The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-21
Get Out Your Smiles and
Laughter: Put Away Woes.
IN FRESH ATTIRE
People Who Know Good Thing Com.
in June for tho Whole Summer.
A List of Popular
Guests.
Especial to The Ttmes.D ispatch.)
ALUM SPRINGS, VA,

June Do
Get out your smiles and laughter.
In storage put your woes;
A restful time go after,
Where cool the zephyr blows.
Go where the spring bubbles,
And where the mountains pile;
Go and forget your troubles,
BY loafing for q while"
No place could afford a better oppor-
tunity to the health or pleasure seeking
loafer than the Rockbridge Alum in this
beautiful, June season. Most people miss
the prettiest time Of the year by staying
in town all of June preparing to go away
for July and August. and invariably a
warm wave comes. which is sickening
in degree. and brings with It flies and
mosquitoes, whose presence make life a
burden. Here we are free from sucl,
pests.
Natrfre has put on her freshest attire
and the woods are decked out as for O
holiday, with mountain Ivy and wild flow
lghtful and exhilarating. Outdoors 1t
braces the nerves and gives us new lite,
while In the house we sit around fires
and find that good fellowship which the
cracking. flaming logs on an open
hearth seem always to inspire. No one
is stranger here. This Is the time to
know each other and to form the most
ldStlHS flTleuuSupS. E E,
HOTEL OPEN.
Since June LIST the hotel has been open,
and number of delightful people have
come and settled themselves for the
whole summer, and while the pleasures
now are of quiet order, there is much
to do to while away the days before the
advent of the band. and with It a whirl
of gayety from early morn until the weo
sma' hours. This Is the season for golf,
long rambles through the woods. and
reading. Those who are here In parties
return each day about noon from a tramp
over the mountains with great punches
of wild flowers ana others are to DO
seen In hooks and corners enjoying
quiet reading all to themselves.
SLEEPY HOLLOW.
Some author has said, ''Blessed Is the
man who invented Sleep" Well. thrice
blessed Is this place then. for one can
sleep day and night here without a sedn-
tive. For one afflicted with insomnia
this is a perfect haven of rest, as there
is something about the atmosphere that
will lull the most nervous into quiet
and repose.
Among the most popular Of the guests
are Miss Mamie M. Stockton. OF Charles
ton, w. Va; Mr.. and Mrs, G. A. Ballou.
Mrs. j. w Terrell. Of Danville. Va; Mrs.
r. Frank Larew. Mrs. Mary Mcclure.
Mr., r. Wallace Mcclure. OF Greenesyille,
v u. III, ~ ~. aS'SShs
,AIessrs. j. B. Goolsby and j. =, Ballou,
Cratgsville, Va. and General e, M.
Hayes, OF the United States army Gem
eral Hayes Is retired sbrigadier-general.
and before being made general was colo
mel OF the Thirteenth Cavalry and had
temporary command of the department of
Dakota, with headquarters at st. Paul
Prior to that he was in the Philippines
and Cuba, and commanded the cavalry
of General Fitzhugh Lees corps (sev-
enth), The General is here In advance
of his family, who are now In Atlanta
and will Join him early IN July for. the
summer. No one here adds as much to
the pleasure of the guests as the courtly.
genial General, who we are glad to know
is to be with us tho entire season.
REGENT ARRIVALS.
Among the recent arrivals are Miss
Mamie NJ. Stockton, Charleston. W. Va;
C. II. belinda, New York; WV, Taylor.
Iron Gate. Va; p. johnson, Goshen. Va;
John w stull, Ignite. Va; p. r. A.
Hiss, Clifton Forge, Va; Leonard Peck
cit, Pennsylvania J. Preston Carson.
Richmoad, Val d, NJ Wiltshire, Jr,