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jfere, now 1 i and i i hereafter j I Ky VANCE H.WNfcR [] ?hat N u ^re When You!fe ? ving Is What vou Are I.. ;muliar hahit in UiU ! I. "Holy ;? ImI swoat ami Iniglil oil for tetlimis: I' . ami TMTnmirtatiiwf' I a Mirsrirm in uHlerj I ? >1110 PKMIIIMfHIIll work I - m iiio\rmm thai in ' | \t-ry unixorso. I r, .?> mo* to l>ogiu oiirj ?k :iinl wo sot to work ' | ? Ni-vornl nioro yo;iis in! ?f thnl our inastorpiooo I ? tin* supreme (ntfura-' i ' in- tiling i" ihnio iiml ? ;? mil of our "hop lo unlit* i?f mankind wo s hoImhIy ovoii notioos j ? ro. !>iit instoiiil thoy j ^ "oino little |mk'iii that ? ?iV veiling iiftor 'tell wo sill, woril-ollt. out j ?<>ri h in our *oek-feel ! j * ? ? i.hi "erioii"ly. That ? i noiilo otTort whioli. wo' ? :ihl niako ii" seeure in r.niio iioIhhIv oaro" for: Mo tiling that w did loniont ;ilnio"t iiiiknow ? niako" ii" groat. . . <h a lili'il to fill.I out what ?iihln't jinigo yon w lion ^ a "peeeh or loading ? ?r "training yoiir-olf ? ? of "onto mighty enler iii until 1 ooiihl en toll 1 ? iioforo t ho tiro w ith - o : play it,.- w ji |, 11,.. eat ?ahy . It i" I lion that yon -e:f Ami in "IH-Ii iiruiionts :r groato"! work. rioiisly nhl J..Iih I'.utiyali :i iii? si-rimms iiiiil t ?*??;?t - ?i- i ,..w h-ru'l toll. II was :i In- was Inokotl iff. ill jiiil ;;ivc ii|> :i 11 this v\ Iiiiil In iimm ?orimis ;iii'I iiu|uii't mil vvmto "I'iluriins I'ro l|.' ovoti sniff in his iuiin tliolljll In 111:1 kf ii.it wli.it: imr ? 1 i? I I iiimIit* ? v i<> |ilc;iii' tn\ n.'iaiilniii" ? ??11. !!? if I : it 111 \ own "it'll to jtrutily. * ? ? it ill- vvi* know what is ini ail.I what is imt! 1 *h i 11 i|i^ liilmrisl liko ;i . Iffs tJollyshur;: *|ioooh ami ihImTv it. Alio l.imnln vii ;i fovv 11 >tos nil iili ohl ?.?:..i .- : hat maih' hitu ilinuortiil. .vol I l?aviil tlniyson ol. . - . Mow wo trnvol in ffurk tho work wo tin in all ? - lonnti for 11atislit. uutl wo toss off in |ilav-tiiiM*. 'imly. t ?imI iiso-." ? in' .'nut only a- wo inan ^ot oiirsolvos. .ilo ami strnin ah nu tin* soino lloroiiloan uutlor ? .? nr l.o-r work i> usual .-a wo stray off into soaio v ami lot our smils oouio air. t ? <? .iro wh.'ii yon an- Wit it.it ym roally aro. ost tionsiiro you liavo is ? I. iiiioruainonlotl >olt. jiorson liko your ? vorhl ami I ho most ro ^ a'ooiit you is your : o ami ilisiinot |M'rsoii >"? unit Is 1 ho vory 1 ?? ? 11? ? !I ami liulo ami ir fiH?| iii.iuiii t" la' liko novor iin|in?ivo until in 1 plot I inoUH'iit wlioii you yinu >'? ini|iross any laxly. ?? all a ImiM'li ? I' olowus ill 1 a .-row.l t.| j'iiii'toil hy >io ?i lo a|>| 10:1 r what wo nro ? ?iilv w Ifii fin- ourtiiiio . oil tlio silly show of lit! ? in ;ilono thiii you art t.'lv wo .?i.iiooal iH-himl ?I masks our into solv.?s, n ; .I...111 us worth show II r. s|H'< i lo tin* sorimts .?nffx-r 1 hat v\ liilo yon rt ? it- i|i-nin trying to pro io of rho oonlury thai ? l.'ol for fa in" is niori S..1110 littlo ji nirliin ?.;|ly 1 oss'." | off in you 1 ?)????!. ?>ur i.?? -1 ?\ li'-n \ <?il Tin- -? ?rr!??-? |?ii? ? \\"i M .ir?- r*>rm?*?l I . ICV1T \ t? I ??!?!? ?i tin- An ?:? ? 11 ^na|?li"t. taki'ii ITI-M'I I?><>kiII_: i- llif oul* ? |lid lire "f vourst'lf ?~?**rir \ out* tak?-ii when i"; ?kiii.v;! _ j .'In* ii lasting Mini a|?|w>- j vrift. S?i- l>K. J. tAW * V. Kvi- S]Hj?-ial a?.!v. The Independent i ? i VOL. XX.; NO. 1,G42. as Second i;lui Mitur It tli? Port nfflr*" rj niiiL i ... ' ? ' " " " 1 - "TT^^^T ????a. m.'va. ELIZABETH CITY, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927. fubu*h*d et?tt ftmij by w. t). smuder* ' SINCLlE COPY I ! ?J ?? "' - "'""""ri" 1 , i ii i ; BELIEVE GOVT' WILL RESTORE LOCKS IN CANAL; Adverse Report of District! Engineer Vigorously Assail- | ed in Washington That the iiovcrnnicnt will restore the locks in the Albe marle iv Chesapeake canal and therein l>ej;in to undo the dam age to the name' interests of Currituck and Hack Ihiy done by salt water and caused by the 1 removal of the locks some j years a.ifo. is the belief of many 1 who attended the appeal from I the District Engineer's report, held in Washington \\ ednes-j ?lay. John A. Nelson. Fisheries ! t"i>iiiiiii>-i??ner for \?>rili Carolina. \v?s in KlixalH'ili City Thursday <?n 1 liis wiiv home from the meeting, ami i , ! : de-Hired that sense ami sentiment ] was overwhelmingly in favor of re- i storing the locks, ami that lie did . not -ee Ie?w tin* Itoaril of Army j Kir.'ilirrrs would fail to reverse the report ? i" Col Jewell IMstriet Knui neer. who reeonimeml"d some months a?o against the restoration of the looks. There was a larire nttemlam-o. in elmlitc Senators Swattsoii ami Sim-' tm>iis. fjovernor Mcl.ean. of North Carolina: Itepresentutives I tea I ami (Continued on paue two) THIS MAN JONES DARNGOODSORT I Seems To Knew Just How To Get The Youth of The i Town on His Side I*r???. J. \. |i>ne>. supcriii-1 U-ndent ??t" city scIhhiIs w ill en tertain the twenty football j>layer> of the Elizabeth t ity ' 11 i.irh School at a banquet at the Virginia Dare Hotel M<>n j day evening. Nov. 1''.* That * something" unusual for a school | superintendent in this town to; do. . lint this man Juiiis who is in his first your in Klixain'th ?"ity is a darn u?mn| soi-;. A man in <lt-alinir with modem youth has a real pmh-( h'ln on his httiiiis. To s?ot a school ' spirit in* has to apprineh the sm I limits thru various avenues. Tho approach ran nearly always In- made j outside the school room hi-iter than in tho school room. Ami s i one | fiml> this I'rof. .lom-s doiir; a lot of work thru the rampus. cncouiax iu;; the hoys ami airls in their s ini fs ami ttiviiu: them to understand that he is in syin|ialhy with their a I hie ties ami other extra-mi rienlar aetivif ies. Karly in the term I'rof .tones ?Ii?- | ii vel'eil tiiat llo one hail ever thought of a male eluh for tin- hiuli j school: to-ilay he lias L'o youngsters in a ulee eluh sili^ili^ hopefully ami i improving with every rehearsal, He says lie's uoin*^ to vpriiei tliciu ? n . the town in a eotieerf before Innii ! ami jtive everyhndt an cnjoyal'Ie sur i jirise. I Then* are seventeen meiiihers of the 11 i^rli Sehoot foot ha 11 team ami there are four others who eouldn't ipiite make the team hut' who have heeii lielpfnl |o j|. I'rof. ,, Jones w ill have tle-m all at tin; han-j ipiel Moielay liiirht. lie say.s he re sre|.? that he isn't ahle to eiilertaiu j tlie whole school, l?ut he has arrang ed willi Manager Johnson of the Vir ' ifinia l>are to make a speeial priee ' of .SI lilt to any friends of the hoys' who want to sit in at the feast. A iiiimlier of fans are ttniu;* to take advantage of the offer. Don't Forget / to Christmas Seal your Christmas Mail' Flood Scenes In Upper Pasquotank County Rival Mississippi Valley HKKK arc some snapshots of the big flood in l'asquolank County, made lust Sunday after I lie waters had subsided a foot. The pictures were made mi Blarkarre Kami, owned liy Walter I.. (ohoon of hliznheth City, the father of drainage, who showed his faitli in Ills works by investing upwards of SoO.tMW in Tadmorr dirt. \rwland is up in arms this week, discussing the probable value of drainage, and some of its opponents say a "man gets about what is coming to liini in this world." The upper picture shows the flood waters about the house and buildings cm Blarkarrr. ard the watus over the newly tilled fields. Center left hard picture shows the roimty road through the Column farm which looked then like a rural, while (lie right hand picture shows how the women folks and children got away frcin their Inters in the Tadmorr area. Bottom pictures are more waterscapes of Tatlnmre. Snapshots by Victor Mrekins. TADMORE LOOKS LIKE ! MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Farms Flooded in Upper Pasquotank Drainage District When Dam Breaks in Gates County; Damage $40,000 or More Swept by flood waters that poured down in a mighty tor-1 rent from tliei .threat Dismal , Swamp, upwards of 1.500 acres of the- Macklands of Xewland, township were inundated, and ! I a dozen or more farmers may | sustain damage to crops, stock ' and propcrtyM?? the amount of $4<).000 last week, according toj conservative estimates of farm-1 ers in the vicinity. Fully lii.oen husticls nf eurn trl'i j standing in i lie fielils were swept ili wn liy I lie I'll mh| u|" will ers thai wepl aer'ss tlie In nils when I lie ? In in nl' the oii| .lines .Mill 1'iiml in 'laics ennuiy Prnke iiinler llie pent up I'nri e nf I lie ruins Hull fell Sen ility :i week litre. lluwn eiiine I lie water frum llnles intn I'iisipiiiliinl;. covering tin- l.iml. Ill U ileplli uf I nenrly Iwn feet. Ami tin- imiiiciil thing iilmui the i-iitnst rnplie i> I Inn ii i eenrreil ill l>ruinngc I'istriel Xunilirr ('lie, | where sicn.iiun ii.-is lieen spent f ir ;i great ilileli several miles in length in ii n i ii rr iiiiu resipioluuk River In! lake i"are nf the walers thai fur many years have priiveil a menace tn agriculture in the Tailuiure see fi? in nf I'asiiiintaiik CiiuntT. Ami I lie will's I sufferer 1'l'nlil tile l'|infi| is Waller P. ("nhiii ii. the lather nf the art whii'h esliihlisheil the district, ami win was instrumental in seeing the ennslruelinii nf l.heeanal brought ! tn etiliiplelinn. I Tn get a piellire nf the immense riim.il nf nailer that euvereil the trn-iiI Tiiilmnre seiiinn uf Pasipm tank. ? in- must iiuilerstaml that this is it irreat level plain nf |??w country, snme I."-'''** iu res nr nmre in extent, on I In- edge nf the great dismal Swampt tliiil divides Hales ami i'as ?Iunlituk. Through .this area runs the Slate Highway which is huill uu I he hanks uf |he eaiial ami euu ins-ts (Piles ami l'usi|iiatank through tlie heart nf the swamp. T.ie swamp itself is snuie eight fiH-t higher lluin unieii nf the sttr ruiiiuliii.tr farm lamls. particularly Tiiilinure. Walter 1.. Culinon. the owner nf acres of land heside tlie swamp, eoneeived the idea of a drainage district, ami was sue ((.'ouriiiued ou page three.* K1.IZ. CITV BOY KII.I.KI) IIV A MKXKAN BANDIT I Clmli' Harrison. .1 former Kliz ilU'lli <'il,v liov was killed in Texas this week, hy n Mexican bandit. ac in novices nirniM ncir n,i rejnlives. Mr. Harrison who was n deputy sheriff at Itln Hondo. Teras "ajis sla 1 ?!?(?<! I?\ | 1h* .Mexican whom lie was !r.vitiu In arrest. He had ' reeenlly wrillen m his relatives hlat lie was plannim: In enine home In spend the Christmas holidays. He left limiie four years airn. . ISeside his mother Mrs. William Harrison, lie js survived l?y three hrolhers. Everett Harrison of Eliz abeth City. William Harrison of l'aHiinore and Charles Harrison of Oklahoma City. | Trade in Elizabeth City. I'ay ('ash and hi' Thrifty. Ise INDEPEN ; DENT Co-operative Advertisers' hade eoii|? ns same as cash. If -Tf ATS * r^r oJheSANK ClEQK THE S'OOA JCQKE.fi NO BIRTH CONTROL FOR THE SODA JERKER "What's become of tin* Itirtli Con trol Movement in this country?" asked I in' JSank Clerk of the Soda Jcrkcr. "What .v a moan, hinli control?" asked I lie Soda Jerker. "I'm speaking of I lie movement that was pretty strong sonic years sign |o make eonlraeeptire know ledge available to all married 'couples, eiiahliiiu them to eonl rid iIhe size of their families ami not have more children than llie.v could piovide f< r." "oh." said I he Soda .l"rkrr: "Why i the drutr stores put the Mirth t'mi ll ml. societies out of hiisincss hy i healing them to it in the matter of ,supplyinvr the needed information i am' i he accessories." | "Doesn't the druggist's conscience j trouble him':" asked the Mank Clerk. "Not a bit." said the Soda .lerker. j "t 'oiiseh'nce s< on ceases to he a J bothersome piece of liiu .'airo in the life of a man who deals in the sale of drills and patent uiedieines. ^'oi that he hasn't a conscience, hot a man in the drug business soon loses all respect for and confidence in I humanity when he sees what fools | llie.v are in pinning their faith in 'doctors and nostrums. If he didn't get their nu ney. they would throw it to the first faker wiio came along jand offered them a cure-all in a lad tie." "Are you in favor of birth con trol1.'" asked the Itauk t'lerk. "I used to lie. hut i aint any more." said the Soda Jerker. "Von see it's like this: most of the mean, vicious, t.vrrauieal, hateful, cruel and I unbearable folks in this work get their start as spoiled babies. A baby comes into the world with nc i ideas whatever about it It begins I 11'> learn tilings ;iml lis mens or iim .?ire >Ii;i|kmI in inl*:i "(tiro :i in.'irried couple only one hiilt.v |o piny with mid llie chances are Sib in loo Hint ihey will humor ?I. coddle it nnil spoil it ii)t*iir:ilily. I'y the tinn* it is five yours old il Itns got I lie iili-n Hull I In* w hole ; world wiis iiinilo for its especial benefit : Hint ;i 11 il tins to do is to raise hell when il wnnls something; : I lull il is elite lo he snuey nnd ini 'pudoul: nnd tlinl its parents nnd everybody nIntnl. il were inndo lo wwil on him. lie grows up |o he I n hiid citizen: discourteous to his neighbours: selfish in his dealings willi other people: hoggish, greedy, iniroiisoiinhle. wnslefnl nml more or less indolent. "If liis pilrents hiid f I h"r eliil ilreii eoining along f;isl enough limy wouldn't have the opportunity to et.ddle the first one too much nml Ihey eerlninly wouldn't have tlie time lo spoil tin1 otli-rs. That's why I have iij.v present doahts nhonl tire value of hirtli eoiilnl: it's all mighty uiee to talk nhonl a woman's right .to li.ove eliil'lren only when >he wants them, hul (Lie everlasting , truth is Hull if jou give them only the number of eliildreu Ihey eau find time |u raise they make a helluva mess of raising "ein." Voiir eyes are as delieale as they are important. When ovjjiworked they send their distress signal thru the nervous system to all parts of the hody. Yen cannot carry on your work and remain healthy with bad , eyes, l'roper glasses insure (?ooi> VISION and HEALTH. Consult. ?'1>K. J. 1>. IIATHAWAY. Eye Sight i l Specialist. adv. i WE PAY TOO MUCH FOR OUR ELECTRIC CURRENT '-+r / Municipal Ownership Makes Light and Power Users Pay High Rates To Cut Down Somebody's Taxes * What Makes Prof. Newbold A Little Sore l'rof. X. C . Xcwbold, State , Director of Xcgrg Kducation, i frequent visitor to IClizabotli City, says that he hopes to live to see the day when he can icome to ICIi/.aheth City without [entertaining a feeding of hurt 'tnd indigation. l'rof. Newliold liiis reference lo 'lir uoijlrrlod Imlf mile of county ~om(I from the city limits on South* ?rn Ave. to the Slole Nor mil I School. The Stele of North Cirolliiii 1ms 'o train Xestro leaehprs for it-' while schools. The Stale maintains ?it Elizabeth ("ily a Normal School for the Irainio^ i f colored teachers. The Slate has invested more limn a quarter of a million dollars here. I The school spends many thousands of dollars a nulla ly in Eliza hel It City for lahor. for fuel, for huitdin;; ma terial':. for jirovisiotis and other things. Its faculty' and students spend many thousands of dcllnrs union:.' Elizabeth City stores on their personal account. - The Slate Normal School is n valuable asset to Elizabeth City; but the fact lets never been recognized by the otl'icjals of the county who have failed for twenty five years to cooperate with the Stale in building ami maintaining a decent n ad or sidewalk to the school. .- , , 1 Elizabeth City's domeslii consumers of electric liylit cur* I rent supplied by the city art paying 12 cents per K. \\\ foi current that other towns 01 the transmission lines of tin I Virginia Electric & Power Co tare paying H'/ cents for. ShimII consumers of electricity fin : power are paying us high as six i cents for the sninc current Hint other towus lire pitying .'t'/j cents fin II is a fuel Hint electric current | Kii|>|rlic't to homes ami business Jiou^es |?y tin* Virginia Electric & Power Co. in towns where Hint com pany coutrols the distribution am) sale of current is uuicli cheaper (Iihi. Jii Elizabeth City where the town buys the current from the siiper nower coiupaiiy timl sells ft to tin citizens. A This newspaper publishes here with f.lie retail light ami poWei schedules of Hie Virginia Kleetri' & Power Co. ami the cily of Eliz abeth City from which Hie remiei can make his twn deductions. The jiovver co mi amy's rates are as fol lows : Per Kilowatt PATH hour Hirst 100 kilowuft-hoiirs $0085 1 Nest trill kijowatt-liniir* 0.00 Next t.TO kilowatt-hours 0.045 Next I.sun kilow.itt-hours 0.035 i.Next 7.000 kilowaIt-hours 0.0C4 Next 1M.U00 kilowatt-hours O.OB5 Excess over ;tO,OU<i kilowatt lmurs oxrsSi Tlie city's*rutx* for light current is subject rr? discounts, hut the dis counts do ml liegin to bring tlx* electric light 1*111 down to unythiug J like Hie rirte at which consumers -tiny | *111 * *? V I ? "III I III C*'?? * * V>'U(|n?ia^ ? j Haxed ii|M)ti ii rail* of 12< per K. \V. Ilii' dly allows the following dis counts: ? ftulc of (Jn'ss Hi.) Uisroniit j $ 1.32 t o ?$ li (Ml .. "? JHT cell! 15.01 to- Js.oo JO |w*r will lis.nl in :us.oo -i 15 jmt ceiii .'Ui.Ol |o lill.OO JJO |*?r ivut 00.01 lo KKI.00 25 per cent In other words if you use loo K. \V. a MJie l.-ss 10% discount yon pay $|0.K0 for current Ilia I residents of 1 other towns served l.y "flip power rompiiiiy pay only $*50. If you use .'!00 K. W. rusting you $30.00 gross, your discount is lo per cent. your . net Mil will Is* $21.(50. Hut If yon ww located in a town where the flower coin jinny sells direct to 4hc eonsiinjer you could liny I lie sn.life current for $l*.?o. Motor rates are higher in Kliz iihelh '"ity under inuiii?-ifI owner- ' ship schedules than in the other towns. Here are Kliznbclb CHy's motor rates; Unto ('oiisiiinpiion M'er K. W. 1st |00 K. \V. Hours. .0 cents j 2nd 100 K. W. Hours.. 7.2 cents 3rd and It Ii 100 K. W. _ ? <1 W I4 ( Honrs . 0 cents Oil I and (ill) 100 K. W. | Uxors 5.0 cents 7lh and sili list K. \V. j Hours 1.7cents ! I lit Ii and loth )<N? K. \V. | Hours . r J .deep Is j 2nd to 5th I.OMO K. W. Hours tine.i .1.1 cents j01 Ii to IOIIi 1.000 K. \V. Hours (inc. i 3.1 cents j Primary Current 5.0<-cpl* Instead of reducing the j?ri?*e of electric eiirreiit to the citizen. itnl cipal ownership ill the ease of Mliz alM'tli t'iiy lias made it high. The reasop of course is well known to those who have thought about it I at all. The city is indirectly taxing its citizens why use electric current, making anfexcessive profit out of i the s;i|e and distribution of elee itrie current to meet expense* thiit. ?hould properly Ik.' met hy direct , I a xii I ion. '?'he Eliznlietli ('ity Public utili tics Commission has been getting away with its high tariff iu great shape put just how long the folks are going to stand for it i.s pro i hlematieal. Some day the folks are going to deuiaud cheaper current. I The Public Utilities Conuniafclon pays the Virgiuia Klectric & Power Co. two and a Quarter rents j?er K. W. Hour for the current it retails tat 12 cents. J "Marriage," said the smart a leek, j "is like a railroad crossing sign. W'Ijhii you meet a pretty gill you stop, then you look, and after you are married, you listen." , ' . r ' '*** * MR. HESSLER WILL NOT BES0LD0UTT0M0RR0W ? | Man Who Is Officially Dead, Objects to His Widow and Orphans Selling Him Out of House and Home in Currituck County ? i " ' V. . . <. t ; HOTEL FIRE LAID TO A SIZZLING LOVE NOTE Anyway. All Tin* Mail in Tlir Yir- J ginia Hare Mail Hox Was IStirmii l'|i i i ?? Si.imc nice I hmi ihl iill elnip. male I I or feni.ilc. wlni didn't wind In drop liis or Iter hurtling cigarette on thej carpel dropped the hunting fag into j II lie Cutler mail clinic in the Vir ginia Hare Motel Saturday night 'and Inirned up Ilu> entire contents of the mail box in the loldiy liefure : ja carrier from the post office could ; lie found to unlock the hox and put lout the fire. "It is most cxpaseraling the crude tilings these slow products of evoln-1 lion will do." observed X. Howard! | Smith. ! J "I don't believe it was a cigar- j I cite a| all." declares I ?r. John i Saliha: "I have an idea that the fire |in lin* mail box originated from one j of Assistant Manager rollings-! ! worth's red hot love missives; I think C-nliligsworlli sluiild write Ills love letters oil asbestos." i nmVAIfl) HAItlUS Mlll.S BEANS ON BEN KOCOHTON i Men Houghton, police officer, has I ecu wanting to gel written up a long time so here goes, itoughlon has been complaining that the new policemen's uniforms won't stand rough wear and tear. He likes the (naif1 tins otherwise, because they i make the officers look handsomer ?and wiser, and even all Walter Wood's girls \yho fretpietil Ma iff Street, cast Jlieir eyes across the j street to seen policeman nowadays. Men is sure the uniforms won't stand rough wear. But officer > Howard Harris comes along and . pinielms holes thru his argument. '"I have tried to tell Men," says of ficer Harris, "that if tip would keep ; out of the hushes and briars. Ids .uniform would have a better ap I pea ranee. The cloth is all right, bill is just wasn't built for hushes and briars." j Trade in Elizabeth City. Pay Cash j and he Thrifty. I se 1NDEPKN | DENT Co-operative Advertisers' trade coupons same as cash. tf 1 Out of Currituck this ,\yeck . comes a strange story that i ranks with the weird talcs of many soldiers who were miss in,y in action in the World War. Albert Hcssler. a modest citi zen of (ierman hirth who owns a farm and much other valu-l able )>ro|)erty at Maple has just' learned that he is dead, and he j has no means of proving that | he is alive. Mr. I less I or was nll'leially pro-1 lsimeed (tend hy nffiela Is of ItH 11 i nmre. iifior si Iwwly hud lieen* found j dead in ii rooming house, mid his j own hrother hud Identified the corpse nnd deelnred it was no other Ihtni the last inortnI remains of the liiniented hrother Allien who hud departed without eereiiiony from ids wife and two daughters some six years hefi re. OITiehils of Haiti-1 inore notified Mrs. Ilessler and her iwo daughters at Itel Air. Maryland, and the corpse was ordered to lie tnrned over I" lliein for hitriul. .Vn<J I lien the fun la-Kan. The relatives of the supposedly late lamented Mr. Messier, set ahont disposing of properly whieh lie was known to have owned in I'nrritttrk futility. They retained a lawyer, and lie in turn wrote In Attorney tie i .1. .Speneoof Klifahelli t'ily. nd* visiim him to proeeed with an net Ion i to sell all of Mr. MesshT's properly in t'nrritiiek for division atiion*; his law ful heirs. Mr. Speuee had never ((.'outlulled oil pose seven) TIIK IXDKPKNIMi.Vr 01T EARLY NEXT WEEK li? order to belter serve Its ad vertisers rod to release our entire J print in? force to take rare of late I rush orders for Holiday Oreel ; ing Cards ami other Christinas j printing. The Independent will j go to press Wednesday of next I week, going In the mails Wed nesday night ami reaching (lie subsrriber Thursday morning Dee. 22. Advertisers may rooperate by preparing tlieir advertising early j for next week's edition. ? - ?? i
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