Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-13

tho town. The entertainment was as
pleasant az such charming most anu
hostess know how TO make IL. ,..
DIR. j. III. McBryde went 10 koahoNs
on Thursday TO attend a meeting or the
Executive Committee Of the Board OF
Visitors OF the Virginia POLYTECHNIC IN
stitute. called 10 consider important DUST
ness connected with the school. The other
members OF the committee are Captain
G. Il. vawter. of tho Miller Manual
School, and Mr. c. u. Graves, an attorney
of Roanoke.
Cadet TimberaiSe. who has been absent
for some time at hts home. In Lynch
burg has returned to his duties in the
institute.
Cadet McBroom. OF Abingdon. Va. Is
detained at his home by sickness
Deer are very abundant this season IN
the adjoining county OF Craig. though 1
have heard Of none in this county. a
short time ago a party Of hunters went
over TO the aforementioned county To-
weeks hunting and camping. Ihey
were remarkably successful. Thirteeif
deer and a very large bear were bagged,
Wild turkeys are said TO be very album
dant also I'm the mountains OF this ana
Craig county. though none have been
marketed as yet. Demonstrated turkeys
are almost drug on the market and
have been sold here at 6 cents a pound IN
the feathers.
LOW PRICE OF CORN.
Corn IS being freely offered and bought
at So cents bushoi. while cats have adj
vanced to % cents. There is scarcely any
wheat in the country. a large milling
firm at Newport IS Offering as much as 81
per bushel for Il, and find IT exceedingly
difficult 70 buy even at this price. our
farmers have sewed a large acreage Tor
next years CROP and II is all looking ex-
ceptionally well.
The oncampment Of Odd-Fellows recent
ly organized by the Grand Master here
organized a lodge at Newport this week.
Thirteen fine young fellows came over
and were duly initiated in the sacred rites
and ordinances.
our housekeepers are taking advantage
OF the convenient schedule now orcred
by the Norfolk and Western 10 run down
to Roanoke and DO their Christmas shop
ping. Several have already been down
and more will 90.
The Christmas trade IS now setting in
in earnest, and notwithstanding the cry
OF scarcity % money promises 20 be very
fine. Each day one may see the stately
country mstron ride In and 80 out laden
with packages and bundles destined 10
mako glad and merry many hearts. Many
Of the young men OF the county find en-
ployment during the year in the railroad
shops and Offices, and IN the coa-neids,
but with true American instinct their
hearts turn longngly at Christmas-time
TO tho Old home, and though It may re-
qure a years economy and patient saving
and self-denal, the loving mother al
WAYS manages 90 make tbs Christmas
spent At homo as merry and free from
care. and as abundant in the good things
which she alono knows how TO prepare,
as each preceding one has been. And who
may measure the worth and influence or
this yearly exhibition OF n mothers love
on tho life OF the boy rs he YEARLY tolls
the year through for q livelihood?
TEE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
The ladies Of the town are busily en-
gagged on An entertainment for the beneft
CT the Athletic Association, which Will be
given at the institute auditorium on next
Friday night. The attractive "Peek-a-Boo
Sisters" VIII be presented, and as the
histrionic talent engaged IN II IS we'll
known. It IS needless 10 say that they
will give brilliant performance 70 a
crowded house.