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IRfchmonb Mews, Mr. Frank Jacobs, of Norfolk, was in the city this 'cck. Mr. Samuel Bendheim has returned from an ex- Jtlded business trip. Miss Mattie Schwarzschild is home again after a leasant three months' visit in the North. Mrs. Charles M. Guggenheimer, of Lynchburg, is [siting her mother, Mrs. I. M. Kosenbaum. A german club, to be forme 1 from among the lembcrship of the Jefferson Club, is spoken of. Miss Flora Hear, of Gordonsville, Va., was the vest this week of her sister, Mrs. A. Goldback. Yom Kippur services at Beth Ahaba synagogue 'ill begin next Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, and the )llovving morning at 10. The annual meeting of the numbers of the Con regation Beth Ahaba will be held at the synagogue ext Sunday afternoon at .'{ o'clock. Many expressions of regret were heard on all ides during the past week at the extreme illness of lr. Jacob Baehrach, as announced in our last issu<'. Mr. I. Louis Peyser of Petersburg, was in Rich lond Wednesday. By close attention to business le mayor of the Cockade City managed to keep liings going during Louis's absmee. Among those who spent Rosh Ilashanah in Rieh lond were Mr. Lli Bloomberg, of Baltimore; Mr. harles Greenabaum, of Portmouth ; Mr. B. Jacobs, f Raleigh, N. C, and Mr. H M. Bloomberg, of Phil del])hia. Owing to the repairs now progressing at the plant ml consequent inability to obtain electric lights for mietime as yet, the opening affair of the Jefferson lub in its new ball room will hardly be given before 'o vein be r. Rabbi Kdward N. Caliseh and Messrs. Samuel cheer, Marx Cxiinst, Julius Straus, Isaac Held, nd Joseph Walle-stein were among those who took prominent part in the German-Bay celebration last Wednesday. As intimated in these columns last week, the en agement is announced of Mrs. Hannah Bloomberg, f this city, and Mr. Joseph Piatt, of Philadelphia. Ir. Piatt spent this week in Richmond, having come ire to pass the holidays with his fiance. The mar age will probably take place in November. The friends of the genial Mr. Isaac Held were sur rised at the clerical aspe.t and handsome pair of siders " which aecoinpaied his "picture" in a local iperlast Sunday morning. Mr. Field's most inti mate associates had never before noticed what a striking resemblance he bears to a handsome and talented Lutheran clergyman of this city. ftucben for )!>om frtppur. Cheese, Apple, Peach, and Cinnamon Kuchen for Vom Kippur. Also Bread and Cake for the Holidays. Kass & Conk, 1020 Hull street, Manchester. Bell 'Phone 480. pra\}cr=JGoel_ for tbe IboUoa^g. All persons desiring Prayer-Books for thk Day OF ATONEMENT, can procure them of E. A. Ezekiel, 418 west Main street, New 'Phone 600. Do Ji?ou TiOant 0010 7 Everyone desires to keep informed on Yukon, the Klondyke and Alaska gold fields. Send lOe. for large Compendium of vast information and big color map to Hamilton Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Ind. $1.50 ffiret Class, $1.00 Secono Class Tickets to Norfork, Old Point, or Newport News, on Steamer Pocahontas. Steamer leaves every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7A. M. Steamer Ariel leaves every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday at 4:30 A. M. "tUbaf Is JExpectco of ia_." The above was the theme of Rabbi Calisch's New Year lecture at Beth Ahaba synagogue on Monday last. He began by speaking of the new year a*s a time wlk'U the merchant examines his ledgers and ac counts. "In certain measure we are spiritual mer chants to-day," said the rabbi, 'examining the led gers of our individual lives, ourspiritual transactions during the past year, to find out what we have done that has been spiritually profitable, and what not, and by letting experience be a lamp to our feet to know what is expected of us in the future. "It is a truth that more is expected of the Jew than of others. It is not sufficient that he is as good as his neighbor. He must be better. Israel's spirit must be conspicuously clean. This demand is both subjective and objective. Objective because of the unique position that Israel occupies in the family of the nations, subjective because of the lofty ideal which she has set out to attain and realize." The speaker then continued by saving that it was expected of them communally and individually to be loyal to the congregation and to the doctrines its pulpit sets forth :to maintain the material and the