The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-23
EIGHT BOYS GIVEN
TRIP TO CAPITAL
Culpeper Lads Received by
President Wilson, and Also
Meet Clark Griffith.
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Cnipeper. Va. June 22.--lIenry r
"ht'oh' captain of the Culpepcr Com
pany Of Boy Scouts of America. and
successful Sunday school worker. was
most to the eight boys of his class for
days trip to Washington on Thurs
day. which Will probably live long in
'he annals of their memory. Primarily
the trip WAS to witness the big game
| bet"c<l the Washington and Cleveland
baseball teams. but as an additional
pleasure which was not divulged to
the group OF boys until their arrival in
Washington. Mr.. Walton had arranged
through his half-brother. Dr.. Carey
| Grayson. who is one Of the Presidents
aides an interview with President VIII
! son. who received the little party most
kindly. And after the game that af-
teTnoon the eight lads were also pre-
sented 10 Manager Griffith, OF the
american League, and left, as one of
their number expressed it. that they
had shaken hands with the two biggest
men in Washington Those in the
party were Ellis and William Aylor
Johnson and Henry Strother. Shirley
Tate. Francis Woolfork. Browning
Leavell and Frank Brand
| At called meeting of the Demo
cratic County Committee. held last
Monday in the Offices of the chairman
Major E. Fl. Gibson. August was the
day set for the Democratic primary
of the county elections.
| A farm. known as The Gordon
! Place" from it's long ownership by
the family OF that name. which was
part Of the estate OF the late Decatah
Miller. Of Slate Mills and Culpoper, was
| sold at public auction on last Friday
to the Nessrs Rosser. merchants Of
Madison County, for tho sum of $500
| This has always been a well known
farm and gained a great deal of un-
| pleasant prominence SIX years ago
| from being the scene OF a murder that
| shocked the whole country, when VIII
liam Smith. who was manager and
| trusted man for MIR. Miller. was called
| 20 his door orc September night and
shot dead by some unknown person
WHO made his escape III the darkness.
Bloodhounds were occurred and several
arrests were made, two men suspected
OF the crime being lodged in the Gull
pepper jail for some time, but the crime
was never definitely fixed and the
| prisoners finally gained their liberty.
Judge and Mrs. George S. Shackle
( ford have announced the engagement
/ OF their daughter, Miss Nancy Holiday,
to Rev Carl Morgan Bloch. rector at
take place in the early fall
! Rev. Thompson Cole. a former resi-
/ dent OF Culreper. whore his father was
: for many years in charge of ST.. Mark
parish. and where he him self went
as q missionary to Japan when he was
iirst ordained TO the ministry OF the
| Episcopal Church, visited relatives in
| Culpeper this week after attending the
/ finals at the University OF Virginia.
| With his brother. DR.. Carter Cole, OF
! New York, he will sail for Europe in q
few days.
Ellis F!ncham, the notorious Jail
! breaker, WI. since his last cscapadc in
last September, when he freed himself
from handouts, and picked two LOCKS
! in the Culpeper jail and made his way
! TO Charlestown, w. Va, where he was
/ .hortly afterwards captured, has been
serving time with the orange road
| gang of convicts, escaped again last
Friday. Sergeant Bishop, OF Culpeper
convict camp. was notified by tele-
! phone, captured Fincham at the home
of his family on the Talaferro farm
near the horse show grounds and es-
corted him back TO the Orange camp
/ The streets in Culpeper on which the
work OF nacadamizing has been finish
/ ed were further treated this week with
/ coating OF tar over which Il coating
| OF limestone screenings" was spread
| TO ensure 4 hard surface, and one which
will be as near waterproof possible.
! The work OF construction on the county
six roads leading into Culpeper is be-
! ing pushed, and In every case the pro-
gress is most satisfactory.
| Judge George S. Shacklcford an
! nounced Monday that he would sustain
/ the demurrer filed in the suit OF S. Rus
| sell Smith VS.. John a. Hoffman, for
an accounting in the office OF county
! treasurer during the time Mr.. Smith
I nllcd that Office with Mr.. HOFFMAN as
his deputy Of Mr.. Holtzman's attor-
neys 10 the bill filed by the plaintiff.
Rev. Randolph =. R!Xey, who recent
" received TWO calls in the same week.
one being TO the churches in and near
Falmouth. and the other to Delray.
near Alexandria, has signfied his ac-
ceptance OF the call TO the Falmouth
field and has resigned from his pas
torate of his churches here to enter
upon his new duties the LIST of July.
His family, who for many years have
made their home here, will not follow
him until later.
Saint Ediths Academy, near Bris-
tow, has been the recent recipient of
a valuable gift from no less person
than the Emperor OF Germany. The
gift is portrait In oils of the donor,
mounted in n handsome gold frame the
III gliding OF which is nine inches wide
and surmounted with the royal crown
in bold relief The portrait is striking
~ like, and the coloring hand
some. The Emperor is portrayed in
the uniform of colonel OF the regiment
of Imperial Cuirassiers, and the paint
ing bears the Emperor's signature in
the lower righ-hand corner with the
name OF the artist, Laerzloe, in the
lower lefthand corner This highly
priced gift was sent direct from Berlin
60 the German amba ssador at Washing
ton. and by him forwarded to the
academy.
George w, Herr, a prominent Grand
Army member of Sacramento, Cal, with
his wife, who have been travelling eX-
tensively in the East, have been visit
ing the Bull Run battlefields and other
notable battleields throughout this
section during the past week, and go
from here TO Gettysburg to attend the
reunion.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION
TO BE HELD AT NARTyNSRIinr