The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-12-13
.STAUN'1lON
NEWSPAPERS
The Newest daily Hasa Good.
Start and8Old One Mend II
ing Its Hold. 81
HOSPITALITY OF THE SUN.
Corners tolcsof a Handsome Of,
fec Building Owned by Ed
ward 9Eclols, Laid.

LSnn cial 10 THE Times. u lspatclL.l

Especial 10 The Enthusiastically .&
4 sTAUNToN. VA, Dec. L. -coi,hcil" No.
400. Roynl Arcantin, Wednesday, night
elected the following officers: t.. 4: Ar
mentrout, regent: Captain =. {. Morton,
vlce.regent; ]. u Prnfer. past 4 regent;
Jos. 3. Woodward. sccrciary:tC. 4. Me.
Guffcn, treasurer; g. r. CARRIER orator.
Mossrs. j. ]. prufer u. Notbnaglc, g. NJ
Earnlvn, trustees; William 5Whltcsell.
chaplain; 6. RI Root. warden; r. =. Loft
rick, gentry; &. r. CARRIER, representative
10 Grand Lodge MIX,
This council mas nearly 20 members.
Tho new evening daily paper here, r..
y. Haislip. editor, Is making strides. aud
has good start, and promises TO be u
good paper. This concern has sorc NJ
the best cdpitai in the city and county be-
hind 1t, and should certainly prdsI,cr.
The Staunton Daily News, the morning
paper here, expects to install withlnstlie
next month q new type -sctting machinc
stn&take the place OF a large number OF
type.aetters, now employed at that Office;
n now printing press n folding machine
alto be run BY electric motors.
PRESS HOSPITALITY. .,52
Quite a Joke on the Democratic dalIcs
here is the fact that the Old dominion
Sim, Republican weekly. is now print
ng both the daily Stanton Dispatch"
and the "Staunton Daily and Seml-Weex-
4 ~ Ncws.si both ef%which are Democratic
papers. Mr.. Voorhees,. Of The Sun. says
that he iy indeed very glad to be able
to help his Democratic friends out III
such pinch as they are In. The pres Of
The Sun Is practically a licw one, and
the best In tho city. The press OF the
Daily News played out on them last sun
day morning Mr. Voorhees, is a. fine
Young fellow. .and II 1t was not for his
hospitality the dulies hero would be In a
bad plight.
The Western State Hospital Board met
here Wednesday aid Thursday. Or. w.
+ +. Drewry, Of the Central Hospital. and
Or. Foslcr, OF the Eastern Hospital. wero
present. Others present were State Com
!, missioner W. 4. Lane. Judged. l.. Tread
way and s. II. Hansbrough.
1t was decided that-t wiring OF the
hospital be done blythe Stanton Electric
Light Company The wires and material
has arrived.
NEW OFFICE K--LDING.
The cornerstone OF ths4ncw $4,000 law
building being built BY Edward Echols on
Court House Square, was laid Tuesday.
y EnOIlIy DelDIc 1uI
OF articles and historical memoranda
commemorativcyof the times we're dcpps-
tied in the rcceptacles III the stone. This
new, building will have about twsnty-sx
rooms. and -will 'be a very handsome
Y building. q n
John Kennedy. the train wreckcr who
was at the October term OF the County
Court sentenced to- hang. will ask the
Governor. though friends: to commute
his death sentence to imprisonment for
life.
In the Circuit Court q compromise jrhg-
mont was rendered In the case Of J. b.
I.nckey W.. tho Valley Railroad Company
OF Virginia, giving Mr.. Lackey $1,000 dam
ages The foregoing suit grew out OF
claim Of Afr. Lackeys for the damage
done to his truck garden just south aof
the city. 1t seems that Mr. Lackey
claimed that the culvert under the rail-
road was too small and insufficient to car.
~ the water of, and for that reason
his truck garden was oyer-howed. Owing
to this ill-construcvted culyert the valley
Railroad has been compelled to pay sew