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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
A FIERCE PROPOSITION.

Uncle Sam is retrenching, ard DO
Ing it along the worst advised lines
that he could proceed, that of the
postal service. Instead of mulctiug
the men Of income and business in.
t9rests that have long been bleeding
the public, this administration APP
pears to want to 60 down in history
as one teaching the poor man how to
live on less. First, the postoffice
department at Washington starts out
with mandate that the newspaper
man who chooses to credit his friend,
the subscriber, for more than wear.
will be denied the privilege of news
paper postal rates. This is not a
serious calamity to the paper man,
but is u hardship On some poor who
cannot always pay promptly for their
newspaper. OccaSionally-as is about
t. happen to one of our Underwater
local contemporaries-some country
paper will have to suspend business;
few subscribers who are prompt pay
ers and the cost of paper and labor
gone up with jump are too much for
some of our modest country papers.
More serious, even, than that now
comes the rumor that Lumbers of
our crossroads postoffices are to be
abolished and some mail services
discontinued. Coming right home
to us, we are informed unautben-
tically that the service on the B., @.
4 A. steamers will be discontinued
from Reeds wharf down. It has
been bad enough all along that that
service should have no mail agent or
method of local distribution, but to
discontinue the mail service will
mean that dozens of important little
otficts will be put out of business.
A fainter rumor comes that the
mail agents on the Rappahannock
line are to be reduced. II gave our
people quite a shock under the new
schedule when the service was taken
off several of the Rappahannock
trips, and before we can rub open |
our eyes to appreciation of the new
conditions more startling one pre-
SCENTS itself, or is thrust upon us.
We cannot believe that our mail SER
vice here is to be still further re-
duced. If it be, we should not be
slow in fading where the blames
lies-whether with the steamboat
the Postoffice Department
or from lack of alertness on the part
of our representatives in Congress.
1t is surely up to the Virginia Rep
resentatives to see why We are made
to suffer, and the people of Tidewater
should not be slow in getting a hus-
tie on these gentlemen in Congress.
The one thing above all others
that has put the Rappahannock river
section in the van of other isolated
Tidewater sections has been the ex-
cellent mail service, largely procured
by philosophical business men of
the section, aud we cannot afford to
give up amy feature that has helped
make us prosper.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
Norfolk Route.

Leave TappahannoCk. Wednesday 2:30 n m -
Tor Norfolk, stopping at all landings, arr i've
at Norfolk Thu rsday morning
Leave Norfolk, Thursday n. mn f,r
Iappahannock and intermediate landings.
Freight received in Baltimore until u. m
on sailing DAYS. - -"
NOFE:-On account Of change of schedule
mere VIII De no steamer leave Norfolk for
lap pahlnnoek until January 30, 1928
rms time-ta Die shows the times at which
boats may be expected TO arrive Mt ana de-
part iOm the several wnarVes, but their ar
rival or departure at the ClmeS stated ia NOT
guatautSed' nor does The company hold Itself
res pohslble torany delay CIR any consequence
arising therefrOm
WILLARD THOMSON, General Manager.
Il. 81 URDoCH, Gent Frt. ana pass : -
w. ID. SCOTT. Agent Fredericksburg'
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

| AS "hSASaOouIS VI iSH or oyster
curiosities, if made known to the State
Board of Fisheries. will be very much
appreciated.
A mass-meeting of fishermen from
Lancaster on Monday at the Court
House adopted resolutions petitioning
their representatives in the Legislature
to oppose any material changes in the
fishing laws, except that requiring lights
on nets and Gull law for sturgeon,
shad. perch, rock, spot, etc.
Counsel for Jones ct ais have with
drawn the ewenty warrants against
tongers for trespass on grounds in Nam
semond river. The old Board had de-
clared the ground to be within the Bay
lor survey and the present Board had
ordered Jones and others stakes pulled
and intended testifying in behalf of the
tongers; hence the withdrawal of the
warrants.
The oystermen are having beautiful
weather, but oysters are bringing small
prices. rocks only selling. at soc and
plants SO and Coo. -Southside Sentinel.
Three things, chiefly, have conspired
to ''knock the bottom OUT of the oys-
ter market this season. When the sea
son for dredging began in November in
Maryland waters, oysters there were
found to be more plentiful than for
years; consequently there has been a
giut OF Chesapeake bay output. The
very mild winter, is another cause of
low prices-admitting of abundant
catches and the inability to ship shuck-
ed oysters to the west. Not until re-
Gently have oysters been fat in the
chief producing localities, causing manv
shucking houses to reduce prices and
some to close down or run ON small
force. One cannot help but think that
February will usher in change of all
three conditions-dredging stock will
have been reduced; weather become
severer, creating a demand, and ovs-
tiers fatter. Prices should advance
but, then again. the FISHERMAN will not
have such good weather nor catch as
many as heretofore.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

ing a new rudder made and straighten.
ing her propeller blades.
Steamer Owen billiards. propeller
became loose last Monday evening of
Millenbeck, in the Corrotoman river,
and she was towed to Ovens railway
and hauled out for repairs.
The bugeye Sallie A. Hamblin, which
was blown high and dry on the beach
near Westland wharf at the mouth of
the Rappahannock last April, has been
fioated and is on Owens Railway in
Carriers Creek for overhauling.
A plant for making denatured alcohol
from sweet and round potatoes will be
established at Onancock, Va. Users of
alcohol and gasoline are much disap-
pointed to find that the manufacture of
the denatured article has not progress
ed as predicted it would do if the tariff
were raised. 1t costs more, to make,
and, possibly, some unseen hand" is
impeding the progress.
New schedule for the Md, Del. & Va,
KY. goes into effect on the Rappaaan-
mock river Sunday, January 10Th, which
we publish on second page this week.
Old schedule in effect until that date
will be found on fourth page. There
will be only one trip a week to Norfolk
and Fredericksburg and no boat from
Baltimore Friday mornings under the
new arrangement.
The entrance to Carter's Creek will
be made wider by dredging thirty feet
off Crab Point. The dredging machine
that is now working in Urbanna creek
will do the work. After the dredging
three beacons will be built, one on each
Gally-hook, Crab and Spin House Points.
Carriers Creek will then be the best
harbor on the tributaries of Chesapeake
bay. A temporary beacon light has been
erected on Spin House Point shoal, in
three feet water, fifteen feet farther
in shore than the site of the beacon that
was blown down by the storm January
9TH.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

GET RIGHT, AND STAY RIGHT.
lfany thing further were necessary
to convince the Legislature that we
are in need of board to equalize
taxation throughout Virginia it
should De the list of land values for
taxation, recently published. Here
are tax rates for the counties of
Tidewater above the York river:
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

The steamboat company, we are told.
are willing and anxious to send all of
their boats IN Urbanna creek when
there is enough water for them. The
government has appropriated $40. 900
Tor the purpose of digging out the creek
and the mud-mac chine is here at worl,
and will be here until about the lst of
April. The machine has started Digging,
at Burton's wharf and will take the
creek right down to its mouth. diggine.
wherever they find it necessary. Now
we are told by one of the Steamboat
officials, that If the machine will inst
dig in the right place they will send ali
OF their boats in the creek, and clad to
do 1t. IT they are honest in what thew
say, and We hope they are, our bust
ness men should get together and find
out from the steamboat company where
that right place is and try and get the
machine, by appealing to the proper
authorities, to dig there.-Sentinel,
Urbanna.
Of course the boat officials are
honest. Get your ditch dug out,
Ryland, or move Urbanna down
to the river, and your already pros
porous and delectable municipality
will bloom still more luxuriantlv.
Here's to it's progress, and may the
boundaries never grow smaller-is
the wish of your Irvington friends.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

We HAVE just received unique
and catchy pamphlet-"paragraphs
and photographs"-on the State Con-
Wet Road Force, the compliments of
Superintendent f. F. Morgan. This
handsome little fellow is another ad-
ding to the list of progressive things
and reports stirring the OId>Domin-
ion. Young blood. from the Execu-
tive down, is certainly permeating
and inspiring roads, schools and
other public interests Of Virginians.
The illustrations alone-to say moth
ing of the catchy paragraphs-are
worth the keeping of the book. Send,
and ask for one from hustling Super
intendent Morgan, or his efficient
clerk, r. M. Johnson, at the peni-
Tertiary.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

What do you do when he asks YOU
for kiss?'
/ quote Sis Hopkins motto to him. 4"
Il don't believe l have ever heard it. +"
There amt nothing in given nobody
nothin' fer nothin''."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
Mrs SEN. BROOKS.

MrsE " irco& 5i5 Steele South
10 mothers
felt weak exhausted
tstrensh. - J
bought bottle of Koruna had
weak but within
vurtuin
have
hand, m vhcn mfeelng
e. 49, $1,000.
CGtaTrh Of Ears He him for "a few
w. ,bu
a to have sngsi in fensive.
his head He would
"The ayea thought he almost
treating enough"
People Wa Object Buy Peruna Tablets
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

Eaas selling below twenty cents.
Mild weather brings on the cackling
disease.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
FOR SALE.

ZINE ESTATE CONTAINING $50
acres. Located in the heart of the
3 "Valley Of Shenandoah. Full par
ticulars furnished by VIM. Mcdonald
Lee, Irvington, Va.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
BOAT NOTES.

Gasoline bugeye Carroll, Capt. II. E.
Robinson, is on railway at Weems hav-
ing new rudder made and straighten-
ing her propeller blades.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
FISH AND OYSTER.

The whereabouts of fish or oyster
curiosities, if made known to the State
Board of Fisheries. will be very much
appreciated.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24

Steamer Owen billiards. propeller
became loose last Monday evening off
Millenbeck, in the Corrotoman river,
and she was towed to Ovens railway
and hauled out for repairs.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
CataTr!i Of Ears.

0ple WQ Object 60 Liquid Medicines Should Buy Tablets
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-01-24
OBITUARY OF THE
"SHELL-CAT" co.
Aunty Spec Sings the Requiem
while the World wa9s the
Cats Tail.
EDITOR CITIZEN:

EDITOR CITIZEN:
Among the dozens of letters received
since launching my ''Shell Cat" Stock
Co., select the following which is a
pretty good sample of the others, and
| shall have to ask my correspondents
IN the future to encloes two-cent stamp,
not necessarily for publication, but as
a matter of good faith.
DEAR AUNTY:-I would like to have
hye shares In your "Shell Cat Co.
what is the price per share, and can you
get clear title to the shells? How
about the right of way? Have you a
cinch on the Cat? | would also like to
ask If your company has an option on
the fish trap in Ramps & Carriers mill
pond? Please let me have all informa-
ton possible.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

SINCE James S. Sherman, re
publican candidate for vice presi
dent, A r. King, republican
candidate for the Colorado su
preme court and other prominent
republicans have been exposed in
connection with land frauds, an
effort is being made to tar with
the same stick the record of ohm
+. Shafroth, democratic candidate
for governor. The basis for the
charge is Mr.. Shatroth's act as
Congressman in securing to the
Denver water company, the right
to purchase certain lands for a
reservoir site at Sl25 per acre.
the land in question being a
rocky gorge utterly worthless Tor
any purpose except a reservoir.
The Cheeseman dam 230 feet
high across this gorge backs the
water up seven miles and fur
nishes the city of Denver a per-
manent water supply. No fraud
was committed, the government
was paid the same price for those
rocky cliffs that it gets for smooth
farm land and the gorge is used
to supply our capital city with an
unfailing supply of water There
is no coal, timber or mineral o.
the land. Great land steal wasn't
it?
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

THE new underwear demanded
Inv the season should be re-
minder when you get to the polls.
Don't be a flannel shir'!-Denver
Republican.
Now just what does the Re-
publican mean? People who la
Dor are much given to wearing
flannel shirts because they are
more convenient and comfortable
than coats to work in. Is the Re-
publican trying to compliment
the wearer Of the flannel shirt. or
is it catering to the silk stocking
brigade of Capitol hill? Among
people OF sense the flannel shirt
is eminently respectable. it earns
its wages and never has even
look-in on a graft scheme.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30
ONCE II. M. Hoeg

ONCE H. NJ. Hogg was con
gresham for this state. He was
then and is now one of the lead
ing republicans Of the state.
When Mr.. Shairoth resigned his
seat in congress on account OF the
frauds which he thought affected
his election. Mr.. Hogg said on
the floor OF congress:
"Mr. Speaker. as a member ot
the delegation from Colorado |
wish simply to say this that the
act performed today by Mr. Shat
roth is not surprise to US who
have, known him for years. The
high character he has attained
here he has always borne IN the
state of Colorado; and. as repre-
senting the opposite party from
him from that state, | want to
say that there IS no one in the
state OF Colorado who knows Mr..
Shafr 9TH but knows he is abso-
| .tely honest" (Applause.)
Mr.. Hogg a few days ago said
that his utterance then is true to-
day. Those who are trying to be
smirch the character of the dem
ocratic candidate for governor
are simply lying about him.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

WHEN the Panama canal was
sold to- the United States it was
sold by a syndicate in which
Charles p. Taft. wto has spent
a million to elect his brother. to
the presidency. Goe. r. Sheldon.
of the Bethlehem Iron works. in
veterate enemy of organized labor
and treasurer OF the republican
campaign committee, and William
Nelson Cromwell, Harriman's
handy man and chairman OF the
republican advisory committee.
were members, sold the canal tor
$40. 100000, of which S3,5O0,OOO
went to the Panama stockholders
and the balance into the pockets
of these republican supporters OF
Taft.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

MosT of the political ills we
suffer are caused by the blind par
,izanship of the voter or his indif.
ference. He either fails to attend
primaries and elections or takes
ii straight" no matter how the
ticket is put up. II every voter
would vote as his conscience die
tates the rule of the bosses would
soon end.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

THAT Roosevelt is scared is
evident. He has ordered his
whole cabinet to go on the stump
for Taft. What about the civil
service laws and pernicious ac-
tivity7 The national republican
convention was packed with
federal office. holders, otherwise
Taft would not have been nomi-
mated. Now the president orders
out the highest officeholders IN
the land to get out and work for
the man he has chosen to succeed
himself. Was there ever such a
spectacle as thisr
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

situation, which shows how far
the Interests" politicians will go
to defeat the plain will OF the
people. Oregon's battle today
will be Colorado's in the next two
years. In Texas and in Wiscon-
sin the fight is over and the peo-
Pile have won. They will win in
Colorado too.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30
ANorHrR test OF orchard heat

ANOTHER test of orchard heat
ers or "smudge pots" is to be
made at Grand Junction under
actual frost conditions" /, is
hoped that a real test will be
made and that the committee
having it in charge will have the
backbone to make a report of
actual results II there is any
virtue in any OF these heaters.
orchardlsts want to know 1t and
it there is none. they want to
know that also 1, is matter of
considerable importance A fair
ties, and candid report should be
made.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

When the republican party
first enacted a high tariff law il
was to pay the enormous cost OF
the civil war Later they made
it higher to protect the wage
Garnet" Still later they raised i,
for the purpose, as their platform
says. of protecting manufacturers
in fair profit" And the pco-
pie pay the bills.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

SENATOR Knox made a speech
in which he denounced Samuel
Gompers and Mr.. Bryan. Presi-
deaf Roosevelt wrote Knox
letter commenting him for the
speech. The joke IS tina, the
presidents letter was sent out to
the newspapers a couple OF days
before Knox delivered the speech.
What spontaneous patrioiisml
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

Two years ago republican
speakers said the democrats lied
in saying that if republican leg
islature should be elected Gug-
genheim would be chosen senator.
Now they say democrats lie
when they tell the people that it
a republican legislature is elected
it will choose Clarence Hamlin
to succeed Senator Teller. Ham
lin is Guggenheim's understudy,
a mill man and handy man of the
smelter trust. The democrats
told the truth two years ago and
they are telling the truth now.
The people did not believe two
years ago. will they be fooled
again2
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

The republicans are certainly
in hard straits when they find j,
necessary to put Parson Buchtel
on the stump the last week be-
fore election as is announced.
We hardly think the parson equal
to making the Guggenheim gang
acceptable to the voters.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

Now in this last week before
election press dispatches inform
us that 100000 have been con-
tributed by the trusts to carry
New York, Ohio and Indiana for
Taft. Why all this furry at this
late day and how about the trusts
being opposed to Taft3 Can the
people be fooled all the timer
The newspaper., 1908-10-30
Democratic Precinct Ticket.

IT'S said on behalf of a mes s
Sherman that he is no worse than
Haskell and Foraker. HIM, ! am
caught at burglary and should be
exonerated because two of my
neighbors are horse thieves.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

SILLY doesn't express it. Bryan
is accused of being a free trader
and in the same breath it is
charged that he is backed by the
trusts. No diagram is needed to
show how little sense there is in
that.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30
Democratic State Ticket

Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor
JOHN SHAFROTH
For Lieutenant Governor
S. II. FITZGARRALD
For Secretary of State
]. b. PEARCE
For Treasurer
Jw GALIGAN
RODNEY KERNAHAN
For Attorney General
JOHN T. BARNETT
For Regents
RALPH TALBOT
ETHELBERT ADAMS
For Superintendent of Public Instruction
KATHERINE COOK
For Railroad Commissioners
A. T. ANDERSON
FRANK p. MOORE
W. l.. SEELEY
For Supreme Court Judges
s. II. WHITE
W. A. HILL
G. W. MUSSER
MORTON S. BAILEY
For Congressman 2d District
JOHN A. MARTIN
For Congressman at Large
EDWARD T. TAYLOR
For Presidential Electors
sN. WHEELER
c. L. JEFFERSON
d. T. SAPP
T. j. EHRHART
C. :. THOMAS
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

lF you do not vote Tuesday
you have no right to kick about
the way the election goes. A fail.
ure to vote gives halt a vot. to
the wrong ticket.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

SAY. what do you think Lincoln
would do to the Guggenheim
party if he were a Colorado voter
today2
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

IHE republican theory is ,ha,
the greater the tax burden you
bear the richer you become. Nice
theory isn't it7
The newspaper., 1908-10-30

WHY such strenuous efforts TO
prove Taft the friend of labora
Not necessary in Bryan's case,
everybody knows.
The newspaper., 1908-10-30
GOOD DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE.

editorial utterances of republican
papers. but the following from
the Grand Junction News is an
exception. However, the News
should remember that the ma
! tional republican convention re-
fused almost unanimously to en-
dorse the election of senators by
the people, while the initiative
and referendum have been de
nounced by republicans as popu-
listic and we'll nigh anarchistic.
But here is the editorial:
Up in Oregon where they have
progressed SO far in the splendid
battle of getting back into the
hands of the people the powers
of self government. there is big
conspiracy on foot, on the part of
the friends of United States Sen
ator Fulton and Harvey w. Scott.
the editor of the "Oregonian." to
defeat the will of the people as it
was expressed in the last sena-
torial election.
George w. Chamberlain, COVER
nor of the state and democrat,
was elected By the people as their
choice for United States senator
over Judge Henry M. Cake, the
republican nominee. This in
spite of the fact that Oregon is
normally republican by 10000.
Fulton, present United States
senator. was defeated in the re-
publican nominating primary by
Cake. Fulton. notorious as a
special representative of the tim
Der interests in the senate, went
down before Cake, whose Stand
ard Oil and Southern Pacific re-
cord. was sufficient to. cause
thousands of republicans to cross
the line and vote for Chamber
lain. In Oregon the members OF
the legislature are elected under
the statement No. | pledge, which
compels them. if their pledge is
good. TO vote for the man who has
the highest number OF votes. In
this case Chamberlain was clearly
the peoples choice. Now Scott
and the "Oregonian" and Fulton
and all the influence of the rail-
roads and "interests" in the state,
are bringing every effort to bear
upon the statement No. | repre-
sentatives 10 swing tn, m into line
for some republican candidate
against Chamberlain. They would
have their representatives shame
lessly repudiate their pledges.
The farmers of Oregon. however,
are proud OF their powers and a
bit touchy. over the way in which
their representatives carry out
their wishes. Should the lePisla-
ture defeat Chamberlain, after the
people had declared for him.
there would be a large exodus Of
the Oregon representatives leav-
ing for parts unknown early the
same evening. Otherwise lynch
ing bees would be numerous. Six
years ago in Oregon the people
had as little to do with the gov
ernment as the people of Colo
RADIO have at present.
The burden OF government was
taken off their shoulders, in much
the same manner and almost as
shamelessly. as it had been in
Colorado. 1t took the people of
Oregon a little less than four
years to get it back Now they
have the direct election of United
States senators. the Direct Pri-
mary. the Initiative and Referen-
The newspaper., 1908-10-30
Democratic County Ticket.

For Representative,
DIR. ]. A. WHITING,
For County Com. I'd District,
VIII. STEELE.
For County Com. Sd District,
A. l.. ROBERTS.
For County Clerk,
DIR. II. X. GIBBS
For County Treasurer.
]. r. BRADLEY.
For Sheriff.
|. II. WILLIAMS.
For Superintendent of Schools.
MRS. MILDRED ANDERSON.
For Assessor,
s. L. CoCKREHAM.
For County Judge,
CLYDE STEWART.
For Coroner,
DIR. C. II. BURGIN.
For Surveyor.
GEO. c. yICKERY.
Democratic Judicial Ticket.
For District Attorney
Il. NJ LOGAN.
Democratic Precinct Ticket.
For Justice of Peace, Justice Precinct No
NJ F. BOILING
W. b. OSBOLDSTONE
For Constable, Justice Precint No. 5
j. vANDERBECK
W. T. BROsS