Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-02-24
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rotary Of the I.ynchburg Board Of Trade.
The girl admits sprinkling powder III
some of the cooking utensils OF the farn'
lily on Saturday, but claims this was
done at the instigation Of white woman
who told her It was "good-luck powder,
and she waned to give the family good
luck. Mr.. and Mrs. Faulkner and two
children have been very i'll. The police
are investigating the charge and It as
expected that the woman accused will be
arrested.
Latest reports from Currituck coun-
ty, North Carolina, say that no trace has
been found of 8-year-old Kenneth Bcas-
ley, son of Senator Beasley, who has
been mysteriousy missing since Mon
day. Hurricane Branch, whose son.
with bloodhounds, has been seeking the
child, said that he believed the boy had
been kidnapped. Over 300 persons have
been engaged in the search.
While coastng down->a steep hill Ill
Winchester, Miss Mary Braithwaite and
Miss Ida Russell fell off heavy laden
sled, and for some time lay helpless OIL
the roadside. Another sled descending
at a rapid rate was about to smash into
them, when a passerby found the young
women in the road and rescued them.
The Corporation Commission of Viz
GINA having refused to grant charter
to the Consolidated Ice Company, OF
Roanoke, on account of similar COM
pany being chartered in Richmond. the
parties at once changed the name to
that Of Consumers Ice Company The
capital involved is 100000.
The Alumine neighborhood of Frank
lin county is excited over the whipping
of the I2-year-od daughter of Rev. Lee
Moore by Ezra Mason, a school teach
err. The girl refused to write some sell
tence and the teacher, it is alleged,
whipped her, inhicting AZ lashes. Ma
son was fined S. for cruel treatment OF
the girl He Swore OFT warrant for
the girls father for creating a disturb
ance at the school house. The School
Board refused 10 remove Mason.
An eastbound coal train on the Nor
folk and Western railroad was wrecked
near Zuni Station Ten gondolaS were
wrecked and the track torn up for some
distance. Passengers for the West had
to be transferred at the scene OF the
wreck and west bound trains were run
backward to Petersburg.
At Wythevlle the smoke house, car
riagc house and another small house OF
Mrs. A. NJ Caldwell were destroyed by
fire.
According OF recent census of VIM
chester and its suburbs, made while COM
pling a new directory of the city, the
population has increased to $3.50. The
Government census showed about 5,I2i
in 1000. Of this number LOO are col
ored.
A few days ago some FISHERMEN made
a hole in the ice near the mouth of No
mini creek, in Westmoreland county, and
succeeded in getting so bushels Of fine
fish, mostly of the white perch variety.
The Grand Conclave of HeptasophS,
which has been in convention at Crit
tendon, adjourned to meet at the OPP
ton OF the executive committee. (.
D. Cake, of Norfolk, was chosen Grand
Archon, and W. J. Woodward, Of Nor
folk, and r. s. Boykin, OF Suffolk, were
elected representatives to the Supreme
Conclave in Atlantic City
An appeal was taken i'll the bank
ruptcy case of Ralph Savage, formerly
president of the defunct Cuba-Rica To
bacco Company, of Winchester. The
case will be tried in the United States
Circuit Court at Richmond. His wife
Mrs. Ada Savage, claims to have lien!
amounting to $4,000 on the big Savage
building here and is contesting its sale.
Shirley Carter, chairman of the fnanc:
committee of the City Council, received
a telegram from Congressman Jane:
Hay that bill had been favorably re
ported to Congress by the Committee or
Buildings and Grounds recommending
$4,000 Government building for Win
chester. to be used for postoffice ane
court purposes.
A wreck on the main line OF the Nor
folk. and Western, near Bedford City
blocked the tracks for four hours. Ar
esstbound mail train "sideswiped'
westbound mail. The latter was enter
ing siding. The engine of the cast
bound train was badly damaged and tl't
Pullman coach of the other train wd:
wrecked Postal Clerk Deane, of Black
stone, was painfully injured by being
thrown into the mail racks in his car.
DR.. G.. NJ. Wallace, of Stafford, doe:
not expect to be candidate for REFLECTOR
to the State Senate this year.
A large portion of the extensive plan
of the William r. Twigg Company
Richmond, now in receivership, has been
leased and will be operated by w. IL
Woody, Jr., and Charles Winburne as
a foundry, under the style OF the Shoe
koe Foundry Company.
The Ladies Home Journal of Phlla-
delphia, has appointed Mrs. Bessie Beh
ny Grabowskii, OF Richmond, on its
editorial staff. She is the widow OF
Mr. Charles f. Grabowskii, who was
prominent young railroad man.
DR.. A. J. Hoback was tried at Floyd,
charged with being All accessory before
the fact in the killing of John L. Jet
Oh January 30 last by his son, Paul S.
Hoback. The justices sent the accused
OH to the grand jury and placed him
under $4,000 bail Fred S. Hoback, who
was stabbed three times by Jett before
the latter was shot, has not yet had a
hearing on account of the seriousness
of his wounds. He is being guarded in
his fathers house
At auction 10 shares OF the capita
stock of the Peoples National Bank.
Charlottesville, belonging to the estate
of the late John I. Massey, brought Sol
a share.
The track foreman of the Washington
Southern Railway has been instructed by
the officials to buy grain and feed the
birds on the line of the road between
Alexandria and Quantico