Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-12-12
NEWS ITEMS.
Sugar advanced 10 points this weel

sugar advanced 10 points this week.
Strawberries were on the market
at 81 a quart in Accomac last week.
The session of county and city
superintendent of public schools in
Virginia will be held in Richmond
January, 18th, 18th and 10th.
The continued fall of silver to a
price under so cents an ounce
makes the STANDARD" silver dollar
worth intrinsically $500 cents.
Thomas B. Reed, former Republi-
can Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives and for many years prom
inent In public life, died Saturday
night.
A disastrous explosion occurred
on the steamer Progresso recently at
San Francisco. Forty men were at
work on the vessel and 20 of these
were injured. Fourteen are missing
and may be dead. "
Septimus Winner, composer of the
knocking Bird" and MANY other
popular songs, died Saturday at the
age of rs. Winner sold the aMock.
ing Bird" for $50, and the publish
ers are said to have realized So .OOO.-
600 from the melody.
The most serious foreign compli-
cation for an American power since
the war with Spain in 1898 is pre-
clpitated by ultlmatums just sent by
treat Britain and Germany to Vene.
zuela. The claims against Vene.
zuela amount to about $40, 900 900
Miss Atkinson, formerly police
matron of Cincinnati, among the
Methodist deaconesses there, will be
appointed uniformed police officer
tor Norfolk, to meet all incoming
trains and steamers, and serve gen.
orally for suppression of traffic
among girls.
Two hundred corporations in this
country represent an aggregate capi-
tai of $3,500,00O, 900. They emnIov
100000 workers, pay 50,OOO,OO0
III wages and have an annual outnut
OF s., o00,O00,00O. The labor repre-
sented by this output is only one
eighth its value.
The following delegates from the
virginia State Anti,Saloon League
were appointed to the National
Anti. Saloon Convention, December
9TH, 10th and 18th, in Washington
u: u: Rev. DR.. w. w. Lear. of
richmond; Rev. DR.. John Pollard
OF Leesburg; W. Med. Lee, of Irv'
i,ngton, and Rev. j. G. Hammer, of
Manassas. -
Inspector-General T. G. Morton.
Q, the Grand Camp of Virginia,
confederate Veterans, has lust an,
pointed his staff for the current
year, consisting of one assistant in
s;pector for each of the Congressional
district Inspectors. Judge John q
Ewell, OF Lancaster, is reappointed
tor the First District.
An Eastern Shore hog raiser hos
two hogs which weigh 5000 pounds
i've weight. They are just s years
'ld. The owner designates one of |
mem as his broad hog and the other |
IS his narrow hog. The BODY of the |
narrow hog is s feet - inches lone
ln "a z feet inches girth, and it is
Feet : inches tall. The broad hoe
feet inches long, z feet AZ
inches girth and 5 feet 7 inches tall
Frank L. Kerns, who has lons
'een identified with the Clristio,,
iacocate of Richmond, has rendered
us resignation, to take effect at
nee. Hereafter he will devote his
n tire time to the work of the Rose
ua missionary Society, of which he
as been elected secretary and treas
rer' to succeed the late Rev. John
!. Laurens. Mr. Kerns is brother 70
ne retiring Grand Master of Masons {
Virginia, II. Oscar Kerns. t
a war of determination directed
sainst rats and sparrows has been
'gun In England. The farmers
ave organized clubs, the month"; q
les of which are two rats heads or p
70 sparrows' heads for every acre II
land each member controls. The il
no also pays two pence flour cents) a
Il cozen for sparrows' heads and
(, pence per dozen for rats tails ,,
d hundreds of small bows are -
alling themselves of this means of -
creaslng pocket money. q,
The Lake Shore Railroad has p'
zen hand in the fight for prohi- W
Ion OF the liquor traffic in the "
DURHAM village of Collinwood
zen is being conducted by the y,
u -Saloon League on local option Dc
rs. The election is to be held -
t Thursday. The Lake Shore ~.
d has given the residents to under. D.
nd that If the town goes "dry" il ah
double the sum it had decided Ar;
'xpend upon its new shops in Col
Vood, making the total $4,000, 600.
5 also said that if the town goes ha'
prohibition big allotment of owe
VIII be purchased and that lots not
De sold at cost to the employees wa
ne Lake Shore company. der