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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
MISKIMON.

Mr.. and Mrs. G. III. Smith and child
rem, of Taft. visited the lady's mother
Mrs. Mamie Gill, from SATURDAY. It'll
Monday. Miss Marion Smith remained r.
spend some time with her grandmother.
On Tuesday, May oath, the ladies and
gentlemen of Lively gave Mrs. Andrew
Plnkard a grand pounding. Mrs.
Pinkard is a widow with several child
rem to take care of, and this is the wav
to bear We one anotber's burdens and
so fulfill the law of Christ"
Miss Lillian Lawson, of Fairfelds. is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. VIM.
Fallin.
Miss Pearl Lunsford, of Sampson's
Wharf, visited Misses Emma Marsh
and Massie Forester Monday and
tuesday and then left to visit Miss
Annie Rice at Lara.
sometimes it pays tobe strong man.
The young men at the store. some time
since, not thinking he could do so. said
they would pay for barrel of -four if
lowering Cockreu would carry it home:
so Lev. shouldered his flour and walked
OF, the boys following him; but he did
not stop till he got home with it, dis
lance of more than quarter of a
mile. IT
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
BOOMING THE OYSTER

What with the government ex.
actions as to patent packages
and the eNorbitant (and still
rlslng) express rates. the Virginia
oyster outlook for next season
Is exceeding gloomy. In fact. we
can now see absolutely no hope
Tor a resuscitation of good mar
kets. The little shipper is surely
doomed. We have here more
; oysters than we know what TO
do with, but the slump, caused
mainly by a false pure-food scare.
must continue.
Along with the theorists. the
meat trust and other food sup
piers that do not handle oysters
(the cheapest of meat dietsl have
scared the people of the interior.
In TACT, ninety-nine per cent. OF.
may be more, ofinterior sales,uen
discourage the CONSUMPTION of n
product that is solely a coastwise
one, and do not stop short of
toui means in doing so. Concerns
1nat are manufacturing patent
carriers advertise to the oyster
eating public that oysters not
packed in patent packages are
dangerous. The truth OF wears
VIII show that oysters produce
less trouble than anything. save
hsh, that is on the meat market.
where oysters have slain ten.
vegetables have slain hundreds
mix It's thousands and canned
goods tens of thousands. One
can OF ice cream will produce
greater mortality in a town than
would all the millions of ovs.
tiers i'll the clear Chesapeake
bay, A high authority in the
pure-food movement assures us
that one milk cart has been
known to contain more typhoid
Daellli than a years investigation
OF the Virginia oyster OUTPUT
showed.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
DAMAGES CROPS.

The protracted cool weather is losin,
millions of dollars to our farmers an,
truckers. Corn is backward, yellow
and much of it needing replanting. Tn,
cut worm is also getting in his work.
Fruit and vegetable crops throup hou
the eastern shores of Virginia and Ma
ryland have been seriously affected
Inc heids just now are evidences of tn,
narm that has been done by the COO
nights and the wintry winds that hay,
blown from the northwest for weeks
Warm weather in March and an al.
most total absence of the high winds
that usually mark that month encour.
aged truckers to plant early. Conse-
quently many crops were well above
ground when the cold weather set in and
stunted them. Beans and cantaloupes
especially show the effects of the wea-
ther- Warm nights are especially IA
vorable to the development of early
vegetable crops, and without them the
yield is almost certain to be short.
Strawberries, though now nearly
over. have been slow in ripening be-
cause of the cold. Peas have been
pretty well gathered and the yield has
not been heavy. Sweet potatoes set
outseveral weeks ago are Just as they
were when planted. They have grown
none, but on the contrary have died
from the continued cold.
Notwithstanding the backward sea-
son larger crops than usual have been
planted, and some harvested, this sea-
son than ever before. A New York reg
ular liner took on one trip from Nor
folk 5000 baskets of early cabbage.
8, 600 crates of kale and thousands of
packages of other trucks. Prices have
kept up fairly well.
Potato shipments last year from Cape
Charles amounted to about 800, 900 bar
rels. The crop this year is believed to |
be about % per cent. heavier, which |
will bring the output for that Virginia |
port this season up to at least 375, 900
barrels. About two-thirds of the crop
If Northampton county goes out from
there. The output from the whole
county will run over $50. 900 barrels.
Delaware's greatest strawberry sea-
ION is now on. Reports from the rail-
Dads show that to date IA, $50, I'll quarts
# berries have been shipped from points
lown the State. as compared with to-
al shipment for last year of 9.576, 22I
uarts. A million quarts are being
hipped every day.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
A MUSICAL AT MILA.

On Wednesday evening, June 1st
Misses May Delano and Esther SneaG
gave musical entertainment to some
friends in the home of the latter a,
Mia. The hall of their home had been
very Hastily decorated in green and
white tints. A number of duets. solos
pantomimes. ETC., were rendered bv
these young ladies.
Later In the evening refreshments
were served. The whole entertainment
showed great deal of taste and culture
on the part of the young ladies as well
as unusual executive ability for such
Juveniles. and would indeed have been
an honor and credit to much older per-
sons. Both girls sing nicely, having
unusually sweet. expressive voices.
A VISITOR.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
ARRAIGNlNG THE LAW.

The system under which the law il
administered in this country is hun
dred years behind the age, the proce
dure in equity cases is scandal to oul
Jurisprudence, many cases are decided
not on their merits, but purely or
technical questions; and not only has
something got to be done about it, but
something will be done about it.
This is the sum and substance of a
statement given out by joint commit
tee on reform in legal procedure of the
National Bar Association and the
National Civic Federation, at the con-
ciusion of conference held in the Law
yers' Club in New York last week at
the invitation of former Judge Alton
B. Parker.
Ninety per cent of the proverbial
laws delays" says the statement, "are
due to the system under which the law
Is administered, rather than to the in
tention of the attorneys interested in
delayed suits or the benefit resulting to
either side from delays. AS a matter
Of fact. it is to everybody's interest to
have law suits quickly and cheaply
disposed Of"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
HIGHER EXPRESS FOR OYSTERS

Says the Norfolk Landmark: Con.
sumers of oysters in the Middle Western
and Southern cities. the dealers in which
obtain most of their supplies from the
packers and shippers of Norfolk and
vicinity, will have to pay next season
considerably more for the bivalves. on
account of the new tariff on shipments
of oysters. which will go into effect on
July 5th.
The new express tariff approximates
an increase of twenty per cent. per GAL
lon IN express charges. This, it was
stated. will have to be paid by the con-
sumer-another evidence of the high
cost of living. and an addition thereto.
AT the sametime it will be fearful
blow to the shipper. as the retailer will
raise in price and the demand for oys-
tiers grow less.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

The gist of decision by Hon. T. r.
b. Wright of this judicial circuit, is to
this effect:
Hand-net crabbers can take crabs
while the tide is up on the shore of
another between high and low water
marks. Under the law which granted
Zee simple rights to a land owner to
low water mark the State reserved nm
der the common law the right of fishery
for its citizens to high water mark.
To catch crabs on lands leased below
low water mark the Judge adjudges
trespass.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
A DISTINCTION OVERLOOKED.

occasionally a correspondent will
attack with heat as the opinion of the
paper to which he writes some view
winch the paper itself may not hold
and with which it in fact disagrees.
because ne "sees it in the paper" this
type OF individual concludes that the
paper itself must have said or indorsed
IT, Nothing could be further from the
TRUTH so Tar as any fair newspaper is
concerned. The function of the news
paper and the ideal toward which II.
aims is. within the limits of decencv 70
give the news; within the limits of fa;r-
ness. to express and seek to impress IFS
own opinions. and in the interest of the
information of its own readers. no lees
than in justice to those who hold d;f-
ferently from itself. to present imnar-
tally the views and opinions of Others
Richmond Virginian.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

|, LOOK here, Mr.. Farmer! an
hours dragging OF wheel tracks
on our roads Just after a rain has
soaked in will save the county
(thats you) many dollars for re-
pairs, and save you many dollars
on the loads you haul, wear-and-
tear ofvehicle, harness and horse.
why not try it? The drag is
simple and cheap; can be made
by you any rainy day; and the
hour youwoulddrive up the road
TO your neighbours line and back
would be more profitable than
store loun9ing.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
MEN WHEN OCCASION DEMANDS,

1t was to this truth that Governor
Mann addressed himself in his Memo
rial Day address, when he said:
i used to think, as boy that there
could never be another Washington in
the worlds history. But | was mis-
taken. From the very county in which
Washington was born, in Virginia.
there was called Robert E. Lee to make
a name in the worlds history. And
from the boys of today, if the country
ever needs another Washington or an
other jefferson or another Monroe or
another Marshall or another Lee. Vir-
GINA will be ready to produce him."
1t Is an encouraging retrospect TO
consider that the War Between the
States developed so rapidly so manv
men of really large stature. Richmond
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
MARYLAND sHADPAssING AWAY

The Maryland shad is passing away.
Inc big pound nets at the mouths of
the rivers and in the Bay are fast clear
ing our waters of this best of Mary
land table fish. 1t is impossible for the
shad to get through the miles and miles
OF nets set in the bay and in the lower
part OF the rivers and get fresh water
to ceposit their eggs. The result is that
the shad are caught up by the thous-
--ands down the bay before they have
deposited their spawn and millions upon
millions of eggs are destroyed and the
; schools of fish get smaller and smaller
as they come in from the ocean,
Crisfield Times.
We take issue with our we'll
informed friend of the east'n
sho' OF Maryland on one point.
1t is probably true that Mary.
land is suffering from u dearth OF
shad, but it is not altogether.
nor yet very largely, from the
pound nets. There has not been
known such ~ catch of shad as
this year i'll the chesapeake bav.
True, the deep nets made the
larger portion of the hauls.
and the rivers were denied the in
lux OF years ago. This latter is
oelng remedied in Virginia by
lorblddng nets hereafter to reach
from either shore more than n
fourth OF the width across the
mouths of rivers and inlets.
But Maryland will have to look
to its dams and improper. fish
ways. We have only but to recurl
to the reports of untold millions
OF fish stopped this season by the
big dam on the Susquehanna. Ill
you will not let the shad reach a
spawning ground YOU cannofex- /
pect the return of the young two
years hence. |,
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
POLITICAL.

Many republicans admit. says Wash.
ington dispatch. that the next House
Will be democratic, and that the Senate
must grow less strongly protectionist
or go to the same party sooner or later.
Congressman Dalzell. Speaker Can
mons right-hand man, barely pulled
through for denomination in his strong
Republican Pennsylvania district. Dem
ocrats are jubilant and Republicans de-
Jected, as it foreshadows hard times
ahead for Republican policies. Repub-
lican Senatorial leaders. Hale and AL
drich. are thinking of dropping out of
the Senate.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
NORTHUMBERLAND CO.
vtnnMIGn cauRnu

"pMIGo CHURCH.
Our crabbers have had very sue
cessful season.
r. +. Hunton was in this section not
long since.
Mrs. b. j. Cameron. of Mia. is in
Baltimore for medical treatment.
W. A Rowe has the best crop of POI
tatoes to be found in Wicomico.
"A large three mast schooner loaded
IN the Great Wicomico river not long
since with railroad ties.
Miss Viola Dawson returned home
last week from Essex county, where she
has been teaching school the past ses-
sion. p,,.v
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
BUT NOBODY LOVED HINT

We read much of the Colonel.
lie makes speeches, dimes with
Emperors, shakes kings by the
hand, DULLES the English, lectures
the Lords on their duties, com
pels the admiration of the world
strikes awe into the hearts of
lions and elephants-but we read
nowhere that thepeople love him.
It's a wide gap between admira-
ton, awe, fear, and such, and
heartfelt love, and we are WON
dering il he ever feels that i'm all
this turmoil he is not loved? And
we wonder, too, if that is not bet
ter and to be more coveted than
all the other?
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
NORTHUMBERLAND COURT POST.
P0NED,

The following telegram was received
wednesday from Judge Wright of this
circuit, which explains itself:
VIRGINIA CITIZEN:
The Board of Health of Northum-
oeriand county has communicated with
me here by phone and advised that no
court be held for Northumberland oving
TO the prevalence of smallpox near
Heathsviile. / will hold no regular
> ournal next Monday. but will hold a
special term at an early date, if desira-
bic, after due notice. '
ST. r. B. WRIGHT.
Judge 18th Circuit
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

The men who say '1et things alone
they're good enough for u.s." stand in
the way of progress in the town in
which they live. They want things to
continue in the same old way that suf-
need fifty years ago. We knew a man
who was opposed to the electric ligh. :
ing or any other system OF lighting the
streets of the town in which he lived.
because, so he said, he could take a sta
BILE lantern with him when he wanted tn
go down town. bedford Democrat.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
A FEARFUL INDICTMENT.
CSussex Standari.)


Did you read that indictment of Vir-
ginla road oyerseers last week by Pres
ident Johnson of the N. & w. Railway?
He says; 'The split log road drag has
been the means of accomplishing more
effective results in the building of good
dirt roads than any other implement, {"
land so far as can be ascertained.
there are less than twenty-five of them
IN Virginia." What an Indictment of
ignorance or Indifference on the part of
our road officials. The best implement
for road making ever invented. one Civ
en- free to the world by its inventor.
one that costs practically nothing but
an hour or two of work, and vet not
twenty. five of them in all the great
State of Virginia, that needs these
good roads that we are paying for every
year and not getting.
President Johnson wants the farmers
to try these drags and offers to loan
them one for a trial. We hope MANY
will try them just to make the road Of
ficials ''sit up and take notice. Just
to show how they have been wasting
the peoples money by refusing to learn
from the experience of others. other
communities, and other States.
Let our supervisors recognize the
road drag as, road implement, and
through the road superintendent, if the
law requires, pay the farmers for this
work. They will thus leave the road
money right at home, get the roads
worked at just the proper time for the
farmer will be right on the spot and
could spare the time from his other
work better before the fields are fit to
work and the roads in just the proper
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

Mas. louNG is the superinten-
dent ofthe Chicago public schools
and has 100000 children under
her care. Somehow it seems to
come natural for women to man.
age children, but that's Il large
tribe to look after.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

DIR. GAYER of New York is fast
ing TOR strength. At the end of
the l4th day he runs up stairs
aud does q variety of stunts. We
are glat some one is trying this
doing without foods it may he
that after all we may conquer
the trusts in this way, and live
like the angels.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

SO LONG as Nottingham and
Murray remain respectively at
the business and editorial ends
OF the Norfolk Landmark we do
not regret that it has been sold
to Mr.. Abel, formerly of the Bal
timore Sun. The name Abel is
familiar in journalism and popu-
lar in Virginia. The Landmark
continuing under its past man.
agement, will remain a powerful
and leading exponent Of Vir-
ginia's best interests.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

DURlNG the blizzard of FRIDAY.
June 3, hailstorm visited the
upper lsappahannock and a slight
snow fell around fredericksburg.
States north and west of us have
had June billiards. and SHOWS.
Such things have happened be-
lore, but this year it is in good
form to blame it on the comic
comet. $50
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

A BIG country is our Old Do
mlnion, with ripe peaches in Nan
semond, cherries frozen on fine
trees in Bristol, August weather
In April, aid November temporal
ture in June. But it's all right in
Lancaster, where the blessed sun
shining down ripens our straw
berries, brings to fruitiop orr
peas, and no frost to nip vegeta-
ton. The Old Dominion is great
and has been in all days, but the
heart of it is right here with our
own good folks. Some even think
that the reason heaven is not
more attractive to our home
people is because it's so like par
adise here at home.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10
fish IND OYSTER NOTES.

A years fishing in this countr
amounts in value of product to abou
$64. 900, 600.
Monthly meeting of the Commissio,
OF Fisheries was held at Hampton las
Monday. Surveyor Ruediger was pres
ent' and was put to work locatin,
three watch-houses on the James rive
seed grounds.
The new fish, clam, crab and oyster
laws passed by the last legislature viii
go in effect next Wednesday. 1t will
be some weeks before separate com
piiation of them can be gotten from
the press. Bound copies of the last
Acts are already being distributed.
G. S. Atwood, of the r. r. Higgins
Co., is freighting 10000 bushels OF
shells bought of the Irvington Packing
Co. to plant at Hole in the Wall''.
Mathews county. F. A. Gunby & Son
have sold their pile to Capt. w. l..
Messick, who is planting them in In
dian Creek.
hundreds of acres of abandoned oys-
ter beds in New Jersey are being plant
ed with shells, under lease to small
planters, made possible by special act
passed last winter. Thirty thousand
bushels of shells have already been
spread upon barren grounds, ruined bv
lack of care, and $50, 900 will be spent
IN developing the industry as result of
the new legislation.
Northern oyster growers are wonder
ing just now whether or not there will
be'a set this year. If nature does not
do its work this spring there is a grave
possibility that by 1914 there will be an
oyster famine. The last really good oys
ter set in the east came in 1904. Since
then there has not been anything of a
set to speak of-just enough to keen
the market supplied with small lots of
seed, much of which has been Skinned
to other points. If there is not any set
this spring, it will not make much diff
ference with the industry during the
1901 season. The 1911-12 season will
see a scarcity of oysters which will
grow more marked during the following
season and which may find entirely de-
pleted beds in the fall of l9l4.-Fish-
ing Gazette.
REPRESENTED FISH COMMISSION.
AT meeting of the State Fisherie .
Commission at Hampton Monday Su-
pervising Inspector w. E. Lawson was
appointed to represent the commission
at the meeting of the u. S. Army En-
gmeers at Baltimore Tuesday. called
for the purpose of investigating com
plants that have been made respecting
the placing of nets so that they inter
fere with navigation in Chesapeake bav
and its tributaries. Owing to, the ina
bility of Commissioner Lee to be pres
ent MIR. Lawson was sent to Baltimore.
He has wide experience OF fisheries
matters and is a good talker. The
government will probably not give out
Its findings at-present. Capt. Jas. E. |
Marsh and Jno- A. Palmer, jr.. of |
keedville, and Hon. I. A. Jett, of Lillian.
represented the fishermen of North
cumberland and Lancaster counties.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1910-06-10

-. b: Il. Gochnauer. Fauquier County Va, writes
II have used your Square Deal Chick Startas
with excellent results. Have lost iess Chicks s;n
feeding IL than ever before"
PREVENTS DIARRHoEA.
Chas. s. Crason. Baltimore County. Nd. vvri,ss.
i have found by actual comparison that Rolor;
amos Square-Dea Chick Starter has a great al
vantage over all prominent foods on the marx 81 =,
does not give the baby chicks diarrhoea - -
BEST HE EVER PURCHASE.
Eli /. Griest, Cessna. Pa. writes: Your Souara-
Deal Scratch or Poultry Food Is the best l. ever
purchased at any price. have no trouble to sell
IL. my customers Ike IL.
soUARE-DEAL
Chick Starter. Chick Food. Scratch to,s
first weeks. sto 10 weeks. Makes hens Law
DON'T BE FOOLED.
II your local merchant don't sell Square DEAF,
Foods. drop Us postal we will tell you who does
Send US DC In stanps Ia pay the postage and men
ton the name Of this paper. we will send Won
package each OF pansics Nasturtium Asters
Sweet Peas, Scarlet Sage. also our Garden and
Flower Seed and Poultry Supply Catalogue.
J. B0LGlAN0 & SON,
Seed Growers. Importers, Manufactur-
ers. Four Generations of I'm
broken Success.
Baltimore. Maryland.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-10-11
Lungs Declared Sound
Life Insurance Granted.

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people cured--somc of them. We have
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one weck-I had twenty.eight in all. Sep,
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Since my recovery about year ago.
I was accepted for life insurance, after
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