Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-30
HEATHSVILLE.

Quite little snow fell at THU
place Saturday afternoon. The flakes
ceased falling at shutdown, and tn,
clouds, instead of clearing away al
any lady-like or gentlemanly cloud
would have done, hung up there in
the air torment to us for three
days. Tuesday, though, gave us 6
little sunshine. ALI the snow is gone
and from off the ponds and rivers
the ice. Ii. Q. Rowe, j. G.. Rice,
Mat Dawson and Mr.. Hayden all got
there ice-houses filled. SO, too, w,
have been knocked out of skating
and since then, all of our people will
agree with me, times have been very
dull.
On last Thursday there was 9
public sale on the estate Of the late
Henry Garner, on his home place, al
Lottsburg, and an immense crowd
gathered to it. w. r. Claughton,
the executor, was conducting the sale
and the familiar voice of J. Il. Haz-
zard did the crying" Everything
sold high, especially the livestock
and the provender. Mr.. Garner was
a good and temperate man, but, at
his death, thirty or more gallons of
several kinds of wine were found in
the cellar. What to do with this
was worry to Mr.. Claughton, who,
unlike many other, turned the "red-
blood" out into the ditch. a few
hours before Mr.. Corners death he
told some of his relatives, standing
around his bed, that under his pillow
was purse and then directed them
as to how the contents was to be
spent. The purse contained over a
hundred dollars. A search was i'm
mediately made, at Mr.. Gamers re-
quest, but no purse could be found.
1t worried the dying man no little
aud the commands of the doctor, to
those present, alone could keep him
in the bed. No purse has been found
yet, and MIR. Gamers near relatives
are justly very indignant. All of
the personal effects were disposed of
on Thursday and the estate now con-
sists of pretty little farm, which is
being rented out, acre by acre, to the
truckers Whereabouts at the fancy
sum of five dollars an acre. The
land is ideal for the raising of early
tomatoes and to this purpose will
the renters put it. Through will
Mr.. Garner left all of his possessions,
which came to him through his first
wife, who was Miss Claughton, to
Mrs. Mary A. Towers, of Baltimore,
Md, the only living issue of this
union.
Our people are beginning to COM
plain, and it seems very Justly, of
the service they are receiving at the
hands of the mail-contractors on the
route between this place and Rich
mond, and particularly on that part
of it lying between here and Merry
Point. We can see no reason why
our mail shouldn't come every day
Except when storms prevent the
steamer from coming over. The
service is most unsatisfactory, and
somebody ought to be made to pay
for it. Our mail often fails to come.
1t is always after o'clock before we
get any at all. Our people have stood
it long time, and now they are get
ting tired of it. Postmaster Bramble
has done all he could. He refused to
deliver the pouches to A. Virgins
on Friday morning. Virgins came
in drunk Thursday night, after drop
ping much of the mail for the boxes
along the road. A. X. Cralle carried
the mail on Friday and we were read
ing our papers at 8 O'clock. Cralle,
while we are ten thousand times
"oblege" to the gentlemen, did no
more than should be done every day
of the year.
Sunday was very bad day, yet
our preachers, Revs. E. f. Garner and
q. w. Beale, went to their appoint
ments. DIR. Beale has three engage
ments to fill on the 2nd and 4th
Sundays, since the death of Rev. @.
N. Belts, viz: Fairfelds, Fairport
aud Reedville at night.
The Redmen of this lodge are get
ting up an entertainment for the
22nd of February, that is, it is being
talked about good deal.
l.. L. Smith returned from Lex
ington on Sunday morning.
A party was given at the home of
L. p. Smith on Wednesday night in
honor of Miss jamie Hall, the pleas
ing and popular young pedagogue,
at the Hamblin corner school. 1t
was the pleasure of many from this
place to attend.
In a back issue of the CITIZEN it
was reported that Arthur Douglass,
OF Washington, ID. g., had accepted
the position of clerk in w. @. Snow
y Cos. store at this place. Mr..
Douglass had consented to come, but,
on acquainting his employers of his
intentions, they Immediately in
creased his wages and as conse-