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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
REEDVILJE.

The Daughters of the Ccnfederacy are
rehearsing for an entertainment to be
given by them in the Reedvlle Hall or
July 4th.
Palmer e. Moore's new yacht, "Stran.
ger, is about completed.
Mrs. Albert Somers, of Atlantic City
is visiting her mother, Mrs. John Ket,
cham, at this place
w. A. Edwards, of Baltimore. is Wis.
iting his father, Capt. f. w. Edwards,
at Election.
Capt, j. G. Fisher is in Baltimore.
Mrs. o. w. Douglas has returned
after an extended visit to relatives and
friends on the Eastern Shore and in
Baltimore.
Miss Marie Blundon is visiting friends
in Salisbury and Baltimore.
John Smith, Polish laborer at the
Morris, Fisher Company's factory.
cut his throat with razor in an attemnt
at suicide. He was taken to Balti-
more hospital.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED

The public high school building al
Reedville. in the southern part of North.
cumberland county, was destroyed by
lire Sunday. The building had been
closed for about one month, and the
origin OF the fire is unknown but thought
to be from spontaneous combustion. II
started in the second story, the floor OF
which was falling in when the fire was
discovered and only a few desks were
saved The building was a large and
handsome frame structure, erected two
years ago at cost of about 81, 600. the
larger part of which was contributed by
private individuals. The building and
furniture were insured in the Northern
Neck Mutual Fire Association for 81. 100
and $1,000 in an old line company.
steps will be taken at once to'replace
the burned building with larger and
better one.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
DOES HE KNOW?

Declaring lower class whites in
the South are us ignorant as
the negroes and not SO anxious
to learn, President Taft lately
told the directors of Marion In
stitute, an Alabama school, that
the solution of the race problem
lies in education for both races.
That sounds pretty harsh. Mr..
Taft. Yet when IL high school
department. of the school in our
town, starts. with 43 students
last falEand these drop off to 13
1T looks as ii he knew and had
read the CITIZENS statement as
to the condition of educational
affairs in lrvington. Truly. if we
here in Lancaster want to know
things we shall have not ONLY
to take out the money we have
put i'll our purses and spend
some OF it, but take a livelier ill.,
terest in what is being done in
school matters. Compulsory
school attendance seemsa severe
remedy, but what's the use of
paying teachers to occupy a va
can't school room? And what
foolishnessit is to buy a great
building and have it empty OF
pupils? Wake, up citizens!
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
STUFF HE'S MADE OF.

Consider youth void of knowledge.
Feed him and he will hunger again:
clothe him as prince and ere long he
will be in pauper's rags; place him in
dominion and his clownish ways will
betray him. But fan the intellectual
spark that may yet remain in him until
it begins to glow; nourish carefully the
flame with gradual increment of fuel:
ward off the destructive blasts of doubt.
Indifference and despair that would fain
quench the Pickering light; fix once and
forever the desire to know, and you
have made him master of himself. I'm
plant in him an ideal that will be ever
before him as guide to higher attain
ments; set going in him the power to
think. and you have placed him on the
roll of the worlds worthless; for the
thinkers are they that have blessed the
world. j. Doyne. President Ar
kansas State Normal.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
STOP YOUR CUSSING.

Virginia's anti-cussing law went into
effect yesterday. The man who finds it
difficult to keep a curb on his tongue
also will find it difficult TO keep out of
the clutches of the law in Virginia, for
the bill prohibiting cursing at the last
session of the General Assembly, went
into effect at midnight Wednesday night.
The bill is brief but Enthusiastically clear,
for it says:
If any person shall, in the presence or
hearing of another, curse or abuse
another person or use any violently
abusive language to such person con-
corning himself or his relatives, under
circumstances reasonably calculated to
provoke breach of the peace, he shall
be guilty of misdemeanor and on con-
viction shall be fined not less than 81. so
nor more than $500. Exchange.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

WHAT would people have said
had George Stephenson told that
committee he was trying to con-
vince of the practibility of the
locomotive, that it would one day
he 80 perfected that one railway
wouldhave ~, 900 miles OF track.
carry 0,000.000 passengers
with only one accident causing
the loss of one life? In other
words that the danger of death
would be about one in 300
00O,0 900? And what if he had
said-what is literally true-that
the safest place on land or sea
was the state-room of an ocean
liner? Yet all this has come TO
pass.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
LOCUsTS TIE UP RAILROAD.

Millions of II year locusts have in
vaded the village of Peckville, Pa, and
the valley is being rapidly devastated of
vegetation by the pests. From early
morning until shutdown the noise made
by the whirring of the locusts is all
permeating, and can be heard a mile,
sounding like the faraway blowing of a
factory whistle.
They have covered one of the little
coal branches of the Ontario & Western
Railroad. swarming around the rails.
which gather and retain heat during
the day, until it is impossible to operate
the road, and tons of coal are standing
on the sidings because the locomotives
can make no Roadway against the slip
perry bugs.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
APPROPRIATIONS FOR VIRGINIA.

among the Virginia items in the
rivers and harbors bill which was re-
ported from'the conference committee
are the following: Improving Potomac
at Alexandria, $50, 900; at Mount Vernon,
$ll,O00; the harbor at Cape Charles,
$40, 200; harbor at Milford Haven, IS, 600;
Norfolk harbor and the approaches
thereto and the channel to Newport
News, $500, 900; Appomatox River,
$3S, 900; Dymer's Creek. 5000; James
River, $3.50, 900; Nomini Creek, $1,000:
Onancock River. $13, 500; Pagan River,
$4,000; Rappahannock River, SIS. 900;
Upper Machodoc Creek. $4,000: Ur-
banna Creek. $500; York, Mattaponi
and Pamunkey Rivers, $50, 600; Nanse-
mond River. $1,000.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
NORTHUMBERLAND NOTES

Miss Alleyne Kelley, of Baltimore,
spent this week with friends in lower
Northumberland county and took part
IN the Gresham-Pinckard nuptials.
Luther Douglas, eldest son of Jack
Douglas, of near Heathsville, died early
last Friday morning of pneumonia. In
terment in the cemetery of Coan Bap-
fist Church.
w. Slater Cowart, of Northumber-
land county, was among those receiving
the degree of Bachelor of Science from
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg, the past session.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

.lHEsum, slowly climbingnorth
ward, reached on Tuesday last.
the 21st of June, the sign of the
Grab. in the Zodiac, marking the
longest day of the year. From
That point the days gradually
decrease in length until at the
same date in December they reach
the shortest. On Tuesday last
twilight began less than two and
q nall hours after midnight q. %
n. M. and ended close to ten d.
IN. (9:3O. The SUI rose at 50
setting mt I'll. This makes q
long day, and the harvesters are
needing all the light available. II
the days grew warm with the
advance OF the sun northward we
should have our hottest weather
now, and "a steady decline from
this date; but the heat has q
cumulative action. and though
July days are shorter they are
warmer. BY the same rule Spring
is slow in following the suns
coursenorthward. Hot days and
nights make corn grow, crops
mature and fecund nature to
put i'll our hands food for the
coming winter. After all it's a
good world to live in and we
should not grumble because of a
little work, when all nature is
hard at it.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
DO GOOD ROADS PAY?
From Richmond virrinian. |


Does it pay to make good roads? II
seems to have paid in New Jersey, fol-
the road commission of that State saws,
The great value of good roads to
New Jersey is becoming more and more
apparent each year. They have brought
within our borders large and desira-
bic citizenship. Communities have
grown to boroughs and cities. Manu-
facturers have been quick to see the
advantage of locating in suburban dis
tricts with good roads over which to
haul their products to the railroad sta
lions. Industrial centers have grown
from what few years ago were bat
villages. In almost every locality of
the State real estate values have been
enhanced, and there has been a STEADY
and healthy advance in our taxable
properties"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
LARGEST DRYDOCK.

The congressional appropriation of
$3.50, 900 for the purpose of charging the
dry dock at the Norfolk navy-yard
means that this city will soon have the
largest dry dock in America.
Beekman Winthrop. Assistant Score
tary of the Navy. advises that the
actual construction work will not con-
sumo more than three months time and
that the dock will be out of commission
only few days while the improvements
are being made.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
VIRGINIA PRESS ASSOCIATION.

The Virginia Press Association will
hold its business session of the next AN.
nual meeting on board a steamer. The
members will meet at Richmond on
Tuesday, July 18th, at O'Clock D. M
Wednesday morning, July 18th, a
steamer will be taken for daylight
trip down the hist oric James to Newport
News and Norfolk, spend the night in
Norfolk, and taking the steamer early
Thursday morning for trip up the Rap
and or to Onancock and
probably other points.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
TO ALL WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN

The undersigned have been appointed
by the Circuit Court of Lancaster County
JOINT receivers of Chas. X. Webb. who
sometimes trades under the, style
name of j. M. Webb and some
times under the name of C. K
Webb, and who has been CONDUCTING
a general merchandise business at
Road View near Molusk, Va. All
parties to whom this business is indebted
Will file their accounts, properly proven.
WITH one or both of the undersigned
within the next fifteen days; and ali
parties who are indebted to the said
business will at once make settlement
with the receivers.
The receivers have in hand for sale a
general stock of merchandise in good
condition. inventoried at about $500.
They would be glad to receive bids for
the same. (Sipned) io'
r. o. NORRIS, JR..
I. j. DOWNING. RECEIVERS.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
NORTHUMBERLAND CO,
Election.

Mr.. and Mrs. Roland Neal, of Balti-
more, are on visit to the former
brother and sister, Chas. Neal and Mrs.
Frank Haynie.
10. Brilliant. the enterprising
merchant here, is on a visit to his
mother in Pennsylvania.
Mrs Insley and family left last Sat
urday week on an extended visit to her
parental home in Bivalva, Md.
Mrs. Rachel Waller, of Fairport, is
visiting her daughter-in-law.. Mrs.
Lolita Waller.
Mrs. Tom Hsynie and family are on
visit to Baltimore and Washington.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
WHAT NEWS IS.

A Toronto paper in endeavoring to
describe what news is says:
Some people never can understand
what news is. Let US define it. A daily
paper will never publish an extra be-
cause Maltese cat eats canary. But
let the canary eat the cat, and see what
will happen.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

Tue Goths and Vandals were
supposed to have been the proxi.
mate cause of the downfall ol
Rome, and the luxury and disso.
luteness of the rich the Indirect
cause, but Professor Wheeler ol
Harvard says it was the mos
quito that did the work. Thus
little by little the facts of history
come to light.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

a DAY or SO ago, almost. the
Wclghts were playing with "a
thing they called u flying machine
and most people were laughing
at such a project. Yet today the
tying machine is us well estab-
llshed a success as the automo-
bile. 1t flies, scars, dips like "a
swallow, ventures out of sight
over the ocean, drops silently
down In another country and is
away again before people are
aware of its coming. What will
1t not do to revolutionize war.
trade, travel, politics? No one
can tell IN this our day what may
come. Time was, and not far
remote, when the telegraph was
q like plaything. the telephone "a
myth. and to make forty miles a
day on horseback was a real feat.
Now we talk over continent
wide stretches. send messages
over half the world without a
wire, and laugh ut the interfering.
elements. We may not change "A
single law of nature: and laws
which mother nature seems zeal
ously to strive to hide we know or
are knowing. We master sea and
land, the deep sea and the view
less air. We take a few things
long looked on as useless and iol
nature is conquered. Can any
man say i'll this our day. this or
that Is impossiblcg
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
Kept The King Az Home

For the past year we have kept the King of all
iaNatives- DIR. Kings New Life Pills-in our home
and they have proved blessing to all our family
writes Paul Mathulka. of Buffalo. N. Y. Easy.
but sure remedy for all Stomach. Liver and kidney
troubles. Only 25c. at all druggist.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

An ARTICLE i'll an exchange on
vegetables us food strikes n note
OF good sense in commencing
onions as perhaps the best food.
relieving govt and rheumatism
and toning up the system gen
orally. We rather incline to
believe it having noticed that
onions greatly strengthen the
breath.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

lT SOUNDS queer, but that's
what seems to be the great ques-
ton OF the day-Will Roosevelt
endorse Taft's policies?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

IT Is estimated that there are
500, OOOstammerers in the United
States. Just suppose they took
n notion to call a convention.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

The alrcients, who had curious
fancies, named that part of the
a heavens, or rather that cluster of
stars into which the sun enters
on his northward course, Cancer.
or the Crab, and on Tuesday last
the sun, moving north, entered
that constellation, pausing there
at before turning southwark.
Things are growing. hot days
coming or ut hand, crabs plenty.
corn jumping, all things bound
ing and springing towards full
fruition. The fecund earth smiles
and bears herlap full of blessings
and we are glad for the summer
and rejoice in its heat, for with
out it all hope of life would flee
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

York, Pa, had a hailstorm the
other day, and a single stone
weighed 80 odd pounds, measur-
ing 36 inches by IA. This is a
pleasurable variation on the big
fish stories.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

WE USED to think that WA,
stories were about all told. but
after reading a bit of story in
The Circle-"A Little Rebel.'' we
conclude that the real story ol
the South has hardly been begun,
Ii any one can read little Virrie
Cary story, as she told it to IA
yankee soldier, and keep dry eyes
he can do more than could the
writer OF this. Get The Circle for
June, Circle Publishing Co, n.
Y. 13c) read what little Virrie
told the officer, and you will
agree with us that the true strug.
gle of the South was with the
wonderland children. And this is
not u paid notice, but written
that the past may not be forgot.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

AND now that summer is really
here we are grumbling about the
heat.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01

e, Is; IS. Gochnauer. Fauarier County. Va u,;,as
! nave used your Square Deal Chick Start,
win excellent results. Have lost less Chicks sim
ieeuinR " than ever before" ''
PREVENTS DIARRHoEA.
e, Chas 5. Grason. Baltimore County. Md wr;,as.
nave FOUND by actual comparison that ESois~i
ano 3 Sduare-Deal Chick Starter has a great "a
vantage over all prominent foods on the marLet -
uoes not give the baby chicks diarrhoea.' -
BEST HE EVER. PURCHASE.
Hi L. Griest. Cessna, Pa. writes: '.Your .Sonora-
Deal Scratch or Poultry Food Is the best / eve
purchased ut any price ! have no trouble 10 seIi
IT, my customers like it." ''
SQUARE-DEAL
Chick Starter. Chick Food Scratch r.,
hrst weeks. to 10 weeks. Makes hens Ia
DON'T BE FOOLED.
IT your local merchant don Z sell .Sonara nv.
Foods drop US a postal will tell Won who -.
Send US &c in stamps to pay the postage and "s.,
uon the name OF this paper. we will send yo,,
package each of pansies Nasturtinm 49,, you
Sweet Peas. Scarlet Sage, also our Car3e,, 20
Flower Seed and Poultry Supply Catalogue. anu
J. B0LGlANO & SON,
Seed Growers. Importers, Manufactur-
ers. Four Generations of I'm,
broken Success.
Baltimore, MARYLAND.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-07-01
Woods Late
Seed Potatoes

are selected seed potatoes
carried in cold storage, so
as to supply them unsprout-
ed and in the best condition
for summer planting.
The best time to plant
Late Potatoes is in June or
early in July, to make the
largest yielding crops for
winter use or market.
Write for woods Crop
Special" giving prices and
seasonable information a.
bout Late Potatoes and
other Seeds for Summer
Planting.
I. w. Wood 6 Sons,
Seedsmen. Richmond, Va.
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

by the local police. The ordinance
provides that on payment of a fee Of
SO in San Francisco and $3.50 in Oak
land written permit may be granted
by the mayor for a period not to ex-
ceed one year to any peaceable person
to carry a concealed and deadly weapon
upon his or her person.
You see there is chance to escape
in one way. and thereby you increase
the revenue Of the city.
Now. If San Francisco jurists find
that you are carrying concealed dead
ly weapon, read the penalty which is
prescribed by the ordinance: "A fine
elf guilty. of not exceeding $500 or one
days Imprisonment for every 81 OF such
fine imposed"
Alas If such should be the findings
of our courtsi Our jails would become
gilded ca ges; the humble cell would be
permeated with an element in which
the artistic temperament would revel in
its own atmosphere and the jaiIer
ers and epaulets
Unfortunately in these days of bold
thuggery. where even in daylight
thieves steal from citizens upon prom
inent street corners, women are the
chief and easiest prey of the scoundrel,
and hardly a day passes by but reports
reach the police Office to the effect that
a woman's purse was snatched while
she was doing a little window shop
ping; or that while walking down the
street a shopping bag was torn from
a delicate wrist. Then again there are
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15
By r. Ellis Wales

\ YEA, verify, beware the cop on the
v beat, for If you are fair resident
Of san Francisco or Oakland with
q penchant for hoppy, furry, berib-
boned or lingerie hats you are liable
TO be haled before his frowning maj
esty, the police court judge.
And all because of an ordinance that
reads like this: 1T shall be unlawful
- any person in the city Of San Fran
cisco, not being a public officer, to
wear or carry concealed abeut his or
her person any pistols, slungshots,
brass or iron knuckIes, sand club, dirk,
bowie knife, iron bar or other danger
GUS or deadly weapon
There you arei ANY dangerous or
deadly weapon"
For how do you fasten on your
pretty lingerie hats that flop about so
tantaIizingly2 How can you stroll
down Market street in the swirls of
Preside breeze if you do not violate
the law?
This is the point: An eastern judge
. has decided that a woman's hatpins,
particularly those of the style now In
use, are dangerous or deadly weapons"
and should come under the supervision
Of the police. Now viii you use hat
strings, 90 bopnetless or retain an at
torney2
There is one possible escape, even
should this judges ruling be accepted
The San Francisco call., 1910-05-15

months, are the diseases most generally
carried by flies.
In the Spanish-American war one
man in every six had typhoid fever: 1t
was definitely shown that this fever
did not come from contaminated
water or milk supply, but from a lack
of sewerage and the flies. One man
would be attacked by the fever. In
those days the germ idea was not so
well known and no care was made in
disposing of the waste from the sick
room. The flies had access to this
waste and carried it broadcast through
the ranks. OF the 2,197 deaths from
all causes in the war. 1924 died of ty-
phoid. Practically all of this was due
to flies.
The Merchants association of New
York has been carrying on a strenu-
Gus campaign for better disposal of
sewage. A system of traps have been
maintained and the daily catch of flies
in these traps is used as a measure of
their prevalence. The death record
from typhoid and diarrheal diseases
is found to follow accurately the period
of abundance of flies The flies swarm
thickest along the water front, where
much of the refuse from the sewers
drifts and lodges This would nat
urally be suspected of carrying much
disease. The students of the situation
hit upon the plan of making a dot on a
map each time a death from one of
these fly borne diseases was reported.
At the end of the season the map
showed black with dots in a belt along
the water front some three blocks wide.
A somewhat improved condition on the
water front a season later resulted in
a decrease of 554 in the number of
deaths among children from typhoid
and diarrheal diseases.
The conditions in other cities are as
bad as in New York. In the villages
with less effective sewerage systems
they are much worse and in the coun-
try they are still worse. In fact, ty-
phoid fever has come to be known as
a country disease. 1t is the dWeIler
in the city returning from his vacation
who starts the outbreaks. With these
facts in mind it is obvious that the
fight against these diseases is nation
wide and that all the people must be
called upon to unite in a fight against
them.
In fight against the typhoid fly the
recognized first step is TO prevent its
multiplying. 1t is known that its era
die is the manure pile. If this can be
done away with this year there will
be but 10 per cent as many flies next
year and but 10 per cent as much
disease resulting. Then the first thing
to be done is to get rid of the manure
pile. The man who allows one on
his premises should be made to know
that he is endangering the lives OF
his own family and all the families
roundabout. If children die In the
neighborhood of typhoid or dysentery
he should be saddled with the RESPONSE
bilities for those details. The house
holder should be made to know that
If flies are abundant there is manure
pile in the neighborhood and that II
is his duty in protection of his family
to hunt 1t out and have it abolished
These things are as true in the coun-
try as in the city. The custom In the
country is to allow the manure to lie
until 1t is needed for fertilizer. The
country is consequently overrun with
flies and typhoid. There are two proper