The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-02
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DAILY MAIL /.
FOR KING GEORGE |: ! .|:|.I|: [: !.
N ---~,-s 4 a
Tons Of Mail Hauled Over
land Without lil:f Com
pensation.
NEW WHARF BEING ERECTED R J: ::
Great Demand fop Work Horses
and The Supply n IN
adequate.
NEW WHARF BEING {: ERECTED Z \ Z |:
ESPECIAL 10 rho Times.Di.patchos

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lfg8 CONFORM, VA, April arrange
pents are rapidly maturing for the early
establishment Of daily mail services
rom port Conway to King George
Courthouse, which Will supply a longfelt
Xeed. Under the proposed schedule, which
.he United States PostoffIce Department 4
regards With fnvor, the mails will leave
Port Conway every morning in time 20
serve Doguc rostofflce and 3reach hihs
George Courthouse at one hour 10 CON
meet with the mails from Fred rlcksburR;
and then return via Dogue to Port Con-
way in the afternoon. Under the present
5tchedule, mail matter for. Port Conway
MA Doguc has to go around via OF Germ.
Eulvy. Shiloh, Jersey and Welcome, and
thence BY q special route from Port Con-
way to Doguc; or else tand as oftcn) go
from King George Courthouse to Frcder-
lcksburg and thence via Of MILFORD,
Bowling Green Port Royal and across
the RappahanitOck River. Mall mater after
BY the former route does not reach Port
Conway and Dosue until the day after
It leaves King George Courthouse. al
though the points are only five or SIX
miles apart by direct road; while that
Is hich goes b. Fredericksburg and through
1potsylvania and Caroline has to lay oyer
& In Port Royal many days ut a. time. when
the Rappahannock lis blocked by Ice.
Ell a petition. signed BY many OF tho lead
Ing citizens OF Fredericksblrg and King
4 George will be presented to ahe POST
lfflce Department, In washington, In q
Gay or two, pra wing Uncle Sam" to5coni-f
pensate the mail carrier from Fredericks-
A burg TO King George for hauling tons of
nlail matter that ought to have been. Hbutf
pould not be. hauledSby the Rappahannock
steamboats, the past winter while nal
cation was suspended. ~ great deal OF
mali matter for the Northern Neck Is.
carried by Rappahannock camers,S but
during the long freeze tho past winter
the carrier on the overland route from
Fredericksburg TO King George had 70
haul a vast quantity Of that accumulated
steam boat mall down IN wagons, involv-$
Ing great hardship and extra expense. II
4 Is for performing his extra atduous work
that the carrier asks to be paid.
The demand for work horses In King
George this spring far exceeds any ever
known here. Some of the farmers are
riding day after day in their endeafors to-
buy teams. 5and there are those who cam
not begin the work OF blowing their
fields for corn until they find work ami
mails. Some few persons have horses for
tale; but disposed to take advantage OF
me lI1ey aTe &lShlIlE EeuuIIHuus
prices. They want $40 apiece for horses
that would not bring even 800 eighteen
months ago. and some OF the farmers Ge-
clare that they Will let their fields lay
uncultivated Their Than pay such ex-
stortionate prices. Very, ordinary colts
such as sold at $50 this time last year
have brought 500 spot cash this week.
Z The fact is, there are. comparatively very
few horses here. and no ono seems able
to IN tisfactorlly account for this sudden
yea rcity. ig b "a
Dr. Joseph H.. Low. OF Chicago, is hav-,
Ing a wharf erected at Oaken Brow, on
the Rappahannock River. the magnificent
King George plantation recently pur-
chased by him from Mr.. r. ". Turner,&of
Port Conway. II is said TO be- DIR. Lows
purpose to have this wharf completed In
time for hinl5to land his goods and chat
tells on when no arrives hero from the,
West about the LIST OF May. 4s s52
The pOstoffice at Welcome this county
which was DESTROYED by fire a mon ago.
tcsetfer with the store and dwelling house
nearby, Is again open for the service Of
patrons Mr.. w. II. King, tho postmaster.
received necessary supplies from the POST,
office Department at Washington some
days ago. {5s. Nh
Potomac Baptist Church. near here,
which Is without a pastor, has arranged
I for Rev. w. s. Jackson. of Stafford, tD
ill the &pupit on the second Sunday in
this month--one week from tomorrow.
Mr.8J. J. Grlgsby ono OF King Georges
leading merchants. spent this; week In Bal
timore. buying his, spring stock OF nlcr-
Schandisc