Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
BISHOP Of VIRGINIA !
breaches IN LEESBURC
First Appointment Since Re-
turn From Tour in Europe.
Other News Notes. i
Special Correspondents of me star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
CULPEPER, Va. September 30 1919.
Rt. Rev. Robert Gibson. Bishop OF Viz
ginia. preached at ST. Stephens Church
Thursday evening and administered the
rites of confirmation to a large class
Bishop Gibson has been travelling in Eu
rope during the past two months and
this was his first appointment since re
turning to Richmond the first of the
week
newly organized company. known as
the Brandy Lumber Company. has pur-
chased land opposite the passenger sta
ton of the Southern railroad in Brandy.
which is the lot on which the Brandy
post Office now stands. This building
will be converted into a storehouse for
material for furniture and building. A
planning mill is to be built, and the side
track of the Southern will be extended
across the county road into the lumber
yard, which is already storing lumber OF
all kinds in large quantities. The presi-
dent of the Brandy Lumber Company ~
also president of the Fredericksburg
Lumber Company, which represents large
capital and a successful business of long
standing. Eustice Gordon of Spotsyl-
vania will he in charge at Brandy.
Member of the Culpeper Tent, No. ~.
knights of the Maccabees Of the World.
attended a banquet and meeting of Char
lottesville Tent, No. 81, in that place
Monday night K. l.. Gaines of Gull
pepper was initiated and took a degree
The visitors were pleasantly entertained
by their Charlottesville brethren on the
following day as well and returned TO
Culpeper Tuesday evening.
A party consisting of Misses Mary and
Jennie Jones and Kathryn Eggborg and
Cornelius Bruce and Conrad Long visited
the Luray caverns this week, climbing
the Blue Ridge mountains above SperrY-
vile in Mr.. Longs machine and getting
into Luray in time for lunch, after which
they visited the caverns and made the
return trip to Culpeper the same after
noon.
Judge and Mrs. George Scott Shackle.
ford have issued invitations for the mar
riage of their only daughter. Miss Nam
ME Holiday. to Rev. Carl Morgan Block.
the ceremony TO take place in st. Georges
Protestant Episcopal Church at Orange
Wednesday noon, October 1. Following
a wedding journey Mr.. Block and his
bride will be at home in East Haddon-
field, ". j.
Many Confederate veterans of Gull
pepper, among them Lieut.. John A. Holtz-
man. William p. Colyin and X. Ii. Dem
mis-, the two latter having been appoint
ed to represent the local camp. have
been attending the state convention OF
Confederate veterans in Roanoke this
week. Misses Adella Yowell and Nannio
Brooke Scott, who were appointed spon-
sor and maid of honor to represent the
eighth district, also attended the reunion.
September Term of Court.
The September term of the circuit
court met here this week with Judge
George S. Shackleford of Orange presid-
ing Among the important cases which
for tria MifahallS
williams. Smith agt Eggborn and the
CuIpeper National Bank agt. Walters. all
of which had been appealed in the Cul-
pepper court to the supreme court IN
Richmond and remanded back by the
higher court for new trial. There were
ninteen criminal cases on the docket and
Sixty-one civil cases.
James Avis, colored, who in company
with Robert Allen, colored, escaped from
the Culpeper jail last week by saving
through an iron bar, is still at liberty.
though Sheriff Bond of Orange, with q
posse, continued the search for the two
for several days. These prisoners. who
were brought to the Culpeper Jail for
safekeeping after making several at
tempts to break Jail in Orange, are des-
perate characters. Avis is the man who
shot Sergeant Watkins in Gordonsville
last February and was not arrested until
in June. in Alexandria, where he Is al
legged to have stolen a COW and was
butchering it, At the last term of court
Avis was given five years in the peniten-
tiary for shooting Sergeant Watkins. lie
was being held for Charlottesville and
Alexandria authorities. Robert Allen Is
charged with robbing box car and also
has a penitentiary sentence hanging over
his head
Lucio w Hill of Locust Dale, who
has charge of the sale of Hereford cattle
at the coming Orange fair. has just re-
ceived a letter from Warren T. McCray
of Kentland, Ind, stating that he is
coming to Orange with a large number
of the choicest of his herd. The largest
deal in Hereford cattle ever recorded
was when Mr.. McCray purchased from
J. p. Cudahy of Bolton. Mo-, his entire
herd in all 437 head. of which AS were
registered Herefords.