The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-11

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There was the usual business of
hearing petitions and referring them to
committees who, will take six months
doing what "a no-legged City Manager
with one arm could do in as many days
if given free rein: There was the
usual business of hearing from commit
with matters referred to them at the
previous meeting, a month ago.
City Manager Ferebee came before
the Board with a report fromgthe City
Health Officer that certain citizens
were keeping as many as three cows in
the city limit The City Manager
wanted The Aldermen TO tell him wheth
=er the law said folks could keep two
cows or three cows. And if the law
was two o=cows, should he have the
keepers of three cows arrested
, Now one would have, thought that
a City Manager. and a Chief of Police
could enforce ordinances on the books
without trotting to the Board of Al
dermen. But the City Manager under
the present Board has no such author
ity.2 He. had to ask his bosses about
the cows and not one of them knew
what to teh him. They had to send out
and get an old copy of the town iordi-
nances. Some one said these had been
but no one knew where the
amendments were: And that is a. pic
ture of the way the city government is
run by a business mans administra-
tion.''
Cohoon Fires Broadside
- And It hen came Hen. W. LsseG5eaaars
by three ministers and four
prominent women. Mr. Cohoon. with
the ministers and the women at. his
back proceeded to tell the Aldermen
about immoral conditions in the town.
He told them that licenses had been
granted to criminals to run pool rooms
and do jitney business in Elizabeth
City, contrary to the law which says
that persons of known immortality and
court records shall not be granted Ii
censes for these pursuits. He told the
Aldermen that an unlicensed pool room
and gambling hell was running full
blast on, Parsonage St. just across the
railroad and that an assignation house
was operated on the corner of Road and
Church streets, under the shadow of
The dome of the. First Methodist
Church. 4 He told them that swhiskey
was sold and gambling conducted in
Matthews St. within hailing distance of
he town hall: He told them of whis-
key having been sold and lewd women
luartered in a barn belonging to Alder
nan w. II. Jennette near Vest Church
st. and how Mr.. Jennette himself had
discovered the fact and ousted his ten
ant. He told them that the first voice
| person heard upon entering Elizabeth
City was the voice of bott-legging
itney driver. Mr.. Cohoon didn't criti
Use the police but obviously the police
we're not doing their duty.
Holmes Raps Cohoon
Here Chief of Police Holmes stepped
n and said the police couldn't success
ully cope with bootlegging and prosti-
ution because of the interference of
men like Mr.. Cohoon himself who rep
esented every bootlegger and prosti-
ute the police caught. "We catch 'em,''
omplained Chief Holmes, land Mr.. Co
Don gets 'em off. Instead of coop
rating with the police, he hampers us.
'he only time he talks to US about
uch things is when he is picking us to
ct something to help his clients. We
ad letter in evidence in one case
gainst woman he represented and he
wiped the letter and has it in his pock-
yet, so far as / know"
Mr.. Cohoon protested against Chief
[olmes' remarks and declared he was
eclouding the issue. He begged the
oard not to let Chief Holmes obscure
e essential facts.
At this point Edgar (Hicky) Will
ans, jitney driver, arose to a point
personal privilege. Mr.. Cohoon had
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