Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-29
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MFR. r. b. Newman spent Saturday
| and Sunday in Washington.
Miss Mary Sanders has returned af-
ter a visit to friends in Richmond.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. A. Cook are at At
lantic City.
Misses Pearl, Rosa and Ethel Smith
are visiting friends in New Kent coun-
| ty. ts
DR.. E. ]. Applewhite spent the past
week with relatives and friends in Suf-
folk.
Mrs. Ella Randolph, OF Manchester
| is visiting Mrs. Collins, on Washington
avenue.
Mr.. Archie Peters, of Richmond. is
| the guest Of his sister. Mrs. J. X. KIN
Miss Minnie Waddell OF Richmond
is visiting Mrs. Bottoms at 1874 Thirtieth
| street.
Miss Bette collins left Sunday for
a short visit to relatives near Freder-
icksburg.
The United States collier Alexa ndra
is at anchor in Hampton Roads off Old
! Point Comfort.
Miss Wayne A. Hughes, who has
been visiting friends in Richmond, has
returned home.
| Mr. j.. C. Hudgins left yesterday for
a visit to friends and relatives in
Matthews county.
The Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point is
being renovated and will open for the
"t4AeSI SSdSOu. oClCCert l.
Mr.. Edwin Booth, of the Chesapeake
| & Ohio, is spending his vacation with
relatives in Afbemarle county =
Mrs. -. ]. Innis and family have re-
| burned to the city from Fredericksburg
and VIII make their home here.
Mr.. Charles o. Dorset, Of the Daily
Press office, has returned to the city af-
ter a two weeks visit to Richmond.
MT. q. T. Marshall. chief clerk of the
IL. q y. East Bound Department., left
sunday afternoon for a weeks VISIT to
ms mother at Indianapolis. Ind. ia
! Mr. III. K. Yeager. Of the Daily
EPress. left yesterday to spend his vaca-
Ition with college friends in Nottoway
county.
Mrs. J. E. Godfrey and children, who
have been spending some time at their
old home in New Jersey, have returned
| to the CITY.
The steamer Georgia, of the Old Bay
Line. is locked at the Columbian Iron
| Works for repairs to her shaft, bottom
and propeller. -
Misses Matte Leonard and Dona Did
| lake, who have been spending some
! time in Augusta county, returned to
the city Saturday.
MT. G. R. Diggs, of Mathews county.
who was called here by the illness Of
his brother. Master Harry Diggs, re-
turned TO mis- nome yesterday morning.
| Line Common Council will meet next
! TUESDAY night in regular session. The
regular meeting nights Of the council
are the first and third Tuesdays and
not the second and fourth.
| The Peninsula Street Railroad Com
pany commenced the work of laying
! their tracks between Old Point and
Hampton last week. About one hun
dred men are employed. and the work
will be pushed vigorously.
Waiace's Great Circus will appear in
| Newport News September 20. Mr.. ID.
u. Lynch, the advance agent for this
attraction, was in the city today maxi
! ing arrangements for the show. Next
week the circus appears in Washing
ton.
Judge ID. Tucker Brooke's absence
caused the continuance in the Norfolk
court saturday of the cases against a.
Sunmerheld, Joseph Srlverstein and
solomon Hamburger, charged with con-
Spring to defraud the estate Of the
late Bernard ]. Young. The case was
set for Tuesday and the prisoners bail
| ed in the sum of $3.50 each.
! The Ham'burg-American Line steam
er Bosnia is delayed in sailing from
baltimore owing to the fact that she
has a damaged shaft. 1t is thought
that it will be necessary for the Bosnia
to be towed to Newport News to be
locked before she can be repaired.
| Post Chaplain Charles S. Walkley
United States army, who has been on
duty at the Josiah Simpson General
Hospital, near Phoebus, for the past
| six or eight months, has been ordered
| to Fort Monroe for duty, replacing
Chaplafn Charles w. Freeland, who left
! TOR Manila! several weeks ago.