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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
VILLAGE.

Owing to inclement weather there
was no meeting of the Bethany
Young Peoples Union on the 4th
instant but some of the members
have been assigned double duty fol-
next meeting, which will be the frs
Sunday night in February.
George Winstesd has been build
ing new ice house.
Mesdames Richard Winstead, AL.
bert McKenny and Len Pritchetl
and Misses Emma Bell and Evs
Richardson have been on the sick
list.
Miss Lula Luttrell has been visit
ing her father, James l.. Luttrell, a.
this place.
Dock Thrift has moved into bis
beautiful house at Callao.
Miss Ada Winstead recently Wis
tied her sister, Mrs. Willie Hudson
of Lodge.
DIR. l.. A. Brown left last week
for New York, whittier he went Il
resume his studies. He will return
in June to take charge of Bethany
Gideon and Totuskey Baptist
churches.
Eugene Lewis left last week fol
New York, where he has accepted ,
position.
The Village Dramatic Club ma,
repeat the drama, "Ferguson Of
Troy" at Reedville in the neal
future.
Tom Hall, of Lottsburg, visited
friends here recently.
1t is expected a laundry will locat,
here in the spring. GUESS WHO?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
POLITICAL.

Eleven United States Senators
were elected Tuesday by Legisla-
lures. Delaware, Colorado, Wash
ington and Oregon failed to elect.
Reed Smoot, the Mormon, was
elected by the Republicans of Utah
You beat the air on your side, he
beats the air on his side, neither you
nor he understands it, and the listen.
ers are none the wiser, unless joke
is thrown in, when the best joker
wins. This is politics.-Stamnto,l
Ne1cS.
Representative Jones, of the First
District, says that he has no in ten
ton whatever of becoming a guber.
Material candidate; that if he was @
candidate for anything it would be
for the q. S. Senate Washington
correspondent.
In the Senate as we'll as in the
House the Democrats are looking
for great things in the way of 8
definite and aggressive policy at the
next session. The return to the
Senate of Arthur Pue German, OF
Maryland, will mean his assumption
once more of the Democratic leader
ship, and the prospect of having
him at the helm brings untold salts.
faction to those Democrats who
have deplored the lack of a good
leader for their party in the upper
house since the retirement of the
experienced Marylander. German
has given the Republicans more
trouble than any other man in re.
cent years on the floor of the Senate
He always had the unbounded con.
tidence of the Democratic Senators
and they were always ready. to stand
at his back and support him in any
fight he conducted.
While it is currently reported that
serious opposition exists in the First
District to the transfer of Freder.
lcksburg and Spotsylvania to the
Eighth, it is nevertheless true thai
a large number of Democrats here
aud In the county will welcome the
change, and as a whole the move
will not be unsatisfactory to the
people here. Politically speaking,
Fredericksburg is too far removed
from the centre of the First Dis
trict and exerts but small influence
the counties down the river ALWAYS
debating the nominations. The city
has pleasant trade relations with the
river counties, but politically they
treat fredericksburg and this end
OF the district, in fact, as naught in
the equation. The change, if made
Will create no great amount of dis.
satisfaction here. =. Fredericksbnrc
Corr. Richmond Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
DOINGs IN CONGRESS.

The bill placing coal on the free
list for one year passed both Houses
and has been sigued by the Presi-
dent,
Let Congress take of the duty on
coal and beef and postpone the
building of new battleships.-G. r..
AngeU.
There have been two negroes in
the United States Senate, but never
an Indian, thoughrit is claimed that
John Randolph had the blood of
Pocahontas in his veins. Kansas is
trying to break the record by elect
ing Representative Curtis, full
FLOODED Indian, to succeed Demo
crat in the Senate. If native Amer
canism is test he ought to win.-
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Truly magnanimous are the Re-
publicans of the Housed They con-
sent to. suspend the tariff on coal for
q year to- keep the people of some
sections of the country from freez-
ing, but at the end of the year the
tariff must be restored to full force
Nothing short Of a prospect. OF
freezing must suspend a single item
of the sacred Dingley tariff, even
though the duty is not at all needed
by the treasury.-Loaisviue Courier
Journal.
True, the removal of the tariff on
coal does not amount to anything
important in relieving the existing
famine, but the incident is of value
as an object lesson to the people.
principle is concerned, even though
the amount of the duty be small
The only reason for the removal OF
the tariff was the fear which the
Dingley Republicans had of pub.
iicly recording themselves in the
negative when the vote was taken
They couldn't stand the strain; bui
they gave way with reluctance
Norfolk Landmark.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

incidentally the School Superinten-
dents have reminded the Legislature
that some or them got very measly lit
tie salaries for the good work they are
expected to do.-Richm0nd Times.
Expected to do" - that's good.
Let them do it first, and then ask
for what they have earned. With
our limited school funds we do not
believe in depriving the poorly paid
teachers or shortening the school
term of the children to pay county
superintendent, nearly all of whom
have a sinecure and are we'll paid
for their services. Only twenty in
the State get as low as 5000 per
year. The others range higher. 1t
is unreasonable to ask that the mini.
mum salary be placed at $3.50. How
many oyer-worked teachers in this
State receive less than 5000 per
year! The Superintendent Confer
ence in Richmond would have struck
the popular chord in a more harmo-
NOUS manner if they had worked as
hard to increase the pay of our
country teachers as they did for
themselves.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

SPEAKING of the compromise over
the Commissioners of the Revenue
matter the .Southside Sentinel voices
an expression which we hope will
never grow into material form. 1t
says:
at is to be presumed that the advo-
Gates of the elective plan will now go to
work with view to having the next
General Assembly repeal SO much of the
work OF the present one as provides for
the appointment of commissioners of the
revenue after next fall, and this issue may
be vital one in the next election of mem,
bers of the General Assembly"
The compromise was made by
Democrats, without aid of the Re
publicans or any other party, and in
good faith. We do not expect to see
Democrats play SO fagrantly false to
a publicly made promise. Nor do
we think the editor of the Sentinel
would wish them to do so.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

The CITIZEN never has, and can
not now side with Judge Campbell
in his action which brought on the
Campbell Crawford case. At the
same time We were just as much
opposed to the investigation, that
has been forced upon the Legisla-
ture by agitators and some of the
newspapers, for many reasons. Some
OF these same papers now deplore
the fact that the investigation will
take from our already depleted treas
ury something in the neighborhood
of fifty thousand dollars. Campbell
soon goes out of office, and we think
this is paying pretty dearly for a
Christening at the behest of agitators
and personal enemies. 1t is not al
together certain that even this salts
faction is to be given the public
that the evidence will convict the
impetuous judge.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

We ARE glad to see that the Dem
ocrats, aided by the distressed times,
have forced the Republican Con-
gress to follow a Democratic line in
relieving somewhat the stringent
coal conditions. Chairman Richard
son is right when he says that in
stress of emergency there is per-
force recourse to Democratic doc
trine. He charges that if the Ad-
ministration had done its duty the
situation would now be different.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
MIDDLESEX NOTES,

Major r, B. Bristow, of Monroe
Mo-, native of this county, and
bro ther of F. A. Bristow, died Sun.
day at his Missouri home from heart
disease.
Hon. JOS. A. Bristow, whose life
was despaired of, is showing signs OF
Improvement.
George w. Snead and Miss Maggie
M. Lewis, both of Regent. were mar
ried at the Baptist parsonage at
Saluda last week, Rev. K. j. Richard
son officiating.
Senator j. Boyd Sears, of Mathews
county. is a patient at the Virginia
Hospital, where a few days ago he
underwent MINOR operation. His
condition since has been most satis-
factory and unless there are unfore-
seen complications he will be out
within short while.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

GOVERNOR MoNTAGUE's PROPOSE
ton to lessen the number of country
schools and have fewer schools, but
of higher grade, received many en-
comiums at the School Superinten-
dents Conference in Richmond last
week. 1t would hardly have seemed
good taste for any recommendation
of the Governor to have received
other than favorable comment by
a convention of gentlemen who
hold their offices by the grace of
the same Governor. No matter what
source the suggestion of fewer coun-
try schools comes from it will not
find endorsement in the country
certainly not in this section, where
the Governors recommendation to
this end some time ago was discussed
by the people to considerable extent
and in the columns of this paper.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
ROOSEVELT and some fussy women

RoosEysIr and some fussy women
are kicking mp stir over the election
to the u. S. Senate of one, Smoot, 8
Mormon from Utah. The said Smoot
has never had but one wife, and APP
pears to be law-abiding citizen of
the United States. Because he
believes in a religion that entities
him to more than the ordinary
amount of matrimonial bliss is lit
tie reason for the opposition. Our
government is one of civil and relig-
ious liberty, and while each mao
might prefer Legislators of his own
way of thinking there is no valid
ground for opposing one who con-
forms in good faith to our civil laws
but thinks different from most others
on religious rites and ceremonies.
The howl savors much of "straining
at guat and swallowing a camel
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
NOMlNI GROVE

Since my last communication lover
two months ago) this family has not
been clear Of sickness, five Of its mem
bers having been taken down with
malarial fever. Your writer, one of
the number, fer weeks fingered be-
tween life aud death, but God saved
my life for some good, i trust. Still
gloom fills our hearts, for on the
morn of December 18th the spirit of
our dear daughter took It's eternal
flight In the 21st year of her age.
A more consecrated and affectionate
child no parents ever had. A short
time before she expired 1 said: care
you suffering. dear?" " No, mama.
| am only tired" In few miu-
utes she fell asleep, so calmly that
those by her bedside could scarcely
tell when the change came. Oh, rest,
sweet rest, for thee awaited; the rest
that awaits Gods people. But, oh,
We miss our darling so much, Lord
resign us to Thy will.
To the memory of our beloved
daughter, l.. Bertha g. Coates, who
departed this life December 18th,
1902, in the 2Ist year of her age:
Swee. will thy memory be, dear Bertha,
As long as life shall last;-
And when LIES journey is over,
Oh, may we meet In Heaven a. last.
Our hearts are sad and lonely,
Our grief too deep to tell;
But In our Utmost hearts we feel
That Jesus doeth all things well.
Lord help us on our Journey
While here on earth we roam;
To tread the straight aud narrow path
That leads to Home. Sweet Home.
x. u. @.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
Friday. January %, 1908.

THE Richmond Dispatch of Sun
day prints diagrams of the First,
Second and Third Congressional dis
tricts as they would be under the
proposed changes of the redistricting
bills of Messrs. Cumming and Baker,
and winds up with this comment in
favor of the Cumming bill:
at (the Baker bilD would make the first
district less compact than the Cumming
bill. Whatever criticisms may be made
of the Cumming bill, it certainly makes
the five districts OF the eastern half of the
State more compact. The maps sub
mitted herewith show this at glance.
There is, nevertheless, considerable oppo-
sition in the First district to the proposed
changes"
AS the Dispatch hints, at a glance it
will be seen that the Cumming bill
is eminently fair, which cannot be
said of the bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Baker, of Westmoreland,
The Cumming bill makes the First
district more compact than it is
at present, and there can be little fair
objection to its adoption. Neverthe-
less, the Baker bill will have, with
few exceptions, the support of the
members from the First district
The charge that Mr.. Cumming and
others had political ends in view in
redistricting the State falls to the
ground and must lodge at the door
of some who have heretofore assailed
the movement. BY retaining Spotsyl-
vania and Caroline and ''shoe string
ing" the district the Baker bill
shows a desire TO hold on to q con-
stituency that is not to be feared
so much as those in James City
and York. The tables have turned
decidedly and the charges of politi-
cal ends, as we have said, revert on
the head of the chargers. The First
District representatives may be in a
majority against the Cumming bill,
but if the fairness of the people
could be sounded we have enough
faith in them to believe that they
would oppose the Baker proposition,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
Northumberland
HARVEY'S NECK

Mrs. Edward Christopher spent
several days last week with her sis
Ter. Mrs. Will Christopher.
Miss Julia Kent and brother, Nv
ron, visited Misses Epgenia and
Ruby Clark last Sunday.
Rev. r. E. Bentley spent Iast Fri
day at W. L. Christopher's.
X. A. Clark, CorbiI CHRISTOPHER
and Clause Stegmen attended court
Monday.
Miss Lizzie Claughton, who had
been visiting her sister, Mrs. II. IL.
Blackwell, returned home Friday,
much to the regret of her many
friends here.
Rev. Z. w. Clayb brook spent Sat.
urday night at "West Lawn" the
hospitable home of r. A. Clark.
Gus Christopher and Richard
Adams on Saturday last gave an
oyster roast, which was highly eu-
joyed by the little folks.
II. A. Clark sold a fine young
horse recently.
Those on the sick list are: Mrs
W. G. Whaley, Capt. w. B. Clark
and Capt. George Whaley.
SUNSHINE.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

LAST week the Religious Herald
that staunch heraldry of Baptist
tenets in Virginia, celebrated its
seventy-fifth anniversary. Its fronts
piece was a fac-simile of the first
page of its first issue, January 1lth
1928. The anniversary edition con.
tains fine picture of DR.. A. E.
Dickinson, well-known as preacher
and religious editor throughout the
South. In addition to several fine
articles, one on DR.. Dickinson,
by DR.. r. III. Pitt, managing ed.
itor, there is an entertaining paper
on "Virginia Baptists in 1885,
by DR.. Geo. w. Beale, of Nor
cumberland. The Herald is a
landmark in Virginia's religious his
tory, and We wish it many years OF
continued prosperity.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
RAINSWOOD.

Another ex-Confederate soldier has
gone. John Balderson, one of the
Oldest men of this place, died Mon
day, January 18th, aud was laid to
rest on the 18th at Gideon church
cemetery, Rev. a. ID. Reynolds con-
Quoting the burial service. He leaves
a son, James Balderson, of Coan.
and a daughter, Mrs. Sophronia
Dodson, wife of Ferroll Dodson, of
Reedville, ana a loving wife TO
mourn their loss. He will be greatly
missed in all religious meetings.
The deceased had been a consistent
Christian for forty years, and fell
asleep in Jesus at the ripe old age of
seventy.
L. NJ. Raines has disposed Of his
saw and grist-mill to Q. G. Swan &
Bro. and has ordered new one,
which he will locate on the farm of
Otis Belts, near Avalon. Mr.. Raines
has also sold his large oxen to G. ID.
Shirley.
Robert Connellee and wife, of
Downings, were visiting the family
of L. ID. Walker last Saturday, and
incidentally looking at farm which
he expects to buy of &. ID. Shirley.
Mrs. Zearllne Balderson, widow of
John Balderson, who has resided
near here for the last forty years,
left last Monday to live with her
daughter, Mrs. Francis Brown, OF
Sunnybank. May God be her com.
forter in this, her hour of affliction!
Everett Lewis, who has been sick
tor month, we are glad to say, is
improving.
Mrs. Sarah Courtney and Miss
Gertie Courtney, of Farnham, are
visiting at the home of Bonnie
Davis, near here. RED TAPE.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
Ice Cut Hole in Schooner,

Capt. John H. Waters, of the
schooner A. b. Wagner, belonging
to Struven & Wacker, of Baltimore,
underwent trying experience on
Tuesday night and Wednesday of last
week. The vessel was loading with
lumber at the mouth of Mount
Landing Greek, Rsppahannock river,
when the heavy ice which was afloat
cut a hole in the schooner and she
sunk in six feet of water. The
night was cold and the crew suf-
fered great hardship. They were
unable to reach the shore until
Thursday. Capt. Waters is father
to G. Harry Waters, of the Carriers
Greek Fish Guano Co., Irvington.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
SIMPSONS WHARF.

On account of the scarcity of oys.
tiers Frank Perciful & Bro. have
closed up their shocking house for
the season.
Mrs. Chloe Booth and children
spent part of Saturday and Sun.
day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Haynie, of Alfonso.
Mrs. Edna Booth, who has been
confined to her bed for a week, we
are glad to report up again.
w. E. Lamkin and sister, Miss
Maggie, of Wicomico, recently spent
a few days with their sister, Mrs.
Mamie Ashburne.
William Harrison, the popular
young merchant Of Miskimon, Wis.
tied his sister, Miss Edna Harrison,
Sunday last.
A. A. Ashburne is somewhat in
disposed at this writing.
Miss Medic McAllister on last
Tuesday night gave birthday party
to a few of her many friends.
Music, both vocal and instrumental,
was engaged in. CONNECTIONS in
abundance were on hand and a gen.
eral good time was had. May she
live to have many happy returns of
the day.
One of our crack shots here is a
young lady, who on Saturday took a
double-barrel gun, went in a skiff
on the river and shot wild duck.
The house of old Aunt Sarah
Thomas (colored) caught fire on
last Tuesday and burned down, In
trying to save her grandchild, who
was in the house, the old woman's
clothing caught fire, but she man
aged to put out the blaze. The
child was burned up and everything
lost. Aunt Sarah is in destitute
circumstances. HARD TIMES.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
HEATHSVILLE.

Yes, this is Heathsville; and this
IS winter. Nothing much doing:
everything is quiet. 1t is everlast.
ingly cold to the pleasure of a great
big lot of people hereabouts, who
are carried away with skating. Every
body up this way skates, and / tell
you 1t is high fun we girls and boys
have together at Dawson's ice pond.
Mr.. Rowe has cut big house full of
ice from this pond, and since this
hole has frozen over again, it has
been mighty rough. All of us nearly
died laughing down there the other
night when William Beale tumbled
in where the ice had been taken from.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

The Sentinel bought ten of coal a
few days agol oyou owe US anythingP
II so, please forward it as we could only
get ten. days extension.-Southside
Sentinel.
Just like all other coal barons-
got plenty, and asking for more.
Let us once more possess a ton of
coal and we will not beg our sub
scribers to help us out. We would
be more inclined to ask them to stay
away, and would stand guard over
our treasure, and that too without
calling on the militia to help us.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

In CONNECTION with the propo-
sition to tax every nonresident who
comes into the State to hunt, the
Warrenton Virginian raises the ques.
tion-"Whether the nonresident SC
taxed would have a right to hunt or
posted land" How about the right
of the land owner to invite whomso.
ever he pleases to gun on his own
lands in the open season?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23
Vigorous Old Age

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Some IS years ago had a combination OF
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tinued for year or more; meantime lost in
weight about 90 pounds, trying different medi-
clnes and doctors with unsatisfactory results
Paine's Celery Compound was recommended,
and, after using little l began to improve,
gaining about pound week. In year
had regained so pounds of the lost weight and
good health, and have been n well man ever
since. Yours truly, GEORGE F. MORSE.
LEoMINsTER, Mass, Oct. II, 1902.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

THAT is handsome offer of the
Seaboard Air Line Railway to take
the Virginia editors and their ladies
to Florida and other Southern points
on February 9th next. For once
the "going" editor of the CITIZEN
has to ''cut out" trip. Some of the
staff, however, will be there to hold
up this end of the "outside row."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

The saloon has no proper place in
the civilization of the Twentieth Gen.
tury. The tendency of the present
age is more and more toward sobriety,
and where the people are getting a
chance to vote on the direct question,
as in local option elections, they are
voting the saloon out.-THe Nary
land Searchlight.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-23

II
Farnham parsonage, Mr.. Jeter Il,
Zones and Miss Anna Mcclure were
united in marriage by Rev. Richard
Edwards.
Euclid Madden, motorman of the
car which ran into President Roose-
velt's carriage last fall at Pittsfield,
Mass, was sentenced to six months
Imprisonment and $500 fine.
Hon. H. F. Crismond, the repre-
sentative in the late Constitutional
Convention from fredericksburg;
member of the First District Demo-
cratic Committee, dropped dead at
his home Saturday evening.
James Wilcox, the young man
charged with killing Ella Cropsey,
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree on his second trial at
Hartford, N. C.,-on Wednesday, and
sentenced to thirty years in the
penitentiary.
N. G.. Gonzales, editor of the
Columbia Is. O. State. was shot
down on the street while unarmed
by Lieutenant Governor Tillman, of
South Carolina, and died from the
wounds. Tillman is in Jail, and the
people of the State are much aroused.
Inventor William Marconi ex-
changed the first messages between
the United States and Europe, a
distance of more than 5000 miles,
by wireless telegraphy Monday. The
messages were exchange of greetings
between President Roosevelt and
King Edward.
Aguinaldo, the late insurgent leader,
has written a petition to Secretary
Root saying that $100,00O,000 prob
ably will be required to avertfurther
sorrows and calamities" in the
Philippines. With this sum, partly
in gold cash, he says agriculture can
be developed and calamities over
come. Secretary Root has sent to
Congress copies of the petition, which
was received through Governor Taft.
Judge Martin, of Norfolk, decided
that the Virginia pilot laws are I'M
constitutional. lie holds that the
pilot laws, requiring all coasting
schooners to take pilot at the Vir-
ginia Capes, whether desired or not.
and to pay for a pilot, whether taken
or not, are unconstitutional, because
the laws discriminate illegally against
ports of other States in favor of Vir-
ginia ports.