Young People to Hold Own Dances Through Cotillion Club, July 11, 1924

A Cotillion Club. . . And Younger Set Will Have No More Imported Musicians

Elizabeth City has a new Cotillion Club. Tired of the expense of privately conducted script dances and imported orchestras, a number of young people got up a dance a week ago and employed an orchestra made up entirely of local talent. the dance cost about one third what the usual subscription dance costs, and the local orchestra actually gave better music and more satisfaction than the average imported aggregation of “jazzicians.” (That’s a new word of our own coinage.)

And so instead of waiting for some private individual to get up the next dance and charge the boys four to five dollars a piece, the younger set organized a dance for the night of the Fourth. And then someone though of a permanent organization and the Elizabeth City Cotillion Club with a membership of about 40 is the result. The officers of the club announce that all dances under the auspices will be adequately chaperoned and whiskey and vulgarity will not be tolerated.

The officers of the club are: Frank Dawson, President; Rudolph Spence, Vice-President; Haywood Duke, Secretary; and Guirkin Cook, Treasurer.

From page 7 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, July 11, 1924