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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17
]iBtrH CITY BOY
"tIS TRIP TO HAWAII

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'4"'n. OF NJ. IN Parsonage
~ '''E who Recently enlisted
'S'iar Army. sailed We'd
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17
VALUES RISING
In CITY, LAND
SALES REVEAL
Property That Brought $4,000
Had Been Offered for &c.
900, Two Hours Earlier

The sale OF the Fearing prop
ertv to be conducted at ten
O'Clock, Monday morning, Sep
tembcr 20. will most likely re-
ceive a decided impetus as a
result of the sale of the Lam
bert property, which was held
Tuesday of this week. The
sale of the Lambert property
revealed that Elizabeth City
real estate is experiencing a
tremendous rise in value.
A tract of eight acres Of land con-
tanning 10 city lots. OH the River
front sold at public auction, brought
in the neighOrhOod Of $4,000 when
subdivlded and sold by the Walter
( Gurley Auction Company Of Kill
ston. Two hours before the sale,
W. Il. Lambcr owner OF the prop
erty was offering the entire lot for
$4,000 to anybody who would take
it off his hands.
The Walter & Gurley Auction
Company, hustllng kinston realtors,
came into town, advertised the sale
sufficiently to let the general public
know that the property was avail
able. gave away some cedar chests
to attract crowd, and then sold
the property for nearly $2O.OW.
Among the largest buyers were two
of the city's younger business men,
J. ii. Leroy, Jr., prosecuting at
torncy for Pasquotank County, and
W. II. Gather, Treasurer of the
Auto L. Gas Engine Works, who are
looking ahead to the time when they
will want to build modern and plea
SAINT homes for themselves. They in
vested to the tune Of $1,000 apiece
in the property. Among other pur'
chasprs of the property were Miss
Carrie Staples. +. Webb Williams
J. Frank Brothers. l.. B. Jennette
J. Il. Perry, II. p. Williams, Mrs
Continued OH page sIx)
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17

lrng been favorite Sunday after
noon resort for hundreds of motor
lists III Carrituck, Camden and Pas
uuotank counties and with hard
surface highway all the way from
Elizabeth City to Currituck c. II.
it is now enc of the most accessible
Of places.
As Il roadside lunch room and
comfort station, the OvcrtOn pavil-
lion will he hailed with satisfac-
ton hy hundreds OF tourists.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17

LOST Saturday afternoon Sept. IL
on poindeXter or Water Street or
Camden Bridge one black travelling
bag containing ladies wearing ap
uurl. from front right hand fender
OF Ford Car. Reward offered If re-
turned TO STANDARD DRUG CO.
cr THE INDEPENDENT. II
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17

Because you can see well, it's no
reason your headaches are not ca''S-
ed by your eyes. Sc r. -Ia'h-
W.. -
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17
.-
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AND
i, Are We Coming To?
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$50
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The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17

And those who have taken stock
in the new hotel and think they
c,n treat their obligation lightly
are going to find cold comfort in a
community of nearly 800 fellow pa
triots who have put their money III
to the hotel. The prompt pay stock
holders, who are the large major
ity. have little sympathy for the
follow who expects them to carry
,bair own load and his also.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17

Wasted nerve energy from eye
strain makes nervous, lrrl'ap'e
school children. Have their eyes
cyominod before sending them 10
... rnrI nr " IIathnway ,'H
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-09-17

gackwardness in children is often
caused by defective vision due 10
neglect in consulting an eye special
ct sce nr. 7. Y. hathaway 21"
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-08


~
accidents United
available estimated that 2260
their lives by automobiles $4,000 human life is the lowest
economists.
annually
show a
No points
the Injured delays by accidents
vehicles
accidents
into the reckoning the total figure would surely be doubled
or $1113,T50OOO
cnethird Of the much
finally
Chicago realty valuation
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Queer Laws Of cravitatior.

A man falling from a three-story
building in New Orleans wei not fall
as fast as he would if he were in New
York City. In fact, in hardly any two
places will hs fall with the same
speed. This is because as we go to-
ward the equator the force of gravi-
tation gets less, and consequently the
acceleration of a falling body be-
comes less, and the force of impact is
therefore less.
While it does not make very much
difference in the injury to person
falling from height, it does make
d difference in other things. Take a
rifle and fire it exactly horizontally,
and If the gun is sixteen feet, above
The ground, say at New York, the
bullet fired from such rife will
strike the ground in exactly one
second after it leaves the rifle. If the
bullet has a horizontal velocity Of a
thousand feet a second it win strike
the earth exactly 1000 feet away.
Let us take the same rife to a place
where the force Of gravity is not the
same as at New York, but good deal
smaller, say two-thirds smaller. We
ind that If the gun Is placed as be-
fore and absolute horizontal, the bull
let will not fall the sixteen feet in one
second, but will take over one and a
half seconds t fall. thus enabling the
bullet TO be in the air, during that
length of time. Therefore it will
strike the ground 1900 feet away.
Thus it Is seen that the range Of
rifle is increased as 1t is taken toward
the equator.
OF course. there IL no place on
earth where the force Of gravity Is
two-thirds smaller than at New York,
but there are many places where the
difference il considerable enough to
affect slightly the range Of rifles.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-08
q WATER PURIFIED BY OZONE
How Nice, rance, Gets a eermIess
Supply for Drinking.


How Nice, rance, Gets a eermIess
Supply for Drinking.
Consul William Dulany Hunter, of
Nice, France, in a report to the Blu,
reau Of purifying that city's water
supply by the use Of ozone. He says:
@As the water used for drinking
and other purposes was considered to
be unwhoIesome, a new method Of
steriliz ton has been adopted. There
Is an electric power plant worked by
water turbines, the force being the
water which is afterward sterilized.
The two dynamos are run separately,
so that there can be no stoppage
while one of them is being cleaned
or repaired. The force produced is
40 volts, 500 periods a second, which
is transformed into an alternating
current, with a potential power Of
1900 volts. This high power cur
rent is conducted to so-called ozone
battery. Each of the five batteries
composing system consists of three
vertical copper plates two feet square
and one and one-half inches thick,
With a space of eight inc, es between
each. In each of these spaces there
is a pair of glass sheets. between
which the electric sparks decompose
the air, which is forced through them
by sucking machine. The decom-
posed air consists of ozone and azotic
acid. The azotic acid is retained and
~ fIok hD
passing the decomposed air through
vertical pipe containing charcoal
dust and pieces Of cement. The
water, under a pressure of fall of
twelve feet, flows through system of
earthen tubes about one inch in di-
ameter and having thirty-three holes
each; these tubes pass though a
space filled with ozone, which the
water absorbs.
"After this first process of sterili-
cation the water flows into a tank in
which there is a wire netting support
ing about three feet of pebbles. These
pebbles divide the water so that it
falls like a heavy rain to the bottom
of the tank, and a strong ozone cur
rent, coming from the sides of the
tank, is absorbed by the falling water.
The ozone is then extracted by having
the water fall on stone steps. Medi-
cal authorities declare that after hay
ing undergone this process water is
absolutely germ free and that it is
impossible to produce any kid of
germ CULTURE in it.
1.-TWO ozore plants were built in
1908; one of them gives an output of
1851 gallons a second and the other
1922 gallons. Each of these plants is
composed OF two separate Systems, so
that there can be no possibility of
a shortage of water. A new plant is
under construction which is to be
large enough to supply all the towns
and cities between Nice and Mentone,
a distance of twenty-four miles. New
waterworks are also to be constructed
in the near future at both Cannes and
Grasse.'
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-08
HOW DO THEY KNOW

Do animals and birds have within
them some instructive consciousness
of time? Naturalists believe that
they do, and many well-known facts
observed by different men in different
places lend color to that view.
The oriole arrives in Massachu-
sets every year about the 10th day
of May. paying little attention to diff
ferences of weather. He may have
his late seasons and his early sea-
sons, but the very large number Of
years in which his arrival has been
noted on the 10th day indicates that
his chronological machinery, like that
of a cuckoo-clock, pops him into view
at a given moment.
Birds that migrate southwark early,
not waiting for frost or cold winds,
also seem to be aware when the date
has arrived for their departure. Many
kingbirds, for instance, my be seen
in Massachusetts on the last day of
August. but very few are ever seen
after the FIRST day OF September.
The woodchuck knows when the
time has come for him to den up"
He not only feels the necessity Of
rolling himself up In his own sustain
ing fat and going to sleep for the
winter, but he feels 1t at particular
time, quite regardless of the state of
the weather. Woodchucks have been
domesticated, and allowed to sleep in
q warm place, WITH all the food they
needed, yet they Adenned up" when
the regular time came for them to
do so.
They awake in the spring with
much the same regularity. The
ground hog legend is ridiculous. 1t
is, of course, unreasonable to suppose
that in a country like ours, with
range of climates from the semi
tropical to the completely arctic,
creature will come out of his hole
everywhere on the second day of Feb
ruary and then regulate his future
conduct according to the weather on
that day, staying out if it be bad and
going back if it be good.
But the legend properly does not
belong to the woodchuck, but to the
badger. and to the European badger
at that, and, moreover, the Germans
give us a version exactly opposite to
that which is most current. They say
that the badger peeps out of his hole
an Candlemas day and draws back
when he finds snow shining, not the
sun. The persistence OF the wood
chuck legend may thus be traced to
the regularity Of the chuck s European
relative.
A naturalist who has studied this in-
terestfng characteristic of animals
tells story, from his own observa-
ton, which seems to show that some
creatures may have still more
sense of time than is indicated by the
regularity Of their migrations and
hibernations. He once enjoyed the
acquaintance of mouse which, at
exactiy,a Quarted before four o'clock
every afternoon was in the habit of
coming out al0ng a wainscoting and
making his way to a pot OF paste on
the table, the crust of which he then
proceeded to nibble No "suburbanite,"
having his train In mind, could be
more regular in arriving at his break
fast table than this tame mouse was
in coming for his daily nibble of
paste.
How did the mouse know when it
was quarter of four? The naturalist
could not answer the question, but he
is certain that the little creature had
some way of measuring.
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fifteen the pied when the number fatal accidents
deaths and given the latest mortality figures prepared
mortality records About 1900 conceded
killed these only third 2e45 it
fema
who
annually figures
onetrd ssSe2
injured we're under years
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-08
RureIarIy a Poor LIvInp.

at is impossible as well as I'M
profitable to send all scoundrels to the
Penitentiary. l am not particularly
anxious to send any of them there.
I am so hard to amuse with the suf-
ferings of human beings that 1 get no
fun at all out of thes thought of even
a burglar punished for his sins. If
he is a persistent burglar, practicing
his art in my neighborhood, am glad
to have him removed. But don't care
where he is removed to. / might be
in favor of the government paying
him enough to make it worth his
while to leave off burglaring. It
wouldn't cost much. Picturesque en-
Payments seldom pay well. Likely
piracy and bribe-taking, it is an ex-
tremely unremunerative employment.
The average income of an indepen-
dent gold miner, working twelve
hours a day and changing his shirt
once a month, is about $1.85 day.
should say that the average income
of an ordinary, industrious burglar,
such craftsman as might call on
YOU or me, after deducting the cost
of masks, jimmies, chloroform, revol-
vers, ETC., is rather less than this.
The statistics are, of course, hard to
get at. The modesty of burglars is
proverbial, but from personal ac-
uuaintance among them while l was
a newspaper reporter know they are
underpaid. They are perpetually in
straits for ready money; they live in
poor surroundings; their children are
badly clothed. Alcoholism does not
account for their condition, for they
must be abstemious during working
hours. They are not wasteful or ex-
trayagant. Only insufficient means
can be the cause of their habitual
dependency and an air Of apprehen-
sion about the future so incongenial
with the supposed romantic nature of
their calling that it might better be-
come a widow or orphan whose funds
are safely invested in some OF the
magnificent properties listed on the
New York Stock Exchange. Of course,
a combination of burglary and gold
mining might be profitable. 1t has
been so in the past. And burglar
who could get into such an enterprise
as a New York street railway COM
pany might grow very rich. Or he
might be ashamed to take the money.
But putting all questions of morals
aside, l could not conscientiously ad-
wise any young man commencing life
to take up burglary as a profession.
With the greatest talents, he could
not expect to make a fair living. The
most proficient and successful burg
lar / have known, man would scorn
to break into private residence, but
confined himself to the strictly COM
mercial and conservative business of
safe-blowing, was lad al the end of
his career to take position as mes
senger at race track
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-08


the
accidents No available for the
3O2S fatalities occurring
months Of 1925 covering population Of thrtyone million
classified
according victims pedestrians III
with horse vehicles AZ with
trains and IA per
abolition Of unguadd grade crossings The
alarming calls
90 his part the careful drxak
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-04-08

A woman can't be happy nlless
she trusts the man she loves, and
he isn't to be trusted the minute abe
does il ..- s.au..a..s..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-28
WANTED
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june Is, July 3-l0x
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-28
WEATHER CONDITIONS

: AS a result of low pressure
: over the eastern portion of
: the Gulf of Mexico there were
showers in the south Atlantic
: and east Gulf States, heavy on
: the Carolina Georgia coast
) and in northern Florida, and
: copious in southern Florida.
Fair weather prevailed else
where east of the Rocky
; Mountain plateau although
moderate disturbance is over
the Dakotas. Except the south
Atlantic and east Gulf coasts
clear skies are general this
morning. Pressure is highest
over the Ohio Valley and
lower Lake region.
While temperatures are
slightly below the seasonal
average over the eastern por-
ton of the country, they are
abnormally high in the ex-
treme upper Mississippi Val
ley.
Moderate southerly and
westerly winds are looked for
tonight and Tuesday over the
Florida Keys.
H. Il. BOYER,
Official in Charge. !
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CONVENTIONS OPENING
TODAY

H'#
PHILADELPHIA National
Education Association.
PHILADELPHIA American
Institute of Homeopathy.
PHILADELPHIA Interna-
tional Association of Civitan
Clubs.
OMAHA. Neb.-Women's Over
seas Service League.
MINNEAPOLIS American
Home Economics Association.
CHICAGO = American Seed
Trade Association.
SAN FRANCISCO - American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
San FRANCISCO - American
Optometrists' Association.
LOUISVILLE American Oste-
opathic Association.
LAKE LOUISE, Alta.-Alpha
Chi Omega National Sorority.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-28

An automobile weighing only
100 pounds has been built for
racing in England and is expected
to make IT'S miles an hour.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-28
Flashes of Life


(By Associated Press1
PHILADELPHIA Any young
man or young woman seeking the
ideal mate has less chance than a
poker player has to draw a royal
straight flush, which is about one
in q million. That is the conclu-
sion of Professor Karl Greenwood
Miller Of the University of Penn
sylvania after questioning thou
sands of college students on their
ideal future partners.
NEW YORK-Girls who are
right up to date have to be careful
At Coney with their bathing suits.
The new black and white style
with the upper portion tucked in
TO a roomy neither is taboo. Of
100000 bathing suits worn at the
Island on the first big Sunday of
the summer, rs were of nature
70 cause arrests.
CHcAGO-The owner of the
longest name in Chicago is dead.
He was Joe Friandafilasutouskos,
long time proprietor of a shoe
shining shop.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-28
ST. PETERSBURG MAN
HEARD BY JURY
CONTINUED from rage u


ested in Florida real estate at
Jacksonville, Pensacola and other
points.
His entry into real estate in
Florida was not his first, Elliott
having attempted a drainage pro-
ject in Louisiana soon after he
left the employ of the Hnited
States Steel Corporation.
An Indictment alleging failure
to pay 100000 income tax in
1924 growing out of his real es.
tate operations and a subsequent
attachment levied on his bank ac-
count is still pending against Ell.
lott in federal court, internal
revenue officers here said.
Heavenly Flowers" is the name
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-28

Commensurate
and Elizabeth; 50 ri. on Eliza.
beth, 100 IT. 6 in. on Southland.
Easy payments. Address p. o.
Box $50. marli
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REAL ESTATE

BARGAIN LOTS on Grinell street.
loo Ct. . in. by les #. 6 in:
reasonable price. Address p. O.
Box %. mar III
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LosT

LOST-~A lot of comfort, If your
home is not furnished with avn
ingS. Better see us. First Tent
4 Awning Manufacturing &C..
phone 1S4. Margaret and Flem-
ing. June 24-Gt
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-23
State Legion Auxiliary
Committee Heads Chosen
President Mrs. Bishop of Thief
River Falls, Names Women to
Head 1927 Work.

Whereas Minnesota Legion state Of
ficers take office upon election in Au-
gust, Gopher Legion Auxiliary depart
ment leaders, while elected in August,
take office on the following January
LIST. At Minnesota's 1926 convention
in Mankato, Mrs. j. M. Bishop of
Thief River Falls, was elected to sue
coed Mrs. Milton Spencer of Winona
next January LIST. For 1927, Mrs.
Bishop announces the following APP
pointments:
Chaplain Mrs. w. H. Miller, Mime
apolis; Historian DR.. Helen Hughes
Hielscher, Mankato; Constitution Com
mittee Chairman DR.. Hielscher;
Americanism, Mrs. H. w. Haislet, st.
James; Child Welfare, Mrs. Michael
Bowling, Olivia; Colony Activities,
Mrs. Julia Williams. Forest Lake;
Cooperation, Mrs. C. C. Butler,Vir-
ginia; Emblem, Miss Ida Sherken-
bach, Shakopee.
F. I'D. A. c., Mrs. Jay HORNED, Au-
stin; Finance Chairman, Mrs. A. v.
Denman, Mankato, with Mrs. Herbert
Meyers, st. Paul, and Mrs. John Sui
Ivan, Minneapolis. Gold Star, Mrs.
E. A. Lewis, Long Prairie; Guardian
ship, Mrs. F. A. Leicher, Luverne;
Legislation, Mrs. w. D. Villars, st.
Paul; Memorials, Mrs. John trust,
Glencoe; Music, Mrs. Earl Swain,
Minneapolis.
Poppy, Mrs. Maude Winter, Redwood
Falls; Rehabilitation, Mrs. Thomas
Howard, Robbinsdale; Trophies and
Awards, Mrs. Harry Smith, Houston;
Service, Mrs. A. e. Amundsen, Little
Falls; France Contact Officer, Miss
Blanche Scallen; Speakers Bureau,
Mrs. ]. M. Bishop; National Commit
teewoman, Mrs. Milton Spencer; AL
ternate Committeewoman, Mrs, A, E.
Amundsen,
Miss Blanche Scallen has been re-
appointed department secretary for
the seventh year. Americanism and
Legislative committees consist of five
members EACH Mrs. H. W. Haislet
as Americanism chairman will have
as members Mrs. Alexis Caswell, Min
neapolis, in charge of Twin Cities
program; Mrs. John L. Townley, Fer
gus Falls, and Mrs. R. w. Pond,
Duluth.
Mrs. Bishop, department president,