Folks Staying Health in Stumpy Point, Says A.G. Twiford, Jan. 14, 1921

According to A.G. Twiford of Stumpy Point, who was in town the other day, that thriving town offers no promising field for undertakers and doctors. There has been only one death in the place in over a year. No sickness to speak of during that time and nobody has been hurt. And due to the warm weather, probably, the stork seems to have neglected the place altogether. Nobody is making home brew there, so nobody gets drunk. There have been no disturbances there and the 250 inhabitants of the place have nothing exciting to entertain them, but the prospects of a profitable fishing season this Spring. (From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Jan. 14, 1921)