Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-11-11
in AND AROUND PORTSMOUTH
allied to tie advertise

ttvSisary opening on IHuF5diS' Tie
18th.
A well-trained dog is advertised for
sale.
Turkeys sold for very reasonable
prices yesterday considering that they
+ have just commenced to come in.
There was a heavy frost yesterday
and considerable ice in exposed places.
Some one robbed the premises of MIR.
johnson in Cottage Place of Ii mum
Der of chickens Friday night.
M The Board of Supervisors Will meet
{ Tuesday at 1 O'Clock. The Council will
meet the same night at o'clock.
The sanitary report shows that the
health of the city is better now than
IT has been for a long time. There
10 very little sickness OF any kind in
the city.
The Pythians in Galveston have is
sued another call for aid.
a party of ladies and gentlemen will
go out in the county in wagons Non
day night and have an old-tine dance.
The coal dealers are the happicst-
4 looking people in the city. One coal
dealer has reduced coal from 81 to $3.50
per ton.
AIR Gus EclShert. who is in the u.
S. Army in China. writes letter full
of thrilling adventures and hair-
breath escapes that ne has gone
through, and about the cololS of peo-
pie that they are fighting He says
that they are the lowest people on ere
alton. The Filipinos are gentlemen
compared to them. They lie, steal and
murder whenever they can.
There will be i,.usical ano literary
entertainment on THURSDAY. the 18th.
at the residence of Mrs. J. D. Enne7,
Park View, for the benefit of All
Saints Episcopal Church.
Mr.. j. S. Rogers and wife have re-
turned from, New yorl. who're thav
have been visiting on Long Island for
the past two weeks.
Miss Maud Carhart, of Camden. New
Jersey. arrived in the city yesterday
on visit.
See what Levy G Jacobs has to tell
you in to-day's issue and YOU Will
learn of something to your interest
A colored boy named Willie Jackson,
who lived in Baltimore. was knocked
p off q sloop and was drowned on the
suburbs of Portsmouth Friday morn
ing.
Mrs. j. w. Shackleford. of Mathews
county. is visiting Mrs. Moreland. No.
403 South street.
Political friends of DR.. Wise said
yesterday that they were ready to be-
gin Immediately taking dispositions in
his contest against Congressman elect
Maynard.
Mr.. Ben Owens, assistant book keep
er for Phillips e Mahoney. lumber
& dealers, fell Thursday evening and
broke one of the bones in his hand.
The injury was painful, but not Sc
q rious.
st. Johns Episcopal Church. corner
London and Washington streets, Rev
u. S. Farland, rector-Sunday school
Mt $50 a. M: morning service and SER
mon at IL n. M; evening service and
sermon at p. m. seats free and
strangers cordially welcomed.
Collector j. c. Fulford. of tho Ports
mouth and Norfolk County Ferries, has
rendered to Superintendent Davis his
resignation. to take effect December l..
Mr.. Fulford has been in continuous
service for seventeen years.
One hundred men are now employed
at the locks of the Albemarlc and
2 Chesapeake Canal Company repairing
the gates at Gilmerton. where num-
Z Der of leaks have been discovered. The
Sanford & Brooks Company. of 3aiti-
more. has the contract.
Attention is called to the ADVERTISE
ment OF the New York Clothing Com
pany in to-days issue.
There was quite a heavy fall Of snow
from Suffolk to Weldon Thursday
night. It did not lay but the tops OF
i the cars were covered.
Capt. w. III. Barnes. deputy clerk OF
the Norfolk County Court, who has
been at the Gwathmey Sanitarium for
some time, has returned home much
improved.
Clinton Williams, colored. was be-
fore Mayor Baird yesterday charged
with stealing bicycle. His case was
continued until Monday.
The white. woman who was arrested
for drunkenness was DISCHARGED
through sympathy.
There will be chrysanthemum fes
tival at the Athletic Club on Second