Minister to Be Tried Details Not Made Public
Holston conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South meets at State Street Church in Bristol with Bishop William W. Duncan presiding. Charges are preferred against Rev W W Hicks of Chilhowie Va for conduct grossly unbecoming a minister. The conference, with 67 000 members and $170 000 in church property, plans education funding and new Emory and Henry College building. Nine additional matters include eleven new members seeking admission.
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Eail- Howie, Va
Wiliam W. Duncan
Bristol
Washington Post
Holston
Methodist /pisconal Church South
Virginia
West Virginia
Tennessee
State Street
William Wallace Duncan
Emory and Henry College
Washington County
Rey W W Hicks
Chilhawie
Ser. Hicks
G. C Rector
Elk Garden
J. Hammond
Nashville
Tenn
General Board of Education
Wells faction wins in Maryland court ruling
Annapolis Md Oct 11 The Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County Judges Jones and Thomas dismissed the petition by Frank Reyell and allies of Moss Nutwell Bannon seeking a mandamus to place their names on the official ballot as regular Democratic nominees The ruling makes Wells candidates the only regular Democratic nominees unless the Court of Appeals reverses The order dismisses the demurrer to the answer of the supervisors and the original petition for a mandamus The case will go to the Court of Appeals at once.
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Washington Post
Annapolis
Circuit Court
Anne Arundel County
Jones
Thomas
Frank T. Reyell
Moss- Nutwell-Bannon
Democracy
Court of Appeals
Wells
Tobacco Market Opens at Petersburg Auction
Petersburg tobacco market opened with eighty five lots sold. Prices ranged from four to six dollars per hundred pounds for dark lugs to twelve to fourteen fifty for wrappers. Flue cured boarded common lugs four to six dollars, common fillers seven forty to eight, good fillers nine to ten fifty. No large dark wrappers offered.
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Washington
von Petersburg
Petersburg
Virginia obituary notices from Roanoke and surrounding towns
A compilation of obituaries across Roanoke and nearby Virginia towns. George Murdo of Parkersburg a whisky house drummer died at Roanoke Hospital. W F Blackwell, aged 81, died of paralysis. Susan Wigginton widow of Isaac Wigglnton died in Washington at 58. Mrs William Oswald died at her daughter's home in Spotsylvania County. Mrs F G Grove of Luray died after an operation, aged about 35. S C McCholland’s son died in the Philippines of cholera. Miss Isabel Abercrombie of Montgomery Alabama died at Holling Institute aged 12. Funeral services held at Roanoke College chapel and conducted by church officials.
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Roanoke
George Murdo
Parkersburg
W Va
Roanoke Hospital
F Blackwell
Winchester
Susan Wigginton
Isaac Wigglnton
Washington
Fredericksburg
William Oswald
Adlone Morrison
Spottsylvania County
Virginia
Michigan
MecClalland
Highland Springs Holling
Isabel Abercrombie
Montgomery
Holling Institute Mondey
Charles G Abercrombie
Abercrombie
Oselork
Archer Bougher
Christ Episcopal Church
George Braxton Taylor
Piedmont Convocation Opens at Leesburg
The Piedmont Convocation of the Episcopal Church began its seventy eighth semi annual meeting in Leesburg Virginia with thirty two ministers and delegates from Loudoun Fauquier Fairfax Prince William Rappahannock Culpeper Madison and Alexandria counties. The session runs through Friday October 1 8 and features the consecration of St James Church Leesburg with Dr J W Morrin as rector. Bishops Gebson Randolph and Peterkin participate with Dr Cecil de J Harbordt directing the musical program.
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St. James Episcopal Church
Leesburg
Washington
Piedmont
The
Episcopal Church
Loudoun
Payquier
Fairfax
Prince William
Rappahanonesh
Culpeper
Madison
Alexandria
Frey
Everard Meade
Accotinck
J. W. Ware
St. James’ Church
J. W. Morrin
Gebson
A. M. Randgolph
Southern Virginia
G W. Peterkin
J .West Virginia
Cecil de J. Harbordt
Baltimore
Richmond Show Awards Honor Weather and Winners
In Richmond Virginia the second day of the horse show drew a larger crowd despite heavy rain. Winners include David Dunlop of Petersburg and Mrs. Mire Allen Potts of Cobham with top prizes in combination saddle and harness classes and saddle horse classes. C W Watson of Baltimore also took several ribbons.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Vera Morris
New Yorker
O. A. van Hansen
Jay F. Carlisle
C. W. Watson
Baltimore
Virginia
David Dunlop
Petersburg
Allen Potts
Cobham
Determination
C W Watson
Little Frits
Misa Vera Morris
New York
Lakeside
Joseph Wiesenfeld
Pirst
Geraldtoo
H. W. Spratley
Biheron
Rediant
Allen Fetts
Pleurette
Weatchester Farm
Rex
Vera Motila
Rvhon
Lord Baltimore
Maryland
West Virginia
Queeniey
Wood & Hall
Bellevue
Closa
Firet
Brozle
Sue
Kearsley
HK. Watson
Saint and Sinner
A. O. Vac Hausen
New Yorks
Cluss
Fingt
Nancy Lee
Mate
Seqond
King
Norfolk Attorney Declared Insane Over Threatening Letters
J Garratt Baxter a prominent Norfolk attorney was judged insane by a standing commission and will be sent to a private Baltimore area sanitarium. For three years he sent threatening letters to editors and city officials and warned to invade newspaper offices. He also targeted Police Chief Housh and a young society woman over a dispute about the Baxter name.
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Washington
Worfolk
J. Garratt Baxter
Baltimore
Housh
Baxter
Miss Baxter
Marriages Across Towns From Virginia Regions
A string of marriage notices from Winchester to Richmond details weddings of Gardner and Mix in Frederick County, Nellie Strickler in Springfield, Flora Miller in Bristol, Lucy Whitman and David H. Jones in Pulaski, Cora Howlett and W. H. Warmer in Petersburg, Estelle Walford and Winthrop Crenshaw in Richmond, Alwira Payne and James A. Lemen in Winchester, Burnie Downing and Kathleen Guck in Front Royal, and Margaret B. Davis with Hood Waiters in Richmond. Partners, places, and officiants are listed with brief wedding contexts and travel plans.
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Winchester
Gardner
Mix
Bertie E. Derflinger
Frederick County
Luray
James I. Spurs
Rileyaville
Nellie Strickler
M. W. Strickler
The
Pride
Springfield
Latrict
BH. A. Wileyn
Methodist Church
Bristol
Mies Flora Miller
D M Miller
Indian Springs
E J. Burkey
Upper East Tennessee
G. Kotron
Pulagiri
Misa Marr Brockenbrough
Yanor
Galdenrod
Logan Walford
Mise Walford
Mra G
Welford
James A Lemen
Berkley County
W. Va
Alwira EB. Payne
James R. Graham
Presbyterian Church
Catherine Lemon
M. Dawes Fayne
Martinsburg
Front Royal
Burnie Downing
Migo Kathleen Guck
G. Waller
MB. Turner
Frank P. Hillary
Washington, D. C
Charles White
F. Hansbrough
M. C. Richard
Richmond
Margaret B. Davis
New York Society
Hood Waiters
Baltimore
George H. Spooner
Bplacopay Church
South
G. M. Cahtrell
Cantroh
Little Rock
Ark
Miles Waters
Charles ¥Rikar
Amerlcws
Frank de ‘Witt
Alexandria News In Brief Political Battle Ya item
In Alexandria a Democratic primary to fill the clerk of the court seat amid a fierce contest runs today. Charles Bendheim faces Newell S. Greenaway in a race seen as essentially deciding the term. Polls open at 6 am and close at 6 pm with both sides claiming advantage amid a hot canvass.
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Washington Post
King Press
Alexandria
Mom Shate
John 8. Beach
Judge Barley
Corporation Court
Charles Bendheim
Democratia
Bendheim
Namina
Newell S. Greemawery
Beach
Mr. Greenaway
Greenaway
Feld
Pgs
C. Bascom Glemp
Republican State Committee
Republican Committee
Rabbi Gross
Cincinnati
Fleisch- Mann
Seymour Blondheim
Raymond and
Morris Blumenfeldt
Washington
Ferd Bendheim
Rena Kaufmann
Annie Blondheim
Pauline Pretzfelder
Backy Walberg
Ben and
Sidney Walberg
Charles Blond
Hannah A. Kincheloe
Clifton
Ivy Hill Cemery
Passenger Fireman Steps In At Parkersburg
A stone struck the fireman H. J. McHenry on the Balti more and Ohio Express at Smithburg. The train halted, and a volunteer passenger who had been a fireman took over to fire the furnace and safely bring the train into Parkersburg on schedule, then was relieved.
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Parkersburg
Washington Post
W. Va
New York and St Seals
Smithburg
H. J. McHenry
Violation of Election Law Over Comma Omission
Special to The Washington Peace con Va reports a tense debate over a primary timing provision. Lawyers note a missing comma alters legal meaning and creates potential violations while officials delay an official ruling awaiting further guidance from Maj. Anderson and the attorney general.
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Washington Peace Con Va
Gullee
Maj. Anderson
Five Prisoners Escape Augusta County Jail in Virginia
Five inmates escaped from the Augusta County jail in Staunton on October 11 by sawing a iron bar to create an aperture seven and a half by fifteen inches. The group included Howdyshell Grant Blaney Shaw and a colored boy named Brown, with two others awaiting trial or sentenced for chicken theft and assault. They lowered themselves by a blanket from the corridor balcony after breaking bars three quarters of an inch thick and three and a half inches apart. This is the jail’s third escape recently, marking a pattern of breakouts from the county jail.
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Spagla
Weabington
Staunton
Augusta County
Hmmett Howdyshell
William Grant
William Blaney
John Shaw
Brown
W. ‘Enhedy
Skeleton Mystery Solved in Suffolk Hanged Man's Bones Found
Special to The Washington Post. In Suffolk Virginia on October 11 a discovered skeleton was identified as James Brown a Black man hanged thirty three years ago for murdering two white women Mrs Dozier and Mrs Jones Brown claimed his body to a physician for tobacco and his bones were stored and later buried in the rear lot of Joseph P Webb's hardware store after years of no request for the remains.
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Washington Post
Richmond
James Watson
Frank Brown
Amherst
Suffolk
Waatington Post
Washington Street
James Brown
Joseph P. Webb
Roanoke Man Acquitted In Emigrant Agent Case
Winston-Salem N C Oct 11 In the Superior Court this afternoon W W I Woodward of Roanoke Va indicted for acting as emigrant agent without license was acquitted He came seeking printers to replace strikers and Roanoke He was under a $250 bond and defense counsel argued only those who make it a regular business employing a percentage earners could be classed as emigrant agents
Swift Specific cures Rheumatism in reader case study
An Atlanta firm promotes S S S as a pure vegetable remedy that cleanses the blood to relieve rheumatism. A testimonial recounts four years of illness spreading from hip to body, with dramatic recovery after using S S S, claiming permanent cure and restored strength.
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Driv. S.S.S
S. O
Canadian Pacific Ad Offers Passenger Service Details
Inten ing peseengere for Aaigtc and Pacific Veran points, t one O. H. Mors, F. & P. A., Main Tky, oy white him, Bond Bidg., 11th st. and M. Y. evc., Waghington, 2. He will give you full information, and, if desired, call and see you.
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Canadian Pacific
Aaigtc
Pacific Veran
O. H. Mors
Bond
11Th St
M. Y
Waghington
Atlantic Coast Line announces 1908 September schedule
Florida service updates list daily sleeping cars from New York to various southern points including Tampa Port and Augusta Washington Wilmington. Dining car service available. Inquiries directed to the Office of the Line at 111 Pennsylvania Avenue and Pennsylvania RR Station.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
Harrisburg
Fitteburg
Louisville
St.es
Warriebars
Pulliyas
Dally
Herrieburg
Chidlegalana
Toledo
Detroit
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C. P
ST. Louis
Oe Janapote
Loulayilis
Ons Ees Utter
Patlor
Oreo Dal
PENN
Pullyan
Che of
Ag Erica RO
Lquia Express
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Harrisboce
Louie
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Ouieville
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Ieee
laHy
Louis Ria
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Clevelan
Poimanee
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Polgue
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Erie
Rochester
Buffalo
Niagara
Philadelphia
New York
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Boston
Baltimore
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Pices Fidtelmehh
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Gar
Wwe
Atterbuhy
Pepe
Southern Railway
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Wey
Manangas
Loval
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Lottaavhi
Atlante
Atlanta
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Frideza
Florida
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Columbia
Sas Vanneh
Jacksonville
Augusta
Fort Tampa
Memphis
Lynchburg
Noe
Chattanooga
Birmingham
New Orleana
Washington and Southwestern Limited
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Macon
Megashis
Bluemont
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Leesburg
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Ufmt
Paave
Pennsylvania
Bigage
HB Spencer
Warnwick
W H Taylor
Brown
Pennsylvania Station
St. Loua
Cincnnati
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Pullman
Cincimnnati
Indianapolis
Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio
Dmoce
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth Street
H.W. Fuller
Ageck
Atlantic Coast Line
Gaiteocrite
Frs
Port Tampa
Fla
Deg
York
Charleston
Pennsylvania Rat Road
REED
Weahington
Craig
Merson
Psa
Trafic
Washington Southern Railway
Richmond
Lasre
Eenes Atrects
Poimya
H. Fonday
Duke
W. Colpp
W. PF
Sash See
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W. W. Hicks
G. C. Rector
Anne Arundel Court
Moss Bannon
Eang
International Order of the King’s Daughters
National Organization
Ruth Geiger
Focal Council
Thomas Carroll Burke
Wheeling
Cgunst
Isabella C. Davis
New
AA Dhhee
Piedmont Convocation
Mire Allen Potts
Algo
Norfolk
Alexandria News
Charles Benéheim Amd
Newell S. Gregnaway
W. P. Henshaw
Panama Canal Commission
R. Maurice Wilkins
Bee
Columbus Street
North Carolina
J. F. Oreilly Indorses
Doan
James
John Fanning O'Reilly
Manhattan Hospital
New York City
Ward
Inlard
O'Reilly
Fanning O'Reilly
Dean
Froster M
Albert
Day
Second Street
Stevere’ Pharmacy
Ninth Street
Dogn
Iburn Co
Mr. Eterling, Ky
Min
Friabie
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Ballomett Newsport
Newa
Newport News
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Fortemouth
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Callahan
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Louise
Timic
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Keksors
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eSantage, Reentee
Arlington Falls Church
Aqueduct Bridge
Hotels
Hotel
White House
Brierly
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Grafton Hotel
Conn. Ave
DeSales St
Harrington Mills
Proprieta
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Ste. Nw
U. S. Capitol
Wean Steamers
Flymourbourg
Breme
Crarbourg
Remen
Main
Bremen
Rhein
Friedrich
Heyditts
Mediterranean
Gibraltar
Naples
Genoa
Luise
Irene
Get
Dee
Neckar
Navy
Srr Albert
Delrichs & CO
Broadway
F. Droop & Bons CO
Atlantic Transport
London Direct
HED Star
Dover
London
Paris
White Star Line
Wiypoo
Meditenerme
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Agruprac
Doon Noy
Cmupic
Cunard
Fiera
North River
Liverpool
Adriatic
Caronia
Huropa
Cunard Steamship Co
Peghia
Atlantic City
N. J
Jackson
Ocean
Wintof
American Plas
Pugs
Iohn Ceuge
Fran Jhe
ST. Charles
Golf Priglisges
Oka
Galen Hall
Caneton Kentucky Ave
Nest
Seerantienis
Atlantic
City
Rudolf
St. James
Warregtor
NEW York Resorts
Lake Placid
Warrington Mil Banager
Ataiene BO. HY
Keeley
Capitol Treet
Ington
Beale
Virginia Resorts
Pins Beach Hotel
Fine Beach
Pineyt Woode Inn
ST. John & CO
Gauthorn Pines
BOS
Country Board
Cem
Railroads
Baltimore and Obio Railroad
New Jersey Ave
Cat
Royal Erie
Poser Farlor
Royal Limited
Piladelphis
Annasty
D. Ma
Nor
Northwest
Pr. Louis
Ees
Wight
Iwundays
Hotela
Union Transfer Company
New York Ave
Ss BR. Begk
Dieteich
Spaboard Air Line
Bataway
Penna. Ave
Peteraburs
Raleigh
Wilmings
Colum! Kevanhale
Temps
Aflants
Birmingfitch
Mobile
Pensacola
New Orleans
Lisbeard Mail
Pulinian Sienpar
Fls
Hamlet
Potlmat
Stappara Ihrpress
Tatopa
Pullman Meepere
Norfolk and. D. Western Railway
Waattigton
Paice
Knoxville
Mooge
Bag
Orleans
Eas
Bally
Nantes
Eikten
Fox
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