The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-23
KING GEORGE NEWS.
Wheat Being Ruined and Corn
Unworked Because Of Rain.

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CONFORM. VA, July 22.--As q result
Of the frequent heavy rains for moro thar
a month pasta good deal of the wheat
Is said to be in bad condition. There have
bce1, put few days since harvest when
the conditions Of the wheat and the
weather would admit of thrshng, and
meanwhile much of the whca t In shocks
and stacks In the fields has gone through
a heat" and sproutetl.
There are some fields Of six feet tail,
corn In this section that have not had
cultivation Of any kind since the SOIL was
prepared for planting In the spring, Willie
there are others which have been only
sided" and thinned. Ths3Is because the;
ground has been entirely too wet ever
since the corn was planted to admit OF
blowing or other work.
Three carpenters are rushing the work
Of erecting q handsome Baptist parsonage
at Shiloh, this county.
Judge John z. Mason, of this place
whose illness has been mentioned In this
correspondence Is sufficiently Improved
to be able to ride out.
Lieutenant- Governor Willard has pre-
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ball club OF King George Courthouse with
four base-balls and four bats. y 3
Mrs r. II, Sorrell and Mrs. Annie r.
Grigsby and daughters, of Washington.
have arrived to spend two months at their
summer home here.
Mrs james Dldlake, of AIiddlesex, is
visiting relatives near this place.
Mrs. Owen Peed and son. Master Maui
rice Peed. of Washington, are guests Of
Mrs Peed's parents here.
{, Captain Jim Adams. a well known Poto-l
mac fisherman. Is catching some fine
surgeons for which he Is realizing good
prices--s30 to- $40, according to size, for
each fish and its roe. 4ss
Miss Sadie Gibson. of Wallbrook, Md.
is Il guest Of the Misses Taylorat Pow
hatan,' In this ncighborhood
q Mr.. Tu Wee Sang, OF the Chinese lega-
ton, was at the clerks office OF this
county several days ago.
y Miss llosalic Thornton, OF Louderdale,t
this county. has gone to Virginia Beach
to spend some time.
Mr., C.fCalvln Stuart. who has been on
a visit to his mother at Cedar Grove, this 4
county. has returned to Philadelphia.
Mrs. Oscar NJ styron and children, OF
Washington, hayo arrived here to spend
the summer
Mrs. Martha Sorrel and two sons came
down from the national capital CITY sew
cral days ago to spend the heated term
here. #
Miss Lucy Bell Mason of Rockville,
Md, Is visiting her father, =. w. Mason,
ESD. at "Cleveland." near here.
Miss Nora Henderson, who has heen
spending some weeks In the District Of 4
Columbia. returned to her home at Cash !
Corner, near here, yesterday. She was
accompanied home by her sister, Mrs
Clarence Taylor Of Washington who
VII spend month at her parental home.il
Mr.. Mason Smith, of Fredericksburg,
and Mr.. Stuart Robertson. of staunton,
are guests at "shelbllrne," the summer
home Of Judge j. y, Mason, a mile from
this village.
Miss Bessie Goldsborough. Of Maryland
Is on n visit to her friend and former
Miss Flora Mason, hero,
Misses Minnie Smith md Virginia DICK
inson of this county. have gone to Essex
to visit relatives.
DR.. a. B, llooc, Il prominent medlcal
of Washington, has been VS.
itlng his sisters here and friends ut Cos
lonal Beach for some days past.
Carpent ers are putting n new roof and
other repairs on st. Stephens Church
half q mile from this place
DR.. Fielding Ashton, q, native or ms
county and n medical practitioner OF Rlch-t
mond since his graduation there more
than n year ago, is. assisting pr :. I.
Ninde in his large practice In Colonial
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