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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

Argo, expected to leave Friday night
for Rochester to obtain medical atten.
tnon for their little son.
Jesse Workman delivered potatoes
in Brookings last Friday.
Mrs. Chris Doss is on the sick list.
Henry Handwerk was a pleasant
caller at the Henry Schmidt home on
Friday evening.
Harry White and son, Wallace, were
at Aurora last Friday hauling their
machinery to their new home north
of Brookings,
Mrs. John Blakely and son, Herbert,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

we're welcome callers in this neighbor-
hood last Friday evening.
Ed. Echer spent Tuesday at the
Chapman home.
Mrs. Frank Farrankop spent several
days of last week with her sister,
Mrs. VIM. Kennedy.
The County Red Cross nurse visited
Esther Schmidt, Alvin Jerde, Matilda
Lambe and Anna Lieberknight' school
last week
Isadore Evans is busy hauling oats
to Brookings
The pupils and patrons of Sterling
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15
Both Hold Performance Records
That Have Never Been EpuaIIed

In all lludSons unmatched records this i'm
portant fact is clear No ability is sacrificed in
one direction to gain supremacy in another.
Hudson is the feetest Its stock car speed
records have never been equaed. On the
speedway its racing cars more points than
any other team gained
RIt it, speed means no forfeit of other quail
tiles For in official tests, the Super-Six has
also outperformed all other types, in endurance
hill-climbng and acceleration In every motor
performance it has established leadership by
answerabe proofs
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15
Hudson Records Prove
lis AII-ROund Mastery

Only supreme advantage that others cannot
use, could account for such all-round dominance.
Hudson has it in the Super-Six motor. 1t miuim-
ICES vibration to within 1917 of vanishing
nearer the ideal than any type we know.
In the same size motor the exclusive Super
Six principle added 72% to power and 300 to
efficiency Endurance is practically doubled
How these qualities valued by motorists
is reflected in Hudsons five years of leadership
Of fine car sales Today the demand is larger
than ever.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

Kinney the misfortune to fall and
dislocate his shoulder, DR.. Rowe of
Estelline, was called at once and per-
formed the necessary adjustments.
The play entitled Teacher, Can |
Go Home" given by the pupils of
Preston No. 2, under the direction of
their teacher, Miss Eva Downs, was
largely attended and the sum Of $4,000
was realized from the sale OF baskets
Mr.. and Mrs. F.. c. Shaw were Wis
itors in Watertown Friday.
more Correspondence on Page 81
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15
REGISTER BRooKINGs, d.

Ruth and Frances Engel called at
the Ralph Seas home Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Norton spent
Sunday with friends in Brookings.
Mrs Blakeslee visited school Friday
forenoon.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

CORRESPONDENCE


Advertisements In this column are 10 cents
per line Our correspondents will take your
order and must remit at the same time.
otherwise they wiH not be published
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

Built by the same makers, Hudson's unequalled
records also speak for Essex They foreto:
performance never expected of a light car.
The prophecies now are facts.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
TROOP FIVE BOY SCOUTS, >--:
..... HELD A ROUSING MEETING

Troop Five, Boy Scouts of America
held a rousing meeting in the Y. M. G.
A. building Wednesday night to arrange
for Scout Week program. Christmas
till plans were arranged for. w. 0.
Saunders gave an instructive talk on
tsCivilization and Mankind" which was
listened to with great deal of interest
His speech embraced the history of the
world from the beginning to the present
date. 1t was fine talk to boys ON how
to be the future rulers and fathers OF
their country. Mr.. Saunders was the
first Troop Committeeman to be present
at any scout meeting and was welcome
by all. The Editor has good stuff IN
him as "a scout leader. The boys gave
the scout law and oath to him to-
| gether.
Troop Five was defeated Monday by
La score of five to three, by TrooI
| Three.
-Scoutmaster Pendleton
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
NEW CONSTABLE GOT A
BIG STILL FIRST THING
Old Trap Distillers Have An Enter
prisinq Oficer to Reckon With


Sworn into the Office of Constable OF
Shiloh Township in Camden County on
Monday. Dec. 6, Gideon Staples of Old
Trap has already recorded the capture
of one illicit whiskey still and Is not
on the trail of others. The still was
captured in segregated Negro settle
ment near the village of Old Tran Tues
day afternoon 1t was a cOmnlete out
fit. consisting of pumps, boiler. worm'
etc. with a capacity of so gallons
day. The still is believed to have been
owned by white men who concealed their
activities behind the Negro nelghbor-
hood. The operators of the still were
not caught, tho the enterprising young
constable had kept watch on the out
fit for four days before making raid
The distillers are believed to have beer
on to his movements.
It is believed that many Illicit stills
are in operation in the swamps IN the
Old Trap neighborhood and the temper
ance forces Of that neighborhood elected
Staples to the Office of Constable Will
the understanding that he would prose
cute the whiskey traffic, The Anti Sa
loon League has also been interested
in the Old Trap situation and is under
stood to have sent money there to as
sist in wiping out the distllers.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
HEAVY TRUCKS WILL
HAUL BRICKS THRU CITY
Attorney General Says City Can Not
Reduce Tonnage Licensed BY
The State

City Manager Commander loses out In
his clash with the Pasquotank Highway
Commission over the question of hauling
road paving bricks from barges or
Front ST. to the Newland Road was
started a few weeks ago, City Manager
Commander put his foot down and told
the Pasquotank Highway Commission
that they could not send their heav!
three and a half ton trucks oyer the
city's streets to the new road job. The
City Manager has seen what those
heavy trucks do to- bad streets.
The Highway Commission took the
matter up with the Attorney Genera
James NJ Manning. The Attorney Gen
eral rules that the City Managers order
is in conflict with the state highway
laws and is therefore invalid. The state
licenses trucks up to 5 12 tons. OBJ
v;ously a state license would be- invalid
if any municipality were to make law
in conflict with this recognized state
Limit. The Attorney General says that
any truck licensed by the state has 6
right to go on any street in any city IL
the state and the cities can not order
otherwise.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
YOUNG TWIFORD BRINGS
HOME A FRENCH BRIDE
Elizabeth City Sailor Boy Goes Far
Afield To Find Wife

The first French bride to come to
Elizabeth City so far as has yet been
reported. is the wife of Charles Grover
Twiford of Center street. Young Twl-
ford after an interesting romance Won
the heart of Mademoselle Armande Bras
set. a French maiden of A Cires DAunes
IN the province of Cherente Inferiure.
Twiford was assistant engineer on the
L. s. S. r. s. S Westbrook. and while
his ship was in port, he got leave and
went inland on a sightseeing tour. As
usual with American sailors wherever
lhey go, Twiford. caught the eyes of
rosnv madeInoselles, but Mile. Armande
Rrassot was the only one that suited
him. She IS dark haired and red cheek
ed and petite; and Twiford soon became
wildly in love with her sunny smiles.
The ship was most due to leave but he
laid seige TO her heart and succeeding
in winning it.
Then when Twiford thought every
ling was ready to finish the ceremony,
an awful provision of the French laws
stepped in and clouded his vision of a
rosy honey moon. He found it necces-
| sary to post a notice for ten days in the
city hall before the marriage license
could take effect. He waited impa'
ciently and when once he had made hel
safely his, he lost no time in bringing
her to Elizabeth City where no French
marriage customs could interfere.
! Mrs Twiford likes Elizabeth Cit!
her husband is at home, but says she il
awful blue when he is away at sea. Sh'
speaks a little English plainly, hayin,
learned it all from her husband in th'
last few weeks. Tho an American citi
zen by virtue of her marriage, she say
she will not exercise her prerogadve t.
vote, believing instead that it is yer.
much out of place for a woman; hav
ing heard the argument that a woma:
should make a success Of her own house
hold, rather than neglect it to interfer
with the failure and mess than me
have made of politics. ;..-... - -
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
QUINN EXTENDS THE
BIG FURNITURE SALE
To Make 1t Last Until Christmas so
AS To Accommodate Out of Town
Customers

The Quinn Furniture Company an
nounces that it will extend its big fur
niture sale started week before last
The company put a 100000 furniture
stock on sale at reduced prices, and
heavy rains at the very, outset, kept
away many customers who live out of
town, who have phoned and written the
store that they wanted to attend the
sale, but were prevented by bad wea-
ther until the closing date was over.
To accommodate these customers the
furniture store announces that it will
hold the sale open until after Christ
mas in order that all will have ample
opportunity to visit and purchase.
The sale proved very successful, de-
spite the bad weather and many useful
articles were given away free. Many
worth while reductions, were made il
furniture prices, and the display was
about the largest ever seen in Elizabeth
City. ~
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
PROVIDES FOR WOMAN
INFECTED BY HUSBAND
Woman Awarded Damages
of $4,000 Because of Marital
Wrongs

The Supreme Court of North Caro-
me made a worthy step last Wednes-
day when it sustained the verdict of
the Mecklenburg county Superior Court,
which awarded Mrs. Lacy Crowell $1O,-
700 in a suit against her husband for
damages, because he had infected her
with veneral disease.
The \ court procedure revealed that
'CPowel was divorced from his first wife,
and had committed adultery while liv-
,ng with the second, certainly furnishing
very tangible evidence of misconduct, of
sufficient grounds for divorce. Croweu
.onfessed to trouble with women in Gas
tonia, and to being sentenced to two
years ia prison for conviction of white
slovery in Virginan, where he was also
sentenced for abduction of a girl under
Is years of age.
The defendant plead that the, parties
we're man and wife and therefore one
md that the action was against the law
of the state and did not contain sufficient
Facts to be justifiable. But Chief JUS
tice Walter Clark's opinion was the re
verse:
''Old laws have become obsolete, ever
when not changed by statue" declared
Justice Clark, land no principle in JUS
ice can make the proposition in law, II
morals, that debauchee, as the de-
sendant admitted himself to be, can mar
" a virtuous girl and, and continuing his
round of dissipation, keep up his inter
curse with lewd women, contracting. as
he admits, venereal disease, communi
ate it to his wife as the jury finds, sub
iecting her to humiliation and running
her phhys for life and seeking te
.un off with his property, abandoning
her to utter indigence; yet to be except
ID from all liability by the assertion
hat he and his wife are one and that hs
aeing that one, he owes no duty to he'
IF making reparation to her for the
ross wrong which has done her"
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
HE FOUGHT FOR HIS
COUNTRY, HUNGRY NOW
Thousands Just Like Him And 1t Was
Ever Thus

. A sad sequel to the hullaballoo,
whooping and appeals to patriotism
thruout the United States less than
three years ago occurred yesterday
when discharged American sailor ap-
piled to Capt. Martin johnson, of the
steamer Trenton, and asked for a job
in order to earn enough to eat. This
sailor served for two years on one of
Americas finest men of"war, with the
rating of second class cook. After be-
ing discharged from the navy he hunt
ed around Norfolk many days for work
he could not find. Finding things mighty
dull around there and with nobody hold
ing outstretched arms toward soldiers
and sailors, as folk two years ago ex-
pected to See, he decided to come to
Elizabeth City.
He had no money, so he walked all
the way, applying for work all along
the route and asking a meal anywhere
he thought he might find one. When
he arrived in Elizabeth City he found
everything about as dull as Norfolk He
hunted everywhere for work without
| finding any. Yesterday he was willing
to take job for enough to seat, and
wanted to work his way to some other
| town.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
RELL-LOVE CASE
COMES UP TODAY
New City Auditor and Former Alder
man Had Lively Meeting

Citv Auditor NJ r. Bell and w. Il.
T.ova Sr.. a former member OF the
Roard of Aldermen and one of the city S
most substantial business men Will race
trial in the Recorders Court here this
morning for an afffay which occurred
in the Auditors Office one morning last
week. in which affray Mr.. Love is re-
norted to have been worsted.
Reu is a small, fair haired, mild
hammered chap, but supple and quick
witted. He sent out a lot of notices
to nroperty owners on Main St. who had
NOT paid for certain paving. The no
tices. letters or duns were sent at the
request of the Board of Aldermen. Mr'
Love got one of them and didn't like
it. He thought it was insulting and
went to the auditors Office to tell him
so. He told him. He also told nm
thah the next time he sent him q letter
like that he would slap the contents OF
bis bladder out of him, and is said tt
have made a motion indicating how he
would do it. Then the fun began
Young Bell caught Mr.. Love under th'
chin with a swift and powerful blow
and knocked him part way across th'
room. Me. Love recovered and cam
hack with a mad rush, only to b.
caught with blow between his eye
which set him up against hot stove
Mr.. Love made a third rush and lande'
Ion ton of a desk with Bell fastened t.
his collar. It being a cold day, ther
1 bannened to be policeman sittin
around the stove in the city hall an
the combatants were soon separated.
Mr.. Bell says he regrets the inc
dent, but insists that he acted in Sc
) defense. Mr. Love has yet to be hear
from.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
WILLIS FEREBEE DEAD

Willis G.. Ferebee of Riverside Drive,
this city, died suddenly last Thursday
evening. He was seized by an unex-
pected heart attack shortly after sup
per and died in about a half hour.
~He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Min
ME Ferebee, three sons, DR.. G. G. Fer
ebee of Camden, James L. Ferebee OF
Milwaukee, and Senator Miles w. Fere-
bee of Elizabeth City. The deceased
was II years old. He was inferred
Sunday in Hollywood Cemetery.
The funeral of Mr.. Ferebee was the
largest ever held in Elizabeth City. Y
was well known thruout this section ant
| many friends attended from all ovel
! the city and adjoining counties. Their
we're 123 AUTOMOBILES lined PIP in tn
| funeral proce ession.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
NORTH CAROLINA AS A
FEDERAL TAX PAYER
oays More Taxes To Federal Govern
ment Than Any Other Southern
State

The Richmond, Va.) Time-Dispatch
omments upon the wealth of North
,arolina in the following EDITORIAL
Figures of the Commissioner OF In
arnal Revenue just made public. bear
9e upon income. profits and miscella-
,pous taxes collected during the last
seal year, are in themselves tribute
o the wealth., thrift and progressive
,ess of the great State of North Caro-
ma. tribute which its neighbors of
he South cannot fail to regard with
>r:endly envy Of all the Southern
,tates, North Carolina paid the heav-
ast tax to the government last year.
nore than Virginia with its cities; more
han Georgia. with its rich area, ard
more than Maryland with its splendid
oetropolis. with the District of Colum-
ia thrown in. 4
..In all, Tarheeldom contributed $780,
2O6. 600 to the Federal Treasury in the
swelye month period, or >" S66,OOO,OOO
more than Texas, and nearly S5O,OOO.oOO
more than Maryland. All this is true,
moreover, notwithstanding the fact that
Carolinians boast of no great cities; no
vast manufacturing enterprises and no
far flung export trade. 1t seems to be
a fact that the whole body of folk be-
tween the Virginia and the South Caro-
lima borders are getting rich, but they
cannot become richer than they deserve
"Of course, the thriving tobacco In
dustry of North Carolina is largely re-
sponsible for the great volume OF taxes
| paid to the government Winston alone
it is said, paid more in tobacco taxes
than any other single city in the Unitet
| States. Moreover, North Carolinian
have profited heavily from their cotton
which last year brought them unprece
dented prices. Their yellow pine forest
constitute another great asset, as d
their humming cotton mills, ands thei
expanding trucking industry.
i Here's hoping that the down nom
ers" will prosper more this year tha'
/ last and more next year than this. The
4 are an. Industrious people, resourcefu
and farseeing. Also they are among tn
shrewdest traders in the world.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
A LETTER FROM THE FORMER
PASTOR OF CITY ROAD CHURCH

Rev. J. w. Bradley who was formerlg
pastor of City Road Methodist Church,
this city, but who is now in Durham.
writes the following letter to- this news
paper this week:
sarhe best thing we have had from
Elizabeth City since our arrival at Dur
ham. is a copy of THE 1NDEPEN-
DENT. The Advance has not advanced
as yet. ,.-.
We were gladly received and are com
fortably fixed We think often OF our
friends in Elizabeth City. Many thanks
TO several Of them for tokens of thei1
esteem in the shape of presents and else
We have nothing but love in our hearts
| for the people. of Elizabeth City; more
FOR some than for others however,
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
PASQU0TANK IS
NEAR AVERAGE
Per Capita Increase of Taxables
of State 1873, Pasquotank
176

- L. der Macmillan of the Depart
ment of Rural Social Science of the Uni
yersity of North Carolina has compiled
an interesting table showing the per
cent of increase of per capita taxables
in North Carolina under the Revalua-
ton Act. His compilation is based up
on the report of the State Tax Com
mission and on the 1920 Census of Pop
ulation. The increase per capita for
the entire state is 1873 per cent. 1t will
be interesting to readers of this news
paper to know how the increase in the
counties in this district compare with
the rest of the state. There are only
two counties in the First .Congre ssional
District that are rated above the state
average. Those counties are Beaufort
with a nincrease of 241 per cent and
Dare with an increase of 210 per cent.
Fasquotank, which opponents of the Re
valuation Act in this county have de-
clared has been over assessed, shows an
increase of 176 per cent, against the
state average of 1873 per cent.
The percentage of all the counties in
this district follows:-
b.. -
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
CAPTAIN JOHN A. NELSON is
NEW FISH COMM MlSSIONER

Of interest to the fishermen of North
Carolina is the election of a new Fish
Commissioner. Captain John A. Mel
son of Morehead City, who for man.
wears has been assistant fish commits
s;oner has been elected to succeed Com
missioner J. x. Dixon resigned. Cap
tain. Nelson has been connected with the
work for many years and knows the
duties of his Office.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
FIRE AT GINNING PLANT
DESTROYS MUCH FLOUR

Fire Wednesday night at the plant OF
the Farmers Ginning and Produce Go;
resulted in a loss of about $1,000. The
fire department responded promptly and
except for it's efforts, the plant "ouio
have been a total loss. About 5O bar
rels of flour was damaged by fire and
water, and the plant is slightly Grip
pled since the fire.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
MAY MAKE THIS CITY
A GREAT OIL STATION
Gulf Refining Co. Reported to Have Plans to Run
From Cape Fear to Hampton Roads

This newspaper learns thru a
source that the
Gulf Refining Co., one of the
large oil producing and distribut-
ing companies of the southeast,
with head, offices at Pittsburgh,
Pa, has plans to establish an i'm
mense oil station at Elizabeth
City with pipe line connections.
The company has no Office or re-
preventative in this vicinity at
the present time and the report
cannot. be verified locally. This
newspaper gets it's information
from a reliable party who was
in conversation with one connect
ed with the Gulf Refining Co., in
Pittsburgh within the past week
The immediate plans of the
company, call for an oil tank of
100000 gallons capacity to be
supplied by pipe line which will
tap the companies main line
somewhere in Virginia or Mary
and. The larger centers of the
country are already supplied
with oil in that way, the oil be-
ing piped hundreds and even
thousands of miles from the oil
fields and refineries direct to oil
stations in the east. A pipe line
| to Elizabeth City is the geogra-
phica1 center. Light draft tank
ships, taking oil from a station
here, could supply the Hampton
Roads territory to the north and
the North Carolina intracoastal
country as far south as Whining.
ton.
The Gulf Refining Co. is al
ready established at Wilmington
and has, an immense trade in that
vicinity. But if the company
| planned to run pipe line to Will
r1ington this line would be tco
remote from the Hampton Roads
territory in which the companr
is likewise interested. For TIC
same reason a pipeline into Nor
ok would be too remote from
the Wilmington territory. Eliz-
abeth City is the logical midway
point fo ran oil station to sup
ply a territory radius embrac-
ng Wilmington and Norfolk.
Elizabeth City has already
1 been recognized as an oil distri-
buting center of great possibili-
ties by the Texas Co. which re-
d >cently erected tanks here having
d I total capacity of 100000 gal
ions. These tanks were com
: p1eted last spring, but have moi
q yet been filled. They will be fill
o ed after Jan. 1, 1920, after which
E, time the Texas Co. will extenc
- ~ the radius of its operations.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
AN INEXPENSIVE GIFT

Send THE INDEPENDENT for a
year to some distant friend or kinsman
who would like to hear more often from
the old home town and vicinity. You
don't write them as often as you should
perhaps. THE INDEPENDENT will
carry them the news for you every week
Tor year and they will appreciate it.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
"TRENTON" IS
AGAIN ON MANTEO Run

The steamer Trenton which has been
off the Manteo route for several days
has resumed it's schedule since Tuesday
of this week, after having undergone ex-
tensive repairs Reports that the Tren-
ton would be permanently replaced by a
smaller boat are discountenanced since
business has picked up considerable and
Roanoke Islanders seem very much dis
satisfied with other than steamer ser
vice.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-12-17
G. w. TWIDDY STILL ILL

G. W. Twiddy, who was stricken i'll
with heart trouble is still in bed and his
condition does not seem to improve. He
is unable to meve around IN bed with
out help.