The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-08-12
WESTMORELAND.
Teachers Examination Improvements
The Senatorial Question. &c. sc.
Correspondence Of The Free Lance

Correspondence Of The Free Lance
Montross. Va Aug 10th. 1899
Mr.. T. Hunter the courteous and ef.
fcient superintendent Of public schools
of Westmoreland. held his examination
Of teachers at Montross. beginning
Tuesday, August lst, and finished Fri
day. the 4th There was quite an in
crease in the number Of applicants,
principally young ladies' The course
Of examination was regarded as quite
rigid. All have returned to their
homes, and with some anxiety. await
the final decision.
Saturday last the school trustees met
with full attendance
At MOntross a new and enterprislng
spirit seems to have taken possession Of
the people. The paint brush has been
brought into use and the sound Of nam.
mers and saws would indicate thAt
there will be no move Of the county
seat
Dr. Mann has beautifed the brick
residence purchased in the early spring
by adding handsome porch and paint
ing the entire building.
The Hotel Sandy is doing a lively
business under its popular manager, I.
Jackson
At Currioman Wharf new enterprise
has been started by that hustler, Mr. +.
Thrift This industry. tomato cannery.
gives new life to all the country sur
rounding Curri oman Wharf
DR.. Il. H. Stuart has purchased "a
new and improved clover huller to serve
both the public and himself. The crop
Of clover seed is far ahead Of any yield
for many years in both quantity and
quality Of seed.
Business aud money making seem to
occupy the attention chiefly Of the
farmers. but pause is occasloned when
some funny statement is now aud then
published in some of the papers an
nouncing that one or two counties at
least of the Northern Neck can be safely
counted for Martin, and that delegates
will 90 to the convention TINS instruct
ed, go | speak from personal knowl-
edge. gathered by contact with the peo-
pie, that those who compose the army
Of voters will show up in no uncertain
way on election day how they stand
with reference to the question Of elect
ing United States Senators.
The interest as to who shall be the
next representative in the Legislature
of the State is growing. A Northum-
berland correspondent thinks it imp)r.
tant that the man should be able TO
speak forcibly and make himself under.
stood on the floor of the House at Rich.
mond, and to fill the bill, offers a can
didate. Westmoreland cannot be IN
duced to yield her claim to the right to
furnish the man She has many ora
tors, good thinkers and good speakers.
Among other things attracting atten-
tion is the step taken by the board Of
supervisors in appropriating $1,000 to
repair and put in order the court house
aud clerks office. Westmoreland occu-
pies Appointment position in history,
and she is quite as noted for the num-
Der Of kickers at anything undertaken
for the public good, and some of them
do not stop kicking long enough to give
J the matter an intelligent thought. The
assessed value of taxable property, real
and personal, is 81, 296. 395 If bonds
are issued at 3 per cent. for twenty
years, the yearly interest on 81, 900, the
largest sum proposed to be expended,
will be $3.50, and if like sum is set
aside as sinking fund, the total to be
raised annually by the county will be
500, or less than cents on the 800 OF
the taxable values of the county If it
be a condition that the bonds can be
redeemed at the end Of five years, the
sinking fund by that time would be
81, $50, ,~end the Indebtedness, interest
fund and sinking fund and rate Of tax.
alton would grow every year less, and
the whole debt could be wiped out in
sixteen instead of twenty years.