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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
WILL. NOT HOLD UP
ROAD FOR DRAINAGE
State Highway Engineer Commissioner
to Make Preliminary Survey for
e. Charlottesville Highway

Russell A. Snowden, engineer IN the
emplov of the State Highway Commls-
sion will come to Elizabeth City within
the next few days and make survey
of the Tadmore section of Newland
Township for the purpose OF advising
the State Highway Commission whether
the overflowed lands in that section
would be detrimental to the building OF
any other part of the proposed Eliza
beth City to Gatesville highway. Ii MI.
Snowden's survey establishes the fact
that other parts of the road will not
have to wait upon the drainage OF those
lands. the State Highway Commission
will at once approve Pasquotanks ap-
plication for State and Federal Aid on
this road. This Information was con-
veyed in a letter from Chairman Frank
Page of the State Highway Commission,
to A. B. Houtz of the Pasquotank High
way Commission yesterday.
Mr.. Page previously promised State
and Federal aid for this project, condl-
tional upon drainage of the three miles
of swamp between Tadmore and Acorr
Hill. where the proposed highway cross
es from Pasquotank into Gates. -
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
SAVED
LIFE OF CHILD
Believed That Supplications OF
Seven Towns Wrought Mi
raculous Cure of Little
Frank Williams

PRAYERS from the pulpits OF Sc
ven towns are believed to have
saved the life of Frank Lennox
Williams the little Is months old
son of Mrs. Fannie Lamb Hor-
of this city.
Little Frank Lennox Williams was
taken i'll with membranous Group Wea-
nesday. Jan. 2S. Double pneumonia de-
veloped and the child was threatened
with spinal meningitis. Its fever rose
beyond 1O6 and three physicians said the
child could not live.
If was then that the frantic mother
made an appeal to the churches in every
town in which she had friends, for pray
ers for the recovery of her child. In the
churches of Elizabeth City. Edenton'
Plymouth. Washington, Wlli1amston'
, Asbeville and elsewhere solemn prayers
were offered up for the recovery OF this
child. Doctors despairingly shook their
heads. And then the child recovered.
The skeptical will say that prayer hao
nothing to do with it, but those faml-
liar with the case, members OF the lam
ilv and intimate friends believe tha'
praver alone saved the child's life.
The illness of little Frank Lennox WI
Eams was peculiarly tragic because O.
his history. His father, Frank Lenho'
,, Williams was called to the colors shorti.
after his marriage to Miss FANNIE Lam
Hort6n of this city early IN 1910. ~
was killed in France about month De
fore the signing of the armistice and nj
child was born on the morning OF ARMS
: tice Day, Nov. IL, 1918 just Wnen III
e whistles and bells were proelaimlng tn
glad tidings.
a Mrs. Williams is a sister of Mrs: :
: c. B. Ehringhaus of this city. In
). prayers of seven cities and the astoune
4 ing recovery of the child against
odds is the talk of the town
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
THE RISEOF THE
HUMBLE HERRING
Once Plentiful at $1.O0 Per 1000,
Now Selling at 15c Each

= Herring sold at IS cents a piece
on the Elizabeth City retail fish
market last week and the fact
has raised little or no comment,
and vet it hasn't been a quarter
of a century since herring sold
for S1.OO a thousand and no one
thought of buying them at re-
tail at all.
Twenty or - years ago the herring
was the staple article of diet OF the
poor and middle classes OF eastern
North Carolina. Great seine fisheries
on the sound of North Carolina caught
millions of herring in a day. Every
family had itsI barrel of salted herring
and most folk had herring smoked or
dried. Corn bread and herring built
tbe bone and sinew of the proletariat.
We ate herrings for breakfast and her
ring for supper The thrifty farmers
of the piney woods region OF ferqul-
mans and Chowan counties bought cart
loads of herring from the fisheries on
| Chowan Sound. salted and smoked
these herring and carted them to Nor
folk. Va. where they found ready mar
ket The fisheries on Chowan Sound
salted and packed herring for shipment
lto every corner of the globe. Before this
generation the Chowan fisheries sem
lmany a cargo of herring to England tt
lexchange for brick. woodwork. Grand
father Clocks. silverware. table ware
linens and scarlet coats. Other cargoe
of herring went to the West Indies IL
exchange for sugar and rum
The herring precluded the entry o
old man High Cost of Living into east
arn North Carolina for more than
4 icentury. Labor living on corn pone an
n herring washed down with tea mad
v from home grown yopon and with nom
. made sorghum. a meal costing hardl
& more than a cent person. never dreah
h cd of kicking on wages OF 20 cents
g a dollar a day. Large families had L
terrors for the fish fed proletariat.
= But within few years a, great chang
t. has been wrought. Nearly all OF. II
s great seine fisheries have dissapeare
l. Where a catch of a hundred thousal
l. herrings in a seine was once consldef'
< moor haul. now thousand herr1l
at taken i'm a pound net stand is conSlder
20 q great CATCH Herring cost nearly
It. much to day as other foods, and II tn
cost less people probably wouldn't wa
be 70 eat them at all.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
$4,000 WORTH
OF new STREETS
Board of Aldermen Purpose to
Pave Parsonage and Ehring-
hause Streets and Sou
thern Ave.

The Board of Aldermen o. EilZ"beth
City in special session Monday night vo-
tad TO issue bonds in the sum OF go
o0O for new street paving and addition
nj bonds be issued as needs. City Man
,qer i c. Commander has recommend
cd the immediate paving of Parsonage
and Ehringhaus Streets and Southefh
Avanue He urges immediate action with
respect to Parsonage St. since is Is a
notorious fact that the Second Ward.
Che largest ward in the city has received
lass fayors at the hands of all admins
trations than any OTTER Ward in the
city. Parsonage st. Is the main artery
of the Second Ward and one of the hea-
w traffic streets OF the town.
MIR. Commander imnediately urge
the property holders on Parsonage 81
to arrange to pay for their half OF the
having as soon is completed, thereo!
giving the city money with which e
push other street paving projects FRO
nertv holders pay for one fourth of th'
having on each side of every pave'
street. thereby reducing the cost to th
citv one half. A bond issue of $23,Oo'
means $4,000 worth of street paving
if the property holders will consent t
pay their proportion of the cost as tn
paving is completed.
| In meantime Mr.. Commander promls
es TO push the construction OF sidewalk
where needed pending certain arrange
ments which must be effected befor
street paving can be gotten underway
the early spring.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
A COMMUNITY
BUILDING next
Movement Launched For a Civic
Center to Cost $150,G0O or
More

\ movement for a Community Build
ing to cost $150.00O to 100000 and to
meet the civic needs of Elizabeth CITY
for wears to come was launched at
down town luncheon Tuesday OF this
week About thirty representative men
and women were present at the lunch
con. !. NJ. McAIchael. of Charlotte. one
of the leading architects in the southeast
was a guest of the luncheon and he SUD-
mitted tentative plans for structure
which he believed would meet all local
requirements.
The plans call for a cross shaped bull
! ding 1876 feet wide by 1856 feet deep lt
would be three stories high. 1t would
! jcontain an auditorium seating l.SO0 per-
, sons with stage and loft to accommodate
1.-THE scenic properties of any operauc or
theatrical production on the road LII
! would contain a smaller auditorium seat
ing about 200 people and banquet hall
Ito accommodate 800 more at a sitting Inc
BANQUET hall could also be used for com
Immunity fairs bazaars, indoor games and
iamusements of various kinds.
,rba building also would accommodate
il public library. reading rooms, rest
irOOmS. Chamber OF OluLleISc anu Ni'i>
League quarters. committee rooms ano
Offices for City Manager, County Dem
ionstration Agent. Home Demonstratlo1
Agent. Public Welfare Commissioner
,etc.
The architects plans call for elaoo
: rate memorial windows. statuary ant
mural decoration commemoratlng tn
1 Igreat world war, giving the building
more the appearance of a massive wa
memorial than a peaceful civic center
This feature of the plans did not seer
ITO meet with much enthusiasm On
minister suggested that the decoration
should be designed to inspire peace
\ lbeauty and civic righteousness rathe
than to foster the spirit of milltarlsn
His suggestion met with some applaus
Suggested ground floor plans for I'll
proposed building are published els'
II where in this newspaper. The bulldlI
would have to be built by popular SUI
scriptions.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
FINED $lOO FOR
<<FEEDINC' GIRL
Taking Girl to Hotel Cost Coast
Guard Keeper a Tidy
Sum

2 Can't. A. w. Styron, Keeper of Coast
Guard Station No. $50. at Gull Shoai.
near Salvo. y. c.. was fined Slo1 ana
Matte Copeland. a young white girl Oh
this CITY. was sent to Samarcand Manor.
bv the Recorders Court of this city
Yesterday morning.
Can't. Styron carried the girl to the
Southern Hotel in this city Tuesday
night. He registered as A. W. styron'
of Beaufort. \. c. and registered the
girl as a Miss Berry of Massachusetts
They took seperate rooms. but the po-
lice found them in the same room the
following morning. Capt. Styron SUD
oi+tad in the case. arranged for the pay
,oan+ of whatever fine would be imposed
ond loft town The girl alone appeared
in police court yesterday morning. Ih'
girl is a daughter of Jack cope
land. who lives on Beech Stree'
and has given her father and the po
lice a lot of trouble. 1t was brought ou
in the Recorders Court that she ma
ioccunied rooms at numerous hotels an
boarding houses from time to tlme'
Ieverv case her room being paid for b
mon One night she stayed out with
C,rank all night. Miss Hettie Creecy
rooming house at the corner OF Churc
.a,,d Road Streets was one Of the place
!, mentioned in the evidence.
In regard to her affair with Capt. ot'
ron the girl testified that she met Gap
Stvron coming in on the train Wedne
ldav night. She told him she was hui
= prv and he begged her to go to the So'
: thern Hotel with him and get brea
> faxt She said she didn't consider tn
anv harm. Asked why she didn't
home and get breakfast she said Ca1
y styron wouldn't let her.
The copeland girl is the fourth TO
sent from Elizabeth City to Samarca
Manor. the state home for WayWa
y Girls within recent months.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
SETS
Up PHISP'I.l lAETFORM
Rot Afraid of Real Government
Ownership - Is For More
Farms and Farming

wban q man offers himself as can
didate for any legislative Office that man
sbould make some statement Of his po-
sition on those questions OF 1mIniheht
nub,ic concern. w O. Saunders, can
didate for Congress from the First Con-
gre ssionaT District of North Carolina
states his position on the following pro-
positions:-
He is for public ownership OF the
rail roads. telephones, telegraph, mines,
large abbatoirs, grain elevators ana
large water power properties
. 3. He is for taxes to force idle lands
into use.
8. He is for free speech, free press
and peaceable assembly.
4. He is for the right of labor to Or
eanize and bargain collectively thru re
representatives. of it's own choosing.
5. He is for War Referendum, de
nying to Congress the right to declare
war without first ascertaining the VII
of the people by referendum vote.
I. He is opposed to universal m1lltar.
by internationl agreement.
| 6. He as for universal dlsarmameh
training or any other attempt to mpfeS
tbe spirit of militarism upon the Amer
lean people.
8. He is for free trade.
9. He is for Federal aid for all pun
lie roads and public schools.
10. He is for Federal acquisition a0
reclamation of swamp and -overflowe
lands: the lease of such lands, When II
claimed. upon reasonable terms to set
lars and the loan of money upon 1af
homes and farm machinery to encou
age the rapid settlement of such lan'
and promote the growing OF more Io'
and other staple crops.
II. He is for any measure that w
u imnroye the condition of the tarmll
class, make farming more attractive al
p induce people to go back to the farm
:. for the nation is dependent upon
L Horticulture and a large agricultural cia
!. .an save the country from -reVolutle
anarchy. bankruptcy and starvation.
12. He is for full publicity of all lie
;.lative measures and will. if elect
keen his constituents freely and III
, Informed. at all times, upon all measul
in which they are. or should be 1ntere
i, cd
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
+ HAS ELIZABETH CITY
: GOT A FLU EPIDEMIC
ooo+ors Disauree And When Doctors
Disagree There is Hope For
Any Patient

Has Elizabeth City an epidemic OF
,nf;uenza? City Health Officer DR..
wm a. Peters thinks so. Some doc
tors agree with him; some don't. Dr'
isaiah Fearing says there is no Flu,
that Elizabeth City has it's perennial
endemic of bad colds; that eondit'ons
are NOT worse here than they nave
been any time in "a years.
DR.. Claude Williams says: What
tho b.-I does Ike Fearing know about
it; he stays down around Weeksv'lie
and hasn't enough town practice 10
!: know"
In meantime the Board of Alder
+ men has taken no steps to put the
= ban on public gatherings, not neins
: convinced that there is as yet any oe-
. casjon for unusual alarm.
. = > y
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20

Small Inspired by Article In his
Newspaper Wants to Help Newland
Drain Swamp for Eliz. City
Catesville Highway

The interest of Congressman
Tohn H. Small in the proposed
Elizabeth City-Gatesville high
way has been aroused by an ar
ticle on the subject featured IN
last weeks issue of this newspa-
per. Mr.. Small says he wants to
help that project and will, first
of all. secure an expert drainage
engineer from the Z. S. Depart
nent of Agriculture in the mat
! ter of the drainage problem con-
fronting the builders OF. the pro-
posed road. Here is MIR. Small's
letter to this newspaper
Editor, The independent
| I read in the last issue of Phe indie
pendent with unusual interest your artl-
/, Gle on the first page discussing the ad-
visibility of constructing a hard sur
faced highway between Elizabeth City
tand Gatesville. which it appears Will
have the approval of the State High
way Commission and would ldNreceive' Fed
eral and State cooperation. 1t further
appears that the preliminary obstacle Is
, the swamp between Tadmore. in: Pasquo-
tank County and Acorn Hill i'm Gates
county. comprising a distance. OF about
three miles, This swamp in the view
iof Mr.. Frank Page, Chairman OF the
State Highway Commission, should be
fdrained not only with: view of drain
ing the road bed, but of reclaimlng
1, e. Tan
In a general way I have some know
ledge of the lands embraced in this
I swamp and it has always been my in
nation that the soil was fertile and on
l., required drainage to make it produc-
tive.
I would be delighted if the opportun-
;ty was presented by which l could rem
der some service in initiating this drain
age movement. looking to the estabhsh-
ment of a drainage district If the owners
of this swamp land desire me to do so L
believe | can secure the service OF an ex-
= per drainage engineer from the Bureau OF
Drainage L. S. Dept. of Agriculture, to
! make an inspection of this area, as a
Y result of which he could advise whether
Lit was susceptible of drainage by graV-
). itx. whether more than one drainage DIS
" Ftrict was necessary. and whether IL couio
be drained at a cost which would Justl-
fy the expenditure. This preliminary
information would be quite essential In
y enabling the land owners to reach wise
conclusion as to the establishment OF a
l.. drainage district. If you are some other
Ienterprising citizen would undertake to
:. call the landowners together and ascer-
tain their wishes in this respect, L wouic
undertake to secure the services OF
, drainage engineer. 1 may add that 1t Il
not possible to have this engineer make
an instrumental survey as the Depart
- ment does not now perform work O
~ that extensive character, owing to TN
reduced number of engineers who ar
~ available.
, If the engineer should submit fav
49, orable report upon this preliminar
~ question. 1 would be glad to attend
meeting of The landowners and explal
to them the necessary procedure IN Tn
establishment of a drainage district
, Very sincerely,
JOHN II. SMALL.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
SAYS MANURE ON LAWNS
AIDS FLIES TO BREED
Ones Front Lawn May Breea AS MANY
Flies as Stables, Says New
City Manager IT

Horse and COW stable manure on lawns
and gardens provides as suitable breed
ing place for flies as the same manure
piled in sheds and stables, says City
Manager +. C. Commander. Mr. Com
mander urges housewives and property
owners to cooperate with him in abat-
ing the fly nuisance by refralnmg from
the use of manures on their lawns ana
gardens.
If has been established beyond dis
nute that flies breed in manure. Eliza
beth City has an effective ordinance to
make every owner of a stable keep ma
nure in fly tight compartments and keep
it sprinkled with prescribed daslntec-
tants. Mr.. Commander purposes to see
that this ordinance is enforced But
enforcement of this ordinance will not
accomplish desired results If property
| owners continue to spread manure on
/ their lawns and pile it up around rose
bushes. providing breeding places Tor
flies. Mr. Commander also points out
that the use of manure on lawns is un-
slightly and in every way offensive to
! dacency He doesn't want to appear
harsh or cranky in the eyes of people
who are trying to beautify their premis-
es. but he insists that an application OF
hardwood ashes and little nitrate OF
soda will give the lawn or garden bet
ter results than the manure. The ashes
provide lime and potash and the nitrate
lof soda supplies the ammonia; there one
!, has every essential plant and soil nutrl
: ment in convenient, slightly and inof
fensive form.
Persons who desire further informa
: lion about the use of ashes and nitrate
7 of soda can get further information from
the City Manager.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
advertisement
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This entities me to your SCI
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
GRouP ONE NJ. C. BANKERS
ASSOCIATION MEETS MONDAY

Group One of the North Carolina
Bankers Association will hold its fifth
annual meeting in the High School Au-
di+orinm at Edenton, Monday, Feb. 70.
The meeting will be followed by ban
quent Monday ngiht. The omcers oi
Group One are: President ID. u. hra7
mer. cashier of the Savings Bank q
Trust Co., of Elizabeth City; v1ce-presl-
dent John B. Sparrow, cashier OF the
savings & Trust CO., of Washington
secretary treasurer. c. H. Goodwin, cash
ier of the Peoples Bank, of Williamson
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20

FARM FOR SALE:-Near real city
big prices for produce. Bargain. U. D.
p HOLLAND. BOG Bankers Trust Bldg
Norfolk Va.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20

FOR SALE:-One pair of home raised
mules. 4 and years old. Weigh about
900 pounds. Apply to W. r. LAM
BERT, City. ptzO-t
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
ONE, ARMENIAN RESIDENT
SETS SPLENDID EXAMPLE
Mike Mettrey RENTS $1,000 To Starving Friends
~ and Kinsrnen in Bible Lands Thru
American Committee For Ar
1nenian-Syrian Relief

T. j. Markham m----------------- 5000
V. r. Gilmore 1900
Raymond Sheeley's Glass 1900 |
Mrs. Sarah msden-------1 1000 |
Rev and Mrs. J. NJ. Ormond---- 1000 !
Roy Henderson---------- 500
Arthur 500
W. c. Sawyer----- 500
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Scott-------- 500
Miss Woods Class 500
Mrs. Herbert Walkers Glass LIS
Miss Emma Willis Glass; 500
Mrs. G. F. Derickson- 500
Miss DOROTHY Jones Class-- 800
Thos. Cameron n+---------------- LOO
Total 10
A number of subscriptions to the Near
East Relief Fund were sent direct to
State Headquarters during the Christ
mas holidays. The total of these was
$4,000 and here is an itemized state
ment of these:-
Names of parties who signed adoption
agreements:
Norfolk & Carolina Tel & Tel. Co.--$6O
Mrs. Jennie ichard-------------- ~
]. NJ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 90
Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Gaither------- 60
w. \. Brothers----------- 6O
J Names of those who sent in contri-
i butionS:-
IG F. Pritchrd- $4,000
Geo. w Pendleton------------ LOO
Mrs. c. w. Hollowen-----------6 60.OO
Miss Carrie Morrisette- 800
Mrs 7 4. Kranier- 1900
Jno G. Tashiian 25.OO
Total -$436 0C
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-02-20
BANKS CLOSE

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Washington's Birthday being a nd
. +jonaI holiday all Elizabeth City
. hanks will be closed Monday, Fen.
: 22nd.
: (Signed)
First & Citizens National Bank
8 Savings Bank & Trust. Co.
+ cF20-1t
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-07-22
"SHAUGHNESSY MAY
RUN FOR CONGRESS

John F. Shaughnessy. chairman of
the Nevada public service commits
5ion, and one of the leading Demo
rats of the state, may announce as a
candidate for congress within the next
ew days, according to reports cur
ZEN in Democratic circles, says the
Reno Gazette.
When asked to make a public state
aent Mr.. Shaughnessy stated that he
was not a candidate for the place, but
Omitted that he had been asked by
eading Democrats to enter the pri-
nary and said that the matter had
been placed before him strongly and
hat he had taken it under considera-
lion.
1t is believed that in case Shaugh-
lessy determines to become a candi-
date he will make his announcement
within a few days.
News that the chairman of the pub
lie service commission might take a
ling at the congressional race was
commented upon with unusual inter-
est by Democratic politicians, espec-
tally in view of the fact that r. G..
Stoddard, former encouragement,
and until recently a district Judge of
Washoe county, was known to have
the same matter under consideration.
Reno politicians were of the opinion
that if either announced the other
would remain out of the field, in or
der to avoid the dangerous expert
ment of creating a t-hree-cornered
fight with Congressman c. R. Evans
as a principal factor, Evans has al
ready announced his candidacy for re-
nomination and is admittedly a for
midable opponent for any man even
in a single-handed fight.
Shaughnessy has long been re-
garded by Democrats as a favorable
prospect for a state congressional
nomination. Both eight and twelve
years ago he was seriously considered
by members of his party in connec-
ton with the governorship. He was a
member of the state railroad commits
sion for many years and is % chair
man of the Nevada public service
commission.