Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
FARMERS Of CULPEPER
ATTEND ANNUAL PICNIC
Twelve Join Baptist Church as
Result of RevivaI-Boy
Scouts Camping.
2ecial Correspondence Of 1As star.

Special Correspondence Of TAs star.
CULPEPER. Va, August 3. 1913.
rhe annual farmers picnic took place
today on the lawn Of the Slaughter home.
Vehicles were provided by the committee
in charge to meet the trains at both
Winston and Mitchells station, as the
picnic grounds were about half way be-
tween the two, and many persons from q
distance awaited themselves OF this mode
Of transit. A program for the day had
been prepared and was closely held to-
although some Of the business men Of
the county made speeches by special re-
quest at the close Of those made by DR..
William Hart Dexter and DR.. Rabild of
the United States Department Of Agrtcul-
ture. Several Of the addresses were Of
especial interest to the women. OF whom
there was a large number present.
Twelve Join Baptist Church.
Rev. Mr.. Anderson OF Richmond. who
has recently accepted the passionate of
the Slate Mills Baptist Church. has just
closed a week of revival meetings there
in which he was assisted by Rev. Mr..
sons became affiliated with the church as
a result Of the meeting and were bap-
tized Saturday in the Hazel river. Three
others confessed conversion at the serv-
ice following. but will not receive the
rites of baptism until the next regular
preaching day.
Lieut.. Nelson Wampler and Sergt-
Frank Houston of the Culpeper Minute
men, who have been at the target prac-
tice on the rifle range at Virginia Beach,
H. it,
fed at the practice out Of the thirty five
who attended. and left several days ago
for the national target practice at Camp
Perry, Ohio.
Mrs. Belle Jett who died Wednesday at
the age OF eighty-six at the home of her
nephew, Judge James French Strother,
| was a veritable Daughter OF the Revo-
luton" as she was the youngest child Of
Maj. John Roberts. an officer in Wash
| ington's army. Her husband, who was
John Jett of Ellerslie. in Rappahannock.
| died more than thirty years ago. The
| funeral was held Friday, services being
conducted by Rev. Kensey Hammond of
Culpeper. and Rev. A. p. Gray. ST., of
Rappahannock, with interment in the
! family burying ground at Judge Strother's
home. Six of her great-nephews acted as
pallbearers.
Boy Scouts in Camp.
| Scoutmaster Henry p. Walton, accom-
panied by about twelve of the Culpeper
company Of Boy Scouts. have been in
camp all the week on the banks Of the
tRappahannock near Germanna ford. Sup
plies and other requisites for the week OF
camp life were taken In two covered
| wagons, but the scouts made the trip in
true scout style by hiking.
The Colored Baptist Association OF the
CT u
! fist Church near Rixeyville Wednesday
Thursday and Friday. Dinner and guam
titles of watermelons were served on the
grounds each day. Many persons from
| Washington attended.
A copy of the Culpeper Gazette dated
August %, 1880, has recently been dis.
covered behind IL e mirror Of an old bu
reau originally owned by Mrs Katherine
i Lewis Of Madison. and now the property
| of her grandson, r. M. Apperson Of Cul
pepper. Among the interesting items II
this time-worn paper was the following
Erather unique advertisement on the from
page: lone cent reward-Ran away
from the subscriber, near WOodville, OF
the. 18th instant, William H. Mozingo,
white boy, about eleven years old. intend
ed to learn the farming business. Thu
above reward will be given for bringfnt
him home. but no thanks or charges Ma
thaniel Miller"
| May Repair Colonial Church.
A movement is on foot to repair the
Colonial Church OF Little Fork. or. as II
lis locally known. Oak Shade. neal
Rixeyville. this county. This church
which was first established about 174O
was twice burnt down and twice rebuilt
before the revolutionary war, and the
present edifice antedates the Declaration
of independence by three years. One OF
the best known Of the early rectors OF
Little Fork was Rev. John Thompson
who married Lady Spottswood, the
widow of Lord Spottswood. and whose
old home, with the three-foot brick walls
and loopholes through which Indians
might be shot, is still standing near
IStevensburg.
The management Of the new silk fac.
tory has leased the large brick build
ling on East street belonging to w. Am
bier Morris, and operations were begun
the first Of the week.
Peyton Guard, colored, who had been
a servant in the family Of Mrs. Charles
Williams for nearly seventy years. died
at the Williams home last week after a
sudden illness. He was born a slave on
| Thomas Robertson of Orange county,
about seventy-five years ago. After the
war and Mr.. Robertson's death. he came
| to live with his former masters daugh-
ter, MRS. Dan1eis OF Cu!peper. and Tor
the past twenty years had lived with
her daughter. Mrs. Williams. Many white
persons attended the funeral which took
place from the colored Baptist Church
here Tuesday.
In spite Of appearance Of the dreaded
chestnut blight in several parts of the
county, reports come from Upper Gull
pepper and Madison counties of the pros
| pect of another record-breaking crop of
| the nuts this year Last season was the
largest crop ever known through this
| section, and on account Of the blight
| through the northern states the nuts
brought unusual prices on the market
SIS per bushel being paid at one time.