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IRVINGTON, VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, JffiBL 10, 1908.
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HEARING SOMETHING "DRAP".
For two or three months we've all heard a wail
From those dailies in Richraond that fly too much aail,
A-shouting and yelling? "Get out of the way!
We're after Mann, Bryan aad also Judge Rhea."
A few of the small fry have caught up the atrain
(A performance due moatly to want of some brain)
When the string is pulled they holler and bray:
"Hurrah! Good! hark!! you're butchering Judge Rhea."
The most flagrant of sinnera in all of the van
Ia a certain News-Leader who can't stand a Mann,
Or a Bryan or Cannon or a Lee, they do aay,
And it tells the Republicana: "Letrs knock out Judge Rhea."
He's opposing Bill Bryan whenever he can
And hitting Jim Cannon, Mac Lee and Judge Mann.
He's hot 'bout the Byrd bill and temperance, they say,
And ia bilin' clean over because of Judge Rhea.
When the vote had been taken The Dispatch cried out: "Aye,
I'm with you dear Leader in fighting Judge Rhea,
For in fighting Democracy we sure are the stuff;
You recall nineteen hundred, how we got in a huff
Then deserted Democracy brave and so bold?
And ever since then we've been out in the cold.
In the coming election it looks like we twain
Will be left out once more in the pitiless rain;
So we'd better see Teddy and get on the raft
Repudiate Bryan and take up with Taft;
And then we'll see Stuart and tell him to pray,
While we sling the mud to knock out Judge Rhea.
And by Henry Stuart like a rock we will atand
And bust a cat-gut to knock out Judge Mann.
And the young peevish Joumal, who still goes to school,
Gets hot 'neath its collar and hollers "Gag rule,"
And firing a Bullitt from a very small gun
With a hope that Democracy's hosts would run.
Alas! 'twere in vain?the people did say?
We're solid for Bryan, Mann and Judge Rhea.
And now, dear brothren this surely does seem
You are only muddying the turbid old Jeems.
So pray get a broom, brush the cobwebs away
For you cannot hurt Bryan or Mann or Judge Rhea.
And way down in Norfolk it certainly seema
That those dailies are staring with a gaze up the Jeems
Listening and looking?and some people say
They're digging the mud to fling at Judge Rhea.
My advice to you, brethren, as nobly you stand,
Go down to the Cape, fill your mouth full of sand,
With back to the past and your face to the Bay
Stop fighting Bill Bryan, Judge Mann and Judge Rhea.
Why here's friend Parson Beasley, South Boston Newa,
On the aubject of temperance he's quick to enthuse,
But now with the Leader he is flocking I see
Working for temperance on a big Jamboree.
Yet Uiere's one thing for sure that I never could stand,
A political preacher?he's under a ban.
And now, my dear brother, to your closet and pray.
Make once more your peace for the straight and narrow way
And you, my dear Dailies come listen to me:
You suggeat to my mind the Sycamore tree,
Like Zacheus of old you'll sure have to pay
For your fight on Bryan. Mann and Judge Rhea.
The hosts of this State, as a stone wall they stand,
Proclaim their next Governor shall be a strong Mann:
They intend to elect in Democracy's way
By majority vote?as they did Judgo Rhea.
It's no uae to holler, to fret and to scold.
You'd better repent and come in the fold:
Or tie stones 'round vour neck and jump in the bay,
For witfi kicking and bucking you're in Democrats' way.
And t'.ie little weekliea not under your thumb
I ne; ber'nfT the fight you made for Judge Crumb
Are now preparing your carcass to flay
For the parc th it you took in fighting Judge Rhea.
. ? Aunty Spec.
That ??Telegram."
(Hamptou Monttor.)
It has been made to appear by a
number of newspapers that Judge W.
F. Rhea in his investigation for con
firmation as Corporation Commisaioner
shrank from the evidence of the Hon.
Henry C. Stuart as from a vortex of
destruction. Unbiased observers all
along have known that this was not
the case, but a communication to this
effect from Judge Rhea has occasioned
great surprise with our esteemed friend,
the Richmond Journal, who says that it
can hardly be true.
Mr. Tate Irving, friend of Mr, Stuart
and counsol for Judge Rhea, has stated
most positively that he knew of the
evidence of Mr. Stuart, that he talked
it over with him, and considering it
almost entirely irrelevant did notobject
to its introduction, and the record will
ahow Uiat Mr. Irving did not when he
knew what it was to be. The Republi?
can proaecutora evidently regarded it
in the aame light, for Mr. Bullitt, so it
is said, took particular pains to go to
Mr. Stuart and tell him that they had no
deaire in the world to put him on U>e
stand if it embarrassed him in the
least. Mr. Stuart's reply was not to
consider that for a monaent?he would
waive all that.
We fail to agree with our contem
porary that Mr. Stuart's evidence was
damaging. We have never heard of it
being so regarded. It was so intended
no doubt, but it failed in that end most
miserably. We have never objected to
it on account of any damage it may
have done. We have criticised it as
curious and remarkable and the public
is beginning to agree with us. The
only evidence was trying to connect
Judge Rhea with a message on a piece
of brown paper taken from a 'phone by
a man who is now dead. All of the
rest of the testimony was consumed in
reading a glowing rose-colored essay
in the form of a letter to several plain
mountaineers. Subsequent to this lit
erary gem the evidence was taken up
in proving the leader of this (Mr.
Stuart's henchman) a plain but good
man was a crooked politician. See the
record from page 157 on.
The rose-colored letter and the cruci
fixion of the henchman are the parts of
the evidence which will do the smart
ing. Do not fret about it damaging
Judge Rhea. Mr. Noel in his arraign
ment barely touched on it, and all that
another Republican senator could say
was: "That this letter ought to be
framed and hung over every fireside."
The telegram was not touched.
??Hark Back."
But let us hark back twenty years or
even a decade, when conditions were
different. When every election meant
stubbornly fought atruggle for demo
cratic domination in every district, both
sides reaorted to every artifice, advan
tage or questionable trick to win, and
these tricks, sometimes amounting to
unblushing political dishonesty, were
known and endorsed or at least winked
at by the same gentlemen who now
take such high ground politically. How
long has it been?to bring Oie matter
home?sincereputable democrats of Dan
ville who condemn Mr. Rhea-laaghed
and boasted over the artifices and dis?
honesty reaorted to|by them or their as
sociates; with their knowledge and con
sent to carry Stokesland precinct? Oh,
but they tell us?thatwaa a question of
white domination. But this is not the
fact. The reault in the Fifth district
was not dependent upon Stokesland,
and every negro vote sto'.en there was
equivalent to a white vote in Floyd or
Grayson. It was the determination to
clect a Democratic representative in
Congress, just as was the case in the
Ninth district when someof Mr. Rhea's
followers sought to take technical ad
vantage of every opportunity. How
long has it been since white Democrats
stole the votes of Jackson ward in
Richmond and made it elect white
Democrats to the council or return a
plurality or a ridiculously reduced ma
jority for the Republicans in general
elections??Danville Register.
Yes "hark back" and see the saintly
Richmond Times-Dispatch around with
a "shot gun" and going about Oie poll
ing places in the South "seeking whom
it might devour."
Away with the sickly and sickening
stuff of the present and recall "condi
tiona" not "theoriea," and as Uieir re?
turn is conatantly threatened, let'a
keep the "boya" in training ready to
fire to hit when the black of the face
or the "white of the eye" is seen to
endanger home and fireside.
The men who now cry out "Rhea,"
once lustily shouted " 'rah, boys!"
44 'rah!"-Farmville Herald.
Condemuatlonon Stuplcloa.
(PotorsburH* Indcx-Appoal.
The minority report in the case of
Judge Rhea, submitted by Senator T.
Ashby Wickam in dissent from the
conclusions of the other members of
the investigating committee ? nine in
all?is a very remarkable document
both with respect to postulate and de
duction. In the beginning, it admits
that if the committee sat as a criminal
court and was bound by all the
technical ruies of the criminal law,
then it would have to find that no
incriminating fact exists unless it was
proved beyond all reasonable doubt. On
the narrow and almost imperceptible
distinction in this case between a'crimi?
nal court and a court of inquiry, in which
the good name and political rights of a
citizen are at stake, this report would
strip Judge Rhea of that* protection
which the wisdomof the ages, embodied
in the technical rules of the criminal
law, confers on every accused man, and
put him in the extraordinary position of
having to prove his own innocence. In
other words, the accuser of Judge Rhea
having completely failed to establish
the charges against him by any testi
mony on which a dog might be hung,
this minority report abandons all the
technical rules of the criminal law, and
asks that the accused be condemned on
suspicion! To quote the language of tiie
report: "The burden is thus thrown on
Judge Rhea to prove that he is a fit
percon to fill the high position to which
he has been appointed." Ia it possible
to conceive of anything more abhorrent
to reason and justice? The prosecution
comes with a great fiourish of charges
affirming certain things which the tes
timony utterly fails to substantiate,
and then after the affimative has ig
nominiously fallen down, Judge Rhea
must come to the rescue, and prove the
negative. Logically and accordiug to
the conceptions of common sense, there
is no negative to prove since the aflirma
tive has been wiped out.
But if Oie burden of proving his inno?
cence and his^ moral qualifications "to
fill the high position to which he has
been appointed" is thrown upon Judge
Rhea, then he need go no further than
thetestimony broughtout by the inves
tigation and conyincingly presented by
the majority report to discbarge that
burden. That testimony not only/efutes
the charges preferred by Senator Noel,
but it exhibits Judge Rhea in tha credi
table light of being unwilling to profit
in his own candidacy for Congress by
technical advantage over his opponent
when he believed that the votes of the
two precincts of Patteraon and Mendota
did not properly beiong to him. Testi?
mony never more completely failed of
its purpose than in supporting the charge
against Judge Rhea. Even the immacu
late Stuart?the relucCant witness who
went before the committee, with a
gubematorial canipaign document up
his sleeve?was not certain that Judge
Rhea sent the telegram coiicerning
which ' he testified. No evidence was
overproduced to prove that Judge Rhea
had connection with any such telegram,
and it is impossible to understand how
Judge Rhea could be condemhed-on such
testimony under the "technical rules of
the criminal law" or any other rules
but the vague and light-shupning rules
of suspicion, or what groond there is
for a minority report in the. case.
A not her Scoreber.
Editor Times-Dispatch:
Sir, ? Whena citizen ofthis Common?
wealth is accused by his political and
personal enemies of being unfit for a
position to which he has been appointed
by the Chief Executive of the State, as
has been done in the case of Judge Rhea,
it would seem more than fair for the
Legislature to urant investigation of
charges emanating from such a source.
It would also seem more than fair to
give full weight and considefation to
the partisan and biased testimony, vol
untarily ofFered in support of such
charges, at a cost of some $10,000 to the
State.
Now, when all of these things have
been done and a legislative committee
of honorable men render unanimous
verdict of not guilty, and when all but
one of the eleven members of the com?
mittee recommend confirmation of the
appointment, and when the Legislature
itself, after reading the testimony,
overwhelmingly declares the charges to
be slanderous, after all this considera
tion has been given and a verdict ren
dered under oath, is it reasonable for
fair-minded newspapers and people who
desire the investigation to reveal the
truth to accuse three-fourths of the
Legislature of stifting its conscience
and sellingout its constituency for party
loyalty? Will any one be influenced to
indorse such a conclusion? ' Why did
not these newspapers and people pre
sent to the committee, at itsloAgand
many sessions, the evidence that would
justify the action they'clamored for?
Any fairminded person must conclude
that they did not want a deciaion based
on facts and that their motives for de
feating the aspirations of Judge Rhea
were based on political and personal
prejudice and the hope of political ad?
vantage to them and their friends re
sulting from his defeat.
The people are understand ing the
purposes so well planned by this attack
upon the Governor and his appointee.
If charges unsustained by proof can
diaqualify a citizen for holding an office
of responsibility, then the time will soon
:ome when none who values his reputa
tion will put himself in position to be
thus slandered.
The liberty that some newspapers
md some people take of scattering in
sinuations and indorsing charges aimply
for political advantage has reached
ilarming proportions in the political
arena of our once united white people.
The people demand some proof of un
litness, before they will disgrace a citi
senand deciarehimdisqualified for office
oecausehisusefulnesshas been impaired
by unproven charges brought todamage
Iheofficer rather than protect the office.
The action of the minority in this case
ioes not appeal to me as showing love
for the Governor like unto that of
"Jonathan unto David," ashas been so
recently and dramatically proclaimed.
C. B. Neblett.
Tinkling, Va.
ALL THE VIRTUE NOT IN CITIES.
Some of our Richmond contempora
ries resented with more warmth, we
thought, than was necessary, the In
dex-Appeal's well meant adyice to
make friends of the country newspa?
pers. We note with pleasure, how?
ever, that the advice had not fallen on
barren soil, for of late the Richmond
papers have shown a coramendable 'dis
position to unbend their toploftical atti
tude and cultivate controversial reia
tions with the moulders of public opin
ion in the rural regions. This is wise
and well. There is nothing on earth
like a rough-roll-and-tumble fight to
make firm and fast friends. \t begets
mutual respect and in the end perma
nent friendship. It will help the Rich?
mond papers in ways they need to be
helped, for as we read the lines, the
country papers are holding their own
all right.?Index-Appeal.
THE SCATTERED TRIBE.
As a straw showing how the old Con
federates have scattered far and wide,
a friend had a copy of Jefferson Davis'
"Rise and Fall of the Confederate Gov
ernment" for sale, and put a notice of
the same in ' *The Confederate Veteran."
Requests for the purchaae of the book
came to him from Mississippi, Spokane,
State of Washington, Georgia, Virginia,
Iowa and Oklahoma. Incidentally it
shows, too, that the old Confederates
keep in touch with each other to some
extent, as all these write that they
subscribe to the Veterans. It shows
also that advertising pays.
Send your orders for job work to the
Citizen.
THE PRBBLKs' L.R8SOX
How smooth the sea-beach pebbles are!
But, do you know,
The ocean worked a hundred years
To make them so?
And once I saw a little girl
Sit down and cry
Because she could not cure a fault
With one amall "try."
?Primary Education.
SOME TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Parkersburg, VV. Va., is "bone" dry
so far as Sunday selling goes. The
State law providing imprisonment for
violation of tbe Sunday law has ita
eflecfc, for while fines are easily paid,
the prospect of spending amonth or
more in jail is too unpleasant.
High license goes into etTect in Balti?
more, the Governor having signed the
bill just passed by the Legislature. It
wilj oost a saloon keeper from now to
the end of the year $500 for a license;
next year it will be raised to $750, and
in 1910 the cost will be $1,000. The
price of drinks will remain as at pres
ent, but patrons are promised that ster
ilfced water will be used to dilute the
liquid fire.
A NEW TRICK FOR ANTI-SALOONISTS.
In Chicago April 7th 500,000 women
and girls arrayed in white assemble
at the polls. These formed in double
lines and voters were obliged to pass
between ranks to get tothe polls. Each
to use whatmental telepathy they pos
sed in confusingor abashing the voter.
When a saloon advocate is to speak
the womeh go to the hall in force and
exert their silent influence in thought
waves, and it is said that on at least
one occasion a speaker had his thoughts
so muddled that he made a dismal
failure.
LIQUOR WAR IN THRKK STATES.
Twelve hundred towns in eighty-four
counties in Illinois (there are 102 coun
ties in the State) are united in a war
to abolish the saloon. Chicago is belted
with outlying districts, and if these go
dry the great city will be environed by
a dry belt. In this area are about 3,000
saloons. There are only about eight
cities in the State exempt from this fight.
Decatur, 111., where 13,000,000 bushels
of corn are annually made into grists
for the breweries, is one of the storm
centers.
Fourteen counties in Michigan will
vote on local qption this week.
Danyille, Va., will try again the local
option issue for the third time in six
years. The election comea ofF April
15th, and the atruggle is. if anything,
more bitter than ever.
NO NEEO TO BE UNFAIR.
(Ciliich Valley Neara.)
Whercr in all newspaperdom or in the
history of the most heated, not to aay
fanatical campaigns, will you find such
an intemperate, misleading and unfair
statement as this from the Times-Dis
patch:.,
"They (the prohibition adyocates)
believe that the devil makea all the
liquor; that hell is liquor on fire; that
every drop of distilled liquor is a drop
of distilled deviltry; that the man who
tirinks a drop of it commits a ain/ that
the man who drinks a glass of it com?
mits a crime, and that the man who
takes a drink every day is fit for trea
son, stratagem and spoila, and in the
highest degree an undeairable citizen."
. The most intemperate, long-haired,
ignorant temperance advocate in the
wildest daya of the temperance cam
paign never surpassed this wonderful
utterance from a paper priding itself
on being "supreme" in Virginia. Sup
pose such a misrepresentation and mis
statement had been made by a prohi
bitionist or the Anti-Saloon League,
what would the papers in Richmond
have said?
The temperance advocates can be as
sured, however, that such manifestly
unfair and exaggerated announcements
as the above will do their cause good
rather than harm. The position of the
Anti-Saloon people is pretty generally
understood now?not the man but his
business?not a fight against liquor per
8e, but against its sale in open saloons.
Not against the man who takes his
drink. but against the manner of his
getting it. But every time a paper
representing the liquor interests, or a
saloon keeper himself has anything to
say on the subject they attack the men
who are fighting the open saloon, they
proceed to "fling mud" at individuals.
The above clipping from thie Times
Dispatch is a surprise and a disappoint
ment to the many friends of that excel
lent paper who are conscientioualy and
honestly opposed to the open saloon?
citizens of high standing in the State
as well as in Richmond. The truth
becomes more and more apparent at
eyery turn that the saloons of liquor
soaked Richmond have ardent and
warm supporters in the Richmond daily
papers, and the temperance and anti
'aaloon cause must fight the battle with
out their support.
A GUEST BOOK.
A guest book is an easily acquiredad
dition to any home, no matter how
humble.
I have a pretty leather covered book
(a cheaper one would do) and in this
have recorded the names of all guests
who have stayed over night. To have
the names in their own chirography
adds to the interest. We have been
married but three years, and it doea
not seem as if we had had very manv
guests, but when the names are all
together they make a very entertain
ing list. \ You will find more states and
cities represented than you imagined
you had entertained representatives
from. Some say anticipation ia better
than realization?but in this case you
will find the pleaaant memoriea which
linger of the guests are the best of all.
?Home Department April Nationa
Magazine.
Consumption it les* deadly than it used to be.
Certain relief and usually complete recovery
will result from the foUowing treatment;
Hope, re?t, freah air, and? Scotfj
tmutsion.
ALL DRUCOI1TS: SOe. AND fl.OO.
Eetabliahed ln 18G2.
C. S. 8CHERMERHORN &. SON,
Recelvera, Shippera, Dcalers,
GRAIN, IIAY, MILL, FEEDS, 8EED OAT8, LINSEED MEAL
COTTON SEEI> 31EAL, OLUTEN FEEO.
Alao Diatributora of
THE PUR1NA POULTRY FKEDS,
127 and 129 Cheapside, <**??? p?? straato BALTIMORE MD
THE "OUTS" AND "INS."
(Frcdorlckabursr Frec Lancc.)
There are several papers in thia
State that are everlastingly crying out
against an imaginary machine which
they say exiata in the body politic of
Virginia. They don't aeem to know
the difFerence between an organized
party and a machine-ridden or bossed
party. Organization is cssential to suc
cess in party management aa it is in busi?
ness enterprises, and thus organization
must have an intelligent, wise and pa
triotic leadership; must have some
head, and that is the case in Virginia,
so far as we know or observe. The
papers that are kicking and knocking
at what they call a'machinenow wereas
silentas death itself when others were
In charge of the political organization.
The intolerable tyranny of the so-called
machine now was not seen, known or
felt by these papers when certain oth?
ers were at the head who dominatcd
the party and declared its policy. Ah,
there is a great diflference, as an old
timer used to say. "between who and
which"?a very great difference be?
tween the "outs" and the "ins." The
outs cry aloud and spare not, while the
"ins" laugh and are merry.
CONCEIYED IN SIN.
[Nortbamptoii Timea.1
Since the infamous primary plan has
been in operafeion the great masses in
the rural districts scarcely know what
to do. One fact, however, ia indisput
able, all of the people know that no
poor man can, under the primary ay?
tem aa now conducted, run for any
office becauae he has not the money to
defray the expense of a primary elec
tion. Simply infamous. If the State
Committee decides that the people may
have precinct meetings to select tha
delegates to the State Convention, then
the people will have it in their powor
through their own chosen delegates in
convention assembled to throttle the
whole primary system. A syatem con
ceived in sin and brought forth in iniq
uity. The idea of candidates for nom
ination having to pay for the bighar of
ficea within the gift of the people from
$1,000 to $17,000. We believe the lat
ter ngares represent about what Mr.
Williard paid as hia expenaes while he
was before the people aa a candidate
for Governor. We know not how it is
in other parts of the State, but the
primary does not meet with favor in
this section.?Hallifax Gazette.
PEARLS FROM THE SHELLS.
Glory is its own reward. Men who
do things for glory get glory and that's
all. Men who do things for money get
only money?that's all they get. My!
I'd hate to have nothing but money.
That's the poorest man of all. But
tho3e who do things to make others
happy are doing things for the pleasure
of doing them. Now if you don't think
that pays just you try it. It will make
you more happy than anything else. ?
Buster Brown.
TURN THE HOSE ON HIX.
"Mother, mother, mother, turn the
hose on mel" said little Willie, as his
mamma was dreaslng him thia morning.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"You've put my atockin'a on wrong
side out," he aaid.
Without
Alcohol
A Strong Tonic Without Alcohol
A Body Builder Without Alcohol
A Blood Purifler Without Alcohol
Ia Great Alterative Without Alcohol
A Doctor's Medicine Without Alcohol
Aycr's Sarsapartlla Without Alcohol
A
We publiah our fcrmulaa
W? banUh alcohol
y from our m?dtein*a
Wa urg-a you to
con.ult your
do.-tor
ifers
Ayer's Pills are livcr pills. They act
directly on the liver, make more bile
secrcted. This is why they are so valu
ahle in conntipation, biliousness, dys
pep-iu, sick-ltcadache. Askyourdoctor
) oa ' n- ws r. bf tter larative pill.
>' .-.'ia J. C. lyerCo., Lowall. Bm.?
SHINGIES! SHINGIESII
We keep conatantly on hasd 4,5, and
6 lnch cypreas ahingles at lowest prices.
W. A. Dakkkon A Bbo.. Wecnu.
_ PROFESSIONAI,.
R W. PALMER,
*, DENTI8T, *
(Bank Building.) Kilmarnock, Va."
DR. G. H. OLIVER,
BESIDENT OENTIST,
IRVINGTON. - . VIRGINIA.
(Office over Bank.)
5fnX?,U".0T,de Gm ??Jmlnleterpd.
8boC 1 iM.SS3?-for slt"?*" ?>f ??7 length
Termif "aah!"eVera'UM>t ,u ,dv???
W. T. MAYO,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Haoub, Va.
H. **? CI1ASE,
SURVEYOR,
KILMARNOCK, VA.
doue. TAXEF* aDd Pr?mpl,3r
\yAUNER BALL,
ATTOBNEY AT LAW,
MONASKON, LANCA8TER CO., Va.
aagaatgatafc*11 the CourU of th" ??
PromptattontlonKivca to allleg-albualneaa
\y# McDONALD LEE,
(NOTARY PUBLIC.)
CITILENOINEEBANDSUBVEYOB
1HVINGTON, VA.
mI?.1d8i>!urv0Tod *nd P'*ta made. Katl
^i t*.-^Bn." Bnd 8P?el?catloiia for Ilrid.t
MONUMENTSAND GRAVESTONES
To all who con
template (he erec?
tion of a Mouu
ment, Statue or
Graveatone in Mar
ble or GraDite, it
will be to their
interest to call on
or address
LAWSON & NEWTON,
Cor. 11th and WIMIama SU..
NORFOLK, - VA.
Bell 'Pnone No. 3 752.
ICE!
ICE! ICE!
PURE and SOUD, LOWER than
CITY PRICES.
Invite fishermen and others using
ICE to buy in Club Lots, saving
lossage, freight and purchase price.
Write us?or, betterstill, get up a
club of users and let us know how
much you could use at a time and
we will make you an attractive
offer.
CMSFIELD ICEiMK. GO.
CRISFIEIiD, MD.
LANCASTER UNION LODGE, No. *8
A.,F.a A.1C.,
KlLMAKNOCK, Va.
Stated Conimunlcations
montLly?Thursdayaftertha
thiid Monday, 11 a. m.
HEATH8VILLE LODGE, No. 109,
A.,F.a A. K.
Stated Communicalions monthy?
Friday after the third Monday, 11 a m
Rappahannock
Marine Railway Co.f
WEEMS, VA.
Now equlpped for hauling
and repalriug all clasaes of
hoata in these waters.
Wc also bave a couipetent
force of carpcntcra.caulkera
and rlggera. Terma rnodei
ate; aatlsfaclion tfuarantced.
We also have a nlce line
of monlda for launcbes and
yacuts. Call and seeui.