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r THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE tE.tabli.had 1736 b. William Park. ht >>?? to P-bli.h th. Dac..r.tion * M-apanianea*. ' ' ' . . W. C tmmmtmn. I?*4*to- ?**?* VOL. 175 (Old Series.- VOL XX. (N-wSerieO NO. 51 WILLIAMSBURG. VA-. -AY 15 . WI3. ' _? V ?UWM YIAM HAPPENINGS OF THE WFIKI GOSSIP Of THE NEIGHBORHOOD BOILED DOWN Messrs. T. H. Geddy, N. L. Hen ley aod K. L. Spencer, accompa? nied by Dr. Thomas N. Potts, went down to Warwick courthouse Mon? day to attend court. This has been the coldest May on record in this section. Sunday aod Monday nights were cold and a heavy frost fell. Ice formed at To? ano. While damage has been done the early potato and other crops, it is believed that no permanent injury will result. Many people in town saved their tomatoes by covering them. The cold nights have re? tarded the growth of all crops. Mr. Scott, who purchased the Amos Loagsbore place west of town, is expected here soon to spend the summer. The house has been overhauled and repaired for the new owner. Mr. Cary Branch, of Toano. thc well known trucker, was in Williams? burg Monday morning, on his way to Richmond, Hon. H. U. Stephenson and Mr E. T. Martin, of Toano, were ii Williamsburg Tuesday to attend i meeting of the stockholders of thi Peninsula Bank. Dr. Stephenson who is a prominent physician an< surgeon, left on the evening train to ?x Richmond on orofessional businesi K. K. Lee, a son of the lau Cai ter Lee and a grand nephew of th great Confederate chieftain, Gen. V E. Lee. was a Williamsburg visiu this week. Mr. D. A. Powers, ot Magrude -was a Williamsburg visitor Tuesda; He reports that wells are dr /ing i in Bruton district and that tl t drought continues there with bi effect upon crop prospects. Mr. Gregory Spencer, Jr., Newport News, spent Sunday he with relatives. Mr. Z. G. Durfey, of the Sti Road force, spent a couple of da here the first of the week with M Durfey, Hon. M. H. Barnes, of Pro dence Forge, spent last Sund here with his family. Prof. J. W. Ritchie, director the William and Mary Sum: i Session, has every reason to exp a large attendance at the term wi it opens in Dublin on June 18. 1 session will last six weeks, dos August 14. Mr. and Mrs. Collin Cooper, Washington. D. C., spent sev days here this week. Mr. Coo who is an artist of note, sketchi number of places of historical ic ' est in and near Williamsburg. Dr Thomas N. Potts, presi elder of the Eastern Shore dist with headquarters at Salisbury, spent Monday and Tuesday hei business MR. COLE ELECTED REGISTR The Williamsburg electoral t has elected Mr. H. D. Cole reg to succeed W. C. Johnston, resit Thc latter has held the office 1902, haying been appointed a i ber of thc board of registrars b Constitutional Convention. It office that is not much sought but is really one of the most re sible In connection with the el machinery of the state. Mr. Cole has posted notices be will register voters next Tai May 20. Those who have n ready registered should do sc before that day. Those qa may register -tay time. Se jroux name it upon tht poll bo FARMERS' AUCTION HULD1NG ITS OWN ot re ile A'S rs. vi *y of ner ect ben L"he ling Last Saturday waa Farmer's Auction day. and while farmers were more conspicuous by their ab? sence than their presence, the sale was successful and all who patro? nized it seemed satisfied. Ot course the loyal few were there with their live stock and other articles for aale, but very few new faces were seen, showing mat as usual the farmers are holding back and denying these sales the support they should give with a cordiality and enthusiasm the enterprise merits, Bot as some peo? ple have "to be shown." perhaps a few more months will open the eyes of those who will not see. Mr. Mouquin. who has been the biggest patron of the sales and to whose individual support is due much of its suocess. writes The Ga? zette: "Williamsburg and the Pen? insula have had on the second Sat? urday of every month, for the last six montbs an auction market, be? ginning at ll a. m., which have been a great success. Anyone car sell here what he does not ne,*d anc can realize on it in a quick way Those who want anything at a rea sonable price can get ic without go ing to Chicago. Most of the good sold there are delivered free at tb Williamsburg station or to the home around. At least the Williamsburi market has the glory of a great ec terprise. not so big. however, as th Panama Canal. We have to than the committee in charge for the kind considerations and also Cap Maynard for tbe beautiful mark place on old and new historic grounds." Mr. Mouquin last Saturday so calves, lambs, pigs, lumber and ha and he says the prices realized we good and he got the cash on tl spot. He linds that the market the best way to get rid of his si plus stock and has never yet fail to get fair returns for what he ofi< ed The next auction will be held hi on the second Saturday in Jut In the meantime let the farmers i their things together and bring th to this sale. Tney cannot afford let the market day go by deft now, just when it is growing int permanent thing of inestimable va to them. ,< HOLDCROFT Holdcroft. Va.. May 12? other of Charles City's gallant diers has answered the last roll Mr. Fleming Binns, a membei Company K. 53rd Va. Reg.. F etts Division, passed away at home in Claremont last week. Binns, who was 83 years ot was a native cf this county, w he spent the most of his life, is vived by his wife and daughter. The smallpox scare has abated. Dr. Ashton Harwood, has been very ill with the dis is now much improved. Many arc being reported in different tions of the county; vaccinate proceding as rapidly as pos: The so called quarantine is not observed by many who have exposed to tha disease. Wit! coming of warm weather it i after, i licved that the danger will soc psssed and that normal cond will prevail. No services wer at thc various churches yestt The meeting of the Jr. O. I and all public gatherings have indefinitely postponed. The frost of this week baa mach damage to early craps sections of the county. Tho* have planted corn are very u of erai ott. id a iter ding rict, Md. e on IAR toard istrar (ned. since nem y the is an spon ection i that tsday, ot al i on or lifted b that oki. faning t poor ita nd. IMMORTAL POEMS, CLEVER EDITORIALS |* ON THE WILLIAMSBURG CLOCK; A PKETTV AND APPEALING THEME FOR THE FACETIOUS NO LONGER EXISTS LI et The Gazette, in order to preserver for the delectation of future bistort.) ans. in this column reproduces al clever coitorial from the Richmond j Times-Dispatch, as weli as a couple of poems that have found their way) to this office. Some day it make icterestir g reading. But the clock is running again, and the theme for the clever writer, tha poet acd the paragrapher, is lost. The council, thinking the town too poor for such extravagence, cut off the annual appropriation of $50 Later, after securing a magni. I they found $25 in the town treasury and promptly appropriated that toward winding and caring for the clock in Bruton church tower. A competent man could not be se cured for $25. so Councilman R L, Spencer decided to appeal to the public and by Tuesday morning he had secured an additional $25. so the town clock (which, by the way, is an Episcopal clock) was set going Tuesday morning. True it is run? ning a little fast, but it is just trying to make up for lost time. The people of Williamsburg an very happy that they can again nea: the me.low stroke of the clock "All's well that ends well." but w< do feel sorry for the Newport New and Richmond papers in the loss c a pet theme. (Editorial Times-D.spate ld Once we wrote of LaOtus-lidde y. Williamsburg, where the drows re folks forgot election day. To forg< he seemed to us a good way of mai: is raining the peaceful serenity of li ir- unfretted and unvexed by the druc ed and tramplings of the dynastii cr- Now the Lotus-burgers have coe upon a way of solving all thi rte troubles, and of banishing carki ae, care forever. They have seized get eternity and bound it captive; th em have won immortality for all th 1 to dreaming. In short, they have i mit cided to let the clocks stop. 1 o a City Council refuses longer to wa tlue money having the clock in Bru parish tower wound. Time has always worried Williai burg. The people didn't know w to do with it. There was so in; An- of mt, It was so persistent. Tl sol. tried abolishing the calander. call, time kept up. Now they will of time by stoping the clock. ;cl_. There is a malicious rumor that his unwound clock has stirred the ai Mr. of many to fever heat. This age j plain lie. The native Williamsbu here sur one not who ease, cases see on is tible. being been a thc s be? rm be never stirs. He never lets his a; be aroused for fear it might ari the rest of him. He regards a f as a breach ot decorum. No one really believes that town of twilight and of dreams c for the clock. It has too n sense. It doesn't care when it up?if ever; or when it goes to if never. Everything can noa put off until to-morrow, and morrow will never come. Belle whom the relentless passing of made life miserable can forget birthdays. Notes can bc exte: until judgment day. Comm litions \ ment week at the college can tx I held longed for months. Life will c one thing after another. It *** just one thing. Williamsburg, by this simp vice, hath become sub specie a< tts. the goal of all our hope wiil be crowded by tackers Nirvana. Who will cara to hustling Richmond, or mad er day, J. M. been done in ail t who fork, when he can dwell in the ever og Sabbaths ot Lotusburg? O e blissful village where noaa shall ever ripe and ripe or rot and rot; where time is symbolized by the morning-glory and the where slumber is unbroicen by harsh warnings; where mealtime is the only alnunac! Out upon the miscreant who dares import an Ingersoll Not even a sundial shall re-xind you of stealing death. In winter you will hibernate, and io summer you will aestivate, and at night you will sleep, and ir thc take a nap, and never a clock di you more. (Wednesday's Times- Dispatc I "Official notice was served ty on The Times-Dispatch that never again can "lotus-iidde liatnsburg" be dow. The little city that once was the capital of Virginia has redeemed itseir. and has become a rast town. "Not long since an editorial article in this newspaper referred to various sights an4 scenes in the historic city. One of them was the town clock, that, perched en the tower of old Bruton Church, had stopped ai though never to go again. The con? cludion drawn was that thc people ol .amsburg had no need to know the time, and were happy in thi: condition. creupon, citizens got busy d It seems that in former years thi y city council had made an annua et | appropriation of $50 to keep up th tt-'.clock and to provide time for th opie. But, hard times touchin ?r treasury, this was discontinuec J the clock stopped. After tk ac newspaper article appeared, a con ?at" mittee went around and got t ag private subscriptions enough to p "n the clock on its pendulum again. cy "The works were tamed on at . clock yesterday morning, ard t **** hearts of the population were gla -c ened bv the sight of sometn. tm moving. Ail day crowds stood ton the street and saw it move. largely-signed notice to The Timi Jispatch was circulated and piac hat ia the hands of Captain William ich aey but kill the lger is a rger ager 5 usc ever this M>ers. of Richmond, who chane to bc there, for delivery to the per. "Most important of all, by 5 o'clock, when Captain Myer's ti left, the clock had gained five n utes. and not for a moment dui the day had it been slow." 1UC ll gets The Quest of the Time of Da) "I prithee, ancient graybeard ma The kindly tourist said, "What is the matter with yon eli Has iu machinery gone to hock Oh. why does it not tick and tc Is its sweet bell voice dead?" bed,! The ancient native bowed his h "I really cannot say I know Why yonder clock does never g Except the Council Jw illed .it so I be I to s for time j Ihe graybeard native said. thc.r uded "Except thc council willed it so The tourist loudly cried. ence-j "Yon sorely do not mean to sa) i pro- Your councillors refuse to pay ot be j For knowledge of thc time of d ill bc j Have they no civic pride?" "They used to have, when i cheap," The ancient native said, "This town ia fall of mea who Within their togara sach phd deep, Bat they alu, art fast asleep; lede *erni a. It after live .a New LIGHT CHANGE IN |l CLERICAL FORCE The new postmaster of YTJItiaiaaa -Jward M. Lea. a toa rf tuc late Edward M. Lee. for nany year** steward of thc kati HoavM. Mr. John haa bean thc efficient clerk ind-et Po i master Peachy for faa ?_st year, will be rcttiacd ia kit present position at ta inruaiail sal? ary. His experience tin thc offiet ?od his popularity -with thc peop?e make his ts valuable la thc ic. Toe principal obie ct ia making a change in tba -personae! of the * BffCt was the desire ot lal to fill these ot with men. especially that of assistant whose salary is paid by , osttaaster himself, not by the government. The change is not in tc oded as a reflection on sny ona, in any man ur r Ihe retiring postmaster aad his ent assistant have mered thc people loot aad faithiraUly and they go out c ?* ith the respect aad taaacm of everybody. Thc hope ot the new regime is to give thc very best service possible. Both Mr. Peachy and Mrs. Ware have gener? ously offered to lend every assist* -ance to thc new force tad ase it -well on its way. all of which is <tBa\ e ii c c ** i. ie _ ut S he id m in A es M. :ed pa .30 rain -l ta? ring MAGRUDER NEWS Magruder, Va.. May 13?Miai H-xei Saxby spent Sunday with ma parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edwarc Saxby. Mr. W. B. Schenck.of h*ir.hna?d ed our community last week. Mr. Ira Landrum spent Sunda last v Mother's Day i at his -Hame i Lanexi Mr. Clarence Newman, of Nee port News, spent thc week-end wit his mother. Mrs. C J. Newman. Spottswood Council No. 35. J O. U. A M. presented our echo with a flag and Bible last Ihursd. a.ternooc. Ine exercises were bo impressive and inspn We have been informed that c school league has raited sa funds which, when au_-rentee? the usual appropriation from i district sebe-ol board and thc st board of education, will parches school library. Wc will welco the library. Mr. John Leath. of New*; News, spent Tuesday here on t ;r.cs*i n." >ck; P ck? ead: o, ? r syl t wts Keep a full In fact, kind sir. they're dead." "Perhaps the town is sleeping, to Ihe tourist said, dismayed. "I noticed as I wandered thro That no oae hat a Urang to do. . your city council ruc This timely escapade." "I've often heard my father si Replied thc ancient maa. "The Clock was once a useful a To tell what he called "time of day." What that doth mean we cannot say,? Perchance, kind sir, you cat?" He Slop pa* J the Old Church CU* Tick! Tick! Tock! He's stopped thc old church ci Go find thc peerless bootter. Who with so mach vim aad psi Espoused taa ctatt ol pra-grcas To the voters far aod wide. In the cowcila.ame body He's proven quite a bete. He stilled the voice al tha old church clock. Which rang oct faa viii**- gn Tick! Tick! Tock! He's stopped tha old church i Natal IISTlN&lilSHED V1R61NIAN AFT. Mri I WK MES MT AFTtt IMS lLLKJJ Hoa. Jone S. Wite if Mrs. Aaa Wisc Hobson, aad ia sade of Miaa Virginia Piachv ?Vise, of this c?ty. died Maaday at ibaat 12 o'clock ia thshomiofhia woo, Henry A. Wise, saar Md. Capt. VV se r n r Ol ?y -ft ? nt by the ate e a haas of haa brother, -ase las Dr. Richard A, Wise, aaember of Coav grce* Tom tba* district, a-adadb tiaaaiihad tarawa in the Coafeder ate War. Capt. Wisc aa weil kcown by many Wilhaambarg pas s son. Hos. Henry A. Wt* . j mimed Miaa Henrieta ot thc moat ot thc state, a daughter of Dr. Mr*. EG. Booth, of this 4 He had been practically aa invalid for thc past six yeats aad la months his death peat winter was apeat by hat ia a hospital at Byra Ma arr. ieiphia. which be left May 6. tag to hia home. 'Kiptopeafcc. ' ia Northampton County. Va. Ha stopped over at tha aaasmtr rnai Diatrict Attorney Haary A. Wim. of aaar New Yara, aear taaccas Aaaa. aad aooa after hia arri va', he wss stricken wtth paeamoaa. Joha Seresaat Wiat waa boca oa Harrami 27. 1 hmo, at Rio da J awe no. Braaii. to which maa* j Us rather. Henry A. Wise, aa minis .er -rom tbs United Steam. Haary A. Wise served hat State ia Coa? ttest, and waa Goctiaei d Vicfia ia. He waa easily oaa of tba maa! fliirinaaiibarl Aeaeriesa dtaaaaa ol j .ns dsy. His wife, tbs as thar af Wisc, was Miss Sarah Ser? geant, daughter of Jobs ScEgnaat, Bomber ox a promiaeat Peaacyl vama family, leading Ceagresemaa aad -one-time caadfc-aate lor Vxa 1 President. icn the war ended, -st catered aw daaa ot tba Uaweraiiyaf Virginia, wheace he 1867. with thc degree ot of laws. He at once practice of his protessu.a ta Rich? mond, aaaa forming a with his father, which unu. thc latter's death ia 1876 Ha aoon cams to tba ta eal as a lawyer. I i :ew yean ba tock a position vu the bar of tnt >ort mg eagaoed ** ***y >us 3?" i otb 17*" tty ck lock. mt On November 3. 1869, bs marncd Miaa Evelyn Beverly Doaajat. ol Nashville. Tana. Sba mvieca bias Slates Armv. who himself for gallantry ii tbe od Ssa Jaaa ia 189a aad ia ia the Philippians; Hean Wise, msjor ia tba fourth United ?**.,.., 1* i I un fr ta final! ? frat t*^M? aaat vouasmer asaaamy m ems Spanish-American War, aad antU a few weeks ago Unatad States Dis? trict Attorney for New York; Jo-bo S. Wisc. Jr., of New Yora\ vb* served as hi sf am aider hasbro thcr ia tba Speewah Wa Mrs. Ferriee Barney, wt Comic*. Va; Cote* Cropper Wise, i ??aimrn al dets aad profeaaor ia asa Ul MMitsry Byrd Donate* Wise Tha f aaa rat efl* mts morea** alli o'clock* aad bahai wi* ba la Hdlywaod. Robert m. Uaasaj. formerly of New York,