Utterly worn out trying for eight years to make a hotel out
of the Southern Hotel building in Elizabeth City, C.T. Bennett, considered one
of the best hotel men in the state, has thrown up the job and will retire
January 1, 1921. He has no plans for the future. His chief concern for the
present is to get out and let some one else try it. Mr. Bennett says that his
troubles have not been confined to the miserable building alone, but that
competent hotel labor can not be induced to work in Elizabeth City in such a
hotel. According to Mr. Bennett, not a dollar in permanent improvements has
been made on this dilapidated building in eight years. The Southern is
Elizabeth City’s leading hotel and a positively bad advertisement for an
otherwise progressive and beautiful town.
The owner of the building, E.F. Aydlett, is advertising for
a new tenant to succeed Mr. Bennett. Mrs. Cassie Morrisette of this city has
already applied for the lease.
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