The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-07
CAPTAIN HOBSON'S
SISTER HAS CHARMS
Won Many Friends While q Guest
at Eagle Hill.
DlsoRDERLY CoLoRED PICNIC
Fine Peach Crop in Bedford Above the
Eros, Line on the Blue Ridge
Mountains -Canneries
Running Full
D,soRDERlY CoL0RED PICNIC
lo,.o,,, n,sna.ch to The Times.)


MoNryALE, VA, Sept. 6.-Mrs. judge
I4ohson and Miss Margaret Hobson,
mother and sister Of Richmond PEARSON
IIobson. who has made such q successful
.our or Occurring In the West and North.
and who is the hero Of the Merrlmac al
fair. left Edge Hill summer resort on
September list for Blue Ridge Springs.
Miss Hobson Is q statuesQue beauty,
stately brunette of Southern type, with
-,ost gracious and graceful manner. She
endeared herself TO the habitues OF Edge
am who will always remember her with
Affection.
Mrs. Israel Pickens and her accom-
plished daughters, Misses Mary and Ro-
ealte after spending a month at Edge
HUI. left on the LIST for week to Blue
Ridge Springs prior to their leaving TOT
New York. where Mrs. Pickens goes 10
r,aee. her sister, Mrs. Gierew. the cole
brated American elocutonist VINO IS re-
turning from successful trip to Europe.
where she has appeared before the KING
and Queen. Miss Mary Pickens has a most
beautiful voice, and is an exquisite per
former OF the piano.
Mr.. William Patton. OF Charleston, w.
Va who has also been q sojourner at
Edge Hill. leaves for a few days at Blue
Ridge: thence he goes to take lucrative
position with the house OF John r.
Branch & Co., Richmond.
Mr. IIusker. general claim agent OF the
Atlantic Coast Line is at Edge Hill at
tending his wife, who is confined to her
bed.
PROGRESSIVE OLD MAIDS.
Mrs. James Read. the proprietress OF
Edge ELL. gave Progressive Old Maids
party on Thursday night Miss kathrine
Diggs, of Lynchburg. received the Ia
dies prize. J. Allen Biggs. Of Bedford,
won the gentleman's prize. which was
doll dressed as an old maid.
The two canneries here are working a
full force, and putting out large num-
Der of canned tomatoes, vegetables and
fruits. The price of tin cans has aoTanc-
ed, which will advance the price OF the
canned goods.
DIsGRAcED THE RACE.
The Colored Sunday-sthool Convention
which met here Saturday closed with a
very disorderly affair. Fifty or hun
.dred pistol shots were fired ten or fifteen
minutes before the train arrived Satur-
day night on which the conventionists
were to leave One good old brother said:
"Mistess my race has disgraced itself"
1t is a pity that there are not more such
good colored brethren Henry Tanner, y
who made the remark, has the respect Of
all of the best white people here. We
wish we had more such Henrys.
Misses Mary and Daisy Cronly, of VIII
mington. N c., are at Edge Hill for the
month of September.
PLENTY OF PEACHES.
Notwithstanding the complaint that
there were no peaches this year. they
are coming in plentifully from the top
OF the surrounding mountains. Just half
way up the mountains is what is called
the frost belt, and above that the fruit is
never injured by frost or freezing.
Last week the sweet potato and tomato
vines We're killed in the vicinity of Blue
Ridge Springs.
Mr.. Roper of Petersburg. correspon-
dent for The Times. is at Edge Hill.