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Evening star., 1923-11-18

prOpr1ate. In ADDITION TO Ine singers
| and instrumentalists there will be an
couples in colonial costumes.
| Ascension choir has been invited to
sing Maunder's Song of Thanksgiv-
! ing" on Thursday, December 8, at st.
Matthews Church in Hyattsville.
| Mrs. Frank Steward. contralto. will
| sing at the Chevy Chase Presbyterian
Church this morning. Mrs. Elizabeth
/ Gardner Coombs will play the prelude
and offertory. her selections being
/ Largo" (Beethoven) and Romance"
| (Sibelius).
Music at Grace Parish Church,
Georgetown. today will be as fol-
Forever With the Lord: "Venite.' q
fasas Iaadamus;. u.s. eHodEes}: zose}}: 'vubilsse nsa
lCorbin); ,Litany hymn. No. 80. "sa-
sermon hymn. No. sos. fright the,
Good Fight With All Thy Might:
offertory anthem. full choir, 'Hark,
Hark. My Soul" (Ambrose); reces-
sional hymn, No: SIS. There Is a
Blessed @ Home" ON sz1 Evsning: .eT Procession.
100; prayer hymn. No. $50; "Oh, for for
a Closer Walk With God";; sermon
hymn. No. 5S3. Work, for the Night
| Is coming oHertory anthem, full
choir" saviour, When Night In
wolves thes Sky (Shelley); benedic-
tion hymn, No. CAS-, THE Day Is Past
and Cone; recessional hymn, No. 679.
There Is a Blessed Home"
Community singing next Sunday
| night. Gospel hymns.
! When the Russian Cathedral Quar-
| tet was at the First Congregational
| Church last year the church was well
| filled, This year the quartet has add
| ed to its number a coloratura So
prano and q mezzo-soprano. These
| artists have each been presented with
medals by the Czar Nicholas in recog-
J milton Of their accomplishments. Mich
| olas vasilieff, tenor, when q child
was considered the finest boy soloist
in Petrograd. Alexander vasilseff,
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Following are the musical numbers
Evening star., 1923-11-18

Mrs Samuel Burleigh Milton, who
has charge of the musical program
for the reception to be given by the
Colonial Cavaliers at the Washington
Club tomorrow evening, has arranged
for the following talent: Lee Gram
dali, jr., violinist, in old southern
melodies; Miss Ruth Mae Hansford,
soprano, in the following numbers:
"Ah, Love, But a. Day." "a Memory"
'sThe Last Song" Miss Evelyn Hur-
cum will be her accompanist; NJ.
Giraldi, baritone and pianist. in his
Gould Fowler, butterfly dance in
cotume; Miss Wood. pianist, in
popular airs: Little Miss Helen Bloe-
dorm, in fancy costume dance; Mrs.
Milton in her latest composition,
my Laddie," playing her own ac-
compartment. The annual soirees Of
the Colonial Cavaliers, Of which
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
FIFTY DOLLARS FOR
A FIVE MINUTES CASE
That's What Police Court Got Out
of Gamblers Who Submitted
Their Cases.

Five poker players captured by oi-
ficer Ben Roughton, the special gam
ing copper of the Elizabeth CITY
Police force, submitted their case in
police court here Thursday morning
and were fined $40 each and costs, tn"
whole trial consuming less than five
minutes, all hands pleading guilty
when called for trial.
Officer Roughton having had his
eyes on the bunch for sometime, I'M
ally got the goods on them and cap
tured the five on the third floor oil
the Busy Bee building about $3.50
Thursday morning. Two of them,
Kecney Crank, and Ray Forbes, were
placed under suspended sentence Of
thirty days in Jail, for two years.
The other three were Grover White,
Claud White, and Sam Sardine.
w. +. Watson, charged with aban-
donment and non-support of his wife,
was sentenced to contribute $15 n
week to the support Of his wife and
four children. Watson had previous
ly been sending $40 week, and as
he let up in his remittances, he must
make up the amounts due.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
TELLING THE WORLD.

(FrOm The Charlotte ObSrrvCr)
The Elizabeth City Independent,
published in the Charlotte of the East,
has produced what it calls a Tell
the World" edition, and which is in
itself book of facts, figures and
illustrations of how that tremendous
ly resOurccful section of North Caro-
lima is progressing and of how Ellz-
abeth City is blosSOming into a great
commercial and industrial center.
Editor Saunders has made preScnta-
ton of store-house of information OF
an inspiring kind; he has, in fact,
succeeded in telling the world
about the great things accomplished
and under way in his section of the
State. The exposition of the pos
sibilities in the great MattamuSkect
region is particularly "ntertabningI
Mattamuskeet is an asset of whose
value the country has not yet come
into anything like full appreciation.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
POTATO ACREAGE CUT
DOWN 1920 THIS YEAR
Farmers Inclined to Try May Peas
This Year in Place of Spuds.

Farmers in the Elizabeth City sec
ton have reduced their Irish potato
acreage this year by 40 per cent, cStl-
mates s. G.. SOFT, produce broker
here. Mr.. Scott says the farmers
who are able. are going in for May
Peasc, and letting potatoes go.
TO short crops of Irish potatoes
have put Il dampcr on the farmers
in this section. Many of them will
not plant unless they can plant on
shares. and many of them are unable
to plant at their own expense.
Mr.. Scott says the reduction in
potato acreage prevails in South
South Carolina the same as here.
Farmers in South Carolina Jared bad
" last year. and they are not gong
in any heavier than the farmers i'll
Northeastern North Carolina.
If Mr.. Scott's predictions are true
and the yield turns out according TO
the acreage. farmers will snip not
more than 137, 200 barrels Of potatoes
from this city this year. Last year
approximately 22S,000 barrels were
shipped from the section. In 1911,
shipments amounted to 2SS,000 bar
relS.
May Pea paintings will increase
a. per cent this year says Mr.. Scott,
who believes that in spite of the in.
crease in acreage the section will not
produce more than 30 cars OF peas
at maximum. The experienced
growers will do as well rs usual
he says, but nearly everybody is CAB
bling in peas and the inexperienced
are apt to lose out. The market
would hardly be so lively, 4 sne crop
is large, and for that reason there
would be no more money made, tAfn
last year.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
PLAN TO GO AFTER ALL
WHO ARE OUT OF CHURCH

A two-wcekS religious revival in
nearly every church of the city will
participate simultaneously, will be-
gin on Sunday April II. Every
church in the city is expected to CO.
operate in the campaign. Announce
ment will be made later with refer
,ence to who is going to preach. These
six church will participate: Christ
Episcopal Church. the First Metho-
dist Church, City Road Methodist
Church, the First Baptist Church,
Blackwell Memorial Baptist Church,
Calvary Baptist Church.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
DR.PENDLETON
ABOUT TO Sell
Gives Norfolk Man Option on
The Standard Pharmacy

The Standard Pharmacy one
of the oldest and largest retail
drug businesses in Elizabeth
City is about to change hands.
1t is generally known in busi-
ness circles here that the
proprietor DR.. A. L. Pendleton
has given an option on the
business to c. L. Halstead,
Norfolk, Va. druggist and
rumor says the deal will be
closed in a few days. Rumor
puts the consideration at $25,-
600.
DIR. Pendleton will not discuss the
deal at this time but does not deny
that an option has been given. In
fact it has been known for sometime
that DR.. Pendleton contemplated sell
ing out his retail business to give his
whole time to the wholesale business
of the Standard Drug Co.
The Standard Pharmacy has long
been considered one of the most at
tractive retail business propositions
in Elizabeth City. 1t was not al
ways so. When DR.. Pendleton took
hold of the business ID years ago
it smelled like a country doctors Of
flee and was doing n business under
$4,000 a year. Last year the busi-
ness exceeded $4,000.
Out of the retail drug business DIR.
Pendleton developed a wholesale drug
business that required quarters of
it's own ten years ago. The whole
sale business, under the name OF
Standard Drug Co., has enjoyed even
a more phenomenal growth than the
Standard Pharmacy and is said to
De OIL llS way W dh
of n quarter million dollars. The
Standard Drug Co., has already out
grown it's present quarters on Fear
ing St., and recently rented additional
storage room. 1t is said DIR. Pendle-
ton is seeking new and larger quart
ers for the business.
Increasing demands upon his time
Sy the wholesale business and in
ability to give close personal atten-
ton to the retail business at the same
time is said to be DR.. PendletOns reas-
on for giving up the retail store.
C. J.. Halstead, who contcmplates
the purchase of the Standard Phar-
macy is a wide-awake young Nor
folkian who formerly owned the drug
store in the Monticello Hotel, build
ing. CRANKY St., Norfolk.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
TO OPEN A TRAINING
SCHOOL FOR NURSES
Pasquotank Community Hospital viii
Train Nurses at Home.

Plans are under way to establish
an incorporated training schoo! for
nurses at the Pasqu tank Municipal
Hospital at Elizabeth City, giving
home girls who aspir" to eutef the
nursing profession IN 1?portunIt| TO
acquire the necessary training ut
home. The present staff of the hos
pital is to be increased by the adN
tion OF an expert laboratory rachn!-
clan and additional equipment is to
be purchased for the laboratory.
Within recent months the hospital
has installed the very latest and best
N-ray machine in the N-Ray labora-
tory. an ambulance has been purchas-
ed, and in other ways the hospital
equipment has been brought up to
date. But what is more encourage
ing to the directors of the lnstltu-
ton is a finer spirit of cooperation
upon the part of the medical frater-
,nity. The directors face the second
years experiment in community own
crship of the hospital with genuine
enthusiasm and confidence that the
institution is firmly established and
will be on self sustaining basis
and better within few months. The
greatpst handicap under -whfeh ,'she
hospital IS operating at this time is
it's inaccessibility to many prospec-
tive patients on account of the impaS-
stability of many roads leading into
Elizabeth City.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
LEVIATHAN'S ENGINE TO
LIGHT TOWN OF MANTE0

A 100 horsepower oil burning en-
CINE designed with true German ELL
cheney for use on the giant liner
Leviathan, was purchased in Norfolk
the other day for $500, by +. IL.
Gates of Manteo, and will be used
to drive a dynamo to furnish electric
light and power to that town.
The engine was placed on the snip
to use in case Of boiler trouble. sol
that there would be current for lght|
and to operate the radio apparatus
Except TO rtrial tests it had never
been used. The ship is being over
hauled in Virginia, and its operators
having little use for anything exceptI
American machinery, discarded thc|
engine which cost several thousand
dollars to build. 1t has four cylinders
and is as high as man.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
TAKING NOTICE OF THE
INDEPENDENTS ENTERPRISE
(FrOm the Greensboro Rccord)

(FrOm the Greensboro Rccord)
W. O. Saunders, of The Elizabeth
City INDEPENDENT, has issued a
24-page Tell the World" edition of
that paper. Into the edition every
thing has been crowded relating to
Elizabeth City and Northeastern
North Carolina and its advantages.
The edition is a boost for Eastern
North Carolina, and the section Of the
State. The INDEPENDENT serves.
Everything looks familiar with the
exception of two column picture OF
Mr.. Saunders, who appears to have
forgot to remove his shell-rimmed
spectacles when he visited the photo
grapher. Either that or the work
incident to getting the edition to
press on time was a strain on his
eyes.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
DECIDES ELIZ. CITY
is THE BEST PLACE
Syrian Shopkeeper Who Started Home
With His Household Has
Returned.

After II years in Elizabeth City,
Assad Ellis, Poindcxtcr Street shop
keeper, sold out his stock of goods
few weeks ago. converted several
thousand dollars worth of govern
ment securities into cash, took his
wife and daughter and started back
to Syria, the land Of his birth.
After spending less than II days in
New York. where he got passports
for himself and household, Assad
Ellis didn't like the reports of things
in the old country where Greece and
Syria. and Turkey, and Armenia are
in turmoil. so he came back to Eliz-
abcth City this week re-opcned his
store and is buSily arranging new
stock of goods in preparation for
the springs merchandising.
After years of longing to spend the
last of his days on his native sod, he
finally decided Elizabeth City was
the safest place if not the best place.
Over in Beirut on the shores of the
Mediterranean Sea, he might have
lived like prince. He could have
bought him town house and been a
merchant of wines, grapes, rIiSlnS,
figs. hides, Yool or ofS&iiks: He
would have been served by an English
water company, Il French gas COM
pany. and if he had gotten sick, he
would have gone TO Il German hos
pital. and been prayed Over by a
Presbyterian missionary from Amer
lea. Verify it is almost like America
is Syria. with its heterogeneous popu-
lation of more than 3,0OO,OOO from
many lands.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
BETTER Times
FOR ALL OF Us
More Work To Do, More
Business, and Less Crime
In Elizabeth City.

Thing are on the mend, and
mcnGin% fast in Elizabeth City.
The business outlook is bright
or than in three years, there is
more work to do, and folks
have got out Of the lazy habits
OF the World War period and
are really trying to get ahead.
In spite Of short crops last year,
merchants report substantial n
crease in business. Folks bought
more clothes. more ForlS and more
furniture especially last year. than
one would think. Everybody kept 60
ing and nobody went busted in Eliz-
abcth City. in spite of calamity how
lrrS who predict Il panic, and gene
raj disruption.
business seems bum with the Pas
quotank County recorders court.
There is, not. the usual run OF boot
lpggerS. petty thieves. crap shooters
and other miscellaneous offenders who
usually give the court work to do.
Judge Spence says he can't account
for the reason. Some may lay it to
hard times, but times in Pasquotank
are getting better. day after day. in
every way. Even the furniture deal
crS who sell on the inStallment plan
say collections are CaS:er. If there
il anything that indicates the trend
of the times aS far a> finances are
concerned. it is the facility or diffic-
ulty with which the installment col
hector gets his money.
The Improvement in inStallment
business indicates that the working
man in Elizabeth City is finding more
to do. Much of Elizabeth City'S labor
comes from the negro population.
The negro population is finding more
money to spend and it is not, as many
a white person would think. coming
from the bootlcgging business. If
bootlcgging was increasing much, the
offenders would now and then find
their way to the police court.
Elizabeth City's increase in trade
+; coming from the Improvement in
industrial conditions. The workers
of Elizabeth City are spending much
Of the money that goes in the tlllS
of the business men. Business is
holding its own pretty well, i'll spite of
the fact that practically all of the
Camden and Currituck trade is shut
off from town because of the work
on the Camden Ferry Road. This
condition is not for long however, be-
cause the worst is over, and it VIII
not be long before the road can be
used.
The sawmillS of Elizabeth City are
working steadily, every day; making
employment for many labOrers and
skilled workmcn. Prospects are so
good with the Sawmills that some OF
them are buying great tracts of tim
Der. and opening up many other
tracts. and more Sawmills have al
ready been planned for Elizabeth
City.
The textile mill business has i'm
proved greatly in the past few months
according to officials of some of the
mills. There has been jump in the
price of cotton goods. Workers in
the textile mills are finding steady
employment more readily than at any
time within the past two years.
Even the marriage market is on the
mend. Geo. W. Brothers, Register of
Deeds, SAYS he sold more licenses
in January than in the same month
of 1922. And marriages fell off in
1922 from the two pervious years.
1t looks as if the young people are
getting prosperous
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
a DEFECTIVE FLUE AND
THE FAMILY WAS GONE

Gone away for the night, a hot
fire in the stove and bad flue in the
house, the family of Joe Dempsey,
colored resident Of Road Street, got
home Monday morning to find that
their house had been gutted by fire,
which but for the prompt response
of the fire department might have
DESTROYED number of adjoining
homes. The loss was about 81 500.
People will always show a little too
much carelessness with their homes.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
Cohoon Voted Right.

CohoOn oi PasquOtark yesterday
II the HOuS" voted for the MiIlikcn
bill requiring Ku Klux lanSmcn and
5.hcr organizations to list their Ineh-
bership. The bill failed of passage,
but the vote was reconSidercd today
and q motion to table was defeated
By a vote of 20 to So. 1t WI proc
ably pass when it next comes up
TUESDAY night.
The question Of whether there is
surplus as the Governor claims or Il
deficit as per \. J. Maxwell of the
Corporation Commission still aSltateS
the legislatures bosom. Luns Long OF
Halifax heads the commission IN
vestigating the financial status OF
North Carolina and there is some
prospect of Il determination within
the next few days.
1t is difficult to see how either the
Governor or Maxwell could be right
Or wrong. Nobody with good hoss
sense. however, who isn't out for a
reputation as IN expert accountant
or doesn't hone for Il fight will have
ANYTHING to do with the argument.
The Governor holds the Maxwell
statement to be part of campaign
which he insists "they" are conduct
ing to discredit him and his admin
istration. He won't say who they
are :; III be tangcd i ! -ll-hu.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
CHARLIE MARKHAM

pharlie Markham, 1J-Eear-old
Simons Creek resident died Tuesday
afternoon at the home of his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Tom Avery. He is surviv-
ed by one daughter, Mrs. Tom Avery,
of Simons Creek and three grand
children and by brother, Tom Mark
ham of Perquimans County.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

Q. What is the average life OF
queen bee and other bees!
A. The queen bee is said to NJ
four years, drones, 4 months, MorA!l!
bees, 6 month.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
HESEFICURES
TELL THESTORY
Agricultural North Carolina
Leaves Virginia Far in
The Rear.

In number of farms, in popu-
lation, in value of farm crops,
value of farm property and in
almost every important detail
North Carolina has outstrip-
pc dher sister state Virginia
within the past ten years, while
both states have made astound-
ing progress. The United
States Census tells the story
and the Virginia Carolina Joint
Stock land Bank of Elizabeth
City has compiled certain inter-
esting facts from the census.
Here they are:
Valua NJ ,II Farm pronorfv
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

they" say that some of the folks he
suspect arc Joe Dan'ls and Josiah
RaM:v.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
456,OO5 437,743

Virginia increase II per cent.
n. C. increase 6.3 per cent.
Population
Rural
1920 1920 1910
Va. 2.3O9,1S7 1,635,203 2,O61,612
n C.. 2,559, ,123 2,O6s,753 2,2O6,2S7
Va. increase II per cent.
n. C. increase 16 per cent.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
MR.. WILLIAMSAGAINST
GOVERNORS SHIP BILL
Senator From Pasquotank Makes His Maiden
Speech and Senate Sits Up and Takes
Notice.

taCkS.
Socialism, said he, had been a
failure all down history. Socialism
resulted in the death of AnaniaS and
Sapphira (say Mister Linotyper do
YOU know whether Missus AnaniaS
spelled her name with one p or two?).
Socialism had put Paul to taking up
collections among his gcntileS for the
benefit of the SocialiStic home church
at Jerusalem. He had his audience
now. and was ready to present his
own evidence and views.
The trouble with North Carolina S
coaStwiSe shipping. he said, was that
North Carolina wouldn't furnish car
goes. There was a fttle boat ply
ing between Norfolk and Elizabeth
City, trying to get along, which he
would patronize if he could do so
economically. but although it was
operated by Il friend. he had never
been able to give him any business:
The reason: shipments don't move
from eastern Carolina up the coast
but inland.
Bellamy of New Hanover inter
ruptcd to call attention to the steam
erS coming to Wilmington. And the
coaStwiSe line has to go to Bruins
wick. Ga, to get cargo, returned
Mr.. Williams.
There was a laugh. and Mr.. VIII
liamS swung along in fine fashion
over thr interruption of Charlie
Harris about the nOn-Suit. until he
hit something that lot of folks
have been wondering why some lcgiS-
lator hadn't said before. lie was
reminded that there had been some
thing said about the vcSSalagc of
North Carolina to Virginia as re-
suit of freight-rate oppression. y
pretty glorious sort of veSSalagc. he
thought. which had enabled North
Carolina to grow into an incomparably
greater State than her Overlord-
with better educational facilities, bet
ar aerN1Tftire * 'e'-'--'-- '-s-S' - =
He didn't think the State could
market the farmers produce better
than the farmer was marketing it.
and he was confident two millions
expended on terminals and ships
would hardly more than suffice to
get one ship edgeways into terminal
at New York City.
He was willing that there should
be an investigation, but vote for the
State to go into Il business in which
the Nation had failed and in. which
there was no record of any other ma
ton succeeding. he would not without
considerably more evidence than WAS
at hand.
Half the Senate and even the blasc
Tom BOSt went around back of the
presidents stand to congratulate the
PaSquotank Senator as lie closed hi:
speech and retired for a smoke
The proponents of the shipping
commission lost their pep. Bdggctt
of Harnett esSayed to talk and
rumbled and rambled for quarter
Of an hour but the bell refused t2
even tingle. The speech of the Oc-
caSion had been made and every
body knew It. Senator Jim Delaney
of Mecklenburg. all distcnded as he
had been Il half hour before with an
impeSSioncd appeal in behalf of his
fellow tow nSman the Governor. rCdiIz-
eG that if he tried to compete with
the dinnc- call that WAS makin- itself
felt he would. be little better than
flat tire and desiSted.
4 call fer the previous question,
however was withdrawn when Rivers
Johnson of Dupl;n moved t) continue
until tomorrow.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

Have your printing done The In
dependent Way. Phone 2s4.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

Good eyesight is inexpensive. See
Dr.. ]. D. Hathaway, Cptcmetrist,
Eli--sstl Cas-. q. c. GS".
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

Increase 11O,762, Jos pounds, or 40
per cent.
(N. c. second only to Kentucky IN
production of tobaccO.)
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

For your eyes sake see DR.. J. d:
Hathaway. Optometrist, Bradford
BIZ, E,;-2k:tk Ci.-. -. =. c1T.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
Peanuts.
11,719,S16 1O,265,25

Being 67 per cent of Peanuts pro-
duced in 0 South Atlantic States in
1909.
Being 6j per cent of Peanuts pro-
duced in 0 South Atlantic States n
1919.
No. of Farms.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09
Value of all Farm Property.

Total - 2.446.7 10. .767 81 .162, ,TS2, ,593
Increase $1.2S3,941,174 or 110 per
cent in the 10 year period.
Value of all Farm Crops
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-02-09

Don't neglect your eyes. Ses
Hathaway. He Knows. adv