Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-08-03
ON THE VIRGINIA SIDE.
Notable Residents Of Falls Church-Its
Intellectual Atmosphere-The Deluge.

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FALIs CHunoH, Va, Aug. I, 1889.
Correspondents of THf EVENING STAB.
Mr.. George Albertson Of the board Of review,
pension Office, has rented the house owned by
Mrs. Rawlings, and will occupy it soon. Mr..
A. constitutes the fourth member OF that board
here. The others are w. W. Kinsley, N. s.
Roberts and A. E. Rowell. When one reflects
that these members of that board are men dis
tinguished by their technical knowledge Of the
business Of the Office, are chief among those Of
the Office Of nice discrimination, keen percep-
ton and sound judgment, the conclusion 10
that our citizenship is very appreciably i'm
proved, and this suggests to me the fact that
very respectable portion Of the residents Of
this place are men Of such high character as to
render in many particulars residence here
exceedingly desirable. We appreciate the fact
greatly. There are seven gentlemen who get
their mail from our post office who are
graduates from colleges. The Rev. ID. W.
Pond and Edmund Flagg were educated at
jefferson; Rev. r. W. Tuokerman (the
name Of the institution / have forgotten);
Mr.. w. W. Kinsley and Mr.. c. H. Burton at
Oberlip, and the Rev. Robert Nourse, I am told,
at an English college. DIR. Riddle, father Of
Rev. d. H. Riddle and ex-president Of two col
AS6Scs
there are three young men Of our place who
are taking q collegiate course; an excellent
showing. Then there are a large number Of
residents here who are well educated, but
think not at college. 1 can bring to mind Of
this class such names as DR.. N. F. Graham,
eminent as lecturer, surgeon and medical prac-
titioner; Judge Freeman, w. H. Doolittle, 8.
V. Proudfit, NJ. F. Chamblin, s. Dwingec, A. NJ.
Wilson, B. F. Cutter, Capt A. p. Eastman, G..
w. Mortified, A. c. Rorebeck, who was Gen.
Ne ov,1 Il t,I Do Gan,
Schofields; Lyman Ballard and g. ID. Nichol-
son and others equal noteworthy whose names
now are out of mind Prominent among the
old citizens are ID. o. Munson, j. NJ. Thorn.
late member Of the Virginia legislature; s.
Osborne, G. B. Ives and Isaac Crossman. Such
men as these constitute our dominant citizen
ship. They give our village an atmosphere
which in character is warmly social, eminently
exemplary and highly intellectual; they give us
a town of happy homes.
Mr.. William Turner, whose condition some
months ago was deemed exceedingly critical
on account Of menaced gangrene in one foot
and an aneurism in the posterior part of the
knee joint Of the leg, is now in good general
health. He gets out on crutches and drives out
for an airing when we have an occasional inter.
val between the rain storms of joyous sunshine.
This is a marvellous change Of condition for a
man eighty-seven years Of age.
The Rev. F. w. Tuckerman is away on leave
for three months (and possibly forever) seeking
health.
Rev. d. II. Riddle has returned from leave
of several weeks.
The Alexandrian district conference Of the
NJ. Z. church closed its session last Monday.
The presiding elder, Rev. A. ]. Porter, resides
here. There are twelve ministers in the dis
trict. There were present the Revs. p.
Elder, s. A. Ball, W. +. Schooley, J. S. Wick
line, A. N. Mundy, s. P. Shipman, and Bishop.
The latter preached in the NJ. Z. church on
Sunday morning to a crowded auditory. The
the Congregational church in the evening"
Who or what sends us the early and the latter
rain nowadays? Is it this time again that
fruitful source, as is so often claimed of nearly
all our weather woes, the solar macul@? That
''local shower" predicted by the signal corps
in Tuesdays STAR, and that commenced little
before shutdown of that day. was for several
hours genuine pour-down, and then with a
somewhat moderated rainfall continued with
out cessation, SO far as anybody knows, until
Thursday morning. Mr.. d. o. Munson says
that during the first night 6 inches of water
fell.
1t is fit to make the complaint that the sig
nal corps predictions now are worthless to Us
country people. We get the evening paper
about o'clock p m, and the report is limited to
8 o'clock a. m. OF the following morning. 1t ID
the following day that we want the weather
representation to include.
The Somers farm, lying mile or more east
of the post Office, was sold recently for $1,000
1t contains about ninety acres.
The temperance woods meeting which wal
| to have been held in Crossman's grove for two
or three days, beginning with Tuesday, wa
drowned out. L. s. A.