The Richmond Virginian., March 12, 1910, LAST EDITION, THE PROGRESS SECTION, Page 4, Image 16

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Many Pc
Rwklew
Oid Maids.
HAVE SAN1
of Methodist. Congregt
Offer to Build Church
for Johnson's.
^Special to The Richmond Virginian.
By Bntu.
FRAXKTOWN, VA„ March 13.
potato planting w«a brought t<
a standstill thia week by rains, whirl
have prevailed through thl* count;
TRncs ;a*t Monday night. It la prob
able, however, tjyu work in Jhe ttelc
win be resumed within the near fu
lure.
Our soil Is sandy and the watei
sink* down out of sight in a very few
hours. By referring to an atlas nn«
will be reminded that we are on t
tongue of land Jutting out from un
derneath an upper Up, whose lengtt
reaches from Chesapeake Bay to the
Atlantic on the lower line of Gasterr
Maryland.
'Way back yonder In the past, be
fore the days of Patrick Henry, oi
Christopher ,Columbus or even the
Icelander discoverers America; be
fore the days of Socrates, Herodltus
Moses. Job. or Methuselah, the wa
ter* of the Atlantic and the Chesa
peake joined along that line., and Po■
com-'ke river and sound, and the hot
of water Just north of Cblnroteagu
and Assau-ague Islands, are all v
have to show for It on the surface.
A narrow neck of land frot. Poc<
moke city ai-ross to the sea connec
this bank of s&rid with the Marylar
beach, as It once was. The cu
rents and the winds kept piling i
the sand on that beach,* and It begs
to grow. To-day It la nearly elgh
miles long. The current from 11
north. In the Atlantic, bent It In, i
that It was somewhat south-aoutl
west, but currents from the Potoma
the Rappahannock and the Yor
have caught It at Its southern ei
tremity and rounded It off to Cat
Charles. These currents, with the al
of the James, keep the channel at th
capes in navigable condition.
Entrance Wide.
This entrance to the Chesapeake
about twelve miles wide with th
channel well over to the southern, c
Cape Henry, side. It Is Impoasib
to obstruct navigation there with
fort on the middleground, becaui
none but shallow water vessels ca
pass between the middleground an
Cape Charles, and a fort there serve
froth as a point of defense and t
warning to vessels of deep draf
showing them that deep water ts t
the south.
Accotnac and Northampton are th
two counties on this tongue of soun<
and the New* York, Philadelphia an
Norfolk Railway is the steel arter
that makes largely for the life of thl
region.
Good Potato Crops.
Potatoes grow over here, bot
round and iwg,t Indeed, every thl"
grow* tn this icrttle region, and t
;
■
e ••• a v s ttlV I a* 111, (g, J-4 V4 II
people probably buy more fertilize!
W-" W— — r** uug o tw Ulitpt
more foreign seeds, raise the fame
horses, the most reckless driven, tl
most hopeful old maids and ha*
more churches, more progressive po
p!e, and more thrifty negroes, tin
any other locality tn the State.
“Sand In the gizzard" Is a goc
thing. These people have that; an
tt all comes from living on a san
And this reminds me of a news Hero
Which Illustrates the courage of these
people.
Johnsons Methodist church. In
Northampton, la seriously considering
the question of asking the Bishop, at
the next session of the Virginia Con
ference. which meets in Richmond
Boat November, to set that church
apart aa a station, and to send them
a pastor. The contrac t for the Meth
odist parsonage at Franktown has
been let at 2,14 6, and the Franktown
church congregation say they will
mckle the Job alone tf Johnson's
want* to become a station.
Talk about sand; That's sand In
two gizzards: And yet there are folks
over here who say times are hard
Welt, that's true. lTmea got hard
with some folks the day they had to
buy the first breakfast and they have
never been any better.
WNY NEW BUILOINCS
RISE IN WINCHESTER
Much Building Being Done and
More Projected—New
.Telephones.
coming kuob promts** to V a very
busy one tier* Id building circles. La
,o*l contractor* have their band* fall al
ready and the number of new building*
to be erected will be. perhaps, greater
than during any »ea*on for year*. There
1* a cry of scarcity of labor already and
the operation* for the spring and sum
mer have hardly begun.
Visitor* to Winchester comment very
favorably upon the many and costly
Improvements mad* her* during the
past few years, and It Is claimed that
A* town In the State of the same site
can chow as many substantial Improve
ments In the same length of time.
Possibly the crowning Work I* the
Handley Library Building, at Braddock
and plcadllly street* just completed.
This Is said to be one of the handsom
est buildings in this country, and In
work and skilful design Is pos
■-* tm Tb# Oov
*IWy surpassed by but few.
•WWftWit Building now In course of
erection will also be a valuable addi
tion to Winchester
*b# stringing of the copper circuit*
BW the new telephone system of the
Cumberland Valley Ballroad from Her
Winchester—the couth
1 ylekurg, P*-. to Winchester—the south
er* end at the system—hi* just been
jmktai the ill miles costing »».
•H ,*w movement of all paaaenger
and freight trains by phone will begin
tM Pennsylvania system. Is one of the
.: mm euulppod rpads In this country.
BANK SEEKS MEN
WHO STARTED RUMOR
Society for S&ringa In
Charges of
Iwolveruy.
HA MS
- Is Considered Best Ever Publishc
By State Agricultural
Department.
> MAIDED TO FARMER!
. All Kinds of Crop and Stock Raii
ing Discussed—Figures Show
ing Virginia’s Growth.
The annual report of Commlsslone
Oeorge W. Kolner. of the Departmen
of Agriculture and Immigration, ha
I Just come from the printer, and cople
are being sent broadcast over th
State to hundred* of farmers, who wtl
lind the report thla year not only thi
most comprehensive ever issued b;
the department, but a veritable hand
book on general agricultural topic*.
1’ractlcally every phase of agrlcul
tore, horticulture and stock raising ii
discussed by the commissioner and b;
j other experts known all over thi
1’nltcd States by th* success they havi
met with In their chosen flelda
Reviewing the work of the year
Commissioner Kolner shews that tip
total value of all agricultural prod
ucts of the State for 1*0* was ove:
$200,009,000;. the corn crop atom
1 being valued at f 39,000,000, showing
! «n Increase over the corn Wop of 1 SOI
by an average of ten bushels to the
I acre, or f 19,000,000.
This Increase In the value of th<
corn crop Is due almost entirely ti
the untiring efforts of the departmen
t In sending out Utoratura and lector
; ers for the Instruction of th* farmeri
of the State, l.ast year, the repori
shows, the farmers' Institutes were at
i tended by 20,000 farmers, while th«
| value of these Institutes to the Stab
j at large Is estimated at millions ol
, dollars.
Regarding Immigration the repori
shows that 2,000 Virginia farms wen
sold to people from without the Stab
last year, resulting In an Increase ol
the State wealth by $2,000,000. Ir
this oonneotlon It Is shown that dur
ing the last five years the population
of Virginia ha* Increased t par cent,
leading the entire South, while the
wealth of Vtrglnta la now second onlj
to that of Texas among the Southern
States
HOLD INSTITUTE
FOR THE FARMERS
—
Series of Twenty-Three Along
Lines of the C. & 0. Next
Week.
BIG CROPS OF LECTURERS
Commissioner Koiner to Havi
Numerous Assistants—The
Itinerary.
The State Department of Agrlcul
tore and Immigration will hold
twenty-three farmers' Institute* aloni
the line of the Chesapeake and Ohtc
railway next weak, the following lec
turers being In charge: Commis
sioner George W. Koiner, on general
agricultural topics; Professor S, W
Fletcher, director of the experiment
station, on fruit growing; Mr. W. W
Sproul, of Augusta, on potato raising,
Professor S. 13. Hedges, of Powhatan
on corn raising; Mr. W. D. Zlnn, or
lire stock and soil Improvement; Mr,
Augustine Stabler, on growing le
gumes a* land Improvers.
Itinerary.
The Institutes will be held at th<
several stations and towns as fol
lows:
Monday, March 14.
Sabot at 9: IS A. M.
Columbia, at 12:20 P. M.
Dlllwyn, at 3:10 P. M.
Tuesday, March 16.
Scottsvllle, at 9 A. M.
> Buena Vista, at 1:46 P. M.
Buchanan, at 4:16 P. M.
Wednesday, March 16.
Orlskany, at 9 A. M.
New Castle, at 11 A. M.
Covington, at 1:36 P. M.
Hot Springs, at 6:16 P. M.
Thursday, March 17.
Goshen, at 9 A. M.
Craigs villa, at 10:46 A. M.
Staunton, at 1 P. M.
Flshersvllle, at 3:46 P. M.
Friday, March 18.
Ivy, at » A. M.
GordoaavUle. at 11:46 P. M.
Louisa, at 1:10 P. M.
Saturday. March 18.
Vi “ * *
S&Tfr
Norge, at fl.tt A. M.
Lee Bail, at (ill P. M.
EMPOUA’I NSW KAILgOtO, ..
In another column of this paper will
be found an artiole referring to a pro
‘ n
posed railroad from this point to Anos
kte. N. C„ a distance of nfty-four mile;
This enterprise If perfected, will
mean to Emporia that she will he en
titled to Virginia city rates, la thing
she has never enjoyed, but a condi
tion heartily desired, by every business
man in this section.
within the neat few weeks a purvey
party will go oyer the route wl
been suggested by the promoters, and
report It’s findings as early as practi
cable.
In building the road from Emporia to
Ahoskie a vast amount of now terri
tory will be opened, which is one of the
most fertile in the Eastern section of
North Carolina for farming purposes.
Aside from this important feature of
the venture, millions of feet of original
growth timber remains uncut on both
sides of the proposed Une which can
bo only developed. If the road is built.
This last statement especially applies
to conditions. «W*tlng after the North
Carolina shall have been passed. Many
progressive towns already are to be
found In the Immediate section to be
traversed by the Emporia and Ahoskld
railroad. Beginning at Emporia, Clare
vine. Gaskins, MargaretUsvIlle. Pen
dleton, and Murfresboro and other
towns, are already In the eye of the
commercial world. In the consumma
tion of the foregoing enterprise, they
tnay be made towns of greater com
mercial and Industrial strength.
We welcome the enterprise and con
fidently expect to see It’s realisation at
no remote period.—North Emporia In
dependent.
!*%»■)
Complete New
(Special to The Rich:
IftVTMOTOif. VA-,
Wood Tull has just completed a new
railway in connection with the ma
chine shop at the Carters Creek fer
tiliser works. Irvington, Va Mr.
Tull and Captain B. I* Willing were
at Focomoke City, Md.. this week
getting the necessary fixtures and the
"ways" will be tn operation In a short ]
time- — — ,
mm
(Brand)
Peaches,
Early June Peas,
Succotash,
Sugar Corn,
Tomatoes.
Among Household Necessities.
Wholesome,
Pure, Fresh.
All good grocers do or should
have this brand in stock. If yours
by oversight should be the excep
tion he will get what you want if
Just Ask for “Unde Ned” Brand
E. W. GATES S SON COMPANY,
Wholesale Distributors
RICHMOND. - VIRGINIA
SAYS INSURANCE OPENS NEW FIELD
TO WOMEN WHO MUST EARN LIVING
Miss Edna Blanchard Lewis Di
recta Only Office Run Wholly
by Her Sex.
SEES BETTER FUTURE IN II
THAN TEACHING SCHOOI
Started as Agent for Company
and Soon Organized Her
Own Department.
NEW YORK. March 12.—'“Ol
course women can succeed in insur
ance,'* asserts Mins Edna Ulancbari
Lewis, who originated and now direct
the only insurance department in th<
world run exclusively by women, "jus
M they can in any other line of wort
jf they are only progressive and hav<
some of the so-called masculine quail
(MMM thesi
ualltles. They are evident In everj
Ine of her virile, expressive face, Ir
»er businesslike manner and In the
unny, attractive stage with 4§ plain
favy furniture.
‘‘There Is a splendid field here foi
women.” she asserted, “there are sc
few in it It I* comparatively eas>
to world up from the rank* a* I have
done, for the way you start Is by be
coming an agent for soms company.
I had been a School' teacher, but the
Routine work did not appeal to me,
*o I decided that I would take up
something entirely new, with some
future In it
*‘A great deni of my work is among
the faoultled of the largest women’s
colleges Smith, Wellesley. Mount
Kolyoke, Vassar. But every class is
represented on my books—doctors,
lawyers merchants, chiefs.
"Lately, I have had a couple of
very interesting cases,” Miss Lewis
continued, swinging back ki her
swivel desk chair. “One was a policy
taken out a half century ago. The
heirs didn't knew where it was taken
but or whether the premium had
been kept up, or anything definite.
“The information I had to work on
was that there had been a policy. I
went to the home office of one of the
largest companies in America, and at
the end of just kfteon minutes j. <
had alt the facia The surname of the
man I was looking up was not
common one, and I had only his two
first Initials. There Were fifteen!
other persons of the same last namu
and the sam initials. The given nameF,
of course, were different. That just
goes to show bow carefully records
are kept and hew splendid the s>>
. we**en «t son* prominence
and wealth. Mia went over to Nor.
way last summer to visit her father s
relatives, Whtpa she had never seen.
Her grandmothef, In going over
family letters and pictures, showed a
letter written hy the woman's father
SSSJHfW'SHiSWWl
pa hie Ufa, As th*
father was dead, the Western wo
man, Immediately on bar return here,
java the case Into my hands,
"It was necessary to bring proofs
or aeathy and I had to go through old
newspaper files looking up the facts.
Tor the man had been drowned off the
cost of Labrador. The clippings were
sufficient proof, and the Insurance
was obtained without any difficulty."
.STATION at UERRYVIIXE.
Norfolk * Western < Setting Ready to
Build Handsome One.
BERRYVILLE.T£7Mi!£h I*.—
work on the grounds for the new de
pot is being pushed rapidly, and the
large force of men on the Job are
making a big show In the removal of
dirt and rock and the filling In of
the low ground.
The station proper will centre on
the mile-post south of the turnpike,
and win be about 125 feet In length.
The train shed will be 400 feet In
length, extending 200 feet on each
side of the centre of the station
proper.
The 60-foot strip from the Marks
property, which will be used as »
streetway. will be filled In level with
the turnpike, and the approaeh to the
(tetltm will be across a handsome con
crete culvert over The Town Run.
The workmen have uncovered some
large ledges of stone on the work,
snd they will be blasted out, and the
■tone used in filling In and embank*
No expense la bslnir spared by the
Norfolk * Western to give Berry
rtHe a handsome, modem and
modtous station, and It will bo equip
ped with the latent conveniences In
Its line tor the pomtoff of passen
gers and employee
NEW TELEPHONE LUTES.
Northern Neck Company Making Im
provement In Service.
WARSAW, Va„ March 12—The
Northern Neck News says:
For some time past the Northern
Neck Telegraph and Telephone Com
pany has under consideration exten
sive plane tor the extension and de
velopment of Its lines throughout the
Northern Neck. And the News la
gratified to be able to state that these
plana have been so tar consummated
that this company la now prepared to
carry them Into effect
To this end highly satisfactory ar
rangements have been made with the
Southern Bell Telephone Company by
whhsh the patrons of opr local com
pany are to be given the best possi
ble long distance service with all
places throughout the country now
reached by the multitudinous Unes of
that company.
Tp meet also a growing damand for
private telephones as well as for ad
ditional telephones In nubile stores
and other pubMe places, the Northenk
Neck Telegraph and Telephone Com
pany has determined to depart from
the conservative policy pursued by
l|tla pioneer company during the many
fears of Its existence, and to extend
IS rapidly as possible Into every com
munity throughout this section of
CUowntu Virginia,
EVERYBODY OUGHT
TO HIVE £04.87
-?
Government Hu Figured it Out
That Way and the Cash Should
Be on Hand.
BROADWAY
SMILES
Handy for Luncheon Money, Per
haps, but for Practical Purposes
Seems Trifle Insufficient
Have you sot IM.I7 to your name?
If not, you don’t come up to the per
capita circulation oX money in the
Udited States, aa shown in the hooka
ol the Treasury Department The ss
tlmated population of the United
*»W « I'-HMM. Mnew
jWWa'BB£
tsSEngk laafvsmre
preseed aM about Ml. rwt**u* “
When Bfoadway heapl the news
about the |3S yesterday It laughea
so heartily that many who were pass
though°t“thi?Mj*htnJP^^SuderYad
cornered some ol his friends and toid
* brand new Joke. Broadway, how.
evar, wad laughing at the hard Job
any ol the regular* wiuld have to
(Ind oven a hn»t dr prosperity with
such a trifle of luncheon money as
?«•
Wildsr was dlsoovsrsd g—«rg at tfas
workmen who are quickly making a
mere memory of all that svar was
Rector’s, and when awakened from
his reverie by » genii* Up on the
Shoulder Wilder smiled and begged
hi« disturber not to spring some old
joli£..aJboutJhB. dsllghUul weather.
Wilder Wouldn't Be "Tapped."
My finance* T” ejaculated the little
fellow who has made kings laugh
away Uislr sovereign cars* "Sonar,
old man. but I can't lend you thirty*
flvo now- I've only a litu* mere than
^Idldn't aak for a loan,” corrected
the Interviewer. "All T wanted *"
know wa* this: Have you *5f to your
namaT"
"Why, I've had more money than
ptftj »v»r since I was old enough to
“ I learned to speak
* ww words I used to crick jokss on
^«0‘*th«r. nhd formryjeki
»“‘tad him ho would put MS in
ths bank for ms. I told atm, M my
notkew said, over a thousand Jokti”
rou must have exhausted tha old
mmgt troasnrg.”
"Not much. I rsoslved til from
Urn only one*. He was tbs hardest
wan to plana* that I svar msc”
An Wilder grasped a proffered hand
a* whispered: "I’ve mors than th*
thirty-five, but don't tail any one
about It for I’t# a bunch of frisnda
this tows—row understand.
flu Hill wan found la his
I**! K>wW*fl Building countin* a
big reli of bills. ^
u**Ie«« to uk you whether
you v« f 4$ to your name, eh? 1 don't
want to borrow any money, but every
on* ought to have about thirty-five
, or be U statistically deficient-"
Sf* **■* » »W Chop*.
Oh, I guess that I can buy a few
chopa even though meat may b«
W11®4 the manager, “if |
dldn * have the amount you mention
I could not lalinch a new music play.
1 , b*ve made arrangements to-day
with Charles H. Tale to produce the
•ong play called The Norseman.' It
wly la the fall and win tour
the west before coming here.
, “-Daniel Bror Sorlln is the author
of libretto, lyrics and score. ' Arthur
Donaldson will be starred In the play.
Could I do this all on thirty-fivet”
Channlng Pollock. notwithstanding
the heavy expense entailed by his
recent trip to the land where the last
rose of summer is the first flower of
spring, was rsady in his assurance
that he has his thirty-five safety
tucked away. *
"I contemplate a trip to JSurope.”
said the playwright, "so that’s ampls
proof. eh? 1 mads considerable
money while down South, for I went
fishing often, end my ability as n
master of the Wnltoa art brought mo
susb large paaaep that my guide ln
!?*•*•§ *»# •**•
allotted*to lit average person*^*tag
statistical experts fit Washington.
The chorus girls were prompt la de
nying that they fall below the per
capita .circulation of money. Stage
hands, whan questioned on thfi subject
smiled lies true residents of Bear
Street. Ushers commented on the in
significance of the sum- It seompd
that nowhere on the Great White Way
was there any one without the thirty
five.
"If I did not have the money,** said
la ok picket. ?*I would start a war, and
the battle cry would be. Thirty-five
dollars or fight!**»
Along newspaper tow It waa a hard
lob to natl any of the “long-handed
but $hort-n»tnded men," sg Mayor
Saynor says, who had not tha thirty
live. or n6t having It, would admit
the truth. Big Jantes Murphy, of the
World, however, pleaded fin ebeenne
»f lees than the average amount.—
Km Tork Telegraph,
w-j
BBItDINOKKg BR IO0P.
ift .Bt *
>leted*hW'0r* * ^ »«ariy cotS
“ '* “*• V«S
rfcftx ss ssft.’zrs
Inlshlog up romotaJlmr tha link
wem Union streetandeorp-— -
. distance of nearly a mUe i
nil cost about M.fte.
SdikifiM fftall
emetalod for nearly thf
row the corporal* Kite.
Tha sum of 11,Ids was appro?
y tha T*wh Council at Its
»S to pay oM a debt ee
chool property on
his is the flret step towards ■rfhsfi
ow building at tho high school^