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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
REVISED HAND GRENADE RULES
Banks to Serve Children With Little
Savings Banks.

John T. Wayland, Director of Saw
ings for the Tenth Federal Reserve
District, has issued the following state
ment
AT the urgent request of the
Treasury Department and in order to
simplify distribution, the hand grea-
ade savings banks will be distributed
by commercial banks and trust com
panies instead Of through County
Chairmen and County Superintendents
as previously outlined.
2-One grenade Is to be loaned by
any bank to any child under 18 years
old who will sign thrift agreement
similar to the accompanying form.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
BOARD IN SESSION

The board of county commission
ers met in regular session in the
county clerks office this morning
Only the regular routine of business
was booked for the meeting, Every
member of the beard, J. T, Temple
OF Chickasha, Sell Pursley. of Rush
Springs, and Ira M. Johnson, of Min
co, attended the meeting.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04

Merchants from all sections of the
Pacific coast, to the number of $500
are expected
Today is also the beginning of
Buyers Week, an annual event pro-
NOTED by the Portland Chamber OF
Commerce
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
A WEEK OF CONVENTIONS
ny United Press.

Bv United Press.
Portland, Ore, Aug. portland
viii be a convention city this
week, during which period four i'm
pcrtant gatherings will be held here
Iy the following:
The Pacific Northwest Merchants,
the Oregon Retail Merchants associa-
ton, the Oregon Pharmaceutical as
sociation, and the Northwest Furni-
ture Dealers association.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04

3-The grenade shown here is to
be used as savings bank for money
earned during vacation, and may be
brought periodically to the bank that
issues 1t, where 1t will be opened. the
money counted, and Thrift or War
Savings Stamps given In return for
the contents.
4-The grenade is to become the
permanent property OF the child only
after he has been regularly enrolled
as a member of savings society and
has bought at least one War Savings
Stamp, face value $780, at the bank
issuing the grenade Child must buy
One War Savings Stamp II under ten
years old, aud Two II ten years or
older.
5-The bank is to fill out and give
the child (if a school child certifl.
cate OF his summer savings In order
that he may present same to his teach
er and get credit therefor in the War
Savings Society now or hereafter
organized In his grade.
6-While it is optional with the
banker. 1t is suggested that he re-
quest contestant to write q letter or
essay on how the grenade bank was
won. A few OF these letters might
furnish the thrift impulse to many
other children of the county.
The following is the form Of the
Thrift Agreement to be signed by the
pupil giving his or her age, grade.
school and prostoffice address:
THRIFT AGREEMENT.
l accept this Hand Grenade Savings
Bank, loaned by the
Name of Bank)
with the understanding that | will earn
money during vacation, keeping all the
money that can save in the grenade.
will bring 1t to the bank to be opened
from timesto time before school opens,
and will invest my savings in Thrift
and War Savings Stamps. l under.
stand that when | have saved enough
30 purchase. se......,....W War Savings
Stamp. 49,, and have been regularly
enrolled as member OF a Savings So
ciety, the hand grenade becomes my
personal property. Otherwise 1t still
remains the property OF the bank. II
! do not earn the grenade by October
/, 1919, will return it to the Bank.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
HOLD HOLINESS MEETING

Large congregations are attending
the Holiness protracted meetings be-
ing held in tabernacle at the cor
ner of Eighth street and Oklahoma
avenue The meetings are being
conducted by Rev Jod.e Thomas and
Rev. William B. McAfferty, evangel
lists from Ft. Worth.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
THE KING OF HOGS
By United Press.

By United Press.
Algona. Iowa, Aug. 4.-The king of
porkers holds court in Iowa. He
measures seven feet from nose to
tail and weighs LOO pounds. James
Vipond, stockman near here, an
nounced that he refused an offer of
S26.OoO for the boar and that he
wouldn't take twice the amount for
lim.
Careful watch is kept on the royal
hog by retinue of attendants. The
royal pen and hog waIlow are the
best that money and science can pro
duceg
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
ISSUE MARRIAGE PERMIT.

Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Edna T.
Watkins, court clerk, issued mar
riage license to Chas. R. Kaul, age
rs. of Philadelphia, Pa, and Miss
Eloise Howard, age II, of Chickasha.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
Reason Enounh.

My twin nephews were paid two
cents a day for waking me at 7 each
week day morning One Sunday they
awakened me at I. protested and
they said: "We knew you wanted TO
sleep. but we need the money!
Chicago Tribune.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
OBJECT TO SEPTEMBER MoRNs

By United Press.
Cardiff, Wales, Aug. 1.-Two pref.
ty bathing girls. garbed a-la-Septem.
Der Morn, so startled the natives OF
Whitemore bay, near here. recently,
that it resulted in dividing the local.
ity on the question Of building bath
houses.
The city fathers and feminine pop
ulation want bath houses. SO bathers
win be able to dress. The young
bloods are sticking up for present
conditions. Snapshots Of nude bath.
ers win be published by the author.
ties if bath houses aren't installed
and the bathers continue to ignore
co5tumes and custom
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
PAVE vERpEN STREET.

H. A. Cranwell, city engineer of
Chickasha, has been employed to su
pervise the paving of two blocks in
the business section of the town of
Verden by October l.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
BOY is BORN

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Toomer are re
ioieing over the arrival of a 10-pounC
boy, born at the Toomer home. 1O15
--.A -,.AtA street, Saturday evening
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04

"ExtraVagance rots character; train
youth away from 1t. On the other
hand, the habit of saving money, while
1t stitfens the will, also brightens the
energies. II you would be sure that
you are beginning right. begiA O.
save. e."-Theodore Roosevelt.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
MUSLIN UNDERWEAR

Ladies underskirts; $3.50 and
$198 values on sal $1.69
Ladies underskirts; $2.19 val
ues, on sale --- $1.85
Ladies underskirts; $2.48 and
$3.50 sellers, on sale $225
Ladies muslin gowns worth
$3.50, special for -------- '$1.00
Muslin gowns worth $1.69 and
81 rs, special for ----r--. SLAB
Muslin gowns W@rth So % and
$2.48, special for7-+------ $1.05
Muslin gowns worth $2.69 and
$298, special for -------4= 1920
All silk and Philippine under
wear, reduced. 70 ger centa
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04

Because the hostiAtles are over, do
not shift into careless spending, but
thrift forward into wise saving. Buy
W. 8. s.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04

LET EXPRESS WANT ADS SELL
THAT Article FOR YOU.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
DRESSES

$25 and $50 dresses
made Of taffetas, crepe de
chimes and georgette, also
georgette taffeta combi-
nations all sizes for $1,000
One lot Of fine dresses
mostly in georgette crepe,
light and dark colors,
beaded and embroidered,
$40 and $50 sellers, $21. .95
Ladies white net dresses,
.b9.95 and $10.95 sellers;
Mop-up price $7.95
Ladies high grade voile
and linen dresses, worth
500 to 1920; Mop.up
price -.-- $500
One lot of yoile dresses in
solid and printed colors,
1895 and 1915 sellers,
choice ----------. $6.75
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-08-04
MEMS SUMMER
SUITS

Genuine Palm Beach and
Cool Cloth suits, $3.50
sellers. Mop-up price $9.95
Young mems Cool Cloth
suits, $500 values. Mop
up price -----. $11.95
Young mems waist seam
and Mohair suits, $16.50
and $3.50 values. Mop
up price----- $3.50
Young mems tropical
worsted suits, 1919 sell
ers. Mop-up price $14.95
Young men S waist seam,
summer suits, $21.75 sell
ers for------$ $16.95
Young men s all wool
tropical suits, $29.75 sell
ers, for ----------.$ $23.95
Kuppenheimer $3.50 tropi-
cal suits. Mop-up
price ---------. $26.95
60 all wool suits worth
500, $25 and $50 for $1,000
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
GOVERNMENTS FOOD
>s' HELPS HIGH LIVERS
But Sale Of Provisions at Cost Here
Didn't Help Those Who Most
Need Help

The effort to help reduce the high
cost of living in Elizabeth City by the
sale at cost of a car load of provisions
by the q. S. government resulted as such
efforts usually result. To them what
has it was given and them what amt
got didn't get look in.
The car load of provisions released
to this city by the war department and
offered for sale at cost went on sale last
Friday morning and was sold out in a few
hours. The provisions were purchased
in large quantities by people OF means.
Most of the goods were carried away
in automobiles, bought by people who
have automobiles and ready money. The
moor were not on hand with their mar
ket baskets and wouldn't have stood
much of a show if they had been.
No sugar was offered in the sale Fri
day. The government has no sugar for
Elizabeth City, or any other American
town. The government did have SS,OOO,-
600 pounds in France, but sold it all to
the French people at low figure. we
at home can get along with molasses;
the poor French people don't like mo-
lasses.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
PASOUOTANK COTTON
FARMERS ORGANIZED
Plan to EnroH Entire County and Build
Warehouses to Store and
Hold Crop

Pasquotank county farmers have or
ganized a branch of the American Cot
ton Association and gone into the move
ment to hold their cotton for prices fix
ed by the Association Organization
was effected at Elizabeth City last Sat
urday with about 60 members to start
The charter membership represents many
Of the most substantial and progressive
farmers in the county.
The officers of the Pasquotank branch
of the Cotton Association are Eugene
Scott. president; A. s. Morgan, vice
president; G. W. Falls, secretary and
treasurer.
An intensive campaign will be made
to enlist every cotton farmer in the coun-
ty, as well as all business and profes-
sional men interested in the welfare OF
the cotton farmer.
An early move upon the part OF the
association will be to secure the erect
ton of several large warehouses In this
county. possibly at Elizabeth City,
Weeksville and Newland, for the stor-
age of cotton under the State Warehouse
Act. With such warehouses the farm
err can borrow money from the banks on
his stored cotton, thereby being enabled
to hold it until he can command his
price.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
EDENTON'S FAIR
OPENS TUESDAY
Horse Races, Exhibits, Amuse-
ments and Everything Big
ger and Better

The Edenton Fair will be held next
week, commencing Tuesday, Oct. % and
lasting for days and nights. The Cho-
wan Fair Association tells this newspa-
per that it finds that. it will be crowded
with exhibits of all kinds. The farm,
home, dairy and orchard products pro-
mise to be thoroly representative of this
section. Canning clubs and Farm Dem
onstration Agents are cooperating to
make a real district show of their de-
partments.
The large purses offered are attract
ing the better class of horses for the
races, from all parts of the country. Sec
retary Hobbs says the races will far ex-
eel any heretofore held in this section
The amusement end of the Edenton
Fair has not been neglected. Sibley's
Shows will pitch Is cars of amusements
on the midway and there will be many
free sensations, including balloon as
tensions, airplane and sea plane flights,
a 500 foot slide for life in front OF
the grand stand daily free band con-
certs and fireworks at night.
Tuesday, the opening day of the fair
will be known as Home Coming Day
Uniformed soldiers, sailors, marines,
Red Cross and Y. M. G. A. workers will
be admitted free to the grounds and
given free dinner.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24

Hon. Isaac NJ Meekins will lecture on
the League of Nations at the Alkrama
Theatre in this city at 4 o'clock Sun
day afternoon Oct. 26. The lecture will
be staged under the auspices of the Edu-
cational Department of the Housewives
League and will be free to the public.
Col. MeekinS says that his speech will
not be of a partisan nature. This win
be the first speech made by Col. Meekins
On the subject of the League of Nations,
in or out of the State, tho he has been
opposed to the League from the very be-
ginning. Some months ago he turned
down a flattering offer to stump the
country in behelf of the League propa-
gandists The Housewives League last
week gave the Elizabeth City public an
opportunity to hear a defense of the
League of Nations by one of its expo
nents, Hon. John II. Small, who was
heard by large audience.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
THE RED CROSS
ASKS FOR $1,000
Will Maintain Trained Nurse for
Relief Work in Elizabeth
Civ

The American Red Cross appeals to
Elizabeth City and Pasquotank County
for.S5 900 in the drive to be staged thru
out the country the week of Nov. 2 and
II. ri this amount the Red Cross
will spend $500 for welfare and relief
work in his city and county, only Sl,ooo
of the $1,000 to go to the Red Gross
relief work in the army camps and IN
foreign fields.
j. Kenyoa Wilson, chairman of the
Pasnuotank County Red Cross Chapter
is orranizing his forces for the Novem-
her drive. Ae ready response is expect
ed from the public generally, especially
in view of the fact that the Red Cross
will establish relief work in this city
and county. The American Red cross
has already planned to send trained
nurse to Elizabeth City, for permanent
community service.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
WITH u. S. A. TROOPS
ON WAY TO POLAND
Lieut.. Wood of Elizabeth City Will See
More Active Service Overseas

Lieut.. John Elliott Wood, q. S. A, of
Elizabeth City, was with the regiment
of 5000 American troops which sailed
from Hoboken. \. J last Friday, for
Silesia, Poland. The regiment got away
quietly and very little was said about it
in the newspapers. Just why the Unit
ed States is sending 5000 troops to Po-
land isn't exactly clear, tho it is said thev
are to help the Poles in reconstruction
and police duty. American tax payers
VIII cheerfuliy pay the bills.
Lieut.. Wood is d SON of J. GA. Wood
of this city. He enlisted in the regular
army when trouble with Mexico was inn
minent about three years ago. He serv-
ed on the Mexican border for several
months and when war with Germany was
declared he was among the first Ameri-
cans to go to France. He was also the
first Elizabeth City boy to return home
after seeing service in France, arriving
here last fall before the signing of the
armistice.
Lieut.. Wood doesn't know how long
he will be in Poland. He spent few
days with his parents in this city re-
Gently bidding them goodbye.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
FAIR WILL SIDE TRACK
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITS
Government Exhibits, Amusements and Horse Races
UnexceIed, But Districts Resources, all
Dressed up Have no Place to go

Robert N. Page, O. Max Gard
ner and Cameron w. Morrison,
all three Democratic candidates
for governor of North Carolina
will be seen at the district fair to
be held at Elizabeth City Nov. II,
II, Is, II and IS The days on
which they will speak have not
been announced but each of these
distinguished sons of Tar Heel
dom have assured the Fair man
agement they will be here.
Two other important announcements
come from the Offices of the Fair Asso-
citation this week. The first of these is
that Tuesday, Nov. II, being the first
anniversary of the signing of the Euro
pean Armistice. will be celebrated as
Armistic Day. Secretary Case is plan
ming pageant for the occasion and it is
hoped to make this first day one of the
biggest days of the fair
The other announcement is to the eff
feet that Saturday, Nov. 15 will be set
aside as Negro Day, the colored people of
northeastern North Carolina being Civ
en- special consideration on that date,
the grand stand and all other privileges
accorded them. This does not mean that
co1ored people will be barred from the
fair on other dates. They viii be wei
| come every day, but Saturday will be
! their own day, in recognition of their
own part in the progress and prosperi-
! ty of northeastern North Carolina.
| But those who come to Elizabeth City
/; expecting to see an agricultural fair may
! be disappointed. This newspaper As go
ing to be fair with its thousands of out
) of town readers and try not to be par
! ty to misleading them. There is a pos
sibility that the farm, home and agricul-
tural exhibits at the Elizabeth City Fair
vii be negligible. The Fair Association
has only one exhibit building and practi-
cally all of the space in that building
has been assigned to two 8. s. govern
ment exhibits, leaving only a narrow
! space in one corner of the exhibition
hall for all other exhibits. There isn't
space enough left to house a tenth Of the
| exhibits shown at the community fairs
in this county.
This newspaper has led it's readers to
believe that additional exhibit space would
be provided, but at this late date moth
ing has been done about it and it looks
now as if Elizabeth City will pull off a
district agricultural fair with no agricul-
| tural exhibits.
From an amusement standpoint the
Elizabeth City District Fair promises
to be an unprecedented success. Agricul-
tually it is beginning to look disappoint-
| ing. The only hope in sight is that the
management will provide for its agrieul-
tural and other exhibits by securing a
big Chautauqua tent as a makeshift.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
IRON WORKS ACQUIRES
700 FT. WATER FRONT
Sanders Brothers Plan to. BuiId Steei
Ship Building Plant on Rlverside
Avenue

The Elizabeth City Iron Works q
Supply Co. has purchased the riverside
Ave. water front property OF the Eilz-
abeth City Fuel & Supply Co. and will
huild thereon iron shipbuilding and re-
pair plant equipped to handle any 3oD
that can be brought to Elizabeth City
The Sanders brothers, owners OF the
Elizabeth City Iron Works & Supply Co.,
will spend 100000 or more on the new
plant. 80.
Whether the shipbuilGing plant will be
operated in connection with the Iron
Works already established, or whetner
if will operate as an independent cor
poration has not yet been determined.
The site puchased has frontage OF
700 feet on Riverside Ave. between The
Elizabeth City Ship Yard Co. and the
Smell property. The Messrs- Sanders
exnect to erect the first building on the
nroperty at an early date, but Indicate
that they will not rush with the per-
fection of their ultimate plans.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
LARGEST OIL TANKS
IN THE STATE. HERE
Texas Company Will Store 100000
Gallons of Oil at Elizabeth City

The foundations are now being laid
on Goat Island for the two biggest oil
tanks ever erected by the Texas Oil
Company ir North Carolina, and it Is
hnrcd to have them ready for the stor-
age If Oil by the first of the comin,
wear. they will cost around $50 900 to
construct, and when built will give the
Texas Co. a total storage capacity OF
nearly one million gallons of oil.
The tanks, which will be mammoth
stand pipes 43k feet i'm diameter and
thirty five feet high, viii be supported
by foundation of solid concrete, which
in turn will be made secure by 17S piles
driven deep into the marshes OF the is
land. Underwater pipes will connect the
huge storage tanks with the company
warehouses at the foot of Fearing street
in this city, thus eliminating the dan
ger arising from the storage of gasoline
and other highly inflammable and ex-
plosive oils in the business section OF
Elizabeth City. No oil will be stored on
this side of the river.
Various compartments in these i'm
mense tanks will hold the different kinds
of oil sold by the Texas Company and
when they are completed, they will con-
stitute an adequate reservoir of Oil sup
ply for the various branches of the com
pany in Northeastern North Carolina.
The new tanks will each have capa-
city of 100000 gallons. thus giving the
Texas Company added storage capacity
of 10000 gallons of oil.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-10-24
READ THESE LAWS
AND SAVE A FINE.
Elizabeth City Imposes New Regulations
on Motor Vehicles

Several of the new city ordinances ar
fecting automobile owners and drivers
which are not entirely familiar to read
ers of THE INDEPENDENT, and which
NAV cost the unknowing quite few dol
lars in fines if learned by unintentional
violation of their provisions. are mere gi-
ven in some detail with an absence oI
stilted legal phraseology, In the nope tnas
thew NAV save some motorists tne ~,
barrassment and expense OF Iearn'ug
it,, +brouph the medium of the JOcal
police court.
fine of SIS is the penalty for parK
- o,,+os or horse drawn vehlcles On
tho north side of Matthews street De-
tween McMorine and Water Streets ana
$40 fine is provided for those commiS-
ting the same offense on east IoiuueA.e- w..
street The ordinance turtner pronios's
the marking of vehicles on any stree'
onnosite another vehicle already parseu'
ond further. no vehicle shah take more
+h.,, tvelve feet of any street, the pre-
sorihad punishment for violators OF the
above being $40 and costs.
IT is now strictly against the Ia" III
this city to wash or repair an auIono
b;la or other vehicle on the streets oi
the city: fine, $40. No auto snan DE
marked along the line Of posts at the
nortb end of the Norfolk Southern pas
seneer station; jitney drivers at the sta.
tion must remain within four feet OF
@ their cars when soliciting passengers
While a passenger train is on the yards,
and the same law applies to docks anu
wbarves while passengers are dlsemoark-
ing: fine $5. ,;ra
The new speed laws of the city require
+b.+ automobiles or other motor vehcles
sbalI not go faster than five miles an
hour when turning any street corner ~
tbe city. or when crossing an mtersec1lon
of any paved street. The fine IN eacn
case is SIS. 1t is further proVloeo tnas
horses and mules must not be hltcned
TO any tree, telegraph or telephone pOle
in the city. and a fine of So is the pun,
ishment prescribed for small boys ana
others on bicycles who catth hold OIL amy
vehicle. either horse or motof orlVeh' l"
tho corporate limits of the city.