The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-07
NEWS OF EASTERN SHORE
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Especial to The Times Dispatch
Onancock. Va. April 6.-The Circuit
Court will convene Monday with Judge
Fletcher on the bench The docket
is full one, the grand Jury at the
February term having indicted thirty
three persons for the Illegal selling of
whiskey.
The clerk OF the cult Court of
Accomac issued 262 marriage licenses
during the year OF 1912. This was nifty
more than were issued In 1911.
Alexander c. Carpenter. a farmer
living near Cheriton, fell from a wagon
and broke his neck. He was hauling
| falling from the wagon. struck and
frightened the mule Mr.. Carpenter was
driving, causing 1t to run away. He
was thrown. dying instantly.
y $1,000 organ will be installed in
Naomi Mckenzie Presbyterian Church,
/ Onancock. this week
! There is not vacant house on the
Island Of Chincoteaguc. The oyster
/ industry the past season was the best
ever known there. Now many North
crn fishermen are moving to tho island
ior the hsh season. Mackerel have be-
! gun TO run. and seven barrels of but
/ teritsh Were caught in one pound last
week The first sturgeon OF tho season
/ was caught by Captain Ike Jester It
was roe and nettcd him 500.
/ A number of the schools in Onancock
VIII close this month. Some of the
/ nigh schools will have an eight and
others nine months session.
( Saturday evening the Alpha ri So
ciety of the Matthew +. AIaury High
/ School. Of Norfolk, met the Kama
lambda Sigma Society of the Chirco-
| league High School in joint debate
lat Chincoteague. The subject for de-
pate was Resolved, That only United
| states ships should have free passage
through the Panama Canal The
Judges. James II. Fletcher. OF Acco-
mac: Hon. Roy ID. White. OF Cover
nor Mann's STAFF, "a resident Of Parks
ley, and DR.. t'urwell, of Chincoteaeuc.
! decided by vote in favor of tho
affirmative side of the question, which
( was championed by the Norfolk boys
I The admission charged was % cents
/ FOR adults and - cents for children:
/ $500 was taken in, showing the In.
/ tercst manifested by the people OF the
( county.
Mr.. and Mrs Isma w. Mcars. OF
! Belle Haven, entertained a number OF
friends Thursday evening in honor of
captain j. II. White, of Missouri, IL be-
ing his cighticth birthday mum
Der OF Confederate soldiers. who were
members Of Captain Whites company
were present. y regular Eastern Shore
ruppcr was served. and the dining
room was lighted by eighty candles
The color scheme Of tho decorations
WAS red and white The old soldier.
were very reminiscent.
The jefferson Davis Chapter. Daurb.
ters Of tho Confcdcracy. has offered
a gold medal for the best ESSAY writ
ton by a pupil in the high schools OF
st. Georges parish The subject Is
Life In Il Confederate Camp" SINH.
1lp nffA Il. L.
the pupils OF Accomac parish
At a meeting of the congregation
OF Bethel Baptist Church. SUNDAY. 81
goo was subscribed for the Richmon,
College fund.
Oswald Williams has on cxhibitio,
n hen egg. which weighs six ounces
Master Roland Taylor. of Atlanta
Won tho $3.50 in the spelling contcs
between tho Atlantic and Temperance
VIE High Schools.
tn" remains Of Samuel Frank Lomax
who died in Washington, were brouph
TO Parksley for burial Funeral ser
vices were conducted by REV. Thor
burn Clark, and burial was made il
Liberty Cemetery. He was ffty-si,
Years old and was an empioye i'm tn
Treasury Department at Washington
y handsome floral design was sen
by number OF his fellow employee
y widow and two sistcrs--Mrs Baum
OF Onancock, and "Sistor Reynia,"
teacher in a Chicago convent, sur
vivc.
Miss Annie May Grinnalds. daught.
of Mr.. ana Mrs. Southcy GrlnnaId.
died OF acute appendicitis Friday, age
seventeen ycars. After funeral ger
vices. conducted by Rcv. j. w. Lac,
OF the Presbyterian Church. she wa
buried III tho family buryinB groun,