Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-03
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CoiiicucTdte memorial parade at NOT
folk was the band OF the seventy
first Regiment of Virginia Volunteers
1t developed that the band declined
to march with the Naval Post band
because the members o. the latter
were not members of the Musical
Union. Colonel Higgins, command
ing the regiment, ordered the entire
band discharged from the service,
and now the regiment has no must
clans. 1t appears that the Confeder.
ate veterans invited Admiral Harring-
ton, commandant OF the navy yard
to participate i'll the procession, which
offer was accepted. The admiral ten
dered the post band, and as soon
as the regiment band learned that the
post band was to parade it refused
to enter the procession. The parade
was one Of the largest in many years
Several hundred veterans from all
over the state participated, besides
volunteer soldiers and school chill
dren. Admiral Harrington and staff
occupied carriages. Gen. Fitz Lee also
occupied carriage and was cheercd
along the route. Gen. Newton NJ.
Curtis, of New York, who led the
Federal forces which stormed and
captured Fort Fisher, N. c., and Col
William Lamb, of Norfolk, who com
manded the little band of Confeder.
ates who fought so bravely inside Of
Fort Fisher, rode side by side in the
same carriage.
Mrs. Joshua Whedber and her. 8
year-old son came to strange death
by drowning at Merchants Mill. Mrs
Whedber, her son and Mrs. Dians
Whedber, her mother, were out drlv'
ing in carriage and the horse, be-
coming frightened, began to back into
a deep lake. All three occupants were
thrown into the water. Mrs. Diana
Whedber was found floating on the
lake in all unconscious condition. She
was revived later.
Under resolution passed by the last
Legislature, the attorney generals
office is endeavoring to recover som'
of the money embezzled by J. II
Shepherd, formerly clerk in the aud
itor's office and now serving term
in the pcnitentiary. Shepherd tool
about $4,000 of the states funds.
The state will endeavor to obtain an,
estate he may have had, as well as the
insurance On the life of his wife, WIN
died recently.
A mass meeting of democrats of Ac
comac county was held at Olney, DR.
John w. Bowdoin, county chairman,
presiding. Thirty-two delegates tc
The state convention were elected ant
the meeting declared i'll favor of
primary plan. Benjamin T. Guntet
was endorsed as clector for the First
Congressional district.
The Burgess monument was unveil.
I'd at Williamsburg. 1t is the gift OF
the Washington branch of the Asso.
citation for the Preservation of Vir'
gnia Antiquities. President Lyon G.
Tyler of William and Mary College
unveiled the monument, and the pre-.
sentation speech was made by DR.
Thomas Nelson Page.
Judge S. H. Letcher rendered his
decision at Harrisburg in the quo war
ranto proceedings by which the legal.
ity Of the election of the town officials
of Dayton in 1908 was at issue. The
old council refused to vacate theii
offices, or TO recognize the legality OF
an election held under a town regis
tration in 1908. The trial developed
the fact that the electoral board in the
first instance appointed as registrar a
justice Of the peace who was disqual-
flied from acting. The registrar thus
appointed posted the notices required
by law, but ascertainnig that he was
ineligible, the board appointed another
instead, less than week prior to the
time of holding of the election, and the
registrar thus appointed proceeded to
copy from the county rolls the list oil
voters qualified to vote i'll county
election. The evidence developed that
while the records of the electoral baord
appeared regular upon their face, yet
they had been doctored so as to make
the appointment OF the last named
registrar appear to have been made
long prior to the time OF his appoint
ment and thus cure any defect. The
court determined the case solely upon
the ground that there had been nc
registration and hence no election.
The Supreme Council of the Royal
Arcanum met at Hampton and elected
officers for the coming year. The toll
lowing were elected: Supreme re-
gent, A. S. Robinson, Missouri; ST.
preme vice-regent, H. c. Virgins
New York; supreme orator, Robert
Vansands, Illinois; supreme secretary
w. o. Robson, Massachusetts; SUI
premc treasurer, E. A. Skinner, New
York; supreme trustees, ]. NJ. John.
son, Chicago; Charles H. Prentiss
Hartford, Conu.; Uriah w. Thompkins
New York.
As a sequel to the sensational di.
vorce suit resulting in the separation
of F. F. Finch, the millionaire banker
and his wife, Finch began action a.
law to recover from Mrs. Finch $I2,.
347.23, which, Finch alleges, lie spen
on his wife's property while she wa:
suing him for divorce. Mrs. Finch i:
now living in Sioux Falls, S. D., where
she went shortly after the divorce
proceedings in the Newport New:
courts were dropped. She has pur'
chased LONE there, and expects If
short while to bring her divorce
suit to trial in the courts there: K
G. Dickford is her ttorney in New
port News, and it is quite probable
that he will be called to Dakota tt
take part in the divorce suit there,
The suits between Mr.. and Mrs. Finch
have attracted attention Throughout
Virginia. The amount involved i!
variously estimated at from Si,ooo,oot
to $5,ooo,ooo.
Mrs. Martha Splitter, wife OF Elde'
u N Snitlrr German Baptist minis