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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22
URGES PEOPLE TO
BOIL THEIR WATER
City Health ofhcer Says This Rrecau-
ton is Necessary in Fight Against
Typhoid

The City and County Health Officers
of Pasuuotank are urging the lmpor-
tance of boiling all drinking water, get
ting rid of the flies. cleaning up IN gen
eral, and typhoid vaccination in an eff
fort to check the spread of typhoid in
this section While the Health Officers
give out the encouraging news that
there have ben no new cases of typhoid
fever during the past week, the danger
of a general outbreak of the fever can
only be avoided by the cooperation 81
every individual householder in observ-
ing necessary measures of sanitation,
and in employing every possible precau-
ton against typhoid infection.
In a short time the Health depart
ment announces, there will be given
series of free typhoid innoculations, at
designated places, and the State Board
of Health is insistent that everyone who
has not already taken the treatment
should avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity to gain immunity from the most
dreaded of summer pestilences.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22

Ask any one to name the ten leading
citizens of Elizabeth City and chances
are he will begin with chas. H. Robin
son. The name of Chas. H. Robinson is
so inseparabIy linked with nearly every
phase of the commercial, Industrial and
financial development of Elizabeth City
that one cannot think of Elizabeth City
without thinking of Chas. II. Robinson.
With true Yankee foresight, thrift and
industry he has biuIded well and made
money for himself in the bargain. He
was born in jefferson County, New
York in i848 In 1868 he came to EIiz-
abeth City as secretary and accountant
for the Land & Lumber Co.
The Land & Lumber Co. failed in 1888
and chas. n. RobinsoR, then IS years
old, went broke with if. The Salvation
Army matte, "a nlastN1s be down but
he is never OUT had not heen pIacarded
on the biIIboards of Elizabeth City at
that time. But young c. II. Robinson
needed no such inspiration. He went
quietly to work to reconstruct his small
fortune and in 1873 he embarked in the
mercantile business in this city. That was
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22

Ionq before THE INDEPENDENT >
dy but this newspaper opines that he
must have been live wire in merchan-
dising. -.-.-
While in the mercantile business Mr..
Robinson learned the fundamentals of
banking, thru handling collections in this
city and vicinity for Norfolk bankers.
Elizabeth City then had no bank. In
1891 he organized the First National
Bank, of Elizabeth City, with $4,000
capital stock. This bank, recently con-
soIidated with the Citizens Bank and now
known as the First & Citizens National
Bank, to-day has more than $3,000,0 ,000.-
90 resources and its latest statement
shows deposits i'm excess of $4,000, 10000.
Chas. n. Robinson is president of the
First & Citizens National Bank: presi-
dent of the Elizabeth City Cotton Mills;
Esnresident of fha. Elizabeth City Hosiery
Mills; personally owns several of the best
business blocks in Elizabeth City; is ac-
tive in the affairs of the wholesale dry
aoods firm of C. H. Robinson Co. and
the Camden Ferry Co., owns several
fine farm properties and expects to keep
on doing things.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22

Six+h Grade: Mrs. Elizabeth Pool,
Misses Julia Derflinger and Linda De-
Lon.
Fifth Grade: Mrs. H. G. Pearson,
Misses Osie Kiser, and Marie Leroy.
Fourth Grade: Misses Annie Canada,
Nettie White, kathleen Edgerton, and
Alice Brockwell.
Primary School Teachers
Mrs Minnie Brooks has been reap
pointed principal of that wigglesome ag-
gregation of kiddies termed the Primary
School. The teachers in the Primary
School will be:
First Grade: Misses Shelton Zoeller,
Susie Stevens, Katherine Hinton, Janet
Matthews and Mary Bradley.
Second Grade: Misses Emma Willis,
Florence Bell. Margaret Harris and Mrs.
Eta Etheridge.
Third Grade: Mrs. l.. E. Skinner
| 71issas Leila Marshall. Alice Blanchard
| and Willie Jackson.
Fonr additional teachers have been
| employed this year, raising the total OF
the Graded faculty to z6, of whom
teachers are in the High School. Prot.
Sheen states that he is experiencing
great difficulty in finding boarding places
| for 10 or u teachers coming from othef
n1aces, and he suggests that II the peo-
n1e want to have the right kind OF school,
! tbev must provide board at reasonable
rates for these teachers
/ Inlprovementsg UndersWay -
Around $1,000 is being spent this sum
mer on improvements to the school plant
| which have been made necessary oy the
| steadily increasing school population
Two additional rooms are BENG 1ofme'
in what was formely; the basement OF tns
High School building, at the south eno
and considerable earth has been takel
away. TO insure an ample amount OF Igh
and freedom from dampness. The room
thus formed viii be equipped IN tnor
, oughly modern manner, and VII De amoni
tbe most desirable classroms In the Du1lo
ing.
At the Primary School, it has bee
| found necessary to erect partition OIL
yiding one of the large rooms into two
, As Prof. Sheep points out, these are tn
last possible additions to the ex1stn
/ school buildings, and it will soon be nee
/ esarry. on account of the rapidly grown
4 school attendance, to build new hlg
: school building. It is suggested that
2 completely modern High School be Dun
: ON q lot sufficiently large to provide an
), pie space for Fairgrounds and athleti
: field.
!. In the coIored Schools
: The colored schools of the city WI
v employ 10 teachers for the coming yea
C and J. William Drew viii be principal
! these schools. The other teachers en-
,ployed are: Mrs. G. w. Brown, MT
J. T. Doles, Mrs. Katy L.. Williams, Mr
l. Ruth Garnes, Mrs. Maggie OVerton, MIS-
l. es Ida Brown, Irene NJ. Long, Annie
d Jones and Sarah Sewyer. These schoo
are also overcrowded, and addition
=, scholroom space must be provided IN e
near future.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22
BAPTISTS TO CONFER
HERE TUESDAY, SEPT. 2

Feeling the necessity of deepene!
spirituality before the real work Of the
BaDtist rs Million Campaign begins, DR..
W r. Cullom. State Organizer for the
Campaign, has arranged for large mum
ber of s'nitercessional. conferences" to
be held at places in every section OF
the State. One day will be spent IN each
conference and'the motto will be Inter
cession With God and Conference With
One Another"
R.n+ists everywhere are urged to at
tend at least one OF these conferences
preferably the one most convenient u
them. ,
The conference for northeastern
North Carolina will be held at Elizabeth
CITY. Sept. 2, 1919.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22
w. T. CULPEPPER BUYS
POINDEXTER ST. CORNER
Expects to Build For Culpepper Hard
ware Co. on Corner of Poindexter
and Matthews Streets

w T. Culpepper has purchased the
property on the corner of Poindexter
and Matthews streets in this city, now
occupied by huckster's stand. The pro-
perty is Al feet on Poindexter ST.. by 81
feet on Matthews st. and was owned by
Misses Eldora and Elizabeth Sampson.
Mr.. Culpepper paid the Misses Sampson
SS 900 for the property. 1t is Mr.. Cui-
peppers intention to build Il store for
the Culpepper Hardware Co. The pro
perty is one of the best retail business
sites in the city.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22
SPEAKERS FOR INSTITUTE


Instructive and interesting features OF
the County Teachers Institute to be held
at Elizabeth City for two weeks begin
ming August 25, VIII be the address OF
Miss Jennie Burkes, associate director
of the American Red Cross, on Friday,
August %, and the Better Babies and
Home Economics lecture of Miss Kate
Brew Vaughn, of the State Bureau OF
Child Hygiene, during the same week.
Mrs Vaughn is recognized authority
en- these subjects, and the ladies OF
Eliz. City and Pasquotank county should
avail themselves of this opportunity to
hear her.
Supt. II. B. Smith of the New Berr
city school, and Miss Hattie Parrott, oi
the State Board of Examiners and In
stitute Conductors, win have charge ot
! the institute.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22
NO EXAGGERATION

T do not make exaggerated state
ments about my work. Very re-
markable results often follow the
correction of bad vision by proper
" fitted ekases. It does not fol =
low that bad eyes are responsible
for all ills and that the lifting Oh
eve glasses is a panacea for every
ailment. My especial claim to your
patronage is based upon my long
axnerience coupled with my unusual
facilities for testing the vision, grind
ing the lenses and fitting the giass-
es on the premises. Upon nVestl-
cation you will find that I can give
the same service you would expect
to find in a metropolitan city.
DIR. I'D. HATHAWAY
Optometrist
Dl-.,a oao Bradford BLDG
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22
A PLAY AT MOYoCK

Young people from Moyock, N. G.. and
Northwest, Va. will give a play entitled
"Ciyl Service" at the High School Build
ing in Moyock, Tuesday evening, August
26. The entertainment is for the bene-
fit of the Centenary Fund pledged by the
Wesley Bible Glass. Admission 15 and
25 cents.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-08-22

If you are not getting THE INDE-
PENDENT, fill in this blank, pin
your check or money order for $3.50
to it and try it for year. 1t will
make you think and men and Wo-
men who don't think in these try
ing times are in fair way to get
crowded off the earth.
THE INDEPENDENT,
Elizabeth City, NJ. G.
IncIosed find $50 for which send
THE INDEPENDENT for one year to
the undersigned
Name
p. o. ................ ..s...............
Write it plainly
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
THE FARMERS COVENANT

Says the Savannah Press:
The bankers Of Dublin were "on the
job" in applying to home matters the
enforcement plan set forth in the
covenant" proposed for league of
nations. On the day the covenant was
read by President Wilson the bank
ers of the Twelfth district of the
state in session at Dublin agreed to
lend money this year to those farm
ers only who plant no more than ten
acres of cotton to the plow. The ans
logy extends further The farmers Of
many sections of the South Georgia
territory have themselves met and
solemnly agreed to a covenant which
provided just that reduction of the
acreage. Now the bankers not in a
spirit Of domination but of sympathe-
tic cooperation with these farmers,
propose to make the covenant effec-
tive by Withdrawing financial aid
from those who violate the greement
The bankers went further-they
called to their aid in this work Of
helping the farmers carry out their
reduction program the supply men of
the section; these supply men are
expected to extend credit and finan-
cial support to those farmers only
who cut the cotton acreage down to
the ten-acres to-the pillow schedule.
But the bankers went even fur
Their and into a most important matter
They urge landlords all over the coun
try to take money-notes instead of
cotton-notes for rental payment. This
will do more to free the farmer from
the tyranny of King Cotton and his
long proven disastrous regime than
almost any other project. In the mid
st of the war preparation the sugges-
ton was made that the increased
raising of food crops could not be
materially increased because practi-
cally all the rent notes called for
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
:. sB6 Kept ar


-. =. S7z Eje Kept az
wofk aii the the. squife great
care on the part suf the owners, for
they need every purchaser within
their trade radius.
They can make, and they do make
mattresses worth while. The prices
are in accord with good products, and
now the one thing for the general
public to do is to see that they get
the business loyalty to home institu
tions is che of the first principles in
the making of busy community. Not
even a monument or dimes worth
Of thread ought to be bought out OF
Cordele when it can be secured here
at half way reasonable prices. No To-
cal institution ought to be neglected
when its product can be used.
We say all this because we know
our mattress factory is capable OF
furnishing this. Its first product is
what the public will want The prices
are not out of present range, and and
the Cordele mattress factory is equip
ped to make any good article in its
line at an advantage to the buyer
anywhere within radius Of thirty
miles. We do not believe we have
missed the mark in saying this.
Remember this factory and make it
a good business institution here. The
story of local enterprise is all a
charm 1t helps run public institutions
pay taxes here, buys its supplies here
makes it's payrolls here and the en-
ployces spend their money in Cordele
Get behind it. The owners ask moth
ing of you other than that you buy
its products when you need the kind
of goods II Is making. Keep it busy
That is the way to add an industry
and make it safe. Another will come
and operate the same way, and still
another, if you manifest loyal spirit
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

---~ lie name behind it, The To-
IS factory impresses us as
enterprise and one fully
A every local patronage. II
business as the entire com.
support and he proud of
bel@latch wants specially to
ha,Nhe product to the trade and
bal. or course, the business
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
WHERE CRIME COMES IN

The case Of the Crawley boys, Geor
eia mountaineers who some time ago
were painted as great desperad0es
in the papers, has excited great
deal Of comment around the state,
and much good is likely to come of it.
At the time all this news comment
was going the rounds, we were think
ing of the schooling these boys never
got The surroundings encouraged ig-
torrance. They never had the oppor-
tunity to reach a finer determination
between the conduct Of the good cit.
zen and the outlaw Evasion of the
draft in SO case out a hundred was
solely due to ignorance, pure lack
Of education. These boys could have
Just as easily been made loyal pat
lots, ready to fight to the death for
their flag and their country But they
never knew the difference between
he slackers and the patriot Now
hey Will never have the chance.
The outlaw today who lives in the
wamp and makes moonshine liquor
With a winchester rifle in one hand
nd as calibre revolver in the other,
the man who never went to school
lie is the man who cannot sign his
anne. He cannot read,-never knew
If the brighter possibilities and the
anger usefulness mankind
Talk to us about foreign missions!
None of that till we learn to give
hese outlaw boys and girls the out
aw daddies are rearing a chance in
chool. Georgia has wide communi
les crying for schools, and better
schools. We have them within stones
brow of our very doors. One has but
% look out to see them. Are you too
busy to find them?
Here is the way it impresses the
Valdosta Times:
THE pictures which are printed of
The Crawley boys and the story which
comes from the Tennessee hills of
heir capture do not indicate that they
IRE much worse than other boys who
are left to grow up in ignorance and
without the influences which good
educational system might have given
hem. The dispatches say that these
boys went to Tennessee where their
Did mother was living "the love for
mother" being the tie that drew them
20 the old home nest They were
aught there by a single officer of
,he law. There is no evidence that
: hey showed any inclination to resist
President Wilson. in delivering a
ak TO a bunch of prisoners in a
northern prison some time ago, stated
'hat there avery fine line some time
between the man who commits crime
and the one who does not. He said
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
GROWING HOGS

For hog to be profitable he must
be kept growing from birth to mar
keting age. lie cannot be profitable
unless he is healthy He can always
be in a profit-producing condition if
he is fed B. A. Thomas Hog Pow
der We positively tell you that this
remedy prevents cholera, removes
worms and cures thumps. If the pow
der does not make good, we will.
WATT &c HOLMES HARDWARE co.
Cordele, Georgia
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
IL

M.
IL might have been for himi to have
committed an act by taking a human
life, which would have landed him
in prison. He considered that he was
not so much to be praised for not
being a prisoner. since the cause for
doing wrong had probobly not struck
him at the right moment.
1.-THE case of these Crawley boys
is probably one where ignorance more
than viciousness is to blame They
had not had chances which boys in
Georgia ought to have had. If they
would have been patriots instead Of
fugitives from service.
"Nine-tenths of the crimes commit
ed in the state would not occur if the
perpetrators of these crimes were
given the advantages of good edu--
cation. or the right kind of education"
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
WIRE FENCE

Liberty Bonds taken until 25th in
slant in payment of Wire Fence and
Barbed Wire at prices advertised in
January. GEO D. MAsHBURN HAW-
KINSVILLE, GA.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
DFFscIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY.

We are for punishment enough for
the Germans, but the idea of destroy
ling their war vessels is absurd. There
lis a good use to which these vessels
Bmy be put even if it becomes ne
Icessary to take them away from the
lIuns,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

Clemenceaus mix-up with the as
ASSN may be traceable to German
Iffort to get rid Of him, He is now the
Inc man in the way of the kind OF
seace the Germans are looking for.
j it is found to be a German effort,
Rermany will suffer for it.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

The StrpB,g Withstand the. .Winter,
Cold Better Than the weak g Z
Ola people who are fesbIei and young
err people who are weak, will be
Strengthened and enabled to go through
the cold weather by taking GROVES
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

TASTEhfSs chill TONIC, which IS
simply IRON and QU4NINE suspend
ed in syr6D0, so bishsahti even chFd1
rem like IL gYbd can ' soon' feel its
Strengthening Invigorattng Effect.
Price soc. Wed. IL
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

Communications on all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
MED by full names and address. Not
responsible for views of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

4gnnt5 NsSgk III NO1tOI1 TIE uhAD HOtEH
and tae Supplies notes made similar
demand fdF cotton. It was Suggested
that landlords could specify that
rentals be paid in part at least in
food harvests and in this way give
encouragement to the tenant farmers
and choppers" to raise grain and
other food crops. With market for all
farm products and the prospect bright
for good prices for a good time to
come, however, the money-notes plan
for the landlords and tenants is the
best method The cash basis is the
safest and most satisfactory all
around
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
asembsrs Of Associated Press.

F40HUOIb Ut F~0V"U
The Associated Fress is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
Of all news dispatches credited to 1t
or not otherwise credited In this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
attempt to assassinate Premie'

he attempt to assassinate Premier
Aenceau in France today brings
and our recent fear for President
u. No one said anything, but it
to suggest that millions of
Hans were all the time afraid
Z would hear of the assassin's eff
IS while our president was in Eu-
7. He slipped away more than once
went shopping in Paris all alone.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

A production 81 salt forom salt wa
tar IL, .sIectrigiy>nPq .ReGapS 50 sue
seaful h NdrEssl saAltAS,. plants,
each with an annual capacity of So
600 tons, will be established.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19
THIS ENTERPRISE GO

days ago the Dispatch report
y establishment Of an up-to. date
factory in Cordele. This new
came without much adver-
1t BAD little of the fuss made
Rthat usually accompanies a
w&rprse in community the
n our 'orlele, but this one is here
md getady at work 1t is all that
ave ttasked in the way of a good
al enterprise.
duct is also all that com.
luld ask The mattress out.
cd enough for any trade
- No better beds can he made
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-02-19

the cotton producers and bankers
together on a plan for holding the
ent. crop till the spinners need
here is likelihood of bringing
Ae producer the right price for it,
"a question of doing that, for the
n is going to be forced opay
| price for it when the gambler
I is hands on it. As yet much of
Top is still in the hands of the
Aler. Let us hope that some
hi will be determined upon
viii make it possible for the
IS to get the first chance at the
rice.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-25
REAL ESTATE AGENCY
FOR SALE

go Acres-King's Mountain road. II
miles from York.
$50 Acres-Six room dwelling and a
tenant house. York and Glover road,
l 1-2 miles from Glover.
$50 Acres-Two tenant houses, on
the York and Glover road, IL miles
from Clover.
81 Acres-on Pinckney road, 2 1-2
miles from York. Two 6-room houses
on the place.
Five Room House-On one acre lot,
on Charlotte road, near Cannon mill.
Good New Four Room HouSe-Lot
1OOx4O0 feet, on Charlotte street.
One Good New Five Room House
On lot 1OOx3OO, near Graded school.
Mrs. jamie Parish Property-1nclud-
| ing two houses and two lots, one on
Congress street and the other on Cleve-
land avenue.
One Five Room House-And l g.
room house on Kings Mountain street.
81 Acres-At McConnellsville, be-
tween ]. T. Crawford's and c. G. NV.
railroad.
| 20 AcreS-With two houses, within
two miles Of courthouse.
| II. T. Williams Property-Joining the
Graded school. Eight rooms on q
acre lot. Sewerage. lights, bath, etc.
@. F.. Sherer Restdence-Five room
house, on lot 110x250 feet. Good barn.
East Jefferson street.
-Four Room House and Lotion same
street.
Two Lots-On Lincoln street, oppo-
site ]. E. Johnson's residence; 80 foot
front, each.
| Lot-Kins Mountain street, be-
tween resideI .es Of w. L. Williams and
Mrs. D. E. Finley.
4S Acres--Of land near New Zion
church. Will sell cheap.
Five Room House-A Good Store
Building and two Acres Of Land, at
Filbert, belonging to Mr.. e. L. Wood
| c F. SHERER. Real Estate.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-25
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Calotabs are sold only In original
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