Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-06-16
THE OLD DOMINION
Latest News Cleaned From ALI Over
The State.

$I.4o per $Ioo for the fiscal year Degih,
ming July 1, was adopted at special
meeting of the Petersburg City Council
which also accepted contract with the
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
providing for a railroad bridge across a
new channel for the Appottomax RIVER
included in the present work OF divert
ING the course of the river around the
harbor by a dam at Petersburg to pre-.
vent the formation of sand bars and
provide unobstructed navigation between
Petersburg and the James River. lhe
government has appropriated 100000
for this work, which is now IN progress
The Southside Medical Association,
comprising the counties OF GreenSvlile;,
Prince George, Sussex, Surrey anu
Northampton, met in annual session al
the Central State Hospital, near Peters
burg. Addresses on medical subJects;
were made by DR.. H. F. Wallace, OF
Prince George, president, and other ply
sicians. A feature of the meeting was
an operating clinic introduced by Dr'
Stuart Mcclure, of Richmond. DR.. W.,
F. Drewry, superintendent OF the Cen
trail State Hospital, entertained the as
ISOLATION at dinner.
A movement is on foot to send short
ly to Washington committees from both
branches OF the Lynchburg City Coun--
Gil, one from the Board of Trade and
another from the Fair Association, with
the latters president Congressman
Glass, and Senator Daniel, to invite the
President to attend the fair in that city
II October. Should the President con-
sent to visit Lynchburg, the Fair Asso-
citation will arrange for special tram
TO leave Washington after early break
fast, and to return with the President
in time for supper.
The country around Raccoonford and
True Blue, Orange county, is much eX-
cited over a criminal assault committed
upon Miss Cora Schooler, aged Is years,
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Schooler. Miss Schroeder had just left
tn store of Gordon finder, of True
Blue, where she had been making some
purchases, and was on her way to her
home, nearby.
J. S. Wheeler, aged as years, car
builder employed by the Norfolk and
Westers Railway Company was run
down and killed by shifting engine in
the Roanoke yards. He is survived by
widow and several children.
Leroy, the 3H-year-old son of J. T..
Jones, drank a cupful of whisky and
died from the effects The chlld'S moth
err was not in the room when the little
fellow poured the whisky from bottle
his father had brought home and lett
on the table. She entered the room
suddenly and the child threw the whisky
on the floor. She did not think he had
drunk much of the fiery liquid, but
soon afterward he lapscd into uncon-
seriousness and never rallied. He was
taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where
the doctors worked hard to save him,
but in vain.
The Jamestown Exposition Company
advertise for bids for water and sew
crage construction on the exposition site
at Sewell's Point. The sub-surface work
will involve an outlay of from $4,000
to 100000. Chairman c. Brooks John
ston, Of the board of governors, and
Auditor Barton Myers returned from
Washington, where they had confer
ence with the President relative to send
ing a representative abroad in the in
tereSt of the exposition.
]. S. Wheeler, a carbuilder in the en-
ploy of the Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company, was run down in the
yard at Roanoke and killed His neck
was broken, but after he was picked up
he was still conscious and could talk
enough to relate how the accident oc-
Cured. He is survived by widow and
several children.
Virgil Davis,-4elegraphic operator al
Edsalls, Fairfax county, was assaulted
at iaate f f,,t err en- King street, near West
street, Alexandra, by three negroes, who
cut him severely on the head and face.
Lcsleys Walker, Jr., who lives near
Saumsville, was lodged in jail at Win
chester, charged with breaking into and
robbing the store of S. II. Cullers and
the depot of the Southern Railway Com
pany at Maurertown.
Mrs. Frances NJ. Sale has instituted
suit in the Fredericksburg Corporation
Court for a divorce against her husband,
John B. Sale, on the ground Of deSer-
ton.
After residing two years in Paris,
Count Raoul d'Adhemar and his mother
have returned to Fredericksburg and
will 60 to their estate, Moss Neck, in
Caroline county, TO reside
Mrs. Roosevelt, and not the President,
is the purchaser of the country home
in Albemarle county, near Scottsvile.
The summer home for the Presidents
wife and children is a portion of the
beautiful Springfield farm, which is
owned by w. N. Wilmer, of New York,
He is said to know the President well
and the deal was concluded between
them on behalf of Mrs. Roosevelt. The
Wilmer farm contains about 500 acres
in all, but Mrs. Roosevelt's purchase
comprises only IS acres and small
frame house. This dwelling, by her or
der, has had rock chimney added to
it, and a porch has been built extending
all around it. All the partitions on the
lower floor have been removed, making
one immense ROOM The trees in the
yard have been nicely trimmed and the
house treated to heavy coat of white
wash. 1t was said at ScottSville that
the family was expected to arrive short
ly. 1t is the idea of Mrs. Roosevelt
when she wishes a week or so of rest
to run down to this cool little retreat
among the Virginia mountains, which is
so accessible to Washington.
In the case at Richmond of Miss Nan
nie Morgan against the Old Dominion
Steamship Company the Jury refused