Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 3

ivir-'iv'vX-V'vH1' v1 V- i 7'-' j' THE TIMES-DISPATCII: RICHMOND VA FRIDAY iAY 291903 1 4 DEATH OF MRS ANNA WICKHAM FRANKLIN DISPENSARY How it Has Changed Conditions In Little Town WILL CURB THE CURRENT Passenger and Power Company After Electrolysis 'j iV-t 'yv i-m Sf-1 I -i fry 4' CIGARETTES Touch the something only good tobacco can reach Shirtwaist Suit Bargain Special Shirt-Waist Suita of Oxford Blue and Tan Madras with seven-gore skirt entire auit piped with whits a grant bargain Good Skirt Values Black and Navv Polka-Dot Duck Skirts trimmed with stitched go bands and whits piping variety of styles from sack $1x5 to 9 eVO walking lengths plain and tallor-mada effects and mors sd with embroidery and tha popular cluny LinK SKIRTS dressy Skirts trimmed besotlfial rsprodnetleo of sn original watar erior pie turs BxB in in seven colors given with aeeh package of Piedmont UgaieUe Ak your dealer IftOg to ENTIRE NEW LOT WHITE STRIPED MADRAS WAISTS roe so MADE PLAIN ALSO WITH LARGE TUCKS FOR 91 e0 37 AND MERCERIZED SILK MADRAS CHOICE PAT- jUn sosessssswodesogossosonoysosssseossnsossnadog "'W TERNS FOR YARD 40-inch Fins effects for yard 40-inch Fins Lawns in solid colon also beautiful range of Mat a' eeeeeeseeefseeeeeoseoeesogeeeensseeeedeoeeee Neckwear 25c Windsor Bows pretty patterns for each 25c Fancy Buttaifly and Bat-Wing Tim g- for each iaH Crockery Bargains 7 JO Fina Carlsbad 60-piece Ten Seta1 hand comely decorated nn pedal sat $000 Fine Chinn 100-pUce Dinner Sets AA top 9 I a a A is Decorated Chinn Cups and Saucers 1 Sc worth 10a for pair 5' Si 'H-W Vs S' Vi AS -TO Wy ISA GREAT IMPROVEMENT Drunkenness Has Decreased Unti There is Scarcely Any of it Seen and 8treets Are Always Or Schools Benefited (Special to Tbs Tlmee-Dlspatch) VKANKLIN SOUTHAMPTON CO YA May The people of the town of ('raeklln are much Inclined to accord to Un Tillman a higher place In the category of contemporary statesmen than Is usually given him for they think he fur-Kittled them the solution of the liquor question and one who has tried to solve that vesed problem will readily see that lb the minds of those who have tackled It there la bound to bo admiration for the man who has solved it 80 far as known Franklin was the first town In the United Salles outside of South Carolina and North Carolina to adopt the Tillman dispensary plan for 'the sale of liquors In other words the town went Into the liquor business for Haelf three years ago and has been selling whiskey and other beverages that cheer and Inebriate ever since And at a good profit to Itself and for the betterment of the community' if the testimony of the leading man of the town Is to be accepted The sale of liquor In Franklin under the dispensary system la not anywhere nearly prohibited The sales for the last fiscal year amounted tq fZUM17 This was an Increase of 2000 over the preceding year There are lass than two thousand people In the town so It will be seen that the whiskey drunk per capita Is not such a low average after all But In the year preceding the establishment of the dispensary the whiskey sold In the sis saloons of the town amounted to about uUbOOU Franklin was known to have as many hard drinkers In It as sny other town of Its slse In the State and the amount of criminal expenses of the town In a year was heavy In addition to that the disorder on the streets wae often very gieat and there were times according to the stories of cltlsens when drunken negroes rondo It unsafe for a woman to appear on the streets without an escort NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENT There has been a most notable improvement sines the dispensary was put Into operation It Is bard to believe as one walks along the quiet thoroughly orderly streets of the little town to-day that three years ago it had a tough reputation among Its neighbors and that the crimL nal expanses of the town were at all greater than the average among' places of the same else Tet many of the best men of tha town tell ms that all this Is true and they express themselves as being firmly of the opinion that the solution of the problems Involved In legalising the truffle In liquor lies In the dispensary It Is true thet there are people In Franklin who are not enthusiastic In their adml- ration of tho system but there la no doubt that If tho question of tho abolition of tho system were to come to a vote of tho people to-morrow a great majority would be found with those whs approve 'of tbs dispensary method of handling tho truffle In strong drink Tho administration of the system must bo regarded as largely responsible for Its success hi Franklin Tha board which has charge of the municipal saloon Is composed sf Messrs 8 Pagan chairman Vaughan and Parker three men of the highest reputation for probity and men who are leaders hr tbs professional and business Ilfs of the town These men without being wedded to tho dispensary system determined from the outset to endeavor to minimise the evils of tho sals of liquor In tho town If It were possible to accomplish such by tho honest administration of tho law It baa been enforced to tho letter The regnla-- tlons regarding tha sale of Intoxicants by tha town are as strict or even stricter than those with which tha municipality surrounded tha saloon-keeper In tha days be fora It took bis business away from him Bl'NRIBE AND SUNSET At sunrise every morning tha dispensary la opened for business and at eun-eet the doors are closed and thia no matter how many customers art waiting to he served The regulations do not allow a drop of whiskey to ho drunk on tho prenyls where sold and tha provision Is also enforced with the utmost strictness though tho vacant lot In which many of the negroes gather to drink together af- ter purchasing their bottles at tha dls-: penury Is wary close to the roar wall of tho establishment Every drop sold Is sold In a sealed package and no man la sold mors than four gallons In tha coifrse of any one day Tha liquor Is not sold to minors Idiots or those persons who are known to be confirmed drunkards I waa assured by members of the Board of Commissi oners which control tha dispensary that there Is not the slightest Intentional vlo-- elation of this regulation by the dispensary manager hut of course it may he evaded and Is The dispensary Is a source of profit to the town Tha public schools of Frank-' Un art tha prida of her every citiien Quality! op The Widow of Col William fVIckham Passed Away Yesterday The death of Mrs Anns Carter Wickham daughter of the lets Major Char Ms Old and widow of Colond William Wink ham 00c ur red yesterday at "More-wood" the home of her mother Mrs Anns Carter Old In Powhatan county She waa In her thirty-third year The funeral will take place at I this afternoon from Grace Church at Jenlto Va OBITUARY Mrs Garnett Mrs Garnett widow of tha lata George Garnett died at the home of her son-in-law Dr George Steel No 400 East Main Street teat night at 11 JO o'clock Bho bad been 111 about ten days Mrs Garnett wes seventy-sight years old and waa held In affectionate regard by a hosts of friends She was from FroderidMburg whers her husband waa long a member of tha well-known firm of Conway Gordon 4k Garnett The funeral arrangements have not been made hut the remains will ha taken to Fredericksburg for interment Mrs Rowland Mrs June Teel "Rowland wlfe of Mr Shannon Rowland died Wednesday afternoon In Washington CL She was the daughter of tho lata Robert and A Teel The funeral will taka place at I JS o'clock to-morrow- afternoon from the Main-Street Station Tha Interment will be mads In Shockoe Kappes The death of Mr Kappes occurred Wednesday morning at hla home No 1217 VenaMe Street Mr Kappes was seventy years of age Ha was a native of Germany but cams to this country In his early life He served daring a portion of the war In Company Twenty-third Virginia Cavalry Ha leaves Ms widow seven children and one sister Thu funeral will take plane this afternoon from tha Venahle-Street Baptist Church Funeral of Mr Ryland The test sad rites over the remains of Mr JoBbth Ryland whose death a day or two ago hs been a source of grief to tha entire community were conducted yesterday afternoon from the residence No 421 west Grace Street Many of the friends and relatives of the deceased were- present to do him a Inst honor The faculty of Richmond College and a number of the students were there The Board of Trustees of the College of which the deceased waa the oldest member met yesterflsv morning and adopted a series of resolutions end decided to attend the funeral In a body -The services were conducted by the Her George Poofter pastor of the First Baptist Church assisted by the Rw Whlfsltt of Richmond The Interment was mode privately The pall -hearers wens as follows: Messrs Rutherfoord Cabell Loute Crenshaw A Peterson Arthur c- Williams Jr Richard Maury and Henry R- Pol-iftra Funeral Services The funeral of Mrs Edith Martin widow of WlHteip Martin whq died in home of her daughter Mr C- Tucker near Howard's Grove took place from the Falrmount Methodist Churcn 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon The burial woe in the family burylng-ground In Hanover county Dr Charles Pepper (Special to The Time-Dispatch) DANVILLE VA May 28-Lflru EL Pepper editor of tha Evening Ba re-celved a telegram this afternoon announcing the death of hie tether Dr Charles Pepper which occurred at his home In Rural Retreat Vs Dr Pepper was one of the oldest and best-known physicians of Southwest Virginia end was surgeon at Emory and Henry College which was converted Into hospital during the war Hie wife died only two months ago Dr Pepper was 12 years of ago Mr Pepper left here this afternoon Dr Chae Pepper one of the beet known cltliene of thle section died at noon to-dsv at hla home near Rural Retreat In this county Dr Pepper was seventy-four years old Hta wife was a Mies Howe of this county who died a few months ago He leavtw four Prof PimperofRuriS Retreat: TV Pepper of Baltimore Pepper associate editor of the Danville Ev-nlng Bee and Mr Barnes Gillespie of Tatewell Va Dr Pepper was tor years practicing physician In this county but retired ev-ernl years since Hs was a native of Montgomery county and served In the hospital department of the Con-federsey during the Civil War The funeral will be held to-morrow James Jones (Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch FREDERICKSBURG VA May 28-Mr James TV Jones a successful termer and public-spirited dtlsen died to-day mt hie home near Gulneye Caroline county after a long Illness aged sixty-tour years He was a Confederate soldier having fought through the Civil War as a member of Company Ninth Virginia Cavalry He Is survived by a widow and five children They are Mrs IJxste Tr inham of Richmond Mis Annie Messrs Wm James A and Hampton Jones the lost four of Caroline Mrs Mary Gardner (Special to The Tlmee-Dlspatch) -FREDERICK'S HALL VA May Mrs Mary Gardner wife of Dr Gardner and sister of Mr Miller of Richmond died at her home near here yesterday morning Mrs Gardner was only sick a tow days The Interment took place at Bethpage Church this afternoon Five daughters and three sons survive her 1 i DEATHS DM In Wsshlngtos Wednesday May ST ions St II TEEL Iielntsd wife of 1 Assam Soerllnd and daughter of tbs 1st Hubert sad A Funeral ton Msia-Btieet Station gATCR-DAT on antral of 1:08 train Interment In Bbockoe Cemetery RICHA RPBOg Died yesterday morning after short hut pelnfUl Illoeas DENNIS BK'llAkDRON aged twelra yearn funeral THIS (Friday) AFTERNOON at s'rlock ton hi late residents No SIS Third Street Friends of the family ore Invited MARRIAGES Married Mey the Bth 1908 st the residence at her ancle Wood of No 1019 I Broad Street by the Rev Dr Cave of the Third Christian Church mil STELLA WOOD of Cnadllle 0 to Mr LKB M'OEUBE of Porta month Va Virginians In New York (EneeUl to Tha Ttmes-DlaMtehl NEW YORK May Fifth Avenue Addison Waldorf Grundy Mao Jones Page Herald Square I Burton Jr: Marlborough Allen and wife 8 Waddell Bt Denis Mills Raleigh Mrs Wilson WOODWARD 4 SON LUMBER ROUGH AND BRESRCD vals (kueral Oil xi Muib Arch $ut Richmond Va EXPERT IS MAKING TESTS Mr Waterman Telia tha Water Committsa What the Company la Doing to' Get Rid of tho Trouble There Is not tbs slightest doubt that tha Passenger and Power Company la making most strenuous efforts to rid tha city of the effect of electrolysis by doing away with that freak of electricity Itself At the meeting of the Committee on Water teat night the resolution that cams from Council requiring the company to re sort to the use of tha double trolley system was taken up for discussion Tha matter waa not disposed of however hut want over to a special meeting to be ealled by the chairman within tha next thirty days This action waa not taken before the electrical expert Mr Waterman of New York had outlined a system proponed by the company bF which the damage by electrolyete would be entirely avoided Mr Waterman exhibited maps of tha districts that had been experimented on and showed that the most vulnerable point was at Seventh and Overton Streets where the current passed to and from the power house Tha district tested embraced that from Thirty-fourth and Broad to Seventh and Overton or Arch At some prints not a trace of electrolysis was observable while at others through physical conditions It was shown that It could not exist In his remarks Mr Waterman said: CAUSE OF ELECTROLYSIS can occur In water pIP only whore current leaves tha pipe and current will leave the pips only when the pipe Is positive to some other conductor tending to the power hours and when the conductivity of the sail Is high that Is when It contains a large amount of water contaminated with street drainage or mineral salts Our experiments have shown that the water of the Jamas River muddy as It was In April waa practically a non-conductor of electricity Our Investigations as to the electrical conditions of the water pipes are not complete but so far ax they have gone they show that a comparatively small area only can be In any danger from electrolytic disturbance The potential gradient of Main and Seventh Streets shows the moat unfavorable conditions found In the city "The high dlfl dlcatlng a high 1 tween the rails and the water pipe -high Insulation la to ha expected between the rails and water pipes In most sections by reason of the cement foundation upon which tbs tracks are laid Substantially all of the danger area Ilea between Seventh and Main and Seventh and Overton Here too substantially all of the fall of pressure occurs and If ws eliminate that area and then provide that any small current that might at any time get Into the pipes shill be taken out of them In a way which will prevent Its leaking out and so causing corrosion the danger will be removed 1 teasing Into a water pipe never causes danger and cannot cause danger That which might damage Is the current which leaks out of the pipe If all opportunity for the current to leak out of the pips Is taken away all danger of damags Is removed and If we take out thia leakage at the right point wa will not cause any Increase of leakage Into the pips I METHODS OF CORRECTION method which wa propose to use Is electrically equivalent to moving the power house uptown The potential gradient of the rails crosses that of the water is near the corner of Seventh and Main Is la the point where the sate area ends and the possible danger ares begins and the print where If tho rolls and the water pipes were connected together and nothing elas dons no current could flow from pipe to earth or from earth to ripe because they sre on the same lead This Is tha point therefore where If possible we would like to intercept sny current that may have gotten Into tha pipe In the negative district and there would then ho no danger district because there would be no current to leak out of the pipes Ws can effect this result provided that wa can put the power house busbar at this point and thereby pump the current both out of the rail and out of the pipe and this Is what are propose to do by carrying sn enormous copper conductor -from busbar directly to this point and connecting It both to the rails and to tho water pipes" -As It had been Indicated that tho experiments and Investigations were not fully completed upon motion tho committee adjourned to meet within thirty days to dispose of tho matter A WARM OLD TIME Acca Tomplo Attends to tho Cases of Many Pilgrims Thorp was a warm rid thna at tho Masonic Temple teat night when tho Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Acca Temple held a grand concatenation and 1 escorted a large number of pilgrims across the sands of the desert ana adorned them with the regalia of the order The temple has members all over the State and many ol those who were received Into the shrine teat night were from other cities and town The fun he gan early aftd continued until early thia morning and there waa a sound of revelry by night end ell night too- Sixty-five or mare made the eventful pilgrimage end were Invested with the fes and the emblems of the order Among those who entered the shrine were many of the eminent Masons here to attend the gathering of tha Scottish rite men and others wno have not climbed to such a dixxy height on the tedder of Mason- After the Initiations a hsndsom banquet was served and the fun waa renewed and repeated BASE-BALL TO-DAY Richmond Va Newport News at Broad Street Park Championship base-boll will ployed here to-day and the season will open with a whoop Richmond and Newport News will the opponents and aa the teams era ev ly matched a good game will result ntspatrick and Holland will be two of the stare on the Richmond end of the game "Ball" will he called at and all cars will lead to Broad-Street Park Well-Known Man Here Judge Henry Holt of Staunton waa In tho city yesterday on hi way home from hla paternal home In Surry county where he ha been pending a few days Judge Holt presides ever the Corporation Court of the Valley city and will hold the same position In the new Judiciary system of the Btate He wae formerly actively connected with the militia having hem the first captain of tha reor- mixed West Augusta Ouarde and prior that time a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute where he woe classmate- of Lleutenant-Oovernor Willard Judge Holt is sn adherent of hi old ochool fellow for the governorship Mr Jacob Similar of Lynchburg Is among the prominent Masons who has been In tha city attending- the gathering of that order He 1" a thirty-second degree man and an enthusiastic member of tha order While In the city Mr Bhsner ealled on Governor Montague of wham lie Is a greet admirer and a warn tporter The Cigarette of Quality FREE OFF TRACK IN MANCHESTER Freight Cars Damaged Near South End of Bridge ARE ASKED TO REGISTER Two Fine Entertainments Lest Nigh Enjoyed by Fina Marriage Invitation Funeral Sor vices Groceryman Aatigns Manchester Bureau Timm Pis patch 1 No 1101 Hun Street Atlantic Coast Line officiate are investigating the causes of the several derailments of freight can on tho Manchester side of tho bridgei A number of freight cars were thrown from tha track about noon on Sunday and again surly Tuesday morning causing considerable damage to euro and contents Nobody was hurt In either accident but tho cause of tha trouble will be found out if possible VOTERS REGISTERING Voters of tho Third Word ore urged to rlglster to-day aa thle will he the test chance before election A number placed their names upon the registration books yesterday and the officials hope that not a single eligible voter will tet the opportunity go by FINE ENTERTAINMENT Tho anniversary entertainment given at Leader Hall last night upon the sixth an-nlversay of tho Royal Tribe of Joseph wee enjoyed by a large audience 1 AU those who took part deserve the credit and applause given them and these entertainments will tend to lnoream tho membership of tho lodge MARRIAGE INVITATION Cards are out announcing tho approaching marriage of Mr Alfred Holliday add Miss Duke at Cowardln Avenue Church on Juno 6th A terga audience enjoyed the entertainment at fipR ley's Hall Bwanaboro teat night 1 rooeeda of the performance will go tok 'X CHIxens Benevolent Association of k-'Anshora FU1 1RAL SERVICES The funeroi of Mr Wm Davie who died Wednesday night at hla home No East Third Street will bo this after-ioofi and the burial will be In Maury Cemetery The remains of Mrs Gallagher were yesterday taken to her old homo In North Carolina tor burial She died at her residence No 1408 Hull Street after a long Illness GROCERYMAN ASSIGNS Nunnelly who has been conducting a grocery store at Eighth and Hull Streets filed a deed of assignment In the Corporation Court yesterday naming Smith Latham aa trustee Tha stage and fixtures will be sold at auction to satisfy liabilities amoyntlng to less than IUB PERSONAL AND NOTES The Mistletoe Pleasure Club will give Its first picnic of tho season at Falling Creek to-day Miss Florence MoRea will preside at the entertainment to be given at her home this evening for the benefit of tho Presbyterian Church A game of ball will he played at Ninth and Porter Streets to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock between the Little Elks and the Porter-Street Boys TWO ELOPEMENTS mMoes a Hagerstown tha Mscee of Virginia Valley Lovers OBpecial to Tha Tlmao-Dtepateh) HAGERSTOWN MD May Cythtnia A Mann and Mr John Beane a young couple from Roanoke Va were married this afternoon at the Hotel Hamilton by Rev Tombaugh The bride Is a student of Roanoke College end her pa rente It Is stated objected to her getting married The groom planned the wedding a month ago and hod written to friends here to make arrangements The couple will to-morrow upturn home Mlse Fannie Blanks of Dampeon Va and Edward McCrory of Marlbrook Va were married here thle morning Rev A Station performing the ceremony The couple arrived here on the early train and dispatched a messenger after the minister and another after the clerk oftha court who Issued the license The couple left for home within one hour Hazardous Attempt On Sunday evening at I Mr Reed (Miller) of the team of Reed 4k Wright athletic comedians and sketch artists will attempt the hasardoua feat of riding down the stone steps leading from the driveway to tha new pumphouse Mr Reed la a daring young cyclist of this city MINNESOTA MAN SICK OF WINTER Pulled Up Stakes to and Die In To Buy In Virginia Mr Hastings of Minnesota reached the city yesterday and expects to make Virginia hla home He says he Is tired of the tend where eight months of the year Is winter He wants the tend where eight months of the twelve are summer He called to see Commissioner of Agriculture Kolner and after a brief talk with him waa satisfied that Virginia waa Just the place he wanted He wishes to have a hennery and therefore will not need a large place But he has pulled up stakes so far as Minnesota la concerned Ha goes at once tp Florida on a little resting trip and at the end of A few weak will come back to Richmond prepared to get a farm near Richmond He seemed very much Impressed with opportunities In Virginia aa painted hr Mr Kolner A 710 Main Street Blue-Flame Oil Stoves Gas Ranges -v Gasoline Stoves Ovens for Stoves Steam Cookers A s' Cream Freezers Water Coolers 'U' Hose Hose Hose Sprinklers Filters Filters Cooking Utensils Garbage Cans Oil on 5 011 Gasoline All Kinds of Stoves Repaired 'V- Orders from the Country Given Prompt Attention 'I III 710 Main Street in a Nam THAT DEPENDS MIIRIMN'S Meins Style ri i VJ- A 5chnurman Tailor Haberdasher Hatter 907 Main Street VESTRYMEN MUST BE COMMUNICANTS The Episcopal Council to Meet Next Year in Peters- burg (Bpedal to The Tlmee-Dlspatch) ROANOKE VA May 28-The Kplsoo pal Council for the Diocese of Southern -Y trglnls adjourned to-night to meet next year In Petersburg At the session of tha Council this morning Rev Jams Robeson was admitted to tha priesthood and ordained Reports of the committees on state of the church and finance were presented The finance report showed to tho credit of contingent expenses and an effort was made hr some of tho members to have the assessment reduced After a -lengthy discussion the Council decided to make no change In tbl nseese ment- The church at Clifton Forgo was made a parish By a clo vote amendment waa made to the canon requiring vestrymen 1 hereafter to be communicants Ti: 'M and are claimed to be the but of any placs of equal else in Virginia I waa told by a county official that the schools in kept up almnet entirely by revenues from the dispensary THE PROFITS Under tha law tbrss-elghtba of the profits from the sals of whiskey through tbs dispensary go to the support of the schools of the town three-eighths go to the town for general purposes one-eighth to the district schools and eps-elghth to the Stats AU parties undoubtedly reeehrs larger returns In the form of revenue than they did when the liquor was sold under license granted to six dealers in the town Tha dispensary has not bean driven out by blind tigers as was feared by Its friends at the time of Its establishment and for a vary good reason The dispensary board has made It a rule to keep on hand and for sate all tha time a cheap brand of whiskey the cheapest brand in fact and this leaves ea tbs-only Inosntlvo to tha illegal sals of liquor tha desire to catch tho trade which may want It after sunset or before sunrise In a town the else of Franklin this trade Is sntSm ly too small to make It tho risk of fins and Imprisonment Thera Is soma fairly good whiskey sold in the dispensary1 Much of tho wMakay la bought bottled hut a groat deal Is also purchased In hulk 'and bottled at tha dispensary there being a bottling department la the rear of tbs building -In addition to whiskey brandy several vsrleles of wine gin rum and Extra Dry Is kept In stock Tho sals of gin by reason of tha largo number of negro paronn Is large WAS A COMPROMISE It roust ha remembered that the die- SUNDAY SEASIDE OUTINGS round $100 TRIP evenTsunday Newport Newt Old Point Buokroe Ocean View and Norfolk gi-00 Round Trip Capo Henry and Virginia Beach 1E Round Trip Two special fast trains lea vs Richmond every 4:10 A and A parlor car attached 1:10 A trains for Buck roe Old Point Ocean View and Norfolk via Ocean Vlaw A train for Newport News Old Point and Norfolk Returning leave Norfolk (Ocean Vledr Railway) I Ocean Vlaw 7 JO and Old Point arriving Richmond Tickets also good returning on 4b train leaving NorfoU 4 Old Point 4J5 and Newport News 4:44 Passengers for Caps Henry and Virginia Bench bandied on Chesapeake Transit cart new electric line running every half hour Norfolk to Capo Henry and Virginia Beach A delightful rids along tbs coast In full view of the ooesn 44 Moore Quantity I Good Luck Powders 4s and So can Bad Seal Lye 4a can Evaporated Peaches Be pound Lump Starch 4a pound Good Itica Be pound Best Bice To pound Best Sherry Wins imported gallon Good Port Wins $100 gallon Catawba Wins IBs quart Malt Whiskey SOs bottle Grady's Malt Whiskey Ma bottla Malt Whiskey BSo bottla Casey's Malt Whiskey SBe bottla Sever- Year-Old Purs Maryland Ke $3BO gallon Crown Rye RH gallon Keystone Rya fNB gaDon Corn Whiskey fS gal loo News Boys Whiskey TSa bottla Apple Brandy $SBO gallon Good Rya Whimsy $180 gallon Good Gin fX gallon Blackberry Wlna IBs quart Best Whits Corn SSa par bushel Good Mixed Corn BOa per bushel Best Sifted Onta 48a par bushel 1 Beat Shlpatuff par cwt 1M Best Hay par cwt flM 'Best City Ground Meal lSa pack or 66a par busheL pedal attention given to country ordsra pensary waa established as a compromise For sloven years the people of tbs town had been struggling with the liquor problem Tbs town was sometimes wet and somatlmsa dry- Finally It waa learned that soma of the liquor man and soma of the prohibitionists wars willing to undertake the dispensary experiment A pubUo meeting presided over by Rev Lewleae tha past or of tho Baptist congregation decidedly tin largest and wealthiest hors was held and the people declared overwhelmingly for the dispensary But Franklin got her dispensary law almost by aoddsnt I recall that one day near to tha doss of the session of the General Assembly of Senator hands of this county arose In his placs In the Sonata and sskad for the passage under suspension of the rules of a bill cresting a dispensary for tha sals of liquor in Franklin The Senate bad refused to peas such a measure relating to tha town of Front Royal Senator George Morris of Charlottesville now judge of the Corporation Court of that city arose to obJooL His objection would have proven tad tha consideration of tha Mil and killed It Mem bars of the Senate recall how Mr hands pleaded for the MIL He would not yield to Mr Morris who was on fa la feet near him MR he continued for several minutes to make such an impassioned appeal to tha Senator from Albemarle to withdraw hla objection and sit down that flashy Mr Morris with a laugh and amid ehaera dropped Into his asst and-the Mil was pamad I am constrained to hellers Mr Shands did a good piece of work for Franklin that day NOT UNOBJECTIONABLE would not have the tinpmaelnn created that tha dispensary is unobjsqflonsble There are object Iona Tbs half bottles of liquor on almost invariably short in measurement Of course this is due in the csss of goods bought in bottles to tha oomm lesion merchant and to tho bot-tlemakar in tho os as of whiskey bottled at the dispensary but then is a feeling that tbs municipal government la chesting somebody when a half-pint bottle of whiskey bought does not coma out a half pint when measured Complaint is mads that first-class liquor cannot be obtained at the dispensary I am inclined to think this true But I do not know that this la an objection from tha viewpoint of the prohlMtlonlst The dispensary has not solved the liquor problem fully hut It is undoubtedly a good compromise between tho prohibitionists and the liquor man DRUNKENNESS DECREASED Mr Bell who Is tha manager of the dispensary under the Board of Commissioners soys that Blnoe it has been established the drunkenness has decreased at least seventy-five per cent He thinks the decrease probably greater than that Hla assistant Mr Leary fully beam out this statement A drunken man on tha street la a rare sight Confirmed drunkards are almost unknown The two man named with a negro employ ad in bottling constitute the fores employed by the board to operate tbs' dispensary- The board requires that the a Hairs of the establishment be oonducted on strictly business principles and It Is doubtless true that this has had a great deal to do with the satisfactory working of the system As evldenoe of the way the dispensary Is regarded at home them may he mentioned the fact that the town of Court-land which la the county seat of Southampton after seeing the working of the system In Franklin secured the consent of the Legislature to the establishment of one In Court land I understand it la working satisfactorily There are no mixed drinks sold at the dispensary a fact which has made a Courtland man an odd merchant This man earing the need of a plaoe where the other ooneomltants of a Julep could be obtained near where the whiskey was had recently took out a merchants' license but sells only sugar mint and water Possibly he may also be able' to supply lemon for a punch and the cherry for a cocktail The dispensary cannot yet be regarded aa a thoroughly stable Institution It has not yet fully pa seed tha experimental stage Liquor men oppose It but prefer it to a local option town Prohibitionists oppose it but prefer it to having a saloon in every block The people who represent the mean of sentiment on the liquor question the conservative men of Franklin and Courtland think that In tho dispensary they have come upon a solution of tho Jlquor quostion If liquor Is to be arid But there la always the possibility of the union of the extremists on both sides the extreme liquor man and the extreme temperance man and the abolition of the dispensary Then will oome a renewal of the rid fight over liquor The town would he wet WALTER EDW HARRIS MEMBER CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION DEAD (Special to Tha Thneo-Dtepatah) FLOYD VA May SS-MrA Nhthan Phillips mam bar of the Constitutional Convention of this oounty died this morning at from Injuries received by lite horse kicking him last Monday BIRMINGHAM It Is now reported that In addition to Up eight trainman who were killed In the Southern Hallway freight wrack at Bryan yesterday live trainee four ootered and one white wsra kUledand their bodies Mined Sons Corner 18th and Main Street 'Phone 607 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS FEED AND LIQUOR DEALERS Pride of Richmond Floor f410 barrel or Sre sack Dunlop Flour $410 barrel or 07s sock Daisy Flour barrel or SSa Purs Lard Us 1 Good laud Ps and lOe Bast Balt Posit llMe Good Balt Pork $ia and lOe Genuine Molasses 60s gallon Good Ol Molasses' HOs gallon Good Dark Molasses Me gallon Boat Bright Syrup Me gallon or 10s quart Arhuckloa Coftee PHs pound Cordova Coffee So pound Best New Cut Herring 10s dosen or $A7B barrel Best Ron Herring SOa dosen or fS-TS half barrel Sardines 4s can 'or SSBO oaaa -Genuine Elgin Butter SOa pound Bast Country Butter SSa pound Boot Cream Cheese IBs pound Prunes 4s or seven pounds for SSa Salt 104-pound sacks 4So Balt 104-pound sacks SOe Bast can Tomatoes So can Assorted Jellies 1-quart Mia Os Assorted Jellies 4-pound polls Us AU brands 10c Tobacco I plugs for 1 ADDITIONAL TRAINS Between Richmond and Chaso City Effective May tStlv train No 17 leaving Richmond at I A win go through to Chase City arriving there at 8:23 and train Ka IS will leave Cham City 1 at 4:18 A arriving Richmond at 8:1 A M- nAnmoH A OjSlS IqX Bsa ths yflia lui KaiHawAhHBtecK Kgastaie' 1 a SONS 1 1 It--- f-J-.