Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-10-28
SUFFOLK.
Two Artists In Gayest Manhattan
Company Come to Grief.
They WIN Try Their Luck in a Norfolk Play
House hamor About Proposed New
smithiield Bank-An Aged Lady Dead
Registration Completed.
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oui1oik, Va. Oct. PA long way
from home and without friends or dol
lars James West and II. Jay Fields
better known as Bobby Fields, were
to-day thrown on their own resources
IN Suffolk. A board bill was staring
them In the face and they were
threatened with arrest.
Fields and West are two of the best
artists in 1.-The Gayest Manhattan"
!. company, which gave performance
mere Friday night. They expected the
resi- Or the company. to leave here to-
Day on the 1906 train for Tarboro, n.
G. where they We're billed tonight. and
did not get up very early.
The first thing Fields and West knew
was that the manager and company
hau gone TO Norfolk on the SPA train,
having decided not to give the Tarboro
date.
The men say they meant to close with
the Manhattan people anyhow. one of
them says he has $50 coming, but that
didn't help him with Mrs. Matthews
board bill
Finally Manager ELAN. OF the City
Hall Theatre. advanced enough cash
to play next week and earn stake at
Barton's Auditorium Theatre in Nor
folk.
1.-THE .Gayest Manhattan" company
indicates by not playing Tarboro that
they will change the route or maybe
diSband, though that is not known posi-
lively. They are booked next week in
Goldsboro.
Before leaving Suffolk n member of
the company declared they were going
back to New York. They couldn't
stand Southern press notices. he said.
ABANDONED NEW BANK.
A telephone message from Smith
field tonight brings word that the pro-
posed new Citizens Bank has fallen
through. That was due in part, 1t is
said, to the fight and strength devel-
oped by the Bank of Smithiield. the
only other financial institution now
existing in that town.
The Bank of Smithfield has given
notice that the rate of discount begin
! ming November /. will be cut down to
6 per cent. The report that they had
jncreased the intrest on time deposits
IS not true.
s holders withdrew because they thought
sfthe present bank could handle the bus
fness for while. and that the town is
not large enough TO support two first
81 class banks.
ANYHOW. n number of those who had
subscribed gave notice of withdrawal,
and the Citizens Bank Will postpone
its engagement.
The stockholders OF the CITIZENS had
already had meeting and named ON
IS GERS and they expected to begin Dusi-
ness about December /. They had n
list of good officers. No one Will lose
anything by the abandonment, and the
public gains by concessions at inc
Bank of Smithfield.
AGED LADY'S DEATH.
Mrs. Emily Susan Holiday. widow
of the late Major Francis d. Holiday,
who saw Confederate service In the
Sixteenth Virginia Regiment, died early
to-day at the home of her son, a. f.
Holiday. near Copeland. aged 50
years. Mrs. Holiday had been i'll
four months with rheumatism. The
funeral will take place at , o'clock TO-
morrow afternoon from the Suffo!k
Methodist Church. The deceased was
q member of that denominat'oh. me
burial will occur in Cedar HILL
Mrs, Holiday was among the most
elderly women in the county. When
she grew reminiscent her converse tion'
+ relating as 1t did happenings hail
century or more ola, WAS very ih'ci
The deceased leaves one son. A. f.
Holiday, and four grandchildren
Miss Katherine b.. Frank a., John {.
and Joseph T.. 3. Holiday. All the
grandchildren live in Suffolk.
The deceased, n daughter of Dixon
Primer. was born in Isle of wight
county. She was a sister of the late
Mrs. William r.. Ellis, or Suhoik, nnu
was one OF eight children. all OF whom
preceded her to the grave by many
years.
GOOD TOWN REGISTRATION.
Registration is over. The books
closed tonight. A careful count re-
yeals S27 names of persons who are
+ eligible voters in Suffolk-59i white ana
233 colored That is a large list for
this town, and indicates full vote
To-night's count completes the new
registration begun last year, and which
was the first new registration in thirty
years or more.
.6l On to-day, which was the last. there
were registered five more colored than
white persons The number of trans
fers away from and TO Suffolk is about
PERSONAL.
Buck Stott. prominent citizen of
Isle OF Wight county. was reported
very Ill tonight.
Miss Annie White. of Norfolk, will
on Monday open public school near
Hurricane Branch's home.
1s Mr.. James II. Shepherd, OF Charlotte,
N. c.. arrived in Suffolk to-day. where
! he will remain for awhile with rela-
The Misses Mcclure are visiting out
of town friends.
r. r. Stallings and X. II. Williams,
of the Currituck School Board, met to-
day in Suffolk and signed teachers
contracts.
A colored boy snatched money from
Wallace Norfleet to-day and got beaten
for his conduct.
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