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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
IT Was HARD ON
MIR. CULPEPPER
But "Dog Gone It," He Stands
By Ii And The Elks Are
With Him

You got me in a devil OF a
mess" declares w. I. Culpep-
per. referring to the article in
this newspaper last week set
ting forth his ideas about the
need OF modern theatre in
Elizabeth City and his willing
ness to help finance one.
You see We were having big
revival at our church pFhe FIRST
Raptist Churchl and tue preacher
WAS giving theatres the devil. And
then right in the midst of our reriv-
al. with our preacher saying things
about moving pictures and theatres
in general. you come ont Ill your
blamed paper and spill the beans on
mo. NV wife read the paper ana
told ne | just didn't have. good
sense. blowing my head of like that
rioht in the midst Of our revival.
But dog gone it, | know I'm right
about il: folks have got to be en-
tcrtaincd and Elizabeth City mas
rot to provide a place of entertain
mcnt for them
Mr.. Culpepper hasn't found nine
others who will 20 i'll with him OH
u new theatre venture, but he mas
got folks talking and all the talk
Indicates that Elizabeth City Is
tboroly sold on the idea that a
modern theatre is one of the towns
urgent business and social needs.
1t develops now that the tllz'
ahcth City lodge of Il. Il. q. r.. Is
thinking of new theatre i'll con
ncction with Il proposed new clun
building. The ElkS have comfort
able old house. formerly private
residence: but it isn't everything
they would like and it produces no
revenue. Il. l.. Nash, trustee OIL the
Lodge has an idea that it would pay
tho FJks TO raZe their present home
and put mp n new building with q
theatre on the ground floor and ciu'
rooms on the upper floors. Thell
lot is 50 feet wide on Martin St
by 10 feet on Fearing st. and Is
ideally located for u theatre.
Mr.. Nash has Il well thought ou'
plan by which such a combination
theatre and club building could Dt
financed by the sale of $4,000 WORTH
of stock TO each of 100 members OF
the lodge. There are actually near
" 900 members of the lodge, bu'
Mr.. Nash figures that 100 OF then
are able to buy so much as So'"S
worth of stock each and that inc
project could be bonded for tho
necessary additional capital.
In the meantime the management
of The Alkrama theatre Is announc
nir better aud better pictures anc
Fastening the day when they VII
have to find larger quarters II thcA
have TO build for themselves.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

flee holders of paSQuOtauk: because
rs sure as Mr.. Williams succeeds in
bringing that Camden vote into Pas
uuntank. adding To the tamdcniZcnS
vote we already have III PaSquotank.
Camden politicians will capture
every political job in PaSquotank
County and no PaSQuntankcr will he
able to break into an Office in his
own county in Il hundred years.
These CamdcnizcnS are the art
fullest politicians to be found be-
tween Raleigh and the sea. Mack
Sawyer and Ed. Aydlett. both from
Camden County; controlled the
politics of PaSquotank for thirty
years. Brother Mack is dead and
Ed. might as well be dead. and
Uncle Pat (aS Mr.. Williams is best
KNOWN thinks another Boss from
Camden is in order: he wants to be
It,"
"Do YOU really think that's what :
in his mind:' asked the Soda Jerk
or.
Nothing else" said the Bank
Clerk. "I'nclc Pat wants to be the
political boss of Pasquotank and
his only hope is to annex the Cam
den vote. lie isn't Il Baptist as
Mack WIS and Aydlett is and he
hasn't the ability to win votes by
mixing around as Boss Mack did !;
Uncle Pat looks so much like a
picked saint that he just can't get
anywhere OH his personality, especi-
ally since he is Il Methodist and not
Sawyer's Greek Baptist"
"Do you think he will succeed
with his annexation scheme?' ask
7 ed the Soda Jerker.
"IIe probably WILL said the Bank
! Clerk; a politician, born in Cam
den and transplanted to Pasquotank
can get away with murder
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
SOME THINGS TO KNOW
ABOUT CHRISTMAS MAILS

There will be no deliveries Of
mail, except Special Delivery Mail.
on Christmas day, hy order OF the
Postmaster General. This means
says Postmaster Hooper at Eliz.
abeth City, that Christmas mail
should b. mailed sufficiently early
TO reach its destination and bc de-
liyered before Christmas.
You may mark ON your packages ::
do Not Ope4I Unfii Christmas"
You may also seal parcel post
packages ii you will put a printed
label on them reading: Contents
Merchandise Postmaster: this par
eel may be opened for postal ir::r"c-
ton il necessary"
If you want to hurry up Il parcel
post package YOU can get first class
handling on it by affixing q special
% cent stamp to it. Ask yonr post
master about this.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
MiCKEYS HOTEL BURNS
AT LOSS OF $4,000

Mariners Hotel, Mackeys was
burned TO the ground Wednesday
morning. The loss totals $4,000
with no insurance. The hotel built
in 1890 by the late l.. c. Mariner,
bad been rCmcdeled recently with
lights, water ana steam heat added
Lack Of fire fighting equipment
caused the loss of all furniture on
the third floor and guests clothes
on thar floor Other furniture was
saved.
Sterling Mariner, eldest son Of
Mrs. Mariner, was trapped on the
second floor while trying TO save
furniture. lie had TO jump from
the third story window through
the fire to the roof Of the first floor
porch. lIE was slightly burned
around the face, mouth and throat.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
AYDLETT EVER
AGAINST TOWN
Sells Himself To The Gas
Company To Defeat Meas
ure of Progress

Elizabeth City paved its prln-
cipal streets about fifteen years
ago and after spending more
than a hundred thousand dol
lars for its pretty streets the
sewerage company. the water
company and the gas company
came along and tore them all
up i'll spots.
Every time anybody wanted gas
water or sewerage connection the
gas company or other company
would tear up the expensive paving
to lay its pipes. And the paving
never was put back in the condition
in which 1t was found, with the re-
sllt that Elizabeth City's brick
streets are as rough as Il piece OF
corduroy road.
Now that the city has taken over
the water and sewerage and is lay
| ing new water and sewer mains all
over town, the city purposes TO make
| a permanent job of it. Water and
sewer connections will bc run tC
the curb for every lot on the lines
| BY making this provision now tht
city can proceed TO rcpave its strets
after all the water and sewer mains
arc down, with assurance that the
naving will not be disturbed fol
many years to come.
! But there is the gas company
which is not owned by the city ano
! the city must protect itself against
| the gas company. An ordinance
adopted by the Aldermen Monday
night requires the gas company fC
put its mains in order now whilt
the streets arc torn up and To r'l
! its lateral lines to the curbS, just
as is being done with the wafer
and sewerage. But the gas compan!
doesn't want to spend its money Oh
permanent improvements of that
sort. The gas company prefers tc
wait and let the city pave its strets
and then come along and tear the
new streets all up just as it did tht
present streets. And to assure tho
city that it expects TO do just this
thing it has employed Z. I. Aydlct,
to oppose enforcement of the new
ordinance. Aydlett was before tho
Board Monday night fighting the
passage of the ordinance at tho
start.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
IN NEXT WEEKS PAPER

Every mother who reads this
newspaper will get a real kick
out of a Saunders editorial EN-
titled, Don't Make Mother The
Goat" which will appear i'm next
weeks issue of THE ISDEPEN-
DENT.
Another vivid, gripping heart
interest piec by Saunders entitled
"POor Mrs. Lot" will also appear
i'm next weeks issue. Don't miss
either of these articles; they are
written in the best Saunders style
that has endeared his writings to
millions of readers all over
America.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
SHALL We MAKE
IT OR BUY IT?
Up to Aldermen To Decide On
Super.Power or Home
Brew

Elizabeth City has got to de-
eide and decide promptly on
the question whether it shall
build an electric light and pow
er plant and make its own cur
rent, or tap into the high ten
sion wires of the Virginia Elec-
trio & Power Co. and buy its
current in quantities as needed,
ready made.
As told exclusively in this news
paper two weeks ago. the super
power interests are anxious to come
into Elizabeth City. Their repre-
sentative appeared before the Board
of Aldermen Monday night. The
Company wants to buy the eXclu-
sive franchise to do an electric
light and power business in Eliz-
abeth City, taking the city's plant
and wires off its hands.
But Elizabeth City doesn't have to
sell out TO them or tie itself up in
hard knot. Elizabeth City can
buy power from the V. +. +. Co. for
less money than it can produce the
power itself. Instead of building
small electric light and power
plant of its own TO cost .$25OOOO or
more. the city would have to spend
$3.50, coo for a high tension line
line strnng Cn steel towers, from
Elizabeth City to the trunk line OF
the supcr.power companT, near
Portsmouth, distance of about 40
miles.
Current from the super-power
line would bc. mctered to Elizabeth
| City from Portsmouth and Elizabeth
! City would control the distribution
and sale Of current net only at Eliz.
abeth City, but all along the line.
The current metered ut Portsmouth
is offered Mt 11a cents per K. w,
on a five year contract. A discount
Of ten per cent to primary consum-
rr comes of this rate. Elizabeth
, City would class as q primary con-
/ sumer. Another 10 per cent dis
count comes off for pre- mpt payment
! Of bills. This pulls the cost of the
Super-GHwer dawn considerably be-
| low. II. cents per X. W; but i'll tue
transmission of current over such q
long distance there is a leakage OF
| ten per cent according to the super
power experts. Still, the cost TO
; the city would be around ~ cents
per X. w. net to the city.
The Aldermen have referred the
| matter to a committee composed OF
! City Manager Fcrebec. s. II John
son of the Public Utilities Commits
sion and d. II. Kramer and E. j.
! Cohoon of the Board Of Aldermen
/ These gentlemen held n meeting
Thursday afternoon with City
Engineer Olsen who has the con
tract for supervising the construc
I ti0n of the city's light, sewerage and
water systems. Mr.. Olsen is said tc
to he opposed to the city buying
power from outside sources. Mr.
Olsen gets a commission on all con
Struction done by the city; if the
city changed its mind about building
IN electric light plant it would cut
into Mr.. Olscn's prospective com
mission. The result of the meeting
has not been announced.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
We Will MAKE
OUR own BOXES
Paper Box Factory To Begin
Operations Here In
January

Hundreds OF opportunities
for the investment of capital
in small industries to give EN-
ployment to labor and make
Elizabeth Ciy one of the going
est towns in the State, but we
walk all over them with unsec-
ing eyes and wait for an out
slider to come in and snap them
up. ...... HA.l1
Elizabeth City manufacturers of
hosiery, candy, drugs, printing, etc
use millions Of paper boxes, but no
body thought of making paper box
Us, here in Elizabeth City until this
week when W. J. Pell Of Norfolk
leased the Woodley Building. corn
er of Water and Burgess Sts. to
operate a paper box manufactury
after Jan. /, 1926. We have been
sending to Norfolk, Richmond and
Baltimore fbG millions of paper
boxes all these years.
Mr. ~Pell has ordered his stock and
machinery and expects to be iu Oper.
alton about the 10th of January.
His plant will give employment to
90 or 25, mostly girls, to start. His
survey of local industries encourages
him to believe that local trade alone
will keep his plant busy with 80
many employees. The Elizabeth City
Hosiery Co. alone, with an output
of mere than 100000 dozen pairs
of hose annually, use more than 300
OOO paper boxes alone.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
THE T. B. COW AND HER
T. B. MATE ARE DOOMED

It's late date TO begin war on
tubercular cattle in Pasquotank ::
but better late than mover. Cooper
atins with the Federal and State de-
partsmcnts of Ariculturde, Pasquo-
tank will proceed 10 weed out all
tubcrcular cattle in the county. The
commissioners have voted q sum
not 10 exceed $500 for the WORK
Other Northeastern North Carolina
COMMITTEES are taking the same step.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
PALNHSTS NOT WANTED

An application for a license to dc
a palmistry business in Elizabeth
City was turned down by the Board
of Aldermen Monday night. The
license is 5000 and the town can use
the money, but it was the sense OF
the Board that the town can gel
along very we'll without sueh cattle
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
ENTERTAINING COMPANY AT
WHITES GAME PRESERVES

james X. IIackett.. the famous
Shakespearian player; George Bird
Grinnell, author Of Game Birds of
America and author also of numer-
Gus books on the life and habits Of
the Blackfeet and Sioux Indians !;
and William Barber Haynes (BilI
Haynes well known writer OH orni-
thology. are among the notable com
pany Of duck hunters at Whites
Game Preserve at Waterlily on Cur
rituck Sound this week.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

THE Conference looked with favor
on City Road Church this year and
sent Il a pastor from one of the best
charges in the State, Mr.. Harreli
having held the pastorage of Cen
tenary Church, in New Bern for the
past two years. Mr.. Harrell is a
virginian by birth. and a North
Carclinian by marriage. Mrs. Har-
rell being and Alamance County girl
He Is an A. B. and A. ". Of Eion
College, and has been preaching in
this state for ten years. Mr.. har'
rell says he like Elizabeth City fine.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
DIR. WALKER HOME

Dr. Herbert u. Walker Of this
city who recently underwent an
operation i'm a Norfolk hospital, has
returned home and is able IT, be
out on the street.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

Flat Lenses for Eyes are obsolete.
Prescribed first in 1904. Their have
bccn many improvements since.
Come in and let NE explain them to
YOU. Drs. j. y. Hathaway. adv
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

The meak shall inherit the earth.
But there won't be much fun in q
world peopled exclusively by hen-
pecked husbands.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
WARREN Wins
In WASHINGTON
New Congressman Lands I'm.
rortant Places of Lead.
ership
Independent Bureau
Hotel Annapolis
(By X. L. POWELL}

WASHINGTON, Dec. TO-
Another Congress has met in
session for a long. long tern:
au1 with it has co,ne further
recognition OF North Carolina S
superiority in membership. II
the Democrats were in power
which they certainly are not
the old State would again be
right at the head Of the table.
For firSt-teru nan iniS reco-
gnitiou of ability came lar;'cular'
" TO Congressman Lindsay Warren
cf Beaufort. II was girer. to Ain
in part by his own delegation aid
ry the Democratic leadership of thi
House i'm which he has been elect
ed to serve. His committee assign
mentS, for new man are particu
larry good ones and there is prosI &C,
that at an early date he will br pro
m0tCd To ever more important ones
Brt it WAS aS Strat"gis- and
rarliamcntarian that Wa"rel wa:
recognized by the Democratic lead
ership Of the House. His dcsigna
ton, at the instance Of Represent
ative Edward W. Pou, as assistant
whip of the House on the Democra
tic side is an honor which will sooI
throw him into the kind Of fighting
he is 50 well equipped to do and thu
kind which has won for him hi:
spurs in State affairs.
Warren will he valuable assist
ant 10 Congressman Ohfield, thu
chief Democratic whip of the Hou>'
lie may not get into action within
thc next few months but he Is al
most certain 10 be asked 10 assis
largely in the framing of the Demo
cratic policy towards Legislation
proposed 10y the Coolidge admins
tratiOn.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
Yesterday
TO-DAY
AND
Fo.MORROW
Tie Farmer Leaves
The Farm
Bv wv. o.

...-.rr< there is II Scnu'
.... .ur abandonment oil
- Many parts of the
rr, .urrr is another side to
D. ....r.. II. I. Arnold, presi'
,r.. nvlrral Land Bank of
j.. : T.. has recently utter
st. word ON the subject,
,...,.m.ut Of farm lands Is
.,.-,. ling that can happen
r.~....a." declared Mr.,
.... .uaudouing farms is
fo~S. The abandon
|. s.. .u.> Ia this state is a
lr continued. 1t
.,,. So. rroplc who have left
l.-.. ... found better jobs
~s,t-- Il better living. Ii
... those left on the
,..... letter opportunity. foi
!. :, less production and con
..r..r..~ uvjcES for farm pro,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

RAW FURS WANTED. 'opo-sum.
coou. mink, nus'rat, otter, Top
Market Prices. Spot CASH. W. c.
GLOVER ,Elizshcft CITY, r.. G.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

The truth about Eyc Drops ior
fitting Glasses PVisons. See Drs-
j. ID. Hathaways. auF.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

Medicine has no place il fitting
glasses. See Drs. J. y. hathaway.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

1T runs in the Wood family to know
folks, and Mrs. Cliff Ward, of this
city, daughter of MIR. and Mrs. j.
@. 4. Wood, sister of Walter, is
popular with the younger set of
folks, because she Is always cheer
full and has q good word for every.
body. Mrs. Ward formerly taught
in Pasquotank County and Elizabeth
City, resisning in favor Of matri'
mOny. her husband being a former
HertfOrd boy.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
DOughton and Weaver

Two 0tner l)elnOtrdtlC HicuFES,
older in service, Won Important conf
mrttc1. assignments ut the opentn:
of the session. One of these, mem
herShip on the House Appropria'
ions COMMITTEES. went tc "Farre-
Bob" Doughtou, OF the Eighth dis
trict. This is perhaps the most I'M
rortant committee assignment hcl1
by a North CarOlinian in the House
with the exception Of that of rank
in. member on the Rrl.eS commit.
tee. a post which has been held
since 1912 by Representative Pou.
Representative Zebulon Weaver
of AShcvillc. who is slated to have
opposition next time for the nomi'
nation WAS named on the House
Judiciary committee. This commit
tee will deal with all the prOhihi'
ticn legislation and there will lie
a great lot of il. One bill. that by
Hill. of Maryland, has been intro
duccd 10 repeal the IOlstead act en-
tirrly. II will not pass and will
hardly reflect the actual sentiment
of the House toward tn present
dIy law.
The two Senators. aS @'crEhodS
knows. are the leading Democrats
senator Simm :ns i ranking man OF
the Senate t'inancc COMMITTEE and
senator Overman is the EiS Demo
crat on Appropriations. Judiciary
ard Rules. They are both. appar'
rtlr. in the best Of health.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11
Warren's Biggest Program

Onc If the chief aims or Mr. War
rem will I've to obtain an appro-
priation for the purchase of the
Dismal Swamp Canal. In fact nc
considers this the major PROJECT OF
his district during the present ses-
sion of Congress. The last Con
sr,Ss authorized the purchase OF
the Canal but no funds were pro-
vidrd and the new Congressman
from the First will exert every pcs
siblc effort to get this measure
through. Mr.. Warren feels that
when the Government purchases
this canal, and maintains 1t win
sufficient annual appropriations
and when the state completes the
. great bridge across the ChoWan
River. that Northeastern Carolina
1 will blossom like a rose.
+ C'oncresSmau Warren is also great
IL interested in securing n Federal
building for Edcnton, which, on
account Of the fact that the Govern
mrnt already owns the site. Is inc
most favored OF first district towns
for public building. No puplic
/ building bill has been passed since
1916 but one seems sure this time
II provision can be inserted III
the bill to require erection OF bniid
insS where a site is already owned
then Edcnton will certainly be IN
cludcd.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-12-11

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-04-22
Riding on a Pass.

In community life, lot of people
accept all the good things handed
down to them, but make little or
no return. They forget that pre-
vious generations, and many good
workers of the present time, have
created and maintained fine insti-
buttons and the facilities of com
Portable living, and that a debt is
owed to those who have gone be-
fore. The only way to repay that
debt, is to work for the further
upbuilding of the community and
to hand on some new benefits to
the present generation and those
who shall come thereafter. Those
who fail to do so, ask the privilege
of riding through community life
on free pass.-De Pere Journal-
Democrat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-04-22
Mud in the NIGHT Time.

Setting in car which had
landed bang. in a mudhole some
where between Amigo and Eagle
River long in the small hours of
Monday morning when all we'll
directed people are either in bed or
costly ensconsed in their home,
doesn't promote any love for the
Big Outdoors not right at the
moment. With a snowstorm blow
in and the wind howlin' and the
flivver tight in sinkhole, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Locke of Eagle River
patiently awaited the coming Of a
car between midnight and morning
on lonely stretch of highway the
first of the week. Leaving New
London Sunday forenoon in rain
storm, later finding it snowstorm
when Wittenberg was reached,
they plodded their way carefully all
the distance toward their Eagle
River road until some place on
highway AZ or trunk line G between
Pelican and Rhinelander. Then
they went smash into sinkhole
and stayed there until bunch of
fiivvers came along and boosted
them out. They arrived in Eagle
River at four o'clock in the morn
ing Monday, some fourteen hours
on the way from New London.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-04-22
Passing of Ok Teams.

Bert Bake of Phelps claims to
have seen the last of the OK teams
when he came to Eagle River this
morning. Joe Zeemans team Of
cattle were hitched along the
freight depot in full regalia: har-
ness, collars, blind bridles,> lines an
everything. Joe's team is quite a
novelty, and from what we can
learn is the only we'll broken team
Of oxen in the county. Joe does
not come to town every day, but
when he does his team hikes"
right along and nothing but fivvers
can pass him. Years ago oxen in
yokes were many in Eagle River;
in fact loggers preferred the staid
and steady cattle to horses while
skidding or swapping logs in the
woods. Last summer Zeeman and
his team would amble into town
from his farm west of Eagle River
and tourists kept their cameras
busy while he was in town. If
Zeeman only knew he had the bulge
on the public, he might be able to
commercialize his oxen as some
thing that would bring in good re-
turns from summer visitors.