Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-09
SUFFOLK.
Memorial-Day PreparatiOns-Scho oil
commencement Programmes.

SUFFOLK, VA, May S.-(Special.) 1.-THE
committee appointed by the Town Coun-
Gil to select a date and make the neces-
sary arrangements for the appropriate
celebration Of Memorisl-Day has put
the matter in the hands of Tom Smith
Camp, Confederate Veterans. Thursday.
May 10Th, has been selected as the day,
and Rev. W. A. Barr, the talented rec
tor OF ST. Pauls Protestant Episcopal
church, will deliver the memorial ad-
dress. There will be a parade of the
veterans and military. and a half holiday
will be had on that day.
Immediately after Memorial-Day the
annual school commandments Will be-
gin, and the first on the list being that
OF the primary and introductory de-
partments OF Suffolk College. conducted
by the Misses Finney, which will take
place at the City Hall on Friday night,
May Hst. The commencement exercises
proper will occur on the 6th 18th. end
Sth Of June Rev. T. Men. Simpson. OF
Farmvllle, one OF the leading divlnes
of thA Virginia Methodist Conference,
VII preach the baccalaureate sermon
and Rev II. e. Johnson ID. D., of Nor
folk, who is an orator of fine repute,
will deliver the annual address before
the Victoria Literary Society.
The closing exercises of the West-End
Home School-Mlss Lizzie j. King, prin-
cipal-will occur on the 4th of June. Mr..
ST. Leon Scull, of Windsor, n. c., a
former cadet at Suffolk Military Acad-
emy. VIII deliver the address.
The following gentlemen have been
elected TO represent the Main-Street
Methodist church at the District Con-
ference, which meets in Hampton in
July: DR.. w. d. Wood, DR.. a. w. Eley.
and Captain G. T. Parker, delegates;
Dr. II. A. Morgan, E. L. Folk, and R.
W. Baker, alternates.
Tom Smith Camp, Confederate Vete-
rams. has decided 10 visit the Tennessee
Centennial, and will leave Suffolk for
Nashville on the 2lst Of June.
At the recent marriage of Mr.. 3. w.
Sebrel and Miss Annie Little. Of South
ampton county, which was reported in
the d spatch of last Sunday. Mr.. Charles
Turner, Of Richmond, presided at the
organ and rendered a beautiful wedding
march, which had been composed espe-
cially for the occasion.
Rev. ]. +. Love, pastor of the Suffolk
Baptist church, is attending the South
ern Baptist Convention, now in session
at Wilmington. n. c.
Rev. w. B. Holcomb, of Ashland, Va,
who recently conducted a very success
ful revival meeting in Suffolk, r now
engaged in a similar work in Smithfield
some twenty miles from here.
Mr.. Henry Jones, one of our most
prominent citizens, has been critically IN
this week with pneumonia and heart
trouble.
Mrs. S. r. Chandler and her nephew
Master Marion Butter OF Baltimore, are
guests of Mr.. j. ID. Dickerson's family,
on Main street.
Mrs. T. Jackson Eley is visiting rela.
tives In Surry county, and will extend
her visit to Smithheld.
Mrs Arthur Woollord left here last
Wednesday for Baltimore, where her
husband has an important position with
a railway company.
Mrs Frances G. Skinner. of Hampton.
has been visiting her niece. Mrs. A. E.
Cramer, Of Suffolk, this week. Mrs.
Skinner was a resident OF Suffolk over
fifty years ago. and though the town
has grown and improved very much, she
was enabled to recognize a few old land
marks.
Ii is a notable coincidence that within
the past two weeks three former students
OF Suffolk College have been married
namely, Miss Dove Bate Of Texas; Miss
Annie Little, OF Southampton county,
and Miss Marie Ruby Gillian of Nanse-
mond county.
A very enjoyable musicale was given
last night by the pupils Of West-End
Home School.
Mr. William II. Twtty died at 5
O'Clock this morning, at the residence OF
his mother. on Clay street. The de-
ceased was born in Murfreesboro'. n. G..
July 5. 1876 and was the oldest child OF
the late Rev. James f.. Twitty. d. D.,
OF the Virginia Methodist Conference.
who died in Petersburg in 1892. Young
MIR Tw.tty, who had been connected with
the Bank OF Commerce IN Norfolk
for over three years. was taken sick
with lung trouble just FIVE months ago.
and was al first critically Ill, but gradu-
ally improved. and some two or three
months ago he returned 10 his motAers
home In Ssffolk, where he passed away
this morning without struggle.