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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
CHESS DEADLOCK
 BROKEN AT LAST

Havana, March 31-Jose R.. Capa- blanca, the Cuban chess master, last night defeated Dr. Manuel Lasker, German expert, in their fifth game. The first four contests were draws.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
HIGH SCHOOL FIVE
 PLAYS BLACK ROCK

The High school team will play an exhibition game with the Black Rock Country Club Five in Colonial hall tonight. The proceeds will be given. to buy trophies for the Girls state champion team. Dan Guilty has do-- mated the hall Dancing WzR follow
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
MEYERS TO JOIN DODGERS.

New York. March 31-Hy Meyers, Brooklyn outfielder, who has been a holdout, will join the Dodgers next week He received salary increase and assurances of a $1,0o0 bonus if the team finishes first, second or thtE&
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
Hitting The Sport Trail
With Geo. E. Firstbrook

a in on the Bay State the riotous at the would the favor of Charley Ellington Johnny Shugrue and not draw verdict But fairly, Sugrue battered that Plkngton had the the the twelfth Shugrues icyconfc finish entitled the Waterbury boxer to draw. Pilkington would have an
 
 additional three rounds might have been all Shugrues
 
  bouts fight they should be accommodated in this direction
  in column A few disorderly New seriously the i hooves fight against of thing baseball if they might THE BIG FIGHT DATE
 comes the ammo that e 0 That looks like In making the Rickard hold outside of this country had reject today in representing Dempsey with American that all the the disclosing of tine site of the
 completed various incidental staging within this magnitude could staged with side of large population
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
McCANN's TRIBUTE TO FANNY.

aboutth e'xasno a He a nd in Iwordu the  its sGrande 0 :
 
  to
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
SPORT FLASHES

NEWARK, N. J.-Max Bohiand, two mile running champion, annexed the 1 1-2 mile title in the Ha.hne A. games. Andy Craw finishing second, ana Eddie Garvey, third. wASHINGTON-T veteran Jack Barry has turned out a fast nine for Holy Cross as indicated by the 13 to win of the Worcester collegians over Gallaudet-
 TOLEDO-Roger Bresnaa1an has placed old Bill CIymer in full mana geria, charge of the Toledo team
 NEW YORK-After outcEassins Harvard rif1emen, Columbia was de- feated by Georgetownia and DreDel yes terday.
 ANN ARBoR - Fifteen men will make up the Michigan track team which will leave in two weeks for tho Pacific Coast meet with Univer- sity Of California
 ed up a to win over the Vermont nine.
 ALRANY-A bill is before thls leg islature today to restrict the wrestling sport under commission.
 CHARLOTTESVILLE VA - Penn athletes defeated Virginian, 65 to 61 in their dual track meet.
 LoNDON-Carnbrid crew de feated Oxford by one length in the Thames rowing classic
 AUGUSTA. ME.-Maine win have a boxing board and twelve round bouts will be permitted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31
WOnsen 70 See
 HarUnrd Bouts

Cambridge, Mass, March 31.- No obection will be made to the admission of women at Harvard'S boxing championships next Fri day. The twenty-four fighters, however, must appear in clean jerseys and pants. Some inter- cSting bouts are promised. Ned Weatherhead, the football player, is one of the four champions who are defending their titles.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

CHARLOTTEESVIEL VA - Pen1 athletes defeated Virginian, 65 to 61 in their dual track meet.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

NEW PLAYEFSS FV|R CARDS.
 Houston, Icy, March 31 - Third Baseman Jewelens, last year manager of the Houston club, and Outfielder Bill Stelleauer, champion hitter of the Houston club last year, have been re- leased to the St. Louis Nationals
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

LONDON-CaInbr crew de feated Oxford by one length in tn Thames rowing classic
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

AUGUSTA ME.-Maine will hzavs a. boxing board and twefvae round bouts will be permitted.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

SKIPPER JACK GLENNON-Yep we miss the empty beer barrels fo ballast nowadays.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

AI.RANY-A bill is before thle ee islature today to restrict the wreStEn sport under a commission.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-31

FIRE CHIEF JOHNSON-Td like to see Gene McCann shift Buck La1 uyer to second base.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
| MEANS MORE HOMES TO
BE BUILT IN THIS CITY
Building & Loan Association Opens New
Series Of Stock To-MOrroW-
Beats Bank Savings

The Thirteenth Series of shares OF
the Albemarle Building & Loan Associa-
ton of this city will open tomorrow
Saturday, Sept q. It is confidently be-
lieyed that 4 so to 1000 shares of this
series win .te psoapeetiye home
builders.
The Building & Eoan was started in
this city in March, 1916, and the @ides
is only beginning to take hold. The As
sociation has never done enough adVer-
tising to put across the idea that money
in the Building & Loan is worth twice
as much as money in the bank. But
that is exactly the case.
Banks pay four per cent interest on
savings. The Building & Loan pays six
per cent. Bank savings are taxable.
Building & Loan stock is not taxable.
After paying taxes the bank depositor
realizes about two per cent on his saw
ings. The investor in Building & Loan
stock pays no taxes and gets his six
per cent net.
Building & Loan shares are sold in
pays for his stock at the rate of %
cents per share per week. One thous-
and dollars in the Building & Loan is
paid for at the rate of $3.50 a week.
One who puts money into the Build
ing & Loan may become borrower
and borrow money to build home of
his own Or if not interested in build
ing for himself, he can let his money
stay in the Building & Loan and help
some one else to build. Every dollar
that goes, into the Building & Loan As
sociation is employed in building new
homes in Elizabeth City and secured by
the best real estate values in the city.
The more building and loan stock sold,
the more homes built in Elizabeth City,
the more business for the lumberman,
the brick manufacturer, the hardware
dealer, the painter, the carpenter, the
plumber, and every one who thrives by
building.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
DUCK HUNTERS HANDED
ANOTHER HARD WAkLoF
Bag Limit Must Comprise Birds Killed
+ By Persons Including Car
rierS

Among the notable changes made in
the Federal migratory bird treaty reg
ulations this year is an amendment re-
stricting the bag limit to birds killed by
persons including carriers.
This amendment provides that the
daily bag limit of any person shall now
include "all birds taken by any other
person who for hire accompanies or as
sists him in taking migratory birds. "
This will put an end to the abuse OF
privileges under the regulations regard
ing the prescribed daily bag limits by
persons who claim that birds were killed
by guides accompanying them.~
It has been customary heretofore Tor
a hunter to take one or more other
persons along with him on cunning
expedition and bring back his allotted
bag of % ducks and eight geese for
every person in the party. While the
gunner was limited to % ducks for him
self. if he wanted so, 75 or 100 ducks,
he would take one, two or three attend
ants along with him. Under the new
regulations he mustn't do that any
more.
- Another amendment to the regulations
forbids the shooting of game from air
planes, law already in effect in North
Carolina.
A summary of both Federal and State
game laws as revised to date has just
been issued by the U. S. Biological Sur
yey and may. be obtained thru that de-
partment or thru ones Congressman.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
ACCUSED OF TAKING
ANOTHER MANS WIFE
Tom Evans To Stand Trial Second Time
At currituck Court

The fall term of the Superior Court
of Currituck County for the trial of
criminal and civil cases will convene at
Currituck G. H., Monday, September 5.
The Judge presiding will be Hon. ].
Lloyd Horton, of Farmville, Pitt Coun-
ty, who is the youngest Superior Court
Judge in the state and probably the
youngest man to have ever been elected
to the Superior Court judiciary in North
Carolina. Judge Horton is % years old.
Because of his youth, the older lawyers
in the district were not enthusiastic over
Judge Horton at first, but in the few
months that he has been on the bench
he has won the respect and admiration
of the bar wherever he has held Court.
There are few cases of Importance
to come before the Court at Currituck
next week The one case promising
anything like a SENSATION is the case of
the State against Tom Evans, young
white man charged with the crime OF
enticing and harboring the wife of an
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
CONTRACTS FOR
100000 TOILET
New Buildings For State Nor
NAL To Be Started At
Once

Advertisements for bids for
more than 100000 of construc-
ton work for the Co1ored State
Normal School at Elizabeth City
will appear within the next few
days and contracts fop three new
buildings, water works and sew
erage disposal system viii be let
at an early date. Actual con-
struction work will be gotten
under way early this fall. Con-
tracts for other work will be let
before this work is completed
The new buildings for. the State Nor
istratien building, model practice
school and home for the, principal. The
administration building will cost around
$4,000 and will be in many respects
the handsomest and most practical
school building in Eastern North Caro-
lima. The building will be two stories
high and will have six class rooms, two
labratories, library and principals Office
On the first floor, and ten class rooms
on the second floor. The upper floor
is reached by stairways at each corner
of the building. Each class room has a
well lighted and ventilated cloak room
and lavatory facilities for both men and
women are provided on both floors.
a feature of the administration build
ing will be an auditorium will be 80 feet
deep and 60 feet wide. In other words
it viii be real stage. That auditorium
viii be the talk of the town when it is
completed next summer.
The new administration building viii
replace the present administration build
ing which was built about 20 years ago.
The old administration building wii1 be-
remodled and made part of an enlarged
dormtory for girl students. When this
work is completed construction win be
started on dormitory for boys.
The model practice school and the
home for the principal to be built at
once will cost about $1,000 each. The
practice school, as it's name implies, will
be a model school in which students of
the State Normal will get actual exper-
fence in teaching. 1t will be in every
way model two<teacher country school,
the building-and grounds designed to be
an example for rural school districts
generally to follow.
In addition to these buildings, the
State Normal is to be provided with its
own water and sewerage systems. The
details of these are now being worked
out and contracts will be let soon. The
E. IL.
of Raleigh. Mr.. Salter was in Elizabeth
City Tuesday of this week and his plans
were approved by the Board of Trustees
of the State Normal in session here
Tuesday, Aug. %.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

A decrease is shown only in the coun-
ties of Tyrren and Hyde in Northeast
ern North Carolina. Tyrrelps decrease
in Negro farm owners is 81 per cent;
Hyde's 1873.
To give some idea of the rapidity with
which Negroes are supplanting whites
as farmers, the University of North
Carolina News Letter offers the fol-
lowing facts:
"Ten years ago the Negroes in Le-
noir were 44.9 per cent of all people.
To-day they are 44.2 per cent. But dur
ing this ten-year period Negro farmers
increased 71.6 per cent while white
farmers increased only 9.6 per cent. The
Negro farmer gain was nine times the
white gain.
? 'sOr again take Wilson, the great to-
bacco county. The Negro population
ratio is almost exactly the same to-day
as it was ten years ago. But during
the ten-year period Negro farmers in
creased $40 per cent, while white farm
ers gained only 1874 per cent. In Pitt,
another great tobacco county, the farms
operated by white farmers increased 6.4
per cent, while Negro farmers are 54.6
per cent more than ten years ago. In
Greene county, the Negro farmers in
creased five times as rapidly as white
farmers. In Gates county the Negro
farm operators increased seven times
as rapidly as white. Fhe white farm
ers of Scotland decreased 90 per cent
while Negro farmers increased 47.5 per
cent. There are to-day more than twice
as MANY cO1ored farmers in Scotland
as white farmers. Edgecombe is great
farm county but. the Negro farmers
gained more than four times as rapidly
as white farmers. In Washington coun-
ty the white farmers gained "a per
cent while the Negro gain was 46.1 per
cent, or around twenty times as great
Wayne is another great farm county and
here the Negro gain in farm operators
was 42.5 per cent against 1913 per cent
for whites"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
WANTS ALKRAMA THEATRE
OPENED EVERY SUNDAY
But Would Have Religious Speakers
and Sacred Music Instead of
Moving Pictures

Loomer Rodgers, secretary of P. II.
Williams big mems bible class in the
City Road NJ. e. Sunday School, has
started movement to, organize series
of Sunday afternoon meetings to run
thru the fall and winter. 1t is Mr..
Rodgers'~idea that all the preachers,
teachers and reigiously minded in Eliz-
abeth City get together and arrange for
a regular Sunday afternoon interdenom-
national religious service. The idea
would be to use the Alkrama Theatre
for such meetings and to have a diff
ferent speaker and special musical
program every Sunday. Local speakers
would be used at first, and as the meet
ings prospered, the organization would
reach out and bring in prominent min
listers and religious workers from other
cities and states. Mr.. Rodgers would
like to hear from those interested.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
NEW GOODS ARRIVES
AT McCABE & GRICE

MeCabe & Grice tell the readers of
this newspaper this week of the first
notable arrival of fall merchandise. Be
lieving that wholesale prices have about
attained their, downward limit Mr. Nc
Cabe, who has just returned from a two
weeks buying trip, has bought heavily
for every department of McCabe &,
Grice and visitors to that store will not
find scanty and depleted stocks waiting
for something to happen. These are
busy days at McCabe & GEice this week,
opening up new goods and adjusting
things generally, to the new arrivals and
new prices. Mr.. McCabe looks forward
confidently to a good fall trade.- BE
lieving that most people have held off
buying until they must begin to replen-
ish their wardrobes, Mr.. McCabe has
bought a, fall stock that offers wide
variety to choose from. If this store
doesn't do a big business this fall, it
will not be because they haven't the
goods.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
ALDERMEN PROPOSE TO
GIVE US NEW STREETS
Would Reclaim Several Acres of Now
Idle Land In Heart of
City

Several acres of real estate in the
very heart of the city, now hardly avail
able for the best residential or business
purposes, may be reclaimed if plans of
the present Board of Aldermen mature.
The property in question lies. between
Road and Poindexter streets and Pearl
and Matthews streets. Several Alder
men are in favor of extending McMor-
rine st. from Matthews st. to Pearl St.,
thru the old Kramer Bros. mill prop
erty. They would also make a new
East and West street, probably a con-
tinuation of Cedar St, from Road St..
thru to Poindexter st. A committee is
to be appointed to work out the details
of such an improvement and report to
the Aldermen.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
NEGRO FARMERS,
ON THE INCREASE
Rapidly Supplanting Whites or
Farm Lands In North
Carolina

While the late census shows the Me-
gro population of North Carolina on
the decrease the same census shows
that Negro farmers are on the increase
m North Carolina and are rapidly sup
planting white farmers in the Coastal
Plain counties. Farms operated by
Negroes in North Carolina increased
1862 per cent in the last ten years, while
farms operated by white farmers in
creased only 2.S per cent. Here is the
per cent of increase of Negro farmers
in the following Northeastern counties:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

'sShort skirts are a mark of freedom
and not of vulgarity," Miss Helen
Louise johnson, of New York City,
told the state convention of farmers
and farm women at Raleigh this week.
1.-THE whole face of the world will
change when we realize that it is just
as much to be expected that a girl
should make a living as that a man
should" said Miss Johnson. "A defln-
ite earning occupation will change the
girl, and her plumage will decline. Girls
have been taught pre-eminently the art
of pleasing in order TO catch husband.
Dress has been an important part of
this art This explains so many wom-
ems pursuit of clothes"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
SPEAKS TO ODD FELLOWS

p. II. Williams, Past Grand Master
of the Grand Lodge of I. o. o. F. win
speak to the members of Achoree
Lodge, No. IA, I. o. o. F. at their hall
in this city this evening, Friday, Sept.
2, at s o'clock.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

W. H. L. McLaurin, former minis
ter, was sentenced to 20 years in the
State Prison, by the Superior Court, at
Charlotte this week. McLaurin, 5S
years old, was accused of making as
saults on four small girls.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
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-
an1ined twice a year. Why
not you eyes5 They are
more important.
Dr. J. D. Hathaway
Optometrist
ohone 9oo Bradford Bldg
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

DR.. J. w. Taylor, a prominent op-
tometrist of Greensboro, who was Civ
en- II months on the roads recently for
inhuman treatment of his wife, got an
other twelve months sentence this week
for immoral conduct with a Miss Clara
Sanders and Mrs. J. II. Harrell The
two women were fined $500 each. All
took an appeal.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

WANTED-Furni room or rooms
for light housekeeping; middle aged
couple; no children. Address W. A..
sCHAFFTER, p. o. Box 422.
p.Sept:2-1t
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

FOR SALE-1 Pritchard Pea Picker;
second hand; will sell for $40; good
condition. ]. P. ELLIOTT, Chapanoke,
N. G. p.S.2-1t
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

other man. The State. charges that
Evans Iured the wife of Mark Grandy
to Norfolk and there lived with her ard
her two children for several weeks.
Evans was brought to trial at the last
term of Court in Currituck and the case
resulted in mistrial at that time.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

LINWOOD SAWYER
to
of
election election next
Court fact
with
and his peculiar ability office
o a
a o
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02
GRAY IS AUTHOR
OF BOTTLE NOTE
Dare County Fisherman Started
That Pirate Story on Wreck
of the Deering

.
It was Christopher. Columbus
Gray, fisherman at Buxton, N
C. who faxed and put in bottle
Ea note that set the maritime
world and the newspapers crazy
several months ago. It was
Christopher Columbus Gray who
had the Department of Com
merce and the U. S. Navy scour-
| ing the seas for pirates. Gray
has been officially declared re-
sponsib1e for the famous note in
the bottle which added the final
touch of mystery to the strange
wreck of the Carroll "A. Deering.
The Department. Of Commerce
has fixed it on Gray and the rest
of the story is told in the Wash
ington %. c. Herald, as fol-
lows:
wants e0efaI JOD.
tsThe desire for government job, it
is stated, led Gray to perpetrate hoax
which resulted in the securing of the
Atlantic by the Navy and the Coast
Guard, engaged the attention of five
government departments and interested
the entire country.
sThe Carroll A. Deering, out of Bath,
N
Shoals, Cape Hatteras, January % last,
under circumstances So mysterious that
her case was ikened to that of the Ma
rie Celeste, long one of the unsolYed
mysteries of the sea.
: ffWhen later note was reported to
have been found washed ashore in a
bottle, stating that the Deering had
been captured by an "oil-burning boat
something like submarine chaser
which had captured all the crew, the
government began to take an interest
in the case.
'The interest was heightened when
Miss Lulu Wormwell, daughter of the,
master of the vessel, presented to the
Department of Commerce evidence that
the note in the bottle was in the hand
writing of the mate and apparently gen.
uine.
''The departments of State, Navy,
Justice and the Treasury began an in
vestigation, and with the disappearance
of a number of other vessels in the
same vicinity, it was limited that Soviet
pirates might be responsible.
Lawrence Richey, special assistant to
Secretary Hoover, was put in charge of
the governments investigation, and it
is his discovery made public last night
which has practically written finish to
the chapter.
''As descHbed by Richey, the solution
of the mystery has many of the efe-
ments of a detective masterpiece.
Served In Navy
''Unfortunately many of the early
phases of the investigation cannot be
made public, but suffice to say that gov
ernment handwriting experts of the
Navy and Treasury identified the note
as having been written by Gray, who
formerly served several enlistments in
the Navy.
''Gray, it was learned, had applied for
a position in the lighthouse service of
the Department of Commerce. Desir-
ing to discredit the lighthouse staff at
Cape Hatteras in the hope that he might
create a vacancy to be filed by his ap-
pointment, he seized the wreck of the
Deering as an opportunity.
'NThe finding of the note, it was hoped
by Gray, would cause a reflection upon
the Coast Guard and the staff of the
lighthouse who had been unable to solve
the mystery. Confronted by the. evil
dence in the possession of Richey, Gray
confessed, it was stated, to having writ
ten the note.''
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-09-02

MR.. HALL is the son Of ReV. and Mrs.
John n. Hall, Sr., Of this city. He was
born at Bynum, Chatham County, N. c.,
bat calls Elizabeth City home because
hlk parenta h1sa haas THAR resfdeaee
here for several years and his tMo sis
ters married here. They are Mrs. w.
A. Brock and Mrs. NJ. q. Sawyer. Young
Mr.. Hall is graduate of the State Col
lege and took the law course at Trim
ity. He has not decided just where he
will locate, there being several attrac-
tive openings beckoning to him.