davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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mt and Rappahan

the Potomac, Patuxent and Rappahan-
mock region.
Prince William is a corn and wheat
county. Annually it plants about 49,
600 acres in corn and raises about 35e,-
600 bushels. 1t puts down in wheat
about 5000 acres and -harvests about
10000 bushels; 1t plants about 1000
acres in oats and cuts about $4,000
bushels. and seeds L500 acres to rye
and harvests $4,000 bushels. 1t is also
good county for hay and forage,
Keeping about 5000 acres in these
crops and cutting about 5000 tons.
Prince William is an excellent potato
county and in the last year for which
farm statistics are available the farm
ers raised $4,000 bushels of Irish po-
tatoes and $500 bushels of sweet po-
tatoes: This is fair. showing among
the Virginia Potomac counties King
George county having raised $4,000
bushels of Irish potatoes and $4,000
bushels of sweet; Northumberland
raised $4,000 bushels of Irish potatoes
and $4,000 bushels of sweet potatoes,
and westmoreland $4,000 bushels OF
Irish potatoes and $4,000 bushels of
sweet potatoes.
These are small figures compared
with Virginia's potato counties. for in
the same year Accomac county pro-
duced 100000 bushels of white pota--
toes and 100000 bushels of sweet
potatoes and yams. about one-seventh
OF the whole Irish potato crop of the
counties. and very nearly one half Of
the states whole sweet potato output.
Prince William. though 1t borders on
the Potomac. Is not tobacco-growing
being raised there a year. This is a
painfully small showing when COM
pared with the tobacco counties of the
state. Pittsylvania county producing
100000 900 pounds. Halifax county 49,
100000 pounds. Mecklenburg 5000, 900
pounds. Charlotte 6,50O,00 pounds and
Amherst, Campbell. Franklin, Lunen-
berg and Prince Edward more than
Prince William county is a very good
orchard county. having over 1000
orchard trees and producing more than
41,00o bushels of apples and a heavy
yield of pears. gplums. cherries and
peaches The county, produced over
10000 pounds Of grapes in the last CEN
sus year, rather a heavier yield than
most of the Virginia counties. The
grape county of Virginia is Nansemond
with product of 235.000 pounds. and
Fairfax follows with about 100000
pounds.
Washington draws fair proportion
of its dairy products and its poultry
and eggs from Prince William county.
The cows produce ABOUT i,oVO.OUO gar
Ions Of milk a year and nearly 100000
pounds of butter, and from the hundred
and odd thousand head of poultry are
obtained considerably over 100000
dozens of eggs The annual value put
by the last census on the dairy prod
ucts Of the county. excluding the home
use of milk and cream. was $4,000,
and the value of the poultry was $1O2,-
900. Prince William is somewhat of
honey county. having produced. accord
ing to the census of 1910. over 1900
pounds of honey. considerably above
the average for Virginia county. but
good deal under, the production of :
honey in Fairfax county, which was
81 900 pounds, while Loudoun produced
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merous. Little use is made of most of them ant
none none a. are nov q commercial ,si importanre One
was resort Of some note fifty years ago.
A few deep wells have been sunk in
Prince William county near the
Potomac, and one of these was
put down at Myron, or Cherry Hill, on
the Potomac, by w. c. Miller, for the
Washington Fertilizer Company. It's
depth is 257 feet. The drill after pass
ing through the top soil passed in sue
cession through layers of sand and
gravel. sandy clay, yellow sand and
sand and some water. blue and brown
clay, blue sandy clay.-fine sand with
water. blue clay mixed with a little
sand and at a depth of 252 feet coarse
sand with gravel and plenty Of water.
At 257 feet the drill went into blue
clay and sand with rock.
In a 210-foot well at Quantico the
drill passed successively through white
clay, fine gravel, red clay, fine red sand,
very hard blue clay. fine sand. dark
clay, coarse dark sand. light colored
clay, and stopped in very coarse sand
and water North of Quantico. at a
projected town called or to be called
Barrow, a well was drilled lab feet and
sandstone. The well from which water
is pumped for the supply of the town of
Manassas is SIS feet deep.
Virginia has great wealth of min
eral water flowing from springs, and
some of these are found in Prince Will
liam county, Sudley Springs on Bull
run. about seven miles north of Ma
nassas. having enjoyed a fair measure
of popularity as spa and resort be-
fore the civil war.
Prince William county is not one of
the important stone counties of Vir-
ginia, but an excellent and handsome
brown-red Triassic sandstone is quar-
ried in the county not far from Ma
nassas, the same character of sand
stone which is quarried in Fauquier
county, which adjoins Prince William.
in the vicinity of the villages of Lees
burg and Oatlands. Government geol-
ogists have written that the Manassas
quarrieS have yielded a stone that
fects in variety of combinations and
in quality not inferior to that in the
more northern and eastern states.
In the. matter of the building sand
worth recalling at this point that the
Jura -Cretaceous and Triassic sand
stones are practically the only sand
stones that have been quarried and
shipped out of Virginia. The Virginia
geological survey says that. of these.
the ura-Cretaceous sandstone, which
occurs along the western margin of
the coastal plain. was formerly ex-
tensfvely quarried in the vicinity of
Aqua creek and on the Rappahannock
river near Fredericksburg. The stone
from the Aqua quariies was chiefly
used in the construction of many of
the older public buildings of Wash
ington. The sandstone of the old
part of the Capitol. the central part
under the dome and the two old wings.
came from the Aquia quarries. These
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$4,000 palnds. Montgomery county, Md.
$4,000; Prince Georges, II 900, and
Frederick, 10000 pounds

1900 peands. Montgomery county. Md.
$4,000; Prince Georges, 1900, and
Frederick, 10000 pounds.
The approximate land area of Prince
William county is 100000 acres, and the
land in farms aggregates 110,231. of
which 100.1sO acres are improved, 65,128
acres in woodland in farms and 1929
acres more are unmproved. The per
cent of the land area of the county in
farms is III. the PERCENTAGE Of farm
land improved is 5S.S. the average acres
per farm are 1871 and the average i'm
proved acres. per farm, 1913.
In bulletin by the Virginia geologi-
cal survey on the underground water
ginia, which was written by Samuel
Sanford and prepared in cooperation
with the United States geological sur
vey. Prince William county is de-
scr ssaibed ID, as lying on the west side Of
bend" and it is said that only a small
part OF its area, strip along the river
containing about eighty square miles,
Is within the coastal plain province.
Lying on the slope from the Piedmont
plain to the Potomac river with differ
epces of altitude of over 300 feet, the
coastal plain area has been deeply
eroaea ana the topography Is rough and
broken. Except for a few strips on the
lower terraces near the river there is
little level ground. Patches of the ter
race which biologists call the Lafay-
cite terrace back of Quantico are 900
feet above sea level. but intermediate
terraces are traceable with difficulty
the drainage of the coastal plan sec
Ilon is in creeks tributary to the
Potomac river, of which Occoquan,
which forms the northern boundary of
the county. is the most important.
VI the geology of Prince William
county, the Virginia geological survey
has written what follows:
Overlying the crystalline bed rock which is e1-
posed along the upper courses of the creeks are
the gray arkosie sands and sandstones and lrah
and Drown clays Of the Patuxent formation of
for small scattered patches the Pamunky
,Eocenel greensands and clays have been removed
by erosion and the Chesapeake (Miocene) beds
have been entirely removed. The cobble beds
sands and brown-c0lored loans Of the Column
bfa formations, and the LAFAYETTE hide tho
Potomac beds in many places.
or the underground waters it is said:
The Patuxent formation, as shown by deem
wells near the river contains water-bearing
sands that vary in thickness, lateral extent
and yield 20 wells. At most places one or more
sands yield good water freely. Ground waters
reached by dug bored or driven wells lie in
Columbia, Lafayette Potomac sands at vary
ing depths according to the location of the wells
As rule the water is soft. Springs are nu-
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the largest and most extensively de-
veloped ones in the United States, and
the product from them constitutes
nearly SO per cent of the total output
of pyrite in the United States. The
pyrite mines of Louisa county were
worked at different times for iron. cop
per and pyrite. They were first opened
and worked in 1884. Their develop
ment began as iron mines. and the
''gossan" covering the pyrite to a
depth of forty to sixty feet was mined
for iron-making in the local furnaces.
The Prince William county pyrite mine,
which is near Dumfries, was opened in
1889, and is connected by a branch rail-
road track which runs along the hills
above Occoquan creek, with the WASH
ington- Richmond line, at a point a lit
tie north of Quantico The mine bears
the name of the Cabin Branch mine,
and in connection with tie pyrite
enough chalcopyrite is present to war
rant the operation of a small smelter
mines have T. an opened near Garri-
sonville in Sta ford county few miles
from Dumfries. and also near Spot
sylvania. Spotsylvania county.
Prince Willjssn is one of the battle
counties of the United States and ev-
cry acre of its land was marched over
or fought on during the civil war. The
first battle of Bull Run and the second
Bull Run campaign were fought there.
The Manassas national jubilee of peace
was promoted in the main by citizens
of Prince W.lliaN county, and the
memorable event was celebrated In
grounds at Manassas is a tablet fianked
by cannon which carries this inscrip-
ton:
In conlmemoratioo of the Manassas jubilee Of
peace.
The first instance in history where survivors
of a great battle met fifty years after and ex-
changed friendly greetings at the place of actual
combat.
Here on July 81 1911 the closing scene was
enacted-a tableau of the reUnited States.
The President. the Governor of Virginia and
forty eight maidens in white took part with one
thousand veterans of the Blue and the Gray and
ten thousand citizens of the new America.
In the village cemetery of Manassas
is a Confederate plot and in the center
scribed: Dedicated by the Ladies'
Memorial Association of Manassas Au-
gust 80, 1889, to the heroes of Vir-
ginia and her sister states, who yield
ed their lives July IS and 21. 1861. and
August 2S, 20 and 80, 1852, in defense
of the Confederate cause
Manassas is the seat of Eastern Col
lege, co-educational and non -denomi-
national institution which was found
ed in 1900 at Front Royal, Va. and in
a group of stately buildings.
The Manassas Agricultural High
School is one Of the features Of the
county seat. The Virginia legislature,
in 1908, passed an act appropriating
$40, 900 for the establishment of an agri-
cultural high school In each of the ten
congressional districts OF the state,
and that at Manassas in the eighth
district was the first es-
in. the state. -, --
X x
The Manassas Industrial Farm School
for colored youths. founded and long
conducted by Jennie Deane, and char =
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German Labor.

THE German Chamber of Commerce
b u in Berlin has received petitions
from the German Association of Com
mercial Employees, urging it to do
everything in its power to guarantee
those men who are at the front fight
ing for their country reinstatement
after the war The petition asks that
the chambepof commerce prevail on all
the employers of labor in Germany to
make it understood to the women con-
cerned that the positions they are
called on to fill in this time of need
shall be again open at the end of the
war to those men who have had to
leave them for the service of their
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Washingtons Neighbors--Prince William CO

REATED 1880 Out the Counties of King George
- Was Named After Cumberland George
Hto Embraced Almost Million and
Been Divided WateaysEvey
During Civil WaFas About
The Mineral
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active promoter of the plan to convert
the bloody grounds of the battles OF
Bull Run into national battlefield
park. said: when I settled in Prince
William / opened the first law office
GS68) in Manassas and began agitat-
ing for the removal of the courthouse.
Three votes were taken on it, enc in
the seventies and one in the eighties,
in both of which Brentsville won BY
about fifty votes. In 1892 third vote
was secured and Manassas won by 500.
The first court was held in Manassas
January 1. 1894. The courthouse was
Grant and Lee avenues. / gave the
avenues to the corporation and the
courthouse grounds, two acres, to the
county
The land area of Prince William
county is computed as 345 square
miles. which makes il one of the aver
age counties as to size in Virginia. 1t
IL small county when compared with
the counties of Pittsylvania or Au-
gusta. each of which has an area of
more than one thousand square miles,
or with the other large Virginia coun-
ties of Rockbridge. Halifax. Rocking
ham. Shenandoah and Fauquier, but it
is giant county when compared with
Alexandria, Elizabeth City, Warwick
and Mathews.
The population of Prince William coun-
~. under the census of 1910. was 12.02s
In 1900 the populatio under the federal
count was Hip; 1890, 9,S05; 1880.
$50; 1870. 1904. The population in
crease for. the decennial period of 1900
1910 was trifie over per cent, and
for the period of 1SS0-1900 it was
slightly in excess of 13 per cent. These
figures show normal and healthy
population increase measured by the
standard which has long prevailed in
the agricultural counties of Virginia
and for the agricultural counties, un-
affected or but slightly affected by the
suburban overflow from Washington,
on both sides of the Potomac river
throughout the extent of the Potomac
valley. The rates of population in
crease in the Virginia counties Of
Alexandria and Fairfax and the Mary
land counties of Montgomery and
Prince Georges have been materially
Influenced by the substantial growth
of Washington and the remarkable
development of the suburban home idea
due to the back-to-tbe-land inclination
of people and the improved means of
transit between city and town brought
about by electric traction, automobiles
and better roads.
The population per square mile in
Prince William is set down as thirty
five. This is about the average popu-
lation density in the Virginia agricul-
tural counties in the older section of
the state. 1t is dense population COM
pared with the sparsely peopled Vir-
ginia counties of Bath. with popula-
tion of twelve Inhabitants to the square
mile: Bland. with a population of four
teen to the mileA and Craig, with a
density of population only fraction
of per cent higher. Prince William
also has several more Inhabitants to
the square mile than the Virginia
counties of Amelia, New Kent, Appo-
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The town Of Occoquan has had fair
ly constant population of about 300 for
several decades, and at the last census
was credited with population of ESQ.
It is picturesque old village on the
south side of Occoquan creek, a mile
above, where the railroad between
Washington, Fredericksburg and Rich
mond crosses, about a mile and half
above where the creek enters Belmont
bay, and about five miles northwest of
where Belmont bay merges with the
Potomac river between the southerly
point of Gunston Neck and Freestone
point. The village of Occoquan lies
or the opposite side of the creek from
the extensive reformatory farm of the
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ing the attention of business men in
Washington and the people of Fred
ericksburg, that a good through road
may accommodate automobile travel
between the National Capital and the
chief city of the Rappahannock val
ley.
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The Manassas Industrial Farm School
for colored youths. founded and long
conducted by Jennie Deane, and char
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
4, ~ ~ : :. W. >.t 80
What Can Do ror Myself 70 lncres|
s.', ~ -I.Sts4
Ny Efficiency.

Mot long since ayoung man who is c|
ployed on dairy farm wrote US letter a
asked the. above question. We liked \
spirit which. prompted the inquiry We
much and said to ourselves at the tim
Here is young man who is bound TO
Continued on inside page.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-12-24
Ger A SLEIGH FREE BOYS.

The enterprising clothing firm of G. r
Morrison & Bro Of this village, has II
situated q sale u. boys suits and overcaa,
and each boy suit or overcoat ..sold d,,;,,
the holidays the boys will receive a slr;,
FREE. Come hoys hurry ard pc, W.,
sleigh, the Morrison Bros. ,.ehaye i, for w
For SALE Peoples Theatre Hurley. w;
Will sell all or take some one in as a D,
tner, and ict them manage it, $500 ca
neeeed, rest easy payments A good bargaI
for some one Act quick. Owner m,
start travelling on the road as salesman i.
LIST, Address PEopLs 'rHEATRr
HURRY, WIS.
Antoine Dennis was down from SuperioI
Wis, the first Of the week visiting relative
Mrs. Schroeder was in, Ashland last Mol
day. I. .;ss \, < "a ~ 3sJ Il
Mrs. Zee was in; the Gsrlandi City la
Monday. :ss .t s. ~. S.s,i ,'.,..4
Dan Morrison Mike sAuae and job
Moran ,dot ii il i thss Isrowa- kiccde 6ghsj 4
Superior. is laa Friday evening. \;
WIN. Ohernretnrned Monday nom Mir
nesota wheas spent several DAYS on business
Aenry LaPosnte and wife retafneJ .las
Saturday from several day.. pleasure sHl
in the Twin Cities, Mianeapok, and Ss|
Paul. ~. 81 f s'sss s,s,s \,
VIM: Cassidy, Of St. Paul, Mimi,
home spending the Holidays with hi
mother, Mrs. S. D. Denomie.
santa s'Yum. yum" say. the kid.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11
THE SIX UNIVERSITY GIRLS

The next number of the Civic
Association Entertainment Course
will be the Six University Girls at
the High School Auditorium on
Friday evening, February 10th.
This number is one of the best,
if not the best of the entire enter
tainment course and is one that
will please everyone no matter
what their musical tastes are.
The University Girls are q sing
ing full orchestra and their program
contains a wide range of orchestra
numbers, readings, quartets, solos
and Campus Life depicted in song
and story.
Admission including reserved
seat, Soc; children, 15c.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11
REFUSE CANADIAN MONEY

The postoffice will not accept
your Canadian money hereafter,
having been given notice by the
bank that a ten per cent discount
will be demanded for all Canadian
coins. The uncertainties of the
outcome of the European war
which might seriously affect Can
ada is the reason, of course, for
this procedure. So hereafter look
out for Canadian pieces.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11
ROLL OF HONOR.

The following pupils of the
third grade were neither absent
nor tardy during the month of
January:
Charles Wilson, Philip Davis,
Robert Miller, VIM. Chapman,
Robert Hufford, Mervil Lowns-
bury, Lyle Roberts, Alvin
Sprague, Frank Slinker, Ralph
Smith, Beatrice Berning, Eunice
Crissey, Eta Finch, Mildred Hen
nan, Mary j. Leatherer, Mabelle
Smith, Herta Spirat.
MISS EMMA MADDY,
Teacher.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11
ANY of the friends of the We

ANY of the friends of the Vet
eran Women of America who wish
to aid them in securing money
for building their new home may do
so by saving all Berdan Tea and
Coffee signatures. The same may
be sent to Mrs. X. Nellis or call
White 10S and they Will be collec-
ted. Your assistance will be very
greatly appreciated. 51b
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11

To the question Of what is most
needed in Toledo, Perrysburg
correspondent replied in the
News-Bee that ways and means
of giving work to the unemployed
is mostly needed in Toledo.
For that matter that is true OF
any other town.
What is most needed in Perrys-
burg7
"This town is as dead as a door
nail," remarked a travelling man
the other day.
"Why, there is ten times more
life across the river. You have
eliminated the poor mans club,
but have not given any substitute.
Your young people must board
the cars to find any amusement" !"
"But we have the Civic Asso-
citation rooms," said the writer.
eyes," remarked a citizen,
"what good are they to us? We
can look in from the outside"
What Perrysburg needs most is
a bowling alley and picture
show. That's the opinion of many
people.
The Civic Association is found
ed to help the town, and among
its many committees surely there
should be one to devise ways and
means to provide some distraction
or amusement for our people, both
young and old. Many don't know
what to do in the line of recrea-
tion.
A town that must send its peo-
pie away to other towns to get
any sort of amusement is in need
of some things at home.
Let us hear from others about
this evident truth.
AN OBSERVER.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11
COURT HOUSE CULL|NGS

The jury in the case of Ohio
against Emery Allan found the de-
fendant guilty of criminal assault.
The jurors retired to consider
the case at two p. m. Wednesday
afternoon and did not reach q de-
cision until three in the morning,
having a thirteen hour session.
The penalty for the offense of Grim
inal assault of which Allan was
found guilty is an indeterminate
sentence to the penitentiary of from
three to twenty years.
Charles Worline, indicted for
burglary of Charles Welshe's barn
north of Bowling Green last De-
cember and for stealing a set Of
harness, changed his plea of
not guilty to guilty of petit larceny.
Prosecutor Solether was willing
to accept this plea and Judge Nc
Clelland sentenced Worline to thir-
ty days in the workhouse and to
pay the costs.
The case of William Mack alias
McSweeney was to have been heard
last Thursday, but McSweeney
failed to appear for trail and his
bond was declared forfeited.
Juvenile Officer Hankey took
Virgil Williamson, of Fremont, to
the Toledo workhouse Friday to
begin serving his sentence of one
year for non-support of his child
at Perrysburg, He was also
assessed fine of $500 and is to
work that out or pay it.
Mary A. e. Doty has brought
suit for divorce from Samuel j.
Doty to whom she was married
July 18th, 1911, at Bowling Green.
She charges gross neglect and fail
ure to provide.
Suit for S25, ,OOOfor alleged breach
of promise to marry has been
brought against William X. White
by Madge Abbot, of Chicago, for
merly a resident of Bowling Green.
Plaintiff alleges that they became
engaged in August, 1912, and were
to have been married last March
but that defendant has failed to
perform his contract to marry.
Eli Winton has brought suit for
divorce from Emma Winton. He
relates that they were married in
March, 1882, and have three chill
dren. He charges defendant with
neglect to perform the necessary
services of housewife and charges
her with striking and beating him.
George Wanless has brought suit
for divorce from limo Wanless to
whom he was married in 1910. He
charges infdelity and wilful absence
from home for three years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-02-11
TALENT.

Young Schuman Hoffman Wagner
When only three ne used to, play
Bach fugues with either hand.
He then took up Beethoven
And practiced many years.
And when he played sonatas
His audience shed tears.
"We1l send him off to Europe"
His folks said, "Where he'il learn
To get the soulful feeling
Out of that there Fifth Nocturne." !"
He studied many years or more,
For now he tears off ragtime
At a moving picture show.
DON ALLEN,