Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-05-31
LOCAL MENTION.

Anc0mmupiestions should be addressed 70
,he VIRGINIA CITIZEN. irvington. Va.
Mrs. Frank King has returned to the
lrvington Beach after stay in Nor
folk.
Miss Oney Ingram, of lower Lancas-
ter. is spending this week with relatives
here.
Mrs. E. l.. Wilder and son, Hunter.
leave today for Fredericksburg. their
future home,
Mrs. A. Y. Lee returned Monday
from months stay with relatives in
North and South Carolina.
Miss Sarah Allison, of Emmerton. is
spending this week at the home of her
uncle, w. w. Allison, at this place.
Among the recent sick, now improv-
ed. are: Mrs. Jno. r. Davis, Irving
Jones, S. B. Griffith, Mrs. George San
ders.
Baltimore prices paid for eggs by L. L.
feroy X Son, h ilmarnock.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Stakes, of Rich
mond county, spent Saturday and Sun
day with Mr.. Stakes sister, Mrs. Geo.
Ste. Smith.
Mrs. H. F. Bland and children. of
King q Queen, are expected today to
visit the lady's sister, Mrs. E. F. Gar
ner, at the parsonage.
Rev. j. E. Brooks and family, of
Franklin county, have been spending
week with relatives and friends at
White Stone and this place.
K. H. Fravel, professor at Chesa-
peake Academy first half of present
session. but now of Pine Beach, spent
a few days here the past week.
ii. b. Boughton returned to the home
of his sister, Mrs. w. Med. Lee. at
this place, Wednesday. Mr.. Boughton
has been sick for week or more and
is still quite sick.
Finals of Chesapeake Academy.
Irvington, are as follows: Glee Club
banquet tonight friday, baccalaure-
ate sermon Sunday night in the Methodist
church and last night" Monday night.
Encourage home enterprise and buy vour
lumber of W. II. Jesse, LitwaIton Lancaster
20. Material the best, prices low, big freights
Messrs. Irving, Gilbert and George
Messick, Capt. Will Taylor and Master
Paul Messick made flying trip to Fred
erlcksburg Saturday on the Blanche.
returning Monday accompanied by Mrs.
A. p. Rowe and two children.
In our account of the unwilling last
week at Lancaster we omitted mention
OF the fact that the portraits of Lee
and jackson were unveiled by Misses
Lillian and Alice Pinckard, respectively,
daughters of confederate veterans.
The Confederate Veterans en- route to
Richmond were serenaded at the IT.
vington Beach Hotel Tuesday night.
Men, women and children, about 200
strong, turned out with musical instru-
ments on parade. Speeches, which
were made from the porch. music
from the band without and other instru-
ments within the hotel and Southern
melodies and war songs by chorus of
a hundred or more sweet voices were
inspiring and thrilling.
Our town was pretty well filled with
visitors Saturday and Sunday last, the
occasion being the annual meeting of
the Northern Neck Baptist Sunday
School Convention. Delegates from
Baptist schools all over the Northern
Neck were here, besides a number of
visitors; in fact, so many that we were
unable to catch the names of them in
coming and going. However, we will
welcome them back, singly or collec-
lively, at any future time. A full ac-
count of the meeting will be found on
first page this week.
The season for the recurrence of des-
tructive thunder storms is RAPIDLY an
preaching, audit behoves every property
owner to prepare for it. We have no
hesitation in saying that the Almighty
has placed the means ofprotection from
lightning within reach of man, and has
given him the intelligence necessary to
make these means available Lightning
Rods are endorsed by every philosopher,
every encyclopedia, every college and
university, every scientific man, every
thinker, and by over twenty-eight hun