Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-30
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Social, Personal, and Educational
Notes-Boy Accidentally Shot.

Notes-Boy Accidentally Shot.
sTAUNTON, VA, September 29.-(Spc-
cial)-The committee appointed by Lex
ington Presbytery to nominate a Board
of Trustees for the proposed college at
Elllins, w. Va, will meet here to-mor-
row for that purpose. The committee Is
composed of Rev. A. M. Fraser, d. D.,
Rev. L. H. Paul, Rev. r. A. Lapsley, and
Elders T. c. Morton. of Staunton. and DR..
Irons. of Elkins Some time ago the pres
bytery appointed Rev. A. H. Hamilton,
D. D., to canvass for this fund, and his
untiring efforts have been generously re-
sponded to-.
J. S. Mote is the first person in Staun-
ton to receive an auto-bicycle. It is a
very handsome machine.
A move is being made to have the bar
rooms here close at an early hour every
night. Petitions are being signed largely,
asking the Council to take action in the
matter Only two policemen are on duty
at night, and their attention is so oc-
cupied in trying to preserve order IN the
section of town where the bar-rooms are
that the rest of Staunton has to be neg
lected.
S. D. Gochenour has been appointed
temporary policeman in place OF r. A.
Hamilton, who is sick. Mr.. Hamilton
has the honor of being an original mem
PEPPERED HIS SON.
While out hunting few days ago 3.
F. Doom accidentally shot his son, John,
putting Al shot in him, though fortunateiS
with no serious results.
Rev j. E. Rennte D. D., and family
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Payne
Dr. Rennie has just resigned a church
at Covington to accept 4 call to the First
Presbyterian church in Norfolk.
E|irSt-Lieutenan VIII ka1neS. United
States army, Of Staunton. who has been
in the Philippines two years. has beer
assigned to the staff Of General Whit.
now in the Philippines.
The StoneWall Brigade Band. Professor
Brereton, director. arranging an elal,
crate entertainment for the second week
in October. They want to buy new UNI
forms and some new instruments.
The Indoor Carnival Company. w. L.
Olivier Jr. and E. P. Summerson pro
prietors. has been engaged for the week
A Gottelb, Of Baltimore, an honorary
member of the band, has send his checi;
for $780,
DEAF MuTEs. FINE RECORD
Charles Williams and Alvah Rosnick
the two deaf mute boys who graduated al
the Virginia School for the Deaf anI
Blind last session, took first and secont
rank respectively out Of a class of twer-
ty-five' at the entrance examination ful
Gallaudet College. This not only speaks
well for the boys. but also for the Sta t.
institution, and the teachers who pre-.
pared them to enter college.
Captain Randolph Berkeley is spending
! some time here with his father. DR.. Car
ter Berkeley. Captain Berkeley enlisted il
the United States Marine Corps il
| Washington in 1888. He staid there ont
| year, and was ordered to the Philippines
| He served two years in China, where h.
! won his commission Of captain for GOO
! behavior, under the most trying circum
! stances He is now on his way to Wash
| ington to report, and hopes to get fur
Tough.
Charles Fauntleroy. of Staunton, VIII
for some time has been a druggist J.
| Manchester, has gone to the Universit,
Of Virginia to study medicine
Miss Elizabeth Burwell Jones is VISITING
in Louisa county.
! Mrs II. Jordan is spending some tim
| in Richmond. and will so from there t
] New York
! Mrs Jed Hotchkiss has returned from
an extended northern trip While ava!
| she attended a family reunion at Lanes
( boro'. N. Y, her old home
DR. W. D. Armstrong and family hav
| moved here from Lexington. DR.. Arm
! strong will be associated with his sor
| DR. Glasgow Armstrong, in the practic
! OF medicine.
/. Miss II. Hotchlziss has returned to Rich
mond, after visiting relatives here
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Jaffe. j. Baldwi
! Ransom, and Miss Mary Ransom. VIII
have been travelling abroad, sailed frol
Hamburg for New York last Thursday.