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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1909
Page
11
A report from the Southern Textile Men’s Meeting discusses child labor and health safeguards. A farm and rural college delegate and officials from Marine Hospital are cited as addressing employee conditions and welfare plans for manufacturers.
The article argues mills offer healthier work conditions than rural living, noting improved worker welfare due to new factories and remodels. Dr Stiles defends juvenile employment, while Winslow credits health gains to employer care and factory modernization. A debate on steam versus electric power follows, with broader church and educational efforts linked to mill communities in the South.
The Maryland Evangelical Lutheran Synod opens its 90th annual convention at St Marks Church Baltimore with Holy Communion led by Rev Charles Steck. Delegates attend as Rev J E Crgler of Lutherville speaks on The Second Article. Officers to be elected Friday. Speakers include Rev Lo A Brush on The Beginnings of Lutheranism and Rev A Fichirdson on Sunday. Ordination sermon by Rev J Bow ers.
The coroner’s verdict names James Conway as the killer of Rebel F Torrence after a Petersburg saloon confrontation. Testimony from Mrs Andrew Gentry and Mrs Torrance details prior company with Hugh All tink and James Conway, and Torrence’s ante mortem statement claims Conway shot him after Torrence struck him for being called a liar.
The notice lists multiple events: Miss Ann WoWaster Treeman wed to Mr Edward Butler Freeman in Jamestown Georgia Building with Rev Howard. Miss Ruth Anne Swath and Dr Elizabeth Smith in Broad Belt Baptist Church. Miss Mary Allen Harrill marrying James McLanghim in a Carolina Clmehfela and Ohls Ralway ceremony. Mrs Annie Reed Jounxest’s marriage near Fitzabeth City. Miss Cora Maud Sson wedding to Jann A Meade officiated by Rev Bosman. Miss Lucy Lewis Lon wed at the home of Mrs Wallace. Miss Mary Hall and B Leckey of Buchanan tied the knot. New Cumberland Guard Company officers elected. also Daniel J Phelps, 22, of Hopedale Mass, commits suicide in Lynchburg West, leaving wife and child.
In Alexandria at Christ Church Episcopal Dr Arthur Selden Lloyd was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Virginia. The ceremony drew clergy, seminary students, and dignitaries led by Presiding Bishop Daniel Sylvester Tuttle. Doane preached from the reading desk due to ill health. the rite included vesting, laying on of hands, and presentation of the Bible. Also reported: a jury acquitted a Southern Railway engineer in a collision case and obituaries for local residents.
Virginia briefs report a laymen’s convention in Brstal addressed by Rev J O Reavi and Dr D B Ray with other speakers including Dr WG Cram and WH Fark. Lee Pikett is sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for a murder during a festival near Alde in Loudoun. The National Bank of Herndon is organized with 200000 capital, with Ernest L Robey MT Wilkins BT Detwiler Trank W Huddison and WF Midleton as organizers. The will of George W Shepherd is probated in Fredericksburg with executors George W Shepherd Jr Wiss and Margaret B Shepherd. A Lynchburg rail yard accident kills 28-year-old John Gibby, a Norfolk and Western signal operator.
In Newport News Virginia on October 2 a convention of hundreds of oyster planters packers and tasters debated remedial oyster laws. Former Senator James N Stubbs of Gloucester chaired as delegates demanded Negro delegates retire triggering protest and walkout
A deputy US marshal seized the bugeye Freddie Hayward at Jones Falls for unpaid nails valued at 21. Three men, described as Negroes, then put the marshal ashore as the vessel sailed away. The revenue cutter Apache pursued the Hayward, receiving orders from Washington to continue the chase, with reports of the chase from Annapolis to Chesapeake Bay.
May Flan Mill merger unfolds as James R Duke and associates plan a 460000 dollar cotton mill at Riverdale integrating with Southern Power Company hydraulic developments. Hal and Roberts Wembane and Thomas Fuller rumored to head the venture, with Duke interests already spanning Irwin Mills at Durham and new plants at Duke and Cooleemee.
Gov Stuart addresses the largest Union veteran assembly south of the Mason-Dixon line since the Civil War in Cold Harbor Virginia. Pennsylvania regiments from across the country gathered to unveil a stone shaft honoring fallen comrades, with Miss Juliette Watson present and a Richmond Blues band performance. Gov Stuart pledged memory and tribute, then returned to Richmond.
Special report from Roanoke shows The Citizens League meeting proposes a committee led by Tishburne Hough Ward to urge the election judges resign on September 2 near the local option vote. A second resolution asks Treasurer Lawrence Davis to respond to accusations that the poll tax list was padded.
Special to The Washington ros reports Norfolk Virginia State Senator Pol Sale will seek the late D Q Eggleston’s seat as secretary of the Commonwealth on the Democratic ticket. He has Norfolk city Democratic backing and is expected to secure statewide support once the Democratic State Committee meets in Richmond. Sale is a member of the law firm Sale Mann Lyler Mann and ran the successful gubernatorial campaign in the primaries.
State Wine Inspector John Laing led a Clarksburg examination for mine foremen and five bosses. 102 have enrolled with others expected for the First to Fourth mining districts. Meanwhile 23 pleaded guilty in Kanawha County to liquor indictments. Resiey Lescolored was sentenced in Martinsburg for illegal sale. Political rallies featured Capt Wise of New York and endorsements for Republicans and Democrats. Milk price talks near Hagerstown aimed to raise milk by 6 to 1 cents and cream by 30 to 25 cents per quart. final section postponed to Tuesday.
The residents of Ginter Park Richmond have granted women the vote. At a Citizens Association meeting the suburb adopted a constitution and by laws allowing all white women over 21 owning property and living there to vote. It is the first southern community to take this step.
Special to The Washington Post reports Staunton saloons shut down tonight for the first time in city history. City council permitted bars to stay open until midnight to liquidate stock. Judge Bolt ordered about 16000 dollars in license fees refunded to fifteen saloonkeepers forced out by the last election.
Penitentiary superintendent Laughing House notes won views low in two years. Seaboard Air Line Railway officers elected at Raleigh with Rogers of Raleigh president, Green of Dawson vice president, Burke of Petersburg secretary treasurer. next meeting in Limingham Alabama. Report of drowning near Crowly after a boat capsized. deaths include John Frederick Schleicher near Hagerstown Bellevue Asylum. Succession of obituaries for Sallie Cushwa Troupe, Albert Fowler, and a Cumberland wedding near Charlestown.
In Martinsburg on Oct 20 a U S district court jury found for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in its suit against the Berkeley Springs and Potomac Valley Railroad over the Berkeley Springs to Hancock branch. The verdict amounts to $800 as awarded by the commissioner, with the case referred months ago to determine costs of operating the branch from 189? to 7. The Baltimore and Ohio owns nearly all the stock of the line.
An eight year old boy, William Moreland, son of Charles Moreland, died after a fatal car crash while racing home from Martinsburg in the dark. He was injured when his vehicle struck a coupling pole, tearing a stomach wound, and his father tried to carry him for 16 miles to aid before he died.
John Ware, a Maryland farmer, and Mary Jane Ware, his stepmother, wed in Washington DC after failed efforts to marry in Hagerstown and Winchester. Legal obstacles kept them apart for years, but they finally joined as husband and wife. they plan to reside near Winchester.
Winchester Va dispatch reports Rev Dr Jonah W Lupton presbyterian minister and Stuart K Lupton American consul at Taranta Yel receive a two seventh share of the estate probated today. The will divides the estate among four sons and three daughters. Stuart K Lupton previously served as vice consul at Messina during its earthquake disaster.
News notes a plan to add a 35000 dollar jail facility near the courthouse in Elkins. The project proposes sandstone and brick construction with the county expanding facilities as lands become available, aiming to improve local jail capacity.
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