Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-11-10
I|AIE's SOCIAL life
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS
srsonsl and Brief Items Gathered
From Mountains TO
ScaShore.
UT PEOPLE YOU KNOW
= Pail OF Plague Lifts and Life Re-
s.sumcs It's Normal Trend, People OF
I commonwealth Turn Their Attcn-
stion to Scasonablc Activities.
o The Timcs-Disratch.

800 Special to The Times Disratchl
ssesW EST POINT VA. November g.,
sasss week with Mrs. +. w; Geyer. in her
home Mt the ship yard. The subject Of
LIE afternoon was Classic Democracy
Miss Maud Bland, Mrs. S. T. Bland and
Afts. Crosby Thompson taking promin-
INT parts on the program. followed by
nAgeneral discussion.
ssSGeorgc o. Greene, editor OF the CHI
I0D Forge Review. who is dcvoiing his
fime now to tho united war work cam.
spRlsn. was recent visitor IN west
Eolnt He is divisional campaisn d.
rector in this section OF the state,
sf$hfch includes this immediate section
End the Northern Neck of Virginia.
III, Greene Is perfecting the orsaniza-
ytnn and otherwise creating interest in
She campaign TO open November IL for
raising funds for the Y. NJ. {. y. and
5sfiher allied organizations. The quota
iSoE. King William County, West Point
Included. is $4,000.
tttMrs. r. j. Palmer, who was called
ABOUT month ago to Norfolk by the
fitness of her son, Jeter Palmer who
'%Afterward died Of pneumonia, returned
to- West Point last Friday. Her son.
Temple Palmer, joined her here on
saturday morning, having recently re-
,,tNrned from a trip overseas. He left
aSprfolk last summer in the hospital
IMPAIRMENT of the navy His mother
will join her daughters. Misses 1nez
End Margaret, in WASHINGTON this week,
1fobably for the winter
5tsssMrs. j. II. Taylor and her daughter,
Ahss Lucy Taylor. passed through
..town on last SATURDAY. afternoon for
Gheir home at "Eltham,' New Kent. 1t
-SNill be remembered that Miss Taylor,
sAfter spell of Influenza in Norfolk,
%here. she was enrolled as a yeoman.
SaAsmaking an effort to reach her home
s,Qn. the Norfolk and Western train
about two weeks ago tainted. When
she reached Petersburg she was placed
in tho. care of the Red Cross. and WAS
.SAken to a hospital, where she was at
ended by physicians, who sought in
vain to find out something about the
9Enrious malady that robbed this young
lady of her memory for two weeks.
There was nothing about her belong
1nSs that could enlighten her attend
ants. In the meantime her parents
Ahaying heard that she had left Nor
.-tp1k for home, started out to search
sfor her. Suddenly her memory re-
turned, and her parents were notified
fnd she was restored TO them. The
papers said she was from West Point
West Point is her post office station.
put her home is at historic "Eltham,"
dew Kent, Va.
EHEERFUL LETTERS
VS.. FROM SOLDIERS COVER THERE,
ssLetters are pouring in from the boys
Ernest Thrift writes of having come
out OF the thick. of the fray without 4
Der e. and anH as he sits while writ
holes he is glad and thankful that he
can take off his shoes and legginEs
and battle his face and hands in the
:derful. The world is not so large after
all, as short time ago Lieutenant
william A. Wright and Lieutenant II.
hands with each other on the streets
of Paris Captain John w. Faulconer
and Lieutenant Denny d. Wright. also
stained fields OF no mans land and
were stationed within one mile of each
9ther on the firing line, Stuart and
Ssiden Richardson. OF West Point. met
Aof long ago. accidentally. and found
Z They were stationed only few miles
..anart.
ting ready to send their annual pack
age Or Christmas rcmcmbrances to
MISS olive Bagby. OF King and queen.
WHO is missionary in Secchow, China.
tins package is usually filled with
Gtle gifts that make glad the heart
ga young girl far from home. The
Very hrst letter of thanks for the pacIi-
age last Christmas showed speciai an
.preciation for box of fine face now
sasr that one young lady sent Miss
that the sender showed that even a
missionary loved pretty and nice things
and Mrs. Elvin Didiake, Of
university of North Carolina are visit
-Mg their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ T.
<Didlake, near Shacklefords
Mrs. M9ntaSue r fron1 ana daughter.
ASsnt Sunday with Mrs T. H. Thrift
sss1frs w. S. Eastwood is still iii in
9tef home here. After suffering with a
'Sctere Spell or influenza, she had re-
Jcoyered sufficiently to be up but was
taken. nl again last sunday. Her Sis
Ter, Mrs J.: Bran,ly Bray''of wakcna.
Mrs. Emma Roy Spencer. Of West
tPoint, who has. been visiting friends
sfn Richmond, is recovering from
tedious spell OF inNuenza while there.
She will leave for st. Louis in Decem-
sber, to visit her son. Flournoy Spen-
Ger.
ss-pr. Alvin Bagby, of Petersburg. has
Ny1tc eli
s0nant. Medical Reserve Corps, L. s.
~ and has been ordered to report TO
rsthe British corGs" located at Cainp
Rolk, Raleigh " c.. where he expects
.tos go Mt an earl- date. His brother,
Rsy. Richard Bagby. pastor Of the Dis
sstples Church. at Wilson, y. C., has
been most o. The wear engaged in Y.
MIC. A. work in France These gen
Ismen are brothers OF DR. y. e. Bagby.
of. West Point.