The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-10-29
VIRGINIA NEWS.

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| Manassas has established n chain gang
for petit offenders.
The Richmond Horse Show cleared
$4,000 over expenses.
4 new church will be built at Sperry-
vile, Rappahannock county.
The Virginia Disciples meet in annual
convention in Richmond today.
The battleship Illinois is now at Glou-
cester Point, and the Indiana is expected
shortly.
The Lutheran Synod of Virginia Sc
lected Stanton as the next place oil
meeting.
MIR. Fred Hynson, of Manassas, has
received an appointment in the navy
yard at Washington.
The orner-stone laying at Rochelle,
Madison county, has been postponed to
/ Saturday, November ,.
The fall session of the Court of Appeals
will open in Richmond Tuesday Novem-
Der II. The docket is unusually light.
W. E. LAWYER has been appointed post
master to succeed Genevieye COckrill, re-
moved, at Swamp, Fauquier county, Va.
Mr.. L. S. Perry has been appointed
commissioner of accounts of Culpeper
County court. vice Hon. John l.. Jeiiries,
resigned.
Miss Maude helms, daughter of Mr.. j.
f. helms. of lIeathsville was last week
taken TO Baltimore TO he treated for APP
pendicitis.
Rev. 4. d. Reynolds, of Northumber-
land. has been called TO the passionate OF
WelcOme-GrOve Baptist church. in Rich
mOnd county.
The pOst-ofIice will be removed some
time next month from its present lOca-
ton to the American Bank building
Orange Nirginian.
Mr.. |. r. WOlyertOn has purchased the
old Wooden Mills at auckland, in Prince
William county, and is remodelling il
and will put in modern machinery Tor the
manufacture of flour.
The day for the unwilling OF the Con
federate monument at Madison {. H..
has been postponed. The monument
cannot be finished by the day first ap-
| pointed, October 3lst.
CD. Woods, of Rappahannock coun-
ty. shipped car load of apples to d.
! Crossley 4 Sons, Liverpool, for which
they received thefollowing prices Yorks,
$5.52; Pippins and Bomuns, S6.12 per
barrel.
MIR. John l.. leiiries, who is now locat-
ed in Norfolk, was here on Monday last.
Mr.. Jeffries says he has just gotten his
Office in shape in Norfolk, and that he is
greatly pleased with the prospect.-Cul-
pepper Exponent.
Miss Helen Gordon returned on Friday
| from an extended visit to Mrs. W. j.
Morton, of Harrisonburg. Mr. and Mrs.
| Morton are now on a visit to the home
of Mr.. MortOns father in SpOtsylyania.
Underwater Democrat.
Rev r. s. Monds, who for the past six
or seven years. has served as pastor OF
| Menokin. Nomini. and MachOdOc Baptist
churches, in Westmoreland county, has re-
signed his charges to accept the pastorate
of churches in AccOmac county.
Mr.. John NJ. McBryde, Jr., son Of
| President John NJ. McBryde, OF the Viz
ginia Polytenchic Institute at Blacks
burg, has been appointed by President
Roosevelt first lieutenant of the Artillery
Corps.
Richmond College was beaten by Wash
ton and Lee Saturday by 80 TO 0, in a
game of football. The University Of
of Virginia defeated the Polytechnic In
stitute by Is to 10. and Georgetown de-
ieated the Virginia Military institute by
to o.
John H. Robinson was found asphyx-
lated in a room at a hotel in Washing
ton last week The body was forwarded
to Mr.. Robinson's late home in Fauquier
county. Mr. Robinson was over 40
years old, and leaves widow and sew
eral small children.
4 movement has been inaugurated by
the alumni in st. Louis to have the ro-
the fair grounds of the Worlds Fair OF
1903 in that city as a memorial to JET
ferson, and to be used as permanent
historical building or hall of fame.
Mr.. 0. {. Mallory, who lives with Col
Bradford, was bitten by mad dog last
Friday; he went to the Pastuer lnstitu-
ton in v Washington for treatment.
Mr.. Peter Vaughan has brought us a
pumpkin, which weighs 46 lbs, and
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