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Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05
HAPPENINGS OF The WEEK
GOSSIP OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD
BOILED DOWN

Frank D. Henley. Of the State
Highway Commissioners office.
Richmond. was here Monday in con-
necton with the opening Of work on
the Lightfoot to Centerville road for
which state aid has been given. Work
will begin az al early date.
James City truckers are busy die
ging Irish potatoes which are nov
selling at 5 4. so per barrel at the
station. The yield IS the best in years
and IS said to DC seventy barrels 70
the acre.
A large congregation was prcsenl
Sunday morning az the Methods
church to hear the baccalsurest.
sermon before the students of III.
Williamsburg Female Institute which
was preached by Rev. Z. L. Nc
Nair Of Blackstone. Mr.. McNair',
address before the Y. w. c. A. a
night was also given close attentio.
by large congregation.
After spending Saturday night anC
Sunday here with bis mother. Mrs
John L. Mercer, Hugh w. Merce
left Sunday night foE Dallas. Texas
where he goes as tEaw,ling srsigh
agsnsfor the Southern Railway Com
pany.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05
Remember THE NEXT.
FARMERS AUCTION

Dent forget that the next Farm
ers' Auction will be held on Satur
day, June IA. beginning at IL o'clock
on the sale grounds in the rear of the
old Williamsburg Hotel. If you have
not made out that list of articles you
expect to enter. sit right down a, d
do it now. Mail to The Gazette to
reach US by June z at the latest.
Let the committee advertise your
things along with the others. but il
you are slow in sending your list in
i will DC your fault if they are omit
ed.
Mr. Mouquin. who is deeply in
terested in the market. writes The
Gazette as follows: by the adver-
sisem in your paper am receiving
many letters inquIring for what
have to sell and my prices; also
where I am situated SO they can look
at my stock. Mr.. Editor. please pub
liSh in yoIr next issue tha, my farm
is On the road leading from Williams
burg to Maeruder and Biglers. two
aRd one-h3lf miles from Williams
bniE. where my stock can be seen.
But prefer to sell anything have
at the Farmers Auction sale on the
second Saturday of each month. "
As MIR. Mouquin has only failed
TO enter one auction. he must be
more than pleased with results. anc
as everybody knows. he has had the
the largest consignments, Next
week he will surpass al past record:
in the amount he will offer. How
many more of our readers will be OF
hand with stock. implements. house
hold goods. etc. on Saturday, JUNE
l41 II each will have something
tbs list will be the largest yet,
| The auction committee held
meeting Monday night and discussed
the various phases OF the sales. Ow
ing to a deficit of several dollars
the committee decided to increas
the commission from three to fou
per cent. beginning with the regula
sale in July. This will not affect tn
sale on June 4.
The committee is very anxious I
have the merchants offer special sal
es for Saturday and it is probabl
that several will do so. If the mel
, chants will enter into the sales b
giving the visitors some real bargain
It is believed the sttedance will b
increased.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05
TAKE OFF THE PARASITES
Editor The Gazette:

Editor The Gazette:
Mr.. L. P. Padgett. of Tennessee
chairman of the committe on naval
affairs of the house of representa-
hvss in the last congress. was asked
to present the other side on the case
in opposition TO Admiral Dewey 8
plans for a large navy. Mr.. Padget
made a good strong plea in behalf
OF his views. and closed by quoting
Mr.. Wilson, Sec. Agr.. thus:
A 20 acre farm of irrigated land
comfortably supports a family oi
five. Il costs $SS.0OO to make a IL
inch gun. The money that goes tu
pay for this gun would reclaim / ST
acres of land. providing homes 70
l93 people. Whea ali the guns OF
all the battle ships are shot at on
time the government hlows int
noise and smoke SlS0.UOO. Thu
would reclaim more 1000 acres o
land. giving homes 70 more tn
$40 farmers and their families. Tn
money consumed in powder is 10.
to all future. The farmer who buy
the reclaimed land must pay hac
the government in ten years. So
does cost the government any thin
to build 40 the country by helpin
the farmer. We should make moi
homes.
Now. this IS all very well so {;
as il goes. both Mr.. Padgett an
Mr.. Wilson are strsining at gnais an
swallowing camels and the opiniC
of Admiral Dewey is worth &
more than the opinion of both the.
geatlemen. so far as the navy e Co
eernsd. Whether NC shall evl
need q powerful navy or not. dr
: cnly can prove. It IS my opiniS
that some day in the near future '
I shall need IL and il viii DC much bett
: 20 have one II We never need j
than for the time to come we shou
need il and not have e.
o What want to do is to can d
: attention Of Mr.. Padgett. AZ,
4 Wilson- all msmbeSs Of the eonzrs
!. l. sAs president and members
4 bis cabinet 10 this one facs: tkat d
. people Of this country are paying
lpsr csnt. oa 20 billion dollars
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05

draw = warrant upon the treasurer to
pay transportation of such Confeder-
ate soldiers as may wish to attend
the Gettysburg reunion next month.
Old soldiers Of this county should
make application 70 Mr.. Geddy a.
early a. possihls.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05

Mr.. l. Henley Jones. who has
been on 9 visit here to his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. w. L. Jones. has re-
turned to his place of business il
Albemarls county.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05
ISSUES WARNING To TRAVELLERS

New York. May 2S-Elepen shos-
sand people we're killed ard isjassd
on the property Of railways in she
United States during tie year endinR
June 80. 1912. OS these 5.434 ger
sons were killed and S. o67 injnrsd.
This large loss OF life snc accident
to the travelling public. through cars-
lsssness. has made il accessory Tor
railways to educate the public Of
the dangers due to lack Of cbserv-
srce of The rules of a railway.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way Company. in an educational
campaign conducted by Us Safety
COMMITTEES. has issued the EcIlowinx
list of warnings 70 the travelling pub
ic.
/. Do not Get on OF off moviag
passenger trains.
2. Do act pat your head o. arms
cut of the windows.
| 3. Do not place suit cases or ether
heavy packages ia racks: they are
liable 70 fall on passengers and N
iurs them.
4. Do not leave any ohssruc6on
in aisle. over which perssns are Ha-
bic to tall and DC injured.
5. Do nos ssaad On plasforms Of
moving passenger trains: shis d
dangerous and IS against the rules
Train men should see that Ehis rwlu
ia complied with.
o. Be careful n closing doors snS
windows; many hsnds AID finxsr,
: are mashed in this way.
The above suggestions. il carisc
; cut. viii greatly reduces disrsss 4
many persons and II sl sailway,
cc-operzte Ia an effcEt 70 sdscxfa
the pHbaie so the impoFsznce sf thss.
rules. the I0ss Of life and injury 81
soon DC redaced 70 q uiainzm,
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05
CHESAPEAKE & Ohio
Wins ITS POINT
WILL NOT HAVE TO BUILD OVER
HEAD BRIDGE

Overhead bridge az the crossing Just
east Of Williamsburg. the James City
board of supervisors. with the ap-
proval OF Mr.. d. A. Powers. repre-
senting the York board. having ac-
cepted the following. which was
presented by Mr. Isaacs. railway
engineer:
First: That the location of the
present grade corssing involved in
this matter. and situated East OF
Williamsburg. shall not be changed
as TO grade or alignment.
Second: That in the angle on the
South side OF the tracks and i'm
medistely opposite the grade cros-
sing the road shall be widened out
as much as practicable on the South
side so far as the right of way OF the
Railway Company will allow to leave
sufficient distance from the top Of
the bank to protect adjacent pro-
pcrty.
Third: That three small mounds
on the right of way of the Railway
Company shall be leveled down at
least two feet.
Fourth; That the lsborer's shanty
east of public road ana on the South
side of the tracks shall be moved
out of the way.
Fifth: That an electric crossing
bell shall be established at the eros
sing which viii ring when a train is
5000 feet in either direction from
the crossing.
All the aforesaid work Will be done
and maintained by and at the cost
of the Railway Company.
Whereupon. said proposition being
made, it was moved that the same
be accepted. and a recorded vote
being called for. the same was taken.
and J. B. Walden. Arthur Johnson,
and John A. Barnes voted aye, and
the vote of D. A. Powers representa-
tive of the York County Board being
called for. be also voted aye. and
the said proposition of said railway
company was accepted. subject tc
the ratification of the officials ol
said company. but the acceptance
Of said proposition shall not preven
the Counties of James City or YORK
from subsequently, proceeding foi
the construction of an overhead
bridge if it shall appear. after rea
sonable trial that the crossing sfore
said is not reasonably safe.
Itappears that the board Of super
visors. on advice of the Common
wealth's Attorney. gave up the ide
of compelling the erection of a
overhead bridge because il would in
volve the two counties financially
they being required to do a certai
part of the work. in his opinion.
The action of the board in nc
o forcing the fight for an overhea
bridge will come as a surprise to tn
8 viewers who made a report favorin
4 the bridge. However. it is coneede
that the plan of the railway compan
= is far better than the present state {
: affairs and should this prove inc
fectual. the matter of an overkea
9 bridge may DC taken up at any tins
that right having been reserved.
e The board also appointed the 70
4 lowing viewers to 60 upon the Ians
il of the estate Of T. P. Msrstc
IA Richard Fenton. s. K. Curtis an
,f Edward May to examine the rou
s. and report a just compensation 4
the land that it is necessary tor Il
county to acquire. il any eompens
As ton is asked: D. w. Spencer, Jol
s. w. Minor. Sr. ]. c. Wsrburton.
G c. Tnompton and L. 7. Hankins.
IN The board adopted q resolutil
Empowering the clerk, Mr. Geddy.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05

DC uSncICQ III Dy TIC bdS(aAGuSdlS
sermon next Sunday morning. to be
delivered by the Rev. J. Emerson
Hicks. pastor of the First Baptist
church, Danville. who as a pulpit
orator. mas won considerable reputa-
ton. The address will be delivered
in the chapel at ii a. M. June 8.
AT eleven o'clock Monday morn
ing. the Hon. Harry St. George
Tucker, one Of Virginia's noted
orators. will deliver an address in
the chapel primarily before the
faculty and students. but for the
benefit of the public. which is ex-
tended a cordial invitation.
Monday evening at 8 o'clock. the
annual celebration of the Pbiloma-
thean Literary Society will take place
in the chapel. and on this occasion.
the famous old society is expected
TO out do herself. Mr.. r. {. War
button, of James City. who is final
president. will open with a short
address of welcome. The debsters
will be Messrs. j. d. Huffines and
w. K. Somers. whose forensic ability
is celebrated in the precints of the
Philomathean. MeSsrs. II. A. Camp
bell and P. Lewis Witchley will be
the DemostheneS of the occasion.
or rather one OF them viii be. these
able young men being the orators.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon german
will open at 10 Monday night. and
is expected to be one OF the most
Charming events of the finals.
Tuesday morning. June 10 will
witness the celebration of the Senior
Class. always a most interesting hour
for those who attend the finals. AT
8 p. NJ. in the evening the Phoenix
Literary Society will hold forth in
its annual celebration which is full
Of promise this year. The president
is Mr.. ]. +. Barnes and the debaters
MessrsrJ~-Rr- -McAitisrer and c. II.
Schepmoes. The orationS will be
delivered by A. A. Browdoski and
w. M. Grimsley, a contest between
New York and Virginia. They arr
said to be eloquent speakers anc
will no doubt make their part mos
interesting.
Another delightful social function
will be the Kappa Alpha german il
the college gymnasium at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning at IL o'clock
DIR. S. B. Mccormick. of the Univer
sity of Pittsburgh. will deliver tn,
educational address. to which IT,
general public may well look forwarC
with pleasant anticipation. AT tn
close of his address. will come tn
presentation of portrait of the lat
Col. Walter Taylor. for many year
bursar OF the college. The presenta
ton address will be made by tn
Hon. Tazewcll Taylor of Norfolk
and then viii follow a reception i
the library.
Wednesday night at 8 O'Clock
the annual address before the AlLmT
Association will be made by Oscs
Lane Shewmake. Esq. of Surr
county. At the close of the addres
the Alumni Smoker will be held
the library.
Thursday June II. is Commence
ment Day proper. as it will witne,
the bestowal of degrees. medal
scholarships. ETC.. and the bacc;
laureate address by Or. Gliliard Hur
historian and author. of the Congre
sional Library. Washington. will
one of the features of the closii
exercises. AT night the Mandol
and Glse Club will entertain y
public in most pleasing way. IT
Final Ball Thursday night win be d
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1913-06-05
WILLIAM and MARY FINALS Begin
NEXT SUNDAY MORNING WITH sermon
ONE OF The MOST INTERESTING PROGRAMMES EVER
PRESENTED AT this FAMOUS COLLEGE

last social event of the college year
and one of the -.ost attractive.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23

THE other
/ d a y a
group of
women were
d i 5 c II 5 sing
age, that top
ic always in
teresting to
their sex, and
h o W y o u
could tell how
old Ann is.
IN OF by
b irt h days" +"
t h ey ex-
claimed with
o n e voice.
There's no
such foolish
way of telling
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
Fewer Medical Students Is a
Healthful Sign
Means Higher Standard in the Profession Elimination
of the Unfit

with feeling of health and hopefulness that
plate the fact that there 1000 fewer studying
the 1913 than engaged 1872 and that
less medical schools now than year ago.
Out of the of thousands who studying
colleges 12O0 might be small percentage but it shows
eny for the better While there of
physicians the number of Bernard Shaw
would claim that the fewer doctors the less Illness
that the fewer doctors there incompetent
doctors there will be-
oner by inspiration But there many young who
take medicine because they think honorable
slon guaranteed them handle their
dace them into select society They possess ambition
any human suffering localized within precinct
their epders If they help themselves by helping
other people they willing make midnight calls
reluctant strangers into the world otherwise they stay
their cozy Offices
The higher requirements of medical colleges the
medical student have had
es training before enrolling medical school, much to
limit the number of atricuates These requirements may keep
from the profession of medicine young who might
made physicians and but who
vantages of high school and college work doubtful
they will keep with the real gift of healing surgery
from the schools for such will make sacrifice undergo
hardship fit himself for the profession which feels
called by the genius in his being
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
Flying Train, Earth and River

The wide dull metallic blue. low hills on the
western shore black The higher hills rising above them
has vanished and pale blue Overhead sky bright
blue and In the middle the bright silver
The train rushes onward following the earths surface
That earth rolls through turning
miles hour going around the spiral Journey
than five hundred million miles
The in his rghtfu speed flies great
star Vega, taking with him his planets and their
tiny beings that cling to the planets
Rushing tran whrling earth flying through infinite
and for augh know that which call the
Milky Way double and triple and nebuae all travelling
mysterious Journey
AS you look the blue sky changes hills and
mountains grow black the last faint nge of the yellow
fades from the horizons edge The becomes black like the
sky the trees flying shadows the earth loses color old
loses color and life, and night settles down.
What wonderful is the change from day night
The big light of the and million little lights
visible because the great light has gone.
There thousand changes color and beautysma
look like spider webs old houses lonely the of
dead inhabitants.
long might intelligence contemplate the wonders
revealed in one single hourl
While all the of the earth change to black
of the train sits prosperous woman
haired and another prosperous middle
age. Each sits table, with cards spread upon
One three cards time, looks the third
them down. three looks the puts them
down. and for hours.
The other card, black red
searches for black eight which place seven
and for hours.
Through all changes day night from blue sky
blue water and moonlight daknessthe and the
play Solitaire"
Do you wonder that thinking mind should neglect
at the wonders of the world that it will
need wonder.
Let the beside in the electric light
the crossing a dead the
And realize that human beings, like die the
lhe body lives on but the life of the mind has stopped
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
Waterways Congress Will Be
Important to State
commonwealth Club Has Called Convention of Men Inter
ested in Vital Problems of Rivers and Lands

important that California waterways be developed
primarily navigation for irrgaton should transportation be
consideration guarding and conserving California
should production dependent irrigation make the
superior demand?
Discussion that point promises to be the chief theme for
waterways congress- be held this under the
auspices Commonwealth club of California beginning Janu
ary and continuing for three days.
In his preliminary the calling of the convention Viii
R. Wheeler chairman of the Commonwealth clubs
waterways says In California where water
king plans for developing navigation should be given
fully recognize the necessity OF
domestic and also its value for irrigation
Navgae and canals little unless bounteous crops
available for shipment
report may be gathered that the chief object
convention should accomplish will be to bring the river
the gatont together The farmers in the great
valleys of the realize that the Sacramento and San Joaquin
them the properly developed the cheap
of transporting their produce to market There
close community of interest between shipper and boatman
The waterways at which these and other topics vital
development and prosperity of California will be discussed
will comprise delegates from county boards of supervisors mayors
of irrigation districts irrigation experts and United
States army and engineering officials
The congress will be of great importance to San Francisco
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
As for Clothes, Women
of is and so Wear the
Same Now

"And as for clothes" walled
the woman in the red hat,
there's no difference between
the things that 16 and 90 wear,
unless it is that 16 is a little
more dignified and conservative
in its taste. Why, the only thing
that makes me suspect that I'm
getting old myself is that l find
myself passing up good substan-
tial dark colors in favor of baby
blues and pinks, and that I sort
OF lean toward hats with Queen
of May effects, and when a
woman of my age begins to
yearn for millinery with wreaths
of flowers it's a sure sign of the
approach of senile dementia."
WELL" said the woman in
taupe, my test for approach
ing age in a woman Is to notice
whether in her conversation she
SHES away from dates as nerv-
Gus horse does from an automo-
bile When a woman avoids To-
eating anything in any particular
year its because she doesn't
want you to get line on her.
""Another test that never fails
is when she always says we
girls did so and so, and when
she always prefaces every remi-
niscence by remarking, I was
very young at the time If you
will notice you will observe that
all the little youngsters in col
lege call each other women
while ladies who are 40, or half
passed, always speak of them
selves and each other as girls"
"Right-oh," exclaimed the
woman in the black hat, "all of
those signs of age are signs that
never fail in dry weather. But
what we think of a woman's age
doesn't matter.
ITS what she thinks that
counts, and the most amusing
and pathetic thing on earth is
the sight of a woman who has
had it dawn suddenly upon her
consciousness that she is grow
Ing old and who is getting busy
trying to stop the clock.
You know how it is. She's
gone along, like the balance of us,
thinking that she's drunk at the
fountain Of perpetual youth, and
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
We Are Mentally Young
While We Can Grasp
New ThouqhtS

Were young physically just
as long as every muscle is hexi-
BILE and pliable and quick to
make any change and movement,
and we are young mentally
really young-just as long as
our minds are alert to new ideas,
new thoughts and capable of
taking new points of view.
The first sign of physical age
is when we begin to stiffen up
at the joints and to prefer to sit
and watch others play to play
ing ourselves, and we have be-
gun TO grow old mentally when
we begin to think that all mod
ern progress is foolishness and
that the old ways are the best
ways, and when we want to hear
the old music and read the old
books and harp upon the past.
Il don't mind admitting, in
confidence, that the first reali-
zation had that / was growing
old came few months ago
when l found myself shocked at
all the new dances, and compar-
ing them in my mind with all
the dances that prevailed when
was a girl. I'd been saying
that the tango and the turkey
trot, and so on, were indecent,
and all of a sudden / recalled
that that was exactly what my
mother had said about waltzing.
She had compared the waltz un-
favorably with the lancers and
the quadrille of her youth, and
her mother had considered the
lanciers and quadrilles vulgar,
romping dances as contrasted
with the minuet of her days.
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
EUening Calls

President Wilson will pass Christmas at Pass Christian
Well then if didn't early only
of the kids -
united
lands for the graspng corporations.
Vice President Marshall $500 talk Why his
office is becoming almost conspicuous.
Petaluma poutryman has just failed We're skpt
a plot to make us think high enough.
San Quentin prison we enough
criminal history in fiction without getting in factf
Milwaukee been
jail for year But more wonderful STILL the wealthy
The hundred the
Aayower has just been celebrated Boston and Grand
The weather bureau Umbrellas
Christmas gifts and be the
- 80
The San Francisco call and post., 1913-12-23
Young People Now Find
Nothing Shocking in the
Modern Dances

"And I observe that the young
people now find nothing at all
shocking or suggestive in the
dances of today, so it's just a
case of other times, other man
ners-
And another tip got that
was growing old was that
couldn't reconcile myself to the
new clothes I was Mortified at
the tightness and the thinness
and the splitness, and I wanted
a good old fashioned, roomy
skirt with plaits in it and with
petticoats under it, and a waist
that came up high in the neck
and long in the sleeves"
"And what did you dor"
asked the woman in the blue hat.
Il went and bought me the
EXTREMIST clothes I could get"
smiled the woman in the black
hat.
"Well," said the woman in
taupe, II can tell exactly how
old a woman is. / ask her where
she stands on suffrage, and if
she doesn't believe in it I know
she's As if she's a day. You
could find a hens tooth quicker
than you could find young
woman who doesn't believe in
equal rights for men and
womenxn