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Newspaper
Norfolk Virginian
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1897
Page
5
Portsmouth news items summarize daily life in the city. Meetings of the Board of Supervisors and City Council are noted, along with arrests, court actions, church events, and local travel updates. Mentioned are visits by Miss Kate McCullum, repairs on the torpedo boat Cushing, and upcoming services at Monumental and other churches.
The Portsmouth Cotillion Club met on Saturday night in Wirnhall to elect officers and a board for the coming year. George Parrish was named president with John Wright as vice president J H Porter as secretary and treasurer and a slate of nine directors including J H Boatwright Ey M Watla Collings Armletead and Ef Lt Hudeins. In a separate note Frank Wedges, an electrician at the navy yard, suffered a painful accident Sunday afternoon when a hanging wire caused him to fall. he was taken home by an electric car in Park View.
Chief of Police F T Tynan arrested a man named Cumto witch for bulking a shed at his store corner King and Washington streets on Sunday. The man claimed his Bible told him to bull it and he would do so, but neighbor Mr Walter Bennett reported him. He paid $2 and warned not to repeat the act. Separately funerals were held for A W Cassell Turkey's Hithegon and Mrs M S Niwbern with services by local pastors and interment at Oak Grove Cemetery. Also John Fields, a dis orderly Scottsville man, was clubbed and jailed after resisting arrest by Constable Scott.
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