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0)1 said label shall be inscribed a certificate, signed by both parties, setting forth that the enclosed sample; the name of the manu facturer, name of the fertilizer from which sample was drawn, and time a>id place when it was drawn; and the cessel shall then be packed and forwarded to the commissioner of agriculture and the commissioner of agriculture, on theanalysis of said sample, shall forward one copy to the seller and one copy to the purchaser of said fertilizer.”
An interesting law passed by the Virginia legislators, also in the 1895 session, concerned cruelty to children: "It shall be unlawful for any person haring the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years to sell, apprentice, gire away, let, or hire out, or otherwise dispose of such child to any person in or for the cocation or occupation, service of purpose of rope or wire walking, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat in any place whatsoerer, or for any obscene, indescent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoerer.”
Two laws were passed directed only at Rappahannock, both dealing with improvements to the roads. Appointed for this purpose by that long-ago Assembly were Charles Green of Hampton, C.C. Eastham of Wakefield and R.E. Miller of Stonewall. These gentlemen were charged with laying off the public roads of each magisterial district of the county into sections and appointing an overseer for each section. The road commissioners were paid two dollars a day not to exceed $25 a year.
Justices like E.T. Keyser were responsible for seeing that these civil laws were carried out. In addition to this and to sampling fertilizer from time to time, they tried all misdemeanor cases and small civil cases until the trial justice system took over in the 1930’s.
An Old-Time Sheriff
Serving as sheriff both in the days of the justices of the peace in Rappahannock and under the trial justice system, Sheriff Hubert Keyser held that office from 1919 to 1941. “He was a man with common sense,” remembers Aubrey Keyser. “He never carried a gun and he was never overpowered.”
Keyser remembers that the prisoners were treated well: “They always had meat, and beans or rice, and greens, even some sweets, mostly syrup.”
There was a jail break once, while Ed Smith was the jailer. Six or seven men were confined, having broken into the post office at Slate Mills. “They only had stolen a very little bit,” said Keyser, “but it was a federal offense, and a felony, so they were in jail awaiting trial.”
Ed Smith was a blacksmith as well as a jailer. Somehow, perhaps while they were working around the jailyard, one of the prisoners got a brace and bit from Smith’s shop and all of them escaped.
“I tracked one down to Scrabble, where his family lived,” said Keyser. “It was winter, it was cold as can be. When the family saw me coming, the boy went out an upstairs window and out on the roof. It was that big house on a bank in Scrabble and the wind was blowing up that hill and it was freezing. I knew he was out there, with just his shirt on.
“Well, I waited. I knew he was there. After a while he appeared at the window, shivering and begging me to let him in. So I took him back to jail.”
The young deputy watched his father carry on his sheriffs duties with common sense and compassion. “Sometimes there were family squabbles. My father knew that if he held off a little, they’d settle their dis
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