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or chambermaid-Waitress best reference.
wants place go away, Decatur 1925
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Evening star., 1928-06-17
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Evening star., 1928-06-17

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Evening star., 1928-06-17

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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
Jew and Gentle
Mix in Hertfcrd

Ku Klux Klan activities in Hert-
ford haven't been conducive to
the most cordial bi-racial relations
in that town. Jew and Gentle
fought with their fists on Hertford's
Main st. Monday. Vivian Darden
and Louis Nachman are rival mer-
chants. Darden is Nordic, Mach
man a Jew; one is anti-Smith, the
other pro-Smith
But whatever the argument, the
pair of them selected the sidewalk
in front of the medical depot of DR..
Tom Cox for a battle ring. AS a
preliminary to the battle they called
each other names and one of the
names rang the gong. Round l re-
suited in a draw; round 2. Darden
sent an upnercut to Nachman's right
eye; round 3, Nachman sent right
upper cut to DarC tn'S mead and
lifted his nose to the left. Then
DR.. Cox called time and separated
the pair, incidentally separating
Darden's Sleeve from his shirt when
Darden resisted. DR.. Cox then treat
ed Nachman's black eye and Dard-
ems broken nose and the pair went
their respective ways, still calling
each other names.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
In Storm For Hours
On a Fish Net Stake

Clinging to a pound net stake for
four hours. during a raging storm
on the Albemarlc Sound, Saturday
night, was the narrowing experience
of Ben Twiddy, fisherman, who lives
near Columbia, while his compan-
ion, Luther Liverman rode the bot
tom of the capsized 16 foot Skif to
shore for help.
Twiddy and Livcrnan had been
out in the sound to look after their
nets, during the storm, when their
craft captized. The latter, after
seeing Twiddy safe at net stake,
was washed ashore with the skiff
some four miles from aid. He man
aged to get word to Twiddy's broth
er, who with his son, Bruce, and
Capt. Laten Gibbs hurried to the
scene.
With the aid of searchlightS, the
men got a skif into the water, and
went out in search OF the drowning
man, whom they feared had been
washed away from the stake into
the sound. After several hours bat
tie with the angry water, they reach
ed Twiddy, barely conscious, his
arms and legs tied to the stake.
After getting 70 shore, he was
quickly resu5itated, and seems none
the worse for his narrow escape
from death.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
New Manager For
The Virginia Dare

Elizabeth City's community hotel
the Virginia Dare will have a new
manager on or about Sept. 18th
He is w. H. Garman, who will come
from the Hotel Henry Clay, Ash
land, KY. j. P. Johnson, manager
of the Virginia Dare since its OPEN
ing last November. goes 20 Oak
Hill, w. Va, to operate a new hotel
on a partnership basis.
Garman was selected from more
than a score of applicants for the
Virginia Dare management. He is
no stranger to these parts. He was
sometime manager of the Hotel
Elliott and is said to have worked
himself out of job there by putting
the hotel on paying basis. When
the Elliott began to prosper the
lessecs found lively purchaser and
let 60; the new leSsees installed their
own manager. Mr.. Garman is in
his forties, married and has one
child.
j. P. johnson, the departing man
ager of the Virginia Dare carries
with him the highest esteem and
good wishes of the hotel officers and
directors. The ONLY complaint
against JchnSon was his inability
to spread meadow mayonnaise
around the lobby. He is a serious
chap who stuck close to his ledgers
ard stock sheets.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
JOSEPHUS HAS ANOTHER JOB FOR THE
STONE CUTTERS

couldn't bring JosephuS squarely
around when two Methodist bishops
have failed; for Mr.. Daniels is a
sprinkler and he could travel but
so far with a deep-diving Baptist
denominationalist. The sprinklers
and the deep-divers have just so
much use for each other at heart.
I have an idea in fact that the
one sure way to divert the Baptist
and Methodist preachers from their
attacks on AL Smith, would be for
some one to start an argument on
the question of Baptism by sprink-
ling VI immersion.
"BuC, TO get back to the subject OF
Mr.. Daniels. Did you ever see the
palatial residence he built for him
self in the Hdyes-Barton suburb OF
Raleigh?"
81 never did," said the Soda Jerk
er.
"Well, the next time you are in
Raleigh 1 want you to take a look
at it; you will observe that Mr.
Daniels had an immense anchor
carved in stone on the broadside OF
his house facing the street, to re-
mind all passers by that he was one
time Secretary of the Navy. I am
wondering if Mr.. Daniels will now
call in the stone cutters and have a
heroic figure of jackass carved on
the other side of his house to re-
mind the public that he once was
Democrat"
"Get thee behind me Satan" said
the Soda Jerker, and push!
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
HE HAS FOUGHT
RATTLE SNAKES
FOR 81 YEARS

Armed with long iron rod with
rake like arrangement of four
prongs on the end; Il StOcky in
dividual was dragging the bushes
around shanty on a point Of
marsh on Alligator River. 1t was
16 miles above the mouth of that
unusual body of water that has its
source somewhere in Hyde County
and empties the black waters OF
the swamps of Dare and Hyde in
to AIbema-le Sound. He was stir
ring up the rattlers.
That's the principal hot weather
pastime of John Etheridge, who for
81 Years has stood guard over a
boggy and uninhabited wilderness
of many thousands of acres, owned
bv the Norfolk and Southern Rail
Road. One navigates the Alligator
for 16 miles before sighting a human
habitation in the Swampy WlldS that
fringe it's mysterious waters. And
then one comes on rude board
shanty on a point of marsh where
John Etheridge has held his lonely
vigil for thirty seven years.
Four miles and a half around a
bend in the river is the post office
of Gum Neck in Tyrrell County to
which John Etheridge steals away
in his little skiff for an hour or two
once a week or such a matter, to
pick up a newspaper, some tobacco,
some corn meal and canned goods
and a smattering Of country store
gossip. And then back to his shanty
on Deep Point goes John Etherldgc
to fight off rattle snakes in sum-
mer and bears in winter.
Rattle snakes abound in the
wooded swanlps it is his business
to guard against timber pirates; and
the snakes like to inspect Johns
cabin. Over this vast region a great
silence prevails. broken occasionally
by the scream of en- eagle, the woof
woof of prowling bears, or the bel
low of a bull alligator seeking his
mate in the humid heat of a sum-
mer night. Or the singing of rat
tie snakes, twirling their rattles in
the dence marsh growth around
Johns cabin. And having nothing
else much to do from sun-up to SUM-
down, John gets out his long iron
hook, combs the marsh grasses and
uncovers the snakes, when he hears
them sing. Irritated, the rattlers
uncovered will make stand for a
fight. And John puts his snake
ship to death with his trusy rifle. 1t
has never occurred to him to cap
Continued on Page FIvel
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
ELECTRIC LIGHT
USERS TO PAY
FOR new STREET

Elizabeth City is making money
out OF It's municipal distribution
and sale of electric light and
power; maA.ng so much money
that it will have money enough to
buy rights of way and hard sur
face pavement for a new city
street in another year.
This interesting information leak
ed out this week when the City
Cornell adopted resolution petit
tioning the State Highway Commits
sion to bring the proposed new Pas
quotank River bridge from Camden
into Elizabeth City at Elizabeth
Street; the Council in its petition
promised to acquire right of way
to open Elizabeth st. from Water
st. to Martin st. and provide a
hard surface street from the water
St. terminus of the new bridge to
Martin st. within one year. Asked
where the money would come from
to do all this, DR.. A. L. Pend ton,
chairman of the Public UTILITIES
Commission, said the Public Utilities
could furnish the money for the new
street within another twelve months,
City Manager Ferebee says the right
of way and paving would cost $2l,-
900. Mayor Flora thinks it will be
nearer s50000.
And so if the new bridge il
brought into Elizabeth st., electric
light consumers in Elizabeth CIT.
will pay the bill Citizens are charg.
er 12c per kilowatt for electric light
current that the city purchases
from the Virginia Electric & Power
Co. at a cent and a fraction kilo-
watt. The city is making money
But the electric light consumer viii
hardly benefit by it; instead of re-
ducing the price OF current to the
consumer, the Public Utilities Com
mission will turn over its fat profits
TO the city to spend for public i'm
provementS.
""I fear" said Mayor Flora, that
bad precedent is being set; elec-
trio light consumers and tax payers
should get the benefit of any sur
plus from our public utilities, in de-
creased taxes and a lower electric
light rate"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
Automobile Necking
Parties, Warning

North Carolina couples addicted
to the Pastime of necking on the
front seat of automobiles Will nave
to exercise care when they cross
the Virginia line, for Virginia
motorcycle police have received
positive orders to arrest every one
arm" automobile driver caught on
Virginia highways. If you must
pet your lady friend while driving
an auto, wiring the sweet things
neck in North Carolina before you
cross the State line into Virginia
The Virginians will also enforce the
law against more than three persons
occupying the front seat OF an au-
tomobile.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
50 GALLONS OF
LIQUOR HIDDEN
INAFORD'STAIL

How many five gallon carboys
of corn liquor can be stored in the
rear compartment of an old Model
T. Ford with the cover locked
down? The answer is ten. But
not even Sheriff ChaS. Carmine
of Pasuuotank would have believ-
ed il until he pulled ten of the
five gallon bottles out of a Ford
coupe driven by Walter Wallace
of Norfolk.
A phone message from an in
former in Perquimans County to the
Elizabeth City police department
Tuesday conveyed the tip that two
Fords had passed Woodville, eight
miles south of Elizabeth City, en-
route to Norfolk. The police en-
listed the aid of Sheriff Carmine
and every road entering Elizabeth
City was watched.
With no description of the two
Fords, Sheriff Carmine let instinct
be his guide and followed a Ford
Coupe that turned off the main
highway into Church st. Carmine
had no search warrant and had
left his sheriff's badge on his other
pair of suSpenderS; but the driver
of the Ford owned up. The Ford
contained ten five gallon bottles
of corn. The driver was Walter
Wallace. white man about 80
years old, claiming residence in
Norfolk. said to have been formerly
a resident of Currituck County
The other Ford got away.
Wallace gave a $500 cash bond
and departed minus his Ford and
his liquor. The liquor is believed to
have been part of boat load OF
East Lake corn brought into Little
River near Woodville Tuesday night
for distribution to bootleggers IN
Edenton. Hertford, Elizabeth City
and Norfolk.
What became of the other Ford
loaded with liquor? Royal Briggs
Pro at the Elizabeth City Country
Club. driving over Camden Ferry
Road wednesday afternoon saw two
men in a Ford hastily dump six five
rallon bottles in the marsh few
hundred yards from the Pasquo-
tank River bridge. The men SEEM
ed to be in a hurry.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
Norfolk Will Hear
w. o. Saunders Again

w. o. Saunders, editor and pub
Usher of this newspaper will be the
speaker at the annual banquet OF
the Norfolk Unity Club at the Mon
ticello Hotel in Norfolk Tuesday
evening. Sept. II. His subject will
be, This Topsy-Turvy World" and
many in Norfolk are wondering
whether he'll tackle the subject by
the horns or by the tail The last
time wv. O." spoke in Norfolk he
started a controversy that lasted for
30 days
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07

"I see by the papers that the Bap-
tist Roach Straton spoke against Al
Smith in Raleigh Monday night and
called on all good Democrats to vote
for Hoover" said the Soda Jerker.
Yes" said the Bank Clerk; these
preachers started out by being
merely anti-Smith; they wouldn't
admit for a moment that they were
really campaigning for the Republi-
can presidential nominee: but
gradually they are letting the Cat
out of the bag and coming straight
out for Hoover"
Il also saw by the papers that the
Roach Straton said that he hoped
70 convert Josephus Daniels and
bring him into the kingdom of Lord
Hoover" said the Soda Jerker; but
he doesn't seem to have succeeded
7 searched JoSephuSes News & Oo-
server all over Tuesday to find what
Josephus had to say about that, but
Josephus said nary a word.
Its pity that the Roach Stra-
ton didn't bring Mr.. Daniels over
into the Hoover column said the
Bank Clerk dryly.
Because" said the Bank Clerk
.if Mr.. Daniels would openly line
I'D with the Straton cult and de-
clare himself against Smith and tor
Hoover, then we would know exact
" where Mr.. Daniels and his News
& Observer stand. AS Mr.. Daniels
is playing the game now, one
doesn't know whether he is FOL
Smith or against him; it is only GER
tain that he is doing the Demo-
cratic presidential nominee more
harm than good. If he would come
straight out for Hoover we would
know how to handle him.
But the Baptist Roach Strator
or any other Baptist preacher
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07

Preliminary to the open campaign
of the Anti-Smithites Hooverites
in disguise), thousands of copies Of
the bogus knights of Columbus oath
and thousands of copies of The
Reform Bulletin" product of the
pen of the discredited Rev. o. r.
Miller, of Albany, have been circulat-
ed in this anu ne:gTDouring coun-
ties. Likewise, thousands of copies
of 1.-The Fellowship Forum" the
organ of the Ku Klux klan, devoted
to bitter anti-Catholic propaganda
are being passed around or sent to
citizens thru the mails.
Preliminary also to the drive TO
be, made by the Anti-Smithites in
this district, Doc. Hotalen, one of
the hired speakers of the Ku Klux
Klan has been holding poison gas
meetings behind closed doors where
ever the Klan could get hall Tor
him. He spoke in Currituck County
and in Perquimans last week. His
speech at Currituck was so putrid.
so vile and so manifestly dishonest
and unfair, that. C. B. Matthias,
leader in the Ku KluX Klan in Cur
! rituck openly expressed his disap-
pointment and disgust at the speak
er.
The Anti-Smith organization was
sponsored by Bishop James Cannon
of the Methodist Church who sat in
the Democratic National Convention
at Houston and gave his approval
to the enforcement plank written
into the party platform. After de-
claring satisfied with the plank he
joined with a Baptist DR.. Barton
and organized an Anti-Smith party.
The operations of the Anti-Smith
organization are patterned some
what after those of the Anti-Saloon
League. The organizers endeavour
to get everybody to sign pledges not
! 10 vote for Smith. Having got the
pledges signed. they then solicit the
signers for funds to carry on the
work of the organization.
An organization of spies will be
perfected to picket every polling
place in the State on election day
with lists of the signers of pledgers,
to see that those who have signed
the pledges will vote as they have
pledged.
Signatures to thousands of pledge
cards have been secured in Senator
Simmons home district within the
past few weeks. And now the
Hooverites are preparing TO move
over into the First District.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
A Bad Name Got
Tommy Jail Sentence

Give a dog a bad name and.
Tommie Winslow, an Elizabeth City
youth was sentenced to ten days in
Jail in the County Court Thurs
day morning for disorder!y conduct,
Draw in Benton's restaurant on
Colonial Ave. 1t was heavy SEN
tence for a trivial misdemeanor.
But Tommie has bad name; he
doesn't work, frequents speak -easies,
drinks, runs with bootleggers. lie
told the Judge he had disease, the
reason he didn't work. "All right"
said the Judge, "a ten days rest il
Jail under the care Of a heath o.
ficer NAV dn vou good 70"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
HOG QUARTER LANDING .
NOW OFFICIALLY SPOT

Currituck County has new post
office. It's name is Spot. You will
find Spot on Currituck Sound,
about a mile off the main highway
between Mamie and Harbinger. The
post master is w. S. Harrison and
the post office is located in the store
of H. Etheridge. Spot has been
known to sportsmen as Hog Quarter
Landing; it has sometime been call
ed Killmullet. The new post office
was created on August IA, 1928.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
A Week of Rain, Rain,
Rain and More Rain

Continuous rains for nearly a
week have thrown a damper over
Elizabeth City and Eastern North
Carolina generally. Elizabeth City
is thoroly saturated. Further South
and East the waters OF the Tar,
Neuse and Cape Fear Rivers have
overflowed their banks and threaten
much damage to lowland property.
The weather bureau sees no relief
in sight.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
Winfall Man Gets
S1,S7O Auto for Scots

w. c. Gregory, of Winfall' Per-
ouimans County, spent so cents for
five chances on a s1S7O REQ auto
mobile ratified off by the American
Legion Post of Norfolk. He won
the automobile.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07

You owe yourself thorough and
careful examination of your eyes
by a qualified Optometrist. DIR.
I'D. HATHAWAY, Optonletrist,
Carolina Bank Bldg. adv.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
Has BeenA Disappointing Weekfor
he Democracy In North Carolina
l., Simmons Pledges Active Support to
y % Hoover Club While Gardner, The Big
psr in Whom Many Had Placed Great
7" Wy Reassures The Boilers With Honey
EWcrds.
By w. o. SAUNDERS

been sad week for Democrats in North Carolina; those
Carolina spirit of fair play almost despaired this week
Nav Gardner approached his opening campaign speech
bu senator Simmons openly aligned himself with that
% Of the Republican party in North Carolina that waves
banner and calls Anti Snth for lack of the decency
tho CUTS and the honesty to call itself Pro- Hoover
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07

When you get ashamed OF bor-
rowing your neighbours copy OF
The Independent take out a SUD-
scription for yourself.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
op Cannon Hoover Club To Stage Drive Here Next Wee
The AntiSmh The Under Cover Agents of Hooverm
Sgnes Their AntSmh Pledge Cards in This Dis
trict Following Their Work Simmons Home District

Organization in North Carolina will invade Elz
Congressional District next week. according
reaching Thousands of pledge cards
circulated and digenworke will try to get thousands oil
the ncrs to be pledged not to vote for Alfred
E.. Smith.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
u Dist IS CHEAPEST

,e,'S' ~, 'or lunch. meat or fish
|, .-''ani"1, dessert. bread,
;, .'.,He -, regular din
soo " room with private lava
r. e!Al2 Dare Hotel
EAia0etb City, y. c. adytf
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-09-07
PASTOR MAKES FALSE
STATEMENTS IN PULPIT
Accusing Newspapers Of Unfairness, Pastor of
First Methodist Church In This City Mis-
leads His Congregation By Serious
Distortion of Important Facts
Ry w. O. SAUNDERS

pastor of the First Methodist Church South
the of Elizabeth City to task Sum
unfair the churches preachers opposing
candidacy And then proceeded
to make statements about Alfred Smith