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hi- i l ELIZABETH CITY, N.C, HUD AY, JULY 25, 1919 NO 575 i ' iK.jK ) U I i J I, JL l J LJ LviJ.1, J' -iJl MJUVJl-iA l It VOL. XII REED FLAYED SENATOR LEAGUE DONATIONS HERE k A He Got a Cold Reception From Local Dembai Cfats WHO Oull Dcucvc m uic inraiiiDUiiy of President Wilson Pasquotank's Service Flag r g Senator James A. Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, tore the Lnant of the League of Na- ns to tatters in a two hour w h at the Alkrama Theatre "this city Tuesday night. Those Iblind partisans who have "abandoned religion for the wor- 0f Woodrow wiisou, me House God with feet of a hard tune nver Senator Reeds ship White av. wffl have climbing arsument Senator Reed began his speech by -citing the fact that America never Hoolare war on Germany. We de- " i wv. .id that Ciermany wito o-t w We went into the world war be cause Germany had interfered with our destroy ea Ameriuui uvea ouu Our business in the rn bpln Uck Germany. We vaa nn conauests and no indem- shippm insulted our flag. war -ips and when we had finished the nnr interest should have SCMU6 ceased. But we uecame mvuivcu vu i tent that when the fight was finished 1 it was our duty to stand by and see that our Allies secured satisfactory Pce terms. There our obligation e3aed and we should then and there kve brought every one of our Ameri can soldier boys back home. Sow we are told that the . Treaty of Peace is not complete until we have entered into the Covenant of the League of Nations and an effort is be ing made to ram this instrument down tie throats of the American people without giving them an opportunity to tide X' of the. Covenant of the League of Nations. Here it is: ' "The members of the League under take to respect and -preserve as against external aggression the territorial in tegrity and existing political independ enee of all members of the Leagne.'' In case of ny such aggression or' in case of any threat or danger of such ag gression, the Council shall advise up on the means Jy which this obligation shall be fulfilled" In other words the United States pledges itself to go' to war on the side of any one of the hetereogeneous mem bers of the League that gets into trou ble with another country. To do this we are told that we must have a stand ing army of more than half a million men and a navy of a quarter million men. Our standing army before we got into this European business hardly exceeded 90,000 men at any time. For more than a hundred years America got along without having to sacrifice a single life in European war fare while Europe waged more than 50 wars in that time. Now we are asked to underwrite the belligerency of Eu roneans with the blood of American boys, who will be conscripted in any contingency upon the advise of Council of the League of Nations - ' r - ' -p STOCK LAW VOTE TtAX,AUG.5 i Promises to Be a Heated Con- test in ThU County Be ' f oris It is Over ; PASQUOTANK WILL BUILD 15 FOOT BRICK ROADS A full page advertisement in favor of Stock Law and a com munication against Stock Law, appearing,; elsewhere in this newspaper, this week should serve notice' that Pasquotank is, on the eve of a special election of unusual interest. On Tuesday, August 5. 1919 the vot ers of this county will be given an op portunity to register their wishes in regard to a vexing question. The ques tion is whetheir Pasquotank shall con tinue a free range county, or become subject to Stock Law. . " Pasquotank is at present, and al ways has been, a free range county. There are thousands of acres of wood land in this county affording some thing of a range for scrub cattle, goats and razor back hogs. It has been the custom of hundreds of peopfe thruout the county to adopt some sort of brand for their live stock and turn their live stock loose to forage for it self. Sorry live stock is the result, but It is profitable live stock since it costs the owners nothing to produce it. The fact that the hogs spread Orders For Machinery and Material to Be Placed at ' Once and No Time Lost In Getting Con- ' struction Under Way Pasquotank will use brick for ucdc D..,,r,L, County's mammoth Service Flag, as it appeared hanging . .i - iu-..;nn Th Flaa bears . .t Hiipina thA recent r-ourxn ot juijt ----- - the t ...u-.u 19 f aold. commemorating the dozen nom uoys wnw cholera ana tne catue grow tnin wiui 3Dt " - ..... HL X.I I j .4. n nn.naro fnr their lives for Liberty and the 14 points ot the masxer .-nr hcks uueBxi . - - tt- T.aaniB nf TMatlons lireat I . . . . i me icaouii i ou.a ku w f i- saunaera . IIVW M J ... Britain proposes to maintain her pres a. i Ml tn -p-vr on on flrTTl V Git. 3. million men by conscription. France COMES TO TOWN FIRST purposes to maintain a sianamg army of two million men; Italy the same, iu rone will" continue the same armed camp it was prior to 1914. And yet john shannon of President Wilson tells us that this thing- will end war, that the bright rays of the millehium are shining down upon us and blistering our eye balls, TIME IN 28 YEARS Manteo Misses C. W. Glover's Old High Wheel Bike And; it doesn't matter to the owners of this free range stock if hogs clutter the ditches and obstruct the drainage of the roads. But with the approach of an era of better roads and an increasing interest Ah Alarming Condition of Immorality in the production ofbetter live stock, SECOND GIRL SENT UP FROM HERE IN 10 DAYS Apparent In This City and Vicinity Grant Benton, a tugbqat captain of j this city, was sentenced tt four months John Shannon of aMnteo, Roanoke whii the doves of teace are cooing all I TSiand. was in Elizabeth City last Sat- nderstand the obligation the Coven- round. president Wilson says "it will I uraay. Manteo is only 45 miles from on the county roads, and; Annie White, ant imposes. break the heart of the worm n Ainvr- j Eliza. City but tnis is me nrat uu The Covenant of the League of Na- fajl3 to enter into this infamous, shannon has been to Elizabeth City in . . - , , 4.V.:n - I act . TI i CO -I O O T fM fLTld SIVS suiciaai, iunaui; nim&. - i 28 years, -lag w u j - was sein. iu oauiaivoi. .vM " - . . fl -i,0t f . . . . . a t tA orn r I a. s M i i ai o-i ict r in I iiii 1 -:2 lu m - - Those Sinister Financiers - . he used to nice to iravei, the two had Deen convictpa 01 unmo -r.u& , TOt -nnee . . .. no o onH ii aavs he ... s ,.- '.T,,a election. People who-want free range Senator Reed cnargea xna-i marr "r. . reiauu,ls 1,1 nnd nies will fight for f Nations is the creature of has stayed home wun ms wire Thig ia the seContt time wiian xen ' - ' I . j i J 1 i. . I Jt ha nn 'I - na III SI II W IILT VT m v w I there has come a considerable agitation in this county for Stock Law. Stock Law means that a farmer does not have to fence in his farm to keep his neighbor's hogs and cattle out, but ihe musti fence in his hogs and catue j to keep them off the roads and off his neighbors' lands. And so the election Diis is one or me iixusst mvun mats ever written and only a consti sjnal lawyer can interpret the thing, feonce it is interpreted to the Amer ica wople they will repudiate it. The parte of this country, 110,000,000 in imber usually think right when given 5ortmity. 1 -Thinking collectively ey make few mistakes. But when :hev permit one man to do their think- zz for them, the chances are that that one man is going to make a mistake. The League's Members The League of Nations consists of S2 members and is governed by an as sembly composed of one delegate from each country and by a council of nine, one councillor from each of the fol :owiR2 countries: Great Britain, Italy, a young girl who has long borne an n.m.tnt;nn in 1 this Bootinn was sent & to be held in this county on Tuesday wmmm mm. SETH PERRY GENL PERSHING CITES TWO OF OUR HOME BOYS Seth Perry, of Okisko, Who died of Wounds, and Burt Forbes, of Camden, Awarded Distin guished Service Cross international bankers and, that it is since. He was in Elizabeth City Just day8 that a yoUng girl fias?been sent free range vv. American Financiers be- a few days before he was mameu. to the state home .for v if alien wpmen cause they see in it a gigantic instru- Not only'has Mr. Shannon stayed at from this city, . wbe"SEe care and ment of force to protect their, in vesf-- "ome 'f or 28 years, but he says he has treatment" is of the sort calculated to ments in European securities and to nQt mjssed but three meals at his own uplift an unfortunate woman, and to enable them to exploit the European tabie in 17 years. This should be a heip her get safely started upon a life roimtries and their own country to an testimonial to Mrs. Shannon's cooking. Df respectability. Everything possible extent hitherto undreamed of. He ex- Things have changed in Elizabeth jS j0ne with the purpose of eliminat- hibited proofs to show that there is al- c ity in 28 years, and it takes a visitor mg evil associations, and easing the ready on foot a scheme to organize a Uke Mr shannon to see the change3. hard path of the girl who has erred giant monopoly of American labor He says the only old landmark that he but aspires to regain her lost place and nroduce under the direction of recoenized was Mr. Joe McCabe. He jn tne respect of the world New York financiers. He pointed out sure hoias his own," Says Mr. Shan- These two girls are of a type which that these financiers foresee profit of non has become extremely numerous here billions in buying European bonds at T,weT,tv-eiht vears aeo Elizabeth of late. It is suggested that the in- dn or 50 cents on the dollar, if the Uni- I .. electric creasinsr difficulty of obtaining booze 1 t tir 1 im.j 1 vvw 1 r.4.i on Via frannpfl into this I F . . , 1 I vn n France, Belgium, Japan, Greece, Spain, P.rn and the United States of Amer-i. , cataa be trapned into this ica. League of Nations and made to guar Among the eight nations represented antee he liquidation of those securi n. tv, T'nitnrl States on thiS COUn- I . . . or-ma cil, the United States hasn't a friend hig speech Senator Reed used the name of President Wilson cautiously, but he flayed those Senators who do unon whom it could count in any exig ency involving the self interests of the British. Great Britain on the other hand can always dominate a majority of the nations represented on this council. But the supreme court of all author ity in this League of Nations is the Assembly composed of one represen tative from each of the 32 members of die League. Here we find that Great Britain has by a trick of diplomacy en tered her five colonies, Canada, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Aus tralia, as members of the League, each of them having a representative in the League's Assembly. The other members of the League in addition to the United States and The British hexagony are Belgium, Boli via, Brazil, China, Cuba; Czecho-Slovakia, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guat emala, Haiti, Hedjaz, Honduras, Italy, Japan. Liberia, Nicarauga, Panama, Ftru. Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Ser via. Siam and Uruguay. A Dark Skinned Majority Right here Senator Reed put in a powerful appeal to the prejudices of his southern audience Seventeen of the thirty-two members of the League of Nations Assembly are of dark skin and e "kinky headed Negro" from Li kria where of 2,000,000 population 50,000 claim to be civilized, has as much voice in the League of- Na tions as the United States with its 110,000,000 inhabitants. Haiti, the little Negro ReniiHifi where Voodooism is Practiced and babies sacrificed to Voo ao, has as much voice in the League 1 f Nations as America. And there is Hedjaz, a full fledged member of the League, as big as the United States in determining its poli cies. Where is Hedjaz? Hedjaz is a province of Moravia with a popula tion about as large, as that of Norfolk, a-. and half of that population Be douin Arabs who live by plunder and outlawry. And Hedjaz has as much vice in the League of Nations as the United States. Then there Is Panama with 450,000 population, half Spanish J4 half Greasers, where of 18,000 'rths last year, 12,000 were- illegiti-mate- Panama is a member of the As 6enbly of the League of Nations. senator Reed declared that when Japan comes before the League of Na- ns a demand for the League's ,. ognition of racial and social equal ' 01 the 32 members of the League uia ba up Japan's demand. g That Article X. enator Reed read and explained Ar the President's bidding, saying tney thought more of a President's approval than a nation's honor and would rather bask in the light of Wilsonian appro bation than be true to their country. Displeases Wilsonian No ereater evidence of the fact that the Democratic party has degenerated into a one man party whu opinion of its own outside the White "House, is necessary than the treat ment accorded Senator Reed by local Democrats. None of the so-called lead ers called upon him while he was in the city, many of them 'stayed away from his lecture and the local ex penses incident to the occasion were def raved by Republicans, iu. r. lett, Judge W. M. Bond and H. S. Ward were in turn invited to introduce me speaker to his Elizabeth City audi ence. Mr Aydlett had a good excuse; Judge Bond thought he had another engagement; Mr. Ward averred that Senator Reed's actions of late had dis pleased him and he couldn't afford to be seen on the same platform with him. It devolved upon a Republican, C R Pugh to introduce the speaker, which he did modestly and in good form. , Many local Democrats resented sen ator Reed's appearance here because Mr. Pugh was responsible for his com ing They did not take cognizance of the' fact that before Mr. Pugh could get Senator Reed, it was necessary to extend an invitation to him signed by the Chamber of Commerce and lead . i -rvTTf essional men re- insr dubiucbs a, v gardless of party affiliation. t,he Republicans made capital f Sen ator Reed's speech, xnats i.u"- tj what stuck in the nines ..i v,o fart that here many partisans w - was a Democrat Senator wno - express an opinion in oppuuu !rf rodent of the United States. Verily, there is.no party but Woodrow and no one else has a ngm w t w ion that isn't dictated from the White TT,. abator Reed was not Bi- ciously received because he doesnt President Wilson and has tv,a oo,irn to take the platform and speak his own opinions His reception at the hands of local Democrats was therefore shabby because so many ot m.omon y,ave become innoculat- , xi t a ,nt a. man named ea witu mo wfio ia infallible and that being T T . Democrat these days means humble submission to the dictatorship of this . .. I. oVl liehts no fire engine. The population has put a premium uu r th. town was about 3.000. The most infinitely more debasing sort of ais r. thin? in town then was Mr. sipation. Booze artists, oia ana younB. r w rjnver-9 hicvele and that bicycle are turning to the women of the streets ' ne of those old timers with a for the sort of gratification which most wheel five feet high in front and a nearly takes the place ot tneir passiu.i wheel about the size of a hat brim be- j for liquor. i.t-x t- shannon fiva he thinks he As typical of the extent to which im wniri fenonize Mr. Glover on that old morality is being practiced in and h,v.wie to-dav. around Elizabeth City, a man wnu w.w - , ... . . . J. , V, cently had occasion to iravei uv . . . . fx A mr nn w rat t I riesert Road near this city alter- a DnhKlTr JUt. I.LL ili A rtVlok at nie-ht counted nine auto- rnrrVCDnDA UACD1TA1 Lnhii narked alone this road, with DisaoDearance of Sheriff County Explained By His Brother J. E. C. Bell, Sheriff of Vance coun ty, who disappeared the other day has been located in a Sanatarius in Greens- lights dimmed or out, and the occu- . nnnts evidentlv engaged in numan ot vance i debauchery. The present wave of - immorality which is assuming hitherto unheard-of proportions in this section is a thing of eradual erowth. We have always had the bad woman among us, and ter live stock, better roads and free dom from free , range annoyances aiso has his fighting blood up. Tn this election the man in town is being told that this election is none of his affair and that he ought to keep his hands off. The man in town can , j, o-c-neoteri to overiooK me One Pasquotank county boy and one Camden county boy are awarded distinguished service crosses; for ex traordinary heroism in action during the war with Germany, according to a cablegram from General Pershing made public yesterday. The following is the exact language descriptive of their heroism, contained in General Pershing's cablegrams. The medal for Corp. Perry will be presented to his mother. he having died from his wounds. "Corporal Seth E. Perry (deceased) Company K, near Bellicourt, France, September 29, 1918, when a portion of his company was threatened with counter attack and he had ; seen one runner killed in an attempt to reach them from headquarters with orders to fall back, he volunteered for the dangerous mission. While crossing an ODen field under heavv fire he was mnrtaiiv wounded., t, Mrs.: . Mary-, -Ik erry,-mother, - Okisko,' Pasquotank. " "Corporal Burt T. Forbes, Company I, near Ypres, Belgium, September 1, 1918, while his patrol was acting as a flank guard with orders not to fire unless absolutely necessary he detect ed an enemy patrol of eight men ap iiin uij 3 ea an enemy t-.o- fact, however, that he is paying 65 per proachin? and starting to set up a . ii.. ,.tt tvosj and will COn-t . . t; frmrar'ri alnnp. cent oi me tuuuij I machine gun. uniwuns " tribute that per cent to the construct ion of good roads thruout the county. As he is going to be taxed to build these roads he probably will maxe nim self heard in the election on August 5. her permanent roads and the width of the roads will be. 15 feet for the first four or five miles out from the city limits. The width of additional mileage. wfll be determined later. Pasquotank will build her own roads using a cement lounaa- tion where necessary and laying the brick on sand foundation where sand is feasible, the Coun ty Highway Engineer to have authority to determine the type of construction. The county's $500,000 bond issue has been approved, the bonds have been printed and are ready for delivery and the $500,- 000 is expected to be available in a few days. T. L. Higgs, Engineer to the Pasquotank Highway Commis-. sion, is in Richmond to-day pur- t chasing machinery for road con struction, orders for material will be placed in a few days, and if there are no delays in the shipment of machinery and material the first road will be under construction in this coun- ; ty in 30 days. The first road to be built will 1 be from . Elizabeth . City to WeeksvUle. Other roads will be determined upon as soon as ;: work is under , way on the WeeksvUle road. The foregoing information emanates from the Pasquotank Highway ormii , a lengthy session "of :thatbody Wednesday of this week. It sets at rest all the wild and disparag ing rumors that roads would not be built in this county in the life of the present generation. 240 LAMBS SHIPPED FROM HERE THIS WEEK Charles S. Jones, of the Live Stock Marketing Division of the N. C. De partment of Agriculture, shipped 240 , vc fmm this city to Philadelphia, m..;i t this week. These lambs were a cooperative shipment fron Hyde county. This is tne secona operative shimpent of lambs from Hyde county this summer. The shipment, was accompanied to this city by County Agent Jesse Murray, of Hyde. CUCUMBERS THREATEN. ROANOKE ISLAND HOME machine gun, he charsred the enemy patrol and sing lehanded. killed three Germans and routed he other five. , Home, Old m ronQn oonntv: Stephen B. J. L ixy, iju.iiiut.. Forbes, father. USED HIS GAS MASK AND AVERTED AN EXPLOSION Happy Thought Upon Part of Elizabeth City Fire Chief May Have Spared City An Ice Famine HE PARTED WITH $134 AND NEVER GOT A SMELL Mr. Newbern, of Sweet Potato Fame, An Easy Mark For Bogus - ' Bootleggers1 boro, JN. k... anu mB ,. ,. wo alwavs will have authorities of Vance UU1 UI ""4u-. her; but conditions such as are now existing can be to a large extent remedied by vigorous action on the part of our county and city, officials. METHODISTS WILL PICNIC FRIDAY, FIRST OF AUGUST The First Methodist Sunday School vealed to the county by his brother's Caleb B. Bell, of Washington and Baxter B. Bell, of Shawboro, who are in Greensboro with their brother. Caleb Bell assures the authorities of Vance that his brother will return to Henderson prepared to make good the shortage in his accounts, when he leaves the Greensboro Sana tarium. The ahorae-e in Sheriff Bell's ac- nnnt amounted to $45,157. No action of this city will hold its annual pic- - . . . : . I - . i :i M 1 rwfi-rre tiDQI the of any kind has Deen Drougnt agiuuai i mc a.u me uiu. iau & him in the courts and indications are city, Friday, August 1. Picnickers will that none will be brought since His carry baskets of food and ice cre.un disappearance has been explained, and and water melons will be provided restitution assured. at' the expense of the school. Secre- The incident is of pecular interest feary Gilmore of the x. M.C A. win to the people of this city and section direct the play activities of the chil because of the local prominence of dren during the day and will have sheriff Bell. He is a native of Shaw- plenty of water wings on hand to en- i via fnmiiv has alwavs been able the tiniest voungsters to risk UVl V - - - - prominent in the social and political themselves in the water. life of this section. His Drotner jsax ter B. Bell is Clerk of the Court of Currituck county. Caleb and Baxter Bell lost no time in locating their brother when they received reports of his disappearance from Henderson: A DEADLY FLIGHT Ten persons were killed and twenty - five injured when a large dirigible balloon on its test flight caught fire and fell through the glass roof of the Ill inois Trust & Savings Bank, Jackson bouvelard and LaSalle street, Chicago, Monday afternoon. IT WOULD SEEM SO "Mosquitoes have learned a lesson from the world war," declares Miles Jennings. "They have learned the use of the gas mask;" there's no mistake about this, because there isn't a mos quito lotion on the market that will head oft the mosquitoes we have with us this summer." NO-EXAGGERATION I do not make exaggerated state ments about my work. Very re markable results 'often follow the correction of bad vision by proper ly fitted glasses. It does not fol low that bad eyes are responsible for all ills and that the fitting of eye glasses is a panacea for every ailment. My especial claim to your patronage is based , upon my long experience coupled; with my un usual facilities - for testing the .vision, grinding the. lenses, and. fitt ing the glasses on the premises. Upon investigation . you will find that I can give you the. same ser vice you would expect to 'find in a metropolitan city. ' - - ' DR. T. D. HATHAWAY Optometrist - . Phone 999 ' Bradford BIdg D. V. Meekins, Back From Manteo With a Big Cuke and a Bigger Yarn I V KKn.iI10i Prodigal Son who enlisted in the Nor fr Lw Yard about the time the aoe oeolared war on Germany. UI1H.CU -w anfi aA to his old home im iound not tatted calf, but cucumbers nstead. , . . Young Mr. Meekins, on ms . . , ctnntiPQ at lJii to JNOliu - i.-nfl INDEPENDENT omce jan wm nn mmiiuAV that his fatners " m land is overgrown witn - a that the cukes were Dera Tif00vins threatening to overturn homestead. ... Moek . v,Qt hia ratner it seem " 1Trin seed . ,nme I nUlBSC ,v ins aa ohinese cukes this spring an- outgrow anything ever Sif TSland. Meekins junior says you t walk for cucumbers on hisata . i ami he Drougni i"" fT a sample 44 inches long . aeven nounds. He ae ana ww8 - " marv one and blares this is oniy , , C.laT.ef. C v. had the energy he would. mat u. c . .rhe twice m we. . .. ... TT-fTT". eiant cuke is on exniwuou b INDEPENDENT office and- itself, tho not vouching tor the rest of this article. Banks Close Friday Afternoons Elizabeth City banks now close at 1 o'clock every Friday afternoon join ing with Elizabeth City stores in the popular Friday afternoon clostag ar rangement during the months of July and August. , . .iocn, that American soldiers in prison camps near Paris had n bru tally treated by officers, was made by General Peyton C. March, . chief of staff in a communlcaUon given to Con gress Wednesday. What might have resulted in an ex- plosion which would have wrecked the plant of the Crystal ice v,uai this city, was averted Tuesday by cool work upon the part of Jerome iJiora, Chief, of the Elizabeth City Fire De partment. Chief mora is sme.. from a pair of burned hands and an army gas mask played its part in his heroic work. An ammonia "pipe at the ice plant 11 HAM wVllOVl burst, releasing neaaiy lumco drove every one from the plant. Those familiar with the mechanics , of the plant were in momentary fear ot a dis astrous explosion. The Fire Deuart ment was asked to send over an engine and flood the plant with water. iriora was on the job in a few min utes, after having coutioned his men onnd' an alarm. He carried J1UL l-V nth him a eras mask which he recent ly hr-oiiirht back from Europe. With his gas mask in place he plunged into the building, found the cocks regulating the ammonia supply, cut off the flow of ammonia and averted a possible dis aster. In doing this his hands were badly burned by contact with the chemical. He is -making the best' of life with two bandaged hands. Herman H. Newbern, a hard-headed, close-fisted sweet potato grower of Camden county parted with $134.00 in cold cash in quest of bootleg liquor in this city the other day and didn't get a drop of liquor. a Ttfejrro told Mr. Newbern that he knew another Negro who had several cases of Sunnybrook Whiskey ior saie. Mr. Newbern immediately picks tnis Ttfeero un in his automobile and rides around town with him in quest of the Negro said to have the liquor, wnen they found the promising Diacit Mr. Newbern innocently parted with $134.00 and let the Negro "go off to fetch the liquor." The man never came back. Instead of swallowing his loss grace fully and not letting the . public know what a sucker he was, Mr. Newbern began to swear out warrants. When he finally located the Negro who was alleged to have got the money, he had cooled off." When the Negro was ar raigned in court Wednesday morning Mr. Newbern said he wouldn't swear positively that he was the guilty party and the matter, was dropped.- "Mr. Newbern is now growing a set of whiskers to disguise himself so that gold-brick artists and flim-flam men generally will not recognize him when he comes"to town. THE INDEPENDENT OFFERS "THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS" For the purpose of helping to inform its readers on the subject of the League of Nations, this newspaper has under taken local distribution of the one book aproved by President Wilson him- self. This booK, "xne -isue tions," was compiled by Dr. Henry E. .Tackson of the U. S. Bureau or. Educa tion. It contains the full text of the revised Covenant now before the Con gress of the United States, together with pretty much everything that can be said for it, including some or presi dent Wilson's greatest speeches. Whether for or against the League, you ought to read this book. The price is 50 cents a copy and will be mailed to your address postage prepaid upon reeeipt of the price. Address THE IN DEPENDENT, Elizabeth City, N. . Several dead and scores wounded are the results of race riots in the city of Washington r the past week. The rioting has ceased. - . WOMAN GIVES A YOUNG GIRL DRINK OF POISON . Horrible Case Brought to Light in Recorder's Court in This City Accused of poisoning 15 -year-old Mattie Ward, Mrs. Isaiah Brickhouse, who lives in the Mill district of this city, was given a preliminary hearing In police court here Wednesday morn ing. Last Saturday, according to tho Ward girl's statement, she went over to the home of the Brickhouse woman, and the latter offered her a drink of a dark-looking fluid which she said was whiskey, containing sweet spirits of nitre to disguise the whiskey odor. Upon drinking the fluid she states that she was overcome and fell to the floor In a fainting condition. Some of the stuff got on her hands, and took-off the skin. She has been ill in bed from the effects of the dose ever since, and was. not able to attend trial yesterday.; The case was continued to Saturday. August 2. . . . - . . . - ' .-' 11 !! ! .. -v.. '.j;;. p :- mi ft MP Iiii WW - j i'l': mm -IV, 1 1 man Wilson. " 'il ... ...
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