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The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-29
I NTnE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE CIR

INTHE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE cls
l. CUT COURT Of the County OF Bueki,g
ham, on the Ord day OF March. 1901:
John +. Walton, who sues for the he,se,
OF himself and ail other creditors who
VIII contribute their prop0rtionale shsre
81 'or Plaintiff
against
Lewis B9li 3. Committee Of Allen Enc.
ana iho said Allen Lppes. Dofe.dants
ihe OBJECT OF iN's suit Is 10 force a settle
lhchi OF the lommiitee Of lien EppeS and
10 fubJect Wien Ippes estate In B1ckIng.
% go county To- paving The following iude.
menls in favor Of John r. Walton. fowl.
one judgment for c,l.JO with Interest RON
the yth Oc'H' p. 1898 tiii paid. and % cent.
cost ana another judgment for sl5NA with
interest rom l-t day of January. lSn Nm
pald, ana 500 costs. Homestead waived on
bOth judd ,menis.
A ma an affiGayit having been made and
MED That the defendant lien EppeS. Is not
"a resident OF the slate OF Virginia. il Is or.
dered mat he do appear here within fifteen
az afiei due p DlicatiOn hereof and DO
what may be nee ssary 10 protect his inter
es' ln THIS suit And 10 Is further Ordered
mat copy hereof be- published once a welk
for four successive weeks IN the FarmvilIe
Herald. and that "a copy be posted al The
mont door Of the courthouse OF this county,
on the first day OF the next term OF the coun.
IS court.
A copy-Teste:
r. A. FORBES, Clerk.
+ W. HUBBARD. D. q. mch 2g-4L
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-29
FarnnViIIe Graded
AND
High School.
FACULTY

RICHARD VI. SMITH, VI. a. University o
tor Of High school.
Miss FANNIE SNIrHssN, graduate state
Female Normal School.
Miss MAuDE GRAY. graduate state Female
Normal School.
Miss LOUIE MORRIS, graduate state Female
Normal school.
-O
school under the management OF Principal
y. 4. Starke and his cO-wOrkers. They de-
sire 10 develop 10 still more as part OF the
Public school system of the farmville Dis
trict. II Will bee continued in an grades for
the full session Of nine months.
THE HIGH SCHOOL is intended 10 pre-
pare our boys and girls for College and Uni
versity, or for life
The Trustees are glad that 10 f. part Of
the public school work of the district. and
intend that 10 shall be so conducted as 10 be-
expense 10 those that avail themselves OF
the advantages 10 offers
owing 10 the fact that the High School Is
"a department Of the Public school. instruc-
ton IN IL can be obtained for tie fee OF s. 80
per month.
LESS THAN s23 A SESSION.
Sustain f.. ard build up what will be
heip and credit TO the community.
Id. VERsER,
BIN. cox,
s. .PAULETr.
School Trustees Farmvile District.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-29

A lot OF Ladies Shoes at soc pair
at Fleming d Clark's. Sizes. p to4.
The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-03-29

Pork has been rising and somebody
has been squealng.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

The Hon. Chas. A. Towne, of
Minnesota, who forsook the Re-
publican party previous to the last
national campaign because he could
not ''compromise principle, "
meaning that the Republican party
had departed from the right prin-
ciple when it adopted the gold
standard, has evidently seen that
the country is doing very we'll un
der the single standard, and re-
marks: Free silver as an issue is
absolutely dead in the west. l do
not believe it will be mentioned in
the democratic platform or cam
paign in 1904. The feeling among
democrats in the west is that they
want to win and they do not care
q rap what kind of a platform they
have so long as it brings them vic
tory. While the supply of gold
continues to increase as it has been
increasing lately there can be nc
Eserious or successful demand for
ree silver"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
Stick to the Party.

1t will be we'll for the Republi-
can party to hold entirely aloof
from the new or third party..move-
ment in Missouri. Let the ele-
ments outside the party fight their
own battles. There may be coun-
ties where fusion or alliance would
defeat the Democracy, but it is
doubtful whether that would help
the Republicans. There are Re-
publican votes enough in this state
to- defeat the combined forces of
the other political divisions, if
those votes are organized and
massed against the enemy, and
with the Democrats divided, the
State will be safely Republican.
The danger is that in some of the
counties political deals may he at
tempted which will give a local ad-
vantage without in any way aiding
the party in the entire State.
Through such deals the party may
be led into losses that will weaken
the State ticket. Let every man
who wants to see Missouri become
a Republican State stick close to
the party, and let the fight be d
straight, earnest Republican effort
Political Reyiew.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

county to go in debt through ex-
travagant expenditures and then
apply the school fund to the indebt-
edness this interest burden would
fall upon the taxpayers in addition
to the regular levy of 5 cents on
the hundred dollars valuation for
school purposes. We do not be-
lieve there is a single voter in
Washington County, Democrat or
Republican, who would endorse at
the polls such use of the county
school fund. Yet this is what the
Democrats have been doing regu-
larly at each succeeding election
when the same proposition is ap-
piled to the state school fund. The
constitution threw around the state
school funds similar restrictions for
their protection that the statutes
have placed around the county
school funds. They are not to be
used for any other than school pur-
poses. The party which is respon-
sible for the disappearance of the
state school funds cannot show
that the schools got the benefit of
this great sum of money (A,3 ,3OO,'
OOO. In fact, it has not even
deemed it necessary to make any
explanation as to what uses the
money was put. 1t was spent and
the interest burden thrown upon
the taxpayers. If the voters, IT.
respective of party, would con-
demn such methods of financiering
when it comes to handling the
county school funds, they should
surely extend their disapproval to
the unconstitutional handling Of
the state school funds.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

in the affairs of Missouri the party
in power puts forth astounding
Misrepresentation, and even un-
dertakes to prove that assets and
liabilities are the same thing. Or
dinary prudence demands that a
Republican legislature be elected
next year in order that the true
condition of the state finances may
be investigated. Under Demo
cratic management it has taken 81
in taxation for state debt to cut
down the debt 20 cents. It is time
to find out where the other 80
cents in the dollar goes to. The
legislature, in expenditures upon
itself, has been gully of rank ex-
travagance. This is subject with
many ramifications. The demand
for financial reforms in Missouri
touches all depal tment.-Globe
Democrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
Mrs, Louis FusZ Dead.

Mrs. Josephine Desloge Fusz, a de-
scendant of one OF the oldest French
families of Missouri, and the wife of
Louis Fusz, president Of the Regina
Flour Mill company, died Friday
morning at 6 :45 at her home, 14OS
East Grand avenue, st. Louis. Her
death was due to attacks OF the grip
contracted thirteen years ago, and
again last February, which led to 9th
er complications. Her heart and kid
neys were affected and dropsy devel-
oped. She had a wonderful constitu-
tion and had twice been pronounced
by physicians as unable to live. April
End all the membersOf the family gath
cred around the bedside, expecting
the end to come. June End again the
family watched for the end. It was
with happiness that they learned she
was to live still longer.
Since the first attack of the grip
thirteen years ago Mrs. Fusz had been
failing, and since last February she
had been confined most of the time to
her bed.
Mrs. Fusz was born in POtOsi, Mo-,
September Is, 1889. Her father was
Firmin r. Desloge, a merchant and
owner Of lead mines in that section Of
the state. Her mother was of the
McIlvane family. Mrs. Fusz received
her education in the Sacred Heart
convent in St. Louis, from which she
graduated, and later took the normal
course Of the st. Louis public schools.
Her father died in 1856. Some time
after the breaking out of the civil war
there was considerable danger in Po-
tosi from the frequent incursions
made in that town and vicinity by
both the Federal and Confederate
troops. The family moved to St.
Louis and short time after Mrs.
Fusz applied and received an appoint
ment as teacher in the Everett public
school. She became acquainted with
Mr.. FusZ, and after teaching two
years, having become engaged to the
gentleman, she resigned. They were
married January D, 1867. n the church
Of the Annunciation by Father P. J..
Ryan, now Archbishop OF Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Fusz's was an ideal mar
ried life. While Interested in the
world at large, her chief interest was
in her family. She was the mother
of nine children, two of whom are
dead. The eldest son, Francois, died
when nine years old, and another son,
Paul F. died in New York last No
vember. The living children are all
grown, Miss Genevieve, the youngest,
being 10 years of age. Mrs. Fusz was
interested in church work, being a
Catholic, though she belonged to nc
societies. She is survived by her hus-
band and seven children. They are
Firmin D., OF st. Louis; Louis j., Of
Chicago; Vincent A.. of Detroit
Eugene a., Miss Lucille. Miss Gene
We've, who lives at home, and Mrs
Vincent P. Ring, who, with her hus'
band, is at present 10 Colorado, where
| they went for the summer. They are
expected to arrive Sunday. The fu
neral will take place Monday morning
at 9 o'clock from Holy Name church
The interment will be private.-Globe
Democrat.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

The Bryanites in Ohio are about
to place Mr.. Bryan on the
horns of a dilemma. Being dis
satisfied with the treatment the late
standard-bearer of the Democracy
received in the recent state conven-
tion in Ohio the Bryan Democrats
are about to call state conyention
of their own and will put another
Democratic ticket in the field. Mr.
Bryan has already asked all ''true''
Democrats to support the ticket al.
ready nominated. So when the
second ticket is put out he will
either have to deny his own politica'
friends are take back what he has
already said in favor of the first
ticket.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
Must Pay for newspapers.

The Circuit Court of Kosciusko
county, Ind, has just rendered a
decision of considerable interest to
newspaper subscribers. The
Northern Indianian, newspaper
in that county, brought suit
against William Duvall to obtain
the money due it on subscription
covering fifteen years and three
months, and the court awarded
the newspaper S22.S5, the total
amount due.
The evidence brought out the
fact that Duvall ordered the paper
in 1882 and continued to take it
from the postoffice until December
1897, when he ordered it discon-
tinued and failed to make settle
ment. During the period of de-
linquency a statement of his ac-
count was sent him semi-annually.
He was also personally seen sever
al times by representative of the
paper and told the latter that he
did not intend to pay, giving as a
reason that he had never ordered
the paper. When placed upon the
the witness stand Duvall displayed
receipt for four months sub.
scription, at the same time declar-
ing that he ordered the paper for
that time only, yet continued to
take it from the postoffice. The
court held that rs long as Duvall
took the paper from the postofice
be received property of value and
| was therefore made liable for the
payment of that property. The
bill and costs amounted to $5C
and Duvall will have to settle.
The suit is interesting from the
fact that every newspaper has sub
scribers who are willing to take
and read the paper, but who eithe'
refuse positively to pay for the
paper or are long time liquidat
ing their bills. The decision vii
have a tendency to make such per
sons more prompt in the payment
of newspaper debts as they ar.
subject to collection by law if no
disposed to pay without such pro
cess. South Missourian.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
State Sunday School Convention.

The Thirth-sixth Annual COnven-
tion OF the Missouri Sunday School
Association will be held at Chilli
cothe, Mo-, Aug. 27-29. A splendid
and helpful programi is being prepared.
Eminent speakers from the state and
from abroad will be present. Each
Sunday School in the state is entitled
to three or more delegates. The
Western Passenger Association has
granted rate of one fare from all
Missouri points to Chillicothe and re-
turn. For programs, blank creden-
tials and other information address,
A. P. George, State Superintendent,
q Laclede Bldg, St. Louis.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that letters
Of administration on the estate of Eva
Councilman, deceased, have been grant
ed the undersigned on the 2Sth day of
June, 1901, by the Probate Court OF
Washington County, Missouri. All
persons having claims against said
estate are required 10 exhibit them
for allowance within one year from
the date OF said letters, or they NAV be
precluded from any benefit of such
estate; and il not exhibited within
two years from the date OF said letters
they will be forever barred.
WIN. CONZELMAN, Admr
Ju1y & 1901
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
chairman of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, while admitting
his connection with the Round
Cotton Bale trust, says that he is
in it only as business venture.
Perhaps Morgan, Rockefeller and
the rest of the villainOus trust mag
mates are in it only for the fun of
the thing. The man who really
hates the trusts must go into them
rs a business venture.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

The paramount issue with our
Democratic friends in the next
national campaign will urdoubted-
ly be ''anything to win" This
question is taking more rapid
hold upon the party than anything
else that has so far been presented.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

What is considered as a phenomena
appeared in the heavens last Friday
night and was witnessed by number
came what appeared to been bright
flash of lightning from clear sky, and
upon looking up they were astonished
to see a streak Of fire extending from
east to west, filling a space where it
appeared the sky was rent asunder.
The light remained bright fol. fully a
minute and then gradually died away:
We have been asked what it was and
what caused it; bot we are unable to
answer.-Perryville Republican.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

Missouri wants honest elections
it is true, but it wants an honest
accounting of the money collected
from the taxpayers for state pur-
poses more. 1t is likely to get
neither, however, from the present
party in power in this state.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

Senator McLaurin, of South
Carolina, has been read out of the
Democratic party by the state COM
mittee, acting under the domina-
ton of Senator Tillman. McLau-
rim had become too progressive in
bis political ideas to suit the Bour,
bons Of mis- state, so he had to
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

George w. Yankee, who is having
slaves made in the southern part of
Crawford County, was in town Tues
day and reports that two weeks ago,
on a high hill on the James Martin
farm, a spring supplied by a vein of
water as large as mans finger, burst
out of the earth. The water has a
taste resembling alkali, but so strong
that a person cannot drink 1t. Mr..
Yankee thinks the water contains
medical properties and will have it an.
alyZed. Mirror.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

There are still few Democratic
writer's who maintain that the
''money trust is behind all our
national ills, real or imagined.
They are usually such fellows,
though, who have never risen
above a dollar a day capacity in
any avocation they may have pur-
sued.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
$1.OO Per Hnnum.
1t begins to look now as though
by 1904 the Democrats will be ask
ing, "Who is Bryan"

Do any ofour Democratic breth-
rem who are defending their party's
handling of the state school funds
advocate the same kind of an in
vestment for other state trust
fs,nds2 Speak up.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
One by one the Democratic %.

One by one the Democratic pa
pers are coming around to the
point where they must state that
the school fund certificates of in
debtedness are part of the state
debt and will some time have to be
redeemed. At the same time they
cannot yet altogether refrain from
calling this acknowledged debt an
Investment" and an s'asset."
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

This county has a school fund Of
hr $40, 900, which is all loaned,
7tica:ly, to individuals at six per
It therefore produces an
= S240O in interest from other
fhan taxation. Wore this
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
MlsmanaQed State Finances.

terially interested in the manage
ment of the states financial affairs.
Next year a new legislature will be
elected, and the people will have
another chance to overhaul the
books. They have neglected this
duty a long time. For thirty
years they have given control to
one party and abuses have increas-
ed steadily. The six years of Re-
publican rule ending in 1871 was a
period of debt-paying. In that
time the obligations of the state
were reduced from $36, 100000 to
800, ,SS9, 900, OR about an average
of 50, 500, ,0O0a a year, 1t has taken
the Democratic party thirty years
to cut down the debt $14, ZOO, 900,
an average of only 1856, ,eee year,
and it used up the school fund
even in making that reduction.
Republican reduction of the state
debt proceeded four times as fast
as Democratic reduction. But
taxation to reduce the debt has
not been abated. The constitution
requires that the state interest fund
tax be assessed until the entire
state debt, principal and interest,
is discharged, after which it must
''cease to be assessed" In thirty
years Democratic administrations
in Missouri have raised state inter-
est fund taxes to the amount of
nearly forty million dollars, and
added the school fund and H. and
St. j. demand for the same pur-
pose. The Democratic record is
that $4,000, 900 in taxation has
reduced the debt hut one-ffth that
amount.
The last Democratic state plat
form contained gross misrepre-
sentation of the amount of the
state debt. 1t left out the school
fund certificates of indebtedness,
amounting to more than 81, 300,
900. The fund was taken, in vio-
lation of the constitution, to reduce
the state debt. After accomplish
ing this shameful betrayal of trust
the new form of debt, due the
schools, was ignored in the debt
statement. Referring to the state
debt the Democratic platform OF
last year said: ''This debt has been
paid off by Democratic economy
under q constitution framed and
adopted by Democrats until only
81, ,637 900 in bonds remain to be
paid" The school fund debt was
hidden, though taxpayers carry it
at 5 and 6 per cent, and must con-
tinue to do so unless they pay the
whole principal. When an item
of 81, 100000 is juggled out o1
sight it is safe to say that there has
been crooked work, and plenty o!
it, in other directions.
| Business men overhaul theil
books as matter Of course. Th,
official business of the United
States is conducted under inspec
ton and publicity. At frequen
intervals the banks are required te
4 furnish complete statements. Blu
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
S5.35 to Dexter, Mo.

The fare from Potosi to Dexter, Mo-,
on the occasion of the Military EN-
campment at that place, August 5th
to 18th. will he S5.35 for the round
trip. For further particulars see b.
F. Kendall, local agent.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

The End of the Deal is the title of
an unusually good business serial story
which is to begin in an early numbe r
OF the Saturday Evening Post, of
Philadelphia. A famous transaction
on the Chicago Board of Trade is tn e
basis upon which the author, Mr.
Will Payne, has founded this strik ing
romance of the wheat pit. A charm
ing love story runs through the stern
and stirring plot.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31
FROM POTOSI TO BUFFALO.

The fare from Potosi to Buffalo and
return during the PAM merican Ex-
position season, over the Iron Noun
tain Ry and connecting lines, will be
So 30 for ticket limited to fifteen
DAYS for return passage. For further
information apply to B. f. Kendall,
Station Agent.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1901-07-31

A Mrs. Cunningham, of De Soto,
recently bought a dozen eggs and on
arriving home placed the paper bag
containing the eggs in kitchen safe.
Three or four days afterwards she
went to the safe to get the eggs and
found eight young chickens in the
bag. The hot weather had finished
Matching the eggs after they were
taken from the nest.
Articles of incorporation of the Lin
coin Investment and Improvement
Company, of De Soto were filed for re-
cord in the Recorders Office last week.
The capital stock is IS, 900: stock-hold-
ers: Charles Karte, George Mahn, Sam
Niccolls and M. S. COxwell. The pur-
poses of the company are to buy, sell
and lease real estate in the counties of
Jefferson, Washington, Iron and But
ler, ard other counties in this state
Hillsboro Democrat.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-21
MONEY VERY SOON MHTTM 70 GUST DERM IN PRICE Of MATGCS against AAGGN
SUPREME COURT ON IMPORTANT
LAND CASE.
In Christley VS.. Magoon Plaintiff Gets
All he asked for-Lessees of Property
Are Protected.

In the case of Christley VS.. Magoon
the Supreme Court this morning hand
ed down decision in which the conten-
tions of the plaintiff are entirely sus-
tanned. The following is the substance
ct the courts ruling:
Deed held to have been procured
through undue influence--as shown by
the existence of the confidential rela-
tionships of attorney and client and
principal and agent between the parties,
the mental weaknesses of the plaintiff
and the inadequacy of the consider
alton.
Acts held not to show acquiescence
or ratification when done while the in
tluence of the defendants over the
plaintiff continued though after the ter
mination of the relationships of attor-
ney and client and principal and agent.
Failure of the grantor to tender to
the grantee before suit what the
grantee had paid to or on account of the
grantor under the agreement, cannot be
relied on when the question was not
raised in the lower court and when the
grantor alleged in his bill that he had
requested an accounting which had
been refused had prayed for an ac-
counting and the grantee had received
rents and profits and 1t did not appear
how much the grantee had paid for or
on account of the grantor and the
grantor had offered at the hearing in
the lOWeE court 10 pay Whatever Jne
grantee had paid on his account.
Under the circumstances the grantee
under a deed obtained through undue
influence is declared to be a trustee for
the grantor and ordered to convey the
property to him subject to leases made
after the execution of the deed"
The action was one brought by Tho
mas Christley to cancel deed from the
plaintiff to the defendant Emmeline NJ.
Magoon of about 2h acres of land on
Fort street. The consideration was an
oral promise to pay $4,000 of plaintiffs
debts and give him S75 a month while
he lived. The court held that $685. 600
was a conservative estimate of the va
lue of the land.
The court reviews the details of the
relations existing between the defen-
dant and plaintiff, the former being at
torney and confidential advisor of the
latter. 1t is stated in the decision that
Christley was ignorant of business mat
ters, slow of mind and hardly knew
what was the nature of the papers he
signed.
The deed is ordered cancelled. The
suit was appealed from the First Cir
cult court The supreme Courts de-
cision is a long one, written by the
Chief Justice Frear