The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1902-07-12
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Correspondence OF THr FREE LANcrl
lleathsville, Va. July 9th. 1902.

Correspondence Of THr FREE LANcrJ
Heathsville, Va. July 9th 1902
The desire here to get the new wheat
To market without delay has been gene
raj, and 1t has been necessary TO send eX-
ira steamers from Baltimore in order to
handle the large quantities piled at the
wharves.
The baseball games between the IIeaths-
Vile and Lively clubs played on July Ith
in Lancaster were indecisiye The boys
will cross bats here again next Saturday
and the issue will he watched at the Fair
Ground 10y an interested audience.
The Sunday school picnic Of the IIeaths
vile Methodist church on Wednesday
next at Walnut Point promises To at
tract a crowd TO that pleasant resort.
similar affair there held by private
school on last Wednesday was marred
by an unlooked-for accident Two
daughters of Mr. Joseph Hazard having
with them in "A buggy Miss Alma Brent.
were decending n small hill near Smith.
land church rather rapidly. when sud
denly their horse fell and broke its neck
Mr.l.lpyd Snead has "A fine young horse
recently purchased. in dying condition
the disease being somewhat uf the mature
of CHAMBERS. though lacking some svmp-
toms of that malady. lie has used every
effort TO alleviate the fine animals dis
tress
Messrs. G. +. Eubank Asa : Rice and
". I. lleadley have been appointed as
messengers from COan church To the Ran.
pahannock Association which is to hold
its session with Shiloh church in King
George the last week in July.
&. +. Enbank left on yesterday to at
tend on educational convention in Char
lottcsville
MIR. John Pearson. of Lottsburg. has
just returned from a pleasant visit to
lynchburg in attendance on the Il. \. T.
Mon.
The Baptist y. =. / nion of Coan church
viii hold an interesting service on Sun
day next \ report from the general
meeting and an original essay will be
among the attractions of the occasion
Rev. &. W. Beale and wife will leave on
Wednesday for Sparta. Caroline county.
They will visit your correspondent
"lhilos' in Essex as they 20 and return.
Mr. Philip Bruce, the former secretary
OF the Virginia Historical Society, visited
. Nestmorland and Northumberland last
week. and spent several laborious hours
in their Clerks Offices
Mr.. Bernard Chancellor. an attorney OF
baltimore, is visiting MIR Lloyd r. Smith
his kinsman. He is accompanied by his
wife, who. as the daughter of DR. Opic.
of Baltimore, is here among the native
scenes Of IA long line of her ancestors.
Intelligence has reached here OF the
death of Mrs. Carey, near the Hague. in
Nestmoreland. She was sister to our
townsman, +. ". Eichelberger, Mrs.
Robertson and Mrs. jerome Downing.
Mrs. Ida Winstead, died on Friday near
l.ottsburg, under very sad circumstances
She was young mother, and left babe
a week old
The little daughter OF our neighbor
Thomas Smith, is reported as critically
ill-a calmity all the greater because oil
her bright and winning disposition.
ministerial friend, living not a hun
dred miles from the hills over looking
fredericksburg has written me privately
asking that increase the length of these
letters. 1t may be in order to say pub
licly that brevity is agood spice, and ad-
mirable fer sermons in the heated term -
G. W. b.