Little Local Items Tersely Told
Christmas season notes and neighborhood updates list residents home for holidays. Mentions Taylor and Jenifer Garnett at Poplar Grove, Adele Hunley at home, Emma Wolffe on vacation, James Peede in Norfolk, Ruth Shackleford home from Hampton, Bob Farenholt's tragedy in Freeport, and several travels and sermons. Also sale notice for a Stieff piano and local social mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Taylor and
Jenifer Garnett
Richmond College
Poplar Grove
Adele Hunley
Virginia Female Institute
Emma Wolffe
James Peede
Norfolk
Letter From Rev J E Brooks A Mathews Boy Preacher
Union Haatx Va Dec 19. Rev J E Brooks writes from Mathews highlighting town growth from three to ten stores and the courthouse progress. He praises local church work, mentions sermons by Brother Ferguson and Brother Ware, and notes a comfortable parsonage near the railroad. He values The Journal and wishes readers a happy new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brother Ferguson
Salem Church
Bethel
Brother Ware
East Mathews
Richmond
Danville
Lynchburg
Roanoke
Baltimore Sur
Mathews
J. E. Brooks
Union Haatx
Weston Family Reunion and Lodge Officers Elected
Mr N B Weston of Meadow Farm hosted a Christmas Day reunion with J A Weston, Mathews, A L Weston, and T R Weston. Oriental Lodge No 20 A F and A M voted officers for the year, with proxies named for Grand Lodge and a dinner at Hotel Mathews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antes
Bethel Church
N. B. Weston
Meadow Farm
J. A. Weston
Mathews
A. L. Weston
T. R. Weston
Oriental Lodge No
A. M
St. John’s
Jas. P. Thurston
L. C. Garnett
W. E. Marchant
Josephus Trader
J. R. Winder
J. E. Callis
D. G. Baker
J. R. Foster
Messrs
Geo. A. Lilly
W. N. Trader
Grand Lodge
Hotel
Southside Agricultural Association to Hold January Stockholders Meeting
The Southside Agricultural Association schedules its annual meeting of stockholders at Mathews C. H. on the second Monday in January at 2 PM. The vote will elect new officers and a new Board of Directors and consider a bylaw change. Secretary Pervical Hicks urges personal attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southside Agricultural Association
Mathews C. H
Pervical Hicks
Convicted For Election Frauds In Richmond Case
Jackson Wise was convicted in the Corporation court for election frauds in Richmond last June and sentenced to ninety days in the city jail. L. K. Culberston was acquitted on the same charge. Other indictments are pending. sentence suspended pending appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Wise
Richmond
Corporation
L. K. Culberston
Holiday Visits and Festive Gatherings In County
Miss Laurah Jenkins arrives from Norfolk to stay with Mrs. G P Greene at Retz as relatives wish her a lively holiday. Infant William Duffy of Mr and Mrs J William Marchant is ill with a cold but not seriously. A Xmas night surprise party for Miss Kate Greene at Long Point includes Laura Kate Greene and many others with merry games. LB Greene returns home next Thursday after a hospital fall from a car. Several Christmas dining events held at Long Point by Mrs J J Greene and Mrs J P Blake with families and guests in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Laurah Jenkins
W. S. Jenkins
Miss Jenkins
G. P. Greene
Retz
William Duffy
William Marchant
Kate Greene
Long Point
Laura
Kate Treakle
Sallie
Bettie Hunley
Hattie Owens
Lilian Davis
J. William Marchant
John Miller
J. W. Marchant
John Hearst
Claudie
Thomas
Curtis Hunley
Spencer Treakle
Archer Blake
Melvin
Dee Owens
LB. C. Greene
Greene
J. J. Greene
J. P. Blake
J.W. Marchant
Tom Lewis
Dertha Lewis
Blake
Young School Teacher Fatally Shoots Attacker on Highway
Miss Daisy Wilkinson, 20, a schoolteacher, fatally shoots Herman Nolan after being chased and threatened on a highway near Logan West Virginia. Nolan, a Black man, pursued Wilkinson who had earlier drawn a safety item and fired to defend herself. The incident ends with Wilkinson reporting to a farmhouse and recounting the events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Nolan
Daisy Wilkinson
Logan
W. Va
Miss Wilkinson
Public Auction of Saw Mill and Grist Mill Equipment
Port Haywood Virginia trustee G. E. T. Lane announces a cash public auction on January 31, 1906 at 1 PM. The sale includes a saw mill with 50 inch saw, lathe mill with six saws, grist mill, boiler, engine 10x12 with foundations, counter shaft, shingle machine, planes, mill shed, mill house, tools and fixtures, located at the former Sterling Diggs mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling Diggs
G. E. T. Lane
Port Haywood
Oyster share rent and survey unpaid notice
W. H. Gaye Oyster Inspector announces that parties holding oyster share in Horn Harbor who have not paid rent or survey and recording fees must pay within 30 days. If unpaid, all such shares will be assigned to the first applicant who pays the costs. Dire. 14. 1905.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horn Harbor
C. W. H. Gaye
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tam
Egypt
Krypt
Louisville Courier-Journal
Mary Gibson Hunley
Womans’ College
Hon. G. Y. Honley
Ruth Shackleford
Hampton
Bob” Farenholt
Freeport
Copeland Dr
Miler
S. A
Portsmouth
Nmas
W. H. Miller
W. L. Ware
Westville
West
J. Frank Lillups
Grover Cleveland Ashberry
John Ashberry
Tick Neck
Annie Lee Hodges
John Hodges
Marion Forrest
Southern Shorthand and Business University
W. H. Austin
Austin
Thos. B. Ripley
New Point
Por
Northern Neck Mutual Fire Assurance
Irvington
W. McDonald Lee
SEC
Irvington, VA
Frank Ty « Clark Coss
Norfolk, Virginia
Cortland
Shirley Pattie
Sun Life Assurance Company
Canada
Old-Line
E. G. Hilgons
Mgr P Worfolks
Virginia
Ageants
R. BR
America
Alleadifiz
Rocky Mountains
Rockies
Cincinnati
Morse School OF Telegraphy
Ohio
Buffalo
N.Y
Atlanta
LaCrosse
Wis
Texarkana
Tex
San Francisco
Cal
S. E. Nivin
Landenburg
Thia Paper
Circuit Court
County OF
W. F. Davis
O. O. Rhea
H. T. Philpotts
C. F. White
O. A. White
Albert Miles
H. H. Foster
N. D. Foster
W. R. Billups
Wm. Simpson
L. W. Hudgins
F. H. Elsner
C. O. Rhea
H. H. Poster
I. H. Elsner
Sands Smith
LL. C. Garnett
P. A
Bedworth
Yealing
Alderney
M. B. Garxerr
M. E. Hale & Co
John A. Payne
Wilton
DR. M. & Foster
Sibley Bros
Mathew C. H
Milburn
Davis Carriage Mfg. Co., Inc
W. C. Tucker, Mer
Gloucester
Iepres Proprietor
Blue Ribbon Grocery
the Tidewater Insurance and Trust Corporation
John RK. Winder
Fitchetts
WH. Maxwell
Cardinal
A. Bit Marghant
Seacrahiry
Gera al
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