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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
MYSTERIOUS DIGGING
ON ROANOKE ISLAND
Somebody Still Searches for that SI5,.
900 In Gold Buried on Roanoke
During Civil War

Recent excavations made in the
Roanoke Island woods has set the pop
ulace agog with curiosity regarding the
why and the wherefore. The latest
digging was made a few days ago on
the edge of the Indian Hole. This In
dian Hole is a very low sink in the CEN
ter of a high rise of ground, is about
80 yards across, and is said to have
been made by the Indians.
- 1t is a matter of local history that
during the Civil War when Roanoke
Island was occupied by Yankee troops,
$4,000 in gold was stolen by some of
the soldiers. It was necessary that
one of them quietly slip away and bury
the treasure. The one who buried the
gold was soon afterward killed and the
location was lost.
About eight years ago three or four
mysterious persons spent the winter on
Roanoke Island. Their business could
not be learned by the most curious.
During their stay many holes appeared
on the Island The holes were dug
under old houses, near big oaks and
many other places, and were big enough
in which to- bury a horse.
Old citizens believe some of the SOL
diers were back searching for the
treasure. Some of the superstitious
entertained other opinions and were
afraid to walk at night for the digging
was always done in the dark.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
THIS NEGRO HASoHEAD
LIKE A PILE DRIVER
Jumps Head Foremost Thru Gable Ent
of a House, Taking Gable
With Him

Ira Brickhouse, a colored gent, clad
only in a sleeveless, short legged suit
of summer underwear went thru the
attic gable of a house on Pennsylvania
Ave. when the police went to look for
him Saturday night. There was no
window in that attic gable and Brick
house had to make one. He went thru
the end of the house head foremost,
carrying the gable with him, landed on
his head on the roof of the porch,
turned a somersault and hit the ground
on all fours, running. Policeman George
Twiddy, the widest gunman on the po-
lice force, saw the Negro hit the ground
and opened fire on him. The gunfire
only accelerated his speed and the Ne
gro is supposed to be running yet, clad
in nothing but his summer indies.
Brickhouse was wanted for an as
sault on a woman. Three policemen
went after him. Twiddy stayed on the
ground. Chief Holmes and Policeman
Roughton entered the house. Brick
house was neither on the first floor nor
on the second floor. But the police
found his clothes in a room on the sec
ond floor. Right over head was a man.
hole leading to the attic. Policeman
Roughton started to climb thru the
manhole. 1t was then that Brickhouse
made a dive thru the end of the house.
The crash of timbers and the detonation
of the compact of the Negro's head with
the porch roof below so frightened
Policeman Twiddy that he couldn't shoot
straight.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
TO THE MERCHANTS
OF ELIZABETH CITY:

The week of Oct. 3 is Fair Week in Elizabeth City.
The last issue of THE INDEPENDENT to go forth to
the great North Carolina public before the Fair
will be the issue of Friday, Sept 80, the next issue
City going have by far the best fair IN its
history making better showing of live stock, agricultural
and club exhibits before The anusements booked
for this unusually good and will draw the crowds
Elizabeth City merchants should make Fair Week great
merchandise week in Elizabeth City The thousands
who come to Fair will what Elizabeth City
stores have offer and will critically examine goods and
prices of dollars will be spent in Elizabeth City
stores if the merchants their opportunities and
make the right appeal with displays of timely merchandise at
tractvely priced
THE INDEPENDENT offers the merchants of Elizabeth
CITY lust one opportunity send the OF their stores into
thousands rural homes in Pasquotan Camden Curruck
Perqunans Chowa Tyrre Dare and Hyde counties before
the gates of the Fair swing open Tuesday, Oct a.
Reservations space the issue of this newspaper
should be week Several stores have already spoken
for big space and those who wait till the last minute be
disaDponted weeks issue of THE INDEPENDENT IS
going to bring crowds the Fair It bring the same
crowds to your your has anything worth the
crowds consideration.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
SMITHFIELD IS
SHORT ON HAMS
Virginia Packer Seeking To Lo-
r cate In Elizabeth City

Elizabeth City looks like the next best
stand for the Smithfield ham, is the
opinion of NJ c. Whitley. of Hampton
Va. a packer of Smithfield hams, who
is in Elizabeth City this week. Mr.
Whitley is here seeking a site on which
to locate Il smoke-house for the pro-
duction of Smithfeld hams from Pas
quotank pigs.
The demand for Smithfield hams, says
Mr.. Whitley has so far exceeded the
supply that the packers of Smithfeld
hams must turn to new fields for their
pork The tidewater counties of Nir-
ginia long ago ceased to supply enough
pork for the Smithfield ham industry.
The original Srlithfeld ham came from
Smithfeld, Va, but in recent years hams
labeled and sold as Smithfield hams have
been cured in Napsemond, Northhamp-
ton. Warwick, Princess Anney= Norfolk,
and other Southeastern Virginia coun-
ties. Call these hams by any other
name and the market price is 50 cents
a pound Call them Smithfield and they
retail for so to 60 cents and the de
mand has not yet been supplied.
So great has become the demand that
packers of Smithfeld hams actually go
to the packers in Richmond. Va. for
hogs, buying hogs that have been fat
tened on garbage and swill, regardless
of the fact that the true Smithfield fla
yor can not be obtained from swill or
garbage fed pork.
In Pasquotank there is an abundance
of pork of as fine flavor as ever came
out of the corn and peanut fields around
Smithfeld. 1t is this type of hog that
Mr.. Whitley wants for his proposed
packing house.
The location of an experienced packer
of Smithfield hams in this city will be
worth thousands to pork producers in
this and adjoining counties. The people
generally of this section never have
learned how to cut and cure ham
properly. They will learn when they
have seen how an expert does it. AT
the same time Mr. Whitley will provide
a valuable local market for hogs. Pas
uuotank produced more than IL, 900 head
of hogs last year and most of these
were sold on the Norfolk market.
restricted market for Pasquotank swine
has done much to keep the price down:
More markets mean better prices.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23

Write name and address plainly and state
whether subscription is or a renewal.
not convenient to send check M. o. send
dollar, bill at our risk and qet the nana. ATT.
months Instead Of year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
CURB MARKET SOLD OUT
EARLY LAST SATURDAY

Elizabeth City put its stamp of ap-
proval on the first curb market con-
Quoted by the Pasquotank clubs in this
city last Saturday and the market was
sold out early in the morning. The first
Saturdays offerings. under the direction
of Miss Marcie Albertson, consisted OF
canned fruits, vegetables, pickles, eggs,
poultry, milk. cream, honey, smoked
meats and other things. Saturday, Sept
"a, will be the next market day and
shoppers should seek the market early
before everything is sold out. The club
market is held on the vacant lot to the
rear of McCabe & Grice's store, on
Fearing ST., just around the corner from
Poindexter st.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
WILL THIS END
FOOTBALL HERE?
Tragedy on Local Gridron
Arouses Some Protest Against
Continuation of Sport

| The first football casualty in Eliza
beth City was recorded Monday after
noon when VIM. Prichard, 16-year- -olc
son of Mrs. Jennie Prichard. of this city
had his neck broken in practice gam,
on the High School gridiron. The acci
dent happened in a tackle Young
Prichard was running head on into al
oncoming opposing line. He was not
carrying himself according to the rules
of the game. His head was limp anG
altogether too low for safety. His po-
sition was such that he might have fall
en- head first but for the collision which
followed. When the two lines met
young Prichard received a blow on the
side of his head from the knee of one
of the opposing line. He fell to the
ground and did not rise.
At first it was thought that the play
had merely taken his wind, but when he
failed to regain his breath after several
minutes a physician was sent for. Six
hysicians, first and last, worked over
him from five o'clock Monday evening
until five o'clock Tuesday morning
Paralysis of the respiratory tract which
the doctors had sought to relieve had
been caused by a broken neck.
The death of young Prichard pro-
foundly shocked the town and the effect
may be to give football setback in
Elizabeth City for the rest of the seas
on. There was a meeting of the High
School Football team Wednesday morn
ing at which membership was polled on
the question of continuing the game. OF
the 2S men present all were in favor
of carrying on, parental objections not
taken into account. But when poHed to
ascertain how many would be stopped
by parental objection. Is answered af-
William c. Meekins.- who was coach
ing the team Monday afternoon and who
is a football enthusiast. does not believe
that Monday afternoons tragedy should
halt the sport here at all. Mr.. MeekinS
points out that there We're only seven
casualties in football in the whole Unit
ed States last year. There are more
casualties from drowning ut one nearby
summer resort every year. and yet peo-
pie do not quit bathing because the pa
Ders every day record a drowning. MIR.
\Ieekins says that the accident Monday
afternoon might have happened any
where and probably would n6t happel-
again in Elizabeth City for seventy-ive
ears. He believes that no good would
,e accomplished by disbanding the team
low, since human nature is such that
boys inclined to the sport would return
o it in a few months anyway, or as
;oon as Mondays episode has passed |
,ut of the public mind.
VIM. Prichard, the victim of Mondays |
lccident, was the only son of Mrs. Jen-
lie Prichard, proprietor of the Prichard
Millinery Co. His father was the late
leo. D. B. Prichard. William would
AVE graduated at the Elizabeth City
High School this year and his college
areer had already been planned by the
Ievoted mother to whom he was every
hing that an only son can be to wild
wed mother.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23

Chorus
Where is Jones?
Everybody's lookin' for him.
Where is Jones?
Mr.. Spence wants to know.
He ct up de lamb chops and stole
his self Lizzie,
And now he's got de sheriff and po-
licemen busy.
Mr.. Spence, proprietor of the South
ern Hotel received letter from Mrs.
Jones this week, postmarked Hooker
ton, N. G. Mrs. Jones said her husband
had written her that her trunks and
baby carriage were at the hotel and
Mr.. Spence would forward them to, her.
Mr.. Spence wrote her that he would
gladly ship the trunks and carriage If
Mrs. Jones would locate her husband
for him. And then, to make Mrs. Jones
eager to locate the errant husband, Mr..
Spence told her that Jones had left
town with two other women.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
NOTICE TO MERCHANTS

The cotton receipts issued by us are
the same as checks and payable at the
Savings Bank & Trust Co. We respect
fully mention this fact to the merchants
of Elizabeth City and ask them to honor
these receipts the same as checks when
presented by farmers to whom these Pc
ceipts are issued for cotton purchased
by our gin.
EASTERN COTTON OIL. co.
Adv. s. S23-1t
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
THIS MIR. JONES A
TRULY BAD EGG
Leaves Town With Another
Mans Flivver and a Pair
of Females

w. M. Jones, an automobile
mechanic and proprietor of re-
pair shop on the corner of Road
and Matthews streets, has dis
appeared from the city, taking
with him a Ford automobile be-
longing to A. w. Lane, taking
with him also the Misses Efie
and Estelle Lamb and leaving
numerous bad checks and unpaid
bills. He boarded at the South
ern Hotel with his wife and two
children and leaves a hotel bill
Of nearly 500.
Jones disappeared from Elizabeth
City one night last week and has been
traced to Fayetteville, n. @. In fact,
the Misses Lamb write to their mother
in this city from Fayetteville, saying
they were there on a visit to Il friend
in a hospital. But when the Fayette-
vile police were put on the case. Jones
had departed and is believed to be
somewhere in the vicinity of Charlotte.
E. II. Spence, proprietor of the South
ern Hotel, is sure Jones will be appre
hended and brought back to Elizabeth
City if he doesn't get in worse trouble
elsewhere.
Besides beating his board bill, steal
ing A. W. Lanes Ford. deserting his
wife and two children and taking two
other women from town with him,
Jones cashed numerous worthless
checks and left many bills unpaid. Geo.
c. Culpepper, one of his innocent vic
tins. figures that he is out just S115
in cash and is still on an appearance
bond of $50 for Jones in the Superior
Court. .----
Jones came to Elizabeth City with
Jordan Ward, a former Elizabeth
City boy. several months ago. No one
knew Jones. Ward had friends and ac
uuaintances here. Ward recommended
Jones as a first-rate automobile mechan-
ic and interested Mr.. Culpepper in help
ing him and Jones get a lease on the
garage on the corner of Road and
Matthews streets. Before Mr.. Culpep-
per got thru with it he found that he
was responsible for the lease for Jones
& Ward.
After getting the lease for them,
Ward put up another hard luck story. !
There was $50 license tax to pay and
neither Jones nor Ward had $35. Mr..
Culpepper advanced it to them. The |
next thing Mr.. Culpepper knew, Ward
aad left town and Mr.. CulPepper be-
came more interested in Jones. About |
his time the sheriff of Martin County |
sent a warrant over here for Jones. |
Jones was wanted in WILLIAMSON for |
having eashed a bad check. Hoping to |
nave that which he had already invested |
IN Jones, Mr.. Culpepper threw good
money after bad, advancing the money
20 make good Jones' delinquency in
Nilliamston. That was about $85. But |
, lawyer in Williamson demanded a |
zee of 500 and a lawyer in Elizabeth |
City held out for another fee of $50 and
Culpepper had to pay the lawyers too. |
And then Tuesday night of last week, |
tones left town in a newly upholstered |
md rebuilt Ford belonging to A. w.
lane. He carried two Misses Lamb |
With him. Saturday night Flats Ethio- /
,ain orchestra serenaded the Southern |
Hotel, singing:
Mr.. Jones is done up and gone,
Ate two Lamb chops, bone and all;
Cranked up. fivver, blowed de horn'
An headed for de country where de
timber am tall.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
OBEY THAT IMPULSE AND
FILL IN THIS HANDY BLANK
THE INDEPENDENT,
Elizabeth City, N. C.

Send me The Independent for one
year, for which am incIosing my
check or p. o. Money Order for $3.50.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
WOULD YOU
STEP ON THE BRAKE

This is no time to step on the
brake-What's needed is ACTION
and plenty of it. Get out-get busy
Hustle!
People want to buiId-they want
homes, and homes are needed.
There is plenty of business if you
will 90 after it in way that will
make lasting dent.
Step on the aeceIerator!
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-23
VACATION IS
OVER

VACATION ID
OVER
Gail work and no play
makes" How about
your chi1d's eyes? Eye
strain causes wasted
nerve energy. Maybe
that's what is making
a dull child. Better
let some one look
those eyes over who
has the skill, patience
and experience to To-
cate the trouble.
DIR. J. D. HATHAWAY
Optometrist
Bradford Bldg. Elizabeth City, N. c
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-08
RICHMOND A. G.. STARTS
FOR ''PROS.'

Tho Richmond Athletic Club squad
IS working overtime this week in
preparation for the big game with the
Washington professionals on .Armis-
tiCc Day.
strenuous tw"-hour drill is
scheduled for every day through
Thursday at Boulevard Field.
The locals viii fac. am acid t.y,
in THIS game, FOR Washington is in the
sam" association or lcagur as Jim
h"rr" Indians. Several of Thorp"'4
last years players are on the team
ma ih- rest ar" OF tn" SAM calih.r
However, i;ichmond is
man last Year. especially in the
hackh"td, aud isn't asking any odds
OF The Visitors. VII" Will know they
nave been in a football game when
The final whistle blows.
Ihe nom" boys expect to have IN.
services either OF Jimmy I."cch or Zoe
SIv"rStcin IN the baCkiicld, in adj
dition Ia their own set Of Sterling
REGULARS S~trinrcr, SERVER. Miller,
NirlcN.. ncvinc, iIcubi and Coghfu'
There is punch cEour in this bunch
"' ground gamers 10 keep Washing
ton on the defensive part the Tim,
anyway.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-08
MACLACHI.AN TO URGE.
BUYING LOCAL GOODS
Minister VIII Address Uirhmnmd
t"ndcm! or Medicine and Sur
ger. at Session Tonight.

The "Tuy Richmond Made Goods
campaign Tor the wc'k gets Uud.r
actiy" hcadway t"uight at $40
o'clock when Rev. II. i. c. Mpcl,ch .
Ian. pastor OF the Seventh Street
Christian Church. will address the
Richmond Academy of Medicine and
surgery in tho auditorium of the
Chamber OF Commerce.
Tomorrow night AT $40 o~'clocl. the
local members OF the American In
stitut" of Banking viii assemble in
he auditorium OF the Chamber OF
Commerce.. at which time they will
lac addressed on tn" "Euy Richmond-
Made Goods question hy iiiii Mou-
iaeuc.
Eigarmakcrs' Union No. l33. when
meets Friday night in the Eagles
Home. Yesterday asked the chamber
L" send Il Shs"Ncr To the meeting
and j. II. Hinford was selected as tho
speaker.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-08
INDECENT Il
ARE IN NEED OF AlD
out "f work. Sick and Hungry. Thr
Dc>Ir.r COiurcd C~ommunIt
House for Help.

Many poor, forlnrn and sick ne
croeS. unable to obtain work., hut
altogether sclf-rcsp"ciinE. are be-
sieGinG the doors of the Community
House for Colorcd People. at . Yves,
Marshall street. hcrgsnE lillian II.
Payne. the executive secretary. To
help them ont of their difficulties and.
although the treasury is almost
empty. she never sends them away
without material aid and encourage
mcnt with this condition arising
I'm November, the Community House
realizes that II is facing the most
trying year OF its existence and is
.mrloring that it's friends OF h"tn
races who are in the habit OF con-
trihuting to its suport do SO immcd-
lately
Usually the colorcl 'p"opl" them
selves civ" ~.oAsideyahly more than
half Of the mQ.rey used 10 maintain
this enterprise. which Justice !. IIoce
Kicks regards as one of the most in
valuahlo in the city. hut this season
funds are being received SLOWLY.
H'rompt paymcnt will mean the re.
duction Of much suffering. especially
as a severe winter is forecast. lialf
ahe board Is comprised 90 white
philanthopists and the remainder are
leaders Of the negro race and all
are wnralng hard To make it possible
for the latter TO care for the s.irer-
ing and afflicted OF their own peo-
pie.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-08
VIRGINIA ELEVEN HOME
AFTER TRIP TO CEOR|
Orange and Blue Defeat,
but No, Undauntcd-Slu.
dents Stick by Team.
Especial to The Times-Disn,,ch

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
CHA RLOTTESvILLE. VA. Nov. :
Defeated but undaunted, Virgin
eleven returned last night amid en-
nous demonstrations OF the stud
body. who ave continued to 81.
steadily behind her In the revcrscs
the last two weeks. This week
again faces "a foe with whom tho "a,
He heavily. but the Manufacturers y
mSet the Orange and Blue when n
are on home territory and hav.
NINA them and watching them In.
sands OF students and alumni who
coming back for the big home ia
At present things look pretty h
Tor the Old Dominions. with both 81
crippled. Niche. last years cant
ana Al-South Atlantic end. did
go 70 Georgia on account OF injur
whiie Davis. on tho other H.,
thonsh going South again. hurt
knee. Whether either viii play $
irday is still uncertain. ! Ca 10,
Rinchart. who was hurt In tho o.
season. still suffers from his shout,
Although playing every game, IL n
uraliy cramps his style.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-08
WEST V|RG|N|ANS PLAN
REUNION ON TURKEY DAY.,
Great Crowd Expected to Vii,
less Washington and .Jeffcr-
son 'Mounlainccrs- Clash.

iSpccinl /" Tn" Timcs-Dispatch.1
MoEGANTOWN W. VA, Nov. T.
Tn" M"untainc"rs. young N old, are
going to have the greatest "gct-to-
gcihcr'' in M~oigant"wn. when Wash
JEFF plays here THANKSGIVING Day.
that ever has been held for any pur-
pose or on amy occasion in the Noun
tain state. Special train service has
been guaranteed by the railroad
homogeneous. and the university is
selling tickets TO the game.
just AN Indication of the intcrcs,
in the great reunion OF grads" is
the fact that ''Iiurry-up' Yost. Mich
igan coach for twenty-five years and
member Of the M0UntHinccr teams Of
1881. 1897 and 1896, Will be here with
hundreds of others OF prominence,
VIII" have been infrcqucnt visitors
since their undergraduate days.
here Nv" years ago I" watch West
Virginia defeat w. \ j.. 20. but the
war had just ended and conditions
We're not normal. Fully 5000 spec
iators are expected To occupy the
stands when the Kickoff takcx place
this year. and Il scli-out at least ten
days in advance il expected.
To meet This contingency. the sale
"f seats for the gam" will be almost
entirely by mail. Four thousand let
tore have beer sent to alumni with
appiication blanks limiting them tn
tn" purchase Of two tickets each. and
nearly half the seats will he sold
through this source alone.
Mail orders arc being received. and
cnCh order should he addressed To
II A. Stansbury. Athletic Director.
M~Dr.,ntrwn.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-08
YALE CAPTAIN LEADS
INDIVIDUAL SCORERS
Aldrich Has Registered 76
Points for BIue--Dartmou,h
Leader Second.

NEW YORK. :iov. Captain Al
drich. OF Yale. has taken first posi-
ton as individual scorer in major
college football. He has depuscl
Captain Robertson. of Dartmouth. AL
drtch has scored sevcnty-six points
ana Robertson siNty-scven.
E~llingcr. of Penn State. Aldrich
and Robertson have each made nine
t~ouchdowns. kaw. Of Cornell. has
made ton. Aldrich has Kicked six
teen goals from t%0uchdowns: Rob
crt.oi has kicked ten. Hansen. of
Cornell. leads in this department with
:~hirty-one. Aldrich has registered
TWO hcld goals and Robertson one.
Seven of the major college ~cievcns
were unbcatcn after Saturdays CON
tests. Lafayette. Washington and
Jefferson and Yale lead the others
with seven victories each. Cornell
Penn state and Georgetown have won
six contests without n setback, and
Penn States record liz slightly dim
med by being tied by Harvard. Navy
mas won five games. hut is tho Uniy
team that has not allowed its OPP
pnncnts to score.
Cornell has been tho best scoring
machine. scoring a total Of 337
points.