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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
Nonpartisan Women
Prepare for Meeting

An interesting program for the an
nual state convention Of the Nonpar-
tlsan Women's clubs to be held in Bis
marck February IL. Is and IA, has
been arranged by the members of the
local club.
Forenoon. afternoon and evening
sessions will be held each day, and
there will be well known speakers
from al parts Of the state. Meetings
Will be held In the Patterson hall.
The convention will be concluded
with banquet to be given on the last
evening.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
Gives Bridge Party
for Mrs. r. j. Madigan

Guests for four tables of bridge
wore entertained last evening by Mrs.
E. A. Kaiser in honor of Mrs. r. j.
Madigan, who is leaving soon to join
her husband at Camden, N. J.
Score prizes for the games were
won by Mrs. Roy Kositzky and Mrs.
Carl Nelson. A guest prize was pre-
Sented Mrs Madigan.
Valentine favors and decorations
were used for the tables, and at the
close Of the evening a course lunch
con was served.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
State Guaranty Law
Bill Repeal Talked

No action on the bill to repeal the
state guaranty law was taken by the
senate banks and banking committee
last night following an open hearing
on the bill. =. w. Cathro, guaranty
fund inspector, explained the status
Of the fund and others appeared be-
fore the committee to attack the
present law.
A bill to limit the rnuskrat trapping
season to 20 days in March was rec
commended for indefinite postpone
ment by the house game and fish
committee. It recommended for
passage bill to permit the shooting
Of wolves. coyotes, Canadian lynx and
bobcats from an airplane.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
Barth Funeral Held
at Mandan Church

Funeral services for Mrs. Frances
Barth, 81, Mandan, were held ct 10
o'clock this morning. at st. Joseph's
Catholic church. Father Paul officiat-
Ing.
The pallbearers were Nick Wirtz,
Chris Zent. Peter Froelich, Adam
Wetzstein, Frank Hecker, and Joseph
H0erner.
1nterment was in Union cemetery.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
Ciiy-Csuniy Briefs

julius Baker. Fargo, Il attending to
insurance matters In Bismarck.
J. p. Sell Of the Capital City Bottl.
ing Works, Is ct jamestown ATTENDING
the North Dakota Bottlers conyen.
ton.
J. E. Davis, Goodrich, is in the city
for Q visit with his brother. r. NJ.
Davis Of the Capital Chevrolet COM
pany.
Thomas Cooper. manager Of the
Bismarck Implement company, has
gone 70 Minneapolis on 4 short bust
ness trip.
August Krantx and H. L. Finke.
Mirot, president and secretary, re-
speotively, Of tho Northwest fair, were
IN Bismarck yesterday.
Julius and Ferdinand Janke and
Jacob and Peter Ensz returned to
their homes 1t Arena yesterday after
2 few deya' business visit in the city
1ney report the roads between here
and Arena IN fair condition.
Roy J. 1rtdgeman. vice president
q Tho Dr1dgeman-Rus Creameries
ana manager sok tho Grand Torks
plant = epenoine few days IA IS
marck % business. He left for his
home today.
Z
=. 3. waldo aree manager 81 thu
NorthWoetern 0oll telephone com-
pany. went to Fargo yesterday. whafe
~ Intended = banquet given lnAt
night ~ company offlcia1s. ". 3. =.
Belt, Omaha, president Of the com-
peny. was IN ho1or guest.
Old Time Dance, Odd Fellows
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
New Salem Feeding
School Next Tuesday

New Salem Is to have its feeding
school next Tuesday afternoon, open
ing at l o'clock in the basement of
the auditorium. r.. G. Newcomer,
county agent will be in charge and
J. Earl Cooke and George Claude will
assist.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
Condition Of Marshal
FOch Said Stationary

Paris, Feb. o.-(R1-The condition
Of Marshal Ferdinand Foch W. e.
scribed - stationary" BY u. Daven.
isrs. his physician. after the custom.
ary Wait THU morning.
Or. Egennes warned against too
much optimism, saying. The mar.
shals greatest enemy y hig age"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08

station KS'TP. During the summer
the hand plays Z concert each Sunday
afternoon Ut the fort II addition 70
frequent appearances In the Twin
Cities and neighbortng communities
In Minnesota and adjacent states.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08

A Complete House Furnish
ings Dept. A. w. Lucas Co.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08

Old Time Dance, Odd Fellows
hall, Saturday night, Feb. 8.
Public invited.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08

Oyster Stew-Our Kind
Our Price-Try One.
A. w. Lucas Co.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-08
When yOMr
Children Cry
for 1t

There is hardly a household that
hasn't heard of Castoria! At least
five million homes are never without
1t. If there are children in your
family, there's almost daily need of
its comfort And any night may find
you very thankful there's . bottle in
the house. Just a few drops, and
that collie or constipation Is relieved;
or diarrhea checked. A vegetable pro-
duct; q baby remedy meant for young
folks. Castoria Is about the only thing
you have every heard doctors advise
giving to infants. Stronger medicines
are dangerous to . tiny baby. how
ever harmless they may be to grown
ups. Good old Castorial Remember
the name. and remember to buy It,
It may spare you q sleepless, anxious
night. It is always ready, always
safe to use; in emergencies. or for
everyday ailments. Any hour Of the
day or night that Baby becomes fret
ful, or restless. Castoria was never
more popular with mothers than it Is
today. Every druggist has it.-Adv.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

in Northeastern North Carolina.
And when the counties of Cur
rituck, Camden, PerquimanS and
Chowan had seen how easily it
could be done and at what moderate
cost, they would follow in Pasquo-
tanks footsteps and this tier of
counties North of Albemarle Sound
and West of Chowan River would
be the most fertile and most pros
porous block OF agricultural coun-
ties in North Carolina"
That's what Pasquotank'S most
enterprising citizen would do with
Pasquotank County if he owned it.
Better Drainage so Years Ago
1t is a fact, declares Mr.. Robin
son that the drainage of Pasquo-
tank county farm lands is not near
ly so good today as it was so or Is
years ago. The old time planters
were gentlemen and scholars. They
knew their math and their geo.
metry. They knew how to plan
their drainage; they had an abund-
ance CT slave labor to dig their
bitches. And they had deep swamps
into which to drain and the water
flowed off freely thru these deep
swamps. Within the last half CEN
tury or so the upper swamps have
filled up and the same bitches that
sufficed so years ago are not aie-
quate to-day.
To make matters worse. NATAL
Continued on Page q
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31
HOW THE SHRINE.
PATROL DOES
ITS POLICE DUTY

Thousands who saw the Patrols
of Sudan and Khedivc Temples
Shrine 90 thru their PAGES in the
Ceremonial Drills in the Garden
Of Sudan on Main Street last
week, little knew of the important
part these Patrols play in Shrine
Ceremonial. They are to Shrine
Ceremonial what police force is
to a city; or, a better illustration
would be, they are what the mill
tary police are to a lot of sailors
on shore leave.
One bootlegger alone is reputed to
have disposed of $50 gallons OF East
Lake Corn in Elizabeth City last
week. On at least one occasion
liquor was purveyed in tin cups
rom a pail on the street; few slices
of lemon and a chunk Of ice giving
it the appearance Of lemonade.
Where there are several thousand
males out for a good time and there
is much liquor, there is apt to be
some rowdyism. The Shrine Patrols
Job is to look after obstrepe:ous
Shriners and teach the errant
brother that he must be a gentle
man if he runs with the Shrine.
The Patrol furnishes not only the
police, but the court and the public
is not given to see the inside work
lngs. But che story has leaked out.
The wife of a certain Noble was
passing thru the hall on one OF the
upper floors of the Virginia Dare
Hotel. The husband was several
PAGES behind her. The wife was in
good spirits and looked the part.
Just as she passed the door OF
room in which number Of bibulous
Shriners were carousing, one grab
bed her and pulled her into the
room, making some remark that
wasn't exactly nice. In a moment
the husband was on the scene and
blacking the eye of the Noble who
had insulted his wife.
But the police were never called
in. The Patrol was. Shrine Patrol
men heard both sides of the case
and then, so the story goes, took the
Noble out who had insulted the lady
and gave him "a, terrible beating.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

ROBINSON is a name to conjure
with in Elizabeth City; C. H. Robin
son one Of the master builders OF
Elizabeth City and his son G. O..
being a worthy successor to him.
But here is new Robinson for
Elizabeth City, Walter G. Robinson
new manager of the Crystal Ice &
Coal Corp. branch of the Eastern
Carolina Service Co. He halls from
Greensboro and is graduate of the
University of North Carolina, class
of 1925. He went into the ice and
coal business when he LETT college;
was for three years with Tatum's
Inc, of Greensboro, before the
Tatum plant merged with the
Southern Public Service Co. For
three months prior to coming to
Elizabeth City he was manager of
the Eastern Carolina Service plants
at Weldon and Rosemary. He knows
his business and is making good
with the trade in his new field. A
zoeller photo. =:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

If Elizabeth City doesn't get
Rosenwald Hospital and training
school for Negro nurses and in
ternes, it will be the fault OF Ellz-
abeth City, thinks DR.. Rankin. And
there is a possibility, suggests Dr..
Rankin. that if the white citizen.
ship of Pasquotank and adjoining
counties do not take over and suc-
cessfully operate the Elizabeth City
Hospital as disqualification centre.
the Rosenwald Foundation may ac-'
ouire the Elizabeth City Hospitals
property. 1t would be easier for the
Foundation to begin with a hospital
already built than to build a new
hospital outright.
julius Rosenwald, Chicago mail
order man and humanitarian who
has given millions to Negro educa-
ton in the South, and whose RoSen-
wald schools to the number of more
than 1900 are found in every South
ern State, was recently convinced
that the health of the Negro is even
more essential than his education.
You can't create healthy minds in
unhealthy bodies. And SO MIR.
Rosenwald created a fund of $780,
100000 for Negro health work.
With this $30000,000 Mr.. Rosen-
wald purposes to create hospitals in
important centers for Negroes ex-
clusively. These hospitals will not
only be used for the disqualification
of Negro patients; they will be in
the main training schools for Negro
medical internes and nurses, to
teach the Negro to take care Of his
own.
Plans are already under way for
the building o. Rosenwald Hospi-
tails at Winston Salem, Durham ahd
Wilmington. Other Rosenwald hos.l
pitals for Negroes will be establish
eo in North Carolina and one Of the
greatest needs for such a hosritHt
exists here in the Northeast corner
of the State. AS ELIZABETH City is
the metropolis of this section and as
it is already a Negro educational
center, it is most likely that a RoS-
enwald hospital will be located here.
It will cost not less than 100000 to
start.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31
MRS. GUY WOOD
Wins BONUS ON
new YORK TRIP

Mrs. Guy Wood of Elizabcth
City walked away with the bonus
Of ten certificates for the largest
numbcr of yearly subscriptions
turned in by candidate for The
independents New York vacation
trips in PaSquOtank County. In
complete returns from out of town
candidates Thursday morning
will delay the announcement of
the out of town prize winner an
ether week.
Mrs. Wood who is busily employ
ed at the Elizabeth City Ch@;nbe
of Commerce and finds little spar2
time for work turned in 3o SubScrlp-
tions. Miss Edna Sanderlin was
next highest with % to her credit.
And now The Independent VII
offer another bourr5 of 10000 rolnt"
to the worker anywhere who turns
in the largest number of yearly sub
scriptions by Wednesday night, June
5th. Out of town workers NAV get
their reports in the mails Wednes-
day night and the poStmark VIII
protect them.
The independents own circula-
ticn campaign. personally conduct
ed by the editor himself and giving
every worker equal opportunities to
the number of subscriptions she
turns in. is going fine. 1t is adding
hundreds of new subscriptions to
The Independents mailing list
Eighteen candidates in six counties
are working for these New YORK
trips
Tyrrell, Washington, Hyde. Gates
and Dare Counties are yet TO be
heard from. One or more enter
prising young w!men in each OF
those counties can earn a trip TO
New York and tidy sum OF spend
ing money besides.
Into the office of the editor OF
this newspaper blew two of the most
serious-minded youngsters we have
seen in many a day. I'm Billy
Crawford. of Hertford," said one,
And I'm Thos. J. Nixon Third,
said the other.
II see that you have to be IS years
old to work for the New York trip.
said Billy. "and am not quite six
teen; neither is Tom; but both OF
us could add our ages together and
be way over the age limit"
And so the campaign manager de-
cided that a pair like Billy and Tom
Third couldn't be downed and he
Continued on Page Five)
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31
new BOARD OF
ALDERMEN GOES
IN MONDAY Mite

Elizabeth City's newest admin
istration will enter office Mon
day night, June 3 and it promises
nothing exciting to start. Only
three new Aldermen were Great
ed by the recent election, l.. b.
Armstrong, C. v. Ballard and
Bascom Sawyer. And Aldermen
ballard will not take his scat
Monday night; he is low with
case of pneumonia.
The new Board will be faced with
the responsibility of appointing a
City Clerk, City Tax Collector, City
Tealth Officer and City Manager
It is believed that the present IN
;umbents will be retRined in office,
With the exception of the City Man
,ger and it is not believed that any
,ction will be taken on the City
Manager Monday night.
But something will have to be
lone about the City Managers Of
ice and Mayor Flora and the entire
Board of Aldermen are much con-
crned about it; there is dissatis-
action with the present City Man
agcr and that dissatisfaction flared
I'D in the recent election. 1t is no
inconsiderable number Of citizens
Who are demanding that the office
oe abolished or that it be made to
junction as an asset to the NUM-
cipality. The office can not be
,bolished by the Board Of Alder
nen; the best they can do is to Try
new City Manager. And lndlca-
ions are that they will proceed
about that with a great deal OF
caution the City ManageT form oil
government as practiced in Eliz-
lbeth City has never been a success
Here is the line up of the new
Board: Mayor Jerome B. Flora;
Aldermen, First Ward. r. T. Venters
L. B. Armstrong; Aldermen, Secono
Ward, d. R. Kramer, Claude V. Bal
lard: Aldermen, Third Ward, E. G
Conger, Jerry Hughes; Aldermen
Fourth Ward, E. J. Cohoon, ,Bascom
Sawyer.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

w. FRANK MIDGETT decided that
there was enough gas to keep the
courts going in Pasquotank Coun-
ty without his own discharges, so
he pulled down his shingle, filed
away his license to practice law and
went into the gasoline and motor
oil business. He finds the business
of serving the motoring public with
Texaco gasoline and motor oils more
interesting than a mediocre law
practice and more profitable, for his
Servyou Filling Station, corner of
North Road St. and Colonial Ave,
is reputed to sell more motor gaso-
line and oil than any other filling
station in Elizabeth City. Mr.. Mid
gett started out to be lawyer, but
before he had got practice estab-
lished Miles Clark, TeXaco distri-
butor for Northeastern North Caro-
lima. persuaded him to take charge
of the Texas Company's wholesale
depot at Plymouth. Mr.. Midget
was at Plymouth for five years, but
all the time his heart was in Eliz-
abeth City. Finally he gave up the
wholesale end, acquired the Servyou
Filling Station in Elizabeth City
and has made it the prize TeXaco
station in the Elizabeth City terri
tory. Close attention to his trade,
courteous service and faith in his
products are all factors in his sue
cess. The picture is from crayon
sketch by Jesse Alan Giles.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31
THE GARDEN CLUB TO
HAVE ITS TAG DAY

If you are approached by a pretty
yormg miss on the streets OF Eliz-
sbeth City Saturday, June l. and
she insists on tying a tag on you'
be a good patriot and let her have
her way about it. And don't forget
to make donation for the tag,
For Saturdays Tag Day is being
sponsored by the Garden Club OF
Elizabeth City for the Seth Perry
Memorial Fund.
If you are opposed to war memor-
ials, buy a tag anyway as an express
sion of your appreciation of this
club that has, in a quiet way, done
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

I'VE don't have as many JUNE
brides as we used to have said
the Soda Jerker June used to be
a month of brides and roses; now
it is no more romantic than any
other month and Joe Spence up at
the courthouse tells me there mas
been a steady falling of in June
marriages for several years
"Yes," said the Bank Clerk; 'the
drug stores, better built homes ana
steam and hot water heating have
robbed the rosy month of June OF
it's former distinction as a month
of weddings
And what's the drug stores ana
steam heat got to do with it?' ask
ed the Soda Jerker with a show OF
unsophistication.
Everything" said the Bank Clerk.
June was originally the month OF
weddings not without a reason. IL
used to be that a baby followed a
honeymoon as surely as cornstalK
followed the planting of a grain OF
corn. Homes were poorly construc-
ed and full of drafts; steam heat
was little known: birth control prac-
tices were tabu and drug stores were
run by old fashioned gents with
whiskers who wouldn't sell foun-
tain syringe without doctors pre-
scription.
Babies as the result of a honey
moon begun in June were due to
arrive in the spring of the year
when climatic conditions were favor
able to night nursing. Woe unto
the mother of yeSteryear who had
to get up on a chill autumn or
winter night to nurse her baby or
change its napkin. And many a
daddy caught a cold that ended in
pneumonia and death from walking
the floor in cold and draftv house
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

AS one of Pasquotank's biggest
farmers and as one of the most en-
terprising and far sighted mer-
chants and manufacturers of Eliz-
abeth City, C. o. Robinson probably
knows PaSquotank County and its
needs as we'll as any man in the
county. 1t occurred to this news
paper that his answer to the ques-
ton what would be the first thing
he would do for the development of
Pasquotank County if he owned all
of it, would be interesting. Here is
his answer:
"I would buy caterpillar dredge,
employ competent mechanic and
engineer to handle it and in three
to four years would drain every foot
of farm land in the county. With
an expenditure Of $4,000 to $4,000
a year for it's operation and main
tenance for a period of not more
than four years, l Would increase
the productivity of every farm in
Pasquotank 10 to Is per cent an
nually; I would reduce the cost of
dirt road maintenance in Pasquo-
tank by $4,000 a year and cut
transportation costs for the farmer;
I would improve the health of the
entire county; I would reclaim thou
sands of acres of pasture lands
and increase live stock production
with profit; I would enhance the
value of every farm IN the county.
attract settlers to the county and
make PasquoLank the healthlesr
richest and most attractive county
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31

commodate 500 bathers will BE- built,
Camps will be provided for motor
tourists who prefer the freedom and
economy of camp life to hotels. And
there will be a mile of board walk
and three miles of hard surface
road from the beach development
to Paul CAMEL Hill Coast Guard
Station. This three miles OF road,
together with the seventeen miles OF
hard surface road TO be built by
the State from Kitty Hawk to
Roanoke Island will provide an
ocean shore boulevard approximate
" 20 miles in length, one OF the
longest and most picturesque ocean
shore drives in America.
Continued on Page d
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31
uJNE BRIDES AND APRIL BABIES
oJhq BANK CLCRK Aso tbs SOOA JCPKGR

on a winter night, trying to paclty
a soualling kid. And so marriages
we're thoughtfully consummated In
June.
But times have changed. Birth
control is now generally practiced
except among the poorest and most
uniformed and because a couple
decides to wed in March instead OF
waiting until June doesn't mean
that they must look forward with
dread to prancing around a cold
house on winter nights ministering
to the wants of a December or jan
uary baby.
And then too, homes are better
built and better heated to-day than
in the days of our fathers and fore
fathers. The modern young mother
and father know nothing OF the
rigors of winter nights in an unheat-
ed and leaky house with a colicky
and leaky baby. One invites no
more embarrassment to-day in a
midwinter marriage than in an early
summer marriage"
But amt babies going out OF
style?" asked the Soda Jerker.
mot so long as mother love sur
vives," replied the Bank Clerk; Ma
ture has implanted the instinct OF
motherhood strong in the fabric OF
every normal female and that in
stinct must be satisfied. The woman
who hasn't that instinct and who
purposely remains childless all her
days is not a normal woman, that's
all"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-05-31
ADULTS IN NEED
OF EDUCATION
TOO, SAYS 'W.0.''

"The cost of public elementary
and secondary education I'm North
Carolina jumped from S950,O00 in
1900 to more than Sl2,000,000 in
1920 and more than S34 4,000, 900 in
1926. And still we are not spend
ing enough" said w. o. Saunders
in a commencement address at
Ccnetoc High School near Tar
boro, yesterday morning.
1--WE are sperdig millions on the
education of our youth and neglect
ing the education of adults who
stand more in need of education
than the youngsters. For these old
sters are running the affairs OF the
State and the majority Of them are
performing this appalling task with
the educational equipment of third.
fourth and fifth grade grammar
school pupils.
"The average adult in North Caro-
lima lacks the educational equipment
to deal intelligently and under
standingly with the many and COM
plex social, political and economic
problems of our times. Every school,
house in North Carolina should have
night classes for adults, teaching
them at least the rudiment of Eng
lish literature, human history, geo.
graphy, biology ,anthropology and
civil government. Human relations
should be the foremost study in
schools for both youths and adults.
Our schools are not what they
should be to-day because in many
cases the members of boards of
school trustees are uneducated, un-
Sophisticated and utterly ignorant
of what they should demand and
expect for the educational dollars
they spend"
This was Editor Saunders fourth
commencement address this spilng
and for the fourth time this spring
he drew large and attentive audi
ence. His audience expected lin
to say something and he die.