Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-12-20
LOCAL MENTION.

LOCAL MENTION.
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ne VIRGINIA CITIZEN. Irvington. Va.
Mrs. E. l.. Wilder and little son were
in Baltimore last week.
No VIRGINIA CITIZEN next week.
The boys must elbow themselves one
week.
II. B. Boughton left for Millenbeck
Tuesday, where he has opened up mer-
ca ntile business.
Baltimore prices paid for eggs by L. L.
VERIFY & Son, Kilmarnoek,
Miss Maud Leland and two little
nieces. Mildred and Rachel Leonard,
left Tuesday for Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Dyke and son,
Alton, visited the lady's parental home
In Essex county the past week.
Mrs. Vernon Forrest, of Baltimore,
arrived Wednesday to spend Xmas
with her mother, Mrs. T. J. Willing.
Encourage home enterprise and buy your
lumDer OF w. II. Jesse. Litwn1ton. Lancaster
Co. Msterial the best, prices low, big freights
saved.
Capt. c. II. Willing and sons, Tom
and Bernard, are building large pack
ing house at the foot of the wharf here
Don't forget the Indian pantomimes,
songs, ETC., next Friday night You
can't afford to miss an evening of such
rare pleasure.
A few children here have had the
measles recently, among them Ira and
Paul Messick, Walter Jones and two
small ones of Mr.. and Mrs. A. James, ir.
Hurrah for the Sentinel's Santa
Claus Supplement- No race suicide in
Middlesex, as evidenced by our contem-
porary's list of beseaching youngsters
last week.
Some twenty or more young ladies
of the Northern Neck, at school in other
parts of the State, returned Wednes-
day night from Norfolk to spend the
holidays at home.
Friends of this paper who may have
the CITIZEN of issue October 4th
will confer favor upon US if they will
mail same to this Office We have had
great demand for that issue of which
we have but few left.
az you want dwellings. churches. tents or
<ouses OF any description built write to w, n.
Jesse. contractor. Litwalton, Va Estimates
waV down; mills located in Lancaster county
Mrs. Lucy Jones Eubank, after visit
ing her late home at Ottoman, spent
Monday and Tuesday with Mrs. w.
Med Lee, going Tuesday night to Nor
folk, thence to Petersburg and Beuna
Vista, where she is residing with her
sister, Mrs. H. B. Motley.
We hope our delinquent subscribers
will bear in mind that the first of the
year we will have to drop all who are
In arrears two years.
During the heavy storm Saturday a
small house occupied by shuckers at
Messick & Gunby's oyster house was
blown over, catching some of the in
mates on the inside. One little child
was badly burned about the legs, but
fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
Washington Camp, No. 81, p. o. S.
of A, elected the following officers
Wednesday night for the ensuing term:
Classy Bell, President; w. w. Mason,
Vice-President; S. B. Griffith, Record
ing Sec'y; F. w. Wiley, Financial
Sec'y; j. c. Brewington, Treasurer;
j. X. Leonard, Master of Forms; /. ].
Heath, Chaplain.
Thomas Highfeld, of the Coast and
Geode tic Survey, met with a painful ac-
cident by falling from tree while
clearing away some brush which inter
vened between two signals on the Rap
pahannock river nearly opposite Urban
ma. His ankle was wrenched and a
small bone broken. He was attended by
DIR. Newbill, who set the bone and put
it in spl ints.
Two runaways have made excitement
in our village recently. A horse driven
by Mrs. Armstead Taylor and Mrs. B.
L. Willing became frightened, SHE'D
and threw them out, and a pair of horses
driven by Will Ingram, of White
Stone, got frightened at the breaking
of the double-bar of the wagon. In
each case slight bruises were sustained
but no one seriously hurt
pANT0MIMES AND MUSIC.
The young people of Irvington are
getting up program consisting of
Indian pantomimes, songs, etc., which