The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-29

school promptly contributed 1870 In
carh to aid in raising the debt, per-
| haps one Of the largest Sunday school
collections aver made In the South
| .'eseral Glasses contributed literally as
dtd practically every member In at
tendanos.
| The Sunday school was organized
| forty years ago under the leadership
| ~ ThouaB G. Grow der. who was in at
tsndane this morning and witnessed
| with pride it's magnificent accomplish
ment. Mr. Crowder while not now a
! member of the West End church and
| sunday school, having transferred his
| membership to the Grove-Avenue
church. whore he felt that he could be
| If greater use In church and Sunday
| school work. was one of the most lih-
| efai contributors toward the fund
RAJ sed today to wipe out the church
| oelIt
| i!umor has II that the West End
Ihdrch ana Sunday school will in the
vsiy near future undertake other ex-
thn.sive improvements which will place
| the church among the foremost in the
wno'e country and with the determine
ton. which has heretofore marked the
efforts of tho church and Sunday
sohooI, nothing seems Impossible.
BOY scouts Sell GIa bonds.
Petersburg Boy Scouts did them.
selves proud in their campaign for the
=. sale of bonds OF the second liberty loan
whioh closed last Night. Following a
ain Gay campaign Executive Norsk an
nounred that the boys Of the Peters,
bn,g council had sold $40 subscriptions
amounting to $164.050.
This sam represents much work on
the part of these young fellows and
they are to be highly commended for
tu.ir fin" showing which will com
pare favnrahiy with other cities OF
larger population and greater wealth
Twenty-Five boys qualified for war
service medals as follows: Ramsay
Leigh. Samuel Reinach, Louis Lunsford,
Maurice Whorley. !. Christian Munt.
Jr.. pArand Bazire. Irving E1genbrun,
Frank Wagner. Edward Meakin,
Charles B. Mann, Alexander G. Gillian.
CharIss Hall Davis. Wilson Maclin.
Theo. Field. Hamilton Coleman. Rosa
| walthall. Victor Vaughan. JAIME 8
| Whitehurst. Garland Harris. Wallace
! d. Blanks. Harvey L. Moore, j. C.
! Smith, Thomas Smith, Irving SANFORD
and Eldridge Robertson.
| Members of Troop No. Q secured 231
subscriptions, Troop 1. ITS. and Troop
| .. 10. Executive Norsk Is confident
/ that Troop No. Is in the running for
the flag offered by President Wilson
| to the troop In each state selling the
| greatest number of subscriptions to
the loan.
| Scout Duran Baxire. with nfteen SUBJ
s,rtptions 10 his credit. deserves spe-
cial mention. He is a son OF Lieuten-
ant Bazire. formerly of Hasbrouck
Heights. N. J.. and Notwithstanding the
| fact that he was comparative
stranger here and had only recently
| Joined Troop No. 2. he went about the
sale of subscriptions In a business :
like manner and won a war service
medal.
Nuchols--Y~ager.
Miss Ina J. Nuchols. an attractive
young woman of Warrington. w. Va,
and Corpora al Ralph A. Yeager. of the
313th Cvest Virginia) artillery. Bat
! terry j. we're united In marriage at
the manse Of the Tabb-Street Presby-
| terian church last evening. The cere-
mony was performed by the pastor,
| Rev. Charles r. Stribling. The only
attendants were Miss Yeager, of
Warrington and Private Saver. of Camp
Lee. Corporal Yeager was formerly a
student at Fishburne Military academy
! and at the University of Virginia,
Doc Heifner.
The body of Doc IIeifner, whose
death occurred at the Petersburg hos
pitAl. last Monday night. is still being
held at the morgue of Badger & Wood,
awaiting instructions from relatives
Mr.. Heifner was twenty-five years of
age. He arrived here with one of the
carnival companies which played at
the South Side fair. was Ill when he ar
rived and died from pneumonia.
J. II. N0ywell.
Mr.. ]. Fl. Eorwell. formerly of NORTH
Carelira. d!sd at his. home at Matoaca,
about o'clock last evening. after a