Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1902-10-31

send. of New York. went down &c
Westover, on the James river. ! '
visitors were entertained at luncheon
there by Mrs. McC. Ramsey.
Mr. r. F. SnelhngS. aged 6S years
an ex-Confederate soldier, died SUD
cenly OF apoplexy while sitting IN
room with the family OF his son, Mr.
Carter SnelingS, in Falmouth. Sta1ort
county, Va. He is survived by five
children.
The engagement is announced o.
Miss Fannie boswell Conway, daugh
ter of DR.. C. c. Conway. OF Rapidan
Orange county, to Mr.. Harry {. War
rem. of Richmond. The wedding VIII
take place at the home of the bride or
November II.
Registration, which has been com,
Dleted throughout the six magisterial
districts in Loudoun county, shows ina,
2,4oI whites and 22o negoes are quallileo
voters.
Col. z. V. White, of Leesburg, has
written and published in pamphlet torn
a very interesting and correct account
IF the Battle of Balls Bluff, which took
Dlace October Fl, 4I years ago, between
the Confederate and Federal forces
The proceeds from the sale of tins his
torv will be devoted to erecting MONT
ment in Leesburg to the Confederate
dead.
The American Cigar Company want:
someone to build for it in Petersburg
fOur-story factory 900 feet in length
and 65 feet wide, we'll located in the
western part of the city, at 10 per cent
gross on the investment Tor lease
OF or 10 years. The factory will cos
$4,000. and an effort is being made
here to organize Joint stock company
TO erect the building. The company
has had offers from capitalists in cite:
rom Savannah to Richmond to bullc
The factory for it, but it prefers Peters.
burg. The factory will give employ
ment to 1000 women.
Mrs. Elizabeth Armentrout, widow
Of George S. Armentrout, died at he
home near Flumen, Rockbrldgf
county, aged 90 years.
Robert Milton and Miss Mollle Ho
gan. of Roanoke, were married at blu
Ridge Springs, Rev. Robert Lunson
ford officiating.
Mrs. Charlie Y. Hooper, of Bucking
ham county, died at her home i'll thai
county. She had been i'll only few
laws with typhoid fever. She was for
merlv Miss Saunders, daughter OF Geo
D. Saunders, a prominent attorney OF
Buckingham.
At a meeting of Petersburg Chapter,
Daughters of the Confedcracy, the fol
lowing were elected delegates to the
Of the Confederacy of the South, to be
held next month at New Orleans: Mrs
Robert T. Meade, Mrs. William R
Mckinney, Mrs. R. L. Watson and
Misses Ed Nixon and May Claiborne
The Gayton coal mines, in Henrico
and Goochland counties, have been sold
to Messrs. H. Lee Lorraine and +. c.
Christian for $Io5 900.
Louis Briggs. colored brakeman on
he Norfolk and Western railroad was
taught between freight cars at Chris
iansburg and killed.
While attending to his duties at a
iawmill at Concord, Douglass Haden
was struck by piece of timber. the
sharp and Jagged edge OF which pene-
rated his left lung, making a wound
IN which mans hand could be insert
| I'd. At the latest report Haden was
still living.
In the Federal Court at Abingdon,
Miles Hamlet, William Wickham, John
Wasco and James Green, union labor
organizers, were given terms of from
Is days to a months in jail for con-
tempt OF court in having violated all
Injunction restraining them from inter
fering with laborers employed under a
Federal receivership.