Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-10-18
Virginia News.

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Registration closed In Allegany
county with 8S2 whites and 80 blacks
on the list.
The Virginia Annual Conference
of the NJ 4. Church, South, will meet
in Richmond on November 18th.
Registration has closed In Staun~
ton with 1853 whites and "a colored on
the lists. The old registration was
1884 whites and 443 blacks.
Thousands of acres in the Dismal
Swamp have been purchased by a
syndicate and will be drained and
cultivated by thrifty Ohio farmers.
d. Lowenburg, one of Norfolk's
foremost promoters and capitalists,
will shortly begin the erection OF
10-story building, the first OF its
height in that city.
At meeting of the cigar makers
union of Norfolk held Monday each
member was assessed 81 TO create a
fund for the purpose of aiding the
striking anthracite miners.
At Caroline County Court this
week q great temperance movement
was ina ugurated by prominent citi
zens of the county and steps taken
to have local option election as
early as possible.
Owing to the large amount Of work
at the Newport News Shipyard, and
the contract for the battleship
Louisiana, the force at the yard will
be increased to 10000 within q
month, II the men can be secured.
A 1OO-acre tract belonging to the
Jones heirs, with 800 feet of water
front, about two miles north of New
port News, was sold Monday to a
Pennsylvania syndicate for $4,000.
1t will be converted into a residence
section.
The new registration just COM
pleted shows that Norfolk has 500
white and 504 colored voters. The
old registration was 6,732 white and
/, 1926 colored. Portsmouth registra-
ton shows 2,S41 white and ia col
ored voters.
The board Of registration in Stone
wall district of Shenandoah county
enrolled 719 names, about 20 per
cent. of the former registration,
which includes three negroes, de-
crease of about q in the negro vote
in the districts.
Rev. DR.. j. h. Hawthorn, as a re-
suit of his declaration in his pulpit
Sunday that seventy bar-rooms were
kept open in Richmond on Sunday,
will be summoned to appear before
the board of police commissioners to
tell what he knows.
The completed registration OF Yo-
tiers in Alexandria shows / 1921 names,
1877 white and IA colored. The old
registration books showed nearly
1000 names. About one-half the
white and one eighth of the colored
men are now registered.
Benjamin Orne, of New York, and
other representative Of the Knicker-
booker Trust Company are in Nor-
folk for the purpose OF consummat-
ing deal whereby Norfolk is to
have new 10sstOry hotel, to be
known as the SpottswooG. The site
for the hotel is on CRANKY street.
The meeting of the University
Board of Visitors will take place on
the afternoon of Oct. II, when that
which has excited so much discus
sion, the selection of Col. George W.
Miles for a chair and the permanent
Craftsmanship Of the University of
Virginia.
A new Baptist association was
formed in Caroline county last week. |
The meeting was held at Mount Her
man Baptist Church, near Penola,
and II churches are embraced in the |
new organization. The first meeting |
OF the new association will be held |
with Bowling Green Baptist Church,
at Bowling Green, in August next.
Rev. ]. B. Hawthorne, who has
practically been the leader IN the
ministerial activity in connection
with public support of Policeman w.
n. Wyatt in bis crusade on gamblers
in Richmond, Sunday, in sermon,
charged the police with incompetent
cy or collision, and declared that five
members of the Council ran the low
est dives in the city.
Asa D. Rogers, OF Petersburg, was
fined $50 and costs in the Mayors
Court there for attempting to kiss
Miss Eva Pulley, on Boiling Brook
street, few days ago against her
will. Rogers was intoxicated at the {
time. Miss Pulley addressed a letter
to the Mayor requesting him to be {
Ienient with the accused, as he had {
apologized to her for his conduct.
The Democratic Congressional
Committee has perfected arrange
nents with the passenger agents of {
,he various railroads having offices
n Washington, whereby Democrats
who desire to return to their States
% vote in the coming fall elections
nay secure voters certificates, enti-
ling them to reduced rate tickets,
rom the headquarters of the COM
nittee.
Registration In Winchester and
Frederick county has been completed.
n Winchester 861 voters registered,
# whom only 20 were colored, out of
colored vote of 800. Just 90 per
ent. of the old registration was re-
orded under the new registration.
n the county the total registration
5 2,13S, or 80 per cent. Only fifty
negroes registered in the county.