Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-03-20
vIR GINA II APPENING

NC hOu AutbeCc ~ Due08 NlSL8
WAS Olowu Out Last week OWING to
the scarcity VI ore.
The Newport News Shipbuildiug
Company has contracts tor building
Is snips, ~ cost SSo, UOU,UUO.
Botn Of the Hsrrison0urg banks
have established savings depart
ment IN their Institutions.
Ex-Presldent Cleveland has been
enloyIng - hunting trip 1T Ragged
lsisnd, aud Is very mucn pleased WIN
his treatment by the people or the
Eastern shore.
Newport News bopes to hold =
military Carnival at M early date for
tue purpose Of Raising fluids To .eud
her militia To the Pau American
Exposition.
ROckOridge county farmers are
doing quite - thriving business in
railroad Ties. From lumber Ridge
sOuIe ten farmers have marketed
yearly 10000 Ties, the average price
OeIng SO cents tie.
BY the will of George w. Lowry
MS beautiful farm neAr Salem, Ros-
yoke county, consisting Of l56 acres,
aud quite - sun of mouey INVESTED
IN Kansas are left to the Salem
Lutheran OrphauAge.
10 spite of the uupropitious wealth
er the truckers of Northampton
county are we'll under way with their
planting of their spriDg crop of
Irish potatoes aud bedding of sweet
POTATOES.
The Hygeis Hotel, at Virgin
Beach, has been bought 10y the
the Chamberlain Hotel Co., aud the
two hotels will be run SO as not To
conflict with each other. Que will be-
used for the winter season aud the
other for the summer.
The trial trip of the battleship H.
linols, built by the Newport News
ShIpbulding Co, was very success
full aud highly satisfactory to the of
ticers of the Navy aud the company.
This makes the sixth big ship to be
built At Newport.
I.ittIeton T. Wake, student of
the University of Virginia. commit
ted suicide last week. A tit of de-
spOudency, due TO III health. is said
20 have caused the act. The unfort-
muste young man was from Norfolk.
where his family are prominent PEG
pie.
In fight with pistols Treasurer
John L. Walters, of Charlottesville.
WAS shot down by his brother-in-l law,
Stuart B4ily. last week, at the form
er's home in that place. The shoot
ing has caused 3 sensation in Char
lottesville, and il lie said to have re
suited from a Misunderstanding. A
saloon keeper, Farrsr, supposed in
some way implicated in the affair, has
left the city.
Ira Sheets, a young man of Mount
Pisgah, Augusta county, committed
suicide at Bridgewater by shooting
himself through the heart last Sat
urday night. He took his life on
the front door steps of the home of n
young lady to whom be was very at.
tentive and whom be thought pre-
ferred another who also was paving
her attention.
Harvard University has sent to
Washington aud Lee University. Ms q
gift, n check for $4,000. Herbert
Welsh, of Philadelphia, has received
The check, and rs treasurer of the
Wilson endowment fund which, as
soon as it reaches 100000, will he
used to establish chair of economics
At the university IN honor of the late
president, William L. Wilson, has
placed it to the credit of that fund.
The Bauserman- Brenneman fac.
lion of the democratic party in Shen
indoah county have issued call for
convention TO meet 10 Woodstock
April 10th for the purpose of nomi
mating candidate tor the constitu
tional convention. 1t is expected
that this call will force the New
'nan Rhodes to hold a separate con
vention for the same purpose which
would result in two democratic can
'Iidates being in the field. and in all
probability a republican will carry
IF the plum.
Money to burn" was the motto
over fireplace set up in mems out
fitting establishment on Broad street.
Richmond. and the fireplace was
rhickly strewn with 81 bills, over
which lay 81 bank note tied with
blue ribbon. The money is YOURS if
vOu guess nearest the number of this
note" said the printed card. A thief
last week broke the plate glass win.
dow with a stone. under the full
glare of an arc electric light, and Sc
cured the notes, taking nothing else.
The firm has 1000 guesses on it's
hands and is guessing AS to how it
was done.
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