Manassas Journal, September 1906 (Prince William Co., Virginia) ---------------------------------------------------- September 7, 1906 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Dunnington have moved to Baltimore. Messrs Herring & Meetze sold a horse at the Warrenton show for $550. Messrs Hynson & Co. will move into their new store building Monday. Mr. Hugille Stevens of the Enterprise bakery is sick with malarial fever. Dr. C. Gus Simpson sails today for London where he continues his medical studies. Mr. Leyburn, a prospector for oil, who purchased Mr. W. G. Iden's farm, has taken possession. Mr. Oscar Hutchison, living near Haymarket, lost his barn by fire on Tuesday last and 600 bushels of wheat. Mr. C. A. Silling has rented one of the store rooms in the Newman building and will open a lunch room about the 20th. Cleve Taylor, a white man, has been lodged in jail here charge with breaking into Bush's store at Cherry Hill, this county. Howard Wagener, son of Mr. W. C. Wagener, who has been in a Washington hospital for treatment is slowly improving. Howard Carter, a young man in the employ of the Hopkins Co. has been taken to a hospital in Washington for an operation for appendicitis. Dr. S. S. Simpson has moved into the dwelling which he recently purchased from Mr. E. E. Blossom. Mr. Mason moves into Dr. Simpson's house. The festival held at Mrs. Holden's last Wednesday night was well attended. The change in the weather, however, made ice cream eating a chilly job. Miss Cora Hottle daughter of Mr. J.S. Hottle, who was operated on at the Georgetown University hospital for appendicitis, continues to improve and will soon be home. Mr. J. Wilbur Ayer has not rented in town, but will board with Mrs. Gosnell, who has opened a boarding house in Messrs Hibbs & Gidding's dwelling on Centre Street. Rev. Mr. Clark has rented the residence of the late Congressman Meredith. Mr. E. R. Conner and his father's family will move into the dwelling vacated by Mr. Clark. The property is owned by Mr. Conner. Mr. John R. Tillett was in New York this week and contracted with Gen Duryea for the erection on the iron work on the grounds bought for the federal monuments or the battlefield, as recently published in THE JOURNAL. Mr. T. Ramsay Taylor of Norfolk, son of Mr. T. O. Taylor of this place, has bought out the Meredith Drug Co. of Norfolk, a well established business and one of the best locations in that section. Mr. Taylor has recently built himself a handsome residence in the suburbs. We find the subjoined item in one our exchanges but have been unable to learn the particulars: Joseph Manuel of near Nokesville is in a critical condition as the result of a gun bursting while out squirrel hunting. The tube of the weapon struck him in the forehead and glanced, inflicting a long gash and fracturing the skull. One eye was seriously injured. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING On Thursday, Aug. 23, Mr. E. B. Reid, while attempting to cross Mrs. John Robinson's Ford, route No. 2, on Kettle Run, came very near being drowned. He was driving three horses to a wagon and after turning the lead horse loose, the drove into the run. One horse became frightened and tangled in the lines, the wagon overturned and it was with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Reid floated to the other side. This is considered a treacherous ford and the citizens of that vicinity, having been stopped at different times by high water will petition the county to build a bridge over that ford. OUR REPORTER IN SOCIETY Mr. John R. French of Washington was in town this week. Mrs. E. Wood Weir was in Baltimore this week on business. Mrs. Joseph Boorman and daughter Ruby are visiting friends at Washington and Hyattsville, Md. Mrs. W. Hill Brown and children left Thursday to visit Mrs. Brown's mother at Charles Town, W. Va. Miss H. Holderness a deaconess of Elm Park M. E. Church of Scanton, Pa., is visiting Mrs. A. B. Davis. Miss Lizzie Skidmere, who has been a guest at Clover Hill, left Tuesday for her home in Alexandria. Miss Emma Johnson, who has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. L. Hutchison in Loudoun, returned to her home on Tuesday. The Misses Anna Weber and Viola Yachman and Messrs Ray Walker and Howard Akers all of Washington have been guests at the home of Mr. Geo. Akers during the past week. Mr. Edward Wilson of Hickory Grove was in town this week, the guest of Mr. T. O. Taylor. Mr. Wilson has three sons in Montana. One of them is in the mercantile business and two have large cattle ranches. A few years ago, Mr. Wilson visited them and gives a glowing account of the fertility of the soil, made productive by irrigative. As evidence six tons of alfalfa are produced to the acre, and the crop is absolutely perennial. ----------------------------------------------------------------- September 14, 1906 Harry Griffith of this place is ill with typhoid fever. Miss Grace B. Moran opens school at Buckhall next Monday. Mr. Hugille Stevens of the Enterpise is ill with typhoid fever. Miss Claudia Waters has been sick with malarial fever but is improving. Mr. G. R. Polen, living on the Brentsville road, has a son ill with typhoid fever. Mr. Paul V. Portner has sold a pair of bay mares to Mr. David Dunlop for $1000. Mrs. M. Lynch was taken ill with hay fever on Tuesday night but was soon relieved. Mr. W. J. Adamson will build a brick residence this fall on his lot purchased from Mr. Richard Shannon. Mr. Robert Evans has bought two lots from Mrs. H. B. Lewis containing 25,300 square feet. Price $400 Mr. Robert A. Hutchison has been appointed representative of the Loudoun Mutual Fire Insurance Co. for this county. Miss Pauline Iden leaves next Monday to accept a desirable appointment as teacher in one of the best schools in Mississippi. Mr. W. J. Weir of this place leaves this week for a position in the dress goods department of Lansbaugh & Bro. of Washington. Mr. Jos. T. Speakes, who has been in a Washington hospital for a nervous affection of the jaw, returned yesterday but little improved. Mr. R. L. Goods has moved from the manse to Mr. J. E. Dunnington's house. Dr. J. Marye Lewis and his mother will occupy the manse. Mr. W. R. Free, Sr., of Nokesville has double cataract, greatly impairing his sight. He is able, however, to go around and was in town Monday. Mr. Jas. F. Gulick will shortly move to town into the house now occupied by Mr. Walker Merchant. Mr. Merchant will move to the house now occupied by Mr. Jesse Bell. Mr. Bell goes to his farm now occupied by Mr. George Polen. Mr. Polen goes to Mr. Gulick's farm. The Loudoun Mirror of this week says Rev. and Mrs. Selwyn K. Cockrell and children of Manassas visited their relatives in Leesburg last week. Mr Cockrell occupied the pulpit a the Methodist Church on Sunday night, and preached a most able and interesting sermon. Messrs J. Hendley and Wheatley M. Johnson left on Thursday for Lexington to resume their studies at Washington and Lee University. Mr. Harwood Myers left this week for Randolph Macon Academy at Front Royal. Mr. Henry Cockrell, son on Mr. F. A. Cockrell, leaves this week to study electricity in New York. Mr. V. Gilmore Iden left this week for his last year at Washington and Lee University. Mr. B. F. Iden, Jr., returns to the medical department of the University of Virginia. Mr. W. W. Davies resumes his studies in the same department at the University. Mr. Irving H. Moran returns to the University for his third year in electrical engineering. Mr. W. Harold Lipscomb is contemplating a similar course at the University and will definitely decide this week. MR. GILL AND A MATCH On Saturday afternoon last Mr. C. L. Hynson detected the odor of acetylene gas in the cellar of his new building and a search for the defect in the pipes was at once begun by Messrs C. L. Hynson, R. S. Hynson, George Purcell, William Gill and John Hynson. It was Mr. Gill's misfortune to find it with a match. He was moving a lighted match along the pipe to locate it, when suddenly five feet of flame flashed up in his face, badly scorching it and burning his wrist severely. Fortunately, however, he escaped all serious injury, and barring the fact that he has suffered very much from his burns he is none the worse for his experience. In the meantime he is taking his vacation and nursing his face, and Mr. Gill measures about six feet and is quite a good looking young man, it will not do to ask him if his face hurts him. Permit us to suggest to him, however, that it is always considered proper and discreet to turn off the gas before wrestling with "a match." Miss Stahn of Baltimore is visiting the family of Mr. H. P. Dodge. Mr. E. V. Weir is the guest of this daughter, Mrs. Jas. Birkett. Mrs. Arthur Ashton of Texas is visiting Mrs. Allen Green, near Aden. Mrs. R. M. Weir is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. B. Hutchison, near Lenah. Miss Atta Glasscock of Marshall is visiting her sister, Mrs. T. F. King. Miss Bessie Martin of Warrenton is visiting her cousin, Miss Irma Falherty. Miss Olive Anderson of lower Fauquier is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. B. Trimmer. Mr. John W. Moran of Ryan, Va., spent last Sunday with his son, The editor of THE JOURNAL. Mrs. J. W. Marshall is spending several days at Marshall visiting her relatives and friends there. Mr. Jas. E. Nelson of the Peoples National Bank has been taking his vacation during the past ten days. Miss Mildred Lynn of Washington and Miss Addie Bodine of Nokesville have been visiting Miss Davis the past week. Mr. Emmett N. White of Texas, formerly of Haymarket, was in town Thursday on his way to the University of Virginia, where he goes to take a course in law. HUSBAND, WIFE AND PISTOL A Colored Barber and Wife in a Mix Up Joseph Butler, the colored barber at the Prince William, attended a dance on Saturday night last and had a good time. He reached home in the "wee sma' hours" and found his wife "nursing her wrath to keep it warm," and she forthwith proceeded to give the erring Joseph a piece of her mind in fragmentary scraps. There was a general mix up, a pistol and the wife was shot, the ball entering the stomach. Drs. Newman and Iden were summoned and pronounced the wound a serious one but necessarily mortal, and she was put on a train and sent to a Washington hospital, and the husband who says the shooting, while the pistol was in his hand, was an accident, was arrested, after accompanying his wife to the hospital, and is now in jail here, awaiting the result of his shooting. While the wife charged her husband with shooting her at the time, she has since declined to make any statement. The general theory is that the wife had the pistol and threatened Joseph on account of his marital misdemeanors, and that he tussled with her for the pistol and in the melee she was shot, perhaps accidentally. Others, however, charge Joe with having done the deed deliberately. We do not know and do not believe anybody will ever know except the couple who were in the mix up. HAYMARKET NEWS Miss Mary Jordan left on Tuesday night for Baltimore to visit her cousin, Mrs. Bennett. Mr. and Mrs. Gilliss have closed their summer home and gone to Washington for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. D. Jordan, who have been spending the summer in Colorado, arrived here Tuesday evening and will spend awhile with Mrs. Jordan's mother. Mr. George Parsons of Washington spent last Sunday with his mother in Haymarket. Mr. Hugh Smith was home Sunday. Messrs Phillips and Kloffer, who have been spending the summer in Haymarket, have returned to Washington. Mr. Sussex Davis is visiting his mother near here. Mrs. Thompson and daughter who have been visiting Dr. H. M. Clarkson left on Saturday. ----------------------------------------------------------------- September 21, 1906 BRIEF LOCAL NEWS Mr. R. A. Nalls has rented Mr. E. R. Conner's dairy farm at Blooms. Miss May Simpson leaves this week for the Woman's College at Richmond, Va. Mr. Augustus Schultz is critically ill and there is but little hope of his recovery. Mr. Joseph Gulick has gone to Richmond College to study for the baptist ministry. Dr. Jno. H. Iden, a surgeon in the United States navy, has been ordered to Cuba, and has sailed, we believe. Mr. W. G. Iden has bought the Baptist parsonage subject to the ratification of the church. Price $1,750. Congressman J. F. Rixey, who spent the summer at Colorado Springs, has returned to his home at Brandy, Culpeper county. Mr. A. W. Sinclair has been elected Vice-President of the Peoples National Bank in the place of Mr. H. A. Thompson, who has resigned. Mr. W. H. Clark, formerly assistant agent of the Southern here, has been reappointed to his old position with Mr. Coleman and has resumed work. Mrs. J. P. Leachman was taken quite ill on Monday last, a recurrence of former heart trouble, but soon rallied and is in much better health now than usual. Mr. Harwood Myers does not go to Randolph Macon this year but expects to teach. Mr. Nelson Ransdell left on Wednesday for this school at Front Royal. Mrs. R. J. Adamson, Mrs. E. Wood Weir and Miss Ida Lickle have returned from Baltimore and will be ready for their respective openings advertised in todays' paper. Mr. T. J. Caton, living near Catharpin, has cut some corn, this season, measuring 13, 15, 16 and 18 feet high. It can be seen at Catharpin. He wants to know who can beat it. Mr. F. A. Hornbeck, president of the Kansas city club, spent several days in the county recently and brought 7 hunters through Mr. E. H. Goodwin, to be shipped West. He expects to return in about two weeks. The State Convention, U. D. C., will meet at Wytheville Oct. 10. Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Westwood Hutchison and Miss Emma Shannon were appointed delegates with Mrs. Barbour, Mrs. Jas. Birkett and Miss Stella Waters, alternates. Basil, son of Mr. F. A. Cockrell, while handling a revolver yesterday met with a painful accident. In some way the weapon was discharged and the bullet entered his leg below the knee. Dr. Simpson was called and he succeeded in extracting the bullet. Messrs W. N. Wenrich, G. D. Baker, D. R. Lewis, J. L. Bushong, J. I. Randall, W. B. Colbert, L. F. Keys and T. R. Cooksey of Bull Run Council of Juniors attended Aden Council on Saturday night. Four of the party had a breakdown on the way back and spliced the axle with a fence rail. Mrs. Emily C. Round and her son George went to Baltimore on Tuesday last to attend the funeral of Miss Ethel Round, their relative. The young lady was well known here, and was the youngest child of Rev. Dr. J. Emory Round, the only brother of our fellow townsman, Mr. George C. Round. A private letter from Mr. G. G. Tyler, who is at Perry, N. Y., with his brother's family, says that while they have no information as to Mr. Ben C. Tyler's whereabouts, they all believe he is alive and safe somewhere. They believe he has been the victim of a lapse of memory or some other mental aberration. Manassas now has an automobile, Mr. Ira E. Cannon having bought a Stanley steam runabout with top. He started across the country from Washington with it but was stopped at Falls Church, by an officer who demanded to see his license. He turned back for garage and now awaits his license. OUR REPORTER IN SOCIETY Miss Mattie Matthew left Sunday for her school near Leesburg, Va. Miss Lillian Hixson has returned from an extended visit in Maryland. Mrs. Varner and little Nelie Cave spent last Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Heverlin. Sister Selina of Brooklyn, N. Y., is visiting her sister, Mrs. T. O. Taylor of this place. Miss Rena Merchant has gone to Culpeper where she had a desirable position in a large millinery store. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bushong, who were recently married, are guests of Mr. Bushong's parents, near town. Mr. John A. Cannon of Kensington, Md., was in town this week, making the trip from Kensington in his automobile. Mr. Frank Buck of Orleans has a position with Messrs Crigler & Camper and Mr. Cary Buck with Mr. J. W. Ayres. Mrs. Martha Matthew of the Stone House was called to Roanoke Saturday to visit her sick daughter, who is very much indisposed. ----------------------------------------------------------------- File contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archives by Carol Phillips phillips@sundial.net ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************