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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
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Installation services will be held
on Sunday afternoon. June LIST. at
$3.50 O'Clock, in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the Rev. John j. Parsons. will be
formally welcomed. There will be
special music by the choir.
The Rev. 8. III. Templeton Will be
master of ceremonies. The devotion
al exercises will be conducted by the
Rev's. VIM. r. Burrell and John II.
Earle, former pastors of the church.
Mr.. C. L. Palmer, the superintendent
OF the Sunday school. will speak on
behalf Of the congregation. The Rev.
E. v. Carson, pastor of the Metho-
dist church here, as spokesman for
all other denominations in the COM
munity, will welcome the new pastor.
The Rev. j. B. Hudson will speak
for the Baptist of the city, while the
Rev. DR.. r. J. Willingham will voice
the sentiments of the denominations
at large.
The new pastor win then respond.
Immediately following the installation
services there will be an ordination
of deacons.
Mr.. Parsons has occupied the pull
pit of the First Baptist church. Jack
sonville, Fla, and the First Baptist
church. St Augustine. for a period of
ten years. While in Florida he
organized the Baptist Young Peoples
Union OF the State, and was the first
State president
From Florida Mt Parsons was
called to Brooklyn. N. Y. where he
held the pastorates of two churches
in the city, Bedford-Avenue and
Strong Place Baptist. His last
charge was at Patchogue, L. l..
where. through his efforts. new
pipe organ, the gift Of Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie. obtained. and handsome
parsonage property purchased.
Mr.. Parsons. besides his many
other qualities. is a dramatic reader
being a graduate of the King School
of Oratory, of Pittsburgh, Pa
On Monday night following the
installation the members of the
church will tender Mr.. and Mrs. ].
J. Parsons a beautiful reception in
the lecture room. The Ladies' Aid
Society having charge of the oc-
casion. The church will be beauti-
fully decorated and most cordial
invitation is extending the members
and their friends to be present and
welcome the pastor and his wife into
the church and this community.
where they have already won the
hearts OF their members and friends.
Misses Emma Chiles, Ruby Tucker
and Ethel Smith, Mrs. J. J.. Grimm,
Mrs NJ. v. Ennis. Mr.. George E.
Jones have returned to their homes
here after attending the State con-
venticn Daughters of Liberty. which
was held in Norfolk. Va. May 9th
and 2sth.
Mr.. Mcleod Gary is also very Ill
at the Grace hospital. where he was
operated on Tuesday morning.
On Monday night. June End. May
Council, Daughters of Liberty, will
hold their ninth anniversary at the
Town hall. All members are urged TO
be present. and good time is as
sured you.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie White and
sister. Miss Corinne Gentry. and Mr..
Hunter Hecbler, have returned home
after attending the meeting of the
State council, Daughters of Liberty,
held In Norfolk. the 9th and 2Sth.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31

times, but did not appear able to get
higher than 200 or $50 feet 1t APP
peared that his engine was not work
ing properly and no one supposed
that Lapham would attempt to jump
when so near the earth. Suddenly
he was seen to leave the biplane. There
was g. futter of canvas pieces as the
wrapping about the parachute ropes
were carried away in the wind. The
body of the man was seen to shoot
downward, but there was no opening
Of the parachute. Just before lap
ham struck the canvas spread, but
too late to break the force of the fall
Walter Johnson went into the air
with his biplane at 4:55 O'Clock. three
quarters of an hour after the acct
dent and little later Peoli, a protege
Of Captain Baldwin, was circling g.
600 feet over the heads of the crowd.
Late ron c. NJ. Wood came into the
field in a Moissant monop1ane, having
flown from Garden City in an hour
and a half.
General Jones.
These events were all in the pro-
gram of the Aeronautical, society.
which was giving the exhibition.
Brown had been in the air twice be-
fore he took Lapham up for the
spectacular jump. He made his first
fight at 2:20 O'Clock going to Grant
City,.
Landing there he took aboard
Rosalie Jones and a great quantity
came into the field with yellow SUI
fragette circulars, uttering downward,
there was a hearty cheer from the
spectators. The General went to
the grand stand on alighting and
made brief speech for the cause.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
TELLS OF RIGHTS
OF THE CHILDREN

GREENSBORO. N. c., May Sol
The graduating exercises OF the
Greensboro College for Women, ono
of the oldest colleges for women in
the world, have just come to close
p. p. Claxton. United States commits
sioner OF education, being the CHIEF
speaker. The exercises began We'd
nesday. DR.. Claxton's subject was
1.-THE Rights OF Children" which he
discussed, In part. as follows:
The right to live; to have and In Y
herit health and strength; to posseao
an untarnished name: to enjoy IT,
childhood; to be safeguarded In IT.
property rights. were half Of the
great. UNREASONABLE rights OF cht1-
dren which are sometimes deniAA
them. u
DR.. Claxton said that 100000 chil-
dren die unnecessarily each year fAs
the United States and $4,000 Cd
North Carolina He advocated tu14SH
lage Of mothers in the care Of ch1n9
dren and the home. Yss
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
HOLD LEGISLATURE
PRIMARY AUGUST 5

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HEATHSVILLE, VA. May 3d.
The Democratic county committee
met here and decided to hold the
Democratic primary election for the
nomination OF a candidate for the
house of delegates on the same day
of the gubernatorial primary. August
5th. Candidates will be required to
send their applications on or before
June 5th, accompanied by s per cent
OF the amount of salary of member
of the house OF delegates for the first
year.
Thomas Brown. who represented
the counties Of Northumberland and
Westmoreland at the last session of
the legislature, is being opposed for
the nomination by w. A. Rowe, of
WicomIco, Northumberland county.
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TORNADO STRIKES

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parties have been organized and are
hard at work on the waterfront.
While the steamer Virginia. OF the
Bay line, was making her way out
of the harbor en- route to Baltimore,
In the teeth Of the storm. the tug
John Towhy. at Primers Point, Sig
nailed that a small boat. containing
several people. had gone down. and
those on board were lost. Their
names wore not learned:
A launch containing a score OF per-
sons il reported to have been caught
in the storm near Old Point, and
those ON board are reported lost
In South Norfolk. a suburban resi-
Dental section, fifteen houses were
blown down. and while no lives are
reported lost. score Of persons are
injured.
The mammoth government wireless
mast, erected In the navy yard was
comnletelY wrecked.
Scores 81 coyyHgvs-t ViresssA
Beach ana Ocean View were dam
axed, and several are reported TO
kaye been totally destroyed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
HowITZERs SHINE AT
CHATTANOOGA REUNION

The Richmond HowitZers were one OF
the real features of the big Confederate
reunion at Chattanooga. according to
Lieutenant Governor J. Taylor Ellyson,
who returned home yesterday from at
tendance upon that event.
"The new uniforms, coupled with the
fine drilling and splendid bearing of
the Richmond boys. attracted universal
admiration" said Governor Ellyson.
land there were voluntary comments of
praise on every side. The reunion
itself was one OF the most successful
the South ever saw. and the hospitality
of the people of Chattanooga could not
be surpassed. Everybody seemed in
spired with a desire TO make the stay
of the visitors pleasant, and they sue
pose"
The Howitzers will not return to
Richmond until Sunday night.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
FOUR HELD FOR
EXPRESS ROBBERY

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RALEIGH, n. c.. May 30.-John
Morby, of Richmond; ]. H. Fitzpatrick.
OF Wilmington. Dell, and two North
Carolina negroes are locked up here to-
night, suspected of robbing the South
ern Express company Of $4,000 In cur-
rency late last night.
They were purchasing tickets at the
Union depot here for Richmond when
the fat rolls of money aroused the
suspicious OF officers, who today learn-
ed that package of money. was missed
early this morning and believed to have
been distracted from the express car
of the Seaboard Air Line train bound
from Raleigh to Louisburg, N. G.
The prisoners tonight claim to have
found the package near the. railroad
track few miles from Raleigh
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
Summer Excursion Fares on
Norfolk and Western Railway

Round trip tickets at greatly reduced
rates viii be on sale daily from June
ist to September 3oth, with final limit
October 81. 1919. A Pullman Parlor
car tbroiler servicel leaves Byrd street
running through without change to
bedford. Montvale, Blue Ridge. Roa-
noke. Salem, Eiiston. shawsviiie.
Christ!ansburg, Pulaski. Wytheviiie.
Marion. Chiihowie. Glade Springs,
Abingdon. Bristol and other summer
resorts intermediate. Call at Norfolk
and Western Passenger Onice. corner
Ninth and Main streets, or send name
and address for new summer resort
folder.
District Passenger Agent
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
WITNESS SAYS HE
WAS KIDNAPPED

BRISTOL. VA. May 30.--In tA&
Circuit Court In Abingdon Jo6MS
Wampler. of Tennessee. has heo1IS
awarded damages in the sum Of 4oM
against Deputy Sheriff John Lo1
also Of East Tennessee. on the grou
that he was kidnapped by the a. III
and without requisition to anaWo
a divorce suit pending In the C6&
Gerry Court OF Sullivan county. I0G
Two co-defendants named IN
suit were released from tho d.
claim. This suit ID Of special tz
est because II involves Quee
that has repeatedly arisen tn
carrying OF persons from ono 11
to another to answer In leGAl
ceedingS-
Several times persons under a1
here have been hustled acroo
State line without reQui1itton
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
OBITUARY
Mrs. Mornio r. Robinson.

The funeral Of Mrs Mornie Ford
Robinson, who died Wednesday after
noon after a long Illness, in her home,
100 North Thirty-second street, was
held yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock
from Third Presbyterian church,
Twenty-sixth and Broad streets. The
burial was In Rtverview cemetery.
Mrs. Robinson, who was the wife
OF r. T. Robinson. was fifty-f1ve years
old, and Us survived by. besides her
husband. the following children: Two
sons, Robert j. and Edward F. Robin
SON, Ida A. and Mornie B. Robinson:
also, four sisters. Mrs. Charles e.
Hayward; Mrs r. S. Childress, and
Miss Ida A. Ford. of this city, and
Mrs. 8. W. Motley. of Danville, Va. /;
one brother, Charles w. Ford, Of Bos-
ton, Mass.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
sAIARt QUESTION =
NOT CONSIDERED
FINANCE COMMITTEE APPRO-
PIRATES s1.2oo TO WIDEN
HULL STREET.

The question of salaries for city en-
ployes was not considered at last
nights meeting Of the finance COM
mittee of the city council as had been
expected. Routine matters and a few
minor resolutions were considered and
adjournment then taken.
OF most Importance was the adoption
Of q resolution appropriating $1,000 for
the widening of Hull street. South
Richmond, at the Atlantic Coast Line
crossing.
A resolution was also adopted re-
quiring the Southern railway to build
a sewer under its road near the Nation
al cemetery.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
ALLEGED FORGER
HELD FOR TRIAL

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LYNCHBURG. VA. May 3o.-W.
Y. Adams. OF Unreasonable, who Is
wanted on the charge of forging the
endorsement Of DR.. w. A. Nash, on
q note that was discounted by the
American National Bank of this city,
last year. was brought here today.
Adams was detained by the seriff Of
Buckingham county for the local
authorities for trial
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31

GORDONSvILLE. VA, May So
The body Of Miss Lucy Dovei. who
died at her home in Roanoke. was
brought to Gordonsville for burial.
The funeral services were conducted
in the Disciples church by the pastor,
Rev ]. e. Lipscombe, after which her
body was conveyed to Maplewood GEM
etery for interment
Miss Dovel was the eldest daugh-
ter OF Thomas j. Doyel. who resided
about one mile west of Gordonsvffle
until about a year ago, when he sold
his farm and moved to Roanoke. She
was twenty-five years of age, and be-
sides her father, Is survived by two
sisters, Mrs. 4. r.. Roads, of Dillwyn,
buckingham county, and Miss Allene
Dovel, Of Roanoke, and three broth
ers, Thomas, Clarence and Floyd Do
vel all of Roanoke.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
SUFFOLK SUFFERS
FROM BIG STORM
POLES DLowN Down.
CHAuTAUauA TENT TORN
FROM MooRINGs.

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SUFFOLK, VA, May so-The worst
storm Of years struck Suffolk this
evening at s o'clock, a cyclonic wind
scattering tree limbs and fences and
demolishing telephone. telegraph and
electric light wires and poles. Floods
OF rain following for n time made traf-
flc an impossibility.
The big Chautauqua tent erected and
decorated with such care at $3.50
O'Clock had Just been emptied of an
immense audience when the whfrl-
wind swept down upon II and literally
tore II from its foundations and car
ried it beyond the site to lay 1T on
the common many yards away. No
one was hurt, but valuable pianos.
musical instruments and palms and
ferns were wrecked
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
STRANGE MALADY
ATTACKS CATTLE

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= LURAY, VA. May 30.--A mysteri-
Gus disease among cattle on the noun
tain ranges Of this county Is banling
veterinary surgeons and experimental
station experts. The disease sudden
" appears without any premonition.
The cattle succumb in a short while
after being attacked. 1t is supposed
BY many that the cattle are dying
from the toxic effect Of eating wilted
leaves which contain killing amounts
Of prussic acid In certain state of
decomposition.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
AGED NEGRO. MISSING,
Is LOCATED IN JAIL

John Minor. an aged colored man,
employed at Gilbertss hotel, was To-
Gated in the City jail yesterday after
He is awaiting an inquiry into his
mental condition. HIS hat and cane
were found on the river bank a mile
or two below Richmond soon after he
disappeared. This gave rise to the
suspicion that he had committed sui
eide. 1t develops. however, that he
had wandered into the fields below
South Richmond and was located by
some of the county authorities.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
llE REsl|Ie PLACE
IS LEE MAUSO[[Un
REMAINS OF ~LIGHT HORSE
HARRY. LEE LAID RESIDE
his SONS.
CEREMONIES SIMPLE
BODY ACCOMPANIED FROM STA
TTON, BY CADETS AND STUD
ENTs AND REINTERRED
ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.
CEREMONIES SIMPLE

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LEXINGTON. VA. May ao.-with
simple ceremony the remains of
Light Horse Harry Lee were laid
beside the resting place Of his illustri-
GUS son, Robert e. Lee. in a crypt of
the mauseleum at Washington and
Lee university at twilight this after
noon.
The remains were brought from
Cumberland Island, Ga. where they
had rested since 1918. Accompanying
them were: Hugh A. White. Lexing-
ton: J. M. Hart, Roanoke: and J. o.
Daniel. Loudoun county; a committee
from the Virginia legislature and
representatives Of various organiza-
lions. A great crowd was at the sta
ton to meet the train.
The corps Of Virginia Military insti-
tufe cadets, the student body Of Wash
ington and Lee university. members
Of the faculties OF the two institutions
besides many town people served as
guard of honor. The coffin was
didpcu Win CnitcA oeaeSo Ho6o dh0
covered with flowers. given by patri-
otto organizations of cities through
which the remains were brought The
palibearers were students and cadets.
Honored In Lynchburg.
LYECHBURG VA, May 30.-The
remains Of General Henry Lee. known
as Light Horse Harry Lee. of Revo-
lutionary war, fame, and father OF
General Robert K. Lee. which have
been inferred for ninety five years on
Cumberland Island. eight miles off the
coast Of Fernandina, Fla, were
brought to Lynchburg this morning
and taken on the O'Clock train this
afternoon for heinterment in Lexing-
ton In the Lee mausoleum at WASH
ington and Lee university.
Honoring the memory OF the his
toric fighter. the local patriotic organ
ization and a number OF representative
citizens and professional men this
afternoon assembled at the Union sta
ton and acted as guard OF honor un-
til the train started on its way to the
final resting place of the dust held in
reverence by patriotic people. In
the guard of honor were representa-
tiyes of both chapters Of the Daugh-
tiers Of the American Revolution and
the Daughters OF the Confederacy and
also the municipal governme the
military. and local members of the
senate and house of delegates. A
great profusion of flowers covered the
casket, gifts OF local organizations and
individuals Rev. J. B. Dunn. made
brief address OF commemoration.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
Dog Amuck In Park.

So far as is known. no one was Bit
ten by the rabid bulldog which ran
amuck in the vicinity of Monroe park
late Thursday. causing a smallsized
panic in that neighborhood. Snap
ping and biting at everything in sight.
it ran about the park and dajacent
streets. with foam dripping from its
mouth. Ten shots from a revolver
were necessary to send it to the happy
hr nffnr grounda
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
Mrs. Theodore Shryock

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LURAY. VA. May 3o.-Mrs. Theo-
dore Shryock, wife of we'll known
merchant of Stanley, this county,
died Tuesday in st. Agnes hospital,
Baltimore. aged forty-f1ve years. Mrs.
Shryock was a daughter of the late
Thomas Brown, a we'll known hotel,
keeper OF this county.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
Mrs. Isabella Grey,

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LURAY. VA, May 30.-Mrs. Isa-
bella Grey Is dead at her home in
this county. aged eighty-one years
Her entire life has been spent among
the foothills of the Blue Ridge. She
Is survived by seven sons. two daugh-
ters, fifty-two grandchildren and
twenty-eig Observation-Disclosures
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
WiIIiam Overtou BIakey.

GORDONSvILLE. VA. May %
The funeral services OF William Over
ton Blakey. who met his death by
being struck by q Chesapeake and
Ohio train here about. o'clock Tues
day morning, were held at his late
home on Diamond Hill yesterday af-
ternoon at 2 o'clock, under the
auspices Of Waddell Lodge No. 22S,
A. r. and A. NJ. of this place, of
which Mr.. Blakey was a number Of
years a member, and also a past mas
ter. A number OF Masons from a dis
lance were present to pay their last
respects. After the services his re-
mains were taken to Maplewood GEM
etery for interment
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
william Anderson.

William Anderson, seventy-six years
old, died Wednesday afternoon in the
home Of his son, M. L. Anderson, 206
West Main street. The funeral was
held Thursday. in Fredericksburg.
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COLONEL MISSES

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-31
MAN PLuhGES down

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-27

of mammoths and other animals
that were suddenly engulfed in the
ice.
From the retreating glaciers
their remains have been falling for
thousands of years." says Mr.. Vail.
Whole cargoes Of elephant!ne ivory
and other fossils are picked up from
the surface or dug up from the
frozen soil. There only are they
found upon the surface.
During the fall of the waters here
supposed, on that part of the earth
slipping toward the North Pole, there
must have been great rush of the
same toward the latter. Everything
that could float would be swept
thither.
1.-THE travels Of Erman in North.
ern Siberia have proved that such
wave did sweep from the Altai
Mountains to the Arctic regions.
Skirting the Northern Ocean, he
says, there are hills 800 feet high,
made up In great part Of whole car
casses of mammoths and other
mammals 'cemented together by
layers Of frozen, mud and ice.' Drift
wood piled equally high-'trees with
their trunks thrown upon each other
in the widest disorder, forced up in
spite Of gravitation, and with their
tops broken off or crushed as If they
had been thrown with great VIC.
lence from the south on a bank and
there heaped up"
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rid period of life evidenced by geol-
ogy. Then the ice contraction Of
the ring as it cooled would explain
the glacial period, which science
SHOWS to have prevailed upon our
planet Finally the ring fell, and
that was the flood
The Bible also tells us that after
the flood the Lord said that He
would give man the rainbow as
sign that no suck calamity would
occur again. Mr.. Vail interprets
this to mean that rainbow was
not possible when watery belt
hung suspended over the earth, and
1hac after the water disappeared
from between sun and earth the
rainbow became a possibility.
Away out toward the bounda-
ries OF the solar system" says
Geologist Vail, I'VE may behold that
beautiful clockwork OF worlds, OF
which the planet Saturn Is the cen
ire. In addition to his eight moons,
'hree stupendous rings revolve
ABOUT him two composed OF mete-
ORIG and one tthe inner) OF aqueous
matter, There. $4,000 miles from
ms surface rcvolves an ocean, 5000
H'iics broad ana 100 miles thick
an ocean above Saturn's armament
OF atmosphere. Were we situated
upon mat planet, in order to behold
NOSE revolving waters we would
nave 10 look upward, and could
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armament; since we see waters so
placed above the surface of other
planets, and since such bodies of
water must revolve about the GEN.
trail body, 1 claim that the earth
in antediluvian times was surround
ed by huge belt Of waters. That
1t was visible to the first inhab-
itants as the last remnant OF waters
falling to the earth. These waters
originally formed In and repealed
from that great laboratory, the prim-
tive earth, skirted the boundaries
of a vast and remarkable atmos.
phere with which the chemist, the
geologist and enlightened astrono.
mer are familiar. Well. such an OBJ.
ject must have had name. Mark
that the waters on the earth we're
called seas The aione remaining
Hebrew word which could refer to
the waters we render the Great
Deep 1t was so called because oil
mankind formerly believed that the
clouds were fed from above. They
beheld them grow dark and heavy,
and expand until they rent them.
selves and emptied their contents
upon the earth
"When the aqueous ring began to
descend upon earth there must have
been in the torrid and temperate
zones a down-rush of water, but at
the poles a down.rush OF snow.
This explains why we find in Siberia
and other Northern regions bodies