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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
TO INTER REMAINS OF
WORLD WAR HERO IN
COURTHOUSE SQUARE

The remains of Corporal Seth Ed
ward Perry, the only Pasquotank coun-
ty boy killed in action in the late world
war are expected to arrive in Elizabeth
City to-day and it has been planned by
the American Legion, with the consent
of Corporal Perry's mother, to inter
the remains on the courthouse lawn on
Main St.
Corporal Perry was killed near Bel
Ecourt, France, on Sept. 20, 1918. A
portion of his company threatened with
a counter attack and one runner from
headquarters who attempted to teach
them with orders to fall back, had been
killed. Corporal Perry volunteered for
the dangerous mission and fell under
heavy fire while crossing an open field.
His mother is Mrs. Mary E.. Perry,
of Okisko. The local post of the Amer.
lean Legion was named Seth Edward
Perry Post. The remains viii be laid
to rest here with military honors.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
EDENTON PUT 1T ALL OVER
ELIZABETH CITY FOR A CHANGE
"a communication,)

That much ''tooted'' Edenton baseball
team whitewashed the "all star" Cubs
of Elizabeth City on the Edenton dia-
mond last Friday evening, and it didn't
take any 'tjazz" music from the Mouth
olian Band to do it. The Regulars"
simply played with the visitors and the
rooters requested the management of
the local club to hurry Elizabeth City
up with that "Search Warrant" for that
fast team hid in the back yards so as
Edenton could entertain them with
fast game. The score, 20 to 0, we are
ashamed to announce for fear of fright
ening off some other teams, but the
others needn't fear Edenton just because
they walloped the "braggadosia'' Cubs
as the Cubs made a mistake and left
the "old bears" at home. The "Regu-
lars" are ready for any amateur team
at any time when they have open dates,
and would like to play some of the 'sbig
League stuff for exhibition games, as
the Regulars" are in the game to play
ball whether defeated or not. To lose
one or two games will not discourage
them. Get busy, Elizabeth City and
Hertford!
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
WINEKE BUYS SITE
FOR ICE CREAM PLANT
Pays $1,000 For Matthews st. Site
Has Plans Also For His Apart
ment House.

Frederick w. Wineke of Baltimore
and Elizabeth City has purchased the
property formerly occupied by Over
mans stables, on Matthews St. between
Poindexter and Water streets aud will
establish an ice cream manufactory and
cold storage plant on the property. The
site is 20 feet wide by 195 feet deep
and was owned by B. S. Banks. Mr..
Wineke paid $1,000 for it.
Mr.. Wineke will remodel the build
ing at once and is negotiating the pur-
chase of ice cream manufacturing and
ice making machinery to cost around
So, 800. He expects to get the proposed
ice cream and cold storage business un-
der way this summer. He is a man of
action and loses no time doing a thing.
Besides investing in the business in
dicated, Mr.. Wineke has plans for a
three-sto apartment house which he
will erect on West Church st. The
plans call for handsome and thoroly
modern structure and will make an i'm
posing architectural addition to that
rapidly developing and fashionable ex-
tension of the city. Contracts for the
apartment house will be let at once.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
ELECTION QUIET
BUT DECISIVE
Will of Elizabeth City People Is
For Better Schools, Re-
gardIess Of Cost.

In one of the quietest elections ever
held in this city citizens went to Sthe
polls last FBiday and Voted upensthem-
selves bond issue of 100000 for pub
lie schools. Out of this sum it is pur-
posed to spend approximately $1SO,OO0
in the construction of a new High School
Building equipped with big auditorium,
gymnasium, library, research labratories,
etc. A building for the colored people
is to cost about $4,000. The present
High School building is to be made over
into a grammar school building. The
rest of the money will be expended in
paying off floating indebtedness, acquir
ing grounds for the new high school
building, etc.
The vote for school bonds was 732,
with 81 votes against, out of total
registration of 1,O33. The vote by wards
follows:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
MEEKINS TAKES
WASHINGTON JOB
VIII Handle Questions Involving
Hundreds of Millions of
Dollars.

Col. I. NJ. Meekins has formally ac-
cepted the Office of General Counsel
Alien Property Custodian Division 1of
the Department of Justice under the
Harding administration and entered up
on the active administration of the af-
fairs of his Office Wednesday morning,
May 13. The Office will pay him a sal
ary of $4,000 per annum, instead of
81 500 as previously reported.
Acceptance of the Office does not mean
that COL Meekins and family will re-
move to Washington. They will retain
their home in Elizabeth City and Col.
Meekins will be with his family here
every weekend. He said he wouldn't
have the Office under any other condi-
ton.
The Office which Col Meekins has
received at the hands of the Harding
Administration is one of great respons-
ibility and trust, calling for expert legal
advice in the administration of hundreds
of millions of dollars of alien property
siezed by the government when we went
to war with Germany. Disposition is
vet to be made of most of this prop
erty.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
HOSIERY THIEVES
CAUGHT AFTER MANY MONTHS

Paul Rritehard and Oscar Parme1e,
two young white men accused 81 the
theft of about 5000 worth of hosiery
from the Pasquotank Hosiery Mills,
were arrested in High Point, N. c.,
this week, and will be brought to Eliza
beth City to-day, for trial. They were
employees of the Pasquotank Hosiery
Co. Two cases of hosiery were taken
from the mill at night and the men at
tempted to dispose of it to Mike Met
trey, a Poindexter st. merchant. Met
try put the police wise and the men
skipped, leaving the hosiery with Met
trey and leaving a Ford car on the
street The theft occurred last fall
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
COMMUNITY SING
ON COURT HOUSE GROUNDS
THIS EVENING.

At 1880 o'clock this evening
= Elizabeth City will have its. first
open air Community Sing. The Sing
= will be staged on the courthouse :
: lawn and a stereopticon will be
: used to flash the words and music
on screen. The singing will be
directed by Roy. l.. Hoffmeister of !
Community Service and the public
= will be given an opportunity to see :
what has been accomplished in the :
: development of local song leader
ship as well. Let everybody come :
= down town tonight. There'H be .
= lots of fun and cheerfuIness.
Il /.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
THE INDEPENDENT
S / 90


Having reduced the subscrip-
ton price of THE INDEPEND-
ENT to the old price of $1.50 a
year, I am now, prepared to make
this Introductory offer of little
better than eight months for
$I.OO. Send your check, P. O..
Money Order or a Dollar Bill,
and get. THE INDEPENDENT
until Jan. 1, 1922, II weeks, be-
ginning with the next issue-ai1
for $1.OO. Old subscribers whose
time has expired may avail them
selves of this offer. Dollar bills
may be sent at my risk:
w. o. SAUNDERS, Publisher,
Elizabeth City, N. C.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
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, 1921-04-15

The fact that $50 voters stayed away
from the polls and didn't vote at all was
due partly to apathy and partly to lack
of faith in the prospective school ad-
ministration. Some openly opposed the
bond issue because they were not sure
who would spend the 100000 provided.
But the will of the people was unmis-
takably registered. Elizabeth City wants
the best in public schools and is willing
to pay the price.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
ON CASH BASIS.

Another big Elizabeth City store goes
on a cash basis, beginning Monday, May
2. This time it is Morrisette & Raper,
the Main st. grocers. Announcement OF
their new policy is made elsewhere in
this newspaper this week.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
NIB. cox REELECTED

W. D. Cox, of Moyock, was re-elect-
ed superintendent of Education of Cur
rituck County at the meeting of the
Board of Education of that county held
on Monday, April 4.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
MOYOCK VOTES $4,000
BONDS FOR SCHOOL
Progressive Currituei Community To
Build a Modern High School.

At an election held in Moyock school
district, Currituck county. Tuesday, Ap-
ril II, a bond issue of $50, 1000 for
high school building was voted by
handsome majority. The actual results
of the elections were as follows:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15
THE NEWLAND HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATION EXERCISES APR. %

The graduating exercises of Newland
High School will be held Saturday even
ing, April 23rd, in the school audit"r
ium.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-15

Number of voters registered ----132
Voting for schoolhouse bonds - SO
Voting against schoolhouse bonds SO
Not voting z.
Majority of registered votes cast
for bonds 46
1t is purposed to erect a modern high
school building: With state aid the
building will cost upwards of $4,000
and will be the handsomest school home,
in Currituck county. The Moyock school
district has made great educational pro-
gress within the past few years and
there are few schools in eastern North
Carolina where teachers, students and
parents work together more harmoni-
ously or more zealously for school bet
terment and educational advancement.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25
Streets of Lower
Paia to be Widened

Street widening at lower Paia is
soon to be undertaken and plans were
presented to and approved by the
board of supervisors at the Friday
session of this months meeting by
the county engineer who is authorized
to take the necessary preliminary
plans looking to procedure.
Both the main road leading into and
out of lower Paia and the road leading
up to the mill are to be widened to
so feet with 6 foot sidewalks on either
side of the streets On the main road
the widening will start from the cane
fields, about 200 feet northeast of the
road leading to the cement plant and
extend on ~northeasterly to the Japan
ese cemetery.
The road leading to the mill will
be widened from its junction with the
main road to the railroad track cross
ing.
1t is the purpose of the county gov
eminent to establish the curb and
I street lines now but not necessarily
to have buildings moved at this time
to conform to the new lines. Most of
the buildings which project over such
lines are comparatively small and in
expensive, the most important changes
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

( greatly improved phone service, man
ager of the company there being quot
ed as saying the company will expend
$4,000.
Romagoy Hotel in Honolulu last week
1t will still be conducted as a hotel by
the purchasers.
Back on Hilo Run-After have re-
ceived repairs and new fittings to the
value of 100000 the Enterprise is
back on the coast to Hilo run and ar
rived in Hilo harbor last week.
Rodiek's Rights Observation-Disclosures
received in Honolulu say that former
President Wilson before retirement
restored the civil rights of Georg
Rodiek, former head of Hackfelds and
former German consul at Honolulu
convicted of conspiracy to violate Am
erican neutrality.
Lands for Observation-Disclosures
tons are underway for the home
steading of $500 acres of land in Ha.
wall in the near future. Piihonua,
Kekaha and Honomu furnish the chief
areas.
Joint Power PIant-Proposals for
the buildings and conduct jointly OF
a great central power plant are being
considered by the directors of EVA
and Oahu plantations. It's estimated
initial cost would be $1,400,000.
Nawiliwili Harbor Work-Work is
going forward rapidly on the Nawili
will project reports the Garden Is
land. The big water tank and pipe
for the water supply is up, pile driver
is in place and working on piles fol
the bridge and a road has been bull
to new quarters.
Many Seek licenses-More than 10(
foreign language teachers have ap
piled to the department of public in
%srtuction for examinations for licenses
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

Volcano Very Active-Last week
teh Volcano of Kilauea was more ac-
tive than at any time in 40 years, was
the report from Hilo. Since that date
tehre has been some subsistence.
When at the height of rise there were
two lava overflows from the crater.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

to ultimately result being the corner
building occupied by the Paia Mer-
camille Company. When that building
is made to conform to the proposed
street lines it will square off the corn
er and give a more extended view of
the main road northeast of the mill
road and of the mill road to vehicles
approaching from the Northeast.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

Hilo to Get Service-Hilo is report
ed by the Tribune to be in line for
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

Back on Hilo Run-After have re.
ceived repairs and new fittings to the
value of 100000 the Enterprise is
back or the coast to Hilo run and ar,
in Hilo harbor last week.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

Honolulu Hotel Sold-Sale of the
Hotel in Honolulu last week
is reported by the Honolulu papers.
1t will still be conducted as a hotel by
the purchasers.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-03-25

greatly improved phone service. man
ager of the company there being quot
ed as saying the company will expend
$4,000.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30
Italians Pay /,
Tribute To
YankHero,es; ],

Venice, April 29.-The body If
Richard Cults Fairfield, one of
the first two Americans killed in
Italy during the war, was syester-
d ay transferred to the monument
in the Mestre cemetery, near Ven
ice, purposely erected to receive 1t.
Fairfield left Harvard university
at the age Of IS, enlisted in the
British Red Cross and came to tia
ly with one of the first contin-
gents. He was killed in 1916 by
an Austrian bomb. Italian soldiers
and sailors and a detachment of
American bluejackets rendered
military honors as the coffin, COW
cred with American and Italian
flags, was carried to its last rest
ing place bya detachment of Ital-
ian soldiers and sailors. Fairfield'5
mother, Mrs. James Cummings
Barr of New York, witnessed the
ceremonies.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30

when carried almost as fast as
in actual use.
Before taking car out of the
garage inspect the tires carefully,
and if tread cuts need repairs,
put on the spare tire in place of
the injured one while repairs are
being made.
A leather washer underneath
the metal washer will often Sc
medy tendency to rattle, and
will give an elastic compression
avoid stripped threads where the
bolt is rather small for the work.
A fair passenger may lend you
hair pin to use as q cotter pin
out ON the road when nothing
else is available for that purpose.
Cuts and gouges of casting
threads should be repaired when
the car comes in at night so as
to allow a few hours for the re-
pair material to become tough.
Spots on the body Of the car
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30
Paper Shortage
In Russia Very
Acute Is Report

Warsaw, April 80. - Paper is
so scarce in Russia that 4 special
soviet government institution has
been created in Moscow and 9th
er towns to deal with the rnort-
age. Thousands of women have
been employed by the govern
ment, according to travellers com
ing over the frontier recently, to
search in old archives and record
offices for clean sheets of paper,
or paper used only on one side,
which may be utilized for soviet
office correspondence.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30

Ouija, fireside companion in
thousands of homes and conf
Dental adviser to hundreds of
families, has been dragged in
court in a $4,000 suit for sland-
er in the VIII County Court at
Joliet, Ill. A year ago the family
of Mrs. Clara Yost, Of Lockport,
ILL.,, went away from home for a
brief visit. On their return they
found quantity of sugar and
raisins missing. Mrs Yost began
an investigation and consulted
the ouija board. Ouija, 1t is al
legged, stated that Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Walters, neighbors and old
friends of the Yost family, had
taken the missing articles. The
story circulated about Lockport
and Mrs. Walters demanded that
Mrs. Yost make retraction in the
local paper. This she refused to
do and the $4,000 slander suit
Is the result.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30
Western Oregon
offers Big Range
For AutO Tourists

Where shall we go this sum
mer?" This is the universal
question in motordom these bright
spring days. Circumstances have
conspired to answer it in part
1--WE shall stay in Oregon and en-
tertain the thousands from
roadr-but beyond that restric-
tion there is a width OF choice
bounded only by the great acean
on the west, the big hills at the
east. and a beautiful drive north
and south TO Canada and to
Mexico. Within this boundry are
pleasant resorts and beautiful
scenery which beckon the aspiring
motorist with their infinite
variety OF charms.
In the Willamette Valley, the
magnificent granary Of half the
west, the gem-like beauty of the
mountain districts and the joyous
and health-giving sea breeze, cap
ture the immigration of every real
American. Further south is the
glorious scenery of the Rogue
river valley and the Cascade and
coast ranges of mountains; and
the beguiling smoothness Of a
splendid road system up the
Columbia highway to Eastern
Oregon. All of these are con
stantly inviting tourists from all
directions.
Last summer witnessed a tre-
mendous increase in trans-conti-
mental touring, and the coming
season, according to present In
dications, will show another gain
in this red-blood sport. The
Shriner's convention in Portland
last summer stimulated much
cross-country travel by motor car
and since that event all motor
dom has heard the call OF Oregon
and is responding. That the
motor touring season Of 1921 is
going to break all existing re-
cords is agreed by all those In
position to know.
From local organizations that
handle touring information come
reports of preparations for meet
ing heavily Increased demands.
This is not merely biased
thought fathered by those deeply
interested in having 1t como true.
There are solid grounds Of reason
for asserting that motor touring
this year will reach heights OF
popularity on tho part of Ameri-
can people never before attained
by any sport. Garage men, hotel
men and all manner of CONNER
ciai Industries anticipate II and
are preparing to meet the demand.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30
Strange Trees
Act Like Fire
Hose Is Claim

Philadelphia, April 30.-Speak
ing on the growth of trees before
the American Philosophical socie-
ty here today, D. T. MacDougal of
the Carnegie Institute of Washing
ton desert laboratory, Tuscon,
Ariz., said that some species be-
have like a heavy hose feeding
from a pressure system to a fire
engine. Crudely expressed, he
said, when the engine tends to
take water faster than supplied
the hose tends to collapse; when
the engine slacks its action, the
hose swells.
Daily equalizing variations by
which a tree may be actually
smaller in mid-afternoon than al
sunrise are greatest in ash, pine,
spruce, fir, walnut, and least In
poplars, sycamore, beech and oak
trees" DR.. MacDougal said. "Ac-
curate measurement of 9 the
changes in trunks internal to the
growing layer show that these
variations are directly connected
with the mechanism of the ascent
of sap and, are explalnable upon
the assumption Of a rigid water
column in a trunk composed of
wood-cells and vessels capable of
some shrinkage and expansion.
Extended measurements Of the
growth OF many trees of number
Of species have been made by the
use Of the newly designed dendro-
graph, which makes a continuous
record of changes of diameter and
the recently perfected dendrometer
which registers total change in
circumference" DR.. MacDougal
explained.
1T is found that the period dur
ing which growth takes place
even in equable climates with in
determinate seasons does not ex-
tend over more than two or three
months, and that growth is not
rhythmical in any sense, but de-
pends upon food-supply, tempera-
ture, moisture and other environ
mental conditions"
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30
Belfast Boycott
Is Enforced By
Sim Fein Army

Dublin, April 30.-The boycott
against Belfast by the rest OF Ire
land, officially ordered by the
heads of Sim Fein, is being en-
forced with all the power OF the
Irish republican army, and daily
reports are received Of attacks on
traders who continue to do busl-
ness with Belfast.
The fact that all this pressure
is necessary sAows unwillingness
on the part of traders to severe
their relations with Belfast, which
does an extensive and varied busi-
ness with the most distant nation
alist districts. The bread supply
of many of the towns in Con
naught is baked in Belfast and de-
livered daily by train. Several
consignments have been followed
up and destroyed.
In some of the towns as far
away as the County of Clare the
local traders are served from Bel
fast, and many of them have been
warned against disobeying the
Sim Fein order. At railway sta
tions in that county Belfast goods
have been destroyed in the stores.
1t is impossible to obtain ac-
curate information as to how far
the boycott has proved effectual.
Belfast citizens admit it is an EN-
barrassment but not a very serious
attack on their trade. Sim Fem
ers insist that it will cripple Bel
fast.
There are many kinds of trade
which Dublin could do as conVen-
iently for the rest of the country
as Belfast. The boycott affords
Dublin business men a chance to
capture some of this extensive
trade, but so far apparently it has
not appealed to them as a business
proposition, and there is no ap.
parent sign that capital is being
invested on the prospect.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30
Mexican Reds
Preparing For
May Day Fetes

Mexico City, April 30.-Ela bo-
rate preparations for May Day
celebrations through Mexico are
being made by radical elements
and in some quarters there is ap-
prehension that the observance of
the day may lead to disorders.
Government authorities, while
inclined to look on the demoustra-
tions as mere outlets for radical
are prepared to meet
any emergency.
Linn A. E. Gale, an American
radical, expelled from Mexico
April l, as pernicious foreign
er, has returned to this city, ac-
cording to an apparently well au-
thenticated report.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30

1t requires almost, twice as
much gasoline to wind around in
contested streets as to run
straight on a free road. Closing
the throttle during the greater
part of a hill descent will not
only be safer, but will save gas
oline. The throttle lever on the
stearing wheel is more economical
of fuel than the foot accelerator.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-30

A piece of wirs from a near
by fence may temporarily help
you out of trouble and it may get
you in lot of trouble. 1t is
best to carry a piece of wire. IT
may be used as a towing rome
or may be wrapped around the
channel of the rim to protect it
while going home 'on the rim >
1t may be wound around the
leaves of a broken spring or take
the place of a lost bolt.