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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
Mr.. ATWATER TO TAKE OVER
WASHINGTON, N. c. PHARMACY

Garland M. Atwater, of the pharm-
aceuticai staff of the Standard Pharm-
acy of this city, has purchased the
Blount Pharmacy, in Washington, N. c..
and will take possession just as soon as
the Standard Pharmacy accepts his res
ignation. Mr.. Atwater rendered his res
ignation to the Standard Wednesday
morning, to take effect as soon as q
successor to his position can be found
by that company.
Mr.. Atwater's move comes as a sur
prise, even to his intimate friends. He
recently built himself a big, life time
looking home here on Elliott ST. 1t is
understood that he will lease his home
to w. G. Gather, Jr. cashier of the First
& Citizens National Bank.
Blount's Pharmacy is one of the lead
ing drug stores in the town of Wash
ington, has a splendid location and an
established trade among the best fami-
lies in that city.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
c. w. BROWN GETS IN BAD
. WITH NORTHERN NEGROES

Cleon w. Brown, Elizabeth Citys
only Negro attorney has got himself in
bad with the Negroes up north, ac-
cording to press clippings he has re-
ceived lately. Brown attended mass
meeting of Negroes in Washington, D.
G. few weeks ago which was address,
ed by several Northern Negroes who
urged their brethren to leave the be-
nighted South. Brown, called upon
to make a speech, extended an invita-
ton to the Negroes to come to Eliza
beth City and northeastern North Caro-
lima. He said some parts Of the South
might be bad for the Negro, but he
found it pretty comfortable living down
here and said he would stake his part
of the south at least, against anything
the north has to offer. And now the
Negro press up North is accusing
Brown of being retained by southern
employment agencies. Brown thinks
the white people Of his home town
ought to appreciate his Washington
speech, since the Washington Negroes
didn't.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
CLEANUP WEEK HERE
STARTS OFF in PARADE
But There Is No Evidence of Cleaning
Up in Appearance of City's
Streets

A street parade more than half a mile
in length reminded Elizabeth City Tues
day that this is Cleanup Week. The
parade was staged by Mrs. James G.
Fearing, Safety League Organizer OF
the N. c. Insurance Department. in CO.
operation with Chief Harris of the Eliz-
abeth City Fire Department. Elizabeth
City's fire fighting apparatus, street
cleaning department and nearly l,OOo
school children made up the parade.
The appearance of streets carts ana
street cleaning apparatus in the parade
surprised many citizens along the line
of march. The condition of the city S
streets would indicate that the city ad-
rninistration had no street cleaning ap-
paratus at all. Elizabeth City's streets
are dirtier than they have been in years.
The unpaved streets of the city are IN
worse condition than the worst dirt
roads in the country. The people IN the
Second Ward are the worst sufferers.
For 20 years they have been elect1ng
Mack Sawyer and Louis Anderson TO
represent them on the Board OF Aloer-
men and they are worse off to-day than
thew were 20 years ago.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
BUILDING STEAMERS FOR
SERVICE VIA TWO CANALS
Virginia-Carolina Navigation Company Will Operate
Between This City And Norfolk With
Boats Built on Local Yard

The largest ship ever built
from keel up in Elizabeth City
is now under construction on
the wards of the Elizabeth City
Ship Yard Co. It is one of two
freight and passenger steamers
TO be built here for the Virginia.
Carolina Navigation Co. for it's
service between Elizabeth City
and Norfolk.
The ship under construction is 120
feet long, 23k feet wide and 8 feet
deep. She will have a draft of only
51a feet loaded. Her capacity will be
80 tons and she will be equipped with
oil burning boilers and 800 H. P. en-
gine capable of propelling her at a
speed of u miles an hour.
Forty to so men are employed on the
lob and it is hoped to launch the ship
complete in just six weeks from to-day.
The builders are working out plans to
install the machinery in the hull and
finish the ship complete on the ways,
launching her under her own steam;
= trick never before attempted in these
waters and seldom employed anywhere.
The Virginia Carolina Navigation Co.
originally founded by G. w. Harrison
a former Elizabeth City boy, is now
controlled by Harris, MaGill & Co., a
substantial New York shipping firm
whose member have made frequent
visits to Elizabeth City and who are
impressed with the water transporta-
ton possibilities of this city and Sec
ton. The company now operates a
Baltimore 1t will operate two steam
ers from Elizabeth City to Norfolk, as
feeders for the Baltimore line. One
of these steamers will ply via the Dismal
Swamp Canal; the other via the Abe.
marie & Chesapeake government canal
route, thus giving service to the ship
pers of three northeastern North Caro-
lima counties-Pasquotank Camden and
Currituck.
The building of these two steamers in
Elizabeth City has done much to en-
courage the shipbuilding industry here
and will give employment to much
labor and at a time when shipyards
around Norfolk are turning off men.
The Elizabeth City Ship Yard Co.
is completely equipped for such work,
having its own saw mill for cutting
ship timbers and having nearly a quar-.
ter of a mile waterfront on which to
operate.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
WANTS TARIFF
TO HELP BEANS
American Soy Bean Doomed if
Chinese Product Isn't
Kept Out

Soy Bean growers in northeastern
North Carolina who have been unable to
find a market for their immese 1918
crop of beans are beginning to realize
that something big and effective must
or the south will be forced to abandon
the SOY heanas az .staple crop The
only way out is thru a protective tar
iff on beans, thinks Frank V. Scott,
a bean harvester manufacturer of this
city.
The absence of a market for native
beans at anything like a fair price
to the farmer is due entirely to the
enormous importation of Manchurian
beans, says Mr.. Scott. American manu-
facturers imported II million bushels
of beans and a million gallons Of soy
bean oil from Manchuria last year.
Thousands of Chinese farmers are en-
gagged in the culture Of these beans and
are content with a return of few cents
a bushel for their product. American
farmers can't compete with Cinnamon
in the production Of a crop that is
peculiarly of Chinese origin.
Mr.. Scott has tried to enlist the
manufacturers in a movement to Sc
cure protection for the American grow
ers, but finds that the manufacturers
are not interested. The manufacturers
want cheap beans. Mr.. Scott also finds
that the fertilizer manufacturers are
enemies of the native bean, because the
soy bean takes the place of thousands
of tons of commercial fertilizer on the
overworked farm lands of North Caro-
lima. Nothing helps the soil like a crop
of soy beans, and the fertilizer men are
not interested in improving the soil
by a natural process. If the culture
of the soy bean in this country can be
discouraged, so much the greater de-
mand for commercial fertilizers.
Mr.. Scott believes the growers should
organize and get their Congressman
and Senators busy to chink the tariff
wall against the inflow Of cheap beans
from Chink-land
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
GEO. PAPPENDICK'S FINE
OF $3.50 RENTED

The City Council of Norfolk, Va. this
week remitted a fine Of $3.50 which was
imposed upon Geo. F. Pappendick of
Elizabeth City, by the Norfolk City
Court last Christmas. Mr.. Pappendick
was fined on a charge of selling short
weight turkeys. His turkeys were
weighed in Elizabeth City and the
weights marked. He sold them accord
ing to those weights, failing to allow
for the fact that the birds had lost
weight in shipment. The Norfolk City
Council was convinced that Mr.. Pap
pendick did not intend to commit a
crime, hence the remittance of the fine.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
POLICEMAN FIRED UPON
BY UNKNOWN PARTIES

Night Patrolman Will Forbes of the
Elizabeth City police force was fired
upon by some unknown party on Pool
Ne' near the county Jail, about 9 o.
CLOCK Wednesday night. Patrolman
fofbes says he distinctly heard the
swish of the first bullet as it passed
MS face. The rest of the bullets didn't t
catch up with him. Policeman Forbes
Went home and changed his clothes.
He changed his clothes, he says, to
get rid of brass buttons. He says he
thlnks the brass buttons on his uniform
made him an easy mark
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
THE MIRROR TELLS YOU

whether your glasses are mech
anically fitted; whether the
lenses are of the correct size;
whether your eyes are in the
center of both lenses or whether
your eye 1ashes just miss them
whether the nose or ear pieces,
or bows, are comfortable. If
your mirror tells you that your
glasses are not just right, better
have HATHAWAY look them
over. 1t not only takes a skill
ed Optometrist to fit the eyes, it
takes an expert mechanic to fit
and adjust the glasses to your
face. HATHAWAY service COM
bines perfected Optometry with
expert mechanics.
DR.. !. D. HATHAWAY
Optometrist
Phone ooo Bradford Bldg.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
A VALVE BLEW OUT
SCALDING TWO MEN

Elias Pritchard and Noah Toler, two
young men in the employ of Miles
Jennings of this city, were painfully
but, it is believed, not seriously injured
about 5 o'clock Wednesday morning
when the big valve giving outlet to
six steam boilers at the plant of the
Dare Lumber Company blew out.
Both men were painfully and severely
burned about the face, arms and neck;
but it is not believed that either was
permanently disfigured or seriously in
jured Toler was able to walk home
after the accident and had his burns
dressed by a physician at his home.
Pritchard was more painfully burned
and had to be carried home in an auto
after his burns had been dressed.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
DISTRICT HIGHWAY TO
BE BUILT RIGHT AWAY
District Commission at First Meeting Advertises
Bonds F or Road to Connect This City With
Albenarle Sound And Norfolk

The Northeastern North
Carolina District Highway Com
mission, created by the recent
General Assembly and empow-
cred to build a million dollar
hard surfaced highway connect
ing Elizabeth City with the Albe-
marie Sound on the south and
the Virginia state line on the
north, organized at Edenton
Tuesday and unanimously
agreed to lose no time in getting
the construction of the million
dollar bouvelard under way.
Bonds will be advertised at once.
The commission is composed of one
member from each of the five coun-
tise in the district. They are Hal G.
Wood, of Chowan; Chas. Whedbee, of
Perquimans; P. w. Mcmillan, of Pas
quotank; w. J. Morrisette, of Camden.
and Walter S. Newbern, of Currituck.
Mr.. Whedbee was elected chairman of
of the Commission and Mr.. Morrisette,
Secretary, at Tuesdays meeting.
The new State highway act pro-
vides state and federal aid for state
road projects approved by the N. c..
State Highway Commission. The act
creating the Northeastern North Caro-
lima District Highway Commission pro-
| vides for the building of road that
will be recognized part of the state
highway system and will be maintain
| ed by state and federal aid when built
The bill was drawn to take ADVANTAGE
| of state and federal aid for initial con-
struct1on. The commission under
stands that it will encounter no diff
Guilty in getting 100000 to $75O,0OO of
state and federal aid on the project
before undertaking work, leaving the
| cost to the five counties $250,0O0 to
| $5OO,O0O, a fourth of which will be borne
by property owners abutting or dir
ectly benefited by the highway. The
! only possible chance of this great high
| way project collapsing, is the possible
| chance of the State Highway Commits
| sion refusing to recommend state and
federal aid for the project. The State
Highway Commission has absolute au-
| thority in alloting moneys from the
state road fund and the federal road
fund available for use iii this state.
,isaaots ant fpated however that the'
| State Highway Commission will turn
down this northeastern North Caro-
line highway. The idea of uniting the
five northeastern North Carolina coun-
F.! ties in such a project originated in the
Office of the State Highway Commission
and conforms with the present state
| wide highway program.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
GOVERNOR APPOINTS STATE
HIGHWAY COMMISSION

Governor Beckett has appointed as
state highway commissioners Lieut.
CHAIRMAN; John E. Cameron, Kinston;
James K. Norf1eet, Winston Salem,
ana James J. Stackleather, of Ashville.
lhelr terms of the office begin April
on which date they are to meet in
raleigh for organization.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28

A case of sleeping sickness reported
at the Southern Hotel in this city this
week turned out to be travelling man
who failed to get up in time to catch
that early morning train, after having
been called twice.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
HOUSEWIVES LEAGUE

The Housewives League will meet
next Wednesday afternoon at o'clock,
in the rest rooms in the Hinton build
ing. All the members and all ladies
who are interested in this organization
are urged to be present.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
FAVORITE LOCAL STARS TO
MAKE FAREWELL APPEARING

Seats are going good for the Old
Time Singing School to be staged at
the High School Auditorium this even
ing, Friday, March %, at o'clock. 1t
is announced that John Culpepper Gas
is) and Miss Virgilia Banks Gas such)
will make their farewell appearance in
this evenings entertainment.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
DO 1T AT BED TIME

Set your clock up one hour Satur-
day night The law says do it at 2
o'clock Sunday morning, but you can
do it at bed time Saturday night just
as we'll.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28

FOR SALE:-FuI blood Duroc Jersey
and Poland China Pigs, male and fe-
male. For particulars address J. H.
AYDLETT, Elizabeth City, N. G.
pMr28 st.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28

lie will demand that the authorities lose
no time in placing these children in in
stitutio1ls where they will be given an
opportunity to grow clean and straight.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28

Champ Clark, former Speaker of the
House of Representatives will lecture
here Wednesday night, April 9.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28

Norfolk Markets on page 12 this week.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-28
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New-York tribune., 1919-09-09

his uncles-Daniel c. Kingslana
Ambrose c. Kingsland, whaling sna sne
shipping merchants and later rss, and
tate investors, the. latter Mavos ~.
New York in 1858. He later becsr oi
trustee.
He was charter member 10 4,
Union League Club of Brooklyn, sns ,ns
was for many years a member os .aa "a
Montauk and Rembrandt clubs me ny
was also an associate of the Now w
Society of the Order of the Foundo..k ao.k
and Patriots of America and 1:.
member of the Brooklyn Institn.." "is -
Arts and Sciences '"
On October 10. 1883, he married =.
late Sarah Bennett, daughter OF Gso.nss .ns
c. Bennett, founder arr .~.i:>s- cs srss se
Brooklyn Tire" On Nay u. Isf,a .e a
married Cornelia ". Russ. daughts, as u.
John Augustus Russ, jr. Mr. ~. n.
Beixcdon leaves a widow and five .h.' ~
dren; Mrs. o. Edwin Barnes. Benr"..
De Beixedon. Mrs. Ernest Penseld s.s
Sarah De Bcixedon, by MS first ma, a
riage, and by .hc secord Daniel -
maux be Reixcdor.
The funeral services vil he held ..
his late residence. IT I.ghth Ayenrs'
Brooklyn. this Afternoon a. 2 o'cocs
and viii pe conducted by the Rev. Jobr
Williams, Of Calvary Protestant En;.
copal Church. I ne irterment will L.
in Greenwood (nmetcry
New-York tribune., 1919-09-09
Babies Big Feature
OF First Glass i'm
An1ericaniZatiOn
Italian Women Say Their
Chief Thought Is for Lit
tic Citizens of Future;
Hundreds Are Registered

Even the babies appeared at Public
School No. IA, 22O East Sixty-third
Street, along with their proud mammas
who registered for citizenship classes
last night. The Italian women were at
pains to explain that they were taking
advantage Of the opportunities offered
them chiefly for the sake of the chill
dren, who will be citizens Of the
future.
1t was the first night of rcgistra-
ton for the courses offered by the
State Department of Immigrant Educa-
ton, the city school board and the
Lenox Hill Settlement working in con-
junction with each other. Hundreds
Of Italians residing between East
Ffty-ninth and East Ninetieth streets
signed up, and a mass meeting de-
veloped. The Latin passion for music
and oratory had free rein. The Amer-
can and Italian anthems were sung
by men and women, some of whom
were barely able to speak English.
1t was explained by Miss Rosalie
Manning, head of the LcnoX Hill Set
tlemcnt, that the Bohemian and Italian
executive committees aimed definitely to
get naturalization papers standardized
upon to tell who sank the Lusitania
while another was asked to define Boil
shevism. Furthermore, they hoped to
get the government to make it COM
pulsory for them to take school courses
and pass a qualifying examination be-
fore taking out their papers.
Professor P tro l.. Zampieri, head
of the department of Romance Ian
guages, University of Michigan, ap-
pealed to his audience in Italian and
enumerated the benefits that would ac-
crue from a knowledge of English. He
defined true Americanzation for them
saying it was not the hocus pocus thing
which was continually being thrown in
their faces until it alarmed them, but
that it meant education, protection OF
the home and practical knowledge OF
politics.
The campaign projected by the state
covers fifteen districts which will
rapidly he organized aftc. the manner
of the Italian and Bohemian sections
where the experimental work is now
under way. An attcmnr viii be made 70
inspire sympathy by giving the people
OF each race teachers Of their owr
nationality. The kpps Bay Neignoor-
hood Association. which covers the
area from East Thirty-fourth Street tc
East Flftyninth Strecr, is working with
LenoX Hill Settlement, and committee
are rapidly being formed. The foreign
born peoples themselves arc taking the
initiative, SO anxious are they for in
structlon OF the kind now being offered
thcrn
New-York tribune., 1919-09-09
OBITUARY NOTES

CHARLES ROBERT BARNES. tortv-o,.
an cmpi0ye of The American Can Comp,nv
dicd Saturday at Dorlon Point. South M.
n3ik. Conn.
FERDINAND CoLDsrEIN. sixty.n,,.
who was employed for forty years BY n r.
Eighteenth Street Brooklyn. When he =.
tired he wss CiaAi1's Oldest salesman. -
MRS. FRIEDA BLUM LEWYT. fo,.v
VIE of Arthur Lewyt. Of the Novelty W.
Works, New York, died Friday at Rs,S
Beach. ~
MRs. MARY NASH PURCELL. widow
Of Thomas Purcell. leather goods mann.
tacturer, died Saturday at her home. "a
L nden Avenue Flatbush VIZ
JOHN JOSEPH FLYNN. sixty-th-e. cs,-
erai super ntendent Of the torpedo d.ns-
ment of he L W Bliss Company. ?. EsI.
Avenue and Fifty-third Street. BrootIyss'
died Sunday night. He had been d;rs......
L1EL1F NANT EDWARD V. HarpN
whose name Is on the roll # honor Of -.
Now York Fire Department. died Sn,sss sas
night n go SiNty-frst Street. Brooklvs
he was - ricoibe- of Engine Company so5
JOHN J.. 2. DAHL. fftv-sve .r...n.
of The Norwegian Lutheran Church Of os,
Saviour, Brooklyn. died Saturday. WI
AUGUST EMIL JAIN. a retired eo-,..
and trustee and director OF the Fulton S.s
nss Bank. Drcokiyn. died Saturday n;sI.
He was v.ce- -presiden. Of the Eastern b.
trici Hosrital. ~
ALEXANDER RCTT. who was en,nlov.,
by the. New York Central Railroad ss =
foreman for twenty years. d.ed Sunday =,
his ho.ne. -55 Maple Stree. Brooklyn. "
MRS HELEN {. s. ROGERS. wife q. -.
2ev. Warren /. RogeA. rector Of St Jobn'.
Protestant Episcopal Church, Jersey Civ
died Saturday night in the hospital at yorI.
Village. Me, after an operation for appen'
lictis 'f1e"'
New-York tribune., 1919-09-09
Josiah Quincy, Former
Mayor of Boston, Dead
Descendant of Revolutionary
Family; Long Active in Bay
State Politics

BOSTON. Sept. S.-Josiah Quincy,
former Mayor and for n time in 1893
First Assistant Secretary Of State, died
at tig home here to-day He was sixty
years Of age. Mr.. Quincy was active
for many years in the conduct Of ma
tionai and state Democratic campaigns
and since 1905 had been member of
Che Boston Transit Commission.
Josiah Quincy, q one time one of the
leading democratic politicigns of Mas
sachusetts, was born - 1859 in Quin~
cy, MasG. q town to which his family
gave is name. One of his ancestors
was revolutionary patriot and another
wus Mayo. II Boston.
Nh. QlNcy was graduated from Har
vard College with high honors in the
class Of 1890. and was admitted to the
bar four years later. He served in the
House Of Representatives in 1887, 1888,
1886 and 1891, holding places on the
Democratic nooc leader. He was origi-
nally n Republican, but he left that
party in 1854 upon the nomination OF
James G. Blaine.
His first substantial political victory
in Massachusetts Was the nomination
and election Of Governor Russell in
1890. For this success he was made
chairman Of The excessive committee.
AS Mayer Of Boston from 1895 to 1893
his ability to get results attracted wide
attention. During his admin stration
he started system q public baths and
turned the frog pond or Boston Com
mon into swimming pool. He also re-
formed the Department Of Charities
established municipal printing shop
Music Department and an Art De-
partment.
"In 1913 Mr.. Quincy was indicted on
charge of conspiracy in connection
with the Julian Hawthorne mining en-
terprise case. The jury acquitted nim
New-York tribune., 1919-09-09
Equity Accepts Compromise
W it h Managers, b u t
Threats of Vaudeville
Strike Come to the Fore
Leaders Keeping Silent
New Agreement Gives Full
Recognition to Union and
Pledges No Walkout

Members of the Actors Equity Asso-
citation, at a closed meeting yesterday
in the Lexington Theatre, ratified the
terms upon which their strike against
the Producing Managers Association
had been settled and cheered state
ments of their leaders that indicated
the next strike in the theatrical
industry would be directed against the
vaudeville theatres.
The fact that strife is brewing in
vaudeville was revealed when an
Equity actress, addressing the leaders
on the stage, asked:
"Will this contract of ours prevent
Mr.. Albee, of the United Booking
Office, from discriminating against
me? I've been working in vaudeville
temporarily"
w b. Rubin, an organizer of the