Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-30
BRIEF ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mrs. Warner l.. Brooke and Master
Doughlas S. Brooke, of APO Freemason
street have gone to Houston, Va.
where they will spend the summer with
Mrs. Brooke's sister, Mrs. ]. G.. Shack
elford
Among the excursionists who leave
tonight for Niagara Falls. via the Bal
timore and Ohio, are the following: Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Odell. Miss Lucy
Odell. Mrs Hugh j. Taylor Mr.. and
Mrs. f. NJ. Shelby
Miss Mamie Rucler. of Lynchburg,
Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Fred.
Aunispaugh. No. go Butte street.
MIR. w. Bullitt Fitz-Hugh. editor of
the Cape Charles Headlight. is in the
city. He Is accompanied by Mrs. Fitz
Hugh.
The car, No. lo3. referred to in the
Hunierevlle items in yesterdays Vir-
Sinian-Pilot. was not an ocean View
railway car.
The Fire Committee met yesterday
afternoon and transacted routine bus
mess. such as approving bills. etc.
Inc street Committee met last night.
Only routine business was transacted.
Rev. Charles d. G.lkeson. OF. The Lam
bert's Point Presbyterian Church. will
preach at the Second Presbyterian
Church tonight at s o'clock. This ser
vice Is preparatory 10 the Communion
service sunday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. T. Gwathmey left
last night for New York. TO spend few
weeks.
Messrs a. p Warrington and John c.
Tilton left last night for New York
where they VIII take steamer for
Europe, They will be abroad about two
months.
We direct attention to Mr.. Trotter's
advertisement. which appears in an.
other column. and note he is selling
drugs. etc. for cash only-a movement
in the right line.
The Market Street NJ. f Church
brought TO Norfolk from Petersburg
sionists. who spent the day ut Vir-
sinia Beach and Ocean View, returning
home in the evening.
The hardware merchants OF Norfolk
nave decided TO close their stores from
the LIST OF July to the 18th of Septem-
Der al o'clock p. IN.
Mr. w. r. Lumlev and daughter left
last night on the Old Dominion steamer
for Utica. N Y.
MI and Mrs. T. a McFarlane took
passage on the Old Dominion steamer
last evening for Bridgeport, Conn
Mr.. Thomas Mayer. of Richmond,
passed through Norfolk yesterday en-
route for Cuba. whittier he goes To ac-
cent position with The Commissary
Department of the United States Army.
Mr.. Nj Il. Crowell. general agent Of
the Old Dominion steamship Company
here, has returned from Philadelphia
and New York.
Mrs. l.. ~ Il. Hunter will erect four
two-stoiy brick houses on the corner
Of 81. Paul ana Scott streets-the
corner building Will have "A store on the
ground floor.
Observer 1. J. Gray is confined to his
rooms with nilammatory rheuma tism.
and ii may be several days before he
Is able to he out again In the mean
Time Lieutenant Max Wagner is in
charge of the Weather Bureau Office
here.
Mr. Richard Paulson. Of Brookiyn. n.
Y. has accepted The position of night
cleric at the Monticello Hotel Mr.. ].
Y. Smith. whom he succeeds. has re-
turned Ia Baltimore
Mr.. II. /. Davis. of No. 276 York
street, left last night via the Baltimore
and Ohio for Cleveland. Ohio
Mrs. John Twohy leaves this morn
ing via the Chesapeake and Ohio for
White sulphur Springs. West Va.
Lieutenant Commander w c. Eaton.
who has been stationed at the ship
yard at Newport News. left yesterday
via the Chesapeake ana Ohio for san
Francisco lie has been assigned to the
IT, ). :. PHILADELPHIA. now in drydock
at tAe Mare Island navy yard