The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-07-19
ESSEX.


mor-The Good Dinners Served al
All Day Meetings - Remarkable
Case OF a Man Becoming Sudden
iy Bald - Another's Hair Turns
White in One Nisht-Mr. Broken
brough's Big Wheat Crop Other
interesting Items.
Dunnsville, Va. July lltb, 1904.
Rev. John r. r. llundIey, of the Chris
tian church, of Norfolk, delivered a ser
mon at the Rappahannock church SUI
day morning. Gods constant Thought
of his people" WAS the eubj"ct. MIR
fundley Also preached Sunday night
having IT ubelief' ~ his subject
The Rev, NJ Ashby Jones. son IL Dr.
J. VIM. Jones. Gen Lees chaplain. vii
preach the annual missionary sermon al
Ephesus BAPTIST church the last We'd
nesday in this month. There will be all
day meeting. The dinners which thg
ladies of the church spread on su.h Oe
casions are really sumptuous. Your cor
respondent holds himself an expert with
a carving knife. GA these prOtracted
meetings and missionary days he il Oc
casionaly called on TO help about the
ham and lamb slicing. This affords aI
opportunity TO watch the crowd par
take of those things necessary 10
strengthen the physical OF the good
brothers and sisters, and OF many Others
who scarcely ever attend church at any
time. Well, the capacity OF some under
the stimulus of "A splendid sermon and
of meeting with old friends and the like
il Just alarming. Dsyiled crabs and corn
pudding roast lamb and baked tomatoesl
fried oysters and apple sauce, old ham
and chicken pie are dispensed a. last a.
a postal clerk handles his letters. And
following there come watermelons and
other fruit OF vine and tree. and Ice
cream to bring up the rear. We have
Hpen some small dried up" looking men
apply their masticAting apparatus tn the
whole bill OF fare, and seem perfect wei
afterwards What becomes OF the pins
il mystery unlathOmable they say and
we in turn ask how asmall man eats hall
his size in sll-dsy dinners and still liyes and
look content
Tim burnett. cOlOred man, who lIYee
on the edge Of King and Queen county,
had the strangest thing 20 happen with
him ever heard Of Burnett arose one
morning several years ago, perfectly well
and attended to his usual daily, before
breakfast duties When his good wo.
man announced that breakfast wa
ready, Burnett went into the house and
completed his toilet While cOmbing bis
hair. he noticed that 1t Was coming out
freely. He called his wife and told her
that he was losing he hair. She told
him that she reckoned just little OF II
was coming out. He replied. mo. look
here; believe et9y bit OF IL Is coming
out" And with that remark, he cnught
hold OF his great shaggy crop Ol mulHtto
wool and every strand OF it came out,
leaving his head ~ slick az pealed
onion, and not one strand OF 1t has ever
come back. This il no fsh story, Tor
your correspondent heard about il and
went to interview him yesterday. Bur
nett is Gl years OF age and In robust
health. Within few miles of where he
lives a gentleman named SimcOe lived,
and HIS case was strange one, bot not
without parallels Mr.. Simcue hal a
splendid suit Of black hair. In ore night
it turned snow white. The shock 10 the
gentleman next morning was great in
deed.
Ii is reported here that Mr. B. b.
of TappahannOek, has
struck the top notch in his wheat crop
this year He sowed, they iafurm us,
one hundred bushels and he made fifty
for one. How is this for the SAM banks
Of old Essex?
Some few years ago Mr. Robert Bv-
erley, Of this county, shipped from bis
semi salt water marsh pasture the finest
beef cattle received in the Baltimore mar
ket. We lack the natural lime OF tGe val
ey, and. of course, agricultural eeObom-
cs must come in 90 supply this essential
i we wish such grasses az spring aim 1st
spontaneously In lime stone counties, but
Dur marshes in early summer are Excel
ent grazing land and the cattle lttened
On them are welcomed by the city butch
1Ts,
Miss Annie Laurie billiard, daughter OF
MIR. Il. Peel billiard, is at home for the
Mr.. billiard was rare
vioIinist and was also gifted with q fine
voice. His daughter is doing excellent
W ork in music and her piano rec tails are
worthy OF high criticism. Her fathers
talents have fallen TO her lot.
We have had some severe eelfctTi'storms
recently accompanied by good rains. No
damage is reported thus lar.