Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1905-04-28
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meets IN Richmond, April ~, will in
vestigate the charges made by Prof. ]. d.
Eggleston, Jr., candidate for the Of
fee of Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, that the Virginia Teachers Reg
lister, being sold for Is cents copy to
each of the 5000 teachers in the State
costs only rs cents to produce. 1t was
said at the department that it is not
known who owns the Register copyright
but that no one connected with the de-
partment has ever owned it. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Eggleston will be asked
to appear before the board and that he
is in position to show who owns the
Register The names of school officials
have been connected with the publication
of this book. The School Board at its
meeting on the 27th will elect about So
school superintendent. There are con-
tests in Albemarle, Alexandria, Ale
gany, Amherst, Bedford, Bland, Bote-
tourt, Brunswick, Buchanan, Carroll,
Campbell, Craig, Dickinson, Dinwiddie,
Floyd, Goochland, Gloucester, Halifax,
Hanover, Henrico, Highland, King
George, Lancaster, Lee, Madison, Mel
son, Northampton, Orange, Patrick,
Powhatan, Prince Edward, Roanoke
City, Rockingham, Russell, Shenandoah,
Spottsylvania, Washington and Wise.
The Interstate Fair Association OF
Lynchburg has been organized with
these officers: President, Congressman
Carter Glass; ce-president, H. T. Har-
man; treasurer, S. T. Willis. The $780,
600 stock has been over subscribed.
An effort in the Fredericksburg City
Council to increase the liquor licenses
from $3.50 TO $500 was defeated,
The dedication of the monument to
Gen. Alexander Hayes on the Wilder
ness battlefield, in Spottsyvania county,
which was announced to take place May
s, has been postponed indefinitely, as
the monument is not completed.
A fire which started in a woodward
shed, in Portsmouth, at II o'clock IN the
morning, burned IS stores and dwell
ings in the district bounded by Chestnut,
London, Queen and Efingham streets
The fire was practically out at 3 +. NJ
The damage is placed at $4,000.
Several days ago James f. Watson,
residing in Petersburg, stuck splinter
in his hand He thought little of it
at the time, but lockjay subsequently de-
veloped and he died.
The Board of Aldermen and City
Council of Petersburg invited the trus-
tees of Hampden- Sidney College to To-
cate the college there. A resident has
offered to give a site.
A destructive woodland fire occurred
in Dinwiddie county, near the court
house, which burned over large area
Of land. An immense quantity of valu-
able standing timber and fencing was
destroyed. The Methodist Church at
Dinwiddie Court House narrowly es-
capped being burned.
Capt. John W. Nicholson, of Ports
mouth, was fined SIS and put under a
peace bond of $500 for assaulting and
cursing Col. John w. CAST in the street.
Colonel CAST is United States Super
visor of the Norfolk Distdict, and Cap
tain Nicholson was dismissed from the
office Of steamboat inspector on his rec
concentration for intemperance. There
has been enlnity between the men ever
since, and but for the interference OF
friends there would have been serious
encounter.
Work was started on the rehabilitation
of the old furnace at ReusenS, several
miles west of Lynchburg, on the James
River division of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway. The furnace has passed
to the control of the Southern Develop
ment Company, of Philadelphia, which
is to cxpend $4,000 in the next three
months. The furnace will be operated
as soon as possible. To. start with, it
will have a capacity of 100 tons day.
The trustees of the George M. Jones
Memorial Association have accepted the
design of Frye & Chesterman, Of Lynch
burg, for the $4,000 public library to
be erected there by bequest of George
NJ Jones. The building is to be OF buff
pressed brick, with Indiana limestone
and terra Gotta trimmings. Mrs. Jones
has given a valuable site and an endow-
ment of $4,000
z. Z. Walker, of Campbell county,
was arrested in Lynchburg by Detective
A. D. Williams, charged with burning
the barn of S. NJ. Wisecarver, nca' Rust
burg, three months ago. Five horses and
other animals were destroyed.
Norfolk will secure the annual meet
ing of the Southern Wholesale Grocers
Association to be held June 5, E and 7.
President J. A. Van Hoose, of Birming-
ham, Ala, writes as much to the Whole
sale Grocers and TobacconiSts' ASsocia-
ton of Tidewater. The idea is to hold
the convention either at Ocean View
or Virginia Beach.
Capt. Henry Kim, the largest truck
raiser in the Norfolk section, estimates
that the losses of farmers in Tidewater
Virginia will reach the vast sum of ST.
100000. He has individual losses Of
several thousand dollars. Mr.. Kim in
speaking of the matter said that until
the frost of few nights ago there had
been none for four weeks, and crops,
particularly strawberries, had had favor
able conditions, the blossoms came early
and the berries followed and were in
fine condition.
Mrs. Kelly Breeder, OF Rose Hill,
Charlottesville, stepped off a moving
Main street car with her little son in her
arms. The boy escaped injury, but it is
feared the woman fractured her skull
Norwel Getses, of Boston, engineer
on the schooner Catherine M. Monahan
WAS killed at the coal pier at Newport