Allegany County Democrats name state ticket and schedule primaries
The Allegany County Democratic committee appointed nominees for state and local offices and set October 3 as primary day where more than one candidate seeks a post. Key figures include Frank J Drum for state senate and William Willison leading the local organization. Delegates and sheriffs are debated amid concerns over deputy appointments and calls for reform within the party.
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Washington Post
Cumberland
Allegany County
Frank J Drum
Yale Summit
Baptists at Annapolis Meet in Annual Convention
The Middle District Baptist Association gathered in Annapolis today for a convention expected to run through tomorrow afternoon in the resolytueian Church as Colisee avenue edifice remains incomplete. The session features district religious leaders and community participants.
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Middle District Association
Apecia
Washington Post
Annapolis
Middle District Baptist Association
Colisee Avenue
Resolytueian
Eloping couples wed in Washington city
Two Virginia couples married in Hagerstown since 10 last night. Miss Ammie C. Harris and George B. Sargent of Riverton wed near midnight at Rev. A. H. McKinley's home. Miss Annie Young and Harrison Duncan of Luray tied the knot this morning at the City Hotel by Rev. J. M. Tombaugh.
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Washington Post
Hagerstown
Virginia
Ammie C. Harris
George B. Sargent
Riverton
A. H. McKinley
Annie Young
Harrison Duncan
Elopers
Luray
J. M Tombaugh
City Hotel
Former Baltimore pastor to preach Romney WV church dedication
Cumberland Md Sept 21 The new Methodist Episcopal Church South at Romney West Virginia will be dedicated on October 1. Rev Forrest J Prettyman pastor of Trinity and Calvary churches Baltimore formerly Mount Vernon Place Church Washington DC and briefly chaplain of the Senate will preach the dedication sermon. Rev H J Stephens Rev C Syd an d other former pastors will lead the service.
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Washington
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Rayner Wins By A Margin In Maryland Primaries
Baltimore Sept 21 The Baltimore supervisors of elections canvassed Democratic primary votes from Monday in the Sixth and Eleventh wards. William B. Rayner leads for legislature in the Sixth with William Milnes Maloy in the Eleventh. William I Norris defeats Edward F. Burke in the Sixth ward with six Norris to four Burke in the delegation. Norris gains two thirds of tied delegates, while Burke holds one third. Executive results show Forster defeated by Humphreys in the Sixth ward, and Eleventh ward counts favor Rayner with 618 to Munley 323 for delegation. Goldsborough leads executive and Linthicum tops Straus for senator. Defective vote proportion high. canvass to continue tomorrow with remaining wards.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Wiliam B. Rayner
William Milnes Maloy
William
William I Norris
Burke
Norris
Superior Court
Forster
Humphreys
Rayher
Munley
N. Lee Goldsborough
Organization
M. Littig
Linthicum
Straus
Reform League charges Democratic election supervisors in Charles County
The Reform League of Maryland petitions Governor Warfield to remove Jefferson D. Robertson and John W. Millar, Democratic election supervisors, amid claims of dual ballots, biased ballots, unequal access for minority supervisor W. W. Reech, and improper appointment of ineligible critics. Robertson allegedly vows to influence the fall amendment vote. Democratic supervisors to be summoned. Warfield to rule soon.
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Srecal
Washington Post
Baltimore
Reform, League of Maryland
Gov
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John W. Millar
Charles County
Gov. Warfield
W. W. Reech
Germans Elect Officers as Reformed Synod Meets in Baltimore
The thirty first annual session of the German Synod of the Reformed Church gathers in Baltimore with officers elected Rev. F. M. Dumstrey and Rev. Dr. A. Dahlmann. The body represents 58 churches and about 10,000 members with $190,600 in church property and $10,400 available for charitable uses. Mission charges number ten with $5,883 income. the Franklin, Wisconsin mission house reports 93 students. the publication board posts last year’s income at $12,337. Also noted, Charles Brown, colored, is dangerously wounded, and Thomas Smith, colored, is shot in Pocahontas amid a dispute between barbers over a game.
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East of Reformed Church
Baltimore
The
Reformed Church
F. M. Dumstrey
Philadelphia
A. Dahlmann
Buffalo
Mission Board
Franklin
Wic
Minstry
Publication Board
Tne
Washington Post
Tazewell
Charles Brown
Thomas Smith
Pocahontas
Beth Necroes
Train Wreck Kills One Injures Six Near Charleston
A westbound passenger train from Hinton to Charleston derailed seven miles east of Charleston at Carkin, killing H Hopk ins of Hinton and injuring six track workers and passengers. The engine and most cars left the track after hitting dirt left on the rail. Passengers numbered over a hundred were largely uninjured, with several workers buried briefly under earth.
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Hinton
Charleston
W. Va
Washington
Carkin
H Hopkins
Noah Smith
Richmond
Wat Seales
Madison
William Smotherman
Salisbury
N. C
Alexander Thaxton
Huntington
Flying Rock
George Brown
John L Mo
Marmet
Richmond abandons liquor board plan in favor of judge grants licenses
Special to The Washington Fuss reports Richmond Va authorities scrap the plan to form an excise commission to curb liquor traffic. The aim was to close disreputable places but police action already reduced the problem, so licenses will continue to be issued by the Hastings Court judge.
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Washington
Richmond
Board of Excise Commissioners
Hastings Court
Jefferson Fire and Marine Ins Co Placed in Receivership
Richmond Va Sept 21 insolvency leaves assets nearly gone Roscoe C Nelson named receiver bond set at 5000 Judge Ingram Law and Equity Court precipitated by Arkansas Democrat Co claim of 1250 on 2000 policy Special to The Washington Post Huntington W Va Sept 21 Gov Dawson pardons W N Davis editor of Hubbardstown after murder conviction Davis had shot John Young in a store quarrel Richmond Va Sept 21 Newton Maxey son of Rev R M Maxey fined 10 for carrying gravel shooter age 15 who recently shot a boy in the eye with the weapon
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Jefferson Fire and Marine Insurance Company
Ingram
Law and Equity Court
Roscoe C. Nelson
Washington
Huntington
W. Va
W. N. Davis
Hubbardstown
State
Dawson
Davis
John Young
Washington Post
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R. M. Maxey
Julian Travnum
Danville
William Leigh
Harrison & Leigh
John Randolph Leigh
Clarkeville
Leigh
Washingto E. Post
Staunton
Court of Appeals
Shirel Ys Grimley
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Greane County
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Augusta County
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Virginia Portland Cement Company
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Merriman
McDonald Administrators
Clarke County
Johnston
Commonwealth
Henrico County
Bond
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City of Bristol
Brown
Moora & Thompson Et al
Amherst County
Winchester Rail Line Expands Power Plant Site
Ground purchased by Winchester City Railway Co for plant near Millville along the Shenandoah River. Edward Purcell & Co. erecting dam and powerhouse with a 32 foot waterfall to increase power. Miss J H Rodgers of Baltimore sold 37 acres for 4500 dollars. work includes concrete dam raceway and tramway for material transport.
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Winchester
Winchester Jana Washington City Railway Company
Edward Purcell & Co
Millville
Jefferson County
W Va
Shenandoah River
J. H. Rodgers
Baltimore
Sentenced for murder in Franklin County Court
Mack Alexander was sentenced to eighteen years in the penitentiary for the July murder of Jeff Nowlin in Nowlin's Roanoke area home. The Rocky Mount jury deliberated all night before convicting him of shooting Nowlin with a shotgun.
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Jeff Nowlin
Roanoke
Franklin County
Rocky Mount
Jef Nowlin
Alexander
Nowlin
Colonists to Receive Ten Acre Farms Near Wilmington
Wilmington North Carolina Sept 21 The Carolina Trucking and Development Company with 500000 capital stock led by Hugh MacRae & Co plans to parcel 250600 acres within fifty miles of Wilmington into ten acre farms. Immigrants from the North West and foreign countries will be recruited to colonize amid a prime strawberry belt. An electric line to Castle Haynes twelve miles away is planned. BE. W. Van C. Luces of the US Army is president.
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Washington Post
Wilmington
N. C
Carolina Trucking and Development Company
Hugh MacRae & Co
United States
Castle Haynes
BE. W. van C. Luces
United States Army
Richmond election fraud cases set for October 9 trial
Judge Witt of the Hastings Court fixed October 9 for the Richmond municipal fraud trials. The jury will probe the plot to steal the election and identify the men behind it. L. EK. Cutherson, in jail and poorly funded, faces the gravest charges and bail is unlikely. A list of fifteen witnesses will appear before the grand jury, possibly including three former grand jury members.
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Richmond
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Washington Post
Hastings Court
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Witt
Anti-kisser Elopes Bride of Virginia Senator
Winchester dispatch reports former Virginia state senator James G. McCune and Miss Mary A Parker eloped to Hagerstown Maryland and married in the Hotel Hamilton parlor at 9 PM. McCune, 40, is noted as the author of the anti kissing bill. Parker, 16, is described as beautiful. The couple faced family objections but wed with a license obtained in Cumberland Valley station. The brothers of the bride accompanied the couple. one opposed the match and appealed to police. They will reside in Frederick County.
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Hagerstown
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Washington Post
Winchester
James G. McCune
Meadow Malls
Frederick County
Charles , Parker
Cedar Creek
Hotel Hamilton
A. B. Statton
St. Paul's United Brethren Church
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Cumberland Valley
Maryland
Oswald
Dudley Man of Straw in Norfolk County Ticket
Samuel T. Montague of Portsmouth doubts W T Dudley will appear on Norfolk County ballot for clerk in November. He says Dudley is a straw candidate, created to aid Alvah H. Martin, the Republican incumbent, with the Democratic committee lending support to keep Martin in office.
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Norfolk County
Warhington
Richmond
Samuel T. Montague
Portsmouth
W. T. Dudley
Fusion
Dudley
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Martin
Maryland Obituary Notices From Hagerstown and Beyond
A string of obituaries from Hagerstown and surrounding areas notes the deaths of Lillie Craig 47 wife of Charles W Craig Henry Curfman 43 former deputy sheriff at Fotomac House Williamsport Mary Ann Keplinger 55 wife of Samuel C Keplinger and daughter of Jacob Rohrer Norman B Scott 86 prominent physician first president of Washington County Medical Society Clayton McCauley son James McCauley of Riverton Va killed while erecting a bridge in his forties Clairton McCauley of Hagerstown reports his father James McCauley killed near Little Orleans at about forty. funeral arrangements. In Baltimore eight Frannie children learn their mother died on the return from the fatherland with her body brought home in a lead coffin to Linden Avenue Cumberland. Walter Beall 56 of Carlisle Pa dies of apoplexy and is linked to Mrs J W Scott Cochran of Cumberland. Beall served in Maryland National Guard and had ties to local industries.
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Charles W. Craig
Henry Curfman
Williamsport
Baltimore
Mary Ann Keplinger
Samuel C. Keplinger
Keedysville
Washington County
Jacob Rohrer
Exkles Mills
George E. Ridenour
Normanb. Scott
Frederick County
Washington County Medical Society
J. McP. Scott
Norman B. Scott
Alexander Armstrong
Claiyton McCauley
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Riverton
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Erecta Bridge
Charles Frannie
America
Cumberland
Alpheus Beall
Beall
Hila
R. B. Johnson
Annie Given
Carlaile
Maryland National Guard
Col. Wardwell
Man to Serve Fifteen Months for Letters to Wife
Fred C. Rievers of Wheeling will serve fifteen months in the State prison after writing letters to his divorced wife now Miss Josephine Preacher. Judge Dayton in the United States Court ruled the wife could testify about acts after legal separation despite partial divorce. Jury had recommended clemency.
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Washington Post
W. Va
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Josephine Preacher
Dayton
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Rilevers
Fortunes in Apples Parade in Frederick County Prospects
Winchester reports General Freight Agent H C Clevenger will bring Pennsylvania banners and businessmen to unveil apple farming fortunes in Frederick County. A model apple orchard project is proposed on land by S L Lupton after a federal agreement, amid harvest labor shortages and a legal notices roundup from the Court of Appeals including several reversals and refusals. Democratic candidate Joseph D Eggleston Jr files primary expense report showing 807.22 spent on travel advertising and clerical costs.
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Washington Post
Winchester
H. C. Clevenger
Cumberland Valley Railroad Company
Pennsylvania
United States Agricultural Department
8. L Lupton
United States
Willard Spent Heavily in Virginia Governor Nomination Race
Lieutenant Governor Willard reported total expenditures of 138 328.74 for his bid to win the Virginia gubernatorial nomination. Itemized costs include stationery printing and stage expenses 372.27 express and telegraph charges 223 600 clerk hire stenography and typing 2 226 advertising and paper subscriptions 5 963.61 travel expenses 1 400.10 meeting costs 714.90 and Richmond headquarters 33 227.56 with a primary fee of 1 500.
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Washington Post
Richmond
Willard
Hichmond
Veterans at Campfire Brings South West Virginia Reunion
In Bristol on September 21 under the S. W. Fulkerson Camp auspices the Confederate Veterans of South west Virginia and East Tennessee held their annual reunion with about 400 veterans in attendance. Dr. J. P. Howell gave the welcome and Gov. John Isaac Cox of Tennessee was the principal speaker. A basket dinner followed as veterans recalled war incidents.
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Tenn
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East Tennessee
John Isaac Cox
Tennessee
Alexandria News In Brief: Weddings And Court Actions
The Alexandria section notes a quiet royal wedding at 22 North Royal Street as Miss Eleanor L. Gilmore wed Andrew M. Brechin of Charlottesville, with Rev. Dr. Frank J. Brooke officiating, the couple to reside at 619 East High Street Charlottesville. Also reported are court decrees, a policy-gambling conviction, retirement of George H. Harlow from Harlow Brothers, cadets departing for Virginia Tech, and local business merger plans with Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust.
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T. R. Gilmore
North Royal Street
Eleanor L. Gilmore
Andrew M. Brechin
Charlottesville
Frank J. Brooke
Second Presbyterian Church
Lunt
N. P. T. Burke
G. L. Boothe
John G. Beckham
Ridward Walsh
Annie C. Kraus
Frank Shepherd
George H. Harlow
Harlow Brothers
John Harlow
William K. Harlow
M. B. Harlow
Sergis
Charles M. Smith
Leo T. Downey
Raymond
Corporation Court
Fairfax Court
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Fauquier
Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust Corporation
Fidelity Savings and Trust Company of
State Corporation Commission
James McCuen
King and St. Asaph
Henry Murray
Murray
John Irwen Dashiell
John H. Dashiell
Alexandria Hospital
Philadelphia
Frederick L. Mortimer
Annie EB. Krauss
Baltimore
Methodist Protestant Church
J. H. S. Ewell
O. F. Frippe
First Baptist Church
Wilmington
N.C
Negro Youth Indicted for Forgery in Winchester
Winchester Sept 21 grand jury returns six indictments in Corporation Court against Heywood Johnson a simple looking colored youth who confessed to forging the name of his employer Liveryman Harry W Hur on the Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester Johnson says a white man induced him to forge Hulls name.
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Opening of Richmond College in Richmond Virginia
Richmond College opened with an excellent attendance as the new session began. The faculty expands with W. S. McNeill named associate professor of law and J. M. Whitfield appointed acting professor of chemistry. Captain Johnson named as Republican candidate for the House of Delegates from Elizabeth City County.
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Virginia Obituary Notices From Gordonsville and Nearby Towns
Obituary notices from Gordonsville Winchester Chatham Newport News and nearby Virginia towns report deaths of J L Sneed Kate Henson Delia Abbott and Mrs Lacey Watkins along with survivors and ties to local families. Details include ages relatives and places of residence and death as listed in the Virginia obituaries.
Blevis Will Extend Road To Link Coke Ovens
Morgantown West Virginia September 21 Senator Stephen B biking arrived to inspect property near Morganton and announced fifty additional coke ovens would be built at his mine in Richard and 100 ovens at Deckers Creek plant near Dellslow to create an important coke line. Road extension to Bowlesburg will connect with the Baltimore and Ohio main line, extending the system.
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Kingwood
Washington Post
W. Va
Stephen B. Biking
Richard
Deckers Creek
Eiking
Bowlesburg
Baltimore and Ohio
Novel on Reconstruction era race relations in the South
A novel presents the vital questions facing the South after Reconstruction and defines the true relations now existing between the races in the region. The work explores social tensions and political dynamics shaping postbellum America through its characters and narrative.
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