Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-07-14
Virginia News.

The Home for Confederate Women
is to be located near the soldiers
Home, in Richmond, which has been
purchased by the Board of Directors,
the first payment on the purchase
price, $4,000. having already been
made by Mrs. d. n. Burgess, secre-
tary, representing the Board OF Dis
rectOrs.
County conventions at Bowling
Green, Caroline county; Heathsville,
Northumberland county, and East
vile, Northampton county, met Mon
day and elected delegates TO the Fred
ericksburg convention, July 20, in
structed for Congressman, w. A.
Jones and endorsed the Kansas City
ticket and platform.
There is movement on foot to
have a grand ratification meeting in
Richmond early in the campaign,
under the auspices of the Old Domin-
ion Democratic Club, and the plan is
to invite the distinguished New
Yorker, David b. Hill, who received
such an ovation at Kansas City, to
make the principal address.
The board of visitors of the Vir
ginia Military Institute have determ
med to provide a resident surgeon
and also trained nurse, whose servi-
ces shall be confined exclusively to
TIE institute. For the maintenance
of the latter Hon. Joseph K. Willard,
of Fairfax county, graduate of the
institute in the class of 1886, has
donated $500 year.
The Republicans have taken no for
nal steps looking to the opening of
their campaign in Virginia. Head
quarters will be opened in Richmond
about September l, provided some of
the campaign money is apportioned
TO this State. Park Agnew the State
chairman, is one of the Collectors OF
Internal Revenue, and he will prob
ably be able TO spend but little time
there. He could direct the canvass
from Alexandria.
Col Charles O'Brien Cowardin
editor and president of the Richmond
Dispatch, died Thursday 9th inst. His
malady was typhoid fever, which at
tackled him about June 16. Colonel
Cowardin was about forty-eight years
old, and one of the most popular
newspaper men in the South. The
late Charles A. Dana, the brilliant
editor of the New York Sun, few
years ago said that he was one OF the
brightest as well as one of the sun
NEST men he had ever met.
The State Board of Agriculture will
hold its next meeting at the Cham
berlin Hotel at Old Point next Tues
day. This session of the board will be
an important one. The proposition to
have farmers institutes throughout
the State will be discussed, and the
subject of establishing experimental
farms will be given consideration. 1t
is Commissioner KOiner's desire to
have one farm in the east, in the
trucking section;one in the west, and
another in the tobacco belt, each fully
equipped for it's work.
Old Blandford Church, Petersburg,
is to be converted into a Confederate
memorial chapel. There are in the
old church II large windows, which
will be set aside for the II Confeder-
ate States to be used as memorial
windows, each State furnishing its
own window. In addition there are
three small windows which will be
assigned for the same purpose to
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri.
Petersburg will have separate me-
mortal of the 9th of June battle,
probably in the form of a pulpit or d
rostrum.
10 complete the chapel and provide
for its presentation and use it will be
necessary to have doors and a floor
Of concrete. To supply these the
ladies of the Memorial Association
have decided to invite 10-cent con-
from children OF Peters |
burg and of the State at large.