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The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
Mrs. F. #. McArn Dies
Sunday Afternoon,

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Mrs. F. F..sMcArn died Sunday
afternoon at Philadelphia. She
had a touch OF appendicitis Fri
day night. Sunday morning
about ten o'clock she suffered a
stroke Of apoplexy from which
she died. s;
She is survived by a, husband,
and three children, the oldest of
the children being about four
teen. hi
The body was laid at rest
Monday afternoon3at McD Donald.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
StaIlo County Convention.

Mrs. C. B. Calvert informs VI
that dinner will be served on the
grounds at Stallo during the s. 8.
Convention Saturday and Sun.
day, July 1924. Every Sunday
School IN the county is requested
to send representatives. Tenta,
tive plans show that the conven.
tion win be a profitable one.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
CAN. NEYER TELL

Upon cutting the grass around
the Court House Tuesday quart
OF. moonshine was found nicely
nestled in a clump Of grass at the
southwest corner, beneath the
window of the sheriff's office.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
{ BIRD DOG LOST

Bird dog pointer pup about 4
months old. white with lemon
spots about head and ears. Ans
wefs to name "Dan." Ii found
notify, and receive reward. Last
seen in front Turner'S Drug Store
July 12. DIR. w. r. Hand,
1c Deemer, Miss.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
Masons Notice

The Ackerman team is TO do
Initiation work at the Masonic
Temple Thursday evening. The
team is one of the best in. the
state. Masons. Of the Philadelpbia
and surrounding lodgessre urged
to be present. A large attend
ance. id expected. Pass the good
word on. ~
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
CORRECTION

In last weeks Democrat we
inadvertently referred ito l.. r.
Luther in our column "Whiit
They Say" OF course the name
should have been Luther r. Nc
Donald.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
PLACE FOR SAFE

Forty acres and two good
houses for sale, one mile and
one half from town, $1,000 Good
water, good title, 26 acres in
cultivation. B. Tucker.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
ALFORI BERT

On last Saturday night Miss
Bettie Les Foibert and Edwin
Afford were united in Marriage
the home of Rev. J,.s G. Long.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
A CORRECTION

a IN special premium list of Ne.
shoba County Fair i offered
$3.50 cash for best article, limit.
ed to 800 words, on, "The ad,
vantage ofconsoIida Schools,
instead Of The Advantage 81
Agricultural High School, / al
80 offered 81 for 5 best lbs hon,
ey in comb instead of $3.50.
"a. G. Roberts, Dixon, Miss.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
, PHILA. CARTHAGE.

A home crowd attended the
baseball game between Phila-
delphia and CarthageIast'Thu
day. The home team was beat.
ten by d score Of Is To B..
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
Miss Elsie Strum Of Deemerh has
been visiting Miss Long.


D. $. Tullos of Tupelo arrived
1 In town Saturday for ia visit
with relatives.
Miss Alma Cook is in Mash
vile, Tenn attending the Pea
/ body Normal.
Aaron Richie has gone to
Ranger, Texas where he will
work in the oil fields. +
Mrs. Nose Fulton is spending
two weeks with her brother w.
d. Nance, Kerrville, Texas. "
Jesse Donald and family Of
Kearns, Texas, are visiting
friends and relatives.
Tommie Cremeen spent last
/ week with her sister Mrs. Minnie
Smith near Plattsburg.
L. B. White OF Birmingham is
spending his vacation with his
father, Henry White, near Rio.
Mrs. O. B. Fox and daughter,
Wilbur left for Allison Wells the
last of last week. ..
Mrs. Josie Smith and son
Thomas OF Drew are guests of
relatives and friends in Philadel-
phia.
Mira, Jessie and Georgia Wal
ton OF Dixon we're in town shop
ping Thursday with their father
E. l.. White.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. White Of
Meridian, Miss, announce the
birth OF a ten pound boy, whom
they havenamed Asa ClarenceJr.
Mrs. Daisy Lester returned Sat
urday from Forest and Meridian
where she went to attend meet
ings of the O Es S.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Downing
of French Camps, Miss, have
been the guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Julian Bowie.
At the Boy Scout meeting
Thursday first lessons were given
in signaling. Next meeting Thurs,
day evening.
Rev. Eugene Stephens OF Me
ridian, will begin a revival meet
ing at Mt. Nelson Church July
"a.
F. M. Ross left Friday for a
visit to the coast. Mr.. Ross will
spend while in Laurel and Me-
ridian before he returns home.
Mrs. j. G. Purcell and children
left this week for an extended
visit with Mrs. PurcelPs parents
near Braxton.
Marvin Cooper Of Meridian was
with his parents here Sunday
Monday. Mr.. Cooper is a limo
type operator on the Meridian
Star. N
Rev. w. A. Williams, pastor
at kosciusko, and brother Of
Mrs. J. T Byars Of Deemer, is
holding a meeting. at Deemer
this week.
Mrs Ross Of Hattiesburg spent
last week with relatives here
Mrs. Ross was formerly Miss
Mars, and has many childhood
friends in Neshoba County.
Mr.. Brunson, and Mrs. w F..
Matthews OF Kewanee, Miss, were
called to Philadelphia Monday
by the sudden death OF their
daughter and sister, Mrs. Sadie
Brunson McArn.
On July 11th a birthday din
ner and family reunion was given
in the home Of Mrs. Minnie Dix
on as a celebration Of Mrs
Dixon's and her brother. I'D.
Milling's birthday. Mr.. Milling
was sixty-four and Mrs. Dixon
forty eight years Of age. Among
~ Al.1 Loo.,+se,,l I,,<.gx ~, a :. !. !. n
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
OFFICE CLOSED

| shall close my Office Aug. 1st,
to take a post graduate course in
dentistry at New Orleans. /
shall reopen my Office Sept. 1st.
1c. DIR. Al. Murphy.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21

LOET--Between Citizens Bank
and Burnside, one ladies purse
containing valuable papers. Find
er notify Mrs. Alma May and
Curge Hatcher, Noxapater, Miss,
X. 1, and receive reward. 2I
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
CARD OF THANKS

1 We,are grateful for the many
courtesies and attentions shown
us iii our late bereavement in
the loss OF Gordy Warren, our
sonin-law and husband.
a J.CM Moore and Sadie Warren.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21
TYPEWRITER RIBBONS

Do not use old ribbons. Make
your letters legible. Make the
impression clear. We charge 81
ior fresh Remtico Paragon Rib
bons. Democrat Office.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21

FOR, SALE--Large Refrigerator
good condition, at bargain.
E j. G. Hays.
If. s.'' e
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21

FOR SALE good milk COW.
Fresh. will sell cheap. -. g.
TIa.,a ~
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-07-21

FIGS WANTEDAA few gallons
Of figs wanted, Democrat Office,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
MEANS REHASH OF THE
LEWARK MURDER CASE
Civil Court Will Be Asked to Determine
That Derwood GaIIop Was
Killed by Guards

The Pine Island Club, an organization
of Northern sportsmen who own club
buildings and several thousand acres of
PENDANTS in a civil action brought by
Peter Gallop of Currituck County. Peter
Gallop is the father of Derwood Gallop,
young man who was killed on the
property of the Rne Island Club last
Thanksgiving Day.
On his death bed young Gallop
claimed that he was shot to death by
st. Clair Lewark, a guard employed by
the Pine Island Club. Lewark and John
Wicker, another guard employed by the
same company, were indicted for the
murder and held in the Pasquotank
County Jail in this city until the March
term of the Superior Court in Currituck.
At this court they were tried and ac-
quilted.
The State acquitted the guards but
has never answered the question who
killed 'Derwood Gallop. To make the
defendants, the Pine Island Club, re-
sponsible for the death of Gallop it is
necessary to fix the killing of young
Gallop upon Lewark or some other con-
nected with the defendant Club. And
so Currituck will get rehash of this
sensational case.
But if the Civil Court fixes the mur-
der upon either Lewark or Wickers it
will not affect their present status.
They were tried for their lives and ac-
quilted and that is the end of it so far
as they are concerned.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
COMMITTEE LAYS IT ON
GENERAL SAM ANSELL
Boy Who Went to School Here Blamed
For Grover Cleveland BergdolFs
Escape

Former Brigadier General Sam T.
Ansell is held largely responsible for the
escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll.
the draft deserter, by the report of
special Congressional Committee which
has concluded investigation Sof this SEN
sational case. This news item will come
as a shock to many readers of this
newspaper to whom General Ansell is
we'll known He is a native of Currl-
tuck county and received his early edu-
cation here in Elizabeth City.
The majority report of the committee
investigating General Ansell says that
while 'there are many who participat-
ed in the conspiracy leading to Berg
dolls escape and the acquittal of those
who brought it about, there are three
who are more culpable than the rest"
and names in this connection Samuel I.
Anseu, formerly Brigadier General in
the army, and one of Bergdoll's counsel;
Colonel John E. Hunt, commander of
Fort Jay, where Bergdoll was con-
fined, and Colonel Charles G. Cressen,
who did not come into the case until
after the escape, but who prosecuted
Colonel Hunt when that officer. was
court-martialled.
Respecting General Ansell, the ma
jority reports says:
''He is now out of the army. He is
beyond the jurisdiction of court-martial
proceedings, but provision should be
made against his future practice before
any. of the departments, before any
court-martial or in the courts of the
L. Oh
whose safety and integrity he has placed
gold.
"Anybody who has seen and heard
all of those associated, directly or indi-
rectly, with the plan and manner of
Bergdolrs escape not only must recog-
nice Ansen as the master mind of them
all, but also as their dominating and
controlling spirit
The minority report of the Commit
tee also criticises General Ansell.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
SALE OF BONDS
NSURES ROADS
Otherwise All Road Building In
Pasauotank Might Have
Ceased

Two Elizabeth City banks get
$9,375 for taking the county's
latest bond issue of $25O,OOO for
roads and, in addition to this,
they will have the use Of the
bond money, without, paying in
terest on it, until it is spent. The
county will realize 96.25 on It's
bonds.
The purchasers of the new bond is
sue were the First. &, Citizens National
Bank and the Savings Bank & Trust
Co. Their bid was made Jointly and
the bid was at par; but there was a
condition that they be allowed $9,375
for necessary expenses incurred in
handling the bonds, including legal .epin-
ion, printing, etc. It was stiff price
to pay, but the Highway Commission
paid it rather than stop short it's road
building. It would have cost the coun-
ty thousands of dollars more to have
quit work at this time.
The bid of the Elizabeth City banks
was the best offer for the bonds. There
were several other bidders from out of
town. Sutherland, Barry & Co. of
New Orleans wanted $24,974 for han
ding the bonds.
But for the sale of these bonds there
would have been an early cessation of
road building in this county. With all
the material bought for the road from
M: IL, 70 n111 nd
the bricks placed along the road, the
Pasquotank Highway Commission had
only, $14,911.14 left in it's treasury on
August 1. The Newland road is be-
ing built for the state, under state su-
pervision, but is being built from the
funds of the county until the State
Highway Commission disposes of its
own $5O,OOO,OO0 bond issue. The state
is to reimburse the county as soon as
money is available.
The sale of the $250,00O bond issue
means that the Newland road will be
pushed to completion and the Highway
Commission will then have enough mon
ey left to undertake the construction
of the road from Elizabeth City to
Woodville, connecting with Perquimans
county.
With the completion of the Newland
road, Elizabeth City will have a new
short route to Norfolk. via South Mills,
the Dismal Swamp Canal and Deep
Greek, Va, with half the distancs(paved.
South Mills township in Camden Coun-
ty is building road from South Mills
to the Virginia State Line, via the Dis
NAL Swamp Canal; the city of Ports
mouth, Va. is building from Deep Greek
down the Canal to the North Carolina
line. The road from South Mills to
Deep Greek will be completed by Nov.
1, say those in charge of both ends of
the construction.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
BIG TIME FOR FARMERS
AT RALEIGH NEXT WEEK
Notable Speakers Engaged for North
Carolina Farmers and Farm Wom-
ems Convention

Better seeds and plants, better live
stock and the more general use of their
products, better marketing conditions,
and better homes and better health will
be some of the things discussed at the
Nineteenth Annual Session of the North
Carolina Farmers and Farm Womens'
Convention, which convenes at State
College AugustD30, and continues thru
September 1.
lin addition to the Agricultural fac
uIty of the College and the leaders in
the State Department of Agriculture
and Extension Service, who will be
available to lead discussions on various
subjects, headliners~ on the unusually in
teresting program include DR.. III. j.
Webber, world famous plant breeder,
formerly of Cornell University, and DR..
E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, who has an international rep
utation as nutFition expert.
Beginning at nine o'clock each morn
ing, the days will be crowded with ad-
dresses, discussions, demonstrations, and
exhibits on subjects pertaining to agri-
culture and >homemaking. Many new
ideas will be presented and the great
er vision to be impaired makes it a duty
in these times of stress for every farm
er and his family to attend.
It is planned to have pleasure as well
as profit during the Convention. Many
features, including community sings,
plays by the Raleigh Community Play
ers, stunts, and visits to places of in
terest in Raleigh have been arranged.
The band of the First North Carolina
Infantry will give a concert on the Col
lege campus each evening. One after
noon will be given over to an old fash
ioned country, barbecue.
Every effort will be made to provide
for the comfort of the visitors. The
College will furnish rooms free of
charge, and the two newly completed
dormitories assures rooms for all.
Meals will be served in the College din
ing hall at fifty cents each.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
DARE DEVIL STUNTS AT
NORFOLK'S BIG FAIR
Mabel Cody and Dare Devil MCGOWAN
To Give Crowds -ReaI Thrills
Twice Daily

The week commencing Monday, Sept.
5, will see many visitors from this sec
ton in Norfolk. The Norfolk Fair,
which is bigger and better this year than
ever before will be the chief attraction.
Coupled with it will be the week of
special inducements offered by the
wholesale and retail merchants of that
city to all out-of-town visitors.
The free entertainment offered by the
Norfolk Agricultural and Industrial Fair
Association is the most elaborate which
this section of the United States has
witnessed in years. Leading the spectac
ular stunts will be Miss Mabel Cody,
a niece of the famous Buffalo Bill,
who will perform hair-raising feats of
courage. She will stand on the wings
of her aeroplane, while it is flying at
rapid speed. and will drop in para
chute from a height of fifteen hundred
feet. Lieutenant Daredevil MCGOWAN
will also exhibit daily, standing on the
wings of his aeroplane while it is loop
ing-the-loop and jumping from one
plane to another while in full flight.
These are only two of the daily amuse-.
ment features which will include also
chariot races, automobile races and daily
concerts by General Pershing's official
band etc.
The exhibits have been gathered from
far and wide. and in addition to the in
dustrial exhibits. will include the best
and largest display of live stock ever
gathered in Eastern Virginia. Thous-
ands of dollars will. be offered as pre-
miums and prizes. The Norfolk Fair
is the biggest event of its kind ever
presented in this section of the United
States.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
MORE Than LOO
KINDS OF BEANS
May Not Show Them All At Fair
But There Is Material For
Great Exhibit

thousands of farmers all over East
ern North Carolina and Tidewater Vir-
ginia will be interested in the plans of
the Albemarle Agricultural Association
to feature the soy bean at the Elizabeth
City Fair, Oct. 4, 5, and {. 1t is not
only proposed to show the products Of
the soy bean, but to give an exhibit of
the very latest results of experiments in
soy bean culture in this country.
To the average person who is familiar
only with the Tokyo, Mammoth Yellow
and Virginia varieties of soy beans gen
orally grown in this section, it will be
a surprise to know that more than l.
100 different varieties of soy beans are
grown in Asiatic countries and very
one of these varieties has been grown
and tested at the government. expert
ment farms at Arlington, Va. Out of
these tests have been developed about
2S varieties especially suited to this
country. There is a soy bean for ev
cry season and some variety of this
bean may now be successfully grown
anywhere in the United States.
Within a quarter of a century the soy
bean crop has become one of the most
profitable crops on American farms and
the center of the soy bean industry re-
mains right here in eleven Northeastern
North Carolina counties. Most of the
soy bean seed used in this country are
grown in these Northeastern North
Carolina counties.
The foregoing and hundreds of other
facts that could be brought out in an
exhibit would be of immense interest
not only to farmers, but to every one
visiting the Elizabeth City Fair.
Of especial interest to farmers would
be an exhibition of what is being ac-
complished in an experiment to cross
the Mammoth Yellow soy bean with a
smooth-podded variety that will not
shatter in the field. The Mammoth
Yellow is the mostA popular bean grown
in Eastern North Carolina and gives an
enormous yield, but fourth of the crop
is lost in harvesting because the pods
burst and scatter the beans when they
are ripe. There are varieties of beans
that will not burst their pods and scat
ter and government experts believe they
are about to produce Mammoth Vel
low soy bean with a. smooth, non-burst-
ing pod.
But of greater general interest would
be the proposed exhibit of products of
the SOW bean. The oil and solid matter
of this sbean are now manufactured into
hundreds of articles of every day use:
They are used in the production of
glycerine, soap, paints, varnishes, limo
leums, imitation leather, synthetic rub
Der, -four, coffee, butter, salad oils, lard
and condensed milk. A Chinese inven
tor has produced milk from soy beans
that looks and tastes like milk and is
so near like milk that cream will rise
on it and the cream viii churn to but
ter.
If Secretary Goodwin succeeds in get
ting the big soy bean exhibits he is after
the Elizabeth City Fair will have at
least one exhibit that will be the envy
of every fair held in the southeast this
year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
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INTELLIGENT APPRECIATION

= August goth, 1921.
MIR. w. o. Saunders,
Editor of the Independent,
Elizabeth City, N. c. !
Dear Sir:
The story of the boy who brought :
his dead wife home in sI1ad boat
= from their honeymoon on the North :
Carolina Coast; that one about the
Negro looking for silver skull, and
in today's issue, the letter of Victor :
Lewis about Torsigno; all mark :
yours as very unusual country pa :
= per indeed.
There is more human interest in !
: these three stories than ! have seen !
in any metropolitan paper in the
last six months,
Your editorial on the Ku KIux
KIan Indicates the reason for you
+ being summoned to serve on the
= Committee for Free Speech in 4
America. think you deserve en-
couragement and I cannot Irefrain 4
from writing this letter telling how
> much ! admire your independence,
and your sense for the dramatic in =
: news value. i
Very truly yours,
MAURICE LONG.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
SAYS THERE IS OIL
IN -TYRRELL COUNTY

T. n. Gray, of Fort Landing, Tyrren
County, who was in Elizabeth City this
week, ventures the opinion that pros
pectors who are drilling for oil in North
eastern North Carolina will eventually
find it in Tyrrell County. Mr.. Gray is
a lumberman and farmer who knows
every acre of ground in Tyrr1H and he
is familiar too with the oil country of
Texas. He says the very fact that the
waters of the swamps in Tyrre1 in
many places are covered by a blush oily.
film indicates that there is something
unusual below the surface there. Mr..
Gray will help some one start we'll in
Tyrrell to satisfy his curiosity.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
cry ON SHORT RATloNs.

i Elizabeth City groceries had run on
bakers bread, corned beef hash, canned
salmon and baked beans Tuesday of
this week The colored people had an
excursion to Norfolk and took practi-
cally every cook in town on the excur-
sion. Cookies homes resorted to canned
goods and bakers bread till the excur-
sionists returned.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
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 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 year. Why
not you eyes? They are
more important.
DR.. J, D. Hathaway
Optometrist
Phone 9o9 Bradford Bldg
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
CIRCUS COMING SEPT. Is.

Gardner Wilson, advance agent, of the
Walter L. Main Shows, was IN Eliza
beth City this week to make prelim-
mary arrangements for the coming of
this circus to Elizabeth City. The date
will be Thursday, Sept. 15.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26

BEHIND the Imitation tortoise shell
spectacle frames shown In this picture
is one of the coming leading citizens of
Elizabeth City. Behind those frames is
Aubrey MeCabe, son of J. T. McCabe
and now the junior member of the firm
of McCabe & Grice. j. T. McCabe him.
self is one of Elizabeth City's oldest and
most successful merchants and the
younger McCabe promises to carry on.
Aubrey MeCabe possesses in full meas
ure the characteristic qualifications of
cordiality and neighborIiness which ac-
counted for so much of the Senior Nc
Cabe's success as a purveyor of retail
merchandise. Aubrey looks real serious
in the picture; but really he is de-
lightfuIIy cheerful chap and full of quiet
fun. Photo by ZoeIIer.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
LAWN PARTY FRIDAY NIGHT.

There will be a lawn party tonight at
Union Methodist Church near Weeks
vile, given by the ladies of the Mis-
sionary Society of that church. Every
body cordially invited.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26
THE POPULATION OF TEN COUNTIES
s@=9 WITH WHITE AND COLOREgas1IOWN

1920 Census not being generally available
the for Northeastern North
giving the total population of each Of these
cooed population of each Clip these
them book other place
thev1y in handy in
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26

Write name and address plainly and state
whether subscription Is new or a renewal. n
not convenient to send check or m. o. send a
dollar bill at our risk and get the paper eight
months instead Of year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-08-26

Frank A. Linney was sworn in Tues
day as U. S. attorney of the Western
district of North Carolina