Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-03-27
HEATHSvILLE.
GROUND sINKINe--DEArH AND MAR.
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| IN wednesday OK last week th
public school session closed. Mos
other schools have fortnight NOR
to run yet, for the school here Ia
generally opened earlier to give tim
for a private school, which this yea
is being conducted by Miss Ros
Beale, who has twenty scholars. Mis-
Louise Anderson, who had charge O
the lower room this session, has pi over
herself a successful and popular in
structress, and heads the list o
teachers in this department fo
having the largest number in aver
aged attendance.
The boys at Heathsville tirelessl,
are talking baseball, and hope TO
having a team which would be al
honor to them runs warm in thei
veins. The rumor that the damon
at the fair grounds, on which all OF
their games are played, would, with
the balance of those premises, ! b,
plowed and sowed in peas, chilled
their spirits for time, but wher
baseball magoate Shirley came along
and offered his lot near the hotel SC
jubilant were the enthusiasts that
one exclaimed, "Come on, boys, lets
knock up flies;" but finding it to be
night the crowd fell to discussing
the speed of certain horses, which
turn of the subject proved more
Ianimated than had the other.
If such may introduce the observ.
ance, horses are 10 great demand
hereabouts aud fancy sums are being
given In exchange for the princely
equine. Len Orem has sold his fine
animal and buggy to Burke Rowe;
DR.. j. A. Rice has purchased a steed,
while Ii. q. Rowe, who returned from
Washington Friday with five horses.
has made sale of four of them. L. l..
Snead now owns Soney Headley's
noted Hannis and A. s. Rice drives
Allie Sisson's pretty colt. So it goes,
buying and selling on all sides. Cat
tie also are marketable, but of all
ever sold in these parts the cow K.
Wells sold to Mr.. Slaughter for five
dollars exchanged hands at the
lowest figures.
Since now there can be no more
Facilitating there are more English
peas planted hereabouts than have
been for many years. Since the cry
OF scarcity of labor comes from
so many directions it will be no
small factor in the problem of getting
our peas gathered, which problem
has to be solved before anything can
De made, at present is a grave fear.
Bare legged and bare headed colored
girls and boys, on whom once our
pea growers depended, now must
grub stumps and hoe corn on their
fathers pine bush farm. Colored
friend, your move may be a wise one.
| doubt it; for if fertile acres prove
Improbable to the white man with
out your help, how much more un
profitable must be your sandy hills
without his? Separate yourself from
the whites and just the degree In
rank there is between head work and
hand work just so much must be the
degree between your circumstances
and those of your white friends.
On Tuesday, the 18th, the Red
Men gave their entertainment in the
Nj. Z. church building. The drama
known as "Phe Corner Store" was
rendered to crowd of three hundred
persons, the largest assemblage of
people to gather here on like occa-
sion in the history of the town. This
troupe contemplates going to Kinsale
in the near future or next Tuesday.
The other troupe, which has been
laboring in interest of Coan Bsp-
tlst church, carried their delightful
drama "The Silent Detective" to
Reedville on the Wednesday the 25th.
This play has elected the highest
praise everywhere it has been per-
formed by this cast. The PLAYERS
feel much flattered, but when one
fully acquaints himself with the play
per Sc and notes it's beauties he at
once accounts for its marvellous
success.
Curious news comes from Lodge.
where on the farm of Garrett Dun
gan, lying on an arm of the Yeoco-
mico river directly across from Lodge.
a fall acre of land has dropped
fifteen feet below the other land.
Mr.: DUNCAN, has a large orchard
which included the sunken ground.
and now fifteen feet deeper than the
other land an acre of trees are bloom.
ing and budding in as vigorous a
manner as on the others. Great
]ariing and roaring were conscious
to the DUNCAN family when the
phenomenal occurrence took place. |
Strangely the sides about the sink
are perpendicular. The people are |
unable to divine the cause. This
occurred on Friday.
nr. Beale was wired on Tuesday |
requesting his attendance at the |
funeral of Mr.. John Jones, a middle.
aged and respected citizen of Burgess
Store, who died Tuesday morning.
Mr. Jones has been an intense suf.
[erer, and save for the few hours
lay when he was under the influence
of chloroform he has been in agony
tor long weeks. A great protuber-
'nce on his leg, unaccountable for
md an enigma to the learned physi-
mans In that community, was his
.atal trouble. The swelling was
anger than water bucket and was
source of unremitting and most
'xcruciating pain. He leaves wife
md children, and was buried in the
sairiields church cemetery on We'd
lesday at IL O'Clock. Not more won
lerfnl was the freak of nature at
lodge than the strangeness of this
mans aff1iction and sadness.
On Monday evening at the home
4 James Dodson. Avalon, Va, Rev.
I. W.. Beale united Julius White,