The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-22
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PEABODY SUMNER
NORMAL SCHOOL
Able Corps Of Teachers for the One
in Lexington.
LOCAL OPTION CASE IN COURT
The Town Council Accepts Com
promise From the National Bank
for Taxes Mrs. StoncwalI
Jackson's visit.
LOCAL OPTION CASE IN COURT

LEXINGTON, VA, May I--speclai--
Mr.. J. S. Saville, County superintendent
of Schools for EockbridSe. Is competing
arrangements for the Peabody Summer
Normal School, to be held in Lexington
from the I'd to the 9th Of July
TIE following able faculty is announced:
DR.. Charles n Winston, OF Richmond Col
lege, Conductor and Instructor in Theory
and Practice of Teaching; DR.. J. Leslie
Hall, of William and Mary College, Eng
fish Language and Literature; DR.. D. NJ.
Brown, of Petersburg, History and CIVIL
Government: Professor j. r. Guy, OF Bed
ford City, Arithmetic and Algebra; Mrs.
NJ. S. Moffett, of Steeless Tavern, GeoSra-
lhy and Physiology: Mrs. NJ F. NJ. Per-
kins. OF Pulaski City, Primary Methods;
Miss Maude Hyde, of Covington, Heading
Spelling and Nature study Lectures from
time to time will be given by members OF
the faculties of Washington and Lee Uni-
versity and the Virginia Military Institute
Board and lodging in town and vicinity
can be secured at from - TO $50 a week
MEMORIAL DAY.
Confederate Memorial Day Will be OBJ
served here Saturday afternoon. May 18th,
with appropriate exercises. DR. Henry
Alexander White VIII deliver the address
at ) o clock in the chapel at Washington
and Lee University. Mr. Thomas 5. White
has been selected as chief marshal of the
day.
The remains of Mr.. Leonard P. Deaver.
who died very suddenly in Knoxville.
Tenn, were brought here for burial He
was a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles e.
Deaver and was aged dlirty-two years
Short funeral services were held at MS
parents residence by the pastor of the
Methodist Church, Rev. II. p. Hamiil, at
ter which the interment took place in the
Lexington Cemetery
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
The Rockbridge County SundayScilooi
Association in convention at Goshen.
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President. William K. Ken
nedy, of Lexington, and a vice-president
for each of the six magisterial districts of
the county and one for the city of Buena
Vista: Vice-Presidents-F. T. Glasgow.
Central District: A. S. Montgomery, But
falo District: C. l.. Thompson. South River
District; Harvey Dixon, kerr's Creek Dis
trict; j. S. Craig, Walkers CreeL: District:
Robert Mcclure, Natural Bridge District;
Frank Stratton, Buena Vista; Secretary
and Treasurer. V. ". Davis, of Timber
Ridge. The next annual convention will
be held al the Presby Church, Col
lierstown, beginning the third Wednesday
in May, 1901.
The first violator of the local-option lir?
has been convicted and fined SlCo- In de-
vault OF payment ne was sent 10 jan
Alex. Watson (colored) was accused OF
selling liquor to another colored man He
tried to evade the question by saying that
he did not receive any money for the
liquor, but finally admitted that the money
was placed on a table and that ne after
wards took it up in exchange for the
liquor. The case was tried in the magis-
trate's court of Justice j. W. Lindsay,
prosecuted by Commonweath's Attorney
Robert Catlet, and defended by G.. d.
Letcher.
COMPROMISE OF, TAXES.
On the advice OF the towns attorney,
Mr. E. NJ Pendleton, the Town Council OF
Lexington accepted s9t5 from the First
National Bank of Lexington as a compr0-
mise for taxes claimed by the town. Cases
of claims of municipalities from national
banks for taxes have been for some time
in the courts OF Virginia. The future pay
ment of taxes to the town is not in any
way affected by the banks acceptance Of
this compromise
Mrs. Thomas ]. Jackson, widow of
'.Stonewall'' Jackson. is in Lexington.
visiting the family OF Mr.. and Mrs. Thos
Jackson Arnold, both of whom were for
mer residents of Lexington. Mr.. Arnold
is O. nephew of General Jackson, while
Mrs. Arnold is a daughter of General D. H.
Hill.