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Evening star., 1919-11-09
FOR REET-HALLS.
FOR RENT-FLOOR SPACE.
FOR SALE-HOUSES.

A VERY DESIRABLE LOCATION IN THE
.,outbeast. now light brick home: q rooms and
bath hot water heat. electricity and gas CO.
lonial front porch. double rear porches; 4o-ft
'front.' lawn: large back yard for garden and
garage: winters supply of coal included, price
.;5 75O: s. 100 cash balance $3.50 monthly
Call at
150S Potomac ave. sc.
Evening star., 1919-11-09

COLUMBIA ROAD: PRETTY SIN ROOM
,ose in 600 block: has furnace heat; large
ard: in good condition. A bargain. only S6,2oo
'.all Main 2S76
Evening star., 1919-11-09

GARAGE SITE AND 0-ROOM HOUsE-ON
Lamont st. NV. outlets; wide alleys; lot
about 18.sx142.6: between two car lines. Ad-
dress Box 225C. Star ONCE.
Evening star., 1919-11-09
NO. 5-HERE IS A CHANCE
TO MAKE SOME
coon MONEY!

NO. GIN BEAUTIFUL
CLEVELAND PARK.
ON 34th ST. NV.
NEW HOUSE JUST BEING
FINISHED: Q ROOMS AND
BATH: HOT-WATER HEAT
ELECTRIC LIGHTS. IMMEDI-
ATE POSSESSION WHEN FIN
ISHED.
Evening star., 1919-11-09

IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
1913 Kenyon ST.. overlooking Rock Greek
Park; containing rooms. 2 baths; h.-w.h.; ;
hardwood floors: front and rear porches; room
for garage; price. $4,000. To inspect phone
Col. 1858,
HARRY A. SEAY. Agent,
franklin 7491. 7l5 Woodward Bldg
Evening star., 1919-11-09

own and will sell q nne two-family apart
ment. 100 block Willard st. NV. at q reason
able price, 'on easy terms: one apt has five
rooms and bath, the other six rooms and bath,
with all improvements; possession Of one apart
ment given when title 10 passed. Make me an
offer At once. Address Box 329-C, Star once.
Evening star., 1919-11-09

-OR SALE-PRICE. s5.O00-A VERY CHEAP
owntown home west Of 18th st. and south OF
ST.; six-rOom and bath brick house; iot
O1SO to paved :.lley: eosy terms of sale.
NROSS & PHELPS Inc. liR II st. w.
Evening star., 1919-11-09

10. ION WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS ON
kALORAMA AVE.
3-STORY BRICK: 1o ROOMS.
. BATHS: HOT WATER HEAT.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS: SECOND
AND THIRD FLOORS AR.
RANGED AS APARTMENTS.
ONLY $I3,5oo.
LIVE on ONE FLOOR AND
RENT OUT THE OTHERS
Evening star., 1919-11-09
FOR COLORED BUYERS.

FOR COLORED BUYERS.
Two excellent bay window brick homes in
the 21O0 block l. st. NV. 9 rooms and bath
each. Good yards in back. These homes at a
bargain. 5000 each. with substantial cash
payment.
McLachlen Banking Corp'n,
Real Estate Dept. 10th and G.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
"AINT THIS HE'LL" SAYS
DISAPPOINTED GROOM
He Ready, She Ready, Hour, Late, But
Marriage License Not To Be
Had Till Morning

Tantalus, son Of Zeus, consigned to a
lake of water which he could not drink.
tempted by luscious fruits which hung
always just beyond his reach, wasn't
in it with some of these Virginia
swains who bring their sweethearts to
to get married, only to find that they
have to sit up all night because the
Register of Deeds won't give them a
marriage license until morning.
"Aint this hell!'' exclaimed Harry w.
Openhaver, % years old. a soldier, from
Newport News, who alighted here with
his sweetheart Tuesday night and was
told they couldn't get a license till
morning. Miss Mamie Eugene Keith;
20 years old, also from Newport News.
who was the bride to be, didn't say the
same thing her man said, but she GER
tainly didn't look like she thought her
predicament altogether heavenly.
Register of Deeds Munden has quit
issuing marriage licenses at night, since
Representative Saunders separated the
Office of Justice of the Peace from the
Register of Deeds Office. When Mr..
Munden could issue the license and tie
the knot too, he would serve a couple
any hour of the night. Now that he
doesn't get the fees for tying the knot
he doesn't give a rap whether they get
married or sit up all night.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
AUTOS MUSTPAY
HIGHER LICENSE
$40 to $50 on Passenger Cars
and $3.50 to $65 and
More on Trucks

THE INDEPENDENT has received
so many inquiries concerning the high
er license taxes on automobiles, that it
reprints that section of the new State
Highway Act which fixes the license
fees effective June 80, 1918. Auto own
ers, dealers. garage men and others
handy. Here is the law
That license or registration fee
shall be charged and collected annually
on motor vehicles registered under the
provisions of this act; on each motor
fveflfvfe, exeept sIliet q skcks 4aatol
vehicles for the carriage of passengers
for hire and motorcycles, as follows:
On each motor vehicle having a rat
ing of twenty-six horse power or less,
a registration license fee of ten dollars;
on each motor vehicle having a rating
of more than twenty-six horse power
but not more than thirty horse power,
registration or license fee or fifteen
dollars; on each motor vehicle having
a rating of more than thirty horse pow
er registration or license fee of twenty
dollars; that each motor vehicle used
for the carriage Of passengers for hire
shall cary a special service license to
be furnished by the Secretary of State
for which the license fee shall be twice
for private use The annual license or
registration fee for a motorcycle shall
be five dollars. The annual registration
or license fee for motor trucks shall
be as follows: On each motor truck
with a carrying capacity of not more
than one ton twelve dollars and fifty
cents; on each motor truck with car
rying capacity of more than one ton
but not more tLan two tons, twenty five
ollars; on each motor truck with a car
rying capacity of more than two tons
but not more than three tons, forty dol
lars; on each motor truck with a carry
ing capacity of more than three tons
but not more than four tons, sixty-five
dollars; on each motor truck with
carrying capacity Of more than fou
tons NUT not more than five and one
half tons, one hundred dollars; on each
trailer, ten dollars for the first ton car
rying capacity, and twenty dollars for
each additional ton; Provided. that any
motor vehicles on or after the first day
of March Of each year shall be required
to pay for said registration license
fee for the balance of the year ending
June thirtieth only one-half of the fee
levied in .his section; Provided, fur
ther, that no county, city or town, shall
charge any license or registration fee
On motor vehicles in excess of one dol
lar per annum: Provided, further, that
no motor truck with a carrying capa-
CITY of more than five and one-half
ions nor any motor truck with steel
tires shall be licensed or allowed to
be used upon the State highway sys-
tenn. The method of computing the
horse power of motor vehicles shall be
he formula adopted by the Society of
Engineers.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
SHELL SHOCKED, BUT HE
SEES HOME ONCE MORE
Sergt.l Lee jackson Had Tough Ex-
lperience, But He Comes From
France With Honors

Shell shocked and gassed in the Ar
gonne Forest in France in the midst
of the heavy fighting Of Oct. Is, 1918,
Sergt. Lee Jackson of Elizabeth City is
home again. His nerves have been lit
orally shot to pieces; this youth of %
twitches and starts like an old man
is getting over it day by day and ex-
poets to be himself again in a few
short weeks.
Sergt Jackson was with the Medical
Detachment of the 102nd. Ammunition
Train of the 9th. Division. On the
night of Oct. Is he was with an out
fit carrying munitions to the infantry
in the Argonne. A big high explosive
shell from the German lines exploded
scious, but regained consciousness in
about ten minutes. He didn't carry "a
scratch; he wasn't even hit by part1-
cles of flying dirt cast UP by the ex-
ploding shell. But the next day he
began to feel the effects of the/shock.
A medical examination also revealed
that he had been gassed He recovered
from the gas in few days, but re-
covery from shell shock is not so
rapid
Sergt jackson Games nome with the
French Croix de Guerre with an ac-
bronze star for distinguish
ed service. It happened on the night
of Oct there was an explosion in a
dugout in his vicinity and the cries of
men in the dugout were heard. Sergt
Jackson with some companions located
the dugout, burst open the door and
rescued a French lieutenant and sew
sral men who had been blinded by the
explosion and were in danger of being
burned to death.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
DR.. GEO. w. PAScHAL
To Write For
THE INDEPENDENT

DR.. Geo. w. Paschal of Wake
Forest College, whose department
= The World of Moving Events
made the late State Journal a wide
ly read paper has been engaged by
= this newspaper and, beginning next
week, will contribute a weekly re-
view of the more important human
events.
>, DR.. Paschal is regarded by many
as the best informed writer on cur
rent events in North Carolina
= Readers of this newspaper will fol-
= low his weekly review and inter-
probation of current history with
= increasing interest.
Announcement of the addition Of
= Tom Bost to the staff of this news
paper appears elsewhere, in this
= issue.
DR.. Paschal, Tom Bost andW. o.
= Saunders make writing team that
= can't be duplicated in the state
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
STATEDOCLAW
NOW IN EFFECT
And You Must Keep Your
Dog Up At
Night

The new state wide dog law is in
effect and every dog owner should
famiiarize himself with it. Among other
things the law imposes a fine Of not
more than $50 on any person who per-
mits his or her dog to roam at night
unaccompanied by the owner or some
responsible person.
The law imposes tax of 50 on fe
male dogs over six months old and a
tax of 81 on all male dogs over six
months old. Dogs must be listed at
the time and place designated for the
listing of other personal property and
the tax is due and payable on October
1 of each year. The sheriff is sup
piled with tags and gives the tax payer
with tag for each dog on which the
tax is paid.
Persons who keep a dog or dogs upon
which the tax is not paid after Decem-
Der 1 of each year is guilty of a misde
more than $50.
The money derived from the dog tax
is applied to the school fund in the
county in which collected.
Any person is authorized to kill any
mad dog or any dog caught in the act
of killing sheep or other live stock
or poultry.
Persons who suffer injury to their
persons or property by any dog, shall
upon complaint to the County Commis-
sioners be reimbursed out of the dog
fund. The damage in such cases to be
awarded by jury of three free holders
to be appointed by the. County Com
missioners. The Commissioners are
empowered to sue the owner of the
offending dog if ownership can be es-
tablished.
Dogs when listed for taxes become
personal property and shall be govern
ed by. laws applying to other personal
property.
Nothing in the new law prevents the
commissioners of any county imposing
a. higher tax than that provided in the
state law.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
HARD LINES FOR
TWO BIGAMISTS
1t Was Easy to illegally Wed in
Elizabeth Bot Price
Comes High

Two bigamists, one a5saflpr, the other
soldier, were given pknit dntiary sen-
tences in the Su ass
FQuotanl county tits week. Romains
Harper Brace. age "a. and Henry
Lefferts Eichler, age 20, were the de-
PENDANTS. They got 10 years each.
Brace was stationed at the Norfolk
Navy Yard. Eichler was stationed al
Newport News. Both were married
but they had left their wives behind
and both sought new loves. Elizabeth
City was nearby and they were told
that it was easy to get license to
keep woman in Elizabeth City. They
could come to Elizabeth City on a
night train, find the Register Of Deeds
sitting up for them. get a license any
hour of the night, and be married by
the same man who issued the license
1t was all too easy.
Young Brace came here with Miss
Margaret Shafer Culpepper, age %, OF
Portsmouth, Va, on January %, 1918
They were licensed and married by
Register of Deeds Munden.
Eichler came here on November IL
1918 with Miss Goldie Partridge Lillis-
ton, age 18, of Virginia Beach. They
were licensed and married by Register
of Deeds Munden.
Both men had wives living in other
parts of the country. These first wives
found out about the new marriages
when they sought to get the allotments
due them upon the enlistment of their
husbands.
Brace was arrested and given pre-
liminary hearing here last October and
has been in Jail ever since. His second
wife has given birth to a child since
his incarceration.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
LATCH STRING WAS TOO
HANDY FOR BURGLARS
LeisureIy Took Away $500 Worth
Of Feminine Toggery

A hole in a pane of glass enabled a
thief to get hold of the latch chain of
a rear door of Walker & Company's
store on Poindexter st. Tuesday night
and gain access to the store. The bur-
glars helped themselves to a collection
of navy serge, poiret twill. crepe de
chine and Georgette crepe suits and
dresses to the value of near $500. After
taking the most choice and newest ar
rivals of women's wearing apparel the
burglar or burglars, departed, leaving
the door as it was found Mrs. Walker
thinks she knows who committed the
robbery and Elizabeth City's crack
police department has it's keen experts
of the case.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21


Night had fallen. the road was wet
and treacherous, the headlights on his
automobile were not working, he was
hurrying to reach the hotel at Mackey's
before supper was over; III the darkness
his car collided with the iron railing
of concrete bridge; the car was going
at a speed of 20 to 25 miles; when he
struck the railing of the bridge he gave
the steering wheel a quick turn to the
center Of the road, the car skidded
struck the railing of another bridge
about SO feet further on, broke thru the
railing plunged into a creek. pinning
him underneath. Such is the probable
explanation Of the death of w. Howard
Armstrong of this city whose nfeless
body was found in his automobile in
the water by the side of a bridge, about
four miles from Mackeys last Friday
morning.
The body was found by Edgar r.
Chesson, of Mackeys, about O'Clock
riday morning. The accident was sup
posed to have happened about z o'clock
Thursday evening, as Mr.. Armstrong
was seen at a store three miles beyond
the scene of the accident little before
z o'clock. W;
b Howard. Armstrong was % years old
and was employed as q travelling sales
man for D. q. Flora e zaf this city.
He leaves a wife and one small child.
His father is c. III. Armstrong, who lives
near Columbia, Tyrren county.
The funeral was held at the City Road
M. E. Church this city Sunday after
noon and the remains inferred in Holly
wood Cemetery with I. o. r. M. honors.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
AN OLD TIME SINGING
SCHOOL NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT

An Old Time Singing School, in
structed by Miss Virgilia Banks, in the
role of Mistress Plunkett, assisted by
Hon. J. Bushrod Leigh in the role of
Squire Bellybuster, will be given at the
High School Auditorium Friday night.
March %. This entertainment is being
staged under the auspices of the Par
sonage Society of First M. e. Church
South and the cast of singers includes
the cream of the vocal musical and
amateur theatrical talent of the town.
The price of admission will be 35 and
SO cents.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
= y = =
PASTE THIS ON YOUR CLOCK

Here is the Daylight Saving Law
: which the National War Garden
Commission of Washington fought
to keep from being repealed at the
last session of Congress. The Com
!: mission urges you to paste this on
the face of the clock as a remind
er and in the meantime plan your
; victory garden.
: "That at 2 o'clock ante merI-
: dian of the last Sunday in Maren
. of each wear the standard time of
each zone shall be advanced one
hour. and at o'clock ante neri-
dian Of the last Sunday in oeto.
ber each year the standard time OF
each zone shall by retarding one
hour be returned to the astronomical
time of the degree of longitude
governing each zone respectively
!: =
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
WANT 400 MEMBERS

The Elizabeth City w. g. T. U. is
making big plans for a ten weeks
membership drive, March 20 to May 81.
The Elizabeth City chapter wants 400
new members, it's part Of the nation
wide drive for a million. Sound the
Jubi1ee!' is the slogan of the big drive.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21

affairs. THE INDEPENDENT would
tell him exactly where to get Off. But
perhaps there wouldn't be so many Boil
sheviki in America trying to tell us how
to run our government, if we didn't
have so many American soldiers and
carpet baggers in Russia trying to tell
those folk how to conduct their affairs.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
MODERN MAN is NOT
AFRAID OF THE DEVIL
You Can't Scare Him Into the Church,
Neither Can You Drive
Him In

Rev. J. M. Ormond, pastor of FRS,
Methodist Church South of this city
preached an unusual sermon Sunday
night on theN subject of the Modern
Mans Authority for Religion. And the
pastor said something like this:-
1t is no longer possible to scare men
Unto the church or to drive them in
| The pick and the spade and the
shovel; the telescope, the microscope
and the spectroscope; the telephone
the telegraph and the incandescent
lamp; dynamite, Diesel motors and air
planes; all Of these things have open
led up new worlds to the modern man.
The modern man is master of the
universe and feels that mastery. He
S independent and he is self assertive
He knows no fear. He is not afrai6
of the church. not afraid of the preach
er, not afraid Of the devil.
You can not scare him with visions
of hell and you can not bind him with
an ancient creed. His authority for
ancient forms. The ordinary pheno-
mena Of nature, the mysteries and sup
|erstitions OF the past that struck ter
ror to the hearts of ancient men and
held them in everlasting fear of the
|unknowable, have no such effect upon
the modern man. He scorns your an
cient creeds, he laughs at your threats
of he'll, and in the midst of epidemics,
earthquakes, floods, droughts, famine
and pestilence he stands unshaken and
unafraid.
In the presence OF this modern man
SO many churchmen feel awed and per-
picked. New forms or religion are pro-
posed to reach hin. Learned theofo-
gians everywhere are racking their
brains for an answer to the problem OF
this modern man. And they are in q
fair way to miss the point entirely and
from this educated citizens of the mod
ern world.
After all, the modern man asks no
higher authority for religion than his
own educated consciousness of right
and wrong.
The educated mind of modern man is
prepared to grasp and appreciate the
philosophy of Jesus Christ.
The man of other centuries accepted
the religion Of Jesus Christ, but the
pplication of that religion to the every
day problems of life was beyond his
unenhghtened ken.
The modern man is not only prepared
to accept the. religion Of Jesus Christ,
but to make immediate and cerditable
application of it. The scientific mind
of modern man is ripe to welcome the
beautiful innovation of universal
brotherhood of man.
We have been preaching the gospeI
of loving one another and we have fail
ed in practice. This failure may have
heretofore discouraged the modern man
in pursuit of religious ideal. But the
modern man is intelligent and helpful
and brave; he is ready to come into the
church and help with it's problems, be-
cause he knows they are his problems
Instead of making 'over religion to at
tract the modern man, we have only to
attract the modern man to our need OF
his revitalizing and reconstructive aid
and influence in the church. The mod
ern man needs no other authority for
religion than the Christ within himself.
He will accept this authority when we
cease to worry. him with the fears and
superstitions that belong to an unen-
Iightened and illiterate past.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21
AN UNUSUAL SERVICE

The country is full of good
eye specialists and there are
hundreds of good eye glass man
ufacrurers, but it is worth some
thing to Elizabeth City and vi
cinity to know that both can be
found in this town. DR.. Hatha-
way is not only a reputable and
skillful optometrist, but he
grinds and fits glasses on his
premises. This unusual service
is seldom found except in much
larger cities.
DR.. ]. D. HATHAWAY
OPTOMETRIST
Over McCabe & Grice
Elizabeth City, N. c.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21

FOR SALE-Bee Hives and be sur
prised, R. E. Quinn Furniture Com
pany. cM.zI-tL
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-03-21

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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-17
B|TR0-PHOSPHATE
IS GOOD FOR Tim
NERVOUS PEOPLE

a French scientist has discovered an
organic phosphate which should be a
very effective remedy for weak nerves,
sieeplesSness. thinness and lack of
strength. energy and vigor.
us substance is described by special
lists as identical in composition with
certain vital elements naturally found
IN brain and nerve cells and one which
when taken into the human system is
,iolckfy converted into healthy living
This phosphate Is already widely
knovn among druggists in this country
as Bitro,Phosphate and some ply
aicians claim that through its use
strength. energy. vigor and nerve force
time.
DR.. Frederick Kolie. Editor of New
York Physicians who's Who" says
u should he prescribed by every doctor
and used In every hospital In the
variety OF so-called phosphates. those
who wish to test this substance should
he sure to get the genuine Bitro-
Phosphate.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-17
Bad Sickness
Caused by
Acid-Stomach

II people only realized the health destroy
ing power OF an acid -stomach-of the many
kinds Of sickness and misery 1t causes-of
the lives II literally wrecks-they would
guard against It a. carefully as they do
against a deadly plague. You know in an
inst mt the first symptoms OF acid stofnach-
pains Of indigestion; dist ressing. painful,
hioat: sour. gassy stomach: bclching; food
repeating heartburn. etc. Whenever your
stomach feels this way you should lose no
time in putting 1t TO rights. II you don't.
Aerious consequences are almost sure to fol-
low. such as intestinal fermentation, auto
intoxication. impairment Of the entire ner-
vous system. headache. biiiousness. ctrrhosis
of the liver; sometimes even catarrh OF the
stomach and intestinal ulcers and cancer.
II you are not feeling right, see II It isn't
acid stomach that II the cause of your i'll
health. Take EAToNIC. the wonderful mod
~rn stomach remedy EATONIC Tablets
quickly and surely relieve the pain. bioat.
belching. and heartburn that indicate acid
stomach. Make the stomach strong. clean
and sweet. BY keeping the stomach in
healthy condition so that you can get full
strength from your food. your general health
steadily improves. Results are marvelousiy
quick. Just try EATONIC and you will be
as enthusiastic as the thousands who have
used it and who say they never dreamed
anything could bring such marvellous relief.
So get a big e0-cent box OF
from your druggist today. II not satisfac-
tory return II and ne will refund your money.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-17
That Breezy Western Way.

They were playing poker In Il West
crn town. One of the players was a
stranger. AMI was getting a nice trim
ming. Finally the sucker saw II OF
the players give himself three aces
from the bottom of the pack.
The sucker turned to the man be-
side him and said: Did you see
that?"
See what?" asked the man.
"Why. that fellow dealt himself three
aces from the bottom of the deck"
said the sucker.
We'll, what about it," asked the
man. "It Was his deal. wasn't it,
Many Do.
DO you believe everything you
hearY"
"Everything hat Is S~candarous.'