Eastern Shore Herald, March 24, 1905
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Infrastructure -- Public : Fences
Onancock and Wachapreague election districts, in Accomack county, have been declared no fence districts. This leaves a very small part of Accomack under the old law. Northampton is gradually doing likewise.
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Moral -- Other violent crime
A lady of Cape Charles was reported to have been assaulted, with attempt to rob, while on one of the residential streets of that town last Saturday night. The negro culprit made good his escape unidentified.
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Moral -- Other violent crimeMoral -- Property crime
Eastville.
Several prisoners have been entered as lodgers here recently. Sergeant Jas. A. Taylor came up from Cape Charles Sunday with an applicant by the name Peacock, a negro of bad repute in Cape Charles, charged with cutting. Mr. C. M. Lankford brought down one from Nassawadox, charged with pillaging from the freight cars. The jail has been empty several times this winter for a month at the time. The spring crop is now coming in.
Court Adjourned.
Transportation -- Railroad - Litigation
Circuit Court adjourned last Saturday for the March term, Judge Blackstone left that morning for Accomack. He is holding court in Hampton this week. The case of W. D. Stoakley, etc., vs. the N.Y., P. & N. Ry., that occupied the attention of the court Friday, was decided in favor of the railroad.
Sweet Potatoes Scarce And High.
reprinted from Norfolk Landmark, March 21.Fields -- Crops - Sweet potatoes : Prices
Owner Of Cargo Of Haymens Finds Ready Demand.
Scarcity in the markets of sweet potatoes, and the unusually high price for which the vegetable is selling, emboldened Captain Whitehurst, of the sound schooner J. H. Potter, to try his hand at a speculation deal in "sweets."
The Potter arrived yesterday with a cargo of 150 barrels of prime Haymen sweet potatoes from the Core Sound region of North Carolina. They found a ready sale at $2.50 a barrel, and were being disposed of yesterday afternoon in small lots. At this time last year sweet potatoes were selling for $1.50 a barrel. Capt. Whitehurst said he expected to close his cargo by Saturday.
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Migration
One of the greatest drawbacks to an increase in immigration to the South, is the manner of the treatment of the stranger in some communities. In the whole South the country places as a rule make it hard for the stranger by the treatment which they receive. Thousands of sons of Old Virginia have drifted to other fields among total strangers, they have been taken up, and in many cases are loaded with the highest honors, so that Virginia today has more than twice as many sons representing other States in Congress as she has in her own right. The young men of every section of Virginia go away and meet with the welcoming hand, yet it must be said that when the stranger comes to the State there is often the complaint of coolness and unneighborly indifference. Yet our greatest need is this immigration. Every man that moves into a community is worth at least $1000 a year to that community. If good people could be brought into the State, awakening industry and giving employment to others, then so many young people of the State would not have to look to other places for homes. Let us therefore give the cordial hand to the stranger seeking a home in our midst, encourage them by kindness, and the fruits of it will return to each one many fold.
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Infrastructure -- Public : Schools
The editor of the Herald recently had the pleasure of a visit to the Franktown-Nassawadox high school, a visit that was highly enjoyable personally, because of the cordial welcome, and it was a privilege not often accorded ye editor.
This excellent school is the fruit of the local spirit of enterprise on the part of the people of the two thriving communities ably seconded by a progressive board of trustees. The school is in charge of Prof. O. L. McMath, who has as his assistants Miss Margaret Wescott and Miss Duncan. The music department is under Miss Carrie Watts, of Franktown. Music in the public school is a new departure for the county.
The first of the year the school moved into their excellent new building that stands about halfway between the two villages. It is a two story structure with four lecture rooms, and is conveniently arranged. There are about one hundred students enrolled, but the bad winter had its effects to some extent. This has however been overcome by the awakened interest in educational matters in that community. It is to be hoped that the parents will not deprive their children of the splendid advantages they enjoy until and except where it becomes absolutely essential for the wellbeing of the family.
Franktown and Nassawadox have abandoned the school houses that for years have been their local dependence, but are now proven inadequate. While many memories cling among those old places, they should live for an inspiration under better advantages to do better things.
Education, refinement, virtue, are a growth, spreading their influence far and wide, and descending from generation to generation, neither the shock of war, or revolution, or political upheaval can wholly destroy it. But nourishment is needed, and the school and the church furnish these. The one leading the mind on to grasp greater things, to reason out the problem of life, to open up a new world of greater ideals and aspirations. The other perfecting and purifying all.