#Jarratt's Station

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1932: Letters to Santa (Jarratt)

December, 92 years ago!

From the Waverly Dispatch, Volume 45, Number 51, 23 December 1932 - page 4. For Jarratts (remember, the Town was not incorporated until 1938), each child's request has been placed here individually. One child's request (the last listed) was on two separate columns and we digitally spliced them for this post.

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All above are clips, preserved as such for anyone who wishes to keep what an individual person they may know might have wanted for Christmas at a young age. Undoubtedly, most persons (if not all) listed are no longer living - remember, 1932 was 92 years ago.

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Dialville, Texas⁠ ⁠ In 1866, Confederate John J. Dial (d.1928) joined a group of 60 wagons headed for Texas. He arrived in this area the same year and soon began farming the land. ⁠ ⁠ With the 1882 arrival of the Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad, Dial opened a general store near the rail line. The following year, Dial and his wife, Ida Mae (Jones), deeded eight acres of land to the railroad for a flag stop station. The town site he platted at the site of the station was named Dialville when the post office was established in 1885. ⁠ ⁠ There was little growth in Dialville until 1897, when the flourishing tomato and peach production and shipping business revitalized the area. ⁠ ⁠ In that year, John T. Bailey opened a store and reactivated the post office. Dialville's first school was established in 1899. C. D. Jarratt, a leading East Texas fruit and vegetable sales agent, arrived about 1900 and helped develop the town into a leading shipping point for tomatoes and peaches. ⁠ ⁠ Dialville was the scene of much commercial activity during the early years of the 20th century, but by the mid 1920s had begun to decline. It remains an important part of the regional and agricultural history of Cherokee County. (Texas Historical Commission- marker text)⁠ ⁠ Photo by @reneepainting⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ .⁠ #dialvilletx #cherokeecountytx #ghosttown #lostintime #leftbehind #explore⁠ #easttexas #etx #nature #texas #texashistory #travel #tx #woods

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A to Z Book Rec Tag

Thank you to the lovely @that-quirky-girl for tagging me, she recognises the book weakness in me. These books are all linked on goodreads, where I have an account, linked HERE.

# - #Junkie and #Rev by Cambria Hebert 

A - Adorkable by Sarra Manning

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen 

Adulting 101 by Lisa Henry 

Alan Partridge: Nomad by Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan) 

The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith 

All the Single Ladies by Jane Costello 

And Call me in the Morning by Willa Okati 

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins 

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake 

Austenland by Shannon Hale 

B - The Backup Boyfriend by River Jaymes

Beauty by Robin McKinley 

The Best Corpse for the Job by Charlie Cochrane

Between Ghosts by Garrett Leigh 

Big Mouth, Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates

Blame it on the Mistletoe by Eli Easton 

Blood Magic by Tessa Gratton 

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne 

Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote 

Breathe by Sloane Parker 

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 

Bridesmaids by Jane Costello 

Brighton Rock by Graham Green 

C - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 

Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan 

The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jessica Rothenburg 

Caught! by JL Merrow 

Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles 

Chance to be King by Sue Brown 

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher 

The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis

Cinder by Marissa Meyer 

Clear Water by Amy Lane  

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 

Cold War by Keira Andrews 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black 

Collide by Riley Hart 

The Color Purple by Alice Walker 

Corkscrewed by MJ O’Shea 

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 

Crossroads by Riley Hart 

The Crucible by Arthur Miller 

Crush by Richard Siken 

D - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black 

Dash & Lily’s book of Dares by Rachel Cohn 

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 

Devoted by Sierra Riley 

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 

Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy 

E - Eclipsed by Dominic Holland 

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine 

Emma - Jane Austen 

Epic Fail - Claire LaZebnik 

The Epic Love Story of Doug and Stephen by Valerie Z Lewis 

Every Move he Makes by Barbara Elsborg 

Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature by Robin Brande 

F - Fairest by Gail Carson Levine 

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by JK Rowling 

Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 

The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien 

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk 

Filthy Little Secret by Devon McCormack 

Fish Out Of Water by Amy Lane

Fish Stick Fridays by Rhys Ford 

Flash Burnout by LK Madigan

Flawless by Lara Chapman 

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman 

From What I Remember by Stacy Kramer 

The Future of Us by Jay Asher 

G - Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah : 

Girl on the Run by Jane Costello

Glass Tidings by Amy Jo Cousins

Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

H - Harry Potter by JK Rowling

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey

The Heart of Texas by RJ Scott

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Helping Hand by Jay Northcote

A Hero at the End of the World by Erin Claiborne

Him by Sarina Bowen

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien 

Holly Lane by Toni Blake

Hostile Ground by LA Witt

Hot Head by Damon Suede 

Hottie Scotty and Mr Porter by R Cooper

How to Repair a Mechanical Heart by JC Lillis

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

A Hunted Man by Jaime Reese

Hunting Lila by Sarah Alderson

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I - I Love the 80s by Megan Crane

If Only in My Dreams by Keira Andrews

Illegal Contact by Santino Hassell

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde 

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Inseparable by Chris Scully

An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley

J - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

 Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

K - A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn

Know Not Why by Hannah Johnson

L - Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote

Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles

Liam Davis & The Raven by Anyta Sunday

Light from the Dark by Mercy Celeste

Lima Oscar Victor Echo and the Truth about Everything by Suki Fleet

The Little Book of Vegan Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

M - Mark Cooper versus America by Lisa Henry

Mark of Cain by Kate Sherwood

Me and Mr Darcy by Alexandra Potter

Merry Christmas Mr Miggles by Eli Easton

Midwinter Night’s Dream by Eli Easton

More than This by Patrick Ness

Motel. Pool. by Kim Fielding 

Mrs Warren’s Profession by Bernard George Shaw

My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey 

My Single Friend by Jane Costello

N - The Nearly-weds by Jane Costello 

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman 

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn 

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

North of Beautiful by Justina Chen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Nothingness of Ben by Brad Boney

Noticed Me Yet? by Anyta Sunday

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

Off Base by Annabeth Albert

Open Tackle by LC Chase

Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron

P - Passing Through by Jay Northcote

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Peter Pan by JM Barrie

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Pressure Head by JL Merrow

Pride and Modern Prejudice by AJ Michaels 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Private Eye by SE Culpepper

Promised Land by Adam Reynolds

Promises by Marie Sexton

Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Q - The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

R - Rattlesnake by Kim Fielding

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Rock Solid by Riley Hart

Roughing the Passer by Alison Hendricks

S - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Shiny by Amy Lane

Shrinking Violet by Danielle Joseph

Shut your Face, Anthony Pace by Claire Davis

Silent by Sara Alva

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Skellig by David Almond

Skin Deep by Laura Jarratt

Slam! by JL Merrow

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

Sock it to me, Santa! by Madison Parker

Someday by Sierra Riley

Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake

Spencer Cohen by NR Walker

Splintered by SJD Peterson

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

Starter for Ten by David Nicholls

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Stay With Me by SE Harmon

Strong Side by Alison Hendricks

Sugar Creek by Toni Blake

Superhero by Eli Easton

T - The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

The Time of Our Lives by Jane Costello

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Tonight by Karen Stivali

Turkey in the Snow by Amy Lane

The Two Gentlemen of Altona by Lisa Henry

U - Unwrapping Hank by Eli Easton

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

V - The Vintners Luck by Elizabeth Knox

W - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

The Walls of Troy by LA Witt

The Waste Land and Other Poems by TS Eliot

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

We were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler

A Weekend With Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly

Where he ends and I Begin by C Cardeno

Where the Lovelight Gleams by Kiera Andrews

Whiskey Business by Avon Gale

The Wish List by Jane Costello

Wonder by RJ Palacio

X - X-It by Jane George

Y - Y: The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Z - Zero at the Bone by Jane Seville

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1919: Sussex v Jarratts, Basketball

From the Waverly Dispatch - Vol. 2 No. 3, November 7, 1919 - page 8; no author noted.

Sussex High School expects to have a match game of basket ball with Jarratts High School Saturday on the Sussex court.

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Jarratts High School is still standing, but is in disrepair. Noting that November 7, 1919, happened to be on Friday, we are not certain (at this moment) if the Saturday in question would be the 8th, or the 14th. To be continued?

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1914: The First Cotton Bloom.

From the Times Dispatch, July 5, 1914; no author direct

THE FIRST COTTON BLOOM.

Sussex County Shows Up in Great Shape in Spite of Drought Conditions. Jarratts, Va., July 4. - F. E. Williams, one of the up-to-date farmers of this part of Sussex County, has sent to the Industrial Editor of The Times-Dispatch the first cotton bloom that appeared in this region this drought year, and doubtless a picture of the same will be in Sunday's paper. There was much talk of the drought and the dry weather, and many farmers in this region got very blue, but the rains have come and with them the outlook for big crops of all kinds was never brighter. The cotton bloom sent you by Mr. Williams is good evidence of this fact. The Sussex crops are all right, and Jarratts, the wideawake town of the gool old county, is on a boom, and so is Waverly and Wakefield and all the other villages of the good county. (Note -- The cotton bloom above referred to came in due time to the Industrial Editor, but inasmuch as its bright colorings could not be fixed in print it had to be passed by and was mailed to a friend out West that he might learn how things come about all right down here in Old Virginia in spite of dry weather and other untoward conditions; when the good folks get busy and hustle, as they usually do in an emergency. Old Virginia never tires and don't let us forget that.)

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Please remember, the Town of Jarratt, Virginia, was referred to as Jarratts, Jarratt's, Jarratt's Station, and/or Jarratt's Depot until it was officially incorporated in 1938.

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1914: Farmers' Institute; Lecture Held

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 6, 1914; page 12. No author noted.

Farmer's Institute Successful Series Held Along Route of Virginian Railway. The series of Farmers' Institutes held in the past week at points along the line of the Virginian Railway, was concluded yesterday afternoon with a meeting held at Huddleston at 2 o'clock. During the week large crowds attended all of the meetings. Addresses were delivered, and demonstrations in advanced methods of farm and dairy work given at the following stations: Walters, Sebrell, Jarratt, Alberta, Kenbridge, Victoria, Phoenix, Brookneal, Altavista, and Huddleston. The series of Farmers' Institutes was conducted by the State Department of Agriculture in co-operation with the Virginian Railway. The transportation of the party of educators in agriculture and dairying was in charge of S. M. Adsit, general freight and passenger agent of the railroad

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1902: Liquor license revoked

From the Richmond Dispatch, January 4, 1902, page 3. No author noted.

Relevant material:

The court revoked the liquor license of W. C. Hamlet, at Jarratt's Station.

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Sometimes it is hard to distinguish what is and what is not - and, apparently, it was not important enough to have an article about it... but it was important enough to shove into the middle of an article about a court case that was going to be retried, alongside failed attempts to have meetings of Council.

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1880: Disturbance at the Catholic Church, Jarratt, Va.

From the Staunton Vindicator, July 9, 1880, page 2. Author unknown.

At the dedication of St. Francis Catholic church at Jarratt's, a railway station near Petersburg, Va., Sunday, 27th ult., much indignation was caused by one or two Protestants from that city distributing around the grounds tracts opposing the Catholic doctrines. The act was disapproved of by the Pro estants of the vicinity.

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1921: Safe Blown Open

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Friday, July 8, 1921, page 5. No author noted.

SAFE IN A. C. L. STATION BLOWN OPEN BY BURGLARS PETERSBURG, July 7. - Police of this city and towns along the Atlantic Coast Line railway between here and the Carolina border are on the lookout for the burglars who, early this morning, blew the safe in the Coast Line station at Jarratt, in Sussex County, about thirty-five miles from here, and carried off the contents.

The burglars evidently thought the safe contained a large amount of money and were disappointed in finding only about $40 in money and two railroad passes The blast that wrecked the safe and damaged the office did not awaken any residents of the neighborhood.

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1879: Catholic Church near Jarratt's Station

From The Evening Star, front page, September 22, 1879. No author noted.

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1908: The Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Va.

From the Times Dispatch: Richmond, VA., Sunday, April 19, 1908, page 2. No author noted.

The Bank of Jarratts JARRATT, VA. Authorized Capital, $25,000 Safe, Liberal, Courteous and Progressive. Accounts from one dollar up solicited. We pay 4 per cent. on savings and tlme deposits.

OFFICERS. O. C. Wrlght, president; R. E Jarratt, vlce-president; J. M. Browder, cashier.

DIRECTORS. O. C. Wrlght, R, E. Jarratt, R. W. Jordan, F. L. Pedneau, S. H. Short, J. II. Grant, Joe D. Prince, O. T. Partrldge, L. M, Creath, C. M. Brown, J. E. Person.

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Related article, persons of interest: ---> [Dr.] O. C. Wright, and two boys - [the son of] O. T. Partridge, and [the son of] C. M. Brown - died when a train hit their automobile; article found here.

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Wedding Announcement, 1903

The times dispatch, November 26, 1903, Image 4

Bain -- Jarratt

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1942: Navy visits Jarratt for ...baseball?

From the Daily Monitor Leader, September 18, 1942, page 5. No author noted.

HI THAR, STRANGER When the Norfolk Naval Air station baseball team visited Jarratt, Va., the home team lined up something like this: B. Rideout, ss; L. Rideout, 1b; M. Rideout, cf; D. Poole, 3b; J. Poole, c; lf; D. Barnes, 2b; F. Barnes, rf, and L. Barnes, p...

When a guy named Bolster came in as relief pitcher the sailors threatened an investigation until they learned he was a nephew of one of the others.

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1960: Virginia's Model Mile Is Planted

Found in the Evening Star, May 8, 1960, page . No author noted.

Virginia's Model Mile Is Planted What makes a highway beautiful? Why trees and shrubs, naturally, but just what varieties should be selected? Quince, crape myrtle, willows, elders, dogwood, redbud, jasmine. All of these and many more were planted along the "model mile" of Route 301, the Blue Star Memorial Highway. As part of the plan for beautification of the highway, the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs, assisted by the Virginia Department of Highways landscape engineers and members of the American Association of Nurserymen have recently completed the planting of the mile, or more correctly the mile and one-tenth, through the town of Jarratt. Planted were 390 wax myrtle shrubs, 188 snowy jasmine shrubs, 162 red flowering quine shrubs, 36 American elders and 32 dogwood trees. In all, more than 1,000 trees and shrubs were planted. Robert E. Greene, assistant landscape engineer for Virginia presented the "model mile" at a public ceremony during which a Blue Star Memorial marker was dedicated.

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This marker can be found today on the southbound side of 301 in Jarratt, Virginia, between Mike's Auto and the Exxon station - before you get to the on/off ramp for I-95. Where these trees and shrubs are located is anyone's guess - the median is bare.

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TIME FLIES ^ Remember This? In The Southside Virginia News Feb. 16th, 1933

From the Southside Virginia News, November 11, 1948, page 7. Due to the odd typeface, some alterations were made from the PDF text copy to match the article directly - it just isn't polite to leave words like 'people' being transferred in PDF as peo-| pie to remain as such.

Please also note that, in 1933, the Town of Jarratt was originally referred to as "Jarratt's Station;" it did not become an incorporated Town until 1938.

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A Southside Newsman, traveling in Sussex county this week, swung into Jarratt and found that Batte & Jarratt’s had closed—and' that the community is genuinely grieved. People talked about it with as much feeling as though a personal friend had died—and Batte & Jarratt’s was a store.

Nobody whom the Newsman encountered knew the age of the store. One grown-up said it was in existence when he was a little tot and, like other children, spent his pennies at what they thought people called “Batten Jarratt’s.” So it was quite an old business house, and the leading store among the 13 in that community. At times it prospered greatly, due to its extensive dealings in cotton and peanuts.

The men who owned it, John Batte and Dick Jarratt, are highly esteemed. Both are officers in the Methodist church and Mr. Jarratt was president of the bank there before it closed. One citizen recalled that ‘it was always to Batte & Jarratt’s that the needy flocked.” . . . The hard times hit the firm so hard that it found it impossible to continue the service it had so long rendered to the people of Jarratt and surrounding country, among whom regret is universal.

Said a Jarratt woman to the Newsman: I heard a neighbor refer the other day to Batte & Jarratt’s as ‘the store with the broken heart.’ That was an expression some used last fall when Nick Jarratt’s bungalow was stripped; they called it ‘the house with the broken heart.’

“What, were you never at Nick Jarratt’s?” she asked in surprise. “Well, I can’t tell you so you will understand. If you had ever been there you would know how we all felt when piece after piece fell under the auctioneer’s hammer and all those lovely antiques were crated up and carted away.

“There were beautiful, choice pieces which had been the pride of old homes in the country all through this section of old Virginia. Nick Jarratt had collected them and put them into his brick bungalow. Then he opened his bungalow to all comers at all times.

“Why, everybody in all the village shared in that home. Many brides were given receptions there. Many strangers were invited there to dine. Countless relatives and friends were guests there for house parties and weekends. Even tramps knew it as part theirs.

“When the master of this house of antiques died there was talk of raising funds to buy the place for a community house. But the times made this impossible. When the beautiful things had all been sold and the bungalow stripped, we thought there could be nothing sadder than the house with the broken heart. And now,” she added, shaking her head, “Batte & Jarratt’s gone.”

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No author was noted. Any mistakes/misspellings were in the article as writ. All news articles shared on this Tumblr account are part of the history of the Town of Jarratt, Virginia, and its people.

You can find out more about the town's current history on JarrattVA.fyi - "Jarratt, VA, USA: For the People."

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TEXAS HISTORY Dialville, Texas In 1866, Confederate John J. Dial (d.1928) joined a group of 60 wagons headed for Texas. He arrived in this area the same year and soon began farming the land. With the 1882 arrival of the Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad, Dial opened a general store near the rail line. The following year, Dial and his wife, Ida Mae (Jones), deeded eight acres of land to the railroad for a flag stop station. The town site he platted at the site of the station was named Dialville when the post office was established in 1885. There was little growth in Dialville until 1897, when the flourishing tomato and peach production and shipping business revitalized the area. In that year, John T. Bailey opened a store and reactivated the post office. Dialville's first school was established in 1899. C. D. Jarratt, a leading East Texas fruit and vegetable sales agent, arrived about 1900 and helped develop the town into a leading shipping point for tomatoes and peaches. Dialville was the scene of much commercial activity during the early years of the 20th century, but by the mid 1920s had begun to decline. It remains an important part of the regional and agricultural history of Cherokee County. (Texas Historical Commission- marker text) Photo by @reneepainting