Military Monday: Second Colored Selectee Called in Prince William (1941)

Evening Star (Washington, DC)
31 May 1941

SECOND COLORED SELECTEE CALLED IN PRINCE WILLIAM

MANASSAS, Va., May 31-- Woodrow Wilson Mountjoy, colored, of Joplin, who has been ordered to report to the induction station in Richmond Monday, will be the second colored man drafted from Prince William County. Leroy Brown of Thoroughfare was the first. All other colored men who have been accepted have been volunteers.

Alvoy Aubrey Bates of Dumfries has been ordered to Richmond June 5 to complete call No. 14.

Six men have been ordered to report to Dr. J. McIver Jackson for physical examination today. They are Manie Wilford Strouth, Emery Franklin Liming, Dallas Horace Posey and Walter Reid, Manassas; Elwood Kerns, Waterfall, and Ralph Donnaly Foster, Haymarket.

Law & Order: WARRANT DISMISSED (Forest Hill Church)

Free Lance (Fredericksburg, VA)
29 August 1911

WARRANT DISMISSED

Mr. Linden Atchison was tried at Joblins [sic], Prince William county, Saturday, before Squire Keys, charged with disturbing religious worship at Forest Hill church in that county.

The case was heard in a private room in the residence of Mr. Crow, none being allowed to be present save the witnesses and attorneys.

Squire Keys after hearing the testimony of some 15 witnesses, most of whom said that a Mr. Anderson was the cause of the disburbance, dismissed the case and discharged Atchison.

Commonwealth's Attorney Davis and R. A. Hutchinson, of Manassas, represented Anderson, who swore out the warrant, and Frederick W. Coleman represented Atchison.