The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-07
FINE NEW SCHOOL
At 5C0TTsV|LLE
Excellent Speeches and Musical
Program on Occasion Of
Completion.
LOST BROTHER IS FOUND
Was Thought to Have Been
Killed in Railway Wreck,
But Turns Up Later.
LOST BROTHER IS FOUND

sCOTTsytLLB. VA. January 5.-The
| dedication OF the Scottsville High School
took place on Friday night with the
faculty. Mr. w. S. Dabuey and Misses
Ella Farrar. Mamie Hill and Willie
Hickok. County Superintendent Joseph
| w. Everett. School Examiner G. G.
| Maphis, DIR. y. p. Blair. chairman of the
district board: Mr.. j. V. Pepelra, chair
man Of tho building committees; Mr.. Jack
son Beal. deputy treasurer OF the county,
| and large number of citizens and
| patrons present Tho Rev. DR.. Kincaid,
| of the Presbyterian Church, led in prayer.
| The program consisted OF music, nstru
mental and vocal. and addresses by
| Messrs. Charles G.. Maphis, Joseph w.
| Everett. j. " Pereira. w. S. Dabney and
| DIR. j. r. Blair, all OF which were OK
oellent. and received hearty applause. Mr..
| Everett was introduced BY Mr. Jackson
Beal. and Mr. Maphis by Or. Blair. The
people We're given an insight into some
! Of the trials Of the building committee and
some Of the sacrifices made by private
citizens. and also received many con-
gratulations from the speakers on the
completion of the beautiful building,
which was formally turned over by the
building committee, represented by Mr..
Perelra. chairman OF the school board,
represented by DR.. Blair.
The speeches of the gentlemen We're in
terspersed with music. There were
several chor,tses, and tho instrumental
solo by Miss Marjorie Harris and the
cornet duet. with piano accompaniment,
by Messrs Francis Harris and Marion
Pitts were particularly pleasing.
Thctspeakers and those who sang In the
choruses occupied the stage in the as
sembsy hall. which is on the second floor
of the building and has n seating capac-
ity OF, three or four hundred. This room
has seventeen windows, and like the class
rooms and halls beow-stairs is finished
in natural wood. The four classrooms on
the first floor each have four windows,
and the wide hall running through the
middle OF the building has a cloak
room on each side at the front end. The
whole is heated by a furnace in the base
nent. A handsome porch extends across
the front, and the exterior is painted gray
with green trimmings and req snshes.
When the James overtiows Its banks
there will be no trouble from high WA
tor in this building. as in the old, as
it is situated on one OF the Hottest heights
overlooking the town and commands
magnificent view of the river and all
the surrounding country
An entirely new outfit OF patent desks
Tor tne pupllS, teacHers desks ana CndIFst
shades for the windows. and blackboards.
has been ordered and is now ont the
way here. The stage, which is quite
roomy, will be fitted with files and drop
tcurtain. Several chandeliers have also
been orderaa for tho ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Lost Brother.
A short time ago Mr.. Lindsay locke.
formerly OF this place, now mail agent
between Lynchburg and Clifton Forge, Wis
tied Scottsville, and while here told some
of his friends of a wreck which occurred
several weeks ago in the West In which
his brother, Mr.. Leslie Leclsie formerly
of this place. also, was supposed to have
been killed.
The latter, until eight or nine months
ago, had kept in close communication
with his sister, Miss Jennie Leckie, OF
Philadelphia, but after that time mail
began to be returned from the town in
Tennessee where the brother had been
located. Nothing could he heard from
him, and Miss Lecl1e recently received
from distant friend clipping from
Western newspaper with q list of the
dead in the wreck mentioned above. In
the list was a Mr.. Leckie of Charlottes-
willie, Va, and as there are no other
persons of this name known to be in
the county, great was the anxiety and
distress of the numerous, brothers and
sisters of Mr. Leslie Leckie, scattered in
distant States. The friend who sent the
clipping, however. failed to give the name
of the paper from which it was taken,
or the place from which the Special
was sent, While Investigations, which
We're necessarily rather lengthy, were
being made, much to tho JOY OF the
Leokie family, Mr.. Leslie Leckie Showed
up in louisiana ana in letter to his
brother. Mr.. r. l.. Leckie disclosed the.
facts that he was in good health and
prospecting in the town of Bogainse
Notes.
Miss Clyde Bogsess has returned to
Blueiield, after u stay of several days
at paradise"
Mr.. Bledsoe Beal will leave in few
days for Richmond, where he will be
employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio.
Mrs. Dora Lynch who has been spend
ing the holidays at Spring HILL" has
returned to Boiling Spring to resume her
school duties.
Miss Virginia Tillman. Of Richmond,
passed through Scottsville this week on
her way to Gladstone
Miss Sue Beal left on Friday for
Marion, N. c. w.
Misses Carrie and julia White of
North Garden. are expected shortly at
Mrs. Lizzie Faris's, In Fluvanna county.
Mr.. B, f. Johnson, of Richmond, has