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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-02-24

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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-02-24

Il Is worth the trouble 70 set on the
family table. not COURSES q eiabegate
dishes. bat wholesome. agreeable
and yet economical diversity u food
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
COMB
PROF. SL.SHEEP
And So He Holds His Job With
$500 Increase In Salary.

A quiet but vigorous effort UP,
on the part of a number of mem
bers of the Board of Graded
School Trustees to drop Super
intendent s. L. Sheep and elect
his Principal Prof. A. B. Combs
to his place ended in failure at
last Friday nights meeting of
the Trustees when Prof. Combs
served notice on his friends that
he would not accept the super
intendency if it were given him.
Prof. Sheep was reelected to
succeed himself for another year
and his salary was increased from
$500 to $1,000 a year.
There hasn't been much said about
the effort to turn Prof. Sheep out and
give the superintendency of the schools
to Prof. Combs, but many on the board
of trustees have been working toward
this end and expected to meet with sue
cess last Friday night. But Prof.
Combs himself blocked the plan at. the
last moment and it was too late to look
around for another man. And SO Prof.
Sheep is safe for another year.
One of the Trustees who worked hard
to 'oust Prof. Sheep has talked freely
to this newspaper. He said: 1--WE want
ed to put Sheep out and Combs in be-
cause of the two men Mr.. Combs has the
confidence and good will of the
teachers and student body and
Mr. Sheep hasn't, The students re-
spect Mr. Combs and, they don't re-
spect Mr.. Sheep. The students never
lose an opportunity to express their
dislike for their superintendent and some
of us insist that desirable results can
not be obtained in a school in which the
superintendent hasn't the confidence and
goodwill of the whole student body.
AS for ,the respective abilities of the
two men, our opinion is that Prof. Combs
is a far more able and efficient man
than his superior
But, Prof. Combs didn't fall into the
cause he feels sense of obligation to
Prof. Sheep. 1t is said that he entered
into an agreement with Prof. Sheep,
pledging that he would not seek or ac-
cept the superintendency of the schools
in consideration of Prof, Sleeps sup
port in the position which he now oc-
cupies.
The question now bobs up, will Prof.
Combs be permitted to stay here since
his ability overshadows that of Prof.
Sheep in the opinion of considerable
number? Prof. Sheep has strong friends
who weuld not hesitate to lop off the
head of another man if they thought he
stood in the way of the ambition of their
own favorite.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
PROMINENT BESS CITY
GIRL SEEKS DIVORCE
Mrs. Ada Burfoot LesteE Asks for Alb
soIute Divorce and Custody
of Her Child.

One of the first to seek a divorce un-
der the recently amended divorce law
of North Carolina is Mrs. Ada Burfoot
Lester of this city who prays for an
absolute divorce from her husband DR..
Wm.. E. Lester and for the custody of
their child, William Burfoot Lester.
Mrs. Lester was, before her marriage,
Miss Ada BurfoOt, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Noah Burfoot, ST., of this
city. She was married to DR.. Lester
about seven years ago. They had lived
together about sixteen months when
they separated and Mrs. Lester re-
turned to her parents in this city, bring
ing her child with her. She could not
obtain a divorce on the grounds of sep
aration under the law as it stood until
amended by the recent General Assem-
bly,. Ten years was the period required
for a couple to live apart before they
could get a divorce on such grounds
until the recent session of the General
Assembly changed this provision to five
years.
1t appears that DR.. Lester is not
resident of this state at this time. He
s cited to appear before the Clerk of
The Superior Court of this county Sat
1rday, April 2 and answer or demur
% the complaint of Mrs. Lester.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
NORFOLK SOUTHERN TO
AGAIN REVISE SCHEDULE
Train No. Now Leaving This City at
1922 A. M. To Be Set Back
About an Hour.

There is to be another change in Nor
folk Southern railroad schedules affect
ing this city. The change will be. in
the hour of arrival and departure of
Train No. which is now scheduled to
leave this city at 1922 a. IN. It is pro-
posed to set this schedule back about
an hour, the change to be made in order
to enable passengers on this train to
make connections with the Norfolk q
Western and other morning trains out
of Norfolk. Under the present sched-
ule most of these connections are lost.
Officials of the Norfolk Southern have
already communicated their intentions
to the Chamber of Commerce in this
city and no particular objection has been
raised. 1t is pointed ont that the change
will in no way interfere with the fish
which is of great Importance
right at this time. Thousands of boxes
of fish from the lower sounds are
moved on Train No. 4 at this season.
These fish arrive here from Roanoke
Island and other points about 3 o'clock
each morning and are re-iced and load
ed on cars. The cars are placed on
siding at the passenger depot and
picked up by Train No. 4 upon it's ar
rival. The reicing and ttransfer of
these fish from the boats to the train
is usually accomplished in about tive
hours.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
EDENTON EXPECTS TO
HAVE A FAST TEAM
Wants To Know Why Elizabeth City
Doesn't Get In The Game?

From Edenton comes a taunting in
quiry, eff Elizabeth City can furnish
players for the big league why can't
Elizabeth City organize a good team
that can play Edenton?" To this taunt
Pratt Fearing, Elizabeth City's patron
saint of baseball says he will obligate
to go out in the back-lots here and or
ganize a team that can beat Edenton
any day in the week.
But Edenton is organized for baseball
this year as never before. The Eden
ton Athletic Association was organized
a few nights ago, more than 81 900 has
already been subscribed by local fans
and they are still raising money. H. G.
Wood is president of the association; H.
II. Preston, secretary; NJ. w. Jackson,
property manager; r. w. Session., man
ager; J. Frank White, director of pub--
licity. NJ. F. Bond, Jr., Junius Davis
and Julian Wood are the Finance Com
mittee. John c.. Bond, VIM. Badham,
Fred P. Wood and H. G. Goodwin are
also among. the officers.
The Edentonians promise to play all
local boys with exception of pitchers
and will use local twirlers in some
games. They say they are going to
have the fastest team in northeastern
North Carolina and contemplate a reg
ular schedule of games with Hertford,
Colerain, Columbia, Plymouth and any
others that can measure up.
Contracts for uniforms and equip
ment will be made this week.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01


MUSIC is neither an art nor mystery,
declares Roy L. Hoffmeister, communi-
ty song leader who is working with
Elizabeth City music lovers in the de-
veIOpment of community. song leader
ship. "Music," declares Mr.. Hoffmeis.
ter, "has been surrounded by sort of
halo of mysticism and plain people have
been made to feel as if they must have
sacred key in order to enter its sane
tuary. The fact is that the mystery of
music is no more than the mystery of
any other art or vocation and the most
satisfying music is group singing" He
believes that nothing promotes so much
good-weIl as community singingJ he is
sure that the workman who has had
melodies and harmonies instilIed into his
mind during leisure hours will find more
Joy in his work. Mr. Hoffmeister has
little patience with critics and exactinu
song leaders; he says that the man or
woman who can not carry a tune has
latent possibilities that should be en-
couraged and that if community singing
depended upon solo voices there would
be no community singing. Recognizing
the human love of and the human need
for song Mr.. Hoffmeister works to de-
veIop friendly, sympathetic types of
leaders, who can win the confidence of
crowds and make them sing. He has ac-
great results in many COM
in which he has worked What
he will accomplish in Elizabeth City re-
mains to be seen.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
PLAN PROGRAM
FOR CONVENTION
Liberal Entertainment Planned
For Delegates to Drain
age Convention.

A special committee of the Elizabeth
City Chamber of Commerce will meet
this afternoon to complete a program
for the entertainment of the many del
egates who are expected to attend the
annual convention of the North Caro-
lima Drainage Association which meets
in this city on Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 12 and 13.
The convention will be literally en-
tertained while here. There will be, the
usual banquet and trip either to the
Moyock Drainage District or to the Dis
NAL Swamp Canal. The Dismal Swamp
Canal trip is favored by many not only
because of the historic interest that at
taches to the Dismal Swamp, but, be-
cause the Dismal Swamp itself will
likely be reclaimed by drainage within
the next few years. Drainage projects
which contemplate the reclamation of
the entire Dismal Swamp area are al
ready contemplated. It is pointed out
that this swamp, % feet above sea level,
may be reclaimed with very little eff
fort and expense when the locks of the
old Dismal Swamp Canal are once op-
ened. There is already talk of aban-
doning the canal, it long ago having
ceased to be a paying commercial prop
osition.
The Moyock trip however would be
more valuable to visitors as 1emonstrat-
ing the possibilities of drainage in prac-
tice. There the first drainage district
in this section was organized and thous-
ands of reclaimed acres have been set
tied with farmers from western and mid
die western states. There too the visi
tors could learn much haBout tile drain
age, a thing so little understood and
in this country.
It was originally planned to give the
visitors free trip to the Belhaven
lrainage district, showing them the Pot |
er Farms and John Z. Roper Lumber |
20. developments; but the Norfolk Sou
hern r. r. wanted only minimum of |
800 and odd dollars for special train |
or this journey and the expense was
considered prohibitive.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
BISHOP DARST WILL BE
HERE NEXT SUNDAY

The Right Reverend Thomas Campbell
Darst, D. D., Bishop of East Carolina,
will arrive at, Elizabeth City Saturday,
April 2, to preach Sunday at the morn
ing and evening services at Christ
Church and to administer the rite of
confirmation. In the afternoon at 4
o'clock he will preach at Camden in the
Episcopal Chapel.
Bishop Darst is well known to Eliz-
abeth City people and needs no fatter-
ing write up. Those who have ever
known him in person or heard him
preach will be present again to hear him
and to shake his hand. This is the best
tribute to a mans worth.
The public is cordially invited to hear
Bishop Darst, especially those who have
never done so.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
A COMMUNITY
SING SUNDAY

Elizabeth City will have Community
Sing at the Alkrama Theatre at four
o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 8. Ev-
erybody is invited to come out. The
Sing will be under the direction of Roy
L. Hoffmeister of Community Service
Mr.. Hoffmeister is training two big
classes of song leaders and has aroused
considerable interest in community sing
ing since he arrived here last week.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
NORFOLK GETS EVANS.

Raymond (Snooks) Evans, twirler for
the Elizabeth City Elks last. year, has
been farmed out to the Norfolk Virginia
League Team for the season of 1921.
Evans recently signed up with the New
York. Giants and was given try-out at
San Antonio, Tex. While Elizabeth City
fans will regret Evans failure to land
in McGraw's twirling line this season,
they will at least rejoice that he will
play near home where the home folk
can see him in action, once in while.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
MRS. SKINNER
WANTS $500
Popular Teacher Enters Suit
Against c, r. Pugh, Jack
Wells, Etc.


teacher in the Elizabeth City Graded
Schools asks for damages in the amount
of S7,5oO.OO for alleged malicious, SLAM
derous, defamatory and ibelous state
ments made of and concerning her by
The Herald, the Republican newspaper
in this city which recently went into
the hands of a receiver.
Unable to nail down The Herald since
that paper has suspended publication,
Mrs Skinner brings her action against
c. r. Pugh, Jack Wells, The Linotype
Publishing Co., The Herald and Ralph
Pool, Receiver of The Linotype Publish
ing Co. Out of the raft of them she
hopes to locate and fix responsibility
upon some one or something Her at
torneys are Ehringhaus & Small.
Mrs SINNERS complaint was filed in
the Superior Court fon March % and
the defendants have.- until April to
make answer,
The libelous publication of which Mrs
Skinner complains was published in the
Pugh-Wells paper, The Herald, on Oct.
%, 1921. The article complained of
charged that Mrs. Skinner had told the
children in her school-room that if the
Republicans came into power in the No
vember election white children would
hav< to sit side by side with Negro
children in the public schools. The Her
aid said much more along the same lines
and declared that Mrs. Skinner "should
be forever barred from the school rooms
of North Carolina" Mrs. Skinner in
her complaint declares:
''That the defendants in publishing
said article meant and intended to charge
the plaintiff, a school teacher by pro-
fession, with having for a price or to
curry favor, sacrificed her conscience
and character in order to maintain and
keep and secure her position as a school
teacher in the Elizabeth City Graded
Schools.
''That the defendants meant and in
tended to charge the plaintiff with de-
ceiving, misinstructing and misguiding
the pupils and scholars and little chill
lren under her care and teaching.
'"That the defendants meant and in
.ended to charge the plaintiff with vio-
ating a trust and a. confidence and with
alsifying and telling dHtfuths.
'That the publication referred to was
alse, ibelous, slanderous and defama- |
ory and maliciously published and dis |
ributed and circulated and intended to
,ring the plaintiff into shame, ridicule |
md contempt and greatly to affect her
n her standing and profession as a
chool teacher and as citizen in her
and to blacken her reputa
ion and expose her to public hatred and
O prejudice her in the eyes of the
rustees, superintendents, school com
nitteemen and other employers of school
eachers in Pasquotank- county and thru
ut the state" ...s-
The publication of the alleged SLAM
erous article in The Herald last Oc-
ober aroused the town to a pitch of
ndignation. Mrs. Skinner is one of the
lost popular and efficient instructors ia
be city schools. Her friends branded
he newspapers charge a lie and Mrs.
kinner served notice on the paper to
etract No retraction was made.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
BOY SCOUTS HAVE FRIEND
IN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The Boy Scouts of Elizabeth City are
to have valuable Big Brother in the
Elizabeth City Chamber of Commerce.
The Directors of the Chamber have in
dorsed the Boy Scouts and named a
committee to help broaden Boy Scout
activities in this city and to aid the
Scouts in securing camp site and other
recreationaI facilities.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
HEAVY ADVANCE SALE
FOR ELKS' MINSTRELS

Everything is in readiness for the big
minstre1-musical comedy 'The Jollies of
1922 to be shown here at the Alkrama
theatre Monday and Tuesday nights.
The advance sale of tickets indicate
that the house will play to full capacity
both nights.
This show is being heralded as being
the "show of the season" and judging
by the preparations being made inciden-
tai to the staging of it, there seems to
be no doubt that it is the show of the
season.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
STRIKE WHEN
PRICES ARE CUT TO 81
Manteo Crabbers Tie UP and Wait For
Better Prices.

The crab industry took a slump in
Dare County last Saturday when local
buyers announced that the price of crabs
had dropped to 50 barrel. About a
dozen crews tied up their boats and
refused to go out any more until crabs
should bring at least $3.50 a barrel.
The move followed the second cut
IN prices within a month. Buyers for
the L. r. Carson crab factory at Hamp-
ton Va, began running boats between
that city and Manteo a little over
month ago. The buyers began paying
So a barrel and afterwards dropped the
price to $3.50 when interest had been
aroused in grabbing.
At $3.50 a BARREL the crabbers made
fair wages If luck favored them, on
some days two men in a motor boat
could catch nine to 10 barrels a day.
But there are many days the crabs
don't bite or can't be found, and the
expense of getting to and from the do
main of the crabs is just the same. The
crabbers believe it to be a, bunco game,
and the buyers claim heavy, catches in
Chesapeake Bay have glutted the mar
kets. The buyers refused to raise the
price at the time of the strike.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01
Hathaway Saws

If you wear glasses, have
your eyes and glasses both
examined from time to time,
and go to the place where you
can afford to pay a reason
able price for real professio-
nal work. Remember your
eyes are your bread-winners.
Take care of them. ;.
You have your teeth ex-
amined twice a year. Why
not you eyes? They are
more important.
DR.. J. D. Hathaway /,
Optometrist
Phone 9oo Bradford Bldg
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01

MR.. JOB never bothered much about
having pictures made of himself and
this isn't the best representation of him,
but it is -passable. He is the new Sec
retary of the Elizabeth City Chamber
of Commerce. He is cautious, careful.
punctiIious, methodicaI, Industrious and
all that sort of thing. His name is pro-
nounced just like the Job of the bible,
so say it softly and do not pronounce
the as in cob, bob and sob. Job
wants to meet you; you'll find him easy
to meet and thoroIy affabIe as trained
secretaries of Chambers of Commerce
are.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-01

"The present fight" says DR.. Clar-
ence Poe, ''is to give us a marketing
system of, by and for the people and
not for the spectators"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-29
THE McCOACH SCANDAL

THERE was nothing else for Mayor Moore
J. to do when he ordered CITY Solicitor
Smyth to appeal from Judge Rogers dcci-
sion restoring former Police Captain Me-
Coach to the force.
MCCOach was removed on charges after
a trial before the Civil Service Commission,
at which he was proved guilty of neglect,
incttCiCncy and disobedicncc. He made L
defense, but the evidence was regarded as
sufficient to warrant his removal
He appealed to the Court for reinstatc-
mCnt. Judge Rogers has granted the ap-
peal on the ground that the testimony sub
mittcd to the Civil Service Commission was
inadequate to support its conclusions.
The issue in this case is whether the
Mayor has the power to bring about the
removal of police officers who are unfaithful
to their trust 1t may be that the law is
such that he has not that power. If this
shall be proved by the outcome Of the appeal
to the higher courts, then the law should be
amended.
Unfortunately. the Civil Service Law is
based on the assumption that an appointing
officer can be trusted neither to select capa-
bic men for office nor to keep capable men
in office whom some one else has appointed
1t has been used in this city and in other
cities to protect incompetent and crooked
men. The Mayors have dismissed such and
have proved their charges against them be-
fore til" trial board But tho accused have
taken their cases before the courts and in
virtually every case in which fagrant
crime was not proved the accused has been
rcinstatcd and with an order to receive back
salary from the date of dismissal.
This sort of thing is subversive Of disc-
plinc. 1t gives TO a policeman vested
right in his office and it enables politicians
on the outs TO Illustrate the reform purposes
of politicians in Office.
1t is notorious that there are many men
in the police and other departments in this
city who are not working in harmony with
the Mayor. If they were in any private
employment and were working against their
superiors they would be summarlv dismissed
for insub 0rdination even though specific
evidenc" Of overt acts was lacking. But the
Mayor finds it difficult TO gN rid of the
trouble makers That difficulty has been
made greater by the ruling of Judge Rogers
in the case Of MCCoaCh.
If man found guilty Of the offcnses
proved against McCoaCh before tho Civil
Service Commission can find Judge to
order his reinstatement. the mon guilty of
lesser oNfcn>o> will take heart and laugh at
the impotence Of the Mayor.
There can b" little hope for radical re-
form until the disciplinary power of the
Mayor is guaranteed by law. 4 bad Mayor
might abuse his power. but the lack of power
will hamper the best man who could be
elected to the Office. If we are to have any
Improvement VIC must put enough power in
the hands Of the public officials to enable
them to bring it about. and trust to the
public spirit of the voters to elect the right
men 70 office to exercise that power.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-29
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz

l. Baseball and lacrosse are both of Ameri-
can origin.
.. Lazare HOche was a famous French gen
"ral Of the Revolutionary period He
served with distinction in Alsace, sup
pressed the revolt in Brittany in 1895
@6 and fought against the Austrians in
1877, in which year he died.
8. The Detroit River is sometimes called
the DardancleS Of the New World"
4. Patrocms or PatrOclos was the gentle and
amiahlo friend of Achilles in Homer's
,lliad' When Achilles refused to fight
IN order to vent his spleen against
['Ea A'Gam"mnon ;ntn ne ne sent his friend Patro-
KILLED by Hector. The tragedy moved
Achilles to take up arms himself
3. William Henry Harrison succeeded Mar
I'm Van Buren as President OF the
United States
6. Odonata is a geological order consisting
Of dragon flies.
:. An apiary Is a place where bees are kent
An aViary is place where birds are
8 Wors'cd is woolen yarn. The mama is
Gcriv"d from Worstead in Norfolk
England
.. The exclamation "hravo!" means brayeIv
done. '''
10. Humidity in the atmosphere Is moisture or
aqueous vapor. 1t is really a gas II
IS invisible and Is tho most important
component or the atmosphere as to
When this Invisible vapor becomes vis
lnIe It Is called dew, fog mist haze
Cloud rain, hail, snow frostwork or
frost, according to the size of the
u,r"Ps OF water or tho method In which
the vapor cOndenses Water and Ice
are not included in the term atmos
rhrriC humidity, that term being
'Hl'uy confined 10 the invisible Vapor