The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-07-19
NORTHUMBERLAND.
Protracted Meetinss-Sales OF Prop
erty Roads Receiving Attention
Fine Yield OF WheAt-A New Hail
Catch of Msnhaden Fish Small
Can,alnunas PIantlfuI- Othsr Notes.

Canteleupes Plentiful Other N etes
Heathsville, Va July l5, 1904
The. pr0trRcted meeting season hat
opened among the Methodist and Bnp
tist churches ia this county, and ger vlee'
are held each night in the Bethany NJ r
church at Reed vile. Rev. f b. Beale lie
alao conducting meeting this week with
Gibson Baptist church, OF which Rev
Lester A. Brown ID pastor.
MIR. Jas. M. Boothe leaves for btlti
more today. the object OF his trip my
to secure AN organ for use during iht
Kirkland Grove camp meeting next
month. MIR. W. Andrew Jones, oil Rains
wood, will lead the singing at the above
camp meeting
oar girls " ho are attending the School
of Methods in Charlottesville seem ID be
proving attractive up there, two of them
Mt least-Miases LOueie Anderson and
Annie STRENGTHENING been severely
dazed by bolt OF lightning that flashed
near them.
Mrs. Thomas IL. Fallin, daughter Ethel
and son Ernest are attending thH Expo
sition in Sc. Louis. Other members OF
the family will go later.
Mf. Robert Luttrell has purchased oil
Mr. Jerome Downing the old Downing
homestead in Newmans Neck, called
Level Fields.
Mr.. Octsyus Elmore has bought oil
Messrs. Bo0the and Rowe the Hill Val
ley home, with 40 acres OF land, near
HesthsyiIe, the consideration being
! 800.
The roads in Fairfield district are under.
going general and extensive repairs and
improvements. The interest and Rtten-
ton given 10 the public highways by the
citizens of Fairfield are deserving OF high
est commentator. They bespehk u
public spirited and progressive commun-
ity.
Mr.. Tom Black well. OF Bridge Neck
has led all our wheat growers in the per
acre yield of wheat, having obtAihed
from IA lot of ten acres four hundred and
ten bushels
The Juniors" of Lottsburg have
nearly completed spacious, conven'
lent hall. This order ia very NUMEROUS
in this county
Mrs. Eliza Jones and her son, Buck
Jones, of llull's Neck. each lost u fine
cow last week from the effects OF light
ming. This accident makes the number
of cows recently killed here by Lightning
four, and in each case the destructive
current seems To have been cOmmuni
Gated from "A wire fence. Precau'i ms
seem necessary to prevent these irnees
from conducting the lightning so freely
The catch of menhadpn for the fish lac
tories has been of late distressi ely
small. and the men engaged In the bust
ness are little blue. and 40 in meas
ure because of the fact that the iish are
reported to be dying in great numb' r.
along the North Atlantic coast, whence
the supply il usually drawn later In the
season.
The recent death In Baltimore OF Capt.
BohannOn, of the steamer Alabama, Ia
deeply regretted by his RcQusintances In
Tidewater Virginia, who have known
him az q capable and courteous Ciiictr.
lie WA native OF Mathews county
Our supervisors have provided good
quality of mating OF different patterns
/ for the several parts Of the court room
/ here, which will add much To its appear
ance and comfort.
CantelOupes. ripe, sweet and fragrant
are in evidence here now. and the pros
pect IL for "A large yield, though some
what late. The Irish potato growth II
unusually large, and tomatoes aud cab
bage are doing well The cucumber ha'
proved general failure. Il W. Is