DOGS RESPONSIBLE
FORMATION OF TOWN Strav dogs with a taste for chicken were responsible for the incorporated town of Dell view, N.C., perhaps the smallest in the United States. In 1925 the three Dellinger brothers, operating a large chicken farm, were bothered by dogs. The dogs, because of lack of enforcement of county laws, played havoc with the fowls. Davis P. Dellinger, another brother and a lawyer in near-by Cherryville, and a part-owner of the farm, came to the rescue. He conceived and carried out the idea of incorporating the farm ns a town, by legislative enactment. Town ordinances against dogs running at large were passed, and the farming Dellingers were made town officers, armed with shotguns. Ten years ago fire destroyed the chicken business. The farm was put back in crops, but Dcllview remained a town with a population of eight—all Dellingers.
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Evening Star, Issue 23745, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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143DOGS RESPONSIBLE Evening Star, Issue 23745, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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