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Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-24
mons are both very interesting a

mons are both very interesting as
well as instructive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Hurley, Mr..
and Mrs. Z. B. Ewing and Miss
Elizabeth Squires attended the pic
ture show at Wilcox Sunday.
Mrs. j. B. Shaw, of Walmonda
ranch in the Stronghold, spent Sunday
and Monday as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs F. L. Bryant.
Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Mers and son
and daughter spent Sunday in Tucson.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Renaud, Mrs.
Brown and Mrs. Huddy and two
grandchildren, Rosalie and Charles
Phillips, spent Sunday in Bisbee,
where they called on Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Boulter
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-24
Grammar school Notes

The play .fJune Time by the stu
dent body of the high school has been
postponed from March 5th to March
18th. 1t will be given at Huddy
hall and a dance will follow the
play.
Miss Lydia Young, principal of the
grammar school, spent the weekend
in Tucson.
The following is the report of the
grammar school for the month of
February:
Mrs. Pauline Hurley, teacher
ginners-Perfect attendance: Irene
Celestine, Pasual Duran, Reyes Guer-
ara, Jesus Martinez, Henry Siguierez,
Harriette Smith, Jose Lopez, Josephine
Palma and Selsa Palma. Honor roll:
Reyes Guerara, Jesus Martinez, Har-
riette Smith, Jose Lopez and Maria
Porrez.
First Grade-Perfect attendance:
Arthur Martinez, Antonio Siguierez,
Elisa Torres, Helen Guerra. Honor
roll: Hughes Mckinney, Arthur
Martinez, Annadale Bryant, Helen
Guerra.
Second Grade-Perfect attendance:
Robert Burnett, James Burnett, Cuca
Carrillo Clara Lopez, Lenora Lopez,
Marie Cordova and Edward Estes.
Honor roll Robert Burnett, James
Burnett, Robert Mckinney, Isadore
Duran Clara Lopez, Marie Cordova.
Third Grade-Perfect attendance:
Frank Ellsworth and Rosalie Phillips.
Honor roll: Gladys Comolli and
Rosalie Phillips.
Miss Lydia Young, principal.
Fourth Grade-Perfect attendance:
Ollie Hudson. Honor roll: Solodad
Lopez.
Fifth Grade-Perfect attendance:
Husta Torrez.
Sixth Grade-Perfect attendance:
Isabel Espino and Constance Duran.
Honor roll: Isabel Espino, Janet
Bryant and Marjorie Mckinney.
Seventh Grade-Perfect attendance:
Ivan Mckinney and Lora Smith.
Honor ROLL Herbert Duarte and Ivan
Mckinney.
Eighth Grade-Leo Duran, Orville
Lehman and Charles Phillips. Honor
roll: Charles Phillips and Bennie
Hudson.
Tailors in the "whitecollar' of :
flee worker districts of Paris are
doing a big business in turning
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-24
motored to Douglas Monday.
By Taylor

motored to Douglas Monday.
Mr.. Murphrie, who lives near Will
cox, stopped for short time in
Pearce Tuesday en- route to Tomb
stone.
Jay Pressey and Jim watkins
ranchers living in the Light district,
We're here Tuesday.
Jack Busenbarl1, cattleman who has
Mr. and Mrs. Mers and children, of
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-24

>the Middlemarch, were shopping in
Pearce Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Renaud and
Mrs. Brown spent Monday in Doug
las and were luncheon guests of
Mrs. Margaret Light
Mrs Il. A. Ellington, of Kansas
City, spent Monday and Tuesday in
Pearce.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L. Bryant
Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-24
PEARCE

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gibbons were
in Pearce Monday from their ranch
near the Sulphur Springs.
Mrs f. J. Kelly passed through
Pearce Monday en- route to Douglas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Whitmire, Of
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
Eager to Put
Duke Money
To WorkHere

Elizabeth City can have a Duke
endowed community hospital il tile
churches of Elizabeth City will do
their part, was the message de-
livered to Elizabeth Citizens by DR..
W. s. Rankin, medical director OF
the Duke Endowment, speaking In
Elizabeth City last Friday night.
For every dollar put up by the
churches, supplemented by a like
sum from the city and county. the
Duke Endowment will contribute
a dollar. Not only will Duke put
one dollar in every three for the
endowment Of charity beds liz
community hospital, but the Duke
staff Of experts will supervise the
organization and management Of
the hospital and keep it up to the
Duke standard of efficiency, said
DR.. Rankin.
Community hospitals usually fail
because they are not managed right;
when the Duke Endowment puts Its
money into community hospital Its
experts see that that hospital Is
managed right.
DR.. Rankin came to Elizabeth
City at the request of the local
Ministerial Union. He concluded
his address here by inviting the
ministers to consult him If they
are serious in their desires to see
successful community hospital
established in Elizabeth City. DR..
Rankin says he will tell them what
TO do and how to do it, Indicating
that Duke millions are eager for an
opportunity to invest In better
health work and disqualification In
Northeastern North Carolina.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
80 Day Jail
Sentence TOR
Mass Stands

Superior Court Judge Clay
ton Moore can look with great
Icoinpassiea upon an ignorant
man who commits a misde-
meanor. but he has no patti
ence with so called intelligent
citizens who go out and take
the law in their own hands.
Il feel like sending YOU to Jail for
80 DAYS" he told Morris Mass in
the Superior Court of this city
Monday. but | shall not send YOU
to Jail: l shall put you under Il
suspended sentence of 80 days Ill
iail conditional upon your good be-
havior for period of two Years
and the payment of costs i'll this
case. Il do this for your own pro-
lection. belicvin" you to be Il danger
ur,S man who should he restrained.
This case was one Oh appeal from
thc County Court. Mass was con-
yirtcd of IN assault upon W. q,
Saunders. editor of this newspaper,
the latter part of March of this
wear and WAS given Il suspended
sentence of 80 days i'll jail 10y
Judge Sawyer of the County Court
He took an appeal and employed
two law firms, Spence Il Skinner
and Aydlett 4 Simpson to try tc
get that Jail sentence off. His ut
| torneyS argued that the jail sentence
impaired his prestige i'll the com
munity. The argument didn't e
with Judge Moore, who holds thai
the more IL man values his Soot
maine the more careful he should bt
to behave himself.
. Mass came to Elizabeth Git!
about nine months ago aS llD
OratOry technician for the Ellzabetl
CITY Hospital. His stay ut the
hospital was of short duration. H'
left the hospital to become aSsocl
ated with DR.. Howard }. Combs II
the conduct of a laboratory, Ill th'
Carolina Bank Building, for the
examination of specimens Of Dlool
and urine and making N-Ray photo
graphs.
His assault Oh the editor of thl'
newspaper grew out Ot caSl
item for considerable amount ol
printing done for the Mass LaDorl
tory by this newspaper. Mass stag
ed his assault when this newspape
threatened to bring suk sgalns
him. This newspaper obtained
judgement against Mass, but TIL
judgement is worthless.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
ANDNOWITTUP
TO THE JUDGES
Contest For a Name For The
Federal Monument to
Aviation, Closed

The failure of the Congress
of the United States to give
name to the monument to be
built at Kill Devil Hills, n. {.
in commemoration of the first
power-driven airplane flight in
human history, inspired this
newspaper to ask its readers
for a name for the monument.
More than 1000 names have been
submitted by nearly $50 readers OF
this newspaper in IL contest when
closed Monday night, June 70. HOW
TO pick three prize winners from
this avalanche of titles is, the stu
peudous task now confronting five
Judges selected by this newspaper
TO make the award.
The judges are Hon. Lindsay e.
Warren. Congressman from the
First y. G. Congressional District
Hon. Josephus Daniels. former
Secretary of the Navy; Mark Sulli'
van, distinguished Washington cor
respondent; Frank Tfchenor, editor
of the Aero Digest and w. o.
Saunders, editor of this newspaper
If it is humanity possible for the
distinguished judges to complete
their task on, or before July 4, 1927
the prize winners will be announced
on that date in a dispatch to the
Associated Press.
The prizes consist of first prize
of a $1,000 II jewel Hamilton
watch in solid gold case. or It's
equivalent in lady's wrist watch
a second prize Of $50 II jewel
white gold Elgin watch or its equi'
valent in Il lady's wrist catch; a
third prize of a sterling silSer Wahl
pen and pencil set, ladies tor gents
fContinned on Page Six
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
'TOSURVEY ROAD
FROMNACSHEAD
TO KITTY HAWK

Frank c. Kugler, State High
way Commissioner for the
First District has asked the
State Highway Commission
for an engineer to survey and
report upon the feasibility of
a State highway from Nags
Head to Kitty Hawk, a distance
of about II miles.
The project in question would
connect the bridge which is now
being built from Roanoke Island to
Nays Head with the proposed bridge
across Currituck Sound between
Point HarbOr and Kitty Hawk and
would be the final link in Il great
State highway from Manteo to
Murphy.
This is the dream of Commits
sioner Kugler. to see every county
seat and principal town in North
Carolina from ManteO, the farthest
east county seat. to Murphy, the
farthest west county seat. connect
ed by continuous highway ap-
proximately 700 miles i'll length.
''While it is too soon to expect
an early letting of Il contract for
a road from Nags Head to Kitty
Hawk" says Commissioner kugler,
1T is one of those projects that
must eventually come and 1t is not
too early to begin to study the ell
gineering problems involved
And Mr.. Kugler is deeply concern
ed over the engineering problems
which the State may encounter
when it undertakes to build Il road
on the sands of the North Carolina
coast. But that the problem is not
as great as appears is the opinion
of some who remember the con-
struction of what is now the Cape
Henry division of the Norfolk South
ern R.R. along the seashOre from
Lynnhaven Inlet to Cape Henry.
Built Oh sand, with no other bal
last or foundation, this was always
one of the finest rOadbeds in Vir-
ginia. The State Highway Com
mission has successfully maintained
highway built alongside dunes OF
1 shifting sand on Roanoke Island.
Funds are not available for the
building of a road from Nass Head
to Kitty Hawk at this time and will
not he available for two years at
least. But Dare county Is bridg
ing Roanoke Sound to the coast
and there is an early prOcpest of &
bridge from the coast to the main
land of Currituck. Mr. Kugler ad
mits that the State will be obligated
to connect these bridge projects b!
road building and ultimately take
over the bridges as well. And 81
he will tackle the engineering prob
lem as preliminary step without
hesitation Or delay.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
NEARLY TWO MILLIONS
FROM SPUDS ALREADY
Nearly $50, 900 Barrels Have Been Shipped Out
of Elizabeth City Territory Alone; Crop
90Per Cent Harvested

A cool million, and three
fourths of another million dol
lars, has poured into this sec,
ton, to enrich the growers of
Irish potatoes, according to Of
ficial estimates made this
week. Nearly $4,000 barrels,
constituting ninety per cent of
the largest crop of the Eliz-
abeth City section in many
years have been harvested.
Every transportation unit has
been taxed to capacity in moving
the crop. One hundred and thirty.
two cars rolled out of Elizabeth
City on Wednesday night, making
total Of 1721 cars that have moved
from this point alone. The ship
ments have been given an average
value of $1,000 a car, or total OF
81, ,721, 900.
A summary of shipments since
last Wednesday shows 131 cars ship
ped on the 18th, 102 on the 10Th,
1876 on the 18th, 205 on the 18th.
1866 on the Goth, 80 on the 21st, 132
on the 22nd. The total movement
I'm 1925 from the Elizabeth City
section amounted to 1,708 cars. 1t
IL expected to run to more than 1900
cars this year, or an estimated
1882. 4O6 barrels.
The shipments from the Elizabeth
City district embrace only those
from the counties Of .Perquimans,
Chowan, PasquOtank, Camden and
Currituck, and do not include the
heavy shipments that go from Tyr
rell, Washington and Hyde, where
large crops are grown. and which
are expected to he worth half a
million dollars I'm addition.
Many of the potatoes grown in
Hyde. are shipped direct to Nor
folk by boat. A yield of 20 and 25
to one is reported in that county,
and the planting normal.
Prices were remaining steady all
during the week. ranging around
$3.50 to $3.50 In New York, and an
average price Of $5 barrel is used
in making an estimate on the total
value of the entire crop. The steadi-
ness Of the market was decidingly
! encouraging.
Lower Currituck county has prac-
tically cleaned up its crop, and the
farmers are busily yi'planting corn.
Excellent yields of Irish potatoes
are reported from that section. The
Carolina Potato Exchange of this
city, which handles a tremendous
amount: of potatoes from its men,
bers in Currituck every year, took
care Of over 10000 barrels in the
height of the season.
Heavy paintings are reported.
On the farms of w. II. Gallop, a
yield of six thousand barrels is said
to have been realized, bringing in
Continued on Page Two)
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
ROUGH STUFF, DON'T READ ALOUD
BANK CLERK Aso THE SODA ugQKGR

sucndS about half his nights sleeping
in The house.
"Our folks bought new dining
room suite the other day ami the
table had such Il shiny mahogany
top that the girls decided to do
away with table cloths and Use
doilies so that everybody could adj
mirc that highly polished mahogany
table top. shining so slick you could
see your face in it.
"Wcll, somebody came in last
night and had IL little midnight
snack in the dining room. 1t seems
they had some roquefOrt cheese and
left some crumbs of the cheese on
that table.
This morning when the folks
came down stairs they found that
the darned old cat had scratched
! all the surface off that beautiful
table tfNllS lO COVER up Ih' 'uNN'N'
IF YOU tell another one ike
that" said the Bank Clerk. Il
shall have Post Master Hooper send
a marked copy to the Third Assist
ant Post Master General with Il sug
gestion that you he barred from the
mails" said the Bank Clerk.
$50 as far rs you like said the
Soda. Jerker: "just so long as In
not to he barred from the females.
(Why not get tho boos Of the
Bank Clerk and the Soda Jerker, a
choice collection of their rich and
racy arguments? so cents by NALL
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24

THAT WAS IN awful thin" that
happcncd at IlcrtfOrd last week, Il
vOunw fellow having his inSideS al
most blown out by compressed ar
when some fool joker stuck an air
compressor nozzle up his backSlIe'
said the Soda Jcrker to the Bank
Clerk.
Beat anytHin@ l ever heard OF,
said the Bank Clerk; mot laugh
Ing matter; by no means
81 never said it was Il laughing
NATTER rctOrted the Soda Jerker'
"but | do say that fellow VINO
starts out to play Il practical JOKE
of that kind ought to pick his We
fins with some discretion. Now
if he had only tried that trick oh
somebody like old man ShoddN
Cooke or Starkie Leary, there
wouldn't of been any harm done.
why do you say that" asked the
Bank Clerk.
Because they're both 50 tlshl
that a nozzle bigger than Il 20 guaSe
hypodermic needle never would OF
penetrated them," replied the Soda
Jerker.
Speaking of folks being tight
said the Bank Clerk. reminds me o[
the report that two Of our fellow
townsmen are working Oh the idea
of producing and marketing u laXa'
tive cheese
"And that reminds me. said the
Soda Jerker. that we had Il helluNa
commOtion up to my house this
morning.
"We've got an old tom cat tha'
is getting too old to run arouho
every night in the week and ne
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
WouHMdked
Cheese With a
Laxative In 1t

o. F. Gilbert contemplates
closing out his ladies' wear
business and DR.. John Saliba
contemplates quitting the prac-
tice of surgery, the pair of them
planning to embark upon a
manufacturing venture, OF
supreme importance to dairy
men and dieticians as well as
1.-THE public at large, according
to a rumor. that got abroad this
week.
Messrs. Gilbert and Saliba pur.
pose to manufacture and market
n laxative cheese for which they
believe there will he an immediate
and universal demand. 1t was Mr.
Gilbert's idea and DR.. Saliba is at
work on the formula. If DIR. Saliba
succeeds in perfecting tasty cheese
which will satisfy the popular
t;lste. Mr.. Gilbert will undertake the
distribution and sales of the pro
duct while DR.. Saliba will direct the
manufacturing end and devote him
self to further research work will
view to producing many varie
ties of laxative cheese.
Experiments with cascara mixed
with cream cheese produced a
rather bitter product which had tt
be abandoned. A mixture of Jap
anese agar agar and a little min
eral oil with the curd makes
palatable cheese, but it lacks zest
Rhubarb promises to give more sat
isfactOry results and other laXa
tives are yet to be tried.
The costive or constituting ten
dency of cheese has long been the
despair of dieticians who value
cheese highly for its healthful nu
tritive quality. 1t is rich In fats
rich in proteins and rich in impor
tant vitamins. 1t would he an idea
item of diet but for the fact tina,
it is terribly constituting and Ii
a cause of much costiveness ant
auto-intoxication.
"Now if we could only produce
cheese that satisfied the popular
taste and contained some palatabl'
and harmless laxative at the same
time. the sales of cheese woult
double and treble and everybod!
would be happy declared Mr.. Gil
bert. And Dr. Saliba ran away tt
his laboratory with the idea.
But when asked this week whel
: they expected to start up their lax
ative cheese factory, neither Mr.
Gilbert nor DR.. Saliba professed t.
know a thing about it.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24

The percentage Of increase In
divorces in North Carolina Is twelve
times the percentage of increase In
marriages, a statement from the de-
partment of commerce shows, coin
pairing the years 1925 and 1924.
Mrs. Mary Harvell, 80, committed
suicide last week by hanging herself
in a woodshed near her home IN
Concord. Ill health is believed tC
have been responsible for the deed
The body was discovered by Roy
Harvell, her son.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24

out license, according" 10 Branlley
Mccoy of the local license burcan.
Some $1,000 To 81 600 is handled
thru this Office each season. The
license this year is only half price.
plus a fee of ~ cents. as it is good
only for six months. But the folks
as usual. are waiting for the last
minute
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
MOTORISTS NEGLECTlNG
TO GET NEW LICENSES

AItho the state began issuing
licenses some II days earlier tins
year. i'm order to avoid giving grace
to hclalcd motorists. ana with Inc
time out on June 30. less than Il
week off. only ahout - per cent
of automobile owners have taken
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24

all gentleman, the OPINION u"
Elizabeth City who upon his lnlHcl"h mo
office asked the City Council t" give nm
or e Flora has
responsibilities and
uniformed representative of Inc city VINO y
detection apprehension
his work: his most important WORK To-
day traffic enforcement u" traffic laws ana ACTING
the stream o strangers
Your Policeman he able all reasonable
should be
always friendly making good impression upon the
visitor and alike feel at all times that III
of efficient and olisng
friend. So thinks Mayor Flora. .
Al lp same time Mayor thinks police lack schooling
modern Of he
sending his time visit other cities ana study
teir methods of policing p0leme that every
of police protection hour of the day
and night
photograph of Mayor Flora ever madc
reproduced for the first Time
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
4 VACATION
FOR EVERY WOMAN
WHO WANTS 1T

This newspaper is about to
announce great subscription
campaign in which a number
of its feminine readers BY do
ing a little spare time work
may earn a trip to Atlantic
City, Niagara Falls or a week
at the beautiful Cavalier Hotel
at Virginia Beach, all expenses
paid. Every woman who ell
ters this campaign will be paid
i'm cash for her work. The
harvest is ripe. The first in
the field will be the big win
ners. Don't wait for announce
m,clt; see or write to MIR.
Saunders now.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24

R. A. Addison, young RalelSh III
surance salesman and World Mar
veteran, who WAS arrested last
week on charges of indecent eN-
posure in Raleigh theatre was
given sixty days on the roads Ill
city court, by Judge Wiley Barnes.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24
'IM n PROMISED \
Blu rREM SATURDAY

| so,., ,, saturday Of This week.
!, ',s'> ~, "I t." Elizabeth city
! il We u, Promised an unusual
| <..l ..' Opening of the biz an.
r,n, n'''' sal" uf NJ. Leigh
| ~ '~iany The Sheen sale
,1,,.,, 'n''odrctjon; it simply
:. .;.'".ncins, Hundreds arr
f&,,,. "a''>" Sleeps is a
r5, '.,'Ty"~ ..' III Offering values.
! g1l. Up To its promises. The
! % IL, = "Io~',j all Friday nfler. a..
| v,s T... .'n I"r rh" biz clear.
g,.,,; m.a'.> Of which appear
'''<"'""n, jn rhf< n,nsr
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-24

Gilbert L. Roth, II, one of Elkln $
widely known citizens died ut his
home there Tuesday after Il llnSer-
ing illness. For Il number OF years
Mr.. Roth has been superintendent
Of the Chatham Manufacturing
Company'S plant ut Elkin.