The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-07-31
Long Distance Telephone Company ReneWs
lis Application for a Charter.
NO QUORUM AT CITY COUNCIL MEETING
Dcntb of I'm Estimible Young kindly
suffolk Draws IL Delegate to the
conferences Edwards Gets Skxiy
D~nys-Snic acknowledgements uud
otherwise.
Suffolk, Va, July soth. 1897.

on again after an abandoned attempt
to get a franchise from the old council.
the new council was summoned In spc-
cial session to hear the reason why they
should grant the company Il permit
to come. TO Suffolk. The Councilmcn
didn'; have the opportunity to learn
about it-not many OF them. They
didn't come TO the meeting. The best
clerk Mcleod could do after waiting an
hour or 50 hearing an informal Discus
Son. was TO four members pres
ent. They were Messrs. George w.
Truitt. II. r. Cullcy. Ii. l.. Saunders anu
John c. Smith. Some OF the absent mel
were out Of tG'vil. -
CHlPLET WAS THERE.
Representative Hunt Chipley, OF the
American Long Distance Telephone
company. OF New York. was there. SO
was the company's attorney, Il. II. IIol-
land. For n part of the evening they
sat In II corner Of tho Council Chamber
and talked. Then the telephone man
took another chair, and in a convcrsa-
ttonai, but intelligent way he discussed
with the four city fathers present and
with Mayor Brewer the he
represented. Iie answered lots or
questions and met every objection Of
fercd. Mr.. Holland also talked and
read a long petition signed by business
men. asking the lung distance wires be
allowed to come. Ghiplcy talked fairly
and In n business like way. No action
was taken.
GIRL GRADUATE DEAD.
Miss Bette Mpjette died his afternoon
at 80 o'clock at The home of her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. r. s. MoJette. In.
S~outhampton county seven miles from
Newsom. She had been i'll for three
S\.Hrkc with II. t,+llntj fo- ', -
eraI Will take place tomorrow afternoon
from the home At ! u'cl.ck. Rey. j. c.
l'ushee will preach It.
Mary Elizabeth MOiette was 10 wears
OLD. She was we'll known In Suffolk,
where she lived for several years and
where she graduated in June last with
marked honors. The deceased leaves
n sister. Miss Enn Mojettc. or South
county. and one brother, Eddie
Mojette, of China Hill, Ga. Another
brother died last spring. She was n
cousin OF Col. Thomas w. Smith. Mrs
X. II. Morgan and Miss Bette RiddIck,
OF Suffolk.
MISS MoJettc was said to be among the
sweetest and most lovabic of the many
VINO have graduated at Suffolk College.
SUFFOLK GETS ONE.
Those from Suffolk who attended ibc
y iSt W conference, when
adjourned last night after n three DAYS
session In Hampton, have returned.
They were Revs. ii. C. Cheatham and
u. Is. Austin and Judge w. J. Kilby.
lor. w. ID. Wood and Captain George
1. Parker. Suffolk has Il delegate to
the Virginia annual Methodist Confer
ence, which VIII meet next November
IN Danvillc. 1t Is Judge Kilhy. The
other three from thisd district are: Hon.
j.. c. Parker, of Franklin: John c. King
OF Portsmouth ana d. w. Moger, OF
Hampton.
EDWARDS , .>TVICTED.
Joe Edwards had a II airing to-day. He
was given sixty days in Jail and fined
81. Justice ~. S. Eley had court In the
County Court house. Edwards was
dence of J. n. Smith, in Nansemond
county, and stealing 5000.
AROUND THE CLERKS OFFICE.
The Bellville Loan and Improvement
Company to-day transferred 10 the trus-
tees of Little Grove Baptist church one
small tract OF land in Sleepy Hole dis
trict for s75.
N. Fl. Harris sold In trust to r. l..
Brewer e. Son one lot of bicycle imple-
ments for SlJU.
SAFE ROBBED.
Some person went into the Postal Tel
egraph office last night while Manager
"" G.. Elan was at supper II stole
checks to the amount OF 81 or $40. They
were taken from the safe.
NEWS CHIPS.
r. r. Thomas, Of Old Point, was This
week examined In Suffolk by DIR. II. w.
Campbell, n member OF the State Den
tai Examining Board.
Mrs. AS. Da!den and her grandson.
Robert WEBB, are at White Sulphur
Springs.
Superintendent Lee Britt Will examine
public school teachers in Suffolk next
Tuesday. Colored eachcrs will come
Thur day.
a colo:ed man was trying 20 sell n for
ty-three pound watermelon to passcn-
gers on the $40 Seahoavd train this af-
ternoon. He charged forty cents fer it,
and d:dn't find n buyer.
The ladies OF NrwSom are Cettinr on
thusias.ic ove- baseball. They viii soon
give an entertainment to help along the
team financially.
John Young. twenty-thrce, and Anna
Bland, eighteen, colorcd, were married
yesterday IN Suffolk.
Professor p. ]. Kernodle, OF Richmond,
is spending n vacation at his old home
in Suffolk.
Mss Lizzie Channel left to-day fo- a
stay with friends In Cambridge. Md.
r.. A. de Bardenavc. OF Franklin, this
week received his appointment as n stu
dant from the Second Congressional!
district to the Medical College Of Nir-
Einia.
Mrs. Lizzie Briggs Is sojourning In
Macon, N. C..
Riseup Jones was to-day in Police
Court charged with trying 10 carry too
much old rye. 1t cost him $500.