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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
MCCOY NEW CHIEF Of
NORTH SIDE LIONS CLUB

Secretary of State Lands Civic
Work Done by Organization.
Good work done by the Lions
Clubs in promotion of worthy civic
movements was lauded by F. E.
schortemeier, secretary of State, in
talk before the North Side Lions
Club at Columbia Club, Monday
noon. Organization in Civic At
fairs" was his subject.
The club inaugurated Claude c..
Mccoy, executive secretary of the
board of safety. as its president. Re-
firing President Ginger made a
short talk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
MOTHER OF BANDIT
COLLAPSES IN COURT

Two Sentenced for Lapel State
Bank Robbery.
BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, July 12.-Mrs.
David Goodnight, invalid mother
of Robert Goodnight, 26, collapsed
in Circuit Court here when her son
and Howard Wood, 81, were sem
fenced for the robbery of the Lapel
State Bank on May %.
Goodnight and Wood, both of
Elwood, were sentenced to ten years
each in the State reformatory.
They confessed to the robbery in
which loot between $4,000 and $1,000
was obtained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
EMBEzZLING CHARGED

Former Tocsin, Ind, Postmaster Be-
fore Court Today.
BIZ Times Special
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, July 12.-Virgil
Kreigh, former postmaster at Toe
sin, is scheduled to appear here to-
day in Federal Court to answer
charge Of embezzling funds of the
office.
Federal authoritiesA assert Kreigh
forged postal money orders. Pro-
testing his innocence, Kreigh sug-
gests that order blanks had been
stolen from the Tocsin office and
others forged them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12

Spanish Crops Struck by Frost
By United Press
VALLADOLID, Spain, July r.
This section of Spain today was Wis
tied by an unreasonable cold spell,
frost greatly damaging the fields.
Crops and trees also were damaged
by windstormS and hail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
FIFTY PERSONS DIE IN
QUAKES IN HOLY LAND
Dozen. Biblical Towns Are DAM
aged in Jerusalem Region.

DoLen' DiDlicai AOWnS are Dam~
aged in Jerusalem Region.
BIZ United Press
JERUSALEM, July IA fivc-
second earth shock late yesterday
caused the death of more than
fifty persons, the injury of many
more and heavy public and private
property damage in half a dozen
Biblical cities and towns.
Jerusalem. Nablus, Olivet, Jericho,
Haifa, Amman and Ain Karin were
reported in the path of the quake.
Three tourists we're buried when
a hotel collapsed at Jericho, four
teen miles northeast OF Jerusalem.
A number of houses collapsed in
Jerusalem.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
SMITH MAY HOP TODAY

Mail Pilot Ready for Second At
tempt to Span Pacific.
By United Press
SAN FRANCISCO. July 12.-The
second attempt of Ernie Smith, for
mer air mail pilot, to span the Pa
cif1c in an airplane may begin to-
day. According to Capt. William H.
Royle, Smiths flight manager, the
small travelair monoplane is ready
for the hop.
Two weeks ago Smith took off, but
returned in a few minutes, because
of minor accident.
AS navigator for the fight, Smith
has Capt. Emory B. Bronte, holder
Of an unlimited Masters license for
al waters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
Company Official Dies

BIZ Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, July Ia
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon for Charles E.
Curry, secretary of the Hughes
Curry Packing Company who died
Monday after a years illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
JACKSON STARTS BACK
Governor Expected at Statehouse
on Thursday; Motors Through.

Governor Jackson is expected to
return to the Statehouse Thursday.
1t was announced today.
He expected to leave Osawotomie,
Kan. some time today and motor
home with his wife and family. The
trip will take two days.
The Jackson5 have been visiting
in Kansas at the home OF Mrs.
Jackson's father.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
New Shower Device

BIZ Times Special
FRANKFORT, Ind, July IA
device declared an improvement
over others for giving shower baths
to children by fire departments has
been put in use by Earl Denton,
local fireman. A cellar nozzle
mounted on q ten-foot tripod is
used.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
POLICE VETERAN DEAD

Fatrolman James r. Todd Was On
Force 20 Years.
Patrolman James w. Todd, SO, of
651 E. Twelfth ST., a member of the
police force for % years, died at his
home yesterday of cancer of the
throat.
Todd was retired Jan. 4. The
widow and three osns survive him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
REMODELING INFlRMARY
Contracts Let for Work at DOrni-
tory by Commissioners.

Remodeling of the old dorlnitory
at the Marion County Inf1rnIary will
be started soon, it was announced
today by county commissioners aft
er contracts we're let for various
improvements. Hayes Brothers will
reset the boilers and install new
engines for $4,345
The Krebay Construction Com
pany will plaster walls and put in
new flooring. Contract for laying
new linoleum on the first and sec
ond floors was let to the White Fur
niture Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
Thirty Barrel Oil We'll

BU Times Special
PETERSBURG, Ind, July IA
thirty-barrel oil well has beer drilled
in on the Frank Thompson lease a
mile west of Union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
RICHARD BENNETT WEEDS
Stage Star and Divorce of Four
Days Marry in Chicago.


BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July l2.-Richard Ben
nett, stage star playing IN Inc
Barker" here, was married to Mrs.
Aimee Raisch Hastings of San Fran
cisco.
Mrs. Hastings received her final
decree of divorce from Harry Cog
hill Hastings, polo player. four days
ago and came East immeditely to
marry Bennett.
Bennett was divorced from Ardi-
enne Morrison in 1928.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-12
WiteS Craze Calls: Aged
CiMI War Veteran Lost
William Darcy, IS, Traced
to Filling Station Near
haywood.

Somewhere in Indiana an aged
Civil War veteran wandered to-
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
A WEEK OF SALES IN
CITYS BEST STORES
January Days are Bargain Days at
McCabe & Grice. Fucker & Sheely
.m6 M. Leigh Sheep Go.

January sales are On in three of
Elizabeth City'S biggest stores and
the next ten days will he bargain
days for thrifty shoppers.
McCabe & Gricr announce their
annual January stock reducing sale.
Rucker 4 Sheely Co. announce
their annual January Clearance and
White Sales.
NJ. Leigh sheep Co.. the WOman'S
Wear Store, announce their annual
January Clearance Sale.
All of these sales are annual
events that are awaited by hun
dreds of shrewd buyers who know
that by waiting for these sales they
will save much money on purchases
of many items of seaSonable and de-
rendable merchandise.
The first of the year is season
when merchants who carry large
stocks must unload Il lot of fall and
winter merchandise that is not
convenient or advisable to carry
over thru the spring and summer.
And so their customers get the Denc-
fit of much lively price cutting at
this time.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

n lot of talk and gives the ministers
an opening to rOmp all over the
Country Club and every other social
advertisement.
III makes ii preacher hopping mad
to lock out over Il congregation OF
several hundred we'll dressed NOR
tails who ride up to the church in
luxurious limouSineS and leave a
nickel in the collection plate. Why,
they can't even keep up the silver
polish on the collection plates with
nickels. You can't expect the min
listers to love Il Country Club patro-
nized by their church members who
pay $50 a year for club dues and a
dollar for every dance, and then
70 TO church and throw Buffalo
Nickel at the Lord.
"You can't expect the ministers
to feel very strong for n Country
Club or any other kind of club and
Country Club members should be
discreet with their liquor at all
times, just as good churchmen are.
No matter how much good church
member loves his liquor, he never
shows it when he goes to church.
4 Country Clubber should be quite
as discreet"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
AND HE LOOKED LIKE
A PLAIN 155 CENTS
Man Who Wrote S155, 10000 Check
Came To Town Almost
J'nnOticed

About a year and a half ago a
Boston financer startled the world
by calmly writing a check for S155.-
OOO, 10000, buying out the interests
of the Dodge Bros. automobile manu-
featuring enterprise lock, stock and
barrel with d single scrap of paper.
The transaction was unique in the
business annals Of America and the
world. That man was James Dean
of Boston.
And that man. James Dean, of
Boston walked the streets of EliZ-
abeth City Wednesday Of this week.
lunched at the Southern Hotel and
left town without attracting more
attention than some chap who
couldn't write and cash q check for
155 cents.
Mr.. Dean is at Pine Island Club
near Poplar Branch this week TAX
ing a few shots at ducks and geese.
Wednesday is a rest day and Mr..
Dean came over TO Elizabeth City
with DR.. Julian c. Baum. super
intendent of the Club. DR.. Baum
tipped off a lot of the natives so
that they could say that they had
seen with their own eyes man
that could write-Or once did write
IA perfectly good check for 155
millions.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
SAUNDERS TO SPEAK
AT THE UNIVERSITY
VIII Also Talk to Norfolk Youth At
Jlmi8r Chamber of Commerce
Dfisrer ,lans Is. -

Juniors and Soph0m0res of the
University of North Carolina will
see and near W. o. Saunders him
self Friday morning, Jan. when
he will give them Il Is minute talk
in chapel on the Challenge of Mod
crn Youth.
The editor of The Independent
WAS already billed to talk to the
members of the North Carolina
Newspaper Institute at the Cniver-
Sity Friday afternoon OH the me-
clianical problems of country news
paper making. When word got out
on the campus that Nv, o. himself
would he ut the University this
week the students wanted TO bear
him too, and 50 the invitation TO
the editor 10 talk To the students
came in due course and was accept
ed.
The editor of The Independent
will speak to youth again in Nor
folk, Va. Tuesday night, Jan. 18th
when he will appear as principal
speaker at the annual dinner of the
Junior Chamber Of Commerce Of
that City.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
WOMEN VOTERS
KNOW EXACTLY.
WHAT'S WANTED.
And A Law To Prevent Hasty
Marriages Is One Thing
They Want

The average North Carolina
male may not have any def
mite ideas about what he wants
the present General Assembly
OF North Carolina to do. but
the progressive women OF the
State know what they want
and they are seeking legisla-
ton to improve the lot of them
selves and their children.
The Influence of prominent women
in Elizabeth City and other North
eastern North Carolina towns and
cities in behalf of the program of
the LegiSlatuive Council Of North
Carolina Women is being sought
this week by Miss Margaret Retta
Williamson. Of Durham. regional
secretary Of the League Of Women
Voters. Miss Williamson was in
Elizabeth City Tuesday.
The Council is sponsoring the
most progressive measures that the
present General Assembly will he
asked To pass. The Council wants :
|. 4 Statewide Australian Bal
lot law.
}. 4 law limiting the working
Of children under 16 years of age
to s hours a day in industrial and
mercantile pursuits.
3. The establishment of farm
prison for women offenders older
than those received at Samarcand.
/. Two weeks notice before mar
riage. To prevent hasty and unwiSe
marriages.
:. Taking over hy the State of
the refOrmatOry for delinquent
negro girls.
The Council is supported in its
legislative demands ny the Fedora
ton of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, the Federation of
Women'S Clubs. League of Women
Voters. State Nurses Association.
Women's Auxiliary Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church. the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union and the
Wompn's Missionary Society of the
y. G. Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Miss Williamson believes that the
present General Assembly will pass
a State wide Australian ballot law
which will make voting more at
tractive to the women by requiring
order at the polls. allow u private
and uncoerced vote and provide
speed. case and accuracy in voting
and in counting the votes.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
SOUGHT EASY MONEY BY
SELLING STOLEN GOODS

Fred ID. Robinson and Harrison
Perry. two Elizabeth City negroes.
find themselves in bad situation.
Perry was a truck driver delivering
groceries for the wholesale grocery
firm of ]. B. Flora & Co. Robinson
was jitney driver.
Robinson and Perry are accused
of making wholesale raids on the
stock of J. b. Flora & Company
and selling it to small merchants for
less than the wholesalers could sell
the goods. And the two negroes
landed in court this week. charged
with grand larceny, and are being
held for Superior Court under bonds
of $3.50.
The case was heard before Judge
Sawyer of the County Court Thurs
day.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
ALLEYES NOW
LOOK TOWARD
LEGISLATURE
Northeast Counties Watch
Highway, Fish and Game
Legislation

The session of the General
Assembly of North Carolina,
which opened this week, will
be watched with more interest
than usual. For two months,
Northeastern North Carolina
counties, will look with inter
est or anxiety toward Raleigh,
to see what will be done for
them, or against them.
Practically every county of the
northeast is vitally interested in
forthcoming legislation. Currituck
County particularly will be inter-
ested in efforts to combat the pre-
sent effective game laws in force.
The effort may not come in the way
of a direct move. but hunters across
the state have their own ideas of a
game administration that would
play havoc with county enforcement.
and Currituck will have an eye peel
ed for them.
Every county that takes any con-
siderable part in the fishing indus
try. will want to see what is done
for the improvement of conditions
affecting it. Dare County is especi-
ally interested in this particular
part of the General Assembly's
work. but Dare has many new in
terests this year, chiefly concerning
and bridges.
Altho this county is facing more
legislation than ever, Dare Coun-
ty's Representative, NJ. ID. Hayman,
is in poor health at this time, and
may not be able to do much work.
In the meantime, the county will
look to its Senator's, Hon. Clayton
tC2nrtirEIeaaa or page I've,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
NO WONDER THE CHURCH
GOT ONLY 120 NICKELS

Rev. +. :. Love. pastor of First
NJ. f.. Church South of this city
took little dig at his congregation
Sunday morning. He congratulated
them on the way they turned out
for the service OH the Sunday after
Christmas. There were perhaps
1 900 people in our congregation;
they were well dressed people and
l think the clothes they wore could
have been appraised at S1OO,OOO
easily. The value of their automo-
bileS parked around the church
could have been appraised at per-
haps $200,O00. The stewards found
100 nickels in the collection mates" "
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

ADVICE TO COUNTRY CLUBBERS

They tell me that Parson Love
around at the First Methodist
Church gave the Country Club a
drubbing in his sermon the other
morning" replied the Bank Clerk.
And | reckon he didn't say more
than ought to he said about the way
some of our eminent citizens cut
up. In the days before Prohibition
no man who was any man at all
would think Of getting tanked up
and going to a public function. He
did his drinking on off nights with
u few friends down town and went
on his good behavior when he went
out to d party with the women
folk.
But everything has changed;
nowadays your average citizen
doesn't let liquor bother him much
in the ordinary routine Of his life,
but every social affair or public
celebration of anykind is an excuse
for him to liquor up and make a
spectacle of himself At the COun-
try Club on New Years night one
of our wealthiest and most prOmi-
nent citizens got SO high that he
thought someone had "goosed" him
when the trombone let out blast
Just as he was Waiting by the
orchestra. He gave one mad whoop.
jumped high in the air, fell pizzle
end upward into the orchestra and
smashed q $125 saxophone in the
fall. That sort Of thing brings on
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

The r;lSt. of h. l.. .Arnctt. of Mari
eta. " the Standard Oil Company
and ". Il. Ford. Of Lakeview. $. c..
for Sl1J.00O damages was settled,
Il compromise judgment having been
signed by Judge |. VI. Meekins
awarding the plaintiff Sl3.150. The
suit was the result of the sale of
gasoline by Ford to Arnett's broth
Kerosene. a few days aftef,sthe
sale Justin Arnett was fatally burn
"d. aud Christine Arnett. daughter
of the plaintiff. was 50 severely
burned that she has been in = local
h">pital nearly . wear.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
A LOT OF THIS.
BAD STUFF is.
INHERENT In US.

A spirit of vandalism which
broke forth in Hertford dur
ing the Christmas holidays in
the dynarniting of the commun-
ity's Christmas tree has incens-
ed the good people of Hertford.
Such acts Of vandalism were
common in Hertford a quarter
of a century ago, but Hertford
was priding itself upon all i'm
provement in the character of
its youthful citizenship when
its pride got a jolt from a stick
of dynamite that shattered doz-
ems of window panes i'll the
vicinity of Hertford's court
house square the night after
Christmas.
Such acts of vandalism used to he
common in Hertford. Hertford
youth in days gone by were not sat
isfied to celebrate Christmas with
the puny explosions Of fire crack
ers only. They were adopts in the
art of constructing fearful bombs
that would rock the town. In the old
days the youngsters would make
bombs Of black powder encased in
heavy iron pipe and wrapped tight
ly with tarred seine. How those
bombs threw terror into the hearts
of the peaceful citizens when fired
at midnight on the schoolhouse
campus. There were no community
Christmas trees in those days, to
blow up.
But big sycamore tree stood at
the head of Grubb st. near the Nor
folk Southern Rail Road tracks.
One night a gang Of boys put COW
up that sycamore tree. The villaS-
ers never guessed how that cow got
up tho tree. But the towns young
gangsters knew. They had lifted
that cow into the branches of a tall
tree by building a platform of rail
road ties aud stepping the, cow up
on these fies until they had her
where they wanted her. Then they
carefully removed the ties and pill
ed them back on the rail road right
of way where they belonged.
HertfOrd boys were bad in those
good old days. When the school
trustees hired new school teacher
they would always pick a male
teacher who looked like a scrapper,
for every new teacher had to lick
the towns bullies when he came to
town, or get licked.
The youthful vandals who planted
dynamite under the community
Christmas tree in Hertford the night
after Christmas Inherited Il lot of
their mischief g ~ '.'
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

Zone more filling station, gentle
men," announced the mayor hap
ply. "and the village will be able
to move all the lamp posts off Main
Street" t."-Motoring.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
ENGINEERS ESTIMATES
NOT ALWAYS RELIABLE
That Is Why Elizabeth City. Paving Funds
Are Practically Wiped Out Before All
: Work Is Finished

Nhy Elizabeth City has of funds before Completing
its street paving program revealed report made the
Board of Aldermen this week by City Manager Miles Were
bee W.C Olson expert civil engineer of Raleigh was en-
poycd to engineer the mao details the cys program Of
public improvements Upon Osens estimates certain sums
were appropriated for certain improvements Mr. Olsen
pendureS have exceeded his estimates by than $4,000
actually spent
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
ONE OF THE OLD GUARD
H0WLS FOR A NEW DEAL
Attributes Decadence of the Republican Party
in North Carolina To Selfishness and Lazi-
ness of The Trough Rooters

Ranking dissatisfaction among the younger progressive
Republicans the State who think that their party leaders
interested in personal political preiement than party
breaks this week in red hot communication from
c. NJ Bernard of Pilot Mountain n c.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

Wasted nerve energy from eye
strain makes nervous, irritable
school children. Have their eyes
examined before sending them to
schccl, Dr. 7. y. ucthawccvs eel
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07
Ferebee Did Much Better

Certain OF the work for which
City Manager Ferebee himself was
personally responsible has been car
ried on within the City Managers
estimates. Ferebee makes good
showing. OF the S59.50O allowed
him for gravel he has spent S24.IS6
and completed most of the gravel
street construction. He was allow
cd total of $4,000 for brick street
construction and has spent only $23.-
3l3. But right here the City Man
a.cr strikes Snag. His part Of the
paving has not been finished and
money that he requires for the com
pletion of Martin. Burgess. West
Fearing. East Church and Il few
other streets has been diverted to
take care of OlSen's miScalculatiOnS.
What's to be done about it: There
is probably nothing to BE- done about
it except To pay the bills and bor-
row about S2J.OU locally to take
care of the rest Of the City Man
ayers program. And then another
$4,000 will be needed TO put Poin-
dexter and Water StS. in order and
build new draw bridge Oh Water
SIS.
There are some who feel that in
view of the vast amount of work
that has been done within the past
year that the city is fortunate in
not facing even greater deficit.
In any great construction program
somebody makes lot of mistakes
and somebody has 10 pay for them:
the tax payer is the easiest goat for
paying that has ever been diScOv-
cred
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

yachman? He is Mr. Cb Who is Mr. Obici? Well,
YOu will find him At Suffolk Va at the head Of
Nut Chocolate Co.. the biggest peanut business in the
years this country little orphan boy
Italy He steerage and landed in New York City with
pockets They tied him and shipped him to Scran
yender and sold peanuts nickel
bag smelly hold of immigrant ship
he his private yacht and almost everything else
could And if don't believe he's proud of his
look him. Photo Hanlblin of Suffolk
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-01-07

Backwardness in children is often
caused by defective vision due to
neglect in consulting an eye special
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