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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Casn quotations were as follows: Flour
So; straights. ss.ssas.so; Cleans clears. s ss.SSa
30; spring specials, s.10a4.25; patents.
s. 20gSeO: straights,. s2.SOa31O; bakers,
g 81 sq : No. 2 spring wheat ssq71hc:
a2a14c; No. 2 corn, 34kc; No. 2 oats. 27G
IAc; No.. 2 white. aOG39lkc: No. 8 white.
Eagoc; mess 9s pork per bbl- ss-2oas,25:
sides, loose, s4.5Od4.S5: dry sailed shout
ders, boxed, A.37ha45O: short clear sides.
boxed. A-S5a5.O5; whiskey, distilIers' fin,
lsned goods, per gallon, s1.2s.
New York. April s.-Flour quiet and
wheat-suot steady; No. 2 red PC. On.
tons opened firm on better cables than
expected, but weakening under fine
weather and q raid by bear traders. ruled
heavy all the forenoon. closing weak al
sc ret decline. MAY closed at 7easc: july
closed at I6c; September closed at T4IIc.
Corn-Spot frmer; No. ? 43G44c. Oh.
sequently yielded to realizing and closeI
easy at &c net decline. Nav closaJ a,
SSasc; July closed at 3sZc.
Oats-Spot dull; No. 2 s31kc. Options in.
active. P''ohs All
kard-Dull; western steamed s5.55; April
sS,5z nominal; refined steady
ggs-Fir state and pap,svlva,fa
12hc. southern L-e
Petroleum-Quiet: refined New York
in bulk $4e0. ~-"' w
Riee-Ffrm: domestic. fair to extra. pa
&c; p 5Q5kc.
cotton Seed Oil-Prime crude 22dzanc.
Sonee-options opened steady and un-
ruled quiet with firm under
tons IN small receipts. large warehouse
usnsSfies' increased consumptive de-
mand and favorable average to cabie
nems, though few orders received from
nsssLment public, interest in that direc-
anoa seer TO be growing: closed steady
800 bags, including May at sos: July al
30 spot coffee-Rio steady; No. Z in
ro1ee ebl6Ac; No. Z jobbing ezlsZc;
hIo steady; Cordova Sc.
ougar-Raw strong: fair refining &c:
centrifugal. Sc test, fHc; molasses sugar
&c: refined firm; mould A 5kc; granu-
NAVAL SAORES.
New York-Rosin firm; strained common
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
Looking for n Big Strawberry Season

Looking for a BIG strawberry Season
Mayor w. L. Hill, of Warsaw, presi-
dent of the East Carolina Truck and
Fruit Growers Association, Mr.. J. S.
Westbrook, of Faison, and DR.. e. Por-
ter, of Rocky Point, members of the
executive committee Of the association,
were in the city yesterday to confer
with the authorities of the Atlantic
Coast Line with regard to the refriger-
ator cars for transporting the strawber-
ry crop of this season. We understand
that two trains a day will be run up
the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
to handle the crop.
We learn from Mr.. WestbroOk that
it will tax the refrigerator people to
furnish enough cars to handle the bus
mess. He thinks there will be an enor-
NOUS crop. The snow and ice last
Tuesday and the subsequent frost of
| Wednesday morning, he tells US, did
practically no damage. He estimates
that of the increased crop not exceeding
twenty-five per cent. of the blooms were
killed, and that with pretty weather
the vines will bloom out again. The
crop which has received attention is SO
far advanced now that the vines con-
tain green berries of various sizes,
many as large as the end of ones finger.
He says it is not expected that points
in the berry region north of Faison
will commence shipping before May LIST.
He states that Wilmington berries will
be in the market earlier and that prob
ably our growers will ship
ping about the Goth instant.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
HEARINGS In RICHMOND COUNTY


Yesterday brought forth two more
Dockery notices. both of which were
served upon Congressman John D.
Bellamy in the afternoon by Sheriff
MacRae.
Both notices are from Richmond
county and to the effect that Dockery
will take rebuttal evidence in his con-
test Ease at two points in Richmond
county, Rockingham and Laurinburg.
The hearing in Rockingham will COM
mence Wednesday morning before w.
w. Kelly, notary public. Thirty-onc
witnesses have been summoned for this
hearing, the majority of which are
from Rockingham, and the others are
from EElerbe, Laurinburg, Roberdeu,
Diggs, Gibson Station, Mangum, Mabie,
Powelton, Troy and Hamlet.
The Laurinburg investigation is set
for the 18th instant, n the same no.
tary public, w. w. Kelly, will officiate.
About fifteen witnesses will testify at
his hearing, coming from Laurinburg,
Stewart, Foncal, McNairs and Con
claVes
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COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Only Six Now Remaining Open, the
other Sixteen Havi z Closed

Nearly all Of the county public
schools outside Of Wilmington,
have closed until next session, COM
mencing in October, and the few now
remaining open will follow suit during
newt two or three weeks. Out Of TWEEN
ty-two schools in the county all have
closed except six, which are n white
and one colored in Federal DIN town.
ship, one white in Harnett township,
and one white and one colored in Cape
Fear township.
The past session Of the county pub
lie schools has been a very successful
one. The attendance has been quite
large and everything passed off
smoothly and well. One of the school
houses, situated at Castle Haynes, was
destroyed by fire, but the loss was al
most covered by insurance. The build
ing was insured for $345 with a COM
pany represented by Mr.. C.. E. Chad
bourn, which amount was three-fourths
the value of the building.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
FRErGHT D-IsCalmrNAr1oN

20 sat I'm Wilmington April 20th 10
Hear the Complaint Of the Whining.
ton Tariff Associanon-They VIII Al.
80 Hear Complaint From b Hilton
Lumber Company
The Hon. w. A Day, Of Washington,
D.. c., one of the most prominent rail-
road attorneys in this country, who
has been retained to appear for the
Wilmington Tariff Association in b
hearing Of its complaint to the Inter
State Commerce Commission as TO dis
elimination in freight rates against
Wilmington in favor of Virginia points,
t~elegraphed yesterday to Mr.. James
Kyle, Of the Tariff Associa-
been definitely settled on for h Inter-
State Commerce Commission to sit in
Wilmington to hear the complaint.
Quite an array OF counsel will be here
to represent the various railroads in
terested in the case, as it involves rates
on freight from Western points.
While the Interstate Commission is
mere it will also hear a complaint filed
by the Hilton Lumber Company, Of
Wilmington. AS to this cause we copy
the following from the April number
Of The Official Travellers Guide, Of
New York:
"a complaint was filed on March 10Th
by the Hilton Lumber Company, Of
wilmington, n. c., against the Will
mington and Weldon Railroad Com
pany, the Norfolk and Carolina Rail-
road, Richmond n Petersburg Rail-
road, Petersburg Railroad, Atlantic
Coast Line Association, Seaboard n
Roanoke Railroad, Raleigh and CASTOR
Railroad, Carolina Central Railroad,
c-zL1z- A. i've Nau, v1rL philo-
delphia and Norfolk Railroad, Phila-
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Bal
timore and Potomac Railroad, Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad, and the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford Railroad. The COM
plant alleges that these carriers charge
unreasonable and unjust rates on
lumber from Wilmington to Philadel-
phia, Jersey City and Boston, as com
pared with their rates on lumber to
the same destinations from Norfolk,
and that UGH rates also subject the
complainant and other manufacturers
and shippers at Wilmington to wrong
full discrimination, undue and unreas-
| enable prejudice and disadvantage, and
! make and give undue and unreasonable
preference and advantage to manufac-
turers n shippers at Norfolk. The
complaint sets forth, among other
things, that the rate on lumber from
Wilmington to Boston is rs cents, as
compared with a rate Of Is cents from
Norfolk. It claims that the rate per
ton per mile from Wilmington is
| wrongfully greater than from Norfolk,
and also that although the rail rates
from both points are based upon water
| competition the rate from Norfolk is
only LAT per cent. of the water rate,
while the rate from Wilmington is 1S3
per cent. of the water rate"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
Died Yesterday Morning

The Messenger announces with sor-
row the death Of Mr.. R. J. Fitzgerald,
winch occurred yesterday morning at
4 IL The deceased was an esti-
mable n industrious young a and
has a large circle of warm friends,
whom the news Of his death will deep
~ grieve. He was in the S4th year OF
his age.
The funeral will take place at 8
O'Clock this afternoon from his late
residence, on Bladen street, between
Seventh and Eighth.
The Hibernian Society. of which the
deceased was a member. will attend
the funeral in a body.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

wflmington Negroes Assault Mr..
e. Britson I'm Northampton County
and seriously Inture Him-He Shot
One Of Them


and seriously Iniure Him-He Shot
One Of Them
The Patron and Gleaner, OF Rich
Square, Northampton county. in its is
sue of Thursday says:
.'One of the most dastardly attempts
at murder known in the county for
some time was reported from Conway
Monday morning. William Beale, whose
Beale, of Potecasi, and Robert and
George Campbell, who participated in
the Wilmington riots last November,
(all coiored), made a plot last Sunday
to kill Mr.. James Z. Britton on Monday
morning, when he went into the woods
to Measure some cord wood which the
three negroes had cut for him.
AS a result Of the attack, which was
carried out according to their plans.
Mr.. Britton Is seriously wounded by be-
ing hit on the head with an iron wedge
and the butt of a pistol, while n OF
the negroes (Beale) carries a ball in
his body, which DR.. Freeman, Of Muir
freesboro, after probing six inches in
his body, has failed to locate. The
Campbells made their escape at the
time, but later were captured in We'll
don and one Of them brought back TO
Conway yesterday, the other being
held in Weldon for carrying a pistol.
which was found on him when arrest
/ ed.
Nh Britton's brother was nearby
when he was attacked, went to his as
sistance and put the negroes to fight
Notwithstanding a pistol was pointed
at him and his life threatened if he
advanced. Mr.. James E. Britton, the
wounded man, and who was attacked
from behind when he least expected it,
did the shooting after being knocked
down and otherwise beaten.
Yesterday wednesday, morning he
was reported as doing fairly we'll. The
/ condition of mis- assailant who was shot
is considered critical"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11

Charlotte News: There Is a move
ment on foot TO move the town OF Har-
risburg, a the line between Cabar-
rus and Mecklenburg counties and the
scene OF the terrible railroad wreck on
the Southern two years e a mile
north or It's present site. It seems that
the people who own the property
around the place refuse to sell IT at
any reasonable price, and persons de-
string to build stores or residences are
shut out.
Durham Herald: Mrs. F. $. Leath-
ers Is dead. This sad announcement
was heard or the streets yesterday
with regret. She died in the Johns
Hopkins hospital. where she had gone
some weeks ago for treatment. MT
feathers was a daughter of the late
Colonel d. c. Parrish and a sister OF
MRS. Julian s. Carr, Mrs. A. q: carr
and Mrs. Fannie Halliburton, of this
city, and Captain E. j. Parrish, who
recently moved to Japan.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
MISSIONARY INSTITUTE.

MISSIONARY INSTITUTE.
The Missionary Institute for the Viii
mington district M. E. Church, South,
will be held in Grace church, his city,
on Wednesday and Thursday, April
26th and 9th. The following is the
programme:
Wednesday, April 26, 8 p. m.-Open-
ing sermon. The call for missionaries
at home, Rev. r. w Bailey.
4 p. m.-Missionary mass meetings;
their value and how to conduct them,
Rev. E.. c.. Sell.
4:3O p. m.-The best method of rails
ing the missionary collection, Rev. L.
M. Chaffin and Rev. J. J. Porter.
5 p. differentiation of missionary
literature, Rev. B. F. DeLoatch.
8 p. m.-Sermon; A general survey CT
the good already accomplished by
Home Missionary work, Rev. A. r. Ra-
ven.
Thursday, April 27th.-9 a. m.-De-
votional exercises and an address on
prayer and missions, Rev. A. P. Tyer.
$3.50 a. Moods call upon the church
for Foreign Mission work, Rev. A. S.
Barnes. Why we are a. Missionary
church, Rev. B. B. Culbreth.
10 a. m.-The preachers responsible
ity for the missionary spirit of his
people, Hon.. Frank Thompson, Rev.
D.. A. Futrell.
II a. m.-Sermon. Let the mission
airy conscience of the church be arous-
! ed, Rev. J. w. Wallace.
5 p. m.-The missionary work of our
| church, Rev. Henry E. Trip.
| 4 p. m.-The Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, Rev. c.. w. Smith.
4:3O p. m.-Woman's Home Mission
airy Society, Rev. w. E.. Hocutt.
5 p. m.-The Sunday-school and miss
| sions, Rev. D. B. Parker.
s p. m.-The Holy Ghost and Mis-
| sions, Rev. J. II. Hall.
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to good. y-s1Is. Turpentine firm at $50
43ikc.
sales none. RosIn steady and unchanged:
sales none
Savannah-Splrits t~urpentine firm at
ioizc; sales Al; receipts 80. Rosin firm
and Unchanged: sales none: receipts e.l6.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
FINANCIAL.

New York, April s.-Money on call firm
at sac per cent; last loan at 6 per cent;
prime mercantile paper at 34444 per
cent; sterling exchange easier with ac-
tual business in bankers bills at A.s6G
1854 for demand and at A.S324G4.A for
sixty days; posted rates at A.S5G4.S5a and
AS7G4.S112: commercial bills at A.S1eM
Asa: silver certificates at 60I6012: bar sill
yer at 1912: Mexican dollars at Az: state
bonds Inactive; railroad bonds firm: gov
inner bonds strong.
COTTON.
Liverpool, April ST. p. m.-Cotton.-
ding csc. The sales of the day were
1000 bales, of which 800 were for specula-
ton and export and included 1000 Amer
lean: receipts 5000 bales, including 1000
moderate demand and closed quiet at the
advance.
American middling. low middling clause:
April 8 21-64d buyers; April n May
ers; June and July 8 21-6+d3 22-64d SELL
ers; July and August 8 21-64d3 22-G4d buy
ers; August and September 3 2-e4d3 22-64d
sellers; September and October 3 21-64d
sellers; October and November 8 2O-64a
8 21-64d buyers; November and December
8 20-64d buyers; December and anuar
9 20-64d buyers; January and February
3 2O-64d buyers; February and March
3 2-64G3 21-64d buyers.
THE NEW YORK MARKET.
New York, April s.-Cotton steady; mid
ding 6 3-16c; net receipts 100: gross re-
ceipts 1,S3S; sales 400; stock 154, SIS.
Total today: Net receipts II, 104: exports
to Great Britain 1856; to the continent
1872; stock 755,2Q.
Total ince September 1st: Net receipts
1865. 70S; exports to Great Britain 3,159. 727:
to France e64, 49,; to the continent 1885,
las.
Spot cotton closed steady: middling up
lands 6 3-16c; niddling gulf 6 7-16c; sales
400 bales.
Cotton futures closed quiet. April $50,
May $50, Jun $50, July and August 5.94,
September 5.91. October 5.94. November
5.95, December SIS, January Gel, February
| 6.04, March COZ.
GRAIN AND PROVISION.
| Chicago, April s.-The leading futures
| ranged as follows:
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WILMINGTON MARKETS.

Wilmington. ". C. April s.
Receipts OF cotton todayS bales
Receipts on same day last year-2s
bales.
This seasons receipts TO date-ess,so
bales.
Receipts to same date last year-sli,eie
bales.
The quotations posted a, 4 O'Clock TO-
day at the exchange:
Cotton firm.
Good ordinary l5-lo
Low middiing s-le
Aiddiing ;;.--". .-"." s,s
Prices same day last year-5sc.
NAVAL STORES.
Spirits turpentine-No sales for want of
stock; price held at 40c.
Rosin firm al 95c and 800.
Tar firm at Sc.
Crude turpentine firm: hard S.S: soft
s2.40.
Prices same day last year-Spirits tpr-
pentine &c and 26ixc: rosin $40 and $.15;
tar soc; crude turpentine $40 and $50.
Receipts today-11 casks spirits turpen-
tine. Is barrels rosin, IS barrels tar. -
barrels crude turpentine.
Receipts same day last year-l22 casks
barrels tar, . barrels crude turpentine.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Peanuts-Noth Carolina 20 to 15c: Wiz
ginia 60 to CSC; Spanish s. TO 9ec.
Rice-Nothing doing.
Corn-4 to SOC.
Corn meal-51c.
Cow peas-60c.
North Carolina Bacon-Hams. 9 10 l0c:
shoulders. 6 TO &c: sides, S to &c.
Chickens-Slow; spring, 10 to 1Sc: hens.
p to 2oc; ROSTERS, IS TO ac.
Eggs steady at &c.
Shingles-Per 1000 five inch, hearts and
saps. $1.50d2.10: six inch, $2.50d3.50.
Timber at $500 TO $500 per 1000 feet.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-04-11
MEETINGS
The Conference of Wilmington District
M. Il. Church South to Meet at South
port-MissiOnary Institute to be Held
in Wilmington

The Wilmington district conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, will at Southport, N. c.,
and will embrace the Fourth Sunday in
T,1po
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-03

600. The 216 locomotives cost nearly
two and one-half millions. The steel
rails purchased amounted to LA, 600
tons, costing S2,142. 1872, and there were
bought over 3,000.0 600 cross ties, cost
ing $780, 900, and 100000 cubic yards
of ballast, amounting to S525, 000. The
new steel bridges aggregate in value
$780, 900 and fully as much more was
spent in improving the several term
inals, erecting new buildings, reducing
grades and changing the alignment.
The maintenance of way pay rolls, or
the amount paid directly to men en-
ployed in making Improvements on the
tracks, etc, in three years, was nearly
twelve millions of dollars.
The total amounts to about thirty
five millions, of which about fifteen
millions were secured by the issuance
of receivers certificates and the ball
ance through cal trusts, earnings from
the property and from the reorganiza-
ton managers. Most of the purchases
of equipment and rails were made when
material was low in price and manu-
featuring concerns were in great need
of orders to keep their plants in opera
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-03
TOMORROW AT MOZART,
The knights of Pythias will Hold Fonrth
at the Hill rop Resort.

at the Hill Top Resort.
Tomorrow is the glorious Fourth OF
July. and it will be celebrated by Couer
de Leon Company No. 1, Uniform Rank,
knights of Pythias, at Mozart r
during the afternoon and evening. n
company has been arranging for the
event for weeks past, and the only
thing that bothered them was h e
that the street car strike would not be
settled. This has been set aside, how
ever, and tomorrow at Mozart Park
promises to be one of the greatest days
in the history of that beautiful hilltop
resort.
The dancing and general amuse-
ments will begin at 2 o'clock n con-
tinue until midnight IL
Meister's fun band and orchestra VIII
furnish the music for the concert and
dancing. During the day bowling con-
tests will take place for costly prizes.
and in the evening a fine display OF
fireworks will be made to celebrate
the victory of Santiago and the sign
ing of the Declaration of independence.
All the members of the knights OF
Pythias in Wheeling and vicinity Will
be present, and members OF uniform
companies are requested to attend in
fatigue Uniform.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-03
Recreation That Recreates

And gives to life a new zest is found
in a trip TO the far famed M~ackinaw
Island, where cool breezes blow and
black bass bite. A voyage over the
upper lakes on the palatial D. & c.
boats is acknowledged by all who have
ever made the trip to be the most de-
lightful, restful and health giving trip
offered the public from this section.
Tuesday, July 18th. the Cleveland,
Lorain &. Wheeling Railway will run
their fifth personally conducted excur-
sion to Maekinaw under the charge of
Travelling Passenger Agent o. R. Wood.
Only ten dollars for the round trip,
tickets good fifteen days.
For particulars apply in person or by
letter to 0. R. Wood, City Ticket Of
fee, corner Twelfth and Market
streets, Wheeling, W. Va. $685., Z ,10,12
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TWO ZIG ONES IN ONE.


w
The CIrcuses Of Adam Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers Almost Here.
'sThe elephant, he goes round; the
band begins. to play; the boys about
the monkey cage had better keep
away" Such is the sonnet the Office
boy is humming these days just to keep
himself, and incidentally a great many
of his elders, in mind of the fact that
the circus is coming. And perhaps
there are many other boys just like
the office boy. And to perhaps
again, perhaps there are just as many
dads as there are office boys, and a
twenty story building to a doll house
would be a safe wager that they have
the date of Saturday, July 18th, jotted
down in their memorandum books, for
that is the date of the coming of the
Combined Adam Forepaugh and Sells
Bros. circus.
Fresh from metropolitan triumphs
and endorsed by the press of New
York" is the manner in which the cir
Gus manager expresses it, and judging
from the tenor of the notices enclosed
he has sufficient ground for his asser-
ton. Then the circus manager rises
to remark: whats in a name?" In
so far as a circus is concerned, "a great
deal" Adam Forepaugh and Sells
Brothers, by a gutta percha appllca-
ton of grammatical license, can be
made synonymous with biggest and
also "best."
But all of this is not exactly to the
point. The circus is coming. or rather
two of them are, in a bona fde consold-
dation. The one is the circus founded
and exploited by the late Adam Fore
paugh and the other that of the Sells
Brothers, the Western arenic chiefs.
The operators and directors OF the con-
solidated exhibition are ]. A. Bailey,
sole owner of the Barnum & Bailey
show, now in Europe; Peter and Lewis
Sells and w. w. Cole, all names to
conjure with in a matter of tented en-
terprises. This big combination is in
tended as a worthy successor IN the
Eastern country of the Barnum d
Bailey show. 1t will exhibit at the
Fair Grounds Saturday, July 10Th.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-03
1T COST THIRTY-FIVE MILLIONS.
An Enormous Sum spent in Rebuilding
RECOMMENDING the Baltimore and ohio.

The %receivership of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, which has just come
to a close, was remarkable in many
wavs. Messrs Cowen and Murray did
not follow precedent but went ahead
and placed the property in nrst class
shape instead OF attempting TO main
tain il in the condition that they found
it. OF course the receivers were up
held by a majority of the security hold
ers and the court, but the Baltimore
and Ohio ~receivership marked an epoch
in such affairs that will be historical.
The vast sums expended were put in
'96 and 81 when trade was at a low
ebb and money scarce.
During their administration the re-
ceivers purchased 1880 box cars, $3.50
wooden gondola cars, 5000 pressed
steel cars, 80 miscellaneous freight
cars, postal, express and dining can
equipment, at a total cost of l 7,0O0,-
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-03
LOU SWABACKER.
wbreIin9 Register

FOURTH OF JULY AT WHEELING PARK
Afternoon and evening, band concert and
dancing in Casino.
Afternoon-Three bicycle races.
Evening-S4OO display of fireworks.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-03
A BRIGHT BOY.

J. V. Blair, Jr., is truly the son Of
his father. Hon. J. V. Blair. The lit
tie fellow, though only ten years OF
age, can do good work IN a typewriter
and does much of his fathers copying
in his legal practice. He is now at
tending the West Union Business Col
lege and taking a course Of short
hand, which he is said to be taking up
very readily. He is a smart little boy
and will make a useful and intelligent
man when he grows up.-West Union
Record.