The Daily Advance from Elizabeth City, North Carolina • Page 1

SON, deal with men who advertise, you will never lose by it." -Benjamin Franklin. VOL. RESIGNATION OF SIMONDS ACCEPTED To Take Effect January 24thCommittee to Make Recommendations As to Next City Manager. In less than five minutes after Mayor Gaither had called the meeting to order the Board of Aldermen last night unanimously accepted the resignation of City Manager, F. W.

Simonds. There is at present no indication as to who will succeed Mr. Simonds as City Manager. A committee consisting of Aldermen Worth, Bowden and Cooper were named to look into the matter of securing another City Manager and report their findings to the board. Another special session of the board will be called if the committee are ready to report before the first Monday in February, the time for the.

regular monthly meeting. A number of the members of the board favored the selection of a local man for City Manager. The town charter allows a salary of only $2400 to the City Manager and the city fathers didn't seem to think they could get the type of man they wanted for city manager from another town for that salary. City Manager Simonds filed his resignation on January 10th to take effect in thirty days. He later requested, however, that his resignation be accepted on the 24th and the board named that date in it's motion to accept the resignation.

Following is the letter of Mr. Simonds tendering his resignation: To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Aldermen: Elizabeth City, N. C. Gentlemen: Whereas when I accepted the position of City Manager for your city on July 1st last, I went to work in accordance with the expressed ideas of your Board, to endeavor to make Elizabeth City a bigger and better City, and Whereas I have endeavored to carry out this policy by endeavoring to modernize equipment and methods and carry on the activities of the City in the best and most economical manner consistent with the interest of the City and based on my ten years successful experience along these identical lines in fast growing and prosperous cities in the New York district with the necessary attendent expenditure of money and Whereas it appears that your Honorable Board does not feel that the methods and results I have obtained are consistent with your ideas of what should be done Therefore, I beg to tender my resignation as your City Manager to take effect thirty days from date. I desire to express my appreciation for the many courtesies extended by your Board and of the many pleasant acquaintances I have been permitted to make while here as your City Manager, but also desire to express my candid opinion that this city or any other city cannot grow and become prosperous unless money is spent in considerable amounts for public improvements, maintenance and betterments.

Sincerely yours, F. W. Simonds, WILL PRESENT UNITED FRONT Believed That Merger of Two Wings of Methodist Church Will be Effected as Result of Conference Now in Session Louisville, Jan. 17. Optimism was prevalent today among members of the joint committee of Methodist church North and South, at a meeting today that a plan to merge the two wings of the church would be agreed upon and that some definite announcement might be expected today.

SINN FEINERS TO ELECT CANDIDATES Dublin, Jan. Returns from manicipal elections show that generally, except in Northern Ireland, approximately seventy-five per cent of the candidates supported by Sinn Fein and Labor elements were successful. -0- BASKET BALL TONIGHT The E. City High School Girls' basket ball team will play the town girls at the Y. M.

C. A. Saturday night at seven-thirty. Admission ten The ELIZABETH SERVICES IN CITY CHURCHES All Denominations in Picture City Invite Townsfolk And Visitors to Go to Church Sunday Following are the announcements of Sunday services in the various churches of the city: CHRIST CHURCH Rev. Geo.

F. Hill, Rector. Sunday, January 18, 1920. Morning Prayer at 11 a. m.

Sunday School 9:45 a. m. No evening service. All welcome. FIRST METHODIST CHURCH The subjects of the pastor, Rev.

J. M. Ormond, at the First Metho-' dist Church, South, Sunday, January morning and evening respectlively are: "Obedience to Law" and "The Best Saving's Account." Sunday School meets at nine-thirty A. M. Epworth League meets at six-forty five P.

M. Everybody is given a cordial welcome. BLACKWELL MEMORIAL CHURCH Sunday School at nine thirty, E. F. Aydlett, Superintendent.

Preaching at eleven o'clock. The morning subject will be "The King's Business." The subject for the evening service will be, "Thrift and Religion." PEARL STREET METHODIST CHURCH Dr. W. J. Plint, D.

will preach at the M. E. Church on Pearl Street, Monday evening 7:30 p. January 19th. Regular services Sunday 11 a.

m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday School, 3:00 p. C.

E. Sawyer, Superintendent. CITY ROAD METHODIST CHURCH City Road Methodist Church, South, Rev. J. W.

Bradley, pastor. 9:30 Sunday School, G. F. Seyffert, Superintendent. Let our folks be prompt.

11:30 preaching, the subject beThe Fifteenth Psalm. 6:45 Epworth League services. 7:30 the subject will be, "Courage." The public is cordially invited. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH H. K.

Williams, pastor. Sunday School at 9:30 A. S. G. Scott, Superintendent.

Preaching at 11:00 A. and 7:30 P. by the pastor. The morning theme, "Evil Fruit and Good Fruit." The night theme, "What Becomes of the Soul When One. Dies?" Special music will be rendered at both the morning and evening services.

The B. Y. P. U. meets at 6:45 on Sunday evening.

The mid-week prayer service is on Wednesday evening at seven-thirty. The Teacher Training Class meets at six o'clock Wednesday evening in the Sunday School rooms, luncheon will be served. We had twenty-nine present last Wednesday evening at the first meeting. Billy Sunday will speak at one o'clock on Monday, January 19th. The public is most cordially invited to attend all these services.

CATHOLIC SERVICES CATHOLIC SERVICES There will morning be at Catholic ten-thirty Services o'clock on Sunday in the Catholic Chapel, Room 338, Hinton Building. NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETS IN NEW YORK (By Associated Press) New York, Jan. commitarrangements for the Demotee on cratic National Convention met here with Chairman Cummins, who today is later expected to confer with party leaders. PROHIBITION IS EMPTYING Four Massachusetts Towns Order Houses of Correction Closed (By Associated Press) Boston, Jan. jail population of Massachusetts has diminrapidly in the last few ished so that the County Jails at months Lowell, Taunton, Newburyport and Fitchburg have been ordered closed.

Prohibition and high wages are the causes assigned for the lack of occupants. Daily Advance CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY, 17, 1920. TO THE PEOPLE OF ELIZABETH CITY WHEREAS. It is intended to emphasize during the week of January 17th to 24th Thrift Week, bank service, life insurance, home ownership, making a will, thrift in inaustry, the family budget, prompt payment of bills, and sharing with others as some of the important economic doctrine which needs to be taught to help in the development of character, and WHEREAS, Our Government has appealed to loyal people to re-establish normal economic conditions at the earliest moment by the wide practice of a broad conception of thrift, making it a patriotic duty for every good citizen to practice economy along all lines. THEREFORE, W.

G. Gaither, Mayor of Elizabeth City being convinced that the National Thrift Week program is a movement entitled to the earnest consideration of all people, I do hereby appeal to the citizens of Elizabeth City to seriously lay to heart these important things during the present week. IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the City to be affixed. Elizabeth City, W. G.

GAITHER, January 16, 1920. Mayor. Pledge Yourself During National Thrift Week to Keep The Ten Financial Commandments Ten Steps Toward Success Realizing the benefit to my country, my loved ones and myself of honest earning, sensible spending, consistent saving, wise investing, and cheerful giving, I pomise to do my best to: Work and Earn; Make a Budget; Keep a Record of Expenditures; Have a Bank Account; Carry Life Insurance; Make a Will; Own My Owne Home; Pay My Bills Promptly; Invest in Government Securities; Share With Others. COUNCIL DEMANDS W. HOHENZOLLERN Letter Calling For His Extradition Dispatched to Holland Last Night Paris, Jan.

17. The Supreme Council of the Peace Conference in a letter to the Dutch Government today demanded the extradition of Former Emperor William Hohenzollern. The letter is now on its way to Holland having been dispatched officially during the night. 0- BUFORD ARRIVES AT DESTINATION Soviet Ark Has Completed Its Journey And Now Radicals Will Complete Their Journey by Rail Hango, Finland, Jan. 16.

The Soviet ark Buford arrived here this afternoon at three o'clock with deported radicals from America. Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, who are considered leaders of the deportees, declared that they will not remain in Russia but will return to America and save it. The Finnish authorities have intormed the Soviet Government of Russia of the plan to send the radicals across the border but have received no reply. The radicals will be placed on board locked cars and taken to Terijoki and from there across the border. MAGIC SHOW MAGIC SHOW There will be an entertainment of "Magic" given at the Y.

M. C. A. this afternoon at 3:00 and tonight at 7:30 o'clock, by Prof. Leo.

Part of the proceeds are for the benefit of the Y. M. C. A. Admission 5c and 10c.

WEATHER Fair and colder tonight and Sunday. Moderate to fresh northwest winds. NO. 15 DESCHANEL IS NEW PRESIDENT Elected This Morning When he Received 734 Out of Nine Hundred Odd Votes (By Associated Press) Paris, Jan. Deschanel was elected President of France this morning, receiving 734 out of nine hundred odd votes.

Paris, Jan. of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies) met this af'ernoon at three o'clock to elect the tenth President of the Republic. Paul Deschanel, President of the Chamber, was the only candidate out in the open; but still lacked fifty votes of a majority. Premier Georges Clemenceau went down to defeat at the hands of h's countrymen yesterday in a caucus cf the senate and chamber of deputies to choose a candidate for the presidency of the republic. M.

Clemenceau thereupon announced his withdrawal and announced his support of President Poincare. Senators and deputies, after the caucus, in which Paul Deschanel, president of the chamber, led the premier by 19 votes, generally expressed the opinion that the vote means the elimination from public life of "'The Father of Victory," Premier Clemenceau being neither a senator not a deputy. M. Clemenceau's friends are already searching for another candidate, as President Poincare is reported to have refused to accede to the demand of a deputation of senators and deputies that he be a candidate for re-election. He is said to have renewed emphatically the expression of his determination not to be a candidate.

Has Done His Duty Premier Clemenceau last night sent a letter to Leon Bourgeois, formally withdrawing from the contest for the presidency. The letter says: "I take the liberty of informing you that I withdraw from my friends authority to offer my candidacy for the presidency of the republic and that if they disregard my withdrawal and obtain for me a majority of the votes, I will refuse the mandate SO conferred." Replying to a group of ministers who brought the result of the caucus vote to M. Clemenceau, but asked him to remain a candidate for the presidency, the premier said: My resolution is definitely made and nothing can change it." Public Life Ended .31 Clemenceau this evening made the following statement to the Havas Agency: did not ask anything. I did not want to be a candidate. I was told was my duty, that the situation was difficult; that the country expected new services from me.

I believe it, but I needed the general consent, which failed. figure that my part is ended. have no bad feelings toward anybody; I have no reason to be angry. have taken my responsibilities. What more can one ask than that others assume theirs?" COMMITTEE HERE THURSDAY P.M.

To Look Into Site Elizabeth City Has to Offer For Location of Chowan College The committee appointed by the trustees of Chowan College to visit the places making application for its location will arrive in Elizabeth City on the three o'clock afternoon train Thursday. Mr. J. H. Matthews, chairman of the Board of Trustees, in writing to Mr.

Walter Cohoon of this city, stated that the committee would begin its tour of the cities contesting for the college Wednesday, beginning at Greenville Wednesday afternoon and getting to Edenton Thursday morning. In his letter Mr. Matthews, in behalf of the board of trustees, thanked the local committee for its invitation to "move the college to your beautiful and progressive city on the PasI quotank." He added further "I wish to express to you and your committee our deep appreciation of the dignifled and excellent presentation of the merits of Elizabeth City for the location of the college there." The local committee will be on hand with a royal reception for the committee from the Chowan College trustees. ALL ARE READY FOR BILL SUNDAY Who Speaks at First Baptist Church and High SchoolGiven Luncheon at Southern Hotel A special platform has been arranged at the First Baptist Church so that both the people seated in the annex of the church and in the rear of the main auditorium can see Mr. Sunday when he speaks there Monday at one o'clock to adults only.

Immediately after arriving here on the morning train Mr. Sunday will be taken by a local committee to the High School where he will speak to the school children. No adults will be admitted. After speaking at the High School a luncheon will be given Mr. Sunday at the Southern Hotel.

The local ergymen and their wives will be present. In order to raise the sum needed to finance the bringing of Billy Sunday to Elizabeth City, Monday, January 19th, the committee in charge has decided to establish a Guarantors Fund, and to give one ticket of admission to the church, which will entitle the holder to a reserved seat for each dollar contributed to the fund. But no such ticket will be honored after 12:45 p. m. At that hour all reserved seats will be thrown open to the public.

The First Baptist Church will seat over 1,000 persons and admission to the Billy Sunday meeting will be free to all. Contributors to the guarantors fund will, however, have seats reserved till 12:45. Call Chamber of Commerce offices for guarantor's tickets. -0- F. M.

BUTLER DEAD C. H. Butler of this city, received a message Friday stating that his father, Mr. F. M.

Butler of Boardman, N. died Friday afternoon at four o'clock at his home after an 111- mess of about two months. Mr. Butler is seventy-two years old and is survived by his wife and nine children. C.

H. Butler is the only one of the children living here. He will leave tonight for Boardman to attend the funeral of his father, which will take place Sunday. HERE NEXT WEEK Mr. Charles Visik, representing the (Made-To-Measure Tailoring Shops 'at (the Sign of the Cherry Tree," Philladelphia, will be at the store of T.

T. Turner their local agents, Monday and Tuesday of next week. The announcement appears in this EXPLOSION KILLS THREE FIREMEN And Score of Persons Injured During Cincinnati Fire This Morning (By Associated Press) Cincinnati, Jan. 17. Three firemen were killed and a score of persons injured this morning when an explosion blew out the wall of the Newton Spice Company's building during a fire.

The loss is estimated at one hundred thousand dollars. PLANE PILOT IN RACE WITH DEATH Mail Flyer Speeding From Chicago to New York With Antitoxin Which May Save Lives (By Associated Press) Chicago, Jan. a race with death the United States mail airplane started from here to New York this after being held for a package of antitoxin needed at Fordham hospital for treatment of three cases of olive poisoning. Angelo and Dominick Delbene, four members of whose family have already died after eating olives, are not expected to live unless the antitoxin arrives and has the desired effect. The air pilot expected when he left here to reach New York City by five o'clock.

WILL MEET MONDAY NIGHT The Y. W. of the First Baptist Church will meet Monday night at eight o'clock with Mrs. P. S.

Vann, at the home of Mrs. E. E. Etheridge, on West Church street. All the young ladies of the church are urged to attend and become members.

SAY AUSTRIA HAS DISABLED FLEET German Perfidy at Scapa Flow Duplicated on Smaller Scale in Case of Austria Geneva, Jan. The Austrian warships which under the terms of the Peace Treaty must be handed to the Allies have undergone a second Scapa Flow, but on a smaller scale, according to Turin advices. The dispatch confirms reports that the Austrian fleet had been seriously disabied. TELLING TALES OUT OF SCHOOL Admiral Sims Says Navy Department Told Him to Watch Britons as Well as Teutons Washington, Jan. Admiral Sims told the Senate Committee today which is investigating the Naval Decorations awards that when ordered to England before America entered the war he was instructed oy the Navy Department not to.

let the British pull the wool over his eyes as "we would just as soon fight the British as the Central Powers." BOLSHEVIKS BEATEN EAST OF DVINSK (By Associated Press) Warsaw, Jan. forces on the Lithunian and Ruthenian front have been beaten and demoralized and are retreating east of Dvinsk, according to an official statement. FOR SALE ONE OVERLAND Touring Car, perfect condition. D. Walter Harris.

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