity. Butter
and eggs are scarce hut other lines are
plentiful. The Wholesale grain trade
continues quiet; demand for feed has
been very good hut now shows signs
Of weakness; prices arc steady Job
hers of drugs and chemicals report q
Slight recession in volume or business
as compared with last year at this sea-
son. This is attributed TO the epidemic
ut that time, however and trade is
generally considered normal. Prices
are strong and a scarcity of imported
perfumery and toilet articles is noted
Customary inactivity in paints and oils
IS much less pronounced, despite high
prices; l!nsecd oil and lead are ad-
vancing, while other Lines remain
steady.
Dernand for paper at wholesale ex-
ceeds the supply and further price ad-
vanccS are expected
Printers ana stationcrs arc busy and
the volume OF advertising being placed
is eXccptionally- heavy. Dealers in
plate glass. mirrors, sash, doors blinds,
etc. have about all tho orders they can
handle. Prices are tending still high
or and scarcity of some lines is expe-
rienccd Permits for building opera
tons for November aggregate $774.-
49, IS compared with $4,000 for the
corresponding month last year
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08
GALiCIA REGION SWEPT
BY NEW WAVE OF TYPHUS
Hundreds Reported Stricken Down and
without Medical Attention he
80 cause OF Scarcity of Doctors.

be LEM snsn, ;v,,[ Pee, 7;-GAieia has
new wave OF typhus. which reached
tethfr propoEttons than ever before
Cross reports. Hundreds OF people
nave oeen stricken and died withou,
medicai attention in villages that could
no. pc reached by doctors.
After more than five years OF con-
tlnued warning. the country ia almost
Without the elemental hospital neces-
SUES. 1t has been the battle ground
% od one army after another and the
Large areas are burned away The
best equipped hospitals have been com
plctely ruined and pillaged
AccoTding TO Lieutenant-Colonel Hal
eminent for, the Galician front, the
typhus situation eclipses anything ever
konwn In this land, where typhus ha 6
IrWays oeen more or less epidemic.
me summer months. il Is feared tho
winter will see It increase with even
greater fury. The vermin which cause
typhus incubatc and multiply in the
cold season. AZ ''e
The American Red Cross has estab-
!lshed headquarters here, in response
10 The appeals OF the military and GOV
eminent authorities. Intense activity
~ ALREADY In progress for coping with
Requests for hospital s,,nn,,es ~
ITO thc temporary headquarters from
al sides Centers have been selected
LOT vitally needed hospitals. but there
is such an utter lack OF material for
equipping them that all efforts to cone
win the situation have failed. The
tniiiary and government authorities arc
iending every possible aid in hasten.
ins inc immediate distribution OF the
tempt to check the disease before ~
gains TOO much Roadway
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08

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known for all ailments Of the stom-
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Daily signed testimonials are re-
ceived relative to the great benefit
derived from Plant Juice. One of tho
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Martin. Of No. 1898 Williamsburg Ave-
nue., Fulton Ca suburb of Richmond),
who is in the employ of the G. e. O.
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1t to my friends"
The Plant Juice Man is at the Tragic
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whcre he is daily meeting the local
public and introducing and explaining
the merits of this remedy.
FOR sale in Petersburg by Morrison,
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08
EIGHT PERSONS KILLED
IN MANTUA R|0T|NC
Angry AIobs Storm Barracks and
Release Common Criminals in
Italian City.
MILITARY LAW is DECLARED
Train Service Hampcrcd When Rails
Arc Torn Up and Railroad Station
Wrecked by Hundreds OF Striking
Radicals.
fBy Associated Prcea.l


ROME. Dec. flight persons are
dead and fortytwo others are known
to have been wounded as n result of
the wild rioting on Wednesday and
Thursday at Mantua. where MODS ter
rorized the city
Tho rioters attacked the small gar
f!son. cut telegraph and Telephone
communications, stopped railway traf-
nc. raided arms shops. burned prisons
freeing all sorts Of criminals, and held
the police and soldiers At bay until
fresh troops and carabineers arrived
Win machine guns and occupied the
city m iiitarily The troops finally es-
tabiished order Thursday night,
The Rome newspapers tonight prin,
iuli details OF the situation at Mantua
!ht Giornaie liza says the Mantua
chamber of Labor authorized strike
without excuses. The disorders We're
begun by 500 strikers. who speedily
we're Joined BY the lawlcss element un-
der the direction OF extremists.
The crowds stormed the military bar
RACKS and fired on the garrison. The
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08
POSSE SLAYERS OF FOUR
LABOR LEADERS ARRESTED
Thirteen Policemen Released -, E,
hishins Haii for Killings in
Louisiana.
TBy Associated Press !,

FitASkLlNTON, LA, Dec 7-Thir-
Teen policemen who were members nj
The posse which Killed four labor le,5
srs In Eoeaiusa, November 80 in a
battle over the attempted arrest If n
negro labor leader were arrested to-
Day on the charge of murder bronrS.
mere on special train, pIaced in 3.ii
an hour and a half and reieased on
pail OF $4,000 each. VII
,nn Athdav its charging the men with
iiams. brother of Lum Williams. one
81 the labor leaders killed. Amono
t foPme- CHARGED n;ged was Jules Leblanc
VINO. while serving with the others as
opuciai deputy, was wounded in thr
arr, during the battle.
a., Cacn man was charged with kilI;np
me Tour labor leaders. More than Ia
I,riso or BoSalusa accompanied the
poisoners on the special train. sever
iuae through the country in autono.
bnr ana many parish farmers came
$40 ~ oiier their names on the neces
fbroo pond' ono hundred and thirfv
ssbha po nm men signed bail, which totaisd
Since the grand jury which irvos
, S,sated the riot while in session Ia .,
AM r nau an)ourned without rcturn;np
%my true pills. court Officials sav tb,
charses can hardly be takcn M 'I Sa III.
Tue session of the next FraI,, inn,.
W tnrG VIII be sworn in in the MY MY,
po SeE s,ns army troops are stu T.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-08
FRANCE AND ENGLAND
May Invade GERMANY
Competent Authorities In Washing
ton Believe Allies Contemplate
to Garry Out Threat.
UNITED STATES WILL NOT ACT
Bcst Information Sources Say That
America Will Take No Further
Fart in European Squable Over
Signing Of Peace Protocol.
tBy Universe, servicc.1

WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.-Compctent
auL , here believe That II France
invade Germany because OF that ma
lens refusal to sign the peace treaty
PROTOCOL. new condition Will be
Inc writing OF new, treaty between
iermany. the alAed and associated
powers.
The United States, according to the
best sources OF information here to-
hight. viii take no part in further
specincally ordered to- do so by the The
President. The general STAFF holds
that Major-General Henry. Y. Allen,
troops in the Coblenz district. is only
"sentimentally" under the Jurisdiction
OF Marshal Foch and tina, all orders
from the United States government
and not through the French general
headquarters. The War Department.
In fact, maintains that when tho United
states was given its present sector II
received practically total independence
within the, certain defined limits OF
territory which 1t now holds
America Docs Not Favor invasion
81 II Is. the understanding here that
Z ndcr Secretary of State Frank Polk
chairman Of the American peace dele
gation at Paris was instructed to re-
main at the French capital until Dc
limit for the signing Of the protocol
s @m ,Gep1fe.to provide against any
Iespect to the American army IL France
and Eng Land began An invas1on
H IL well known that the United
sehtes Ie not in favor OF occupying
any territories In Germany other than
those d1ed by the terms OF the a-mis-
zee In fact 1t is known that Prcsi-
eent Wilson opposed certain very dras-
VIC propositions Of the French which
YOU'D nave been tantamount TO fix
ing the left bank OF the Rhine as the
eastern undary OF France.
Outlook Not Optimistic
The proposition OF France to OCCUPY
6rankfort- on the-Main and the Ruhr
Basin: in which is located the chief
IRON fields OF Germany. is said to be
inc idea OF Marshal Foch
While the general outlook among
oInciais here w not an optimistic one.
they. nevertheless, believe that Ger.
many Will yield eventually. The prIn-
cipal reason for this. as cxplaised to-
night, is that Germany knows that
at the conclusion OF any other arms
ice she will be utterly powerless for
~ least century. Another reason. is
Inat Gernanys so-cailcd army of 400 :
200 is without adequate arms and lacks
artillery. Moreover It's funds of muni-
IONS are very meager. Germany ia
therefore expected TO submit under
protest