Portsmout h Hay Rides and Club News Stir
Portsmouth scene notes a Trilby Club bay ride to Port Norfolk and a flurry of local events. Reports of marriages, arrests, court actions, and community notices fill the page amid ads and civic updates.
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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1895
Page
5
Portsmouth scene notes a Trilby Club bay ride to Port Norfolk and a flurry of local events. Reports of marriages, arrests, court actions, and community notices fill the page amid ads and civic updates.
Reports from Petersburg Virginia describe the nomination of E. Hurst as a key event with strong advocacy for his candidacy. Marion DeKalb Smith is named for Comptroller of the Treasury amid contests for Attorney General. Crothers appears on the slate and a roll call proclaims his nomination unanimous.
Reports from Norfolk describe arrests in a $200 to $250 theft from Mrs. Belle White, with suspects Raged Vaughan and a Wan Ow. The piece notes ongoing talk of Willie A. Jones, a Norfolk congressman, possibly running for governor in 1897, plus a fire at Starke's Dixie Mow Works and political maneuvering surrounding Chief of Police Howard.
A Saukville area note reports a young ladies and men excursion to Soldiers Home for charity, a Suffolk Juniors game slated for Weet Lod Park, and a Circuit Court adjournment to August 14. Local events include a Judge Farrar lecture, jail improvements, a council meeting agenda, burglary arrests, bicycle fines, and a nighttime smokehouse burglary near Holland.
Rev W W Slaley plans to travel abroad and sail from New York on August 4. A county clerk list for May shows marriages including Horton and Bley, Broek and Misres, Curley and Brown, Brooke and Austin, Luke and Richardson, Daughtray and Tarrelli, with many others. An ad promotes Syrup of Pigs as a laxative and health product, noting its origin and usage.
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