The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-02
TOUNVE|L TABLETS
IN COURT HOUSES
County Buildings in Northern
Neck Being Decorated by
Patriotic Citizens.
-ISnecinl to The Characterization. |

Especial to The -Dispatch.l
Lancaster. Va, May l-Dr w. 9.
his father and mother at their home
River. DR.. chowning is the resident
physician at Daytona, and attended SEN
a,er Daniel III en he was pehe
to Lynchburg. and extended his trip 10
Lancaster to visit his parents. He Is
the son of James A. Chown;ng, sheriff
of Lancaster, and several years ago
married Miss May Blakemore. daughter
of John e. Blakemore. of the Corotoman
region. DR.. Chowning graduated six
years ago from the University of Mary
land, and settled at once in Florida,
where he has risen rapidly in his pro-
fesson.
Hon. T. spicer curlett, who years
ago represented Lancaster in the House
Of Delegates, but who for some years
past has been living in Baltimore. has
one year ago he was operated on for
appendicitis. but as he is still in deli
cate health his physicians have advised
him to come to this section of Virginia
He is the father of John Curlett, who
recently represented the counties OF
Richmond and Lancaster in the House
OF Delegates for two terms.
Judge T. r. B. Wright. who has the
practice of decorating the walls of the
courthouses of the Commonwealth with
the pictures of the worthless OF the re-
spective counties is going to have
Westmoreland counties. At Warsaw
to morrow tablets containing the names
of the Kings and Queens and the
Commonwealth attorneys and the court
clerks from the organization of Rich-
mond county in 1892 TO the present
time and several portraits will be un-
yelled with impressive ceremonies. Adj
dresses will be delivered by Armistead
n; Wexford; Joseph W. Chinn, Jr;'
Beale. j. Milton Lyell, R. g: Norris,
On the following day similar tablets
Will be unveiled In the courthouse at
Montross, the county seat of Westmore-
landN when Rev. George W. Beale. Rev.
Fl. McKim, rector OF Epiph-
any Church, in Washington. and Law
renee Washington. of the Library Of
Congress, will deliver addresses.
At the May term of Lancaster Cir
cult Court handsome busts OF Thomas
jefferson and Chief Justice John Mar
shall will be unveiled. though Marshall
and Jefferson were not natives of this
placing the counterfeit presentments of
these two great virginians in the
courthouse he can keep alive the VIZ
tues and principles which these distin-
guished men illustrated in their lives
Every intelligent stranger who now
visits this section Is anxious to see
the pictures on the walls of the court
houses. AS yet there is no picture Of
Washington in the courthouse here.
though there is a magnificent oil por
trait of his mother, Mary Ball, who was
born at Epping Forest, about seven
miles west OF this place 1t is expected
that a portrait of Colonel James Cor
don, one of the early clerks of Lancas
ter. the fatherin-law of the blind
preacher Waddell, and the ancestor of
Colonel William Fitzhugh Gordon. of
Albemarle. will soon adorn the walls
of Lancaster Courthouse.
The fishing season Is about over. and
the fishermen have already begun 10
take UP their traps and nets. Only a
few shad are now caught, and nearly
all the herring that are caught in the
traps are carried to the tish factories
to be converted into fertilizer.
Until yesterday the weather here had
been unusually cold for this season OF
the year, and during the past week
there were two heavy white frosts.
though 1t is not believed that vegeta-
ton and fruits were materially dam
aged.
1t is thought that owing to the low
prices paid during the past year for
canned tomatoes. the tomato crop In
the Northern Neck Will not be so large
as in previous years For many years
this has been one Of the leaGlng money |
crops with the people of this section.