Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1909-06-26
Virginia News.

Rev. f. l.. Wilson, for many years
the pastor of the Waterford and Faith
Chapel Presbyterian Churches in Lou
doun county, has, by reason OF continued
ill-hesIth, resigned.
Miss Helen Wise, daughter OF Mr.
aud Mrs. w. N. Wise, of Leesbnrg, a
graduate nurse, will take charge of the
Leila Morton Memorial Hospital in
Leesburg next month.
After an illness of & year Joseph A..
Stigler, a prominent business man OF
Lynchburg, died last night, aged A..
For many years he was secretary OF the
Lynchburg Lodge of Elks.
Mr.. Robert N Harper, of Washing
ton, is organizing and will probably be
the first president of bank in Lees
burg. to be known as the Farmers and
Merchants National Bank, with CAPT
tai of 800, 900.
The Clarke county school board. in
session at Berryville, yesterday passed res
oluiions unanimously protesting against
the proposed consolidation of Clarke and
Frederick counties and the city of Win
chester into one school division.
Robert Sayles, farmer, of Suhlett,
Powhatan county, and his family we're
made critically i'll by poison put 10 their
coffee, and two negro employees on the
farm have been arrested and charged
with the attempt to poison the family.
Douglas II. McLearen, of Wsrrenton,
died yesterday at the University Hospi-
tai, Charlottesville, from injuries received
about two months ago. Mr.. McLearen,
who was a telegraph operator at Nit
chells, Oulpeper county, was thrown
from railroad velOcipede.
The fourteenth annual convention OF
the Young Peoples Society of Christian
Eudesvor of Virginia adjourned at Roa-
snoke Yesterday, after electing officers.
Rev. James l.. Nichols, OF Lyncbburg,
wss elected president, and Miss Eliza
beth Farley, of Roanoke, secretary. The
time and place of the next meeting are
to be selected by the executive commit
tee.
The State Board OF Education met at
Richmond last night and held q spirited
session behind closed doors. 1t WAS an-
nonnced that the business had not been
completed as regards appointments not
yet filled. There are q number OF dele
cations on the grOuud. Some are fight
log over contests that are still unsettled,
while others are seeking to undo what
lhs board has already done.
Mrs. Kate Ellis Wise has filed a suit
10 Newport News for an absolute divorce
from her husband, Capt. Ivan II. Wise.
InfidelitY is the ground. Capt. and
Mrs. Wise were married in New York
in March, 1906. They first met in the
Philippines, where Capt. Wise served as
q captain in the Twenty-6rst Regiment
of United States Volunteers. Mrs. Wise
was the widow of the late Major Ellis,
u. S. A.
The Medical Society OF northern
Virginia and District OF Columbia,
met in ANIMAL session in War.
reuton on Thursday sn1 elected Dr..
Stephen Harnsberger, of Ostlett, presi.
dent, and Dr. Charles A. White, Of
Washington, d. O., secretary and
treasurer. DR.. Tnnis o. Qaick, of Falls
Church, was elected councillor OF the
Medical Society of Virginia for this
congressional district.
With the exception of the present in-
cumbent for city sergeant, James q.
Smith, the list of present officeholders
was nominated to fill the positions in the
democratic primary in Richmond yester |.
day. The ticket is as follows: Treas
urer, james B. Pace; commonwealth
attorney, Minitreea Folkes; sheriff, ].
Herbert Mercer: city collector, F. w.
Cunningham; city sergeant, John l..
Sstier6eld; high constable, William H.
Wyatt, it,; auditor, Edward j. Warren.