QUINTON
Cold and clear and all have begun to feel that Christmas is, near. Already one can get the odor of nice fruit cake and boiling hams, etc. The old gobbler and fine fat fowl await the fatal day when they will be led to the gibbet, where the execution will take place without ceremony. All merchants are putting in heavy stocks of goods, expecting fine sales. We hope they will cut out the sale of pistol cartridges, that often lead to the death of some one, with the only explanation
Let New Kent follow the example of our neighbor county, Henrico. No cartridges for pistols sold, no trespassing, no cutting and carrying away by wagon and automobile our beautiful evergreens, holly, cedar, running cedar. Every year crowds come down here and strip the forest of the beautiful trees for Christmas decorations. They have no more right to go into a man’s forest and cut and carry away those beautiful trees than they have to go into a man’s cornfield and carry away his corn crop. That is the reason our birds leave us in the winter: their winter food, the holly berries, is carried away. Yes, carried away and sold for fancy prices.*
Thanksgiving day was generally observed here. Many sportsmen were out, but very little game was killed, as they were told to move on. This they did, while they had a chance and going was good. Henrico county did some fine work, as many as 20 huntsmen being arrested for trespass and hunting without license. Each was fined $15 and costs. This was a sad day, as many had to eat their dinner at the expense of the county taxpayers.
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TRUTHFUL JEEMS.
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