The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-25
JONES WILL HAVE:
NO 0PP05| 7 ION
Primary Election to Nominate
Candidate for Congress
Called for MAY Fl.
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Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
Lancaster, Va, April 2t.-The Dem
ooratic Committee of the First Con-.
gressional District has fixed August 10
as the date for holding the primary
election to nominate candidate fot
Congress. Candidates are required to
send in their names to the committee
on or before May 81. with an entrance.
fee of $500. Congressman William a.
Jones, who has represented the district
for the last twenty years. has such
strong hold on the confidence and es-
teen Of the Democrats OF the district
that 1t Is not believed he will have
any opposition for the nomination.
y meeting was held during the past
week at Lillian. a village in Fairfax
District of Northumberland county. to
organize a chapter of the Daughters
OF the Confederacy More than forty
members were enrolled, and the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Mrs. NJ. NJ.
Blackwell, president: Mrs. william
Hudn2lI. first president; Mrs.
Thomas Blackwell sr.. second vice
president: Miss Estelle Belts third
vice-president; Mrs. j. NJ omohundro
recording secretary: Miss Eva lett.
corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. a.
lett, treasurer; Mrs. T. S. n. Coving-
ton. historian: Mrs. Frederick Down
ing. custodian; Miss Maud Grow
der, registrar. The membership in
cl,,des women from every district In
northumberland county, and one from
Lancaster. Application will be made
al once to the State organization for
a charter 'rhe new chapter will be
known as tho Lee-Jackson Chapter OF
the Daughters of the ConfederacS.
Nor
citation VIII hold it's regular semi
monthly meeting at Heathsvllle next
Wednesday. The association is COM
posed OF the physicians of Richmond.
Westmoreland. Northumberland and
Lancaster counties. In addition to the
regular members, several eminent ply
sicians from other parts OF the state
are expected to be present and deliver
addresses, among them a representa-
two of the state Board OF Health, who
will discuss sanitary methods.
one night during the past week
lanes +. Gresham formerly deputy
sheriff of Lancaster and now oyster
Inspector on the lower Rappahannock
was aroused from sleep by noise In
his house On getting up he discoV-
cred that a burglar was in the house
and though he made strenuous efforts
to capture him. the burglar escaped
without leaving behind any trace OF
his identity. 1t is not believed that
hc succeeded In carrying off any vail
uahle plumber
pretty wedding took place during
tho past week at the home of Richard
e. Norris in the Corotoman neighbor-
hood. when his daughter. Miss Susan
Srillman Norris. was married to Frank
lin Mayfield Booth. of Northumberland
county The ceremony was performed
BY the Rev. w. H. Ware. pastor oil
the Methodist churches in the Lancas-
/ tie. circuit. Miss Agnes Huzzard pre-
sided at the organ.
The frsh trapping season Is abour
over, and it is the general opinion that
| this has been the best year for tho
| fishermen in the memory of living
men. Some trappers on the great Wi.
corlico River are said each to have
made more than $1,000 clear In one
| week The surplus supply of herring
| has either been sailed down for winter
| and spring use or else made into fer
| ti!izers at the menhaden factories. of
which there are many in this section.
! The pretty little village of Wicomico
Church, in Northumberland county, en-
| Joys the distinction of having the neat
est little post-oficc in the Northern
Neck 1t has lust been completed and
| was occupied for the first time yestcr-
day by James p. bland. the postmaster
who has had the Office built at his own
expense.
| The crops Of wheat and clover in this
section are more promising than for
many years and though the recenr
| wet weather has interrupted farming
operations, many persons have planted
| corn. a few days of fair, balmy
weather would set the farmers forward
in planting corn and preparing for
other crops.
The Rev John Hallowell Dickinson
grand chancellor of the knights o.
Pntlias in Virginia, and rector OF the
Church of the Holy Comforter in Rich
mond visited this section recently anc
delivered addresses at several place
on the nature and purposes of the
Pythian order.
The Rev. Randolph II, McKim. o,
WASHINGTON city. Is expected to visi'
Westnnoreland county next week. ans
will probably deliver short addresses
4 at Montross, The Hague and Other
z places in that historic old county, III
will be at Montross during the session
OF the Circuit Court as the guest o