Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-23
ON THE PENINSULA
THE NEWS IN THE OLD DoMrNI0S's
ANCIENT CAPITAL.
The LATE DR.. ]. ". NASH.
Preparations for the FuneraI-The
Proposed Telephone Line Through
College Football Team.

WILLIAMSBURG, VA, September a.
(Special.)-The remains of DR.. John w.
Nash. whose death was noted in to-day's
Dispatch. viii be taken tomorrow morn
ing TO Powhatan county, where the
interment will be made at his fathers old
home, near the county sect. The pail
bearers will be DR.. L. 5. Foster. John l..
Mercer G. L. Armistead Captain c. u.
Trevillian II. d. Cole. y. T.. Brooks Ro-
bert G.. Barlow, William l.. Spencer, Nj.
4. Harrell. and DR.. George Hankins. De-
ceased was a member OF Lodge No. s, A.
+. and A. NJ. which will escort the re-
mains to the depot here, and committee
from the lodge will go as far as Richmond
with the body. The Eastern State Hos
pital will be represented AT the funeral
by DR.. Z. r. Southall DR.. Frank Nash.
the only son Of the deceased. arrived from
Washington, where he lives, this morn
ing. and will take the remains to Powha-
tan, where all arrangements for the fune-
raj are being looked after by DR.. Paulus
Irving, Of Richmond. who went up to
Powhatan this morning for that purpose.
OF the three doctors who were associ-
ated together i'm the management Of the
insane asylum here, i'm 1895, all have died
within a few years of one another. Or.
Henry Shield, assistant. died I'm 1895; DR..
James II. Moncure, Superintendent, in 1898
1ast NovcmbeD, and in less than a year
he is followed by DR.. John w. Nash.
Dr. Edwin G. Booth. with his son, John
Thompson Booth arrived here last eve
ming at o'clock. after having travelled
fully 200 miles I'm n buggy through the
counties between his home, Carter Grove.
and Richmond The Doctor and his son
,-fc al Of he In a-rfxrar estates
Curtis Neck among them, at all Of which
he was royalty entertained. The Doctor
was out securing the right Of way for
telephone line up the Peninsula via the
James-river farms to Richmond, and was
very successful.
Mr.. Walter Burke, formerly of this
town, now residing in Hampton with his
parents, has been engaged by William and
Mary to train the college football team
during the coming season. and will be
here soon after college opens TO begin his
work. Mr.. Burke is one Of the best anna
teur football players in the State, and
great things are expected this season
from the William and Mary eleven under
his coaching.
Mrs. r. A. Shuttle, with her little son.
Murkland will leave on the west-bound
train tonight for Charleston, Kanawha
county, W. Va, TO visit her sister, Mrs.
V. T. Churchman. Mrs. Schultz expects
to be gone about a month.
Captain ]. II. Topham will leave in the
morning to spend two weeks with his
daughter, Mrs. Samuel Richards, In Port
Norfolk. The Captain, before returning,
expects to extend his visit TO Washing
ton.
Colonel James T. Christian, who has
been quite sick for several days, is feel
ing somewhat better to-day.
Miss Sadie Malone, after a delightful
visit TO friends in Richmond, has gotten
home.
DR.. George A. Hawkins, with his daugh-
ter, has returned home from Richmond.
IL was the intention of Miss Hankins 10
go on to Farmville to enter college, but
she was taken sick in Richmond and had
10 come home.
Clarence Newman, son of ex-Treasurer
Newman, of York county. has gone TO
Blacksburg to continue his course of me-
chanical engineering at the Virginia Poly
technic Institute.