The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-24
ANN-SALO0a|STS
HOLD REUNION
An Active Campaign is Being
Waged in the Northern
Neck.
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tsnccial to The Tlmcs- Dispatch
Lancaster, Va, October 23.--The Anti
Saloon League las benc boiling meet
linrs for tho past week In tho lower
lcountics OF tile Northern Neck. Yes
to-day the annual convention Of the
Lancaster Lcaguc was held in the
courthouse here, with q large crowd
lin attendance. In fact, the large court
room was not ample enough to hold
1.-THE people,, Addresses were delivered
by the REV. David Hepburn. OF Rich
mond, and tile Rev. Ed. j. Richardson.
of Falls Church. a sumptuous din
ner wa served under the trees on the
court green. which vas heartily en-
Itoyedl by all present. the large attend
ance was mainly due to the efforts
of the Rev. w. l.. Ware, president of
tho Lancaster League, who had been
active and energetic In urging all In
terested In tho cause to attend. Meet
inRs were held to-day at Kilmarnock
and 1rvington, al which addresses were
delivered by Mcssrs.8 Hepburn and
Richardson.
The Rev. Mr.. Barber, OF Fredericks-
burg. who has been holding missions
lin the Episcopal churches of this parish
FOR the Rev. Laurence r. Combs, has
returned home. The meetings we're
I we'll attended and the preaching Of
, Mr.. Barber was greatly enjoyed,
Pastor designs.
!! THE rev. J.. Carter Harrison. who
for several years past, has been rec
tor OF tie Episcopal churches In North
cumberland county. n has just re-
turned from a tour through England.
France and Switzerland. has rendered
his resignation to the vestry of the
parish, in order to5accept a call to n
church in Buffalo. N. y. Mr.. Harrison
is a grandson OF the late DR.. Gessner
Harrison, for many years the dist!n.
gulshed professor OF ancient languages
at the University of Virginia, and a
He issa very popular and promising
young minister, and his departure will
DO deeply regretted by all the people
OF all this section who know him..
Jerusalem Baptist Church, In Rich
mond county. which has been rebuilt
and refurnishcd under the leadership
OF Its energetic pastor. the Rev. S.
p. DEFAULT, was erededicated to-day
with interesting and inspiring eNer-
cises. The Rev. William T.. Hatcher,
B.MD., and the Rev. II. II. Pitt, D. D.,
were the leading speakers on the oc-
casion: but there We're many other
Baptist ministers present, and taking
!. part in the exercises.
The Northern Neck OF Virginia is
sending her two ablest sons to hold
up Henry Stuart's hands in the grea'
fight he is making to r%ecapture the
Ninth District from the Republicans
Hon. William a. Jones, who has repre-
sented the First District In Congress
since 1890. and who has since beer
renominated for the eleventh time, has
already gone to the Southwest and
will speak 1t J%oncsvillc, in Lee coun-
ty, tomorrow while Thomas j.. Down.
ing, by many considered the foremost
orator in Eastern Virginia, will spent
the last week OF the canvass making
speeches for Stuart in The Ninth Dis
trict. George Nelson Wise. Jones's
Republican opponent, has not yet visit
ed this section. though he may do sc
later. The overwhelming Democratic
majority in his district, with Jonss's
increasing strength with the people
would seem to render al; opposition
to him futile.
Taken to Hospital.
Oscar Chiffon, the 4fi~fteen-year-old
son of William, Chiffon, clerk OF thu
Circuit Court of Lancaster, was take1
to Baltimore yesterday to be operated
on for appendicitis. lie was accom-.
panied by his sister, Mrs. Harry w
Nichols, III had just arrived here
from st. Joseph, No., on q visit to he
father, and by DR.. Hundley, OF thu
Maryland University Hospital, who !!
to perform the operation.
The Rev. j. Manning Runaway. will
4 his wife and son, is visiting his OLE
home and friends in Lancaster. He i
at present living In tho MD North
~ Ss,,@a .,,hnraE ,.e ha q "a n1ea 60 n = charge
hut he8has never forgotte1 hts nativ,
heath In Lancaster, where he is nov
renewing his youth by seeing oil
; Friends, revisiting old scenes and catch
ing big fish in the Corotoman n tn,
Rappahannock.
News comes here of the death Of Mrs
Katherine Basketta, which occurred
several days ago at the home of he
daughter, Mrs. William Talbot, a
Ocrau, In the southern part OF Ian
caster. She was u native OF King IN,
Queen county, but had been living Wit
her daughter for five or six Years Sh
was in her ninety-second year, an,
had been "a member of the Methods
Church Tor more than sixty ears III
is survived by four daushtcrs-Mrs
nTrice n Mrs. Wilson, both Of Kin,
and Queen county and by Misses Ada an,
Lucy Basketta, Of Richmond. Her re
mains were Inferred In the Whtteston
Cemetery, Rev. j. D, Hosier conduct
ling the funeral services.
, James Wilson. colored, wa tried Il
the Circuit Court of Northumberland
last weel, for assaulting Andrew Bailey
j also colored, convicted and sentence
to imprisonment sin the penttentlar
Tor two years. Judge Wright com
muted the sentence to two years har
; work on the county roads.
IMAM ARRESTED is NOT