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Mead .y t o "Weaiir Pl A alt M Starts Thursday 17th and Lasts Until the 26th Just 9 Days An Easter Sale That Will Make This Store The Busiest Store in Eastern North Carolina AND OUR PRICES ARE GREATLY REDUCED MITCHELL'S store has the goods and the prices are allright. All ladies suits, dresses, coats, capes and dolman's will be sold at reduced prices. Every department in this big store will have some specials for this big event. Make Mitchell's store your headquarters on next Thursday, Circus Day. See the parade from our front doors and windows. Here are a few prices which will be for the Easter Sale. Seeing Mitchell's store is a treat within itself. Lot Fine Silk Poplin Skirts, $9 QO Value $5.98 PO.J70 Lot Ladies Wash Skirts, Value d Q C to $4.00. Special price P LZJ Ladies Shirt Waists, value to Q r $1.4S. All sizes ZJK Lot Ladies Silk Waists. All colors d QO and sizes, value to $3.00 P X Beautiful all Silk Crepe de Chene OQ All Spring shades, $2.00 grade Taffeta Silk, $2.00 grade, dj 1 JC All colors D L Lot Silk Poplin, 36-in. wide. $1.50 d - -J Q grade. All colors, special . P X A 57 Taffeta in fancy designs, also fancy d 'TQ plush. Value to $2.75, per yd . P A 57 Pretty Spring Ginghams, 32-in. wide, O J fast colors, 50c grade JJK 300 Fine Silk Shirtwaists, value to d A O $3.00, all sizes and colors V L JO Big Line Fine Voile Wash Waists all sizes, value to $1.48 ...... 98c Big line Children's Dresses, all styles ! O AO and sizes $1.48 to U3 570 27-in. Silk Poplin, all colors, Qr 75c values, per yard JZJ Best yard wide Unbleached Cotton 25c grade, per yard . . w Lot Silk Poplin Skirts, $5.98 value dj O QO all colors vO JO All Ladies Suits, Presses, Capes and Dolmans, 10 PER CENT OFF REGULAR PRICE Taffeta Silks, all colors d 1 CtHL $2.00 grade, per yard tj 1 eOO Ladies Hats at big saving, prices QO beautiful line $2.48 to V O 57 O Lot Ladies Pumps and Oxfords, value d aq to $5.00, special vl SO Lot Men's Oxfords, most all sizes, d A J? they are $5 to $7.50 shoes, special VwO The above are only twenty items on Sale. We will have a hundred items specially priced. Make this store your headquar ters when in Elizabeth City. Write us for samples. Send us open orders for anything you want. But we would like to have you visit this Big Store and see for yourself The Live Store epairtaieiniH: fore O. F. GILBERT, Proprietor AFTER 1919 ALL TAXES TO BE LISTED JAN. 1ST. $300 Personal Property Exemption For Each Tax Payer and Farmers May Deduct Debts After this year the State goes to the calendar year as the official tax year. Personal property will be listed in the usual way this year, as of the first day of May, and the revaluation of real pro perty for 1920 wil be made as of the first day of May of this year, but the listing: of personal property for 1920, under the revaluation act, will be made as of the first day of next January, and annually thereafter, as of the first day of January. There were many considerations led to this chancre. The most important was the very de cided trend of all business affairs to the calendar year as the basis of an nual accounting- and reckoning-. The tendency has been in this direction for years, and the adoption of the calendar year by the Federal Government as the "basis of reports for corporation and individual income and excess profits Ttax reports has made the practice of using the calendar year as the basis of accounting almost universal. It is -the day of settlements and the one !ay on which every one should have the most accurate knowledge of his assets and liabilities. By adopting this date the same sys tem of accounting will fit both State and Federal income tax requirements. It will give more time for the listing of property and for more careful and accurate making up of tax books. Three Hundred Dollars Personal '. Property Exempt At the same time the calendar year provision goes into effect January 1, 1920 there is made effective the full "amount of exemption authorized by the Constitution three hundred dollars of personal property to every taxpayer. The items of personal property entitled to this exemption are : "Wearing ap parel, arms for muster, household and kitchen furniture, the mechanical and agricultural instruments of mechanics and farmers, libaries and scientific in struments and provisions." Debts May Be Deducted From Farm Products This change in tax listing date with out some remedial provision would have encouraged the early marketing of cotton, tobacco, and other farm pro ducts. This is provided for by permit ting farm products held temporarily for market on January first "on storage in warehouses, in the hands of commis sion merchants or agents in or out of the State, or in the hands of original producers, and held temporarily for market," to be treated as solvent cred its, and "the owner may deduct from the actual value of such products any debts owing by the owner," etc. If the owner is not in debt his tax liabi lity will not be affected by the change in date anyway, for if the property were marketed before tax listing day he would have its equivalent in money; or other taxable property. The New Act Looks For All Personal Property to Go On Tax Books Bear In mind that none of the chan ges mentioned in this article apply to this year's listing of personal pro perty, but the revaluation act antici pates that as thorough effort will be made to get all personal property on tax lists at its actual value in 1920 as to get all real property valued at its actual value. Under the radically re duced tax rates that will apply under the revaluation in 1920 there will be no excuse left for evasion, and the same officers who will make the revalua tion of real property are expected to be as thorough in their efforts to require a full disclosure of all personal pro--perty, and they are given complete authority of examination under oath, not only of the owner, but of any one having knowledge of the ownership. The revaluation act is not aimed at any one, two or three classes of prop erty, but seems to be ample in its pro visions to secure the listing and valua tion of all property of all kinds by the one honest rule of actual worth, and under a guarantee of a square deal in the matter of tax rates In return. This article completes a .brief pre sentation of the main features of the revaluation act. The several articles on this subject have not been intended as propaganda or preaching, but to present in the form of newspaper stor ies the more important provisions of this most important law. GET HANDKERCHIEF FORM MRS. EDITH GALT WILSON Sligo Rebekah Lodge Will Dispose of ' Unique Gift for Benefit of Orphans Mrs. Wood row Wilson, first lady of the land, has presented Sligo Rebefeah Lodge No. 118 with an Irish Linen handkerchief and Mrs. Wilson consents to the ladies of that lodge disposing of the handkerchief as they see fit, for the benefit of the I. O. O. F. Or phanage at Goldsboro. The bandkekrchief is hemstitched and has small scalloped lace around hem, Jnst such a handkerchief as the most fashionable mistress who ever presided in the White House might be expected to possess. Miss Lillian D. Flora, of Ttrllsv N. C, who is the vice president of the Sligo- Kebekahs, ob tained the handkerchief from Mrs. Wil son. She says it req.udre5 "nerve" to ask the president's lady for even so small a gift, but it only required the asking" and Mrs. Wilson very graciously responded. The Sligo Rebekahs will present the dainty treasure to the person who guesses the exact number of scallops in the lace. Guesses cost 25 cents each and should be sent to Miss Lillian D. Flora, Tulls, N.- C. The proceeds go to' the Odd Fellows' Orphanage. DELCO LIGHT is the name of the compact electric light plant for farms "and country homes. Delco Light was developed by the same organization that made "Delco Starting and Lighting for Automobiles the standard of the world. Delco-LIght will furnish an abun dance of electricity for lights and light power on a farm at a cost of only a few cents a day. A Delco-LIght representative will gladly give you a demonstration any time at your home. DELCO-LIGHT PRODUCTS Elizabeth City, N. C Agency for Currituck, Pasquotank, Camden. Chowan, and Perquimans counties. adv. Chic Tints in Teeth. In Japan the professional beauty laves to appear with golden teeth; in India she prefers them stained red, but in certain parts of Sumatra no lady who respects herself would con descend to haTe any front teeth, at all. Rocky Mountain Herald. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT Whereas, God in His infinite good ness has seen It best to take from our commixnfty our co-worker and friend, Mrs. Bertha Tillett on the 20th day of January in the year 1919 and - Whereas by her death our Better ment Society has sustained a great loss-' and" the bereaved family a fond and' loving: wife anct mother, therefore, be it resolved by the members of the Popiar Branch Betterment Society: First,- That In the death of Mrs. TiT let tne society has lost one of its loyal members-, Secondr That we express our deep est sympathy to the heart broken fam ily. Third;: That a copy of these resolu tions be placed on our Betterment Society Record and a copy sent to ."The Independent". LELA DELLINGER, 3VEOLA WILLIAMS, NELL MOORE, CARRIE PARKER-WALKER. Keep Up the "Friend Supply." The stsecoss of every life, as well as its happiness, depends very largely on its friendships. Take time to make friends. Take time to keep them. There are a great-many unnecessary things which can be omitted from our daily activities and no harm done, but for the making and for-the keep ing of our friendships in repair one must find time, whatever else Is neglected. ROBERT WELCH, JR. JOINS THE INDEPENDENT STAFF Brilliant Young Northeastern North Carolinian Will Jingle Current Events INDEPENDENT readers will wel come a new feature which 'makes its first appearance in this weeks' issue under the caption "Headline Jingles", by Robert H. Welch, Jr. Mr. Welch will contribute his column of verse each week, telling In lively jingles the gist, of the news of the state, the nation and the world at large. Mr. Welch is now living with his parents at Stock ton Farm, in Durants Neck, Perqui mans county. He recently gave up a life time job in the U. S. Navy to try his hand at writinjr. for the magazines. He Is a graduate of the Elizabeth City High School, the University of North Carolina and the U. S. Naval Aca demy, Annapolis. The addition of Mr. Welch gives THE INDEPENDENT a considerable contributing staff. This newspaper Is already featuring a digest of public events .by Dr. Geo W. Paschal of Wake Forest, a state news letter by Tom Bost, of the Raleigh Times and occasional cartoons by Selby Harney. THE INDEPENDENT is acquiring new writers to better serve the growing numbers of INDEPENDENT readers. Piston Rings. Piston rings, of which millions are used yearly, are shaped by centrifugal action from molten metal in the spe cial machine of DeLavaud. In tests at Columbia university, it has been shown that these rings are not only made faster than by other methods, but are actually stronger and more resilient than rings of the same chemical com position cast in sand. The miscroscope reveals a more uniform and finer structure. There's the Rub. Said the facetious feller: "As oper ators, . the modern girl would rathei qualify for the switchboard than for the washboard." MICKIE SAYS S "TVAL St EAXMri SOB-SCRXBtO., VMUO PAN-IS WS EACH 'SEfcfc.-R. ANMEN iVs DUE . AT THS F0UVJ-11N OF "tfRO-Olrr HtfS A REG -LAB. tMBV-BEft. , fVV S-TEA.O-W SO&-SCRAS.ER, SO LON-M. KM -TR.OS.. Especially if He's Married. If you want everybody in town to know a story inside of two days Just whisper it as a secret, and make tie man you tell It to swear that he wiH not repeat it. Cincinnati Enquirer. Hickory Best Fuel Wood. Hickory of the nonresinoas woods is said to have 1 he highest fuel value per unit volume of wood, and has other advantages. It f burns ewly and holds the heat. The oaks come next, followed by beech birch and maple. Chinese Seclusion. So successfully has China succeed ed in secluding herself from the rest of the world that there are places within her borders where Christian white men have never eet foot even to this day. How very remarkable tnis fact is will be realized when one con siders that the Christian white man has been he most restless wanderer known to history. Judging the World. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confes on of character. We can only see vhat we are, and, if we misbehave, we suspect others. Emerson. MEN WHO USE THEIR EYES CONTINUALLY Are Almost Invariably Wearers of Galeski Glasses They know that highest per sonal efficiency is not possible without good eyesight, and that Mediocre glasses are dear at any price. Galeski Glasses Are GOOD FOR THE EYES Tl8S GALESKI01" 209 GRAN BY ST. (Opposite Monticello Hottl) Kodak Headquarters o o O Saturday, April 19th, at No. 8 Water St. we will sell for cash only several thousand dollars of merchandise of all descriptions from wreck of steamer "Elizabeth" at Rodanthe. Some of the goods slightly damaged. Sale starts at 11 o'clock A. M. Look for the Red Flag. C. O. R OBINS ON