Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-09-21
BRIEFS.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Barrett will leave
today Tor trip to Canada.
Mr.. William Mayo has returned to
his home in Annapolis. Md.
Miss Minnie French has returned
from visit to Powhatan county.
A marriage license has been issued to
Mr.. Thomas P. Doyle and Miss Rosa
f. Mcfarland, both of this city.
Miss Vivian Binns has gone to Farm
Vile, where she will attend the State
Normal school.
Rev. Graham Lambeth. Of Hampton,
Va. addressed the Epworth Lengue
last night.
MI. and Mrs. Sol Peyser have re
turned home, after few weeks So
journ in the North
Mr.. J. L. Jones met with a painful
accident at the shipyard yesterday. He
had his left foot crushed by piece of
iron.
Misses Cammie Jones and Nannette
Hara, of Morrison. left last evening
for Farmville to resume their studies
a; the State Normal school.
Misses Gatewood and Mary Goddin,
Of James City county. are the guests
of Mrs. N. II. Turner, on Chestnut
avenue. East End.
Territory, and Mr.. T. D. Harrison. Of
Manchester. are the guests of the
Misses Davis. on Lafayette avenue.
Mrs. G. B. Stephenson and daughter.
Of Bluefield, W. Va, who have been
the guests of Mr.. L. c. Tabb. in East
End. left yesterday for Baltimore.
Miss Virgie Davis left yesterday for
q ten days visft~-1o Lexington. Va.
While there she will visit the Natural
Bridge.
Much interest is being taken in the
proposed reception to Naval Construc-
tor Hobson when he arrives here, and
the probabilities are that the people
will give him a hearty welcome.
Corporal r. G. Balm, OF the Peters
burg Grays. Company G. Third Vir-
ginia regiment. is visiting his sister.
Mrs. w. S. Broadwell. on Lafayette
avenue.
Rev. E. T. Wexford. pastor of the
First Presbyterian church. left yester-
day for the Eastern Shore. where he
will attend the annual meeting of the
Norfolk Presbytery.
marriage license has been issued to
Mr.. William S. Campbell and Miss
Maggie Cumming, of this city. Mar
riage licenses have also been issued to
Joseph Smith and Martha Hamlet and
William Coleman and Martha Jack
son. colored, of this city.
Mr.. z. B. Cameron, manager of
klors uptown drug store, who left
the city last Monday for a two weeks
vacation, was married at Chase City,
Va. yesterday morning to Miss Annie
w: Watkins. formerly Of this city.
Huntington Rifles. who has been i'll at
his home in Charlottesville. arrived
here yesterday from that city. He will
leave this morning for Jacksonville to
join his command
Mr.. Joshua Long, of Chester Pa. is
visiting his brother-in-law, Mr.. Lewis
G. Fighter. on Twenty sixth street.
The case of the Commonwealth VS.
L. M. Sturgis. indicted for forgery.
which was set for hearing in the Cor
poratiOn Court yesterday was poStpon-
ed on account of the illness of the de-
PENDANT. who is confined to his room.
4 local dentist pulled a tooth yester-
day morning for w. 4. Smith. q colorel
man. which had been pulled at twelve
times in New York and twice at Spar
rows Point. The tooth was something
more than an inch long and had prongs
on it like the roots of a sycamore tree.
Rev. T. J. MacKay pastor of the Sec
ond Baptist church. will deliver a spe-
cial sermon to the members of the two
Councils of the Junior Order United
American Mechanics in this city, next
Sunday evening at o'clock.
| Mr.. Josiah Walter Hawkes., who is
employed in this city by the United
! States Shipping Company, and Miss
Annie Catherine Terry, one of Peters
bnrg's bellies. were married in that city
yesterday. The bridal couple inn
mediately left for the North, where
their honeymoon will be spent.
The members Of Bethel Chapter,
Daughters of the Confederacy. have de-
cided to wear badges of mourning for
thirty days in honor of Miss Winnie
| Davis, who died at Narragansett Pier
on Sunday. The Chapter wired mes
sage of coincidence to Mrs. Jefferson
! Davis and will send q floral design to
Richmond to be placed over the last
resting place of the Daughter of the
Confederacy."