The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-04
GREAT DEMAND
FOR OYSTERS
The Northern Neck Shippers
Doing a Large Bush
Hess.
PACKERS RUNouT OF MARKET
Oysters in the Potomac Covered
With Small Musscls and
Is Greatly Injured.
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Especial TO The Times Dispatch)
H0AT1isv1LLE. VA, y Dec. A--rhe.
sliucking houses OF tho Northern Neck
aie making unusually large shipments OF
z oysters, as they arc III great demand.
This season. so far. has been ONO OF tho.
4 most successful In years FOR the tongers.
Tho weather during nearly ali the fall
has been splendid for Clustering, aud the
tongcrs are securing from seventy to
seve1tty-hve cents per blshe1 FOR their
oysters. on tile rivers, but shuckers are
able TO ill only a part or their orders
5 Oyster packers. on the other hand. are
going through very disastrous season.
Isagerness OH the part Sf&buyers has put
prices up so high that dt leaves no
margin OF profit for the packing houses.
While tho tongers are beng tenn pOrarliy
ssagEf.ityd, Il is oni. fU.stie time being,
s ,s every house or buyer that liz driven
out Of business means tint much decline
sn tho future tIado OF the Northern
Neck, d II.
Tho oysterrncn along the Potomac river
have been greatly bothered this fall by
mlsse!s. Large amounts Of oysters arc
found u, be entirely covered with this
small she'll dFh. i seems that they fasten
D themselves Ground tho mouth OF the
oyster, Which thus being unable TO feed.
coon stsryes. 5s#
Lloyd Hale. OF wheaton, a gent FOR
i Long and Co.'S packing mouse at irving
ton, has In his POSSESSION q hard CRAB:
3 to whose eye-socket a small oyster has
+ fastened itsclf. Both are thriving, but
3 the crap cannot prtrude lis eye. 5
More turkeys wsro silppca from this
Il county just before THANKSGIVING Day,
thanSfor years. Those who shipped carly
Eecurrd good prices for their fowls.
Capt W. l.. Ashburt. "a OF lower Ian
caster, has q lot7 several acres large, that
Il has a good even stand Of clover on It
& which came up voluntarily. .Ir. Ash
burn says that no clover sl,t2s been sown
there for ten years. and thnt fol- the
* last five years tho land has been seeded
& IN corn. He gives as an expia nation OF
this, that when clover was there last.
he Eannghed 1t In deep. ard the seed
d thus covered \. have just worked " tho
I uirface and como ZIP as though recently
sowrl q Ct Il 81. h
aIr.@G Fl. s;isson. whose large bowling
alley and pool rooms We're destroyed by
fire about two months ago at F1eeton,
Is having q similar building erected at
K!imaTnock,# where he VIII engage N the
game line OF business. . Il
Mr.. A.. ]. Dupont Of Wilrnn gton. Del.
was accidentally shot, recently wllilc
hunting with party OF friends in lower.
Northumberland The party had Just
started out hunting. when ono OF tho
number shot a bird u2 a small trce,
y when shot, 1rsboundi,,s, !; struck an.8
d Dupontin the eye. He Immediately took
4 STEAMER for Baltimore, where he went
for medical treatment. 1t Is thought he
Will lose the sigt Of ti,saeyc. Mr.. James
Gallagher, Of Meadow Il Brook, Pa, has
purchased from tho Perks heirs. their,
large farm situated nca3 Ollhams. P,lr-
4 chasing price was 5l,309. Several shade
4 Trees. which had been ordered by the
( Board OF Supervisors, were set out or,
& the court green here. recently. North
cumberland already has one of the pref
4 ticst court greens IN the Northern Neck.
but the people seem determined to i'm
n prove 1t still m ore.a s5S RI
Rev. r Meredith, OF Dnwiddit, former
rector OF Richmond County parish. Is
I visiting at tbs home Of r. l.. Scgar. a t
S Warsaw. Mrs Z. S. E,lhanks. OF Kill
marnock, Is spending tho winter with her
sister, In Baltimore.
Rev. A. D. cynolds, OF upper Northun-
i1erland, Is quite sick, and it Is thought
ne VIII have to be taken 70 a hospital.
Mr., G, W. Barrett, a we'll known lumber.
dealer OF Richmond county. Will shortly
remove with his farnilyeto Baltimore
w VIII reside in the future
Mr. T.. w. Currcll. OF 1lilmarnock. ono
of the most successful farmers OF this
section raised this season, 40 bushels Of
late Irish potatoes. from five bushels
seeded. Mr.. currell Will average ten
barrels of corn per acre. lie is the
originator Of the celebrated Currcl wheat
and 4 is an up to-datc farmar.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. NJ. Pecd. who have been
visiting at the home oGlA1r. w. 2. Ander-
j son, have returned to their home In Bal
tinore, Mr. WI. Tignor returned home
Monday from a short business trip 70
shington.
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