Someone Drowned a Dog at Knobbs Creek Intake, Aug. 2, 1923

Dead Dog Is Found Near Water Intake

Good evening. Do you drink water from Knobbs Creek? Have you noticed anything particularly pungent about its flavor lately?

There’s a reason for the question.

Said reason was discovered by Dr. J.D. Hathaway and reported to City Manager Bray Wednesday. Mr. Bray immediately got in touch with Superintendent Parker of the Elizabeth City Water Company and Mr. Parker proceeded to the ditch draining into Knobbs Creek beyond the Knobbs Creek bridge, about 350 feet from the intake, and had removed from that spot a sack containing a dead dog or some other animal.

It is supposed that somebody who wanted to make way with a dog put the animal into a sack and threw it into the ditch.

“The Water Company,” says City Manager Bray, “is charged by law with responsibility for policing the watershed of the city’s water supply. I don’t know whether the company has been doing this or not but I am going to see that it does do it from now on.”

From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Aug. 2, 1923