Harrisonburg Rockingham Register (Newspaper) - February 12, 1907, Harrisonburg, Virginia 4. Mil fear FEBRUARY 12, 1907. no. 4678 FOLKS Under Treatment hi the Lacey Feb. 6.- Our community Is very much exercised over toe development cases of fever right in town last Miss Emma home ot her James on North Main developed a case Of fever Friday and Mill Manna lives with took hor bed Sunday with the same dreadful Several other pises have alio been but no new ones since Dr. E. Lincoln has taken every precaution to prevent the disease from He bas directed all families under his wherein the disease has those who have been exposed to to for some an order which town folks appreciate very The public school is running and will continue open unless the disease breaks out among the It is understood today that all patients are doing David C. of near was kicked by a colt one day last week and right badly He was and stepped around behind the when he was kicked in the side with both feet by a colt in the adjoining He was considerably but is now able to be up and Dr. J. Lincoln reports She 13-year-old sod of Mr. Mrs. who bas been ill with typhoid fever for some as having no fever at this time and as being on a fair road to Mr. Jennings has had typhoid fever in his family for the last 60 ' First bis son Lewis was then Dallas Both have seriously ill and the services of a trained nurse were required part of the An Odd Lodge has been organized here and 19 members were initiated at hall last Friday Mr. and Mrs. L. together with Misses and Isis Long and Arthur spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. 3amuel W. near Misses Alice Lewen and Cutie teachers in the graded school at spent Sunday with the Mrs. Lydia on South Main Mrs. S. O. Bowman and Miss Frances spent with the E. Wilmer and children of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob J. have been quite ill at their home on Main street for some little son of Mr. and Mrs. Aroh S. who nai been ill for was able to pay his John G. a * D. A. Brock and 1. A. Willis were at New Market one day last week on Mrs. Mary west of is suffering With a swollen caused by J. L. Long is to his room this week by gout 1 Miss Winona Cupp is visiting friends in. Harrisonburg this P. E. is building a new stable in the Miss Vergie who has been suffering with rheumatism of the back for the past two is able to be up and about Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith were in Harrisonburg Sunday to see their Charles eon of L. A. B. F. D. carrier on Route 3, who is ill with Mr. and Mrs. Tom A. Willis and daughter Madeline spent Sunday with the Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Jennings south of spent Sunday with his grand Mrs. Martha pn Main Mrs Burke spent week with her Mr. and Andrew at L. Yancey has been con fined to bis room for a week with A party spent Saturday evening at tbe pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Those present were Misses Bessie and J. Ira and Arthur and Mr. and Mrs. Walter The young folks enjoyed | candy and while ' older folks spun yarns of youth Joseph west of while in his yard one day last leek completely lost his speech and is still usable to speak above a Joe bas many friends who regret his D. Brock had the misfortune to have his right thumb jerked out of place today while leading several The thumb is badly swollen aiU is giving him considerable It is regretted that many from distance who tame to hear Endeavor which to have been rendered at the U. B. church last Sunday Were owing to the outbreak of scarlet fever the society thought best not to redder the Why couldn't our school boards or patrons furnish each with a separate tin cup lor drinking purposes and place a cooler or vessel containing a spigot in every public school room in the so that pupils would be safe from the many contagious diseases that they are so often exposed to in the school Tin cups are cheap and a few dollars would save the spreading of disease and even which is caused by this DRUMS MUST STAY OFF. WM P ON ATLANTIC Southern Won't Carry Ions The Southern ay bas issued instructions to and all their employes against allowing any person under the of liquor to board any of the company's Orders to this effect are now in force on all the principal railroads in the United States and will add greatly to the comfort of the trav eling s A case of this kind was brought to tbe attention of the local officials of the company yesterday A. man of middle apparently from the rural and accompanied by a. who bad purchased a ticket from the station attempted to get on the Special Agent of the was on the platform at the time both he and tbe trainmen refused to allow the man to d the It was apparent that t e an was very much under the influence of liquor and incapable of taking care of His friend insisted that the officials allow bim to take tbe on the train and even offered to pay but there was nothing doing and both stayed in Tbe order is a precautionary both to protect the company in case of injury to that class of passengers and to insure the comfort and safety of the traveling by whom it is generally Detailed Flans for Senator Hale has presented to the Senate the detailed plans for the big battle ship which it is proposed shali be as the equal of any vessel now afloat or The general information as to tbe dimensions of the proposed ship were made public several months but very little has been known as to the strength of the This information now will be given to the all foreign if they de sire in the form of a public doc The plans call for a battle ship 518 3 4 feet with beam of 85 feet 2 5-8 and draft of 29 feet 5 inches with everything on The armament will consist of a main battery of ten 12-inch breech-loading mounted on Ave electrically controlled on the center two forward above tbe forecastle the second the two aft on the main deck on the same and one over the two after There are to be two submerged torpedo The secondary battery will consist of four teen 5-inch rapid fire four 3-pounder saluting four pounder two inch field and two machine guns of Tbe second battery of fourteen 5-inch guns will be located on the gun forming two broadside batteries of seven guns tbe corner guns will be equipped for head and stern respectively Smaller guns will be located in com manding positions so as to give large unobstructed range of Aged of Kt. Crawford and Confederate ' William P. Tutwiler died at bis home near Mt. Crawford early Wednesday morning from a complication of He bad been in bad heal h for some time and had been confined to tbe bouse for several r The funeral wss held yesterday morning at 10 o'clock from his late The services were conducted by Rev. H. L. of the Methodist Interment in the cemetery at Mt. Mr. Tutwiler wis born near Mt. Crawford 71.years He was a son of the late Samuel For years Mr. Tutwiler bad been a shoemaker at Mt. but during the latter years of his life had lived on a farm and bad been engaged in buying and selling Surviving bim are one Miss and one M ifs Martha Jane His who was a Miss died some years Mr. Tutwiler was a Confederate soldier during the Civil serv ing throughout the conflict in one of the Rockingham He had many friends in the of Mt. by whom be was highly LENIENCY Three in Jail and for Charles a youth of 18, who balls from the was tried and con Friday in Circuit Court on charges of unlawfully assaulting William O. Curry and George W. young men of the same For the two offenses is punishment was fixed at three months in jail and fines amounting to When Howdyshell was called for his Mr. James B. asked leave to withdraw tbe plea of not entered n each case at a previous day of the and plead guilty to charges of unlawful For his trial be a jury and go before the The Mr Stephenson charged felonious Commonwealth's At torney Conrad had to waive the charge in the event that the accused admitted his guilt of the lesser of unlawful Mr. Conrad concurred in this whereupon Judge Haas proceeded to hear the The only witnesses examined were Curry and - said that he was stabbed by the accused on January 27, 1906, while he and Howdyshell were both under the influence of hard Knicely testified that on last Christmas while drinking with Howdyshell the latter out at him with a but missed Both vo ing men said they bad been friends of the accused prior to the offense and that their friendly relations were not die turbed by the boy's reckless which they accounted for as being due to In the Curry case Judge Haas gave two months in jail and fined him In the other be limited the punishment to one month in jail and a fine of The punishment meted out to Howdyshell had previously been agreed upon by Stephenson and The latter told Judge Haas that had grown up without parental training or wholesome guidance of any kind and be felt that it was fit case for The boy was industrious and had never proven bad when In response to a reprimand by Judge Howdyshell promised that he would mend his From New York City Naples via to Items from Cheery Cherry Feb. 7,--N W. Lam has purchased a sma farm at New Erection of W. H Pence for to which place be expects to move on the first of We are very sorry to loose Mr. Lam as a but we congratulate tbe people of New Erection vicinity on so fortunate in receiving a most estimable who are not only and but a good Christian and in church and John Showalter has sold his farm near Cherry Grove to his J. N. some 86 acres for with some other consider The graded school with Miss R. Patterson and Miss Miller as is progress ing with some improvements in United Brethren N. F. A. pastor on the Lacey Spring U. B. announces the following appoint 10, Bethel 2:30 p. Special services Chapel March 3, at 7 p. conducted by Rev. W. F. P. E. All members of the church should be present on this important Tbe Quarterly Conference will be held March 4, at 10 a. at Her win All official members of the charge should be present or send Tbe Annual Conference meets at March 13. Aboard the Off Jan. 19, 1907. Dear Perhaps some of your kind readers might interested in a brief run across the Atlantic from New York to Gibraltar en route for There are of course numerous excellent lines of steamship service between these The one I chose is the can and I have bad no reason to regret my The is not one of the largest vessels of the being a little less than 600 feet long and 58 From bold to there the first three being under In these three are placed the engines and machinery for operating the the coal necessary for the carloads upon carloads of foodstuffs for passengers and fresh spring and a large cargo of all kinds of freight except live It requires a crew of over 250 to operate the For not only must there be engineers fire a large number of stewards to care lor the staterooms and the dining but also a large number of work for much of the especially painting the decks and exposed masts and other parts which tbe salt and spray quickly must be done during the Although the Hamburg is a twin-screw steamer and IS never expected to need yet as an additional means of safety for her should an accident disable her a full complement of and tackle is kept constantly in best ready for use at the commander's A great of ventilators run to her lowest supplying every part bountifully with fresh and so the nauseating the of are not found on the vessels of this The great advantage of the elec trie light perhaps never appeals to one than on ship It is comparatively free from danger to the vessel by and can be so comfortably distributed both to the large and especially to the numerous small rooms and hallways so necessary in every Our ship is equipped with the system and every day receives the most important events both from Cape for America and from for and Africa Thursday we were in communication with both at the former being 1350 miles away and the latter 1700. These wireless raes sagf 8 are printed every evening on board in a little At Daily and distributed to the passengers Thus we have had quite a clear account of the Dakota tbe earthquake in the Rocke feller gift Louisville's new and the news of most general interest each This a valuable not to speak of tbat of sending messages ashore At New January 10, at 2 p. m. sharp our commanding officer gave the command ashore 1" This was repeated after the interval of a the gangways were the steam tender began backing tbe out of her and in the center of East River beaded her down slipped her cable and the great own engines began their movement which they must keep steadily night and day for 4455 for fourteen till is with a brief call at Gibraltar and at Soon we had passed New York's great the frowning fortifications of Fort tbe Narrows and Sandy As we came abreast Sandy Hook Light the pilot steam wave than usual break clear over the main and at only a fow meale would our plates persist In slipping from the table into our Of course during the rough seas the most of the and many of the were I happened to be among tbe fortunate who missed no meals and was not sick Our course lay just north of the Azore but too far off tp us to see clearly any but the most western of the Tbe last two days before reaching Gibraltar have been bright and clear and not As we approached Gibraltar tbe coast north and south of Capo St. Vincent showed very great varieties of color and ruggedness of All buildings and even those of tbe villages wore This forenoon wc with an Italian sailing ship from South and one of the ports of She had been out 120 While rounding Cape Horn on tbe 13th of October she was caught in tbe ice and held fast twenty She was out of food and our captain stopped the for an hour and sent to the three boat loads and other necessary The spirit of hospitality among sailors is very Yours very W. B. BBAL ESTATE Conveyances Admitted to Since February 2. The following deeds of bargain and sale have been admitted to record since February 2, 1907. Deed dated April 6, 1906, Polly Dove to Franklin V. S. life time interest in the land of Franklin V. S. Deed dated September 3, 1836, Stephen Harnsberger and wife to John 1,263 acres of land in Brocks Deed July 10. 1906, Charles and Emmanuel Geneva D. lot of land fronting on east side of adjoining and Deed dated February 2, 1907, George C. Burtner and wife to Boyd S. Garrison a certain lot or parcel of land with dwelling located in West End addition to Deed dated September George A. Neff and John to David 38 and 27 poles of land on of Pendleton adjoining Silas May and Deed dated April 28, 19(16, John N. Garber and wife and B. F. Garber and wife to Samuel lots 10, 20 and 21 in Garber & Garber's addition to Deed dated January 28, 1907, Andrew R. Van Pelt to Charles R house and lot about 1 1-i miles west of Singers Deed dated February 7, 1907 Geneva D. Gray to Bowman Gil lot of land and improvements thereon on east side of VERDICT IN MINUTES Defendant's Counsel Mercilessly Flays Wife of L. 7.-Dr. James W. tbe New York dentist who has been on trial here for the of his Bartley T. was The the case were out only a it tie over half an Horner was killed on the night of December 27, 1905, by a shotgun held in Dr. Simpson's Various gossip led to the arrest of the dentist on the charge of His defense was that he did not know the gun was loaded in the first and that it went off entirely by In tbe trial Dr. Simpson's wife and her mother testified for the They present when the verdict was given this Two women and a vacant chair occupied tbe center of the scene toward which the eyes of the jurors were constantly directed during the closing hours of yesterday's which ran late into the One of the woman was Mrs. Charles L. sister of Dr. She was introduced to the jurors in the summing up as one little woman who is a type of womanhood and whose word has been heard and The other was Mrs. Bartley T. widow of tbe man Dr. Simpson is charged with There was paid to ber tbe respect of silence compelled by ber symbols of mourning and ber silvered hair The vacant chair marked the absence of Mrs. Julia wife of tbe It was against her tbat Dr. Simpson's Martin T. Man directed his most scathing is for you to gentle man of the be whether a woman with a lying heart shall be supremo in the issue of her bus She is the woman abii it represents herself 9, P. 3 1904, Alger much of which Is her husband's case is a concerted action to send this man either for revenge or fancied Furman lauded the courage of Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Horner in coming into court and speaking the although the shafts were buried In Dr. Mr. Furman concluded summing Up shortly after 9 o'clock and Justice adjourned OF THE had been the an inter- DEATH OF ISAAC Native of West Rockingham Succumbs to of a well resi died at 4 o'clock Friday morning at his home near the Ashby after an illness of two Mr. Good s severe cold three weeks ago ana later developed During the days bis condition bad been critical and for several days was momentarily ex- a native and WILL CURE HEADACHE I er alongside and gracefully dropped a small boat with two The lay to for a few A rope ladder was let Down came our swung on the lad der into the little gave a farewell salute to our and was rowed away to tbe waiting for him at a little the oare ot ber own efficient officers and the care of fostering our voyage bas been a very good Three days wo had cool weather and what our sailors call a In a calm sea one scarcely feels tbat the is so steadily is she with her and splendidly distributed but enormous So even in these only a few times did a larger his death Mr. Good was long resident of ing been bora hear New Erection 52 years He was a son of John P. whose death occurred some years Early in life Mr. Good was apprenticed to the potter's trade and for years followed tbat Fifteen years ago hi moved from West Rockingham to the Mt. Sinai where he had resided ever Since his boyhood Mr. Good hud been a member of the church and was on honest and up right who was held in high es teem by a large circle of acquaintances in Harrisonburg and vioin Surviving him are his who was of West and ten children Mrs. of Charles of near Mt. Misses Settle and who reside at aud Messrs. of and who live near He also leaves one John of South and two Mrs. Jacob buter and Mrs. Abram of West to hi tbu loving wife A short time after she verbally before Mrs. Simpson granted She mother and I have always been unwilling We were summoned to court on We were asked to tell the truth and that is what we did bas been called to our leaving our home in Northport to confer with Fur man in He summoned us there and we bad to I have nothing to say concerning the of tbe Before the case was d for presentation to tbe jury the prose cution assailed the testimony of S Ettinger He is the witness whose discovery tbat tbe shells end in evidence were n t those from which the fatal charges were 6red shook the State's case to the foundation on Tuesday He was and testified that Mrs Horner held mortgage on a Northport in which his Dr. I. a State was you apply to Mrs. Hor ner for a serond mortgage of 500 and was ' yoJ threaten to testify for the defense in this case if she ' a Frank insisted that tbe shells he took from tbe gun with which Mr Horner was killed were yellow while those offered in evidence are Lawyer Man ton told the jurors that must be in the as he as to a motive for the alleged murder of Bartley Hor is positively no evidence of Horner's determination to make a new he Horner tells one and Mrs. Simnson another story of a quarrel alleged to have between SI and Mr. Horner a few nights before the It is for gentlemen of the to say if is Simpson so loves her husband and Horner so loves him tbat they would send him to the electric This wife has allowed her husband to sit behind bers for a has delivered to the prosecution all the she claims to has done all she could to have him This is tbe way she loves is the love of a true wife Dr. Simpson lived in a home which was a does take Mrs. Simpson driving without his own wife and children? U is often said that woman is a It is true under certain circumstances that a woman may go aside to But why is not Mrs. Simpson at ber husband's bus she not borne food to him in prison and comforted bim with her Is this serpent of womankind the kind described as the noble type ot She Daring Deeds of that Are Unknown and Tunnel laborers are a high grade of and among them are scores of potential although they would laugh if told so. Every time there is a this fact is dramatically An example of this occurred last June in one 6t tbe East river After a blast had been exploded the thirteen men who were working 500 feet under tbe and perhaps seventy five feet below hastened only to be confronted by a rush of swirling water and The dreaded had Part of tbe roof formed bv the river bed had given and water was rushing in. while tbe protecting wos rushing The lights grew dim the tunnel 3lied with as it always does under a Stumbling and the men turned and rushed frantically back to the This big airlock was The foreman tugged at the but it did not The only thing left to do was to scramble up to the small emergency lock The men were in a Action must be quick if they were to be If two meq got wedged in big only for a precious minute might be and with it tbe lives of That was just exactly what was about to when the foreman seized a pick handle lying qn the With this weapon in his resolute be lined up the panic-stricken rain and made them crawl one by one through the narrow opening to Then ho through not a minute tro for the water vas already entering tbe lock as he banged the door leading into the Safe in the lock one of not yet his turned on the hard that they would all have had if the heroic had not stood guard over the valve with the pick handle until bo had brought the whole party out without the loss of a A few days in another thirty men were working out about 120 feet from the lock where n shouted tome and the whole gang made for the They made it easily and closed the except two men who had volunteered to stay and see if the hole in the river could not be stopped it is possible to plug a small hole with a coat or and the river bed will close the hole made bv the FORTY YEARS at Anniversary Happily Observed Home of Mr. and Mrs. Rawley 7.-With more than forty years of happy married life to thoir blessed with a competency of this world's goods and surrounded by neighbors and Mr. and Mrs. J. of the Rawley Springs celebrated tbe sixty-fourth anniversary of Mr. Joseph's The department has always been a feature of thn Joseph which is one of the those households whore appetizing viands take the place of cut napkins urd bowls and re old-time hospitality and are still in Oa this particular occasion the of and seemed more in evidence than over and the ice cream and other tempting eatables were even greater than on previous A feature was tbe unique manner which Mr. and Mrs. Joseph took to surprise their thoy having placed a each child's plate for a neat little aggregating One Mrs. Jesse left for her home in having been a guest at the Joseph and other homes in this locality for some time HAIR
