The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-17
HOME BUILDERS
HAD GOOD Time
Much Fun Mixed With Serious
Business of Important
Convention. d..

| Nearly lu1lQIou uClSSdIGS
and guests of the 18th Annual
Convention of the North Carolina
Building & Loan League had a
gloriously good time in Elizabeth
City this week and Elizabeth
City tremendously enjoyed the
presence of the visitors. The
Building &. Loan Association
business in North Carolina will
find itself i1nmeasurably stirlu-
lated as a result of the conven-
ton here and Elizabeth City gets
out it ali of a fund Of good will
that will be a permanent asset.
The Building & Loan League conven-
ton brought to Elizabeth City many
notable men, including Franklin Il.
Miller assistant to Secretary OF Com
merce Herbert Hoover; Hon. Stacey w.
Wade, Insurance Commissioner OF North
Carolina and Hon. Heriot Clarkson, OF
Charlotte.
The business of the convention was
transacted in five hard working sessions
beginning Tuesday evening and conclud-
| ing at noon yesterday.
The convention was entertained by
the Albemarle Building & Loan Asso-
citation, Merchants Association and the
Chamber of Commerce and the sessions
were held in the Assembly room of the
latter organization. The visitors were
treated to an automobile ride Wednes-
day afternoon, a banquet Wednesday
night and a boat ride on the Pasquo-
tank Thursday afternoon.
The banquet Wednesday night was
unique for it's formal program, every
body being drawn into the feast OF tun
which accompanied the feast OF food.
Frank r. Hufty directed the musical
nrogram. with Leslie Waldorf at the pl-
ano. The affair was called a chicken
dinner. The guests thought they nao
discovered the chickens when they zen
into, a reception line OF twenty hano-
picked Elizabeth City beauties OF tne
| "sweet sixteen" class. Those Chickens"
made a hit. such a hit in fact that Col.
A T.. SmithA the youngest member or
rho convention wanted to dance one
sfen. Secretary Goodwin, one of the
cIeverest masters of ceremonies in North
Carolina, was Instantly on the job ana
provided Col. Smith with partner TO
his liking; the floor was cleared, the
music started and Col. Smith, "a years
old. had his dance with demure and
natite maid of seventeen summers. Col.
Smith is vice-president of the Mechan-
ic's Perpetual Building & Loan Assocla-
tion of Charlotte He contributed much
to the life and fund of fhe convention
in its playful MOMENTS, just as 'he mas
contributed so much to the building ana
loan game in his forty years connection
with the most successful ASSOCIATION IN
the south.
-Tbe dinner itself Wednesday night
was one of the most successful served
in Elizabeth City since ex-presldent Ia1t
was entertained here several years ago
The menu was most attractive and aoun-
| dan+ and it was served with a prompt
ness and efficiency that was most pleas
ing The DAUGHTERS of Pocahontas did
it.
The principal speaker at the dinner
was Maurice L. Long, of Norfolk, Va.
| live wire OIL ludC OASy
has always entertained friendly feel
ing for Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City
folk as we'll as visitors heard him with
interest and will respond to his sugges-
ton to make more of our Building q
Loan Association possibilities.
Dividing honors with Mr.. Long as
principal speaker of the evening was
p. L. Keesler of Charlotte who had be-
come enamored of all the chickens he
had met and bewailed the fact that some
one had stolen his ice cream trousers
silk socks, canvas shoes and other ap
purtenances of he-vamping. He had NJ
other ambition than to desert the me
dicority of monogamic marital relation
in Charlotte and build five California
bungalows on the banks of the Pasquo
tank for five brand new Pasquotanl
brides. He said he was equal to 1t ant
Mrs. Keesler wasn't present to deny th'
allegation and keep his feet on th'
ground.