Virginia Methodists Face Suit Over Randolph Macon Board
The Virginia conference debates independence of the Randolph Macon Woman’s College board after Carnegie Foundation withdrawal. Seniors fear donors may sue over loss of board autonomy as tensions rise over presiding elders and bishop appointments ahead of the general conference.
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North Carolina Items Highlight Local Civic and Legal News
Citizens of Richmond townshp in Forsyth County held a mass meeting last night and secured two plumme from Frank Spear to donate the site of the old Richmond courthouse for a monument. Andrew Jackson obtained license to practice law. Charles Finch of Thomasville discussed local affairs. A boy from Randolph County died after a fall from a moving train car near Greensboro. Geoy L Jones of Los Angeles was arrested in Raleigh for improper money orders at the post office. The North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanic Society reelected J HM Curne of Layetteyie as president and Joseph D Pogue of Raleigh as secretary. The Tategh fair this year was the largest yet, with preliminary arrangements for a semicentennial next year in permanent buildings. Washington, D.C. reports on rehabilitation contracts for the city waterworks and sewerage plant. Capt 3 M Bowyer and Lt D MM Wurtsbaugh begin a physical test ride of three days, riding up to ten hours daily.
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Richmond Courtouse
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Charles Finch
Thomasville
Sherif Finch
Randolph Counts
Greensboro
Guilford College
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J HM Curne
Layetteyie
Joseph D Pogue
Raleigh
Tategh
Annapoli
Bowyer
Aradamy
Liert D MM Wurtsbaugh
How to Get Rid of Catarrh by Dr Blosser
An advertisement claims a home catarrh cure from Dr Blosser, promising safe inexpensive treatment for catarrh, headaches, deafness, asthma, bronchitis, and colds. Readers are urged to test the remedy by mail, with a free sample and illustrated booklet offered upon request.
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Avante
Tauit
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Presbytery to cover church warl costs in West Virginia
The West Virginia Synod of Presbyterians finished its annual meeting at First Church in Clarksburg. The home missions committee was abolished and a new synodical committee formed to oversee finances. A fund was planned to support Presbyterian students at the State University and the Anti Saloon League work in the state was endorsed.
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Spewer
Clarksburg
West Virginia
Board of Home Migalons
New York
First Church
Home Missions Committee
Synodical Home Mission Committee
Evs Geage
Pollock
Buckhannon
Johm
Francis
Parkersburg
McDonald Flrat
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Canal business rising as waterway stays open longer
Heavy shipments will keep the canal open longer than usual if weather permits to meet demand for water supply. The season has been prosperous with a dozen new canal boats and two large dredging schemes launched. Pontoons are being constructed for use with the steam canal dredge at Washington. Seven canal pools are on the stocks in Hancock and other places, with work continuing at the dock throughout winter.
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Hagerstown
Hancar
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Train Crash Kills Engineer in Virginia and Tennessee
A Virginia and Southwestern Railway collision at full speed between a train hauling steel vans and a car in Creston Virginia wrecked engines and coal cars. Engineer Groseclose perished, fireman Johnson escaped. Groseclose found hours later amid debris. his widow and five children survived.
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Carl Tran
Virginia and Southwestern
Creton
T S Groveclose
JF Johnson
Groseclose
May hang on arson charge in Wheeling West Va case
Special to The Washington ost Wheeling West Virginia man charged with trying to burn the house where his father in law lay, alleging disinheritance as motive. The case, named for Christian Nixon, was held for the grand jury. Arson carries a death penalty. In Baltimore, Thomas Hayward, aged 60, longtime Bennett Hayward Company president, died today after a heart-related illness.
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Wheeling
Christian Nixon
J Hayward
Baltimore
Thomas
Hayward
Bennett Hayward Company
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