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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
Deadlock
New Bridgefor
Elizabeth City

Unless U. S. Army Engineers
withdraw their demands for a 100
foot span draw for the proposed
new State Highway bridge over
the Pasquotank River at Elizabeth
City, it may yet be several years
before Elizabeth City gets that
new bridge. Elizabeth City Will
have to make out with repairs to
its present antiquated wooden
bridge.
First District Highway Commits
sioner Frank Kugler, who was in
Elizabeth City Wednesday. insists
that he will not and can not meet
the governments demand for loC
foot draw. There is no such width
draw any place else on the Disma
Swamp Canal inland waterway
route. Such a draw will cost $4,000
TO s50.OOO more than the 80 fool
draw it is proposed to use. II
have to put that additional cost
on the bridge at Elizabeth City Il
will mean taking funds that shoulc
be used for the widening of the nine
foot brick road between Elizabeth
City and South Mills and this woulc
indefinitely delay the widening c!
that road"
Mr.. Kugler indicates that rath"i
'Crntinued m Pa"c Fn"r,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
A LITTLE. MONEY
MADE ON EARLY
IRISH POTATOES
175,0GO Barrels Shipped From
This City Probably Net
Growers Profit of 7Sc
A Barrel

In spite of the fact that potatoes
have been selling at low prices
this season, farmers of this sec
ton will have realized a neat sum
of something like S131,250 net
from the seasons crop when the
crop is over, according to an esti-
mated average of S2.75 per bar
rel. otatoes have sold all the way
from S2.35 to S4.00 a barrel in
Elizabeth City this season, it costs
about $500 a barrel to raise and
market them, and figuring the
lump sum at a profit of 75c a
barrel We find that quite little
money has been put into circula
tion from the 1929 potato crop.
But not enough by any means to
retrieve last years losses.
Up until Tuesday night, July End
8l1 cars had been shipped from
this city via the Norfolk Southern
railroad and produce men estimated
that there were some 60 to IS car!
still left to be shipped this season
Figuring 200 barrels to the car thi'
brings the grand total Up to abou
175,OOG barrels. Potatoes were bring
ing $500 a barrel to the growers II
this city Wednesday, prices having
gone up somewhat as compared
with the middle part of last week
What few potatoes remaining in the
ground now will be dug as rapidly
as the weather will permit. Wei
ground has retarded the digging ir
this section for the past week ano
a half.
Seventy-five cents profit on bar
rel of potatoes sounds very ins!gnifi-
cant. but when the total is figured
up on 275,O00 barrels it is readily
seen that the grower has made
little profit on his crop which would
go a little way towards straighten-
ing him up from the disastrous re-
suits experienced last year when hs
could not even get enough for his
potatoes to pay him for digging ano
he didn't have to live
this year. Many hundreds of bar
rels of potatoes remained in tn:
ground last year to rot and be plow-
ed into the ground.
Potatoes have brought the growers
small profits this year but with
sl31 900 put into circulation II
means right much for every business
in Elizabeth City.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

Pasquotank County and Elizabeth
City already maintain beds for
charity patients in the hospital and
will continue this arrangement.
This week the Commissioners OF
Chowan and Dare Counties agreed
to send their charity patients to the
hospital, availing themselves of the
charity dollar per patient per diem
from the Duke Endowment. Currl-
tuck County is expected to come in
on the same plan within the next
two weeks. Camden County pleads
poverty and will not participate.
PerquimanS is inclined to make the
same plea. but is believed likely to
reconsider the proposition. In event
that Camden and PerquimanS Will
make no provision for their charity
cases in the new hospital, then the
hospitals skirts are clear OF the
charity cases emanating in these
counties and they Will be parreo
from the hospital except in emer-
gencies.
1t is now up to the doctors OF the
district. The Elizabeth City Hos
pital, at present privately owned
hospital operated by DR.. john
Saliba and DR.. M. S. Bulla, has not
been open to the practice OF other
physicians and surgeons. And this
is as it should be. DR.. Saliba, own
er of the hospital can not be eX-
pected to maintain an expensive
hospital with all of its equipment
and facilities for other doctors to
practice in.
But with the lease OF the hospital
by the Albemarle Hospital. Inc, the
hospital passes nI1t of the hands nf
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

DR.. Saliba and the doctors Of the
five counties will name their own
medical staff for the hospital. No
doctor or surgeon will have an Of
flee in the hospital. DR.. Saliba and
DR.. Bulla will have equal rights
with other medicos in the hospital,
no more.
The First District Medical Society
will be asked to organize the medi-
cal staff of the new hospital and
DR.. Watson S. Rankin, medical
director of the Duke Endowment
will be invited to address the medi-
cal men on the eve of the proposed
organization of their staff.
The present staff of the hospital
will be retained and its present ef-
ficiency in no way impaired by the
imminent change in management.
1t is proposed to begin operations
under The Duke Endowment on
August 1st 1929.
A Liberal Lease
For the new experiment in COM
munity operation of the Elizabeth
City Hospital (henceforth to be
known as The Albemarle HospitaD g,
Dr.. John Saliba. owner of the hos
pital property has provided the
trustees with one of the most liberal
contracts ever devised. The trustees
composed of the representatives OF
eight local political and civic organ
izations and a representative OF the
owner, have no funds with which to
operate g hospital All Of the eX-
penses preliminary to organizing
have been borne out of their own
Continued on page SlXI
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

L see a sign On your house
'ROOMERS WANTED" said the
Bank Clerk to his friend the Soda
Jerker
We'll, what of it?' asked the
Soda Jerker.
Nothing. except that I resent the
use of that word: it just isn't good
English; one might as we'll say
'Mealers Wanted or 'Bedders Want
ed. Now it may be all right TO
murder the Kings English in ordl-
nary conversation. but when folks
paint words on signs, and hang them
in front of their houses think they
should show some refinement IN
their choice CT words"
DO you mean to tell me there S
M such word as roomer in the die
tionary?" asked the Soda Jerker.
Not at all" said the Bank CLERK
you'll find the word roomer IN
Wehster's unabridged dictionary;
You'll also find the word pee eye
double ess in the dictionary, oUV IL
isn't A very nice word anu just Ism
used in polite society. Because d
words in the dictionary doesn
make it acceptable; the business OF
the dictionary makers is not TO pre-
scribe the language we should USE
but rather to interpret the language
We Use be that language good OF
bad.
And that moves me to say some
thing that I have had on my ciieS.
for a long time: one OF the grea'
failjngs of our people is their un-
familiarity with dictionary Oh 'ie
English language. A good dlctlon-
arv is as essential to a modern man
or woman as a pair OF eye giaSSeS
/ is to a person with impaired VlSloil'
"A man or woman with impaired
vision misses much of the peauCS
and interest in life by being uAaoie
I to see it. until they have proViueu
themselves with properly flttea Eye
glasses and corrected their astigma-
tism Same way with people ol
moderate education who read oooAS
newspapers and magazines. or whose
reading NAV he confined to tne ''''es
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

as school trusteeman expired on
June 30th found himself dropped
from the Board Monday night when
the Board of Aldermen, seemingly
unimpressed by his bristling per-
sonality, failed to reappoint him.
New appointments to the School
Board are J. H. Wilkins, L. B. Twi-
ford and w. C. Dawson, succeeding
DR.. C. B. Williams, DR.. w. w. Saw
yer and Baseom. S. Sawyer.
Three new policemen were ap-
pointed Monday night for a six
months try-out. They are Eldon M.
Davis, c. H. Lane and Raymond
Madrin.
No action was taken in the ap-
pointment of a City Manager and
City Manager Miles w. Ferebee
holds over indefinitely.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
The Fourth of July
In Elizabeth City

No. Thursday was not Blue Mon
day in Elizabeth City; it was the
Fourth Of July. The banks and
most business houses in Elizabeth
City were closed for the day and
everybody who could get away went
to nearby coast resorts. No flag
flying. no fireworks, no parades. no
whoopee. All was quiet on the Pas
ouotank. There is something in the
schoolbooks about Declaration Oh
independence having been signed on
this date in the year l776. but
gasoline and tire mileages were more
important subjects to most citizens
yesterday.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
CLNDY FALLS IN
LOVE WITH JOE,
A YALLER PUP

Cindy was too young, too scar
ed. too cold and too hurt to pat
up a fight when Moody Haskett,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID. HaSkett,
r. F. ID. 1, found her caught by
her right paw in a steel trap in
a Little River Swamp last winter.
And so Cindy promptly reconciled
herself to the warmth Of the sheep
wool lining of Moody's hunting
coat.
Her little heart was all pit-a-pat
and she was awfully nervous when
Moody took her into the HaSkett
home. but the warmth Of the house
was comforting to poor little baby
coon that had been caught and
held fast in the steel jaws of a
trap in the open swamp all night.
Cindy cuddled up in a little ball
in a box by the fire in the Haskett
home and pretended to sleep, but
all the time she was surveying her
surroundings thru tiny Sits of eye
lids and her little ears were alert
for any harsh or ominouS sound.
Everything seemed to be serene
and lovely in the HaSkett home and
Cindy soon decided that the Has
ketts were friendly creatures and
eager to minister to her comfort.
And so Cindy made up her mind
that the HaskettS were a pretty
good sort and the Haskett home
much more comfortable and safe
than the SwampS.
For the past five months Cindy
has been a regular member of the
Haskett household and is on play
full terms with every member of the
family, except the cat. She will put
up a show of a fight everytime the
cat approaches her and the cat has
learned to keep his distance.
But Cindy has an especial fond
ness for Joe, the Haskett's little yel-
low hound dog and Cindy and Joe
play together like kittens. Joe is
a little smaller than Cindy and the
other day MI. Haskett observed
Cindy pick Joe up in her arms and
try to drag him into the hollow OF a
stump that Mr.. HaSkett provided
for her out in the wood shed.
"I guess I'll have to keep my eye
on Cindy," said Mr.. HaSkett, "and
see if I can't find a male raccoon
to keep Cindy company; 1T really
is a shame for a fine fluffy buXom
adolescent young lady coon to have
no other male friend than a yaller
pup.
Cindy is regarded as the tamest,
friendlieSt raccoon III captivity IN
these parts; she never tries to escape
and 60 back to her old wildS; she
is perfectly satisfied with her new
environs, and satisfied with Joe,
since she has never known any
other boy friend.
Cindy eats anything other men,
berS of the family eat, showing an
especial fondness for bananas and
clans. But Cindy is no modern
tlapper; offer her a cigarette and
she turns m her little black nose
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

THE oldest house in PaSquotank
is believed to the old River House
at Nixonton, eight miles from Eliz-
abeth City. The main part of this
house is believed by experts to be
more than 200 years old. The
eldest residents of the county knew
it as an old house when they were
children.
Nixonton is the Oldest settlement
in Pasquotank County; NiXonton
was a town when Elizabeth Cry
was nothing more than a grog shop
and a hitching rack. The first
Albemarle Assembly met at Halls
Creek near Nixonton in 1865 and
NiXonton was a chartered town a
hundred years later.
Only a few houses remain at Nix
onton to-day, but even fifty years
ago it was an important village
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

Special policeman Bryan Bright
and a pair Of Justices of the Peace
Of Currituck have reSurrected an
old law making it misdemeanor
subject to fine of ten dollars and
costs for the driver of an automobile
to fail to stop at Coinjock bridge on
the State Highway. The law also
provides a penalty of $500 to be
paid as a fee to the informant.
Policeman Bright. armed with a
murderouS gun, turks around the ap-i
proaches of the bridge and arrests
every motorist who fails to heed
not too conspicuous sign that
says stop. He gets fee of Sl.50
for making the arrest and then
claims the fee of $500 for infoIb-
ing, making $3.50 for each arrest.
The Justice of the Peace gets Sl.55.
Victims of arrest are told that they
can get off cheaper by submitting
to a magistrate than by going to
the Recorders Court where court
fees are higher.
The costs in magistrates court
are s8.05; in Recorders Court the
costs amount to 1882, which means
total fine and cost of S23.82. 1t
would be cheaper to 60 to Justice
of the Peace, and there is a j. p. in
waiting on either side of the bridge
Judge Horace Brumsey at Coin
jock and Judge Graham Woodhouse
at Grandy.
But the Special Policeman fails
to tell the hapless motorist that IL
he went to the Recorders Court he
would net be penaIiZad at all. The
Judge of the Recorders Court in
Currituck is r. E. Flora. Judge
Flora says the law is a blankety
damn outrage and refuses to subject
any offender of it to trial. I'll turn
'em off as fast as they bring 'em
to me-" says Judge Flora. So Police
man Bright takes his victims to one
of the Justices of the Peace.
Great was the chagrin of Special
Policeman Bright on Monday July
18th when he herded 26 defend
ants into Judge Flora's Court. Con-
victions In the 26 cases would have
put 1863 simoleons into the pockets
Of Policeman Bright, or about five
times what this biped would sell for
on the hoof. -: u e if &
The Magistrates evidently think
we'll of the law, for there is a
money stringency in Currltuck and
they are said to be reaping a har-
vest of something like five or six
fees a day from the highway rob-
berries or bridge ho.d-upS.
Local police have no jurisdiction
over State Highways and local law
making bodies have no authority TO
make any law effecting State High
way traffic that is in conflict with
State laws. The old law in Cur
rituck was enacted in 1924 when
the Commissioners of that county
were enraged over an injury to a
venerable citizen of the county who
was run down by a careless motoriSt
! on Coinjock bridge. The law was
passed to relieve the emotions of
the Commissioners at the time, but
was never enforced until June 18th,
1929 when the Special Policeman
slung horse pistol on his hip and
planted himself on the bridge at
Coinjock to prey upon unsuspecting
motorists.
Just how long the State Highway
Commission or the decent citiZan-
ship of CurritIck will stand for the
Coinjock highway robberies is a
matter for conjecture. In the
meantime hold-up victims may save
! their money by insisting on carrying
their cases to the court Of the Re-
corder of Currituck County.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
When City Council
Turned Bclshevik

DR.. Claude B. williams, eminent
local educational authority and for
several years one of the most voci-
ferrous members of the Elizabeth
City Board of Graded School
Trustees, thinks that the city ad-
ministration has gone Bolsheyik, =
DR.. williams whose term of office
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

NeighborS are so meddIeSome
When Charles Caught of Evansville,
Ind, was peacefully supporting two
wives on .s35 week, the neighbors
I'D and had him arrested for bigamy
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
[folk Coroner Shuts Eyes, Stops
hrs, FindsNothing UnusudinAnte
Embalming Of Mrs. Garrett
70 Ccrcncr Mcdonald She Merely
n T e Heart Failure following Nephro-
Ev-Just Like That

the verdict of Coroner C. D. j. Mcdonald of Norfolk in the
cu + Garrett of this city who was emba!med alive
VII - f,raIdebyde in ST. Yncents Hospital May 18th.
moro cyasive and innocuous document would be hard
al Of the ingenuity and cunning of all of St. Vincents
dy;sers could not produced more obvious white
high boy could have contrived more plausible
y ~ am "-,r,,tor of the hc~pital staff Here it is:
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

"Cindy is going to make it hard
for me in my trapping next fall,
says Moody Haskell; shes such a
pretty thing. such friendly thing
that I'm afraid I'll never have the
heart to kill another coon in trap"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

Seventy people out of every nun,
dred have defective eyesight. YOU
NAV be suffering from eye Straln
which later causes blindness Lev
Us give your eyes the attention they G
doserve DIR. J. D. HATHAWAY
ueSet 'e. ...;,,ir, cGv.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

with Is or more residences a saw
mill, a grist mill, cotton gin, three
general stores and as many bar
rooms. Five piers accommodated
it's shipping.
The old River House has passed
thru many hands, but seems to have
been fortunate in finding owners
who kept it in good repair. 1t is to-
day the property of James Lane OF
PaSquotank and is occupied as a
summer residence by Mr.. and Mrs.
Sprigg Brent of this city.
Many legends are connected with
the quaint old structure. Teach or
Black Beard, the famous pirate who
enjoyed the protection of Governor
Eden and who made NiXonton one
of his regular ports of call before
he was captured and put to death
in 17l8. is said to have found en-
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
ALBEMARLE HOSPITAL TO
BE A FACT AUGUST lS1
Counties Of Chowan and Dare Join With
Elizabeth City and Pasquotank In Sup
port of Proposed Duke Endowed
Hospital

charter Abamarle Hospital has been applied for and
Immediately upon Trustees will exercise their
onon for lease of the property and operate
district hospital under the Duke En-
This decision night after the sent
cn of five counties regard proposed hospital had been
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05
HIGHWAY ROBBERES
i'm CURRITUCK COUNTY
Scores of Motorists Held Up by Man With
Pistol and Relieved of Their Cash With
Connivance of Magistrates

automobts using State Highway 3 thru Currituck
County victims highway robbery within the past two
Cuuck County and the travelling public
indignant officer in Curuck Judge r. f.
doing anything about it. Other officers in Currtuck arc
committing the robberies.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

Some careless woman dropped her
wooden lee with D.. r. and stocking
In tn. road ne.r 81. Lcuis, wheiL
it was found b. a taM-driver. She
ha, propably 'h>-.2 30 - - .''L 4
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

tertainment at the old River House.
No Negro will sleep on the premises,
for it is a haunted house. In the
dead hours of the night human
footsteps can be heard in it's panel
ed rooms and ghostly. visitors move
to and fro and disturb the furni-
ture; but nc one has yet been able
to apprehend them. Mr.. Brent, who
is a salesman for funeral goods and
devoid of superstition enjoys the
strange noises and hopes some day
to find an explanation for them. On
a bluff close by the river and shell
tered by ancient trees, the rambling
cid house does not lend itself read
lily to photography. The mystery,
the silence, the somber dignity Of
the old place defy amateur photo
graphy.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1929-07-05

&nd any hlS" ~ '''
[nious cHculpatiOn OF the
OF VIRGINIA;
SgATION OF THE
pF NORFOLK. To-wit;
cpts;,icn taken at St.
Hospital in the Cor
aforesaid. en- the Goth
lame in the wear 1929.
D. J. Mcdonald, a
the said Corporation.
rev Of .he body CT
Ia Reid Garrett.
r find that the said
h REID Garrett died at
&s7,s Hospital on May
b a, or about lO:45 A.
scu,e dilaJation Of the
/ following nephrotomy
|cCntrlbu,ory 10 chronic
as verified by DR.. J.
so.ge through DR.. r. L.
D.
fc:oumd or explicit point
on. a. this inquest CEN
around the fact: that
se cySroscopiC treat
Mrs Garrett the sur
attendance introduced
,igh. ureter and pelvis
1tney by catheter. one
solution supposed TO
h ! solution of nitrate
AM from a bottle so
Thc symptoms pro-
tom his supposed solu-
t!..a'a Of silver, as soon
|chsi rs destined point.
!; il accordance with
r.edure. so much so
surgeon in charge i'm
withdrew or sucked
Ish cathcter. which was
7e,riS Of right kidney.
o: the one &C solution
b as vas possible and
In same catheter in
position. washed pelvis
kidney and right ureter
PIE water. This treat
p given on Apr. 23rd.
18th the solution in a
loe.lsi Nitrate of Silver
oyered to be a solution
In and nitrate of silver
a.. solution of Nitrate
as labelled.
s: or not the solution
Fl Oy the surgeon in
TaS the same solution
ne bottle on Apr. 25. I
unable % bring out at
ss. either from the sur
Charge or any other wit
The only verification
e' 0: this fact is that on
after the operation
o'a. o. THIS kidney from
saSed. The kidney was
and examined by the
n charge and ne claims
been able 70 get a dis
CT 0, tormaldehyde gas.
mad ny attention call
The daily worker., 1929-06-18

IN issuing yesterday statement
of the plans of the Messrs. Shu-
bert for the coming season, j. j..
Shubert sees no need for alarm over
the talkies, which have progressed,
in his opinion, far enough to indi-
cate that they are helpful to the
legitimate theatre in more ways
than one. eve are not in the least
alarmed over the prospect of the
talkies injuring the legitimate show
business" said Mr.. Shubert. "There
have been enough sound and
talking pictures to give every one
the opportunity of judging for them
selves. They have created new
class of theatregoers. whose interest
has been revived in the play inter-
preted by flesh and blood actors" F"
This is the Shubertian point of
view. But the musicians thrown
out of work by the sound devices
and music hooked up with talkies,
anu IllS many dStoAo SSlediil W oS
eliminated by the substitution of the
talking films for stage productions
think exactly the opposite.
Furthermore in the present stage
of the talkies, the best results tech
nically seem to be from the worst
productions aesthetically. Burles-
que and the lowest grade of musical
comedy take best, for the pictures
and sound recording devises do not
do we'll with fine nuances of speech
or subtle acting.
Heading the list Of new produc-
tions is the new revue Broadway
Nights. The production, headed by