Religious services and churches schedule items
A rundown of services across Episcopal, Presbyterian, Christian Science and Evangelical Christian Science churches. Listings include times for Evensong, sermons by Rev Holand Cotton and Rev F oS Digetow, Sunday school and midweek prayers, choir performances, youth events, and a Scottich Rite meeting with a choir. Also notes on catechism and Palm Sunday style observances at multiple locations and dates.
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Episcopal
C . Clement Brown
Orvieca
Holand Cotton Salih
Semmunon 3 Fm Vunday Yehoal
Chara
Methodist Episcopal
Toundit
Fu —Tiskav
Robert
Moore
Apmorth Een
WRC OF the Covenant Tournat
Cots Chatlles
Gecilla
Steri
Christinn
Christian Science
Test Ghorch
Chtist
Fir Senth
Sarylese Sno Jay
Daly
Schoo
Pultté Vorbally
Bree
Hvening Lee
Ry Winfeld
Whitman
Prince Gets Fortune Not Trustee for Children
The Battmore Tribunal reverses its decision, naming Roos Winans's son in law as beneficiary over the trustee for G eorpal of 215000. The detour says the French attaché at Pe iing-Was acted in good faith though misinformed about the disbursal.
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Battmore
Roos Winans
Peiing
Father James McGurk Dead in Lynchburg Parish
Father James J McGurk longtime pastor of Holy Cross Catholic Church in Lynchburg died at the Hygela Hospital aged about 63. Born in County Monaghan Ireland he studied in Dublin and Baltimore before ordination in 1868. He served briefly at Richmond Cathedral then moved to Lynchburg in 1889 overseeing Danville Autherst Bedford City Lexington and Roanoke missions and traveled to those places. He leaves a wife Miss Bestricg Winans of Baltimore and receives a Baltimore court decision regarding a will and trustee releases related to his estate and Latrobe tenure.
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Washington Fort
Lynchburg
James J McGurk
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Hawaii
Monaghan
Ireland
All Haliow’s College
Dublin
America
Saint Mary's Seminary
Baltimore
McGul
Richmond
Danville
Autherst
Bedford City
Lexington
Roanoke
Wawnington
Sereebeek
Astorate
Annapolis Md
Prince de Bere
Bearn Et de Chatnin
Holy Croag Academy
Peking
Holy Cross
Misa Bestricg Winans
Bf Balti
Court of Appeals
Jower
Hint
Schmucker
Western Maryland News Highlights Fire Deaths and Local Events
A chaotic 1995 incident near Prince de Béarn Beatrice Winans involved a bonfire mishap resulting in a fatality for Mabel Williams in Cumberland. Other notes include a will made days after marriage, a 1907 house fire, and local church visits. Also reported are a bank failure rumor, civic and military appointments, a post office robbery attempt near Hagerstown, and a massive 3000 acre forest fire in Garrett County with nearby towns affected.
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Prince de Bearn
Beatrice Winans
Wile
Paria
Come Boys
Rosa R Winans
Mabel
Charles Williams
Cumberenjoy
Hwsbang
Xemp Bell
Shady Grave
Princess de Hearn
Washington County
Bea Thoraday
Found Dead in Public Road Likely Suicide in West Virginia
Charles Robinson, 37, a member of a leading Parkersburg family, was found dead on a public road near Dalilson. His throat was cut from ear to ear beside a bloody razor. Authorities believe despondency over domestic affairs led to the act. He had been separated from his wife, a wealthy New Yorker. His brother is a prominent New York real estate broker.
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Washington Post
Parkersburg
W Va
Dee
Charles Robinson
Dalilson
Robinson
New York State
New York City
Donation of park land to Richmond by Bryan family
The family of the late Joseph Bryan owner editor of the Richmond Times Dispatch gave the city a 252 acre tract northwest of the city known as Flosa wood or Youngs Pond totaling about the largest woodland area near Richmond. The gift costing about 50000 is described as the most generous of the generation and the park will be named Joseph Bryan Park.
Rehearing Denied for Walsh in Five-Year Prison Sentence
The federal circuit court denied Walsh a rehearing and refused to continue bail after his Leavenworth sentence for misapplying Chicago National Bank funds. He was taken into custody by a deputy marshal and will face further action. Arguments on delaying sentence pending Supreme Court review to follow.
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Chicago
Escapa
Leavenworth Federal
Chicago National Bank
John & Welsh
Federal Circuit Court of Aprealy
Walsh
United States
Marchal
Cent
Supreme Court
Morse
New York
Lambs
Hus
Walshs Collnge Tater
United States Supreme Court
Kidnapping Plot Foiled Involving Black Hand Letters
A writer of Black Hand letters confessed to a kidnapping plot involving four others, with Lumaghli a former Collinsville mayor named as involved. Investigations led to arrests in Collinsville and nearby areas, with bonds set at 5000. The group allegedly demanded 6000 under threat to abduct Lumaghi’s children and later planned further violence. The suspect confessed and implicated three additional participants as police closed in.
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Collinsville
Eumaghi
Lumagin
An Ttahen
Chairs for Taft Party to become Grand Rapids furniture
Grand Rapids Michigan December 3 reports chairs being made from koa logs souvenir items from Taft era travel as Secretary of War to Japan and the Philippines. Taft party members secured several koa logs, seasoned them, and are converting them to chairs in local factories. Aimed as mementos of the trip.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Itig
Japan
Philippines
Taft
Horse frightened by exploding soda bottles on street
A horse pulling a Frank H. Finley delivery wagon bolted after steam from a Southern Railway locomotive near Queen Street crossing in King George Alexandria. Bottles of soft drinks shattered, causing chaos as bystanders fled. the wagon was wrecked and about $30 worth of beverages destroyed before the animal was halted.
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Washington Fost Bureau
King Ghent
Alexandria
Henry
Southern Railway
Suildenty
Queen Street
Frank H. Fin Jay
Mr Finley
Charles Baggett
Batine's Trial Date Fixed In Schultz Murder Case
In Alexandria, Judge Harley continued the case of Henry Batine Uncallus Smith, a state witness in the Walter F Schultz murder, to the January term. The first Thursday of the term was set for trial. Commonwealth's Brent urged changing juror origin. request not ruled. Attorneys Ruscell and Smith were initially assigned, then replaced per defendant request with Brumback. Cocaine dealer Connor was convicted of two years, later reduced to one year after pleading guilty due to health. Johnson and Dudley also pled guilty to one year each.
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Sn Schultz
Harley
Alexandria Corporation Court
Henry Bat- Uncallus Smith
Caryn Johnson
Richard Pines
Eugens Dorsey
Walter F .Schultz
Thal
Commonwealth
Brent
Bailey
Frederick P Ruscell
Howard W Smith
Battine
Thejr Cliant
Lewis Connor
Alexandria
Connor
James Johnson
Joseph Dudley Negroes
Protests Over Lynching in Cochran Georgia
A South Carolina reader condemns a December 17 Cochran Georgia lynching where a Black man John Harvard was burned alive by a mob after a clash with Will D Both. The writer argues mob violence is inhumane and urges constitutional protection against torture and capital punishment of torturers, urging state and national action. A Southern subscriber signs from Washington, December 3.
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Cochran
John Harvard
Will D
Helwklaville
Alao
Harvard
Crimea
Georman
Atse
Washington
Poison and death leap fail at Asheville hotel
A Chicago traveling man Robert E Abbott aged 3 sought poison and leaped from a third story window at the Its rag In Hotel Berkeley Asheville at 6 oclock. He broke a leg and suffered internal injuries but prompt stomach pump treatment gives hope of recovery. Abbott resided with a card listing membership in the Town State Traveling Men Association 6425 Whistle Scares Off Thieves Monrea Avenue Chicago. Police and hotel staff investigated after a reported break in and a fatal protest against a new mill announcement is noted in the same dispatch. Dr Belt returns to Alexandria to resume duties December 12 after treatment for nervous breakdown.
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Tos
Washington Ave
Asheville
Robert E. Abbott
Chicago
Berkeley
Abbott
Traveling Meng Association
Monrea Avenue
Signa
Pitt Street
Benjamin Abram
Waselgen Medicine
Ram
Mather
Belt
Osborn Belt
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Alexandria
Sunda
Mr Belt
Baltimore
Virginia Briefs Fire and water cause damage at Riverside Cotton Mills
A Virginia roundup reports extensive damage to the drying room at the Riverside Cotton Mills in Danville from fire and water. The high heat in the room is blamed for igniting cotton and causing substantial losses. Other items note a Lynchburg clothing firm assigning a trustee, a charitable conference in Lynchburg planning for Charlottesville, a whisky raid near Harrows Mills, and legal actions including a Waynesboro cider sale under Byrd law, a divorce grant in Fredericksburg, and a large lumber plant fire in Lamberton with $50,000 losses.
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Long Min
Riverside Cotton Milla
Dansill
Fogel
Lynchburg
Howell C Festherstones
Mabbitien
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Charlottesville
United States Revenue Officers
Harrows Mills
Henry Coast
Lamberton
Bee
Wingsdale Lumber Company
Cmpany
No Longer a Gretna Green Pelham Bans Magistrate Licenses
Pelham NC near the Virginia border ends unlawful marriages as Brown, Caswell registrar, orders abolition of magistrate issued licenses after 30 couples yearly. Licenses now refused at Yanceyville as a North Carolina judge rules marriages by a justice of the peace are not legal.
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Pelham
Washington Post
Pelham NC
Wirginia
W Brown
Deefis
Caswell County
North Carolina
Yanceyville
West Virginia semicentennial panel elects Henry G Davis chairman
Parkersburg West Virginia December meeting of the semicentennial commission appointed by Gay Glasscock last August chose Henry Davis a leading West Virginian as temporary chairman and John E Day of New Martinsville as temporary secretary. The panel approved a plan to celebrate in 1919 the fiftieth anniversary of statehood and advised the governor to organize a permanent body at the next Washington City meeting. Sister Mariana Dead at Petersburg Virginia aged 65 linked to St Joseph School in this city died today after moving from St Louis three months ago.
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West Virgina
Henry G. Davis Charman
Washington Post
Parkersburg
Dee
West Virginia
Semicentennial Commission
Gay Glasscock
Henry Davis
West Firginna
John E Day
New Martinsville
Washington City
Mariana
Petersburg
Maclang
Joseph
Hetershiee
St Louis
Mr Guirkena
New York
Hua
Lasting Watch Advice Prompts Proper Start for Accuracy
A reader exhorts buyers to secure a reliable timepiece from the Waltham watch concern, noting durability alongside the necessity of immediate precise operation. The emphasis is on choosing a model that starts and runs perfectly to ensure dependable timekeeping.
Warrenton Hunt Club Run From Mir Wof Wobur Farm
A spirited Warrenton Warrenton Hunt Club run from the Mir Wof Wobur farm to Paradise the home of C Fairfax Gaines drew riders including Courtland Smith Evans and Sowers among others. The feature was a hunt breakfast hosted by Mr Sowers for members and regional guests. In Hagerstown Miss Nethe Hoffmen Cavetown wed Mr Constant Athan at Idadore Kahn’s residence. groom a Smyrna, Alabama native. Hubert Gilkey of Front Hoyata wed Miss Clara C Beard at the bride’s home officiated by Rev JW Houseman.
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Specter
Washington Fort
Warrenton
Dee
Maryland Obituary Highlights Local Notables
Mary land obit notes Shunk Brow a Hagerstown merchant aged 65 dies of Brights disease after moving from Pennsylvania fifteen years ago and entering the grocery trade His wife and five children survive Dorothy Law a Willow aged 52 dies at her home in Smithsburg and leaves seven children Ellen B Wheeler widow of Dr W B Wheeler dies at Boonsboro age unknown from paralysis native to Montgomery county and Miss Drumline who moved to Boonsboro 41 years ago survives her husband one son and one sister
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Hagerstown
Shunk Brow
Pennsylvania
Dorothy Law
Willow
Har
David Lawtear
Smithsburg
Ellen B Wheeler
Wits
W B Wheeler
Boonshoro
Paralysia
Bogus cotton sale charged with ticket fraud
J E Smith was arrested on a sleeping car at Union Station en route to Atlantic City. He is accused of selling cotton and raising a weighing ticket by eleven bales, cashing a check, and fleeing with his wife and baby after midnight.
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Washington Post
Raleigh
J E Smith
Union Station
Virginia Weddings Tie two families in two cities
Mrs Lillian P Powers of Richmond and Louis F Gruner of St Louis wed in Richmond after Powers widowhood. The bridegroom is son of Mrs G A Gruner of Lakeside. The couple will reside at St Don’s Danville Deck. Mannie Barker of Henry County and John Daniel, a young farmer, were married today at the residence of Rev G C Smith of Memorial Baptist Church.
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Richmond
G C Smith
Mafet. Memorial Baptist Church
Richmond figures in a string of obituaries
Virginia obituaries note the death of Richmond resident Dee W Yarbrough of heart failure leaving two daughters and three sons, and Mrs Marion Sadler aged 77 found dead in bed from congestion of the lungs at R Mo Morris’s home. Also listed are Mrs Wilhelmina Bentley 74 who died of apoplexy at home, and Mahlon Myers an in town farmer near Leesburg who died of apoplexy aged, with Addison Curran Confederate veteran dying of stomach cancer at Lewisetta.
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Richmond
Dee
T Yarbrough
Brenton
Fannie Yarbrough
P J W
Percy D Yarbrough
Marion Sadler
R Mo Morris
Wilhelmina Bentley
C E Bentley
Leesburg
Mahlon Myers
Peat Leesburg
Heathsville
Addison Curran
Lewisetta
Marine engineer Morfelk Va Deck-John J Simpson suicide aboard Wilhelmina
Norfolk engineer on the new steamer Wilhelmina shot himself on the eve of departure for the Pacific coast. His body was found at the waterfront Newport News. He was a college man and well connected here, formerly in the naval collier service and last year served as chief engineer on the steamer Nansmitl from Hampton Roads to the Pacific Coast.
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Morfelk
John J Simplson
Norfelk
Wilhelmina
Pacific Coast
Newport News
Simpson
Naval Collier Service
West Virginia News Roundup From Durbin To Charleston
A condensed WV dispatch notes James L Liggett death by self inflicted shooting near Durbin and his mother in Staunton. It mentions Orville Dent case at Mammoth Park with self defense acquittal. Also reports Marion County license count for hunting and a rail project double tracking Pittsburgh to Connellsville. Adds Clarkabure doctor guilty of practicing without state certificate and a Virginia court ruling on service in an antibucket law case with local jurisdiction confirmed.
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James L Liggett
Brown
Durbin
Staunton Oa
Horfert
Juste Simmons
Price & Go
Baltimore
Virginia
Henrs
Narfolk
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Twelfth Nimetn
Servicas
Childern Capar Aarvice Chole
of &F Childred
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH _CORSER
Samuel Hod
Ha SR
Buble
Unitarian Aoils Chtech
Sisis
Meliginn
Thoer
Heligrans
Pesti
Theosophy Ter
Tom Saiday Saa
Lon
Eom
Iiltotr
Noahwest
Col
Uae
Northwest
Yi Telleons
Yan Ae Thele
el Renee
the Peoples Church
Gaurgla
Feri
Murray
Higher Thought Union Tees van Soas
Ani
John H. Magruder
Conn. Ave
K St
St John's Rec
Nnapolis
St Johns College
Omnasium
Cecil
B V Cecil
Edward Mouver Alved
Prince
de Bearn
James M’gurk
Holy Cross Church
Ines
Maryland
Gay Crother
Western Maryland Hospital
Cumberland
Condizta
John G .Wurray
Marsland
Iltheate
Westernport
Tus
Lonaconing
Marshall Downer
Byasall
Turner
Apnibe
Ways Smith
Franks
Georges Creek
Michael P Fahe
P H Brown
Frostburg
T L Wilson
Piedmont
Allegany Counts
Robert R. Henderaen
W Bladen Wowndes
W Milner Roverts Jr
Boyd A ‘Reinhart
George RK Wheeung
Wastinston
Cumberland Md
Gerrett County
Bigek
Broad
Joseph Bryan
Marshal
Taft Party
Chicago Subway
Contol of Armour Interests
Yee
Father _John
Alexandriags
Southron
Tres Smlede
Risheill
Columbus and
Wilkes Streets
Rishestl
International Kunca ‘Rue Corporation
Alesandria
State Corporation Commission of
Rog Smith
A D Montler
Alexandria Vic
EH Taggert
Virginia Briefs
Police Justice
Glasgow
Staunton
Rowe Clit Fruit Farm
Waynesboro
Guy Tyler
Champ’ Clark
Misaouri
Norton
Tadge
John T. Godrick
Fredericksburg
F May Rowlett
Eg Embrey
Frank ‘Timberlakes Dry Goods
Gretna
Waltham
Waltham Watches
Whitham
Hunt
Ron
Reo
Virginia Weddings
Dha Higgintotham
Th ‘Illing
Orville
Mammoth
Charleston
Dent
Marion Counts Voatr
Pittsburg
We B
Fairmont
Connelvie
Clarkabure
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