Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-30
WINTER WEATHER IN wYrHEvILLE.
How Christmas Was Celebrated In tho
Mountain City-Heavy Mails.

How Christmas Was Celebrated In tho
Mountain City-Hesvy Mails.
wYTHEvILLE. VA. December 2s.--
(SpeciaL)-Our Christmas snow was some
what belated, but arrived In state.
ushered by stormy winds and attended by
lowering skies and white-crested noun
tain tops the night OF Christmas-day
Fitfully and gustily the fieecy flakes
came down all day Wednesday and part
OF Thursday, so that we have q WE'LL
packed 6-inch snow covering enough to
make many magic hillsides and fill the
chiidren's hearts with wild mirth-enough
to make glad the fortunate young ladies'
whose gallants can by any means procure
a vehicle on runners. To prosy older
folks it means wet feet, slushy cross
ings. bedraggled door-steps and porches,
bad colds cross servants, fretful children,
fuming housekeepers, and general discom-
fort. And unless we have preserved
youths spectacles. to don on such oc-
casions, the glee Of the school-boy, the
gay spirits of the rosy maiden. and the
frolicksome fun Of the college youth
seem oddly out Of tune with the weather
and our feelings. How much there is
In "the point of view" after ALI
Christmas-day was a quiet one IN
Wytheville, being celebrated by family
gatherings and home Christmas-trees.
The streets were deserted for the most
part, save for a few staggering,
drunken men and the ubiquitous small
boy with his fire-crackers.
PAINFUL ACCIDENTS
Mr.. Stephenson, OF Abingdon, received
a painful injury In one eye by the prema-
ture explosion Of q cannon-cracker which
he was attempting to light from a cigar
I'm his mouth. DR.. John Graham rendered
immediate medical assistance, and thinks
the eye can be saved.
Mr.. Tom Waifett, Jr., also had his
mouth hurt and face burned by cannon
cracker.
Captain Frank Blair and his son, Mr.,
John Blair put In an upset bid on Mon
day OF 2,7A on the "Ewell- Block" pro-
perty, on Main street, recently purchased
by Mr.. A. A. Campbell for 1924.
Mr.. T. G. Kent, the postmaster here.
SAYS that the mails at this post-office
during the past two months have been
unprecedentedly heavy, and that on the I'D
of December the mail handled was the
largest on record. On one day recently
more than SEQ worth Of stamps were sold.
Mr.. w. s. Poage gave a supper Wednes-
day evening to the younger members or
the bar here and a few special friends.
About twenty guests enjoyed the lavish
hospitality and good fellowship Of the eve-
ming.
Wythevile has two magazine circles
this winter.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. T. c.. Kent returned home on the
22d after an absence of two months visit
| ing friends In New York, Boston, and
| Richmond.
Mrs. w. II. Boiling and Miss Bertha
| Boiling, who have been visiting Mrs
| Gait, In Washington, came home just be-
| fore the holidays.
Miss Leila Brown was brought home by
| her mother from the Woman's College
in Lynchburg, on Monday quite sick, and
| IS still seriously, though not dangerously
| sick at her home here.
| Neither the Current-Events' Club mol
| the Thursday Club had their regular
| meetings this week. They were post
| poned until next week. .-- 4 -. is---ii
Misses Sayers entertained few friend:
| very pleasantly Thursday evening.
! Miss Eloise Alexander and Miss Faison
| of the Plumer College faculty, are spend
ing their Christmas holidays In the
| northern cities.