Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-02
THE V. P. INSTITUTE.
THIS YEARS COMMENCEMENT Ex-
ERcrsEs. r.
New. n. r.. 4. AyIor, OF Front Royal,
70 Deliver the Annual Address
work At the Allegheny zinc Mines.
Personal Matters.


BLAcKsBURG. VA. May i--(Spe-
clal.)-rhs Alumni Association or 'he
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Professor
w. w. Hurt president. has invited Kew
r. Il. l. Aylor. OF Front Royal va
10 deiivorsthe annual address on Iuesuay'
June 18Th, ana no has signined his &C.
ceptsnce
Mr.. Aylor Is a graduate OF the class
Of 1856. and was the medallist OF the
Maury Society. After leaving collie he
studied Tor the Baptist ministry, and has
been preachingsfor about ten years. his
acceptance makes the complement OF the
commencement speakers.
The schedule for the final examina-
lions has been posted. and reviews nave
sot IN. The senior examinations COM
rnence ON May I'D, and are compie'ea
on June "a. those OF the lower classes run
ming until June llth. commencement
day fails this year on the 10th, which Is
as carly as It can ever come.
April the 18th has been finally decioed
on as feie-day.
The events are divided into six groups.
as follows: .s,.
i One-piie run, 220-yard dash, hurdle
race, loc-yard dash. hop skip, ana jump,
2. Running high jump, standing hlsh
sunni. running broad jump. stahaihs
broad Jump pole vault.
g. Throwing hammer, putting sho':
r,or,g-distance throw (base-balD, long
distar~s batting (base-bal)' ions hiSN
foot-ball punting). drop goal from the
field. .x,.coea
race.
Competitors in groups a and 4. inclu-
size. will compete for the generai atnle-
Tic prize: in groups 5 and 3, ohly ulst
prize will be awarded.
PERSONALS.
AFR. Meade Ferguson. a postgraduate
student from Appomattox, was cdiieu
honns this week by a telegram announe
inc what was feared fatal illness OF Ills
mother. o for a
few DAYS confined 10 his house by SICK,
ness, is, / am glad TO say OUT asa"i' anu
able 10 attend his classes.
Chaplain George Il. Gray was Warmly
welcomed TO his old place. Oh the cnapei
platform this week. IN,
Instructor w. f. Dodd. VINO WIN
graduate. after two years OF post-gradu-
afe work in June, with the ueBIeo y.
III. s. in the Departments OF Enshsn uliu
the Modern Languages, VIII ooiI'"ue
these subjects at the University u ~
d leaves for Germany in the early summer
and viii be absent for two years. Juas-
,ry from the carefully-done work al the
v,rolnia Polytechnic Institute. success
cannot fail 10 attend him In the prosecu-
ton of his studies in Leipzig.
Miss Mary Pollard, who has peen az
sent during the past ten months IN belh-
leher, Pa, where she Is taxing CUE
as trained nurse in st. Lukes Hospital
- ro,y az home on a visit TO her parents
MIS- W. H. Minor of Charlottesviile,
IS also in Blacksburg. visiting at her oid
Ar John Lybrook, OF Washington. D.
G. was here at his old home this week.
WORK AT THE ZINC MINES.
Work is going forward actively at the
Allegheny Zinc Mines, recently opened
m FNiott's creek, in this county. MI
BAXTER. formerly OF the Bertha zinc
Works. I'm Pulaski, has charge o. 'he
rorlxs Already about seventy tons or
IRE have been delivered at the railroad,
and The cork IS eong brayely on. rms
pre shows the following ANALYSIS mad
Professor Il. G. Price, OF the virginia
Polytechnic Institute;
Moisture Cat lo0 degrees Co.. LA per cent.
Loss on ignition .............. s.Sz per CENT
Ferric oxide. calculated from
iron actually determined. 159 per cent
Zinc oxide ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS S per cent.
Insolubs matter (silicate,
&c) ...... ............ s.....Ao'IS per CENT
l0073 per cent.
Metallic zinc equivalent to zinc oxide,
1rzr n
The WELD In metallic zinc 81 4S.43 per cent.
The dweling-hou and Cot owned and
occupied by Mr. George Bodell in Blacks
burg. was sold this week, Mr.. Joseph
Craig being the purchaser.
Mics Kittie Bentley, of Pulaski, Is visit
Ing her friend. MRS. Or. Kemp B4ack
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute base
ball team IL absent this week on trip
through Tennessee, where they play
reries OF games. The team this season
Is tho best that the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute has ever had.
THE GAME LAST WEEK
The Mccabe team. which played here
this week made most pleasant i'm
preston on ell with whom they came IN
contact ARRANGEMENTS have been made
bv which our team will play Richmond
College on the Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute grounds on May the LIST. This
game Is looked forward TO with great In
terest. from the excellent record which
Richmond College has made for itself
this season.
We are now very much in need OF rain
None has fallen for two weeks. and
wheat, grass, and garden vegetables are
suffering
For the first time In a number OF years
bass have been caught this season out
of New river. near Blacksburg. This used
10 be capital fishing grounds, but the
overwashing has almost exterminated the
bass.
Mr.. w. r. Tallant. Of Christiansburg.
has won and merited the thanks OF
sportsmen in the county by well stocking
with trout secured from the United States
hatchery. near Wytheville. several of the
Montgomery streams, among others Mill
creek, about four mites from here, in
which he placed a thousand young trout.
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