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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
IT'S IN THE WATER, NOT
THE ICE SAYS MR. CONGER
Crystal Ice & Coal Co. Also Deny
Charge That Ice Prices Here
Are High

Criticism of the quality of ice manu-
factured and the service rendered by the
Crystal Ice & Coal Co. of this city may
have the effect of Fastening an improve
nent in the quality of the ice. ''We
admit that we are not producing an en-
tirely satisfactory cake of ice," says E.
G. Conger, manager of the ice COM
pany; 'but we believe it is a problem
which we can not overcome until we get
better water for icemaking, and we
have been working on this water prob
lem for nearly two years."
Mr.. Conger says that spite of the fact
that water used in the manufacture of
ice here is twice distilled, filtered thru
sand, filtered thru charcoal and finally
filtered thru highly expensive filter-pa-
per, it is impossible to freeze it without
getting a reddish sediment at the core of
the cake of ice. The water comes from
Pasquotank river. Recently the ice
company contracted with the Elizabeth
City Water Co. for its water supply and
will use city water as soon as pipes can
be run to the plant. Mr.. Conger hopes
that better product will result from
the use of city water.
The charge that the price of ice in
Elizabeth City is high is. denied by Mr..
Conger and he publishes an ADVERTISE
ment elsewhere in this newspaper Civ
ing a comparison of the price in Eliza
beth City with the prices prevailing in
100 representative American towns and
cities.
Criticism of the quality of the ice sold
here was brought out at the meeting
of the Board of Aldermen this week. It
was also charged at the Aldermen's
meeting that dirty milk is sold in the
city and to safeguard against impure
milk an inspection will be made of all
dairies out of town as we'll as in town.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
N. c. STATE TREASURER
CALLS FOR BOND BUYERS
Issues Folder and Appeals To Bankers
and Press To Promote Sale
of Issue

Bankers and newspapers are being
called upon by the State Treasurer in
the effort to interest buyers in $S,372,-
500 North Carolina bonds, bids for
which are to be open July Is.
This issue includes. $5,O00,OOO road
bonds, and $3,372,5 800 for building edu-
cational and charitable institutions.
The State Treasurer is directing
special attention to the 500 bonds and
the effort is to make the entire issue
a popular loan, selling these bonds in
North Carolina.
To newspapers and banks, special let
ters have gone out from the State
Treasurer's Office and in all of them
the 500 bonds have been stressed.
81 would be more than glad" says
the State Treasurer to newspaper men,
'.if you would make some real effort
to help sell these bonds. I am extreme
1y anxious to thoroughly advertise the
fact that North Carolina is offering S1O0
five per cent bonds for sale and I hope
by your effort a good many will be sold
in your county,
The State Treasurer has issued an
attractive folder describing the issue in
detail and prescribing a form for pro-
posals to purchase.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
NORTH RIVER LINE MAY
\ ENTER MACS HEAD YET
OficiaIs of The Line Contemplating
Building Their Own Wharf to
Get to Resort

Shut out from Nags Head by the
Eastern Carolina Transportation, the
North River Line of Elizabeth City is
determined to operate between Eliza
beth City and Nags Head anyhow and
officials of the company are at Nags
Head this week with a view to securing
a site for wharf. It is said that prop
erty owners at Nags Head will cheer
fully give them a place to land if they
will build a wharf.
The Eastern Carolina Transportation
Co., operating a daily steamer between
Elizabeth City and Roanoke Island, lays
claim to all Nags Head summer busi-
ness. They own the wharf at Nags
Head. When the North River Line
proposed running a Sunday excursion
steamer to Nags Head the Eastern Car
olina company demanded a fee of $50
a day for use of their wharf. The price
is prohibitive and has had the effect of
shutting the North River Line out and
giving the Eastern Carolina Transpor-
tation Co. a monopoly of Nags Head
business. The Elizabeth City public
generally and the Nags Head summer
colonists are siding with the North Riv-
er Line and want the additional service
which this company would give with its
big, commodious excursion steamers.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
E. [. SAWYER to-
SUCCEED LITTLE
Geo. r. Little, Clerk of the Su-
perior Court to Go With
New Bank

Geo. R. Little, for more than
ten years clerk of the Superior
Court of Pasquotank County, has
resigned to accept the position
of assistant cashier of the Caro-
lima Banking & Trust Co. of this
city, (which will open for bust
ness on or about Sept. 1. Mr..
Little's resignation is effective
Sept. 1.
The unexpired term of Mr. Little's
| Office will be filed by Ernest L. SAWYER
and Mr.. Sawyer will quit the practice
OF law on Sept. 1, to give his full time
to the Office of Clerk of the Court The
present term of the Office does not ex-
pire until Dec, 1922. Mr.. Sawyer will
be candidate for the Office in the state
and county election next year and his
friends are confident that he will be
elected.
Geo. X. Little, who is serving his
third four-year term as Clerk of the
Superior Court of this county, has given
the public most satisfactory service. In
Ernest L. Sawyer the local bar believes
that the Court has found worthy
successor to Mr.. Little. It would be
hard to find a man more familiar with
the routine of the Office of the Clerk
of the Court or better qualified to fill
the Office.
In order to accept the Office of Clerk
of the Court Mr.. Sawyer will find it
necessary to close his law Offices and
abandon the active practice of law. This
he will do with some regrets, but his
work as Clerk of the Court will not
permit him to get rusty and it is pointed
out that he could return to the practice
of law any time in future with assur-
ance of readily picking up the fine pro-
bate and tide practice which he now
enjoys.
The acceptance of the unexpired term
of Office of Clerk of the Court by Mr..
Sawyer will vacate the Office of Prose
cutting Attorney of Pasquotank County
now held by him. The appointment of
a. County Prosecutor to fill the unex-
pired part of the present term will be
made by the County Commissioners.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
WILL CLOSE LIFE
SAVING STATIONS
Four Stations on N. C. Coast To
Be Inactive, Crews of 27
Others Reduced

Four life saving stations on the
North Carolina Coast are to be
rendered inactive and the com
plements of 27 other stations in
the Seventh District y. S. Coast
Guard are to be reduced at once
The stations to be made inactive
are Penneys Hill No. 167, Poy-
ners Hill No. 169, Kitty Hawk
No.[172 and Durants No. 185
The first three are located on the
Currituck coast; the fourth, Du-
rants is located just south OF
| Hatteras.
The crews of nine or ten men en-
ployed in these stations will be taken
off and only two men left at each sta
ton to maintain a general lookout and
keep the property of the government in
order.> In event of a wreck at any of
these stations, the rescue work will be
handled by the crews of nearby stations
The stations at Wash Woods and Curri-
tuck Beach will take care of Penneys
Hill. The station at Currituck Beach
and Cafeys Inlet will take care of Poy-
ners Hill, Paul Gamiels Hill and Kill
Devil Hill will take care of Kitty Hawk.
Creeds HILL and Hatteras Inlet will
take care of Durants
There are 81 life saving or Coast
Guard stations on the North Carolina
Coast. These stations are located five
to seven miles apart and nine or ten
men are regularly on duty at each sta
ton. The number of men at these sta
Ations will be reduced to eight by the
new order.
Gloom prevails around Coast Guard
headquarters in Elizabeth City and SER
vice men are coming in daily to ascer-
tain how they will be Individually af-
fected by the new order. It means that
fifty or more men in the Coast Guard
Service may find themselves out of
S9b any day. unless the government can
find room for them in some other de-
partment.
The order reducing four stations to
inactivity and reducing the compliments
of all stations is made in the interest
of economy, it is said. It is also gen.
erallyGknown that the appropriation for
the maintenance of the Coast Guard
was altogether disappointing this year
and it was not unexpected that the SER
vice would be handicapped for lack of
funds.
Capt. Ralph T. Crowley, superinten-
dent of the Seventh District U. S. G.
G. is wearing a troubled look, but re-
fuses to discuss the new order. He will
only admit that the order is effective
at once but details are not Forthcoming
from his Office.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
EXPERT DELIGHTED WITH
ELIZABETH CITY HYDRANGEA

Elizabeth City has long enjoyed fame
for its beautiful shade trees and now
it may be destined to be fame for its
hydrangeas. John J. Blair, State Su-
pervisor of Schoolhouse Planning, who
was in Elizabeth City last week, de-
clares that no where in North Carolina
has he seen more beautiful hydrangea
than those that adorn the lawns and
yards of so many Elizabeth City home
owners. Mr.. Blair's work takes him ali
over the state and he has made an init
mate study of the hydrangea, using it
wherever possible in the Identification
of school grounds. Remarking upon the
hydrangea in Elizabeth City, he says he
never saw more luxurious plants or
more exquisite colorings than have
been obtained here. He says he hopes
to return at an early date and bring
his camera for the purpose of getting
photographs of some of the finer speci-
mems.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
CITY MUST EDUCATE
ITS OWN COLORED YOUTH
City Has Had a Soft Snap In the State
Normal School Until Now

Elizabeth City must provide for the
EDUCATION of 126 or more colored chill
dren of the Primary Grades who have
heretofore been taken care of at the
State Nokmal School. Taking advantage
of the fact that practice department i5
an essential part of teacher training
| school, the city has unloaded a large
number of colored children on the State
Normal School. Once the city did this
without paying a dollar for it. Then
the. city paid something like $3.50 q
year. And then, two years ago, tbe
State Department of Education put it's
foot down and the city and county were
drawn into a contract by which the
county and state paid the salaries of
six teachers at the State Normal for
a period of six months and the city paid
the same salaries for two months. The
State Normal furnished school rooms,
heat, light, teacher supervision, janitor
service, etc. 1
Under this contract more than $50
colored children of the primary and ele-
mentary grades received instruction at
the State Normal this year. There
were 126 pupils from the city alone and
pupils thru an eight months school was
the payment of the salaries OF six
teachers for two months. And then the
city got rebate of $57S.0O, represent
ing tuition fees paid into the State Nor
NAL by nonresident pupils.
And now the state wants it under
stood that the State Normal School at
Elizabeth City is a state Institution for
the training of teachers for colored
schools and not a dumping ground for
the city's elementary schools. In let
ter to the city superintendent of schools
DR.. e. G. Brooks, state superintendent
of public instruction, suggests that the
city acquire school site opposite the
State Normal School grounds and erect
thereon a six or eight teacher school,
the school to be owned and the teach
ers paid by the local. school authorities.
Teacher supervision for this school
would be furnished by the State Normal
and the State would undertake to secure
1,60O from the Rosenwald fund to aid
in the construction of the building and
the state would agree to furnish and
equip the building with modern school
desks and school apparatus.
1t is believed that in view of the ser
vice the state has rendered the city for
many years past by furnishing school
facilities for large numbers of local stu
dents, the city school authorities will +,
be inclined to favor the suggestion of
DIR. Brooks. One thing is certain, the
city will have to devote more funds to
Negro education. A lot of people sup
IL oI.n o1Y1 tod of fho
expense of white tax payers. The re-
verse is true in Elizabeth City, the Ne
groes of this city are paying more than
their pro rata of the cost of public edu-
cation. In making an admission of this
fact in a public meeting some weeks
ago, Prof. S. L. Sheep, superintendent
of city schools, declared that it must be
said to the city's shame.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
THREE WHITE MEN
HELD ON GRAVE CHARGE
Negro Youth Says White Men Beat and
Robbed Aged RecIuse Near
\ + HertfOrd

Perquimans county. is stirred by g
murderous assault committed upon VIM
'Wooten, an aged white man near Hert-
ford, on the night of June %. Wooten
is recluse and kept his money Oh
his premises, sleeping with it under his
pillow at night. On the night of June
% some one entered his home, beat
him nearly to death and toof $955.0O
from under his pillow.
Willie James, young Negro, who
was seen with a 500 bill, was suspect
ed of the assault and robbery and ar
rested. The Negro made a sensational
statement duplicating three white men,
Charles Nuns, Tom Chapel and Lin
wood Chapel. The Negro says these
men confded to him their plansi to
knock old man Wooten in the head and
rob him and asked him to help them.
Nuns is in Jail at Hertford under a
81 900 bond. Linwood Chapel has
been bound over to Superior Court un-
der a bond of $3.50. Tom Chapel, the
last of the trio captured is being held
without bond.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
Will ASK CONGRESS TO BUY
THE LAKE DRlJMbl0ND CANAL
IF Government Can't See 1t AS a Free Waterway.
Then Government May Recognize It's
Reclamation Possibilities

1t United~ States government
engineers refuse to. recommend
government purchase of the
Lake Drummond Canal for a free
waterway, the Congress of the
United States will be asked to
take over the canal as part of a
great reclamation project and
incidentally the canal would be-
come a free waterway anyway.
The Chamber of Commerce of
Norfolk, Va. is now working to
bthe end of persuading Congress
that regardless of the value of
the Lake. Drummond Canal as
waterway, the government
should take over this property
and use it as drainage canal for
the reclamation of that great
wilderness known as the Great
Dismal Swamp.
The Lake Drummond Canal is about
to be abandoned by it's private owners
because the government has put it out
of business with its free inland water
way via the old Albemarle & Chesa-
peake Canal. The government has been
asked to take over Lake Drummond
Canal also and hearing on the ques-
ton was conducted by government en-
gineers in Norfolk early in May. The
report of those engineers has not been
made public. It is not believed that it
will be favorable.
But there is hope of more favorable
consideration of a project that would
mean the reclamation of 100000 acres
of the richest land in America, making
available 10000 of the finest small
truck farms in the United States. just
that many 5O-acre farms can be re
claimed from the Great Dismal Swamp
when it is reclaimed by proper drain
age, and the Lake Drummond Canal
would necessarily be the main artery of
such drainage.
The Elizabeth City Chamber of Com
merce will join hands with the Norfolk
Chamber of Commerce in presenting
these new claims for government own
ership of this canal.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
GEO. TWIDDY GOES TO
WHERE SHOES ARE MADE
Enterprising Young Elizabeth City
Merchant Gets a Huneh Shoes
Are Off

A rare stroke Of enterprise is dis
played by Geo. A. Twiddy, of the firm
of Twiddy & White of this city, who
is in Boston, Mass, this week to buy
the fall and winter stock of shoes for
his firm. ''Going all the way from Eliz-
abeth City to Boston to buy shoes is
somewhat out of the ordinary, I'll ad-
mit,n declared Mr.. Twiddy, ''but I have
learned a few things lately. The shoe
market right at this time is all to pieces
and the fellow who can go to the man
ufacturing centers and show the cash
can buy lot of stuff at pretty much
his own figures. I'm going to save a
thousand dollars or so for Twiddy &
White by making this trip and expect
to come back here with cheaper shoes
for Twiddy & Whites trade. Watch
me-"
Mr.. Twiddy is accompanied by his
wife They will make a side trip to
Natick, Mass, where they will visit Mr.:
and Mrs. Fred Symonds, formerly of
this city, before returning home.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
MAY PUT ASPHALT ON
BLOCK PAVED STREETS
New Aldermen Favor Ironing the Kinks
Out of Poindexter and Matthews
Streets

Several members of Elizabeth City's
new Board of Aldermen are in favor Of
smooth surfacing Water, and Poindexter
streets by treating the granite block
paving on those streets to top layer
Eof~asPlfalf OF rTarvia. limo other way,
except by building new streets outright,
can the jolts and noise be taken out of
these two heavy traffic streets.
Two members of the Board known to
favor asphalting these streets are w.
II. Jennette of the Third Ward and Cal
vim II. Twiddy of the Fourth Ward.
This newspaper has made no attempt to
poll the entire Board, but believes there
is enough business judgement on the
new Board to warrant the guess offhand
that majority would favor the i'm
provement.
That the new Board is interested in
improving these streets has been evi-
denced in a concrete way within the
past few days. Under the direction of
City Manager Ferebee several yards of
paving at the intersections of Main.
Matthews and Water streets have been
taken/up and relaid, taking much of the
jolt out of the cutters that previously
existed at these particular street in
tersections. Automobiles generally
have avoided Water street because of
the awful bumps one got at the Main
and Matthews streets crossings. But
only a topping of asphalt or similar ma
terial will make either Water or Poin-
dexter street desirable and inviting to
traffic.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
"a SPEEDERS ARRESTED
THE VERY FIRST DAY
County Commissioners Employ Special
Policemen To Make Brick Road
Safe For Traffic

Twenty four arrests is the first days
harvest of special traffic officers as
signed to the brick roads outside Eliz-
abeth City. Warning after warning
having failed to have any deterrent eff
feet upon speeders using the Elizabeth
City -Weeksville road, the County Com
missioners have employed special po-
licemen to patrol this road and arrest
every violator of the speed law. The
lawful speed limit is 25 miles and hour
and woe unto him or her who steps on
the accelerator above that limit.
The special officers employed by the
County Commissioners are B. F.
Roughton and B. #. Emmett. They
went on duty Wednesday morning and
the result of their ,fNst days work was
"a warrants for speeding, all of them to
be tried in the Recorders Court this
morning.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
MR.. AYDLETT HAS A NEW
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
There Will Be No More Talk of Lack
of Harmony In This
Body

Elizabeth City now has q Board OF
Graded School Trustees that will work
in harmony. The new Board of Alder
men re-organized theschool board Tues
day night, July 5sFss Of the per
sonne1 of -she new Board discloses nc
one who will make any serious trouble
for the powers that be. E. F. Aydfett
has been re-instated for a period of four
year, tho when his right to hold Office
was recently challenged all we could
hear was that he would get off the
school board when his term expired on
July 1.
Here are the appointments made
Tuesday night:
First Ward-N. S. Leary, four years;
DR.. w. w. Sawyer, two years; J. G.
Sawyer, one year.
Second War d-W. H. Jennings, four
years; NJ. P. Gallop, two years; Noah
Burfoot, ST., one year.
Third Ward-C. E. Thompson, four
years; DR.. S. W. Gregory, two years;
w. L. Small, one year.
Fourth Ward-E. F. Aydlett, four
years; J. K. Wilson, two years; w. P.
Duff, one year.
Those holding over are: G. F. Seyf-
fert, w. G. Sawyer, f. G. Jacocks and
G. P. Brown.
The following radical members of the
board were dropped: W. A. Brock, DR..
]. D. Hathaway, E. NJ. Stevens, w. P.
Skinner, T. J. Markham and G. o. Rob-
inson.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
WANT PEAS, BEANS AND
POTATOES FOR FALL MARKET

Spence-Hol1owe1l Co., Elizabeth City
big farmers supply house, will encour-
age Pasquotank farmers to grow peas.
beans and Irish potatoes for the fall
market. This enterprising firm believes
that big money will be made in second
crop of these products and that the
future of truck growing in this county
will largely depend upon the growers
making the most of their opportunities
to get in two crops in year. The
Spence -HolloweH Co. will gladly give
any grower full information as to seed
and the proper time for planting for fall
markets.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
ALDERMEN STILL REFUSE TO
RECOGNIZE CITY MANAGER

That the City Manager form of gov
ernment will not get even a ghost of
a show in Elizabeth City under the
present Board of Aldermen was again
indicated at the second regular meet
ing of that body Tuesday night of this
week. There came before the Board a
petition for a light on Woodley ST., a
small detail that certainly should have
been referred to the City Manager in
the first place. But the august body of
Aldermen talked about that light for
ten minutes and then ordered a COM
mittee of two or three to look after it.
What is a city manager?
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
WHERE ELIZABETH CITY
GETS 1T IN THE NECK

1t costs 76 cents to haul a barrel of
potatoes from New Bern to Norfolk, via
the Norfolk Southern r. R. 1t costs
"a cents to haul the same barrel of
potatoes on the same road from Eliza
beth City to Norfolk, or only third of
the distance from New Bern to Nor
folk. It costs $2.38 for an Elizabeth
City fertilizer dealer to ship a ton of
fertilizer to Norfolk. A Norfolk dealer
can ship the same ton of fertilizer to
Elizabeth City for $1.62 1-2. These and
other unfair rates discriminating against
Elizabeth City interests are being made
a special study by the Elizabeth City
Chamber of Commerce at this time.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
Hathaway SAYS

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
Phore 9oo Bradford Bldg
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08


YOUTH loves company, SO here you
are, the whole company, the officers of
the Young Women's Club of Elizabeth
City. In noting the election of perma-
nent officers of this club last week this
newspaper declared that these girls had
pep and executive ability. We didn't
begin to tell it all. Oh, boy! There
are five little girls in this group. One
expects to be married one hot day in
August and then there~wiI be only four.
But then there's nothing in the rules
and bylaws of the club to prohibit any
member from encumbering herself with
husband. That makes the pictures all
the more interesting. Photos by ZoeI-
ler, especially made for. this news
paper.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
TEACHERS EXAMINATION.

A State Examination of teachers will
be held at the High School Building in
Elizabeth City, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, July II and 13.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08
iceland Postman,

In Iceland the postman carries his
mail in boxes slung across the backs
Of ponies and announces his arrival
by blowing horn.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-07-08

This newspaper one year $1.5o, eight
months for a dollar.