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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
HON. AUBREY L. BROOKS
SCORES HEAVILY HERE.
North Carolina Democrats Will Lose an
Opportunity to Make History IT
Brooks Loses Nomination

Hon. Aubrey L. Brooks, candidate for
the q, s. Senate, scored heavily against
his opponent Lee S. Overman, in his
speech here last Saturday when he re-
minded his audience that in the 70 years
he has been in Office, Senator Overman
has never set foot in Northeastern North
Carolina, has never kept in touch with
any part of the state except his own
home section and relies upon polltl-
cal machine to keep himself in office. Mr.
Brooks might have told his audience
that Senator Overman sleeps most of
the time he is in the Senate Chamber
and is pointed out to visitors as the
sleeping Senator.
Mr.. Brooks made votes in Elizabeth
City. He is easily the intellectual peer
of all the old school politicians, an able
LAWYER. an experienced and efficient man
of business, a gentleman, scholar and
a Christion He is the one man North
Carolina Democrats could put against
any Republican nominee in the state IL
a close election and the one North Car
lima Democratic statesman who woult
prove a match in the Senate for sucf
giants as Borah, johnson and LaF'ol
lette. North Carolina will lose an op
portunity to make history if the Demo
Gratis fail to nominate Aubrey L. Brook!
| in to-morrow,s Primary.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
WILL COMPLETE
WEEKSVLLERD
And Will Then Have Money For
Is Miles of Road Up The
County

The construction of the brick road
from the new Fair Grounds near Eliz-
abeth City to Weeksville will be pushed
to completion. The idea of leaving a
two mile gap in the road to be completed
at some future time has been definitely
Abandoned The decision was reached
and made public by the Pasquotank
Highway Commission Tuesday of this
week.
Talk of leaving the road unfinished
grew out of hostile rumors. Enemies
of the Highway Commission have re-
peatedly declared that the Weeksville
road would absorb every dollar of the
$500, 1000 bond issue to be spent by this
county. So insistent has been this talk
that even uniformed members of the
Highway Commission almost believed it
and had said they would stop construc-
| ton on the road if it should cost SO
much.
But the facts are as represented III
| this newspaper last week. Deductlns
the cost of machinery and other charges
that should be charged against all road
work in the county, the nine miles OF
| Weeksville road, including all bridges
and culverts is going to cost about $40,
OOO Engineer Higgs assures the Com
mission that he will complete the Weeks
vile road and build not less than thir
teen miles of road anywhere else in th'
county out of the funds available.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
MEN WHO GO ON BOATS
ARE FOR JOHN II. SMALL
Vessel Owners Know What He Has
Done For Our Inland Sounds
and Rivers

Landlubbers may laugh at the rivers
and harbors approp riationss for this state
secured In Congress thru the efforts of
Congressman John II. Small, but owners
and masters of vessels are for Congress
man Small. They know what he has
done for the inland waters of this re-
gion. The following letter is typical.
Alex. Simpson of Wanchese, Roanoke
Island, writing to this newspaper under
date of June 1 says:-
Il am glad to see that boost for
Small. I am a Small man and wish I
could vote for him a thousand times. All
of his water works suits me. I run a
little schooner, the "Onward.' can
hoist sails with fair wind and sail to
Norfolk in day. 1 call it 100 miles
thru the rivers and canals. There has
been good work done on them in the
past few years. Thanks to Mr.. Small
they have been made wider, deeper an6
straighter. We are banking on hin
having Shell Greek dredged out to high
land. a thing We people on the island
need and if it gets dredged Mr.. Smal
will be the one to get it dredged.
hope he'll get the nomination and h
will if everybody feels about it like u
| folks on the water
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
BETTER WATER
NOW PROMISED
New Filter Plant Now in Opera
ton Declared One of Best
In The South

Elizabeth City will have water that
folks can drink in few days, accord
ing to the latest assurance of the Eliz-
abeth City Water Co. A brand new fill
ter plant with capacity of a million gal
Ions a day has been installed, and is in
operation this week. The Water Co.
is now awaiting the delivery of ship
ment of chemicals, due three weeks ago.
which will be used in the publication
of the water, and, as soon as these
chemicals arrive, it its promised the city
water supply will be made as pure and
potable as any in the State.
The new filter plant consists of two
of the latest type filters, with 676 strain
ers in each. Before reaching these fill
ters the water must pass thru 36-inch
layer of sand, and a 30-inch stratum of
gravel to take out the greater part of
the impurities which had failed to preci-
pitate in the $4,000 gal. settling tank
into which it is pumped from Knobb's
Creek intake. The new installations at
the water plant when completed will cost
approximately $4,000, and the plant will
be one of the t-equipped of its kline
in the South. T. r. Harris, chief en-
gineer of the City Water Co., state.
| that the new machinery and equipment
! is entirely automotic, and will only re
quire the part-time attention of ont
! man.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
BACK FROM NEW YORK

Mr.. o. F. Gilbert returns from New
York and says:
81 happened to get there just in the
right time. I bought ten times many
goods as I expected to buy and here's
a few items that may be of interest to
customers at Mitchels.
''These things are coming in every
day and will be put on sale as fast as
they come in.
81 have bought from the .. S. Gov
ernment enough blankets to put on
special blanket sale alone and the price
will be way under anything you have
seen for many years.
zone of our clothing firms who makes
the finest clothes is sending us $4,000
worth of suits which they sold US at 20
per cent off their wholesale cost. We
will sell these suits at exactly wholesale
cost during our 20 per cent clothing sale.
'I bought 10000 finest tooth brushes.
We are putting them on sale at 20 cents
EACH They sell at all stores at SO
cents and 40 cents each.
| st bought from one of our shirt waist
firms over $1,000 worth finest shirt
| waists. These will be sold at, prices
less than the cost of manufacture.
'"Then pretty dresses. I cannot beglr
to tell you about them other than thai
the prices will be less than cost prices
I 81 bought all these things and hae
to pay cash for them. I am going tt
offer them to you on the same basis
and 1 am going to give the public jus
as big bargains as I think I bought.
'"There are lots of other things, bu
haven't time or space here to go int
particulars. -iaT
"Come to Mitchells as went to Me-
York with your ready cash and you vii
find that my story is truthful ON
and that have the merchandise to bac
it," advertisement
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
A WAR CORRESPONDENT
DOING A GOOD WORK
D. Thomas Curtin Says Disarmament is
Way Out of Bankruptcy and
Future Wars

A distinct and prolonged groan went
IN from an audience of more than
thousand persons in the Chautauqua
tent here yesterday when D. Thomas
Curtin. international press correspon-
dent, speaking on the subject Behind
the Scenes in Europe" related that just
six weeks ago he paid 81 pound for
sugar and 81 a pound for butter in Ger
many. Mr.. Curtin has just returned
from Europe and is doing great work
on the Chautauqua circuits this sum-
mer, just telling the plain every day
folk here at home the plain every
facts about conditions in present day
Europe. He has no formulas or cure
alls for present day ills, but attributes
in a frank and modest way the failure
of the so called Peace to the selfishness
of the victor nations. He does unqual-
ifiedly insist that the best way out of
present financial problems and future
wars is the disarmament of nations. By
disarmament we 1op off the greatest ex-
pense of government and relieve the peo-
pie of that oppressive burden of taxa
ton; a very necessary thing to do, with
Bolshevism spreading thruout the world
and egging people on to Reputation
of war debts.
Mr.. Curtin is not alarmed by the
great exodus of foreigners from Ameri
ca. He says those who went back home
after the war are finding that Americs
is still the greatest, best and safes
place on earth to live and they vii
come back as fast as they can secure
the means to get back.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
HE WILL SPEND $4,000
RATHER THAN PAY FINE
N. Howard Smith Resents Police Inter-
ference With A GentIeman's
Pastime

No matter what it's previous decisions
may have been the Supreme Court of
North Carolina will be given an oppor-
unity to render an opinion in the case of
State VS. N. Howard Smith and H. Fl.
Newbern, the issue being as to whether
two gentlemen may match coins in North
Carolina without violating the law.
Messers Smith and Newbern were fined
$25 each by Judge Spence in the Recor-
der's Court of this county last week, on
a charge of gambling growing out of the
fact that policeman saw them matching
coins in a drug store. Matching coins at
soda fountains is a common pastime in
Elizabeth City and this is the first case
of an arrest in recent times. Speaking for
himself Mr.. Smith says he will spend
$4,000 before he will pay that fine.
The fine imposed in the case against
Messrs. Smith and Newbern has chilled
the marrow in the spines of scores OF
men about town who have a habit OF
Tipping coins to see who shall pay fol
the drinks.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
ORPHAN SINGERS TO
BE HERE ON JUNE g

The Singing Glass of Oxford Orphan
age will give concert in Elizabeth City
at the Alkrama Theatre, Wednesday
evening, June 8. This class has made
an enviable reputation for giving con-
certs of a high order-concerts that
entertain and edify. From some COM
ments already published regarding this
years concert it appears to be up to
the usual high standard, and all who
attend can be assured of an evening of
real pleasure and profit.
Another year of high prices and an
other siege of influenza in our State
have served to make the needs of the
orphanages greater, and the demands
upon these institutions for admission
of needy children is increasing. The
Oxford Orphanage receives children with
ont regard to denomination or fraternal
| relationship of parents, the need of the
child being the first and chief conside-
| ration.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
THEY JUST WONT KEEP
THE MOSQUITOES OUT
Types of Screens Sold by Average Hard
ware Stores in This Section
Have Too Wide a Mesh

The mosquito season is hard upon
to be full of mosquitoes this summer, as
ever. An examination of the wire screen
stocks of local hardware stores this sea-
son shows that hardware stores are still
selling what is know as 12-mesh screen
and this screen will not keep mosquitoes
out
Window screens are made up in u.
Il. 16. and 1S mesh. That is to say,
the wires are spaced -, IA, 16 and Is
to an inch. The IL mesh screen viii
not keep out mosquitoes in this section.
The government uses an 1S-mesh screen
in it's Coast Guard stations and other
buildings along the coast. A 16-mesh
screen will answer the purpose anywhere
except on the coast. But it is hardly
possible to find 16-mesh screen in the
average hardware store, and all because
of the keen competition among hard
ware dealers. Every store is trying
to undersen the other and an honest
screen costs more money than the make
shift 12-mesh kind. Most people will
buy the wide mesh screen to save 6
little money, without regard to the fac
that the screen they buy will not save
the the annoyance of mosquitoes.
There is only one way to get the kint
of screen suitable for this section ant
that way is to insist upon it and maxi
the dealers put it in stock. This is no
| a blind advertisement for some ney
| make of. screens, but an honest sugges
/ ton from this newspaper, made wit
| the hope that it will benefit the com
munity.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
TO TEACH THEM
HOW TO WORK
Negro Youths Prefer Manual
Labor To Teaching Schools
Now

INDUSTRIAL training will be included in
the curriculum of the Negro State Nor
NAL School at Elizabeth City next fall
and the work will be in charge of a
graduate of the Tuskegee Institute. A
workshop, barn, stables and potato house
will be built on the grounds this summer.
Money for these and other buildings was
appropriated by the last General As
sembly and the State Architect, J. r.
Salter, was in Elizabeth City last week
to get data for the preparation of plans
for the new buildings and equipment.
While here Mr.. Salter went over the
plant thoroly and will prepare plans for
extensive repairs and alterations to the
present buildings. A dormintory for
principal and teachers will also be built
and it is hoped to let contracts for this
building within few weeks.
The State school for Negroes at Eliz-
abeth City was originally intended as a
combination normal and industrial school,
but industrial training has heretofore
been ignored because of the great de-
mand for teachers. 1t was considered
the wiser plan to bend all the energies
ing of teachers. But it is hard to gel
even Negro boys and girls to train fol
teachers positions now that wages ant
| salaries are so much higher for every
other class of work. Only II teacher:
were finished at this school this year
| A few years ago colored youths o.
both sexes were eager to be teachers ant
lodged industrial training. To-day the.
will embrace industrial training to es
cape teaching. A carpenter, a shoe ma
ker or a farm overseer can make NOR
money any day in the week and ever,
day in the year, than the best Negr
teachers.
There are about 40 acres of land i
connection with the school at Elizabet
City and this land will be intensively cul
tivated. Students will be taught moder
methods of agriculture and dairying
carpentry, shoe making and othe
crafts.
Appropriations for boys dormitor
and teacher training school for thi
school, made by the last General As
sembly, fall far short of present da
costs of labor and material and thes
buildings will not be undertaken unit
prices decline or more money is apprt
Z priated for the work.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
JUST A STAG BEETLE AND
NOT A FORERUNNER OF EVIL

A ferocious looking insect found by
Thos. Meads of Weeksville and brought
to this newspaper for Identification
turns out to be a stag beetle, common
to the northeastern part of the United
States but rarely found in this section
The beetle is so rare indeed to
this section that Mr.. Meads, tho more
than seventy years old, had never seen
it's like before and thought it might be
the fore-runner of some new pest COM
ing to bedevil the farmer and devastate
his crops. TIE stag beetle is said to do
his foraging in the bark of dead trees
and farmers need not fear him.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04

THOS. JARVIS MARKHAM
TOM MARKHAM wants to be the next
Trial Justice of Pasquotank County, tho
what anybody wants with the office of
Trial Justice is beyond the ken Of most
of us. Anyway, Tom wants the Office.
The Office will be good thing for him.
He will have to open court at 8 o'clock
every morning and that viii enable any
body who wants to find Tom to know
where to locate him at least once day.
Those who know Tom Markham believe
he will make a good trial justice. Tom
is as slow as cold moiasses. There is
nothing quick on the trigger about him.
He never flew off the handle or ran
amuck in all his life. a Trial Justice
ought to be deliberate, thoughtful, unex-
citabIe and without bias. Tom is all
that. Tom is a lawyer and knows as
much law as most young lawyers. He
has lived in town almost all his life and
knows the town and its problems and its
preiudices. Tom also lives In the coun.
try a good deal, runs a farm in fact ant
knows the country people and their prob
lens and preiudices also. By training
experience, temperament and a wide &C
quaintanceship, Tom Markham is emf
nently well qualified for the Office t,
which he aspires. And by reason o
the fact that he wears the collar of n,
faction, he probably will be the choice
of the party in this county in the Pri
mary Tomorrow.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
CROP
LO0KSLKE$ $$$
Green Spuds, Not Guaranteed,
Selling Readily at $40 Here
This Week

With early Irish potatoes selling at
$13.75 to SIS a barrel on the northern
markets and with a crop 20 per cent
greater than last years crop, growers
in this section are in a fair way to
clean up big money within the next few
weeks.
Thirty cars of potatoes have moved
from Elizabeth City this week as this
newspaper goes to press and total OF
at least SO cars will have been loaded
by Saturday afternoon. All of these po-
tatoes are from lower Currituck and
they are green, so green In fact that
most of them are sold right here at the
buyers risk at $40 barrel. The grow
ers prefer to sacrifice them at $40, sell
ing them not subject to grade, than to
take chances on the potatoes going bad
after they reach the market.
Potatoes are being shipped in stave
| barrels and cars go out loaded 200 bar
rels to the car.
While shipments this week are more
or less an experiment, growers will be-
gin digging and shipping on large scale
next week. n. Howard Smith, manager
| of the Carolina Potato Exchange in this
city predicts a movement of 300 cars
from this city next week. That's co.
600 barrels. Even at $40 barrel, that
means 100000 more money in this vic
Unity next week.
/ But scores of growers will not get
SO barrel for their green spuds, many
of them having sold their crop in the
ground. One produce brokerage firm IN
Elizabeth City had bought upwards OF
5000 barrels last week for future de-
livery, paying So to $6.75 barrel. They
stand show this week to clean up bet
ter than a quarter million dollars on this
; piece of speculation.
The potato grades as recommended b!
the Federal Bureau of Markets will bt
the legal standard for North Carolins
again this season. The grades them
selves have not been revised, but thu
regulations governing grading, marking
and packing have been changed to SOM
, extent. The most important feature
of the revised regulations as provides
for under sections 4, 5, and II, Chapte
325 of the Public Laws of 1919 are a
Follows:
Il l. Potatoes not graded in conform
ity with the legal grades must be mark
$ ed NOT GRADED.
2. All packages must be marked t
s show name of party under whose au
= thority they were packed, together wit
|. his address, the variety and accurat
e grade of contents.
3. In all packages the potatoes in tn
face or shown surface shall fairly re
+ present the size and quality of the COZ
L L tents throughout the package.
- 4. The regulations with regard
inspection service remain unchange
- Copies of grades and regulations ms
be secured by addressing The Divisio
of Markets, Box 2S5, Raleigh, n. c.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04

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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
YOUNG EYESIGHT
IN OLD AGE

You can't grow younger; but
you can enjoy good sight to a
ripe old age, if you change your
glasses as the advancing years
demand.
My eyeglass service is based
on long experience, modern
equipment and progressive me-
thods in optometry.
This entities me to your SER
ious consideration, if your eyes
need glasses. e =
DIR. J. p. HATHAWAY
Phone ooo =: Eliz. City, N. c.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
POLICE GET THE
STORE ROBBERS
Three Former Elizabeth City
Boys in Gang Rounded up
in Norfolk This Week

Virginia and North Carolina authorl-
ties believe they have captured the band
of youthful robbers who have robbed
country stores and post Offices in tide
water Virginia and northeastern North
Carolina within the past few weeks.
What is believed to be the entire band
were picked up by the Norfolk ponce
this week upon description furnished
by North Carolina authorities. They
are Jim and Bryant Balance, Charlie
Crank. Emmet Evans and Amos Ralney.
The Ballaee boys and Charlie Crank
are former residents of this city. All
of them have police court records and
Crank is already under a suspended
| Judgment from the Recorders Court OF
| this county.
Rainey and Evans are said to be Jlt-
ney drivers in the employ OF Abnel
Ieary. also a former resident OF this
city who was convicted of selling whls
key here and skipped the state while
out under bond. Leary is operating Jlt
neys in and around Norfolk.
The boys have confessed to the rob
berry of E. L. ChappelPs store at Bel
| yidere and it is believed they are thu
same who robbed the Walker store
Maple, Currituck County and the vii
kins store, at Gatesville.
Warrants have been issued by tn
Perquimans county authorities and tn
gang will be carried to Perquimans TO
trial if the Federal authorities are un
able to hold them for the alleged rob
berry of a post Office in Virginia. 1t
said they had $500 worth Of postag
) stamps in their possession when appre
= |
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
SUMMER CAMP FOR BOY SCOUTS

Arrangements for the annual Scout
summer camp were completed at the
meeting of Boy Scouts held Tuesday
night at the Y. NJ. G. A. The Scouts
decided to take their weeks outing at
Arneuse Greek, June Sth to 10Th. All
members expecting to go on the trip
are asked to sign up and make their
arrangements at once, and Scoutmaster
Venters and Pendleton warn all MEM
bers that the Scout laws will be fully
enforced during the stay at camp. A
big time for all is promised.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-06-04
Eerehee's Mistake

Now these are facts that have been
known to Senator Ferebeer and myself
for many months. I have tried to show
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