Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
PRESIDENT GENERAL OF
D. AR. IS ENTERTAINED
Mrs. William Cumming Story Visits
Members OF Lynchburg Chap
tiers for Two Days.
ADDRESS AT RANDoLPH-MACoN
lakewood Country Club Opens It's
New Home With Informal Recep-
q tion-Southern Railway Preparing
"Honeysuckle Route"
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dOneySuCKle ROUTE.
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LYNCHBURG, VA. December ~
Mrs. William Cumming Story, presi-
dent general of the Daughters OF the
American Revolution, was lavishly en-
tertained here this week by members
OF local chapters of that organization.
Mrs. Story spending two days here
with the local members. The first re-
ception was rendered at the home of
Mr. and Mrs William C. 1vey in Riv-
ermont, where many called to pay re-
spects to Mrs. Story Later she was
entertained at the homo of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas D. Christian on Wash
ington Street, by Mrs. Christian. who
is the regent Of the Lynchburg Chap
ter. An evening reception was given
at the Elks' Home. when the local
chapters listened to pleasing talk by
Mrs Story. Mrs. Story also took
breakfast at the Randolph Macon Wo-
mans College, and addressed the COO
students of the institution in chapel
assembly.
WESTERN UNION PENSIONS
AGED NEGRO IsNIPLOYE
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has Just pensioncd an old negro
enploye, who had been continuously
employed in its Office in Lynchburg for
nearly forty mine years. and the old
man will enjoy $50 a month from the
company during the remainder of his
life. The old negro, Moses Tunstall,
when boy lounging around tho Fed
cral military camps in and near the
city, was noticed by n Federal soldier,
who advised the boy to go home and
look after his employers business az
lie would his own. This advice never
left 'Mose.' as he has so long been
known by the men employed by the
company here. Nose was n capable
lineman and 1t was he who cut In the
first telegraph office at McIvors. Am
herst County. in 1875. There was moth
ing about the telegraph office the old
negro could not do. except teleEraphlng
and bookkeeping. In n letter of ap-
preciation for his pension. he says:
Il have never known anything but
work"
LAKEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB
is OPENED WITH RECEPTION
The new home of the lakewood Coun-
try Club was opened this afternoon
with an informal reception. which was
attended by hundreds of Lynchburg
people. The club purchased 100
acre tract of land a mile from tho
city limits last spring, and it has been
equipped with n beautiful and mod
ernly appointed clubhouse An ex-
cellent golf course has been laid out
and set in grass, while all other phases
of country club life have been taken
l.,
represents n cost of $4,000 The old
quarters OF the club. which are To-
Gated In the rear of Rivermont Park
has been divided into home sites, and
has been sold to a syndicate. The club
Is located on n double track street
car line, the time by street cars from
the centre of the city being twenty
minutes.
ORPHANAGE CROWDED
Wl.vI MANY CHILDREN
The Presbyterian Orphanage which
is located a mile outside of LynchburE,
Is now crowded to it's capacity. there
being 121 children in the institution
or, one moro than the dormitorics were
designed for. The orphanagc is in
good financial condition, having re-
ceived about $4,000 I'm the last three
years from the sale of one-third of
the estate on which the farm is To-
Gated. With the churches OF the
Southern Presbyterian Synod OF Vir- /
ginia interested i'm the support of the
institution. its future is amply pro-
Nided for The Synod of West Nir-
ginia is also cooperating in the sup
port OF the home. and this means that
all of the Southern PRESBYTERIAN
churches In Maryland, District OF Co
iumbia and the two Virginias are pro-
viding for the 12l wards of the orphan
age.
COTTON MILL. RUNNING
AT IT'S FULL. CAPACITY
The Lynchburg Cotton Mill COMPANY
Is crowded with orders sufficient OF
these being in hand now to keep the
mill going full capacity for three
months without receiving another or
der. many of these orders being tor
January and February delivery The
directors have just declared the reg
ular sc1niannual dividend of per cent,
the aggregate OF which is $4,000
"HoNEYsttkLE ROUTE"
q
when the Southern Railway is through
t%n To- us main line from Washing
done when the entire line is doubie-trackeI'
inside me s NEXT nys yenrs the route may
The company is planting the sweet scented
honeysuckle on nils and cuts and in The
will be bower OF beauty ~. T rfh Work wa y
being done, local railwnymcn say, to APP
me PASSENGER trains the system as we'll
as TO preserve the embankmnts Workmen
the tops OF fills ana banks ana. it Is be-
years ali Of these viii he enys g9up'e ,y, OF
THIS evergreen vine.
Ia. In addition 10 this. the company Is ar
OF It's stations with flower beds. and. 1, is
said many OF these will be started during
me corning springs. Along the double
, hs h- portions of the line which is soon to
vices enough OF the current is to be d.
s we ,na, TO light the stations and premises
OF the small railway station is to disappear
va the main me o! the Southern,
II Is reported that the company Is cnn
stnerins the estab .,,hment OF a greenhouse
somewhere In Virginia along it's line To snn
ply plants for station Identification i'm The
LfSCHBCRG HAS FIVE
DEATHS FROM PELLAGKA
The health repor; for Lynchbury for tho
month OF November shows there were i've
ueuthh in the city during that period from,
pellasra, and that this disease MAS nearly
as iatnl in Lynchburg as tuberculos;s there
n.ihs eight deaths from the white plnr,ie
me department shay there are now ninety
one white and twelve colored persons In
the city III of tuberculosis There arc in
me cry eieven cases of typhoid fever. three
vi uiphtncria. TWO OF infantiIc paralysis and
one each or chicken roX and whooninr
cough The department, shows that The