The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-10
NEWS OF EASTERN SHORE

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Onancock. Va. March s.-Governor
Mann has appointed DIR. Asa Driscoll.
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at Accomac. one of yir-
ginia's commission to the Southern
Sociological Congress, which will con-
vene at Atlanta. Ca, April %
The Bi-County Woman's Christian
Temperance Union Convention will be
held at Onley, March IL and IL. Mrs
Amy C. Weech, OF Alexandria: Mrs
Lillian Shepherd. of Norfolk; Mrs
Helen Green, OF Farmville, and Mrs.
Valentine, OF Richmond, Will be pres
ent and make addresses.
The past week. was a very busy one
for the farmers. More Irish potato
seeds were planted than in any one
week In the history of the county.
seeds in the ground in January. They
rotted so badly. that the fields had to
be plowed again and replanted That
means loss of several thousand bar
,rels of potatoes and thousands of dol
lars in money, paid out for fertilizer
ty The weather has been so warm
and SO dry that the conditions cannot
be accounted for.
Leonard Belote. of Tasley. and +. D..
Belote. OF Onancock, two OF Accomac's
most prosperous farmers, are home
from Florida, where they planted po-
tatoes for carly market. They report
that vegetation is farther advanced
than they have ever seen 1t In Florida
at this season of the year. In some
sections Irish potatoes are being
marketed
The chincoteague High School will
meet grndo, the e. M MnIfn1 F. MaurS High
! Chincoteague, Friday evening. March
\ O. to
Resolved, That only United States
ships shall be allowed free passage
through the Panama Canal" Chinco-
league has the negative side.
Captain Dennard Merritt, with a
colored man. left Chincoteague last
Sunday on the schooner Laura Thomp-
son, for North Carolina. OF Dog
Island the schooner ran into a storm
and sank. Captain Merritt and the
negro tied themselves to the topmost
part OF the masts, which Were out
of water. Early Monday morning the
ISLAND life-saving crew which went
to the rescue. Captain Merritt was
taken from the wreck in an unconscious
condition, and is now i'll with pneu-
monia. The colored man was washed
overheard. Two weeks ago the captain
was shipwrecked at Lewcs, Del This
was his first trip on the schooner
Thompson.
Captain John 1. Mapp went 10 Nor
folk Thursday to meet his son. Ivan,
who was. recently seriously injured
while playing ball at Randolph Macon
Academy. Bedford City, where he was
pupil. The young man will not be
able to resume his studies this ses-
sion.
In the past five months four or the
oldest citizens OF Onancock have died.
Captain Lambden, the only Mexican
War veteran on the Shore. died in Sep
TENDER. aged eighty-siX years: Captain
r. P. NAPLES, real son OF the ReVo-
luton, and a Confederate soldier, pass
ed away in December, aged eighty
seven years and eleven months: Mrs.
Catherine, Byrd. whose husband was
killed in cold blood by a Federal sol
der, also died in December, aged
eightyfour. Then last Saturday the
poor mans friend, DR.. Edward r.
Leatherbury, passed away aged eighty
eight years. Besides these there have
been several deaths of people whose
ages were far in the seventies.
Mrs. Susan Wescott, widow of Heze-
kiah Wescott, died at her home near
Belle Haven, Friday, aged seventy
eight years. She was buried at the
old homestead at Franktown. Suryiv-
ing her are six children-R. FL, Moses
and J. l. Wescott; Mrs. Hugh ID.
oinith HHu naisSeo Ai'ce anu MARY w es-
colt.
w. j. Doughty, OF onancoclk, sent
fifty eggs to his daughter, who lives
at Indian, Va, by parcel post The
eggs were set and forty mine OF them
Matched.
An athletic association was formed
among the different high schools in
Accomac at Parksley Saturday. The
committee OF arrangements Is: James
T. rtr Of Foe
High School; Joe Slicer, principal OF
Parkslcy High School, and Clinton o.
Bay. principal OF the Onancocs High
School. The first games of ball VIII ne
played at Aceomac and Onancock,
March %. The teams are playing for
a trophy.
Peter Bowdoin, a gallant Confed
crate soldier, Is dangerous Ill here at
the home of his sister. Mrs. Edward
B. Finney.
MANY FEAR INFECTION.