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The La Jara chronicle., 1908-08-07

Judge McCunniff drove over to
Manassa, Wednesday.
The Hotel La Jara is to be
extensively repaired.
Mrs. Agnes Hunter of Denver
is a guest at the home of w. W.
Seyfer.
For Sale.-Pair of lady's fine
mountain boots. Inquire of Miss
Newburgh.
Roy Finney is here from Win
terset, Iowa. visiting his father, j.
W. Finney.
w. A. Farnham. the grocery
salesman. was interviewing the
local trade Sunday.
Mrs. E. l.. Blackburn went to
Alamosa, Monday evening. and
had some dental work done.
l.. p. Pemberton is laying "a new
cement walk, one of the first in
the city, in front of his residence.
Miss Ruth Kavalec is entertain
ing about 16 of her little friends
this afternoon in honor of her
birthday.
If you want a good Key West
cigar, call at the Club saloon and
ask for La Flor de Lius Martin
the stuff.
Don't forget that the Club sa-
loon is the place where only the
highest quality of liquors and ci-
gars are sold. A square deal" is
our motto.
C. T. Rice and wife of Topeka,
Kansas. were at the Hotel La
Jara for several days the first of
the week land looking. Wednes-
day they journeyed still farther
west.
Wernette & Stanwood. dentists,
Of Alamosa, will visit La Jara the
2nd and 4th Fridays and Satur-
days of each month. Office in
Ellis drug store. All work is
to be perfectly salts
factory.
J. w. Dowd this week purchased
the Mason farm one mile north
west of La Jara. 1t is one the
best little farms in the valley and
with Mr.. Dowd's well known
habits of thrift and industry will
in IA short time make his bank
account resemble that of John DIS. |
The contract for the building of
-he new state road from La lara
20 Sanford and from Sanford to
Manassa has been let by the state
office to a syndicate
of Sanford men Ira
md Job Whitney, w. O. Crowther
md Jesse Mortensen will do the
work which insures tirst-class
ob. This improvement, the ap- .
for which was secured
oy c.. H. Wilder at the last ses-
sion of the legislature, has long
been needed as at certain sea-
sons of the year this road. one
most travelled in the county, is
almost impossible. The contract
ors state that they will begin work
The La Jara chronicle., 1908-08-07

Wednesday morning.
Erdley Aker was at the train
this morning and met his sister
from the east.
Mrs. Geo. Dunham and children
have returned from "a sojourn at
Joe McIntire's camp gin Conejos
canon.
Master Ben Richardson of An
tonito visited his grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. l. j. Richardson,
this week.
A. NJ. Richardson and Fred
Warshauer, Jr.. of Antonito are
assisting at the wool receiving of
the past two days.
Lee Becker. who is improving
his ranch northeast of town, left
Wednesday evening for Colorado
Springs on business.
Mrs VIM. H. Mallett and daugh-
ter came down from Alamosa last
Saturday and remained until Mon
day with Mr.. Mallett.
For a good smoke try j d L
cigar. Just between Key West
and Domestic. For sale by w. W |
Seyfer and at the Dew-Drop-Inn.
Prof. II. Fl. Headstrom and wife
have returned to their home in
Antonito after very pleasant stay
in La Jara during which Prof.
Headstrom was instructor at the
normal.
E. W FlucIey and son returned
this morning from five weeks
stay at their old home in Illinois
where Mr.. Fluckey was called by
the death of his father Mrs.
Fluckey met them at Alamosa.
r. NJ. Davidson, the Antonito
surveyor, was an arrival Wednes-
day and went out to the Excelsior
ranch which he will mark out into
quarter sections. He is being
assisted in this work by Ernest
Norton of Newell, Iowa.
The last quarterly conference of
the church year will occur at the
NJ. Z. church. Tuesday evening,
Aug. II, conducted by Presiding
Elder Nathan HI. Lee. Preaching
and communion service at I:3O
followed by an important business
meeting
H. $. Kipp and family left for
Fort Garland this morning driving
through in "a wagon. Deem and
Robert Kipp go tonight on the
train. Deem expects to meet his
father and mother from Garden
City at Garland. 1t is said about
300 Garden City people are COM
ing to the land drawing.
A few dyspeptic. moss grown
individuals who month ago drew
long face and predicted La Jara's
building boom at an end for this
year, will now please sit up and
take notice that with the plans for
"a $4,000 hotel perfected and dwell
ings to the value of 5000 or
$4,000 under consideration, we
have just begun to grow.
The town trustees at their meet
ing the first of the week ordered
another lot of gravel on the streets
and work will be commenced the
first of the week They also
arranged to procure a surveyor
and establish / uniform sidewalk
grade throughout the town. This
will be done with view to the
passage of cement sidewalk |
ordinance at an early date.
Local real estate agents are
expecting a large number of land
men here week after next. The
occasion being the Fort Garland
land drawing for which the rail
roads are making a special rate.
Many parties interested in this
and other parts of the valley plan
to take advantage of the Fort Gar
land rates Incoming passengers
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
CRISP NEWS.

Basic City and Madison this week
voted dry"
The Fredericksburg local option fight
has started up afresh, the election COM
ing off next week. Large gatherings
and much speaking is the order of the
day for what time remains to canvass
the subject.
Richmond College won in the inter
collegiate debate with Randolph-Macon
last week. The points were 6 TO 4.
Major William A. Anderson, Judge
Dew and Mr.. s. C. Stearnes were the
judges The subject of the debate was:
Resolved, That the State Corporation
Commission Of Virginia Should Be
Elected by the People," E. ID. Hellwep
and ID. S. Townsend, of Randolph-Macon.
sustained the affirmative. while J. F..
Cropp and T. H. Binford, of Richmond
College. defended the negative. The
latter won.
At the Ma sonic Carnival in Freder-
ieksburg, Governor Swanson was pres
ent. He was escorted from the hotel
by committee of reception. and given
an ovation when he went on the stage.
He delivered brilliant address. in
which he paid an eloquent tribute to
Masonry, to fredericksburg and to the
ladies'. Following the address, an in
teresting program was artistically car
ried out. There were vocal solos bv
Mrs. A. T. Embrey, Mrs. A. p. Rowe.
Mrs. j. B. Proctor, and chorus numbers.
A beautiful duet was rendered by Mrs.
A. 7. Embrey and Mrs. A. P. Rowe.
The tambourine dance by ten beautiful
young ladies was feature. The Opera
House was inadequate to accommodate
the immense crowd, and many were
unable to secure admission. The even
ing's program was known as "a Night
in Bohemia.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
BOAT NOTES.

The Canonicus, exhibited at the
jamestown Exposition as the earliest
type of monitor and which was recently
sold by the Government, left the Nor
folk Navy Yard in tow for Phila-
delphia. She will be broken I'D for
junk.
The photographic Office gives notice
to mariners that Wolf Trap light sta
ton is located in sixteen feet of water
on the easterly end of Wolf Trap split
westerly side Of Chesapeake Bay.
Notice is given that Horseshoe Sboal
buoy No. 2, a second class nun. found
missing, was replaced April 8.
The two-masted schooner ]. E.. Wat
kins, from Rock Hall to Baltimore. with
cargo of shad, was rammed and sunk
by the Old Bay Line steamer Alabama
last week about one mile southwest of
Seven-Foot Knoll. In addition to his
vessel, Captain Dolan lost all of his
belongings, consisting of clothing and
about $40 in cash.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
SOME DEATHS.

The only son of Robert Whay, of
Rainswood, died last week.
Bishop Ellison Capers, of the Profess
tant Episcopal Diocese of South Caro-
lima, died last week at his home in
Columbia.
Hampden Parker, aged q years, the
youngest son of James Parker. of near
Montross, Westmoreland county, died
Monday from typhoid fever.
Mrs. Richard Sydnor. aged about
sixty-nine, died at her home near Rains
wood. Northumberland county, FRIDAY
of appendicitis. Her remains were in
tered in the family burying ground.
Rev. c. H. Williams officiating.
Mrs. Lucy Jane Sydnor, near Rains.
wood, died on Monday of last week
and was buried on Wednesday in the
family burying ground by the side OF
her husband, who had preceded her.
She leaves two children and one sister
to mourn the loss.
Oglethorpe ('Ogle'O B. Cundiff died
at his home at Lively, Lancaster county.
Friday, aged fifty-seven. He is sur
vived by two sisters, Mrs. Harold, of
Washington, and Mrs. Williams, of
Northumberland. His remains were
inferred in the Baptist church cemetery
Saturday afternoon, Rev. H. S. Driscoll
officiating.
Hon. Richard Elliott Boykin, Judge of
the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit. and
one of the best known men in Tidewater
Virginia, died Saturday at St. Chris
topher's Hospital, Norfolk, after a pro-
longed illness. Death resulted from a
complication of diseases. Judge dick
Boykin, who was fifty-six years old, was
one of the most widely known men in
Tidewater Virginia. Up to his eleva-
ton to the judgeship of Isle of Wight.
Portsmouth and Princess Anne, Colonel
Boykin had been Commonwealth's At
torney and State Senator.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER DEAD.
John Lewis Johnson, an old Confed-
crate soldier. died at his home near
Freeshade, Middlesex county, wednes-
day, April 22nd, of Bright's disease.
aged 60 years. Funeral was preached
at Harmony Grove Baptist church on
Thursday afternoon by Rev. H. J..
Goodwin and interment was at the old
Dunlevy burying ground near Locklies.
He leaves widow and three children
w. l.. johnson, of Locklies; Mrs. Gar
rett and Mrs. Revere. Mr.. johnson
moved from Essex county about eigh-
teen years ago. living at Bay Port, this
county, eight years, and in this neigh
borhood for ten years. which time he
was in the employ of Messrs. Robert
Healy and j. C. Clarke as miller at
their grist mills. Mr.. johnson was a
consecrated Christian and was loved
by all who knew him.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
FISH And OYSTER NOTES.

Twenty-Five fishing smacks sailed
maJestically into the Capes one day
last week, loaded to the guards with
bluefish. Their cargoes amounted in
value to several thousand dollars and
upon their arrival in the Roads there
were busy scenes as the fish were
packed in ice for shipment north.
In the Potomac river the oyster
longing season closed on April 25th.
Under the law it is now unlawful 70
take an oyster from the beds of that
river or in Chesapeake Bay or any of
Its tributaries until next September,
when the tongers may again 90 to
work. The law as a general thing is
obeyed, and the good effect of it is seen
IN the Increase in the supply of oysters
on the beds. The winding up of the
oyster season does not mean that no
oysters will be on sale, for there will
unless this season is an exception. he
an abundance of oysters brought from
private owned beds to meet the de-
Misunderstanding Gazette
Believing that gasoline power boats
are more economical to operate and
can get under way much faster than
steam craft. the State Commission Of
Fisheries at its meeting decided to dis
pose of two of the steam vessels. On
James river it was decided to add to
the power boat fleet at the seed
grounds. The new gasoline vessels that
will be purchased will be stationed AT
various points and will be used for
police purposes all the year around.
The board: after appointing the follow.
ing special police, adjourned to meet
at the call of Chairman w. Mcdonald
Lee: John r. brewer, Accomac: Hen
derson Travis and G. H. BADGER. Nor
champion; c. H. Muse, York river.
J. c. Brewington and F. C. Sadler'
Rappahannock river; ]. B. .Hudnall.
Great Wicomico river; M. l.. Price.
Upper Potomac river. Norfolk Led
ger-Dispatch.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

WE DESIRE to say this word |
to our Lancaster fishermen. This
is the only county, and we say it
with shame, that the inspectors
have found difficulty in collect
ing the fish-net tax. For some
ill-advised reason certain fisher
men in lower Lancaster have
trifled about paying the tax,
making it necessary to use
harsh means-by taking up the
costly nets for failure to pay the
pitiful three-dollar tax. Thelaw
requires that before driving q
stake the fisherman shall call
upon the Inspector, make oath
and pay the tax. Because cash
is scarce before any fish are
caught the officials for years
have waited on the fishermen un-
til they could make some ship
ments. This is a favorvery little
appreciated by some. This sea-
son the Inspector here has been
to the fishermen several times,
aud many are still putting him
off, If not absolutely refusing to
pay. The officials did not make
the laws, but it is their duty to
execute them, and when they
give the fishermen a reasonable
time the leniency should not be
abused. Those stubborn persons
make against the whole fishing
business, and as we write this, as
write we must, we know it NAV
be used i'll future by persons
wanting to wipe out our pound
net industry. The law-abiding
and tax-paying element should
see that the others are made to
pay up or else tell the authori-
ties where the delinquent nets are
so the police officers may take
them up. Unless this resistance
to law is stopped it will jeopar-
die the welfare of the other fish,
ermen.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
GOVERNOR APPOINTS DELEGATES,

The Fourth international Fishery Con-
gress will convene in the city of Wash
ington, u. S. of America, in accor-
dance with the decision of the Third
International Fishery Congress, held in
Vienna in 1905. The meeting, which
will be under the auspices of the Unit
ed States Bureau of Fisheries and the
American Fisheries Society. will ex-
tend from the 22nd to the 10Th of Sep
tember.
Governor Swanson, at request of the
Government, has appointed the follow
ing as Virginia's delegates to the Inter-
national Congress: w. Mcdonald Lee,
Commissioner of Fisheries; Captain
Geo. P. Squires, President Chesapeake
Bay Fishermen's Assn; DR.. Frank
Fletcher, former chairman Board of
Fisheries; Hon. James N. Stubs, of
Gloucester, and Louis Feuerstein,. es-
quire, of Norfolk.
Governor Swanson is manifestine
great interest in the National Confer
ence of Charities and Corrections, which
will meet in Richmond the first week in
May. and has named delegates from va
rious sections of the State. The COM
missions to these delegates, which have
been sent out by the Secretary of Com
monweahh under the direction of the
Governor, are handsomely engraved,
and in addition to the seal of the State,
they bear the autographs of the Cover
nor and the Secretary of the Common
wealth.
Those named from this immediate
section are: F. G. Newbill and j. F.
Bellows. Lancaster; T. A. Jett, C..
Harding Walker and j. w. Tankard.
Northumberland; c. b. NewbilI. ESSEX
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

In the Clerks Office of the Circuit
Court for the County of Lancaster, on
the Sth day of April, 1908.
John h. Wheaton, Plaintiff,
against
Isaac Robinson and ID. Sill
yer, partners, sometimes
trading as The Lancaster
Canning Co. and some
times trading as Isaac
Robinson, Defendants.
The object of this suit is to attach
the property of the defendants and sub
Ject same to the payment of the plain
tiff's claim. And an affidavit having
been made and filed that the defend
ants, Isaac Robinson and d. Silver, are
not residents of the State of Virginia,
it is ordered that they do appear here
within fifteen days after due publica-
ton hereof, and do what may be neces-
sary to protect their interest in this
suit. And it is further ordered that a
copy hereof be published once week
for four weeks in the VIRGINIA CITI-
ZEN, newspaper published in the
county of Lancaster, and that a copy
be posted at the front door of the
courthouse of this county on the 10th
day of April, 1903, that being the next
succeeding rule day after this order
was entered.
Teste:
VIM. Chiffon, Clerk.
R. o. NORRIS, JR., p. q.
A copy-Teste:
VIM. Chiffon, Clerk.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
KETCH-AWLs FROM EVERYWHERE

DR.. w. N. Chinn and Messrs. r. H.
Gawen, Thos. M. Arrest, Thos. Brown,
Jr., VIM. ]. Carey, w. H. Tyler,
Frederick Griffith, Edward C. Newton
and TN. Massey were chosen as YES
trymen for Cople Parish for one year
on last Monday evening. N. N. News.
Editor Lee of the VIRGINIA CITIZEN
is of the opinion that the Richmond
papers do not correctly represent the
sentiment of the people and country
press in the Rhea matter. Rats! Bro
Their Lee; they wouldn't know a real
human being in office hours; and thew
are so green concerning the matter ap-
pearing in the country press that they
reproduce as original "Ganderbore's
Forecast, which is sold by the yard
Sussex Standard.
The u. S. Government tug Governor
Warren arrived here Friday night and
left Saturday morning for Washington
with the Government scow which has
been used in dyking here in tow. The
scow will be used at Washington for
pile driving. Capt. James N. Wilder.
OF lrvington, piloted the tug from Irv-
ington here and back to that point.
While here Capt. Wilder called on a
number of his friends. fredericksburg
Free Lance.
When Chief Clerk Upsher of the State
Corporation Commission exposed the
wrong that was going on inside of that
body he was promptly kicked out by
the Commission, although the facts
were proven as he charged. Mr.. Stuart
was member of the Commission at
that time. Where was his high sense
OF honesty and fair play at that time?
With all the facts brought out in the
Crump investigation, and afterwards.
we don't see how any man could accent
Crump and balk at Rhea. In the former
case they were personal transactions.
while in the latter they were political.
With us the distinction is in favor of
the latter. Blackstone Cosrier.
Bow low the head-do reverence to
the old man, once like you. The vicis-
STUDIES of life have silvered his hair and
changed the round, merry face to the
worn visage before you. Once the
heart beat with aspirations crushed by
disappointment, as yours, perhaps. is
destined to be. Once that form stalked
promptly through the gay scenes of
pleasure, the beau ideal of grace:
now the hand Of time, that withers the
flowers of yesterday. has bent that
figure and destroyed that noble car
riage. Once at your age he possessed
the thousand thoughts that pass through
your brain, now wishing to accomplish
deeds equal to a nook in fame: anon
imagining life dream that the sooner
he awoke from the better. But he has
lived the dream very near through: the
time to awaken is very near at hand:
his eye now kindles at old deeds of dar
ing, and the hand takes firmer grasp
of the staff. Bow low the head, boy.
as you would in your old age be rever-
enced. Eastern Shore Herald.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
POLITICAL.

Mass meeting next Monday at War
saw to elect delegates to Roanoke.
Lancaster's Democratic county COM
mittee meets next Monday to decide as
to the election of Roanoke delegates.
Hon. George Mason. C. c.. Baker.
VIM. Mayo and George Vansant were
elected by Westmoreland Democrats as
delegates to Roanoke.
A poll of the editors throughout the
United States shows Bryan to be the
choice of Democratic newspaper men
and Taft of the Republican ones.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

Democratic newspapers which are
constantly criticising and abusing Mr..
Bryan are doing the Democratic party
great deal more harm than the Re-
publican press of the country and II
seems to us that they should either
change their politics or stop vituperat-
ing Mr. Bryan, their party's leader. -
Brunswick Gazette.
We agree heartily with our
brunswick contemporary. Yet
we are reminded that the Ga
zette is one OF those loud i'm be-
ratlng our party and it's leaders
III State politics. Preaching is
well, but practice is better
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

There are already about enough
Bryan delegates" chosen to give him
the two-thirds vote necessary to nomi.
nate at Denver. Virginia Citizen.
Rather roseate report! Up to yes
terday Mr.. Bryan had secured one hun
dred and sixty-three instructed dele
gates. The number necessary to con-
stitute two-thirds of the convention is
six hundred and seventy-two. AS
a prophecy of what will be the
CITIZEN may be within bounds. As a
recorder of what is it stands very wide
of the mark.-Norfolk Virginian-Pilot.
Our authority was the New
York Herald's poll of ten days
ago. And we find the CITIZEN
not alone in accepting this, for i'm
an issue of the Petersburg Index
Appeal ante-dating our squib by
two days was the following: Gao
cording to "a table OF electoral
votes arranged by the New York
herald, Mr.. Bryan Is within nine
votes of the necessary two-thirds
required to nominate, with a
doubtful field of more than three
hundred to draw from. Unless
there should be an almost I'M
heard OF revolution in the senti-
ment OF the party, Mr.. Bryan's
nomination is as reasonably GER
tain as anything in the future
can well be-" Our only presump-
ton appears to have been In cred
iting him with the nine votes TO
be gathered i'll two days. OBJ
serve the "about enough" and
also keep tabs on political events,
dear Pilot.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01

Present Indications are that the fish
ermen will have poor season this wear
due to several causes, mainly. how
ever, the scarcity of fish. Mathews
Journal
Reads like the story of the man
who had IA reasons for not mar
rying, the first being that the
girl wouldn't have him. Hesup-
posed it was not necessary TO
give the other reasons. At the
same time, it is all too true. this
scarcity OF fish. Other reasons
not amiss to mention, are E.bIus-
terry weather, loss of nets and
general financial depression
Should the pound-net fishing.
along the Chesapeake continue
bad conditions will be exceedino,-
ly sultry here this summer. There
Will surely be a drought in money
matters as the oyster season was
thepoorest in years.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
FEARFUL STORM.
Wrecks Towns and Stays Hundreds.

Probably half a thousand lives lost. a
hundred or more persons fatally injured
and many times this number painfully
hurt, together with property loss run
ming up in the millions, is the record.
so far. of series of tornadoes that
originated in the West last week.
and sweeping across Texas, Oklahoma.
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten
nesee, Alabama and Georgia, left a
path OF desolation and want in their
wake.
The dead and injured in fridays tor
nado are reported as follows:
Louisiana-Dead, SO; injured, $50.
Mississippi-Dead, 1873; injured, $50.
Alabama Dead, 81; injured, 113.
Georgia-Dead, %; injured, 100.
This makes the dead for four states,
1888; injured, 1,213; minor injuries are
not included.
Following is list by states of the
forty-six towns reporting more or less
damage, and most Of which are quite
small:
Loulsiana-Lucerne. Kenmore, Lam
ourie, Richland, Amite, Essie, Pine,
Angie, Franklinton, Sheridan, Award,
Eunice. Total, IL.
Mississippi-Giles's Bend, Purvis,
Church Hill, Lorman, Tillman, Melton,
baskerville. Braxton, Sunfiower, Wa
halak. Wingate, Columbus, Walls,
Fairchild's Greek, Quitman's Landing,
McLaurin, Wallace, Winchester, Pine
Ridge. Total, 10.
Georgia-Columbus, Chipley, La
Grange, Hartman, Griffin, McDonough.
Locust Grove, Cedartown, Cave Springs.
Total. 9.
MISUNDERSTANDING, High Mound,
Hatton, Leesburg, Settlement, Blounts-
vile. Total 6.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-05-01
PIANOS, PIANOS

Mr.. T. Lyme Shackleford, native of
Warsaw, Va, is representing the F..
G. Smith Piano Co., Leominster, Mass.
makers of the famous Bradbury and
Webster Pianos. throughout this State.
These pianos were awarded gold med
ais and certificate at the jamestown
Exposition, and are now being used by
such distinguished families as Hon.
John Wanamaker. Speaker ]. G. Can
non, Judge Stanley Matthews, Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and others.
If you are looking for the best write
Mr.. Shackleford, Warsaw, Va, or EN-
erton. Va, who deals directly with the
manufacturers.