Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-15
NEWPORT NEWS.
A Notable Silver Wedding Thurs.
day At The Casino.
Pension Board Appointed For
Newport News-Number or Pension Ap-
plications To Be Mude At Once New
port News VIII Soon .HeiIo" To Rich
mond--worl On The Casino And Acad-
envy OF Music.

Newport News. Va. May 14.-Judge
j. w. G. Blackstone. of the Circuit
Court, has made a vacation order ap-
pointing a Confederate Pension Board
for the city OF Newport News.
The five gentlemen appointed are DR..
]. w. Ayler and Messrs. ]. Sheldon
Jones. l.. e. helms, ]. A. Buxton and
C. Fl. Bivins. all Confederate veterans.
The act, under which these appoint
ments were made. was approved March
Z, 1900. and is entitled as follows:
ITO give aid to soldiers, sailors and
marines, disabled in the war between
the States. and to every such soldier,
sailor or marine, who, by disease or in
frmities of age. is disabled from earn
ing. or is without the means of pro-
viding support, and that the widows
OF Virginia soldiers, sailors, marines,
who lost their lives in said war in the
military or naval service, or whose hus-
bands have died since the war"
1t is understood that Il number of
applications for pension under this law
able that the board will be kept busy
in the near future investigating the
claims that will be made.
SOCIAL EVENT OF THE WEEIl.
The event in social circles this week
will be the silver wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. b. Bailey, on Thursday even
ing, at the Casino. MIR. and Mrs. Bailey
are exceedingly popular in society, and
will receive hosts OF congratulations
and good wishes on their twenty-fifth
anniversary.
a bevy of charming young matrons
will assist in receiving the guests. They
are Mrs. Phillip Thornton Marye Mrs.
j. Kennedy Cross, Mrs. James Long
street. Mrs. William Foley, Mrs. w.
n. Woodland and Mrs. Charles OFerrall.
The young ladies who will assist in
looking after the pleasures of the guests
are Miss Josephine Rohrer, Miss Ada
Baker, Misses Nan and Clemence Cooke,
Miss Willie Can, Miss Berkeley Ellyson,
Miss Eleanor Harris. Miss Maud Bag
gett, Miss Bessie Wilkinson. Miss
Louise Nash, of Norfolk. and Miss
Madge Jones and Miss Mary Shield, OF
Hampton.
| During the latter part of the evening
there will be dancing for the young peo-
/ pie.
TELEPHONE EXTENSION.
BY the first of October Newport
News and Richmond will be connected
by the new long distance telephone line,
plans for which have been going for
ward for some months.
WORK ON ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
The workmen who are finishing the
! interior of the Academy of Music have
made some remarkable changes on the
inside of the new playhouse during the
past month. and in few weeks the
building will be ready for the decora-
tors. The opera chairs will soon be put
in. 1t is understood that a change In
the plan of the interior will give the
Academy a seating capacity of more
than 1920. the number of chairs origi-
nally decided on.
LECTURES ON COOKING.
Mrs. Helen Armstrong. who visited
this city last summer and whose inter-
estng and practical lectures on cook
| ing are so we'll remembered by the
ladies. WILL it is understood. arrive IT,
the city again about the first OF June,
and give another course of demonstra-
tons in this art with the use OF the gas
range.
A NEW PIPE ORGAN.
The ST. Paui.s fcptscopaf- church has
made Il contract with Messrs. G.. S.
Hutchings 81 Co. for a large pipe organ.
The work OF setting the instrument
will be begun Immediately. The or
gan now i'm use is entirely too small
for the church, and the members of the
choir have been unable to do them
selves justice on that account, there
fore the organ will be set in as soon as
possible.
WORK ON THE CASINO.
The work of converting the Casino
into an Opera House for the coming
vaudeville season has been begun. The
glass doors in the rear are being taken
out to make room for the stage.
EPPS DIED.
| ]. IT. Epps, the negro who was shot
by officer Giddings in Rockets Saturday
night, died at $40 O'clock this after
noon. He was shot through the abdo-
men.
There is intense feeling against the
officer in that section. aud he probably
will not go on that beat again. He has
not been arrested.
a SERIOUS CHARGE.
George Gaylor, a white man. is under
arrest i'll Elizabeth City county on IL
charge OF attempted assault on Miss
Moll;e ELLIS. chief Clerk at the Clifton
| Steam Laundry, this city.
| Miss Ellis claims that she and Gay
Tor went out bicycle riding on the Bou-
lcvard yesterday afternoon and Gaylor
made an insulting proposal to her. He
| then took her wheel and money think
| ing to prevent her returning. She man
aged to eludc him and went TO the
! house OF w II. Miller, n farmer, who
drove her to the electric car line and