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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
NEW STEEL INDUSTRY
 IN NORTH BIRMING AM

The Chamber of Commerce, while making up list of the Industries of the district, discovered new steel in- dustry at North Birmingham. The John M. Red Manufacturing company has an establishments which makes port able steel flower stands. These stands are being shipped all over the country, the majority of states having become patrons of the Birmingham esta blish- ment.
 John NJ. Red is the inventor of the stand and has created quite market for them. Steel is used exclusively in it's manufacture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
INSPECTOR NAYLOR
 TRANSFERRED HERE

Postoffice Inspector T. W. Naylor, who formerly was attached to the Birming- ham office of the Chattanooga district, will again be stationed in this district, according to word received by local post office inspectors yesterday. MT. Nayloy was transferred to the Houston CTex.) district where he was inspector in charge, but his health failed and he has been i'll for considerable time. It was rumored that he was to be appointed inspector in charge of this district, witt, headquarters at Chattanooga, but he will be transferred here and will remain h, fha field
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
REALTORS TO, VISIT
 BULLION APARTMENTS

Members of the Real Estate board will spect the Dulion apartments, Eleventh avenue, south, and Twenty-first street. as the guests of Ray Schultz of Smith, Throckmorton X Schultz. this afternoon immediately following luncheon at the Southern club at i o'clock This an- nouncement was made yesterday Dy President Jerome Tucker
 Members of the board are requested to bring their cars for the trip. trip to Fountain Heights is also hinted at for the afternoon, not to see the weather man, however
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
Ku-Klux Initiate 1000 ,N By AssociateSl Prasa

Atlanta, May 5-lnitiatiop of more than 1000 candidates into the knights of the Ku-Klux Klan was carried out with all the mystic ceremonials of the order at meeting here tonight at Lakewood park of Knights from all sections of the country, according to announcement from headquarters here. It is stated that moe than 5000 members of the order were in attendance the gathering being in cele- bratipn of the founding of the order ot the same name in reconstruction days, which was on May
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
ROBBED OF $lO2

Ambrose s. Oglilvier. aged negro
 man, 2525 Fourth avenue, north, was
 knocked In the head while he was asleep at his house early yesterday
 morning and robbed of $102. Oglilvier had befriended a negro man and had taken him into his house with him and given him bed for the night.
 Police officers believe that the negro whom Oglilvier had befriended got up during the night and robbed him of his savings, which were hid in nole in tho floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
FRAT BANQUET

The alumni chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity of this district held a stag banquet at the private dining loom of the Hiilman hotel last night The affair was attended by a large number of the members and several very interesting talks were made, Jmdge B NJ. Allen presidad-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
BIRMINGHAM NEARLY DOUBLES INDUSTRIAL
 PLANTS SINCE 1918

The Chamber of Commerce an- nounces total of GS6 manufactur- ing, milling and mining plants in the Birmingham district compared with a total of 34S in the conl- pilation made by the chamber in 1918.
 The increase is 95 per cent. show ing almost twice ns many now as in 1918.
 The new list of industries com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06

prises 506 manufacturing and 145 coal mining companies outside of Bessemer and 3o establishments in Besscmer.
 The hook will show that about i,3OO different articles are mapu- factured in the district.
 ''industriaI Birmingham." pub- lished by the Chamber of Com merce, will appear in a few days. The officials say II will he an eye opener. Advance orders for copies have been received in quantities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
JUNIOR CHAMBER
 TO HOLD LUNCHE0NS

The Junior Chamber of Commerce has decided to have semi monthly lunche-7 ons.
 The first will be given on Wednes day, next. in the Hillman hotel at 12:30 o'clock. Each dinner will have q different presiding officer and there will be the customary short talks and other features in vogue, with the other dinner clubs. The junior chamber now has over 100 members.
 Work is fast coming to completion of the ascertainment of the franchise qualification of the members. It is the law of the chamber that only qualified voters shall be members of the organi- zation. What will be done with those found not to be qualified is not stated. It is believed probable that they will be given a chance to qualify at the next opening of the registration books
 The largest bridge in the world is II. China, extending for five and a quarter miles over an arm of the Yellow sea and being supported by 900 stone or<,1a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-06
Shriners Are Preparing
 For q Great Ceremonial
Zamora Temple to Know Great Day May 18-Dgnitar- es of Order From Afar Coming-Bands, Patrols
 and Corps to Form Huge Parade June

which are now being built win be the most elaborate of tke kind ever seen
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
WILD GOOSE WIZARD
STUMPED THIS TIME
Rosssr Midget Puzzled Two Years Over
Strange Message on Fowl

Dare County folks who have wonder
ed for many months at the worried look
on the face of Rosser Midget, the fa-
nous wild goose wizard of Manteo,
will now be able to understand why Ros-
ser's raven locks and beard have rapid
ly grown so grey. The secret leaked
out the other day; he was unable to keep
it any longer.
At the close of a windy day in Novem-
Der 1918, Rosser was making ready to
leave his blind, in Roanoke sound Hunt
ing had been poor that day and he was
going ashore early in anticipation of a
big dance for which he was slated that
night. AS he stepped into his skiff pre-
paratory to picking up his decoys, he
heard the honks of many geese, far away
to the Northward Not even the biggest
dance of the season could keep him away
when geese were near, SO he stepped
back in his blind and quietly waited
The cries of Rosser's decoys easily lur-
ed the new flock toward his blind, and
tired from the long flight from the guns
of the Currituck hunters, it was glad to
alight with the deceptive renegades of
it's own tribe. Before it was safely
afloat, its fear was renewed my Rosser's
automatic and the feathery flock resum-
ed its southwark flight, fewer in number
by two of it's finest fowls.
Night was coming on, and expecting
nothing more that day in the way of
game, Rosser hastily gathered his kill.
One of the birds as a young one, and
l. IL,
ing the scriptural injunction: mo good
will he withhold from they that walk up
rightly, CPs. S4:11) On the other side
were the words: write Box 4S, Kings
vile, Ontario" and the date '17''.
Now Rosser has never failed to learn
anything about wild geese, before. He
can distinguish the voice, even, of any
member of his flock of 40 decoys. He
speaks the wild goose language, so some
say, and makes wild goose lor ca study,
taking pride in whatever he may learn
about. the tride. 1t is his trade pro-
fession, vocation, avocation, pastime,
hobby and pursuit. But this thing has
floored him, so to speak.
For two years he has been fretting
over his inability to learn who placed the
band on the goose's leg. Not even the
postmaster of Kingville could tell him
who rented the box and Rosser fears war
proclaimed the perpretator of the act
that has caused him so much trouble. In
his efforts to locate the party, he has
written every important institution in
Canada from the Royal Northwest
Police to the Hudson Bay Fur
Co. and the Ottawa Board of Trade. 1t /
is the first thing he has ever failed to
learn about wild geese and doesn't pro-
pose to stay stumped if it takes the rest |
of his life to solve the problem
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25

MR.. HUFTY is director of the Eliza
beth City Choral Society. He also di-
rects the choir of Christ Church at its
morning service, leads the First Meth0-
dist Sunday School singers and at night
goes over to City Road M. e. Church
and leads that choir. When he isn't Civ
ing private vocal lessons or driving the
Choral Society on week days and week
nights, he is hustIing around with sur
Veying instruments or bending over
draughtsman's board in his office; for
he is Civil engineer as well as sing
er. He has undertaken the formidable
job of organizing the embryonic musical
talent of Elizabeth City and training it
to sing in concert or any other how. He
aims to develop here a choral society
Of $50 voices and he hasn't rounded up,
that number yet. He is especially short
of male voices and wants more men to
interest themselves in the vocal art. All
he demands of a fellow to start with is a
moderate ability to carry a tune in a
hamper basket. Hufty will do the rest.
Photo by w. n. ZoeIIer.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
FAIR ASSOCIATION BUSY
WITH 1921 FAIR PLANS
Secretary Goodwin in Raleigh This Week
in Conference With Other East
ern Secretaries

The Albemarle Agricultural Associa-
ton is lining things up for the annual
district fair to be held at Elizabeth City
this fall W. Ben Goodwin, executive
secretary of the. EGi soeiatian isia
Raleigh this week in conference with
the secretaries of other eastern fair as
sociations. AT this conference it is hop
ed to fix the dates of various eastern
North Carolina fairs and Elizabeth City
is sparring for an early October date, the
first week in October being considered
the hest date for an Elizabeth City Fair.
The addition of a live stock exhibit
building and machinery hall and other i'm
provements on the grounds, and with mon
ey in the treasury this year for the first
time since it's organization, the Fair AS
sociation expects to stage a bigger and
better fair this fall.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
BUILDING & LOAN ASSN.
MEN WILL MEET HERE
Notable Convention of Forward Look
ing Citizens From Many Cities
Coming in June.

Elizabeth City will entertain a not
able convention here some time in June
in the annual meeting of the North
Carolina League of Building & Loan
Associations. The progressive Building
& Loan Associations of the more pro-
gressive and forwarding looking towns
and cities of the state are embroced in
the league. Raleigh, Wilmington, Green's
boro, Asheville, Winston-Salem, Char
lotte, High Point and other cities will
be represented at the convention here.
Seventy five to 100 delegates are ex-
.peeted and the convention will be in ses-
sion for several day s. Committees from
the Chamber of Commerce and the Re
tail Merchants Association will shortly
begin to plan for the entertainment of
the visitors.
The date of the convention will be fix
ed by the Leagues executive committee
this week The convention was secured
for this city by w. Ben Goodwin, secre-y
tary of the Albemarle Building & Loan
Associations
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
is MANTEO A HoODoo PORT
FOR CUBAN MAIL PLANES

For the second time this winter Gu
ban Mail Plane has met with mishap
in Manteo Bay. The Ponce de Leon, a
giant passenger and mail carrying plane
of the Aeromarine West Indies Airways,
stopped at Manteo Saturday to take on
oil. The plane left New York at eight
o'clock and reached Manteo at 12:3O.
After filling its tanks with oil, it pre-
pared its flight and while endeavoring
to break anchor, took a sudden turn to
the right and cut its starboard wing on
the flying jib stay of schooner. The
damage was repaired and it was deemed
expedent to be towed out behind a fish
ing boat.
The Ponce de Leon is the sixth and
last plane of the West Indies mail fleet
to go south this winter. The Balboa
which stopped at Manteo right after
Christmas, caught fire and was detain-
ed for several weeks.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
STOCK LAW IS
HERE At LAST
Legislature Passes State Wide
Measure And Law Is Ef-
fective at Once

After voting a fifty million dollar road
bill, the North Carolina General Assem-
bly, last week voted statewide stock
law. Stock law had to come A state
that purposes to build a 800 million dol
lar state highway system and makes a
80 million dollar start in that direction
isn't going to tolerate scrub heifers, runt
pigs, smelly goats and burr spangled
sheep roaming at large over the lands
cape. and obstructing the passage of
every blithesome Ford. A state riding
neous live stock on it's highways. A
state whose people expects to own and
keep up automobiles and provide roads
for them must produce more revenue
from thorobred live stock. The produc-
ton of thorobred live stock and the com
plete eradication of the cattle tick is
possible only in a state which compels
it's people to feed their stock.
And that is what Stock Law effectu-
ally does-makes people take care of
their stock. The favorite method of live
stock raising in eastern North Carroll
itself. Pigs and heifers are no expense
to the poorer and improvident classes
of farmers. The animal that should make
a good family COW is branded with some
mark by which the owner can identify
her and turned loose to Craze for her
self on anybody's land that isn't fenced
in. The result is millions of dollars
p,.Rh &c - .
cattle and hogs off ones farm, and very
little fencing to keep up and produce
better cattle and hogs. The branded
heifer roams over the countryside for
months. at a time, feeding where she can,
starving when she can't find feed; gath
ering ticks as she goes, mating with the
first scrub bull that strikes her fancy
or takes a fancy to her; some spring day
the owner finds her sucking a calf; he
kills the calf and takes it to market 1t
cost him nothing to produce and he loses
little sleep over the price he gets for it.
That's the way we have been raising
much live stock in eastern North Car
olina. Here and there the more educat-
ed farming class has found that the
aletter way is better pay. But those Who
try to raise Improved stock in a free
range country are handicapped in many
ways. The unrestrained free range ami
mails will mix with and demoralize the
better breeds spite of the vigilance of
the owner of the improved stock.
The fight for a statewide stock law
has been waged in North Carolina for
40 years, each biennial session of the
General Assembly having considered it
in that time. Many believed that the
politicians in the present General As
sembly would be afraid to incur the
wrath of the proletariat by passing it.
But legislators who are paid oaly $500
per diem in this costly age are not so
much concerned about election, failure
of reelection has no terrors for them!
And so they took the bull by the horns
and enacted a Stock Law. It is effec-
tive at once.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25


LITTLE Miss Bundy took first prize in
the biscuit making contest participated
in by scores of bright Pasquotank girls,
held at the Y. M. C. A. in this city last
Saturday under the direction of Miss
Marcie AIbertson, Home Demonstration
Agent. Evelyn is the thirteen year old
daughter of Mrs. and Mrs, Oscar Bun
dy, of Okisko, and is pupil in Perry's
School at that place. The second prize
in the contest was taken by Miss MiV-,
crime Price, R. E. D. n. In addition to
these two main prizes for the county
at large, other prizes were awarded to
the best biscuit makers from each pub
lie school represented and these prizes
were awarded as foIIoWs:- Fork School,
thers' School, Misses Hattie and Hazel
Price; NeWbegun School, Miss Bessie
Mae Stanley; SmaII's School, Miss Beu-
Iah Lowe; Salem School, Miss Margaret
Lowry; Dry Ridge, Misses Lizzie Rod
gerson and Annie Marie Jackson; ST.
mond's Creek, Miss Ada White; Mt. Her.
mon, Misses Rosie Whitehead and Mel
vim Goodwin; Banks School, Miss Nora
Reid; Riverside, Misses Mamie HarreI
and Oracle Brock. Elizabeth City prize
winners were Miss Margaret Sawyer and
Mrs. Wilma White.- Club Girl winners
out of school were Miss Minnie Wood
and Mrs. EuIa Wood Daniels. Some bis
cults offered in the competition did not
carry the name of the contestant or the
school and could not therefor receive
mention. Photo by w. H. ZoeIIer.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25

truck, something that will throw a
stream of water straight into the uppe
floors of a four story building. And the
Aldermen just told the merchants they
could go to; telling them in effect: "You
ming this town and you elect to say that
you won't pay certain taxes; go buy
your on fre-fghting apparatus; if you
don't want to give us the revenue with
which to run this town, then go on and
run it yourself This is municipal pol
itics in America with a vengeance.
Right then the merchants were will
ing to get together with the Aldermen
and consider the matter of increasing Ii
cense taxes. The aldermen appointed
committee of two, J. B. Leigh and
P. G. Cahoon; the Merchants ap-
pointed committee of two, w.
II. Weatherly and F. M. Grice; the.
Chamber of Commerce appointed a
committee of two, NJ. p. Gallop and M.
G. Morrisette. They were to have met
jointly at the town hall Wednesday
night. The committeeman of the Mer-
chants Association and the Chamber
of Commerce were there. But the
committee of Aldermen didn't show up.
There was no meeting. Mr.. Cooke has
his orders. Those orders stand. Mr..
Cooke is storeAkeeper himself and
the merchants are confident he will do
as they have told him to do, kill that
bill.
One effect of all of this legislation
has been to aggravate a lot of fac
tional differences in the town and to
widen many breaches. Another and
more wholesome effect may be new
and livelier interest upon the part of
the people in future candidates for the
LEGISLATURE. A lot of folk seem to re-
member now that Pasquotank once had
a Representative in the General As
sembly who kept the people Informed
as to what was going on in Raleigh,
even to the extent of publishing the
full text of the bills he introduced. The
county has no such representation in
the Hon. G. A. Cooke. The public does
n't know what he is doing and can't
guess what he may do next, if he isn't
watched.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
NORTH CAROLINA'S
TEXTILE INDUSTRY

The largest hosiery mills in the
+ world are in North caroIina-DurSs
= ham Hosiery Mills, Durham.
The largest towel mills in the
y world are in North CaroIfna-Can-
=. non Manufacturing Company, Kan
napoIis.
The largest denim mills in the
- country are in North Carolina
= Proximity Manufacturing Company,
Greensboro.
= The largest damask mills in the
country are in North Carolina
Rosemary Manufacturing Company,
Roanoke Rapids.
= The greatest underwear factory in
= the country is in North Carolina
= Hanes Knitting Company, Winston
= Salem.
= Gastonia is the center of the fine
8 combed yarn industry of the South.
* North Carolina embraces more
= mills that dye and finish their own
= product than any other Southern
= State.
= North Carolina leads the entire
= South in respect to the knitting in
= dustry.
= There are 5l3 textile mills in
= North Carolina, as compared with
= 1870 in South Carolina and I73 in
= Georgia. North Carolina mills en-
= brace 5,32i ,45O spindIes, as eompar-
= ed with 5,038,988 in South Carolina
= and 9. .706. .O22 in GeOruia,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
WILL ATTACK MORMONS
FROM LOCAL PULPITS
Mrs. Lula LoveIand Sheppard Viii Come
to Elizabeth City in March

The National Reform Association, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, has trailed the Mormon
Elders to Elizabeth City and will send
their biggest speaker, Mrs Lula, Love
land Shepard to Elizabeth City for a Sc
ries of lectures on Mormonism, begin
ming March 6.
Mrs. Shepard is represented as "The
Silver Tongued Orator of the Rockies"
She will speak here under the auspices of
the local Ministerial Union. Her sub
jects are '"The Mormon Menace" and
''The Mormon Temple Secrets. The
latter lecture is given exclusively to wo-
men. She will deliver three lectures in
this city, from the pulpits of as many
churches.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
CITY MANAGER
QUITS JUNE lST.
Can't Get Promised Salary In
crease, Mr.. Commander
2 Is Done :,

Elizabeth City is. about to lose
a City Manager. City Manager
]. c. Commander has served no
tice that he will quit the first of
June. He refuses to hold down
the job of City Manager, do the
work of a Street Commissioner
and take all the cussing that goes
with both jobs for paltry $2,40O
a year. That is all the Office pays
now.
When Mr.. Commander came down
here from Virginia last February to
take the office of City Manager the
Board of Aldermen gave him to under
stand that provision would be made for
an increase in the salary of the office
The salary was originally fixed at
S2,4OO year by legislative act creating
the office. 1t was proposed to amend the
act to increase the salary to $4,000 a
year. A bill was drafted to that effect
and the bill was to have been passed
at the special session of the General
Assembly last August. But the bill
was never sent to the Representative.
1t got pigeonholed.
The bill was sent to Representative
Cooke to be introduced in the present
session of the General Assembly, but
word comes back that Mr.. Cooke thinks
a City Manager isn't worth more than
$2,4O0 a year and that he will refuse
to introduce the bill. I'm DONE, declares
the City Commander. I'm damned if
amt done; I'm going back to Vir-i
ginia. I can make more money on my
farm in Norfolk county and when there's
any 'cussin' to be done 1 can do it all
myself
Where the City Fathers will look
for another City Manager is a problem
that will not be easily solved. Competent
men capable of conducting the affairs
of big corporation are not to be easily
picked up at $2,40O year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
MORRISETTE'S BRIDGE BILL
PASSES HOUSE AND SENATE

The Morrisette bill providing for the
purchase or construction of bridge
across Pasquotank river at Or near Eliz-
abeth City, by the county of Camden
passed both Houses of the General As
sembly this week. Elizabeth City and
Pasquotank county are thereby placed in
the humiliating position of seeing a less
wealthy sister county undertake a pub
lie enterprise effecting this city and coun-
ty in the cost of which this city and
county should have shared. Elizabeth
City will be further humiliated by -hav-
ing to pay tolls to Camden county for
using Camden's bridge. THERE'S ray
of hope in the prospect of the State
Highway Commission taking over the
proposed bridge as a part of the state
highway system. 1t is believed that will
eventually be done.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25
FARMER-HUNTER

Thos. Farmer, Jr., of Norfolk, Va.
and Miss Hortense Hunter, of Hertford,
were married here Wednesday after
noon at the home of the brides sister,
Mrs. I. N Thomas Rev. r. K. Will
liams was the officiating minister. Mr..
Farmer is a son of Thos.- Farmer, of
Hertford. The bride is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Hunter, of Hertford
Mr.. and Mrs. Farmer will be at home
in Norfolk after their honeymoon ---
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-02-25

MR.. MOORE was living peacefully in
Elizabeth City when the United States
entered the World War. At the first
call for men he made break for the
Marine Corps and got IN up to his neck
for a three year Enlistment. He got
out this week and has returned to Eliza
beth City. He goes 10 work with THE
INDEPENDENT Monday morning, Feb.
%. He was one of the fastest Linotype
operators in the southeast when he en-
listed three years ago: Before returning
to Elizabeth City he put in much spare
time work with the Washington ID. c.
Times and has regained his old familiar
ity with the Linotype. Mr.. Moore sue
ceeds F. Everett choEy as Linotype COM
posftor in THE INDEPENDENT shop.
Mr.. Glory leaves the machine to take
charge of the job printing department of
THE INDEPENDENT. Photo by W..
n. ZoeIIer.