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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02
QUERIES AND ANSWERS
When was the last large schooner

When was the last large schooner
built here? Riverman.
The last large schooner built al
this port was launched in 1882 1t
was the Henry S. Culver. There was
a boom in shipbuilding in Alexandria
from 1876 to 1883, during which time
seven large Schconers were built at
the present shipyard, and on the 10!
adjoining the present electric light
works on the south. The first schoon-
er was the Robert Portner, 5000 tons
She was followed by the James b.
Ogden, the Eliwood Harlow, James
Royce. ir.. Wilson and Hunting, Hen
~ S. Culver and tlh Lillian T. Hart,
the last named Z fCur-mastcr. All
OF these vessels subsequently met
with disaster. the Portner having
been lost in the East Indies. Several
smaller schooncrs, tug boats, ETC.,
were built later. The above were the
largest vessels ever constructed at
Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02

GAZETTE BUILDING, KING STREET.
entered atthe posuoffice OF Alexandri3,
Virginia. as second-class matter1
TERMS: Daily i year, $500; months,
$3.50; months, Sl.25: month, 43 cents
| week, 20 cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02
PUBLISHED DAILY.

The Alexandria Gazette Corporation
ROBERT S. BARRETT, President and
General Manager.
howard w. SMITH, Secretary and
Treasurer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02
Norfolk and Washington
Steamboat Co.

Every day in the year for Fort Mon,
roe. Norfolk, Newport News and point
south, via superb, powerful steei palace
steamers.
Leave Washington, SIS p. m.
Leave Alexandria 700 p. m.
Arrive TT. Monroes T.0Ga. m.
Arrive Norfolk 500 n. II.
Arrive Portsmouth 500 4. NJ
Leave Portsmouth $40 p. N.
Leave Norfolk 6.O0p. m.
Leave f.. Monroe 100 p. m.
Arrive Alexandria $50 4. III.
Arrive Washington 100 a. IN.
Through: counections made at:NorIolK
with steamers OF the Old Dominion
Steamship Company for New York and
MSrchants' and Miners Steamships for
Boston.
General Ticket Office, TO 18th St.N.W.
Bond Building, Washington, D. q.
huue Main 1920.
Seventh street wharf. Phone Main ,,yv.
Alexandria wharf foo: OF Prince stree .
w. III. CALLAHAN
iprl lyI General Passenger Agent.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02

Country produce received daily. Our
stock Of Plain aud Fancy Groceries en-
braces everything 10 be had in this line.
We hold largely in United States bond
ed warehouse and carry in stock various
brands Of the best
PURE, RIVE AND MAbT WHISTLES
made. Have also in store superior grades
Of Foreign ana American
WINES aIES. BROWN. STOUT, &c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02
DIRECTORS

BENOi1 3kER. JP.
GARDNER L. BOOTdE
VI. b HARLOW
GEO. t. WARFI
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-02

Was there newspaper il AleXan-
dria called The Liberty and what
trouble arose from its publication?
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
Better Service

With change of schedule June
18th double daily service was estab-
lished via the Shenandoah Valley be-
tween Bristol and Southwest Virgin
ia, Winston Salem, Martinsville.
Bluefield and the coalfield districts.
Hagerstown, Harrisburg, Philadel-
phia and New York. Through Pull
man sleepers and dining cars on
trains Nos. l. 2, 13 and ID. Parties
making this trip now have the oppor
tunity to do so in the most comfort
able and satisfactory manner. Map,
time tables, resort books, giving full
description of this rout, mailed upon
application. Luray Caverns, Grottoes.
Natural Bridge and the resort places
in Virginia are most conveniently
reached. Stop-overs allowed within
limit of tickets.
w. B. BEVILL,
Gen. Pass. Agent,
Roanoke, Va.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
TAZEWELL'S WATER AND
SEWERAGE FACILITIES

This paper has said it before and
repeats here, that the time is com
ing if not already come, when this
town must take some action and pro-
vide better water supply than it
now has. In times of drought, and in
fact nearly any ordinary summer the
water supply is inadequate, and what
1T has is unsatisfactory. For weeks
past, up to the recent rains, the
town was in peril. Had fire broken
out at the right time, Tor the wrong
timedD, there would have been
everything against its extinguish-
ment. The town must eventually get
its water supply from Clinch river.
There are no springs within reach
that are adequate. All springs, like
all signs, fail in dry weather more on
less. So does the river, but never To
the point where sufficient supply
cannot be had. The next move. il
seems to us, should be a bond issue
by this town for the purpose of fur
nishing water, and with this, Il sys-
TEN of sewerage. This town nor any
other town. can never claim to b,
anything like first-class or up-to-datt
until it has better and larger supply
of good, clean water, and sewerage
sys TEN.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
FAREWELL SERMON

Rev. Mr.. McClary delivered his
farewell! address last Sunday evening,
closing his pastorate of the Christian
church here. His departure is regret
ted by all the people of all denomina-
tions. During his stay here he has
made many friends, and endeared him
self to his congregation. While the
accessions to his church have not been
large he has strengthened his church
in many ways. His sermons have all
been good. His thinking is along lib
eral, broad lines, looking always tc
the uplift of society.
He leaves Tazewell, as we under.
stand, because he believes he "can dc
more good elsewhere" and the hope
is sincerely expressed that he may
find the largest success in his new
field. Mr.. McClary's successor ha.
not been chosen.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
Ills TROUBLE
NOT OF HEART
Real Facts In Regard To F. R.
Huffman's Illness. Relief Oh.
tanned By Curing his
Stomach Ailments.

Waynesville, N. C.-Mr. FL Huffman,
of this city, says: al suffered dreadfully
with what | thought was heart trouble,
and tried various medicines in vain.
After other remedies had failed, Thed-
ford's Black-Draught restored me to
health. would not feel safe without
Black -Draught in the house. consider
it worth its weight in gold.
1t cured my indigestion, and by this
means was restored TO health. can
not express my gratitude for its benefits. "
Good health depends on the condition
of your digestion. Poor digestion and
good health do not go together.
Thedford's Black-Draught will
thoroughly cleanse and set in order your
digestive system.
II has done this for others, during the
past 10 years, and is today the most
popular vegetable liver remedy on the
market. Try it.
Insist on Thcdford's. Price 25c.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
ELECTIO OF SENATORS AND
THE FORCE BILL

The bill providing for the cleo
ton of United States senators bv di-
rect vote of the people has been
amended so as to give the Federal
government practically control of the
elections-to say how. when and
where, these elections shall be held.
One of our friends asks, "Is not this
about the same as the Force Bill
which was attempted some wears
ago If we understand it this Bris-
tow Amendment practically amounts
to about the same thing as the old
Force Bill, giving the Federal Gov
eminent control of the elections of
United States senator's. The bill,
loaded down with this Bristow
Amendment is not likely to get
through the House of Representatives
and if it should, the Legislatures of
the States will have whack at it
before it becomes law. The people
who favor direct election of senators
would prefer the defeat of the meas
ure, of course, rather than it's adop-
tion with this Bristow Amendment
tackled on.
Our friend wishes to know further
whether Messrs. Martin and Swanson
spoke and voted for or against the
Amendment. We have seen no record
vote, and cannot answer. The pre-
sumption is that each of these gentle.
men were fernent the amendment
we confess to becoming little
shaky y on this measure, anyway.
he nomination of senators in pri-
mary amounts to about the same
thing.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
Calm About IL

New York Evening Post: Another
subject that leaves the mind fairly
free from agitation is the information
la-marriage evil. The wrong done to
American manhood by allowing our
millionaire daughters to marry into
the European nobility must be very
real one. But everything goes to
show that American manhood has not
entered on the process of degeneration
which is the fate of those whom nat
ural selection rejects. If popular fic-
ton and the pictures in the maya
zines are any criterion our young
women are steadily growing taller.
their shoulders are getting broader,
their chins more protuberant, their
blood more red, and their ideals more
lofty. Under the circumstances, if
the daughters of our plutocracy inists
on taking their husbands from the
ranks of cigarette smoking aristocra-
cy with curious ideas on women art
! and government, and no bicpes t.
speak of, it is they alone that are the
victims. The American race only
profits by the process. The amount OF
money that is taken out of the coun-
try by our hciresscs is Il more serious
consideration. But in the first place.
one is somewhat perplexed by the di-
verse estimates of what this loss of
wealth amounts to, conjecture rank
ing all the way from ten million dol
lars year to three hundred millions.
In the face of vague figures it is hard
/ to grow 2ngry. Moreover it is fairly
certain that the money saved to this
country by girls refusing to marry
abroad would probably be spent by
her father in buying spurious Euro
pean antiquities.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
THE CANDIDATES LINE UP

The Liquor Question is practically
eliminated, we suppose, from the
present senatorial campaign, presum-
ably to the satisfaction of the Anti
Saloon League. The candidates
Messrs. Martin, Swanson, Jones and
Glass were each asked as to their ar
titude on bills pertaining to the con-
troll of the liquor traffic, so far as
national Legislation is concerned viz
the Miller-C Curtis bill, which gives r.
each state absolute control of tho
distribution of liquor within it's oup
boundaries, and of the Bartholdi bill.
winch is designed to restore the can
teen TO the army OF the United
states. Each of the gentlemen re-
piled that they would heartily SIM
port the Miller Curtis bill, and are
opposed to the army canteen bill. 60
we take it, as all four of the cand;-
dates agree, and stand on the same
the liquor question is out of
'"' ce the sen toria campaign
this fall. The candidates for the Leo |
stature of Virginia this fall, will be
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
FEEDING EXPORT CATTLE

1t is said that the export cattle on
the range of the Stuart Land and Cat
tie company, in Russell county, have
been fed on grain during most of the
past month, the short pasture render
ing 1T necessary to do so. Perhaps
this is the first time such n course
has been necessary for many wears.
AT the same time, the price of cattle
is low, and the dealers in this section
are not feeling good. q" There is also
shortage of hay for next winter.
The price of hay is already advanc-
ing, and will reach the top notch next
winter. Many of the farmers are
sowing fields of millet to help out
next winters feeding. This is wise
thing to do. A few acres of millet
VIII yield great amount of good
forage if cut at proper time. 1t is
not too late to plant early maturing
flint corn for fodder. Early maturing
peas sown at once. will make an
abundance of fine hay if properly cur
ed. Best of them all is a good crop
of alfalfa, producing three or four
cuttings, drought or no drought.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
The Initiative, Referendum and
Recall

A subscriber wishes to know what
Is meant exactly by initiative. refer
endum and recall. We have explained
these terms in former issues of this
paper. We find the following, clear
concise statement in the Bedford BuI
letin, and give it here for the benefit
OF our readers:
1.-The initiative is simply the mower
given to the people to "initiate"
legislation, generally by petition on
a Dill they want passed The referen-
DUN Is the right to have their bill or
any other referred to them to vote on.
without leaving it to the members of
the legislature. The recall is the
power given the people to declare on
a petition any specified office vacant
ana call for rev election. The off
c'ai thus removed can be candidate
Tor reelection, and if majority
want him he is NEGLECTED; if not. an
other takes his place, but there is no
for several years to get rid
of Objectionable officials. 1t is a re-
narkable fact that the recall is sell
ION used in those States that have
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS

The drought is at last, broken in
earnest. The copious but steady and
gentle rains of Saturday night and
Sunday morning and Sunday night
and Monday, did great good all over
the county. While not sufficient to
wet the sod lands very deep, all pillow
ed land and growing crops are thor
oughly soaked, and are booming right
along. Grass shows the effect OF the
rains. and garden vegetables are
getting move on about right. :
The oat crop will be improved. as
Will also wheat and some meadows.
although the rains came a little too
late for these growths to make a full
crop, they will be greatly benefited.
Corn was not suffering except ON
some dry uplands, but all of it will
be given new push, and you can al
most see it grow these days. Every
body feels better since these splendid
Showers of Blessings"
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
Story of Things we Buy

When it comes to keen under.
standing of domestic economy, there
IS no man living who has anything on
Representative j. Hampton Moore.
of Philadelphia. The congressman has
completed list of Injuries which
shows that the candy consumed in a
single year represents the cost of a
complete chain OF canals from Boston
to Key West; that the iewelry sold
represents twice the cost of BUILDING
the Panama Canal, and that the nick
els annually dropped on soda water
counters are sufficient to establish n
complete inland aterway system.
The statistics with which Represen-
tative Moore backs his assertions are
colossal
According to MIR. Moore. the bows
and girls of the country and the older
people, too, spent $25, 900, 900 last
year on chewing gum.
The country's confectionery bill for
1910 amounted to seventy eight mil
lion.
The eight hundred million spent on
Jewelry is twice the amount required
to build the Panama canal.
Our soda water bill was $50. 600.
600.
In concluding the representative
says; Take the egg, for instance,
1T doesn't cost the hen any more to
lay an egg today than it did hun
dred years ago, but we pay more than
our grandfathers did because we
don't let the hen lay the egg where
we can go out to the back door our.
selves and pick it up. 1t is laid in
April, May or June, you don't get
until the following Christmas, and
you have to pay for its keep all the
time, pay Their railroad rates, the ex-
pense of the man who went around in
buggy and gathered it and the init
tial price of the farmers wife in Ida
ho.lt is the same all along the line. "
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
Soldiers Widows and Where
They Are

Abingdon Virginian: In these days
of memorial services to the dead of
North and South we are apt to forget
that there are still living those who
were very near and dear to the chief
tains whose heroic deeds we revere.
Mrs. Stonewall jackson is still on
earth, enjoying a wholesome old age
among her books and flowers at Char
lotte, N. C. The widow of General
Pickett is alive, and so are the wild
ows of the federal generals James A.
Garfield, John A. Logan, p. II. Sher-
idan and others.
Before she became the second wife
of the noted Confederate learder, Mrs.
Jackson-then Miss Mary Ann Morri-
son, spent a social season in Washing
ton as the guest of her uncle, w. A.
Graham, secretary of the navy. Dur
ing her early widowhood she edited
her HUSBANDS papers and wrote her
book, "Stonewall jackson. Her one
daughter, Julia, married w. E. Chris
tian, newspaper man. The children
of this marriage were Thomas j.
jackson Christian, now cadet at
West Point and Mrs. Preston, who
lives in Charlotte.
A great grief has come recently to
Mrs. Geo E. Pickett. Her only son,
named after his gallant father, an
officer in the army of the United
. Stntac diob u,bilo m, hi, ,uo,, h.,
from the Philippines. Mrs. Pickett
became engaged to the dashing Con
federate officer when she was only g
. girl of fifteen-but beautiful Vir.
ginia girl-and he was already ;
major general in the army of tn,
, Confederacy. In order to marry hin
Il short time after his famous charg,
at Gettysburg, she had valuabl,
trousseau struggled through the Fed
erai lines in bales of hay. She is nov
employed in one of the government
: departments in Washington.
Another surviving woman of civi
war times is Mrs. George B. McClel
r Ian. who lives at Morristown, N. j
G AhS ioiiHeT Willow OF General WIN
f b. Hazen is now the wife of Admira
5 Dewey, and the former Mrs. j. M
e Schofeld-the late generals secon
: wife-has recently married wealth
t banker of st. Augustine, Fla.
O Mrs. Fitzhugh Lee is in Cuba wit
e her son, Captain Fitzhugh Lee, VIII
y is in the army; Mrs. w. H. F. LIE
# lives at Ravensworth, the old Fit
: hugh manor house, in Fairfax county
S Va. Mrs. Thomas l.. Rosser is read
), ing at the University of Virgins
Mrs. John b. Gordon lives near Al
f lanta; Mrs. j. L. B. Stuart live
at Norfolk; Mrs. Samuel Cooper,
: Alexandria, and Mrs E. Kirby Smit
. at Lynchburg. General Ambrose I
d Hill's former widow is now Mrs. Fol
y syth, of Louisville, and Mrs. Long
S street, the generals second wife,
Y postmistress at Gainesville, Ala.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
THE COW AND HER CIJD.
AGAIN

We are in receipt of the following
Editor News: My COW has lost her
cud. What must do for her?' Now
here it is again. Here is sensible
successful man who, evidently knows
as little about cows as any of us. He
is honest, and thinks cow has a end
which she keeps stored somewhere On
shelf, and takes it down every poyy
and then. and "chaws the rag.."when
she hasn't any other pressing on.
gagement on hand. We recall that
more than once "back home" on the
farm, COW. whose digestion was not
good, and who had stopped chewing
her cud, was dragged up, and a largo
greasy dish rag rammed down her
throat to give her a cud," in place
OF the one she lost somewhere in the
pasture or stable, and remember that
one old farmer walked over the cow
iot' thinking perhaps he could find
the lost cud. Of course we know bet-
ter now. A COW gathers grass and all
her food except grain, chops, and
such, in small wads. rolls them around
time or two in her mouth tbep
swallows. This grass or hay lies in
her first stomach in small lumps mr.
Daiis- AT convenient and nroner
time. she brings this food up. bv
sort of patent right process known
only to herself, and chews it over
again, and keeps this thing up until
All The supply on hand is consumed IF
a COW doesn't do this it is an indica.
ton that her stomach is out of order
Simple treatment will bring ber
around. Cut out dry feed and corn
Give half pound of EPSON salts and
4 coapie tablcsponnsfu of soda in
water, nd she will find her cud all.
right,
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
TAZEWELL, VA, JUNE %. 1911.
THE WIFE DESERTER

The Roanoke Times suggests that
representatives for the next legisla-
ture should be explicitly instructed to
pass a law which will reach, and
properly punish wife deseters-sorry
men who desert their wives and chill
dren, leaving them helpless and in
flcting upon the mothers burdens
which result frequently in her death.
This tribe of sorry men are increasing
There has been more than one in
stance of such in this community of
recent occurrence. 1t may be true that
the woman is sometimes to blame
, but very seldom is this the case.
Whatever the circumstances, no man
has the right to abandon his family,
and the law makers should 90 after
him. We are under the impression
that there is a law already ON the
books, giving the wife right to have
recreant husband arrested, and com
PEELED to support her. But this law
is entirely inadequate. The wife ag-
grieved must make complaint and
take the initiative. and this most of
them are loathe to do for reasons.
And then, the wife deserter steps
over the line into another jurisdiction
and is safe. The wife will not persue
him. There should be law providing
that such a scamp should be hauled
up wherever and whenever found and
hit thirtynine, and then hired out on
the road or sent to the penitentiary
and the State, rs The Times suggests
pay the wife and children his wages.
and add. that his wife is legally di.
vorced at once by such conviction. and
permitted to marry again, but the
man to be deprived for all time of ev.
er getting married again to inilict
IKE treatment upon some other limo
cent woman. A man may be excused,
in very rare cases for smacking his
wife, for some wives may need it, but
for DESERVING her and his HELPLESS
children and refusing to suppor
them. there can be no excuse given.
If the States permit such conduct,
then the State should support the
woman and her children until they
can take care of themselves. This is
an important matter, and the people
should take the initiative and in
struct their representatives.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23

asked, we take it, as to their attitude
on questions pertaining to the traffic
in Virginia. Last election nothing
was said on tine question. The candi-
dates for the Legislature were not
asked as to how they stood. The rea-
son is given for this omission, that
the League knew beforehand how the
senate stood, and that the desired
Legislation could not possibly be Sc
cured. The boys will he asked to
come out in the open this time.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23
A Leading California Druggist
Pnsadnrn Gal AInr q

Pasadena. CAL. Mar. 9, 1911.
Foley and Co, GentIemen-We nave
sold and recommended Foley's II Oney
and Tar Compound for years. We be-
licvc it To be one of tho most efficient
eXpectorates on the market. Contain
no oplates or narcotics it can be given
freely TO childrcd. Enough of the rem
edy can be taken to relieve cold, as
1t has no nauscaiing results, and does
not interfere with digestion. Yours
very truly, G. H Ward Drng Co., c..
l.. Parsons, Sec. and Treas" Get the
original Foley Honey and Tar Com
pound in the yellow package, j. E.
Jackson.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-06-23

VIRGINIA: In the Clerks Offic.
of the Circuiat Court of the County Of
Tazewell on the list day of June.
1911.
Edward Gillespie, Complainant
against
Mary Gillespie, Defendant
The object of this suit is to Obtain
Tor the complainant an absolute di-
vorce from the defendant.
And an affidavit having been made
and filed that the defendant Mary Gil
lespie not resident of the State of
Virginia, it is ordered that she do
appear here within Is days after due
publication hereof, and do what NAV
be necessary to protect her interest in
this suit. And it is further ordered
that copy hereof be published once
week. for four successive weeks in
the Clinch Valley News, a newspaper
published in the county of TazewelI
and that a copy be posted at the front
door of the Courthouse of this conn.
-y as prescribed by law.
A copy-Teste:
S. M. GRAHAM, Clerk. |
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