The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-02
MONTH
OF REST
August is Welcomed by Folks
in King George.
CAMP : MEETING SEASON
People in Multitudes and Watermelons
in Profusion-A Smart Collie Dog
Buries Her Dcad Pup.
Personal
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.)

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CONFORM, VA, August August is
generally looked forward to By country
people as time OF rest and holidays,
end the advent of the month Is always
welcome to the young and the old alike.
The growing crops are pretty generally
worked out and "aid by and the bulk
OF the wheat and oat crop threshed out
and housed by the first of August, so that
the farmers, laborers and nearly all class
es are ready for month of rest. 1t is
not at all strange, then, that August
is the time for ''protractcd meetings" at
the country churches. Everybody who
has any leisure at all, has it IN August,
when Waternelons are ripe; SO there Is
nc such thing as the sumner revival
meetings" without multitudes Of people
and wntermelons in profusion. August,
1905. will be no eXception-will be spent
by rural citizens just as all previous Au-
gusts have been spent by preceding gen
erations. Already the "big meetn's"
have been announced for all the churches.
Wharton Grove Baptist camp meeting,
+ In Lancaster county, opened week ago,
and has attracted vast crowds from all
parts OF the Northern Mech and other
sections. Marvin Grove Methodist camp
meeting opened Yesterday, and the multi
tudes are vending their way thither.
Those who cannot journey SO far to
camp meeting have been amply provided
for at home-"protractcd meetings at
their own church and "bg guns" from
a distance to assist the local pastors.
The records in the clerks office show
that the first Thursday in each month
George continuously since the year li2l--
1. e.. for 1872 years past the citizens OF
King George have been accustomd to at
tending their County Court on the first
A SMART DOG.
The "smartest" dog In King George
county is female collie owned by Mr..
courthouse village. This CANNES almost
human Intelligence has been attracting
attention for several years. and Its eX-
traordinary manners" has made it we'll
nigh famous. Recently one of her little
fest grief. she carried the little
corpse" under the clerks office and
reaching and removing the nuisance from
the hiding place under the building, the
mother dog crawled through small open;
puppy H out. carried 1t to a neighborlng
field where she dug hole In the
ground, and buried it as carefully and
almost as completely as could have been
ter, clerk Of the court; E. L. Hunter and
County Treasurer H. B. Cosb!M all OF
whom are gentlemen Of high standing and
unouestoned verac city vouch for the cor.
RICHNESS of the story Of this wonderful
collie.
The road overseers, recently appointed
to put the public highways OF this coun-
ty in order, under system to supersede
the contract system. begun their task
early this week, They are required to
hire necessary labor. and to pay each
man rs cents per daylight hours to
make day. It is hoped and believed
by many that the county will have bet
ter roads under this plan than 1t had at
any time under the costly contract sys-
tenn, which was abandoned in May OF
SO Some go Of the reaches" along the Po-
tomac river. off this county. are dotted
with crabbers every day until about
O'clock, many Of whom are thus engaged
lust for the sport of It," while the
others are earning livelihood by catch
ing crabs to sell ut five cents per dozen.
PERSONALS.
Mr. T. Freeland Mason, OF Pittsburg,
Pa, visited friends here this week.
Mr. Victor MONTGOMERY of Washington,
d. c., is expected here to-day to spend
few days with his wife and children.
who are summerng at their country
home at this place.
Mr.. John Hancock and Mr.. o. A.