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v. I W. I The Best Place on Earth to Live, Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County N. VOLX ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1911 NO. 38 MOYOCK SCHOOL'S Unveiled Amid Can You 'Figure ANNUAL EXERCISES Scenes Inspiring "Who Is Who" The Success Of The! Term And TheFuturr Of The Miool Related By The Principal.

One of the Most Imposing Moyock Public School of Curri Monuments to the South ern Cause Now Stands tuck County closed Friday May, 6th with appropriate exercises which portrayed the artistic and aesthetic relations of- the sciences. Agriculture, Manufacturing, painting, sculpture music and religion paid homage to the Goddess of Liberty, when she in turn accepted the same with grace and courtesy however at last abdi were well attended by the patrons A Chance to Secure Cash Prizes By Studying The Advertisements of Firms on Page 4 and 5 of Today's Issue of The "TAR HEEL" and visitors. lrof, C. B. Garrett principal In Our Midst.

the school for the pxst. two eais gave a review of the years work. He cating her throne to religion. stated that it had been a prosperous The music was inspiring, the smil and successful term. The discipline May the tenth 1911 will long be ing faces of the girls and the proud independent look of the boys showed that they were glad to fill their pla of the school had been first class, the progress of the pupils had been remembered by the citizens -of Eliz heard such sound reasoning or help ful philosophy as Dr.

D. H.Hlll 'gave utterance to on this occasion. Every citizen of our whole country ces with the credit for the last time abeth City as a glorious day. The splendor of the georgeous sunshine satisfactory with only a few exceptions and the attendance was a decid at this term of school. wlll be benefited by such an appeal After the exercises refreshments An interesting contest is present ed improvement upon last year' Very few students have stopped before the end of the term as it flecked the newly leaved elms brought assurance and Joy to all hearts and as the hour drew nigh for the exercises determined upon ed on Page 4 and 4 of the TAR HEEL today in the "WHO 18 WHO" puzzle were served to the visitors and patrons and This proved to be a very delightful item on the to the highest in men.

The presence of these two military companies and the salute they gave at the unveiling were impressive and lent dignity and character to the The future of Moyock, he said; the contestant should set down the humbef of the advertisement, following that of the name of the firm of which he or she believes It implies The awards will be made by whol ly disinterested judges whose names arvertlsements. bids fair to become one of the lead program. It gave the young people There is an opportunity for you to secure a cash award of either chance to exchange compliments ing inland towns of. eastern North Carolina. The drainage project will TEN, 8EVEN, or THREE DOLLAR8 proceedings.

The beautiful monument is of Georgia granite, and is very graceful In appearance resting and tell the! other their future expectations. one knows how to prepare the Refreshments better than make Moyock vicinity the richest ag will be announced later. An offi Just find out "WHO 18 WHO" cial list of the names of the adver There are 55 adveralsements. ricultural section in that Part of the state. When the thousands of acres on a 'fourteen foot square base and the good ladies of Moyock.

tisers in the "WHO 18 WHO" con eaching thirty feed up to the top of swamp land shall have become Next day Saturday, was the annual and pilgrims, veterans and those- venerable in years, women and children, teachers and scholars, all began to gather on our Court House Green. The D. Hill Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confed eraqy had erected a beautiful monument on this green and distinguished son af the distinguished General D. H. Hill was chosen speaker on the occasion of the unveiling of this monument.

The parade of the morning was led the' Naval business men of Elizabeth City alone being represented. No names are mentioned in any of the advertise test has been made out and will be Used by the Judges. picnic for the school. Instead of the hat of the infantry man whose figure' crowns the shaft. The in drained and put D'to condition ricultural purposes, and settl hy going on North West River as for Use only one side of the paper ments, but in each one will be found scription is as follows: desirable will and make the list as legible and suggestions that will aid one in seek "To our Confederate Dead.

merly the children spent the day pleasantly jumping rope, playing cro be one of the choice voc in me ing, whether individual, firm or cor Erected by the D. H. Hill Chapter neat as possible. Lists may be sub mltted at this office by mall or other quet ajjd pother games laughing and poration. United Daughters of the Confederacy talking and fating the good, things Elizabeth City North Carolina Tar Heel state.

The exercises were. of a higii order and ot the school. Ludicrous and witty There are three cash awards. To the person furnishing the most wise until May 19th. One has equal the lists Ut the last nonr as in the May prepared fer' the occoslon on the extensive lawn of Mr.

J. J. Morse. City along with the visltiag company complete and correct list of names, It is with intense pleasure that savings were excluded. Morton first.

acash prize of ten dollars ($10) will On the reverse side is a chlsled The awards will be announced and be paid Confederate flag and staff between the correct names of the advertis from Hertford. The opening prayer was led by the Rev. Claudius P. Smith, rector of Christ Church Elizabeth City. The address of welcome was by his honor Dr.

Zenas Fearing, Mayor of the City thanks are extended to Mr. Hozier the use of his automobile and to others for the use of their vehicles in taking the school to Mr. Morse's Goose and her courtiers were personated for the benefit of and by the lower grades Truthfulness, honesty parented respect and ethical sen the dates 18611865. Below which come the words, For the second best list seven dol lars ($7) will be paid. For the third best list three dollars ($3) will be paid.

I "OUR HEROES" ers and their business will be published in the Tar Heel one week from today May 12th. All lists should be addressed to the" "WHO IS WHO" timents were given by the intermedi Interspersed in the exercisesof tre Vivatis longe ae sltfs heati. Disclpulus. ate grades. The advanced students day led led by the Confederate choir contest managers of the Tar Heel were sung "The Old North State Elizabeth City N.

C. Mail or send "Dixie" "Old Time Confederates" zes In the event that two or more people tie for the first prize then the (second and third prizes will be (annulled and the total twenty dollars will be divided equally among the tieing contestants. Each advertisement is numbered to this office. The contest is open to the world and nobody Is barred. LIST OF OLD SOLDIERS Confederate Veterans that formed a line of march at the unveiling of the Get busy at once and land "WHO IS I.

I and "Bonnie Blue Zeiglers brass band discoursed music at various intervals and during the lunch following the unveiling. Many old Confederate veterans march WHO?" Confederate Monument in Elizabeth City, May 10th 1911. The presentation address was by Miss S. E. Martin and that of accept ance by a Confederate Veteran D.

Bradford Capt. E. sOutlaw) introduced the speaker with appropriate reference to his greot father. D. H.

Hill L. L. president of A. M. College at Raleigh and has made as a scholar and educator his high place in the worll of learning and of great men.

The wisdom of his wordsand his bold yet true presentation of parts as to North Carolina's part in our, late "War between the states swelled all hearts with -n, honest pride. He pictured The following registered with the Tar Heel reporter. ed in line of posession and reviewed The Soldiers Their Colonel Wm. F. Martin it may he for the last time old rec Henry Brown ords and activities.

NOTICE Sale of Valuable Timber Land By virtue of an order made by J. B. Cartwright Thou II. Tulford Their W. A.

Duke J. B. Fearin Mc D. Lindsay Tlios P. Sivals Captain God grant they may go to that bourne where the wicked ccaae from 80 links: thence to the Southwest corner of the Benjamin Jones patent of twelve hundred and eighty acres lying on the South Bide of the Hin ton turnpike Road thence along said Benjamin Jones patent North 45, East 170 chains to the corner of said patent thence Eastwardly by vari Abner W.

Hale troubling and the weary are at rest. Willis W. Morrisette The magnificent lunch or bounti J. V. Brothers P' F.

Farison J. W. Hinton Paul Farison John It. Ccok Sol. Williams Charles Johnson Clerk pf the Superior Court of Perquimans Conn ty in the special preceeding pending in said court entitled T.

K. I'arrlsh ful dinner was served by the D. H. Geo. Wood II.

Chapter in the Masonic Hall and S. Henderson ous courses binding the lands of B. Geo. W. Eason plaintiff vs The John L' Roper Lumber Cd defendant1 we the undersigned commissioners will sell at the court A.

P. White Wm Nixon L. E. Satterwaite Jno. G.

Wall ice -D. A. Sawyer Saml D. Bell Wm. Duke Thos J.

Jarvis J. B. Fearing Joseph w. Spense P. C.

Creekmore the brave Southern SSIdier witn great odds against him yet with an unequaled determination to win. lie showed how North Carolina's quota of soldiers was far larger than voting list of citizens. They were it was a splendid feast. 'Twaa a reputation cf old BetJe's 'hospitable way of doing things, areputation well sustained at all times. -God of our fathers, Bless this our laud Ocean to Ocean W.

L. Etheridge house door In HERTFORD Perquimans County, on Monday June 5th 1911, at 12 O'clock to the C. Jackson, Thomas Williams heirs and others to the beginning contain ing seven thousand acres more or less and the same being the lands one half-of rwhich-was conveyed to-T. K. Parrish and one half of which was conveyed to George W.

Roper by two deeds frohi HY T. Greenleaf James Evans L. Lawrence made to see that our heroes of the South were not only great Soldiers highest bidder on the terms herein Joseph Carmine On tho Iron Clad Owenth thy hand Gregory after mentioned, the following property, viz: That certain tract of land as France's or England's great and valiant warriors but were great and good men: men whom we might well V. D. Groner H.

M. Shaw D. D. Ferebee W. F.

Martin II. M. Shaw Wm. F. Martin Merrimack J.

W. Hinton Wm. Martin Paul F. Faison E. C.

Brabble D. D. Ferebee Wm. F. Martla Paul F.

Falsoa H. M. Shaw Wm. F. Martin nl wife dated respectively Oct 4 1901 lyffog and being partly In the coun and Oct 4 1906 anl duly registerel in Home of all Nations Frohi far and near.

Give to unite us, Thy faith and fear. God of our fathers immitate as noble men and Christ ty of Perquimans and partly In the County of Pasquotank in the state of North Carolina, adjolningthe lands of the estate of T. G. Skinner and the offices of the registers of deeds of Perquimans County and Pasquotank County. TERMS of SALE: third cash on confirmation of sale, onethlrd ians.

The speaker showed how as a country we Southern people were fast becoming insulated and standing alone almost as a slave holding peo Foiling us never others and more particularly bound ed and described as follows, to wit God of our fathers Be ours forever. When the. line of march was form In six months therefrom and one- ple: how our hands were becoming impoverished: how few agriculturists That certain tract of land known as the Josiah T. White tract and Iaac Wood N. G.

Burgess James A. Mathews J. H. Sawyer J. B.

Leigh Henry A. Tarkenton N. S. Burgess A. J.

Baily Joseph M. Haskett J. H. Tuttle N. G.

Davis James Anderson L. S. Sivals L. G. Pipkin W.

N. Parker Zenas Fearing R. F. Simpon J. Q.

Etheridge and manufacturists there were am third in twelve months therefrom with interest at six per cent from date of confirmation of sale on defer F. M. Halstead Thomas Cahoon G. G. Luke A.

P. White J. G. Hughes D. Bell Tom Cahoon G.

G. Luke J. W. Hinton J. B' Fearing Thomas II.

Tamplin Caleb Walstoa B. Manley Major Sanderlia B. Barrin gton John Booth J. Fearing Tom Cahoon J. B.

Fearing J. B. Fearing J. M. Whitsoa J.

B. Fearing being the same lands purchased by ed, Mr A. J. Baily and Mr. P.

S. Shipp header the possession carrying the colors. Mr Baily bore the Con H. T. Greenleaf at a sale made by ong us: that the Civil War forced us to become an industrial race in order to develop our resources and J.

W. Hinton J. W. Hintoa Col. Cable W.

Hinton Jno. D. Witford M. N. Sawyer Administrator of Fran red payments title to be retained until purchase money with interest cis Davis deceased bounded as follow Beginning at Temple's Corner a Col.

Spruill Martin federate flag, Shipp by his side with the Stars and Stripes, surely this was as it should be Mr. Shipp was a brave Federal Soldierof the 97 New York Volunteers while in the white oak at the Line of Ivy Roach's land in Newland Township, Pasquo are paid in full: the purchaser to have the right to anticipate deferred payments and pay' all cash should he. so desire the said purchaser will be required on the day of sale to de Wm. Wm. Wm.

Wm. P. Martin F. Martin F. Martin war and coming in contact with the Southern braves He learned to love J.no.

Burgess G. W. Hobbs' tank County thence a direct straight line south 21 degrees West about 486 chains to" the Perry Turnpike Road thence Northwardly and West wardly binding Perry Turnpike Road posit 10 percent of his bid as a guar antee of his good faith. H. M.

Shaw This May 3rd. 1911 Wm. Cartwright Wm. F. Martin and admire such noblemen, so soon after the war ho bid adue to friends and loved es and came to dwell W.

M. BOND C. E. THOMPSON Captain E. R.

Outla to the Northwest corner of the said Commissioners of the Court J. T. White tract: thence binding become a self supporting people: that the war made the white man of the South by far a moreful man than It made the black man. Then in conclusion Dr. Hill drew out those splendid traits of Southern heroism in and prevails as well as that more beautiful and more -enduring and splendid quality of heroism in Southern women who man-' aged farms controlled the negroes tp the loom or made the clothes f3lf their Soldier husbands, brothers and sons: that these examples of nobleness, sacrifice and self denial were for our children to admire and enumerate for all generations.

Sons of such sires are now as prompt to tke call of our united country, should New York ntter a -cry for help or South Carolina as any with the heroes whom he had faced in battle around Richmond. At every Robt. J. B. 12.

19, 26. jun 2 Jno. R. Wm. F.

Brinkley Fearing Chamblis Martla the lines of inhabitants near thellin Edwin V. Ellis D. B. Bradford A. H.

Worth reunion Peter Shipp Is made the most conspicuous figure. GONE TO PHILADELPHIA Mr. Walter Mobray, who has held Joseph T. Spence By profession Mr. Shipp is a con tractor.

Many fine homes through out this Albemarl Country stands as the position of linotype operator for the Tar Heel has resignel his position and has gone to Phllalelphia to reeiter the secret service. ton Turnpike Road to a corner of the Josiah Collins patent of eleven hundred and sixty acres now owned by T. Winslow: thence along said patent line South 35, East 40 chains to another "corner of said patent: thence along said line North 70, East 40 chains: thence, along said line North 45 East 65 chains to another corner of said patent: thence along sail line North East 83 chains and J. W. Hintoa F.

M. Halstead' Thos-H. Tamplia Wm. Badam Wm. Badam F.

M. Halstead Isaac Hall monuments to his skill. Borned in Canada, reared ia New State, W. H. Elliott Caleb Raper William Kemp -Ab.

A. Combs W. D. Gregory P. S.

Shipp M. Shaw J. Hinton J. W. 'Hinton W.

More" J. W. More J. W. Hinton Col.

Wheelock and now lives in Tko Sunny South Mr. Louis Cox has succeeded to and when he dies he will be burried Co. A among the mei whom he faced in his position as opperator and is holding down the job until an expert mechanist operator arrives. other soldiers of all other states. New York Volunteers 97th people of Wzabeth Cifybas seldom 08tUe-.

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