The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-23
NEWS GATHERED
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Money Collected III Oak Grove
and Cowardin Avcnuc
Churches.
SENT TELEGRAM OF DEATH
Claude Jones Frightened His De
serted Wifc--Bcatltiful Eli
s5 tcr,airlncnt.
Bureau, Times, p,snnt.cli'

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Manchester Bureau, Times; Dispatch,
~ llO2 Hull Street.
IN lii almost every Manchester church YES ,s
terday sermons were preached about the
& Il great calamity that befell San Francisco.
The uncertainty Of the life Of man Or OF
a municipality was the lesson intended 20
BIZ taUght by the sermons. Large con-.
gregatlons attended every church and
able sermons we're preached. ~,
t oak Grove Baptist church ana GO.
4 swardn-Avcnue Christian church special
collections were taken up for tho benefit
OF the stricken people In the city on the
Pacific coast At the latter church re
Sunday school contributed ST ana me
collection in the church at the evening;
service amounted to $3.50. making a total
of s175O Oak Grove church gave some
thing like 500 the collection being taken
rs at the evening service. The exact amount
viii no, be known until to-day, for sey-
crnl members gave notes and others ex-
pressed d desire to contribute this morn
Ing.
Catholic church. announced tina, Il spee,,
be taken up ncx. Sunday morning. and
the members Of this church w VIII = en har
65s DeMuynck made n touching appeal TO ms
hearers 70 contribute literally toWarus
q /, he relief of the people IN the stricken
rev j. a sullivan of Oak Grove ;!,f .l Ba p
fist church. preached powerful sermon l,
al night from the subject. san Fran iran,
cisco Now the City Of me nc 1 he f1oors
Therc we're three hundred and twenty.
six scholars in the Sunday school OF
Cownrdin-Avenue Christian church t,,,S yes,
over the previous Sunday This IS ne
& highest number that has ever attended led
this Sunday school Many ! +, promn,e ZEN
business men are inc!mded IN tnH nu.1'o Mi
this week in Central Methodist cht ,,t,
By the pastor, Rev K; Jollf re, The The
church was crowded last HiEht a a,.I,a anuci'
Rev. Or. Cridlin started revival ser
vice in Stookton-Strect Baptist church
last night There was one profession OF
religion and one person ,o,ned tne So eu r:n
Baptist church, or Petersburg. VIII ar
rive in the city to-day and preach 70
night and every night this week. !,
= Revival services are also III progress III
Bninbridge- Stree, Baptist church Scr,
vices will be held each afternoon ana
night .,,,,o
Christian church yesterday morning de-
i cided to have its picnic on July l9ll.
Wired That He Was Killed.
Claude Jones Killed in Bedford City,
2lsi, by dinky rlnner.', ~
Such was the startling telegram re-
ccived by Mrs. Claude Jones' OF E r,s.
H.. -
sender Of the message is supposed by ms
relatives to be Claude Jones. himself, but
q this fact escaped them at the time ana ma
arrangements were being made LOT lne
burial of the body when 1t could be sent
to the city.
Photographic communication with the
9sundertakers in Lynchburg and IN bedlotn
City, and also to the coroner OF pom ,1
places revealed the fact that no man mao
been killed there and that the sender OF
the telegram to Manchester had let no q
-, L.. LODI In
IL dawned on the relatives of the man that
Claude Jones couldn't well be killed and
afterwards send telegram announcing
+ his death. and !(ndertakcr Morrlss e,u.
sibiy nrangled remains, went back 10 his
home.
age and is we'll known in police circles IN
Manchester. He h:s repeatedly been n
much time in the city jail About .; q year
ago he deserted his wife ana cnl I,1od ana ~
Richmond. but lately left that city. He
was heard from in Iynchburg. from
which place the telegram was sent
For Sam Allen.
A benefit entertainment will be given
in Toney's Hall Tuesday nght - ior :, S ME;
in1hc business. The programme WI con,
tain the names OF some of the best 81 taicn NJ
in Manchester and Richmond; Allen len anu arl
yater and payne in tumbling Colonel Bill
Allen and Bill Hart in songs and d ga. ing
ana sw;T @s, ISe sweecs sa
III The city. will sing several selections;
II, ~ NAV be that Charlie Kelley. the
s,ocky sailor lad who Is out with y! c,,a!
IN weight, will come to Manchcstir ahu
& give an exhibition With some Rich'nohu
wrestler The entertainment Will he y
success. and viii be worth the p.lce OF
admission, E..,.sH
On John Paul Jones.
Mr. j. Aston Cabell and Mr.. r. p. Brcat'
OF Richmond, will address the meI1lDcrs
Of Manchester Lodge, 40, A. {; =. IA II: a ahv
next Tuesday night upon he we OF Jonn
4 Paul Jones. One viii speak OF the naval
ability Of the great man and the oth e
will speak, OF his Masonic efficiency. ne
indications are that here viii be large
crowd of Masons TO hear the two speali,
crs, both of whom are entertaining ana
I Instructive.
D. B. Crowder Dead,
wd known c Gzty y Of the OF c aFs
died early yesterday morning at his home ne,
No. /. East Sixth Street, He had been
III for only short time,
FOR more than fifteen years MIR Crow
der had worked ut the southern shops,
and was popular Wit all who knew him.
lie is survived by h's wife ana three ct'-
drcn.
Personals and Briefs.
The city Assembly will meet in called
session tonight, Bids for the erection 81
n pcst.hou win be opened and the mat
ter attended to a, once T., ,ot no,r rg,.
ftcenth and Hull streets will be conducted
all this week for tIle benefit Of Oak Grove
Bapts, Church. Half OF the proceeds
viii 90 10 the benefit OF the church.
Miss Annie Fitzgerald, who has beer
visiting friends in Washington, has re-
Mrs. r. L. Darron and Miss S, NJ, par
from. OF Philadelphia, are visiting Mrs
A. j. Daffron, No. $50. Porter street