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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
M. E. CONFERENCE MAKES
FEW CHANGES HERE
New Pastor OF First Methodist Church
breaches First Sermon Here
Sunday

Few changes were made in the Eliz-
abeth City District by the appointments
of the Bishop at the North Carolina
Conference of the Methodist Church
which concIr{led. its session in New
Bern last Sunday. The only change in
Elizabeth City and Pasquotank County
was in the appointment of Rev. \. H.
D. Wilson to First Methodist Church,
succeeding Rev. J. NJ. Ormond, who has
gone to the Southern Methodist Uni
versity at Dallas, Tex.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson has been for the
past three years presiding elder of the
Washington District. Previously he
was for four years pastor of st. Paul's,
Goldsboro. He is about SO years old,
a graduate of the State University and
graduate of the Biblical department
of Vanderbilt University. Presiding
Elder r. H. Willis of this district, who
has known him for years, says that he
is a big, capable, whole some. friendly
pastor, who has never failed to win the
whole hearted approval and goodwill
of any charge he has held. The Rev.
Mr.. Wilson will preach his first sermon
permanently to this city in few days.
He is married and has no children.
Other changes in this district were
Rev. l.. NJ. Chain, from Roanoke ISL
and to South Mills; Rev. c. p. jerome,
from the Perquimans Circuit to Elm st.
Church, Goldsboro; Rev. J. Bascom
Hurley, from Moyock to Manteo; Rev.
A W. Price from South Camden Cir
cult to Kinninkeet, Dare County. Kin
nikeet is Mr.. Prices old home charge.
He has previously served that charge
for nine years and goes back for his
tenth year at the request of his people.
A full list of appointments for the Eliz-
abeth City District follows
r. H. Willis, Presiding Elder.
Chowan circuit J. l.. Midget.
Columbia circuit, NJ. W. Hester.
Currituck circuit, K. S. L. Cook.
Dare circuit, r. n. Fits i
Elizabeth City, City Road, H. E. My
ers; First Church, n. H. D. Wilson.
Gates circuit, E. R. Clegg.
Hatteras circuit, J. F. Jolliff.
Hertford, T. M. Grant.
, Kinnikeet circuit, A. w. Price.
Kitty Hawk, NJ. D. McLamb.
Moyock circuit, w. B. Humble.
North Gates circuit, J. o. Long.
Pantego and Belhaven, T. E. Davis.
Pasquotank circuit, E. L. Stack.
Perquimans circuit, w. T. Phipps.
Plymouth, w. G. Benson.
Roanoke Island, J. Bascom Hurley.
Roper, E. L: Hill.
South Camden, J. M. Carroll.
South Mills circuit, l.. NJ. Chafin.
TyrreI circuit, E. J. Midget.
President Bible and Training School,
+. L. Cunningham.
Professor in Southern Methodist Uni
7ersity, J. NJ. Ormond.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
JUST ANOTHER CASE
OF THEIR CUSSEDNESS
No Excuse For Salt Water Now Be-
ing Supplied To Elizabeth City
Consumers.
BY w. o. SAUNDERS.

There is absolutely no excuse for the
saline condition of Elizabeth City's pub
lie water supply at the present time ex-
cept the Incidence, slothfulness and
general cussedness of the Elizabeth
City Water Co. Southeast winds for
weeks past, following long period of
drought, have pushed the salt water of
the Albemarle Sound up into the Pas
quotank River and its tributaries, from
which the city's water supply is taken.
This condition is an annual occurrence,
leaving the city without potable water
for days and weeks at time and cauS-
ing a great economic loss by reason
the salt water eating out the steam
pipes and boilers of local manufacture
ing establishments.
The Elizabeth City Water Co. con-
tended for years that it would be glad
to correct the possibilities of this salt
water nuisance if the county would only
permit them to build cement dam
across Knobbs Greek, just below their
water intake. The company had elab-
crate plans for such a dam years ago
and used to shed crocodile tears because
property owners on Knobbs Greek OBJ
jected to the creek being damned.
But in January 1919 w. o. Saunders
went to the North Carolina General
Assembly and secured the passage of
an act enabling the water company to
dam Knobbs Creek and forever shut out
tn esalt water that comes up from the
Sound with Southeast winds. That bill
became a law nearly three years ago.
The only string tied to it was that the
plans for such a dam should be ap-
proved by the Pasquotank Highway
This was done to protect
the public against the possible building
of a dam that would back the waters
of the creek up on the landowners along
the creek.
The 'Pasquotank Highway Commis-
sion promptly approved the plans sub
mitted by the water company. But the
water company hasn't built that dam
yet. 1t will not build it until the city
comes down on it like load of bricks
and forces it to action, it being the set
tied policy of the water company and
it's associate companies not to do any
thing for the improvement of their ser
vice until compelled to do it.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO
BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE

Beginning with a mass meeting to
which all Elizabeth City folks interest
ed in young peoples work are invited,
at $3.50 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Dec.
4, and continuing through evening
classes and an address the following
Friday night, City Training School for
Baptist young people will be held at
Blackwell Memorial church, at this
city, in order that those attending may
gain clearer and more definite con-
ception of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union, and what it should mean to
them. All members of Baptist church
es in the city and County are invited
to attend.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
A MEAT REFRIGERATION
PLANTTO BE BUILT HERE
Crystal Zee & Coal Co. Planning Such Enterprise
To Give Free Service To Farmers Until
Plans Are Perfected

Farmers, provision dealers and
the public generally should hail
with delight information that
the Crystal Ice & Coal Co. of
this city is planning to build
modern cold storage warehouse
to take care of the surplus pro-
duction of pork, pork products,
poultry, butter and eggs in the
Elizabeth City territory The
plant contemplated by the Crys-
tai Ice & Coal Co. calls for a
.two-story brick and concrete
building to- cost about $4,000,
which cost will not include the
refrigeration system.
In meantime, while working out plans
which can not materialize this winter,
the Crystal Ice & Coal Co. offers such
storage facilities as it has to the farm
ers of Pasquotank and vicinity for the
storage of pork and pork products.
E. G. Conger, manager of the Crys-
tai Ice & Coal Co. authorizes this
newspaper to say to the farmers of this
vicinity that the present cold storage
facilities of his company are available
to them free of charge until the COM
pany builds it's proposed cold storage
warehouse.
This free service, secured for the
farmer readers of this newspaper,
means that any farmer who is so, un-
fortunate as to- find himself out of a
market on a warm day after having
slaughtered ibis pork, can store his pork
in the refrigerator of the Crystal Ice
& Coal Co. in this city until he can
otherwise dispose of it. 1t also means
that the farmer who cuts up lot of
meat for curing and finds himself with
a surplus of spare-bones, back-bones,
tenderloins, ETC., can store such prod
ucts here until he finds a market for
them.
This service offered the farmers of
this vicinity one of the results Of
the agitation, conducted by this news
paper, for the better marketing of our
pork and pork products. Out of this
agitation there will be more home-cured
meat in Pasquotank this year than in
any year in its history and it is not at
Ill improbable that in another year
Elizabeth City will have packing
house as we'll as cold storage.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
MORE COTTON
THAN In 1920
1921 Ginning Report for North
Carolina Reveals Startling
Facts

The shortage of the cotton crop so
calamitous to the rest of the South
hasn't touched North Carolina at all, if
quotank and four other Northeastern
North Carolina counties have ginned
nearly four times as much cotton this
year as they ginned in 1920. In the
entire state there were only 356, 6,267
bales of cotton ginned in 1920. But
prior to Nov. 1, 1921, 5S2,O16 bales of
cotton had been ginned in this state.
The figures have just been made puo-
lie by the U. S. Department of Com
merce thru the Bureau of the Census.
Here are the figures for five counties:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
WILL ABOLISH
THE CHAIN GANG
Highway Commission Believes
Better Way Now Possible

Pasquotank County may see
the abolition of its chain gang
within the next 80 Or 90 days.
The, Pasquotank Highway Com
mission will ask the special ses-
sion of the. General . Assembly,
which convenes earlyfin Decem-
Der, to abolish the chain gang.
The Commission has already
asked the Court to send as few
criminals to the Pasquotank
County Convict Camp as pos
sible, until the camp can be
closed by legislative authority.
The Highway Commission has here
tofore opposed all efforts to do away
with the chain gang, but, things have
changed. The Highway Commission
finds that it has only. about $4,000 a
year for its general fund and it takes
just about this amount to work the
chain gang. If the chain gang is re-
tained it swill absorb all of the general
fund.- leaving nothing for bridges, cul-
verts and permanent repairs.
At the same time such large force
of labor is. not required on the roads,
as three of. the most important roads
in the county have been otherwise TAX
en- care of. The Weeksville road has
been paved. The paving of the New
land Road is about completed and the
State Highway Commission. has taken
over the road from Elizabeth City to
Woodville These three roads formerly
consumed nearly all of the time of the
convict workers.
\. B. Houtz, chairman of the Pas
quotank Highway Commission, believes
that $4,000 can now be expended with
better results without the chain gang.
1t is his idea to retain the present Road
Supervisor, J. E. Provo. with a small
force of free labor to take care of
bridges, culverts and general road re-
pairs. 1t is proposed tos handle the
work of dragging the dirt roads of the
county thru the cooperation of public
spirited farmers who will be paid for
looking after this work in every part
IF the county. 4 number of responsible
farmers in number of neighDorhoodS
nave already been interviewed and have
pledged themselves to the plan. The
Commission would pay probably dol
ar a mile for this road dragging, the
.oads to be dragged under the direction
If the Supervisor and no contractor to
lave to take care of more than four
niles of road.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25

CAPT. WILL DAILY has given up fish
ing and saIesmanship to hold down the
position of manager of the Insurance
department of the Carolina Banking &
Trust Co. in this city. He is eminent
Iy well qualified for the job. Capt. Dali
Iy is not only one of the best known
and most popular men in and out of
Elizabeth City, but he knows more
about insurance than some might think.
He founded the Surfmen's Mutual Ben
eft Association and directed the affairs
of that big fraternaI and benevolent or
ganization in its paImiest days. He is
the "outside man" of the new bank, his
department keeping him on the outside
mixing with the folks and spotting new
business. And this Will Daily is some
mixer. Photo by ZoeIIer.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25

and Tyrrell are incomplete. Beaufort
county with only 1855 bales ginned in
1920 has GALL bales to her credit this
year.
But even these figures do not rep
resent the amount of cotton to be mar
keted by these counties this year, be-
cause thousands of bales of last years
crop never went to market, but were
stored in barns, sheds, warehouses and
even on porches, awaiting better prices.
1t would be interesting to know just
what all these government reports are
truly worth anyway. Last years es-
Inmates of the number of bales of cot
ton raised were hardly worth the paper
they were written on, because so much
of the cotton raised was never picked.
The market was so low and labor so
high a year ago that thousands of
farmers let their crop, or good por
ton of it,. rot in the fields rather than
expend labor on it. Now this year,
with a reported short CROP every farm
er is picking his cotton and carrying
it to the gins and here in the Elizabeth
City, territory we have nearly four
times as many bales of cotton this year
as we had last year; which means that
with cotton worth twice what it was
last year we are eight times (instead
of twice) better off than we were last
year, with respect to cotton at least.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25

THE croWning achievement of the
North Carolina Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South which
met in New Bern last week was the re-
turn of Rev. n. E. Myers to the pas
torate OF City Road M. e. Church in
this city, according to the members of
City Road Church. Mr.. Myers came to
City Road a year ago and made good
with his congregation at the start. He
proved SO popular in fact that City
Road folk were sure the Bishop would
Mt let so capable a man remain sta
tionery for even a second year. But
Mr.. Myers comes back and City Road
will celebrate Thanksgiving with more
than usual joy.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
PAPER A DAY LATE.

THE INDEPENDENT will reach
many of its subscribers a day late this
week, on account of observance of the
Thanksgiving holiday. This newspaper
usually goes to press Thursday after
moons to enable us, to get the paper in
to the mails that night for subscribers
living in Currituck, Camden and. other
points. This week the paper was not
issued until Friday morning.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
NORTH CAROLINA POULTRY SHOW AND
LIVE STOCK MEET HERE NEXT WEEK
Thousands of Show Birds From Four States and
Many Fine Specimens of Cattle, Swine
and Sheep
Great Educational Opportunity
For Farmers Nov. 80 and
Dec. / and 2

Next week will be big week
for tanners and poultry fanciers
in Elizabeth City. The seventh
annual North Carolina Poultry
Show and Live Stock Exhibition
will open in this city Wednesday
morning. Nov. 80, and will con-
rnue thru Thursday and Friday,
Dec. / and 2.
Thousands Of thorobred birds
from Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee
will be exhibited at the big show
here next week. The finest spe-
cirnens of beef cattle, mich
COWS. bulls, swine and sheep will
be exhibited. There will be sales
OF -h0robred live stock and poui-
try. There will be continual
serie, OF exhibitions, demonst--a.
ton. lectures and prize awards.
The complete program is pub
Iishei III this newspaper in full.
10 intelligent farmer in
Northeastern North Carolina can
afford to stay away from this
big show. The State Wide Stock
Law will on January l, 1922, put
the ban on scrub cattle and free
range swine in North Carolina.
The future OF this Northeastern
North Carolina country is large
y dependent upon live stock
production and better live stock
production. Here, at an expense
OF thousands OF dollars wifi Be
assembled the greatest exhibit
OF thorobred live stock and poul-
try ever shown in Eastern North
Carolina. Our farmers do not
have to scour this and other
states to find out what they
ought to know about good poul-
try and good live stock; it will
all be brought to their doors
next week, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, Nov. 80, Dec. l
and 2.
The Elizabeth City Chamber
Of Commerce, thru whose enter
prise the show was obtained
and under whose auspices it will
be held, urges every progressive
farmer in Northeastern North
Carolina to attend the big show.
Here is the program.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
SAYING SOMETHING
FOR THE INDEPENDENT

"THE INDEPENDENT is a
whale. 1t is the best looking, best
edited country newspaper that ]
can recall ever having SEEM"
The foregoing tribute to your
home newspaper, under date of
Nov. II, 1921, is from Mr.. Thos.
n. Beck, of New Yerrs City. MIR.
Beck is something of newspaper
man himself; he is in fact vice-pres-
ident of The CrOwell Publishing
Co., publishers of Golfers Weekly,
The American Magazine and the
Woman's Home Companion. =
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
The Program

These meetings, demonstrations, con-
tests. sales and shows of live stock and
poultry are for you. They are all free.
lou ran learn how it pays to keep "a
family COW. how to make more pork per
acre and incidentally fight the boil Wee
vI how to judge live stock, feed and
manage them, how to make poultry pay
better. and many other interesting
things which every farmer should
know.
This is all free instruction given by
the Animal Industry Division of the
State College of Agriculture and the
YOUR State Live Stock Associations.
llhS meeting will probably not be in
YOUR section of the state again for sew
"fal years. Take advantage of it. Come
and bring your farmer friends on No.
'ehlber Both and December 1st and End.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 80.
Morning Program:
~-I0;lH-Address of Welcome, Rich
ard {. Job, Secretary Elizabeth City
Chamber of Commerce.
'I"-Io:2l-Response, r. S. Curtis,
AlIInai Industry Division, North Car
DINA Experiment Station.
.-0-l i:tp-Factor in Economic Live
Stock Production, Mr.. Clement Uck-
ei: Southern Settlement and Develop
=, llehf Organization, Baltimore, Md.
'i.''-t l:3D - Factors Pertaining to
raH'lca Swine Production, Mr.. E. E.
,'4S>"t:. bureau of Animal Industry,
=, Washington, d. c.
'i,,'o- l2:tlG - Swine in Diversified
afHIag, Mr.. F. 2. Latham, Belha-
Ven: y. {.
wv @,:j''-Figures on Pork Produe-
'A, Hr. r. Troy Ferguson, Wilson,
loo, Afternoon Program:
-'d'-NIeat Cutting Demonstra
"' Mr. Earl Hostetler, Animal In
2.n" |S,'F Division, West Raleigh, N. G.
''''-Sale of Pure Bred Duroc
>'E and Hampshire Swine.
7eoo Night Program:
g. "j-Nloving Pictures of Live
3on" "hd Farm Operations.
o,, Address to Business Men
p"l. DIV, iarmers, Mr.. Clement Ucker,
> Baltimore. Nd
'''o-Discussion, Mr.. G. A Card
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
FRIDAY, DEC. 2.
Morning Program:

:OO-10:10-NIaking the Farm Self
Supporting by Live Stock, Mr.. r. S.
Curtis, Animal Industry Division,
College Station, Raleigh, n. c.
O:3O-Live Stock Raisers in the
Making, Mr.. Roy H. Thomas, State
Supervisor of Agricultural Education,
College Station, Raleigh, n. c.
O-11:O0-Adapting Live Stock to
Eastern North Carolina Conditions,
Mr.. Jesse NJ. Jones, Industrial Agent,
Seaboard Air Line Railway, Norfolk,
Va.
11:OO-11 :15-AIaking Sheep Raising
Profitable, Mr.. R. F. Scott, Member
State Board of Agriculture, Haw
River, n. G.
- Cooperative Marketing
of Lambs, Mr.. Grover w. Falls,
County Demonstration Agent, Eliza
beth City, n. c..
II 30 -12:0O-Diversifying with Live
Stock, Mr.. F. p Latham, Member of
State Board of Agriculture, Bella
ven, n C..
II 12:15-How to Make Beef Cattle
"EONluS L IO1lttDIS III AAuStS1h ANOA III
Carolina, Mr. W. W. Jarvis, Moyock,
N C.
Factors in Controlling
Live Stock Diseases, DIR. Hartwen
Robbins, Bureau of Animal Industry,
Washington, n. c.
Afternoon Program:
:OO-4:OO-Sale of Pure Bred Hereford
Bull.
Sale of Pure Bred Aberdeen Angus Bull
and Heifers.
Sale of Pure Bred Shropshire Rams and
Bred Ewes.
Night Program:
!: ':3O-9:OO-Moving Pictures, Beef Cat
tie, Dairy Cattle, Swine, Sheep and
Poultry.
Swine Judging Contest.
A swine judging contest will be held
Thursday, December 1st, at 1O:3O
iclock. Enter this contest. Write to
Ir. Stanley Combs, College Station,
Raleigh, N. c., for entry blank. No
ntry fees charged and valuable prizes
will be given to the winners.
State Poultry Show:
The State Poultry Show will be held
n Thursday, December 1st Enter
Continued on Page 2.
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Address

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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
TO SAVE A TRIP

Your eyes should be at
tended to the first thing,
then while you are shopping
the glasses can be made. and
delivered to you before you
leave for home. After long
experience I find a try-on
after the glasses are made a
necessity. I make athe ex--
animation and glasses the
same day.
DR.. J. D. HATHAWAY
Optometrist.
Bradford Bldg. Elizabeth City, n. G
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25
LOST COLONY PICTURE
HERE SUNDAY, NOV. "a

The Lost Colony pictures from which
hundreds were turned away at the AL
krama Theatre in this city Monday af-
ternoon and night will be repeated here
Sunday, Nov. 27, under the auspices of
the Elizabeth City Chapter American
Red Cross. The pictures will be exhi
bited free to children at 2:30 p. m.
Sunday and will be repeated for adults
at $3.50 p. m. There will be a special
program of music in connection with the
showing for adults. =. No admission will
be charged.
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25

Miss Beall Woodard, a University
student, WAS killed by an automobile
on street of Chapel Hill.
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well, Wilmington, N. C.:\ Mr.. E. E.
Russell, Washington. D. c.
THURSDAY, DEC. T.
Morning Program:

10:O0A 0A10:15-PresfdanS Address. Mr.
J. F. Diggs, Rockingham, n. c.
0:45-The Economic Place ot
the Dairy Cow in Eastern North Car
olina Agriculture, by Mr.. Jesse NJ
Jones, Industrial Agent, S. A. L
Rwy., Norfolk, Va.
:45-11:15-Eastern North Caroline
Pastures and Their Relation to Dairy
Farming, Mr.. c. F. McCrary, District
Demonstration Agent, Washington
n. C.
5-12:O0-Developing Pure Bred
Herd, Hon. R. H. L. Chichester
Fredericksburg, Va.
12:O0-12: :30-The Cooperative Bull
Association, Mr. w. w. Fitzpatrick
Extension Agent, The American
Guernsey Cattle Club, Peterboro, n.
H.
Afternoon Program:
100000 - Judging Demonstration -
Dairy Cattle.
2:e0-2:30 - Judging Demonstration -
Beef Cattle.
2:3O-3:OO - Judging Demonstration -
3 1908: 80 = Judging Demonstration -
Sheep.
3 3:3O-4:OO = Judging Demonstration -
Poultry.
4:00-4:30 - Judging Demonstration -
Horses.
Night Program:
Z 3O-S:0O-Moving Pictures of Farm
and Live Stock.
of Swine
Judging Contest Awards, Mr.. o. F.
McCrary. Washington, n. c.
S:4O-9 O-9:OO-GIimpses of European Agri-
culture, DR.. B. F. Kaupp, Poultry In
vestigator and Pathelogist, n. c. Ex-
pertinent Station.
Note:-Dr. Kaupp has just recently
from an extended trip through
several foreign countries and will give
some interesting and instructive facts
On producing live stock and poultry in
those countries.
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Send me The Independent for one
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25

The North Carolina Fox Hunters
Association met in Fayetteville this
week.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-11-25

High Points new ten-story hotel, the
was opened this week.