Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-08-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

w. A. Wallace & Co., wholesale
grocers, Lynchburg, made. an assign
ment yesterday.
A new soapstone mill near Clifton
Fairfax county, has been built and
operations at the quarry will be re-
sumed
Mrs. Bette Edwards, widow OF the
late ]. II. Edwards, died at her home,
near the Grove, Fauquier county, on
Wednesday afternoon, aged 20 years.
J. P. Sprouse who for the past
seven years conducted restaurant on
east Main street, Charlottesville, died
Yesterday He was supposed to be the
largest man at Charlottesville.
The contract for the Rockingham
Memorial Hospital, at Harrisonburg,
was let yesterday, the successful bidder
being William NJ. Butcher & Son, of
that place, the bid being s2l ,495.
Governor Mann will make the re-
Spouse to the address of welcome at the
annual meeting OF the international
Tax Association, which meet at Mil
waukee on Tuesday, August Both.
Jessie Baltic and Americas Stocks,
both OF Loudoun county, went to
Frederick, Nd, Thursday and were
married by Rev. Simon P. Miller
After the marriage they left for Loyetts
station.
Mrs. Robert Ashby, wife of Robert
Ashby, of Round Hill, Loudoun coun-
ty. died at her home on Wednesday
from paralysis, aged 80 years. Prior to
her marriage she was Miss FUR, OF
Bluemont
The stave factory of Capt. ]. II.
GrabilI in Powels Fort, Shenandoah
county, was destroyed by fire yesterday
with a loss OF several thousand dollars.
The fire is supposed to be OF incendiary
origin.
Bishop Gibson will preach at Zion
Church. Fairfax, tonight friday, and
the Church OF the Good Shepherd on
Saturday night Sunday morning he
will preach at Burke, and at Clifton on
Sunday night.
There will be a meeting of Ewell
Camp, Confederate Veterans on August
30, at p. m, in Manassas, at which
time officers OF the camp will be elected
and also delegates elected to the twenty
thid annual meeting Of the Confede-
rate Veterans Of Virginia in Norfolk,
October IS, 10 and 20.
Clarence A Satterwhite, agent Of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and
Potomac Railroad at Brooks, in Stat
ford county, who was stricken short
time ago and was carried to his for
mer home at Beaver Dam, in Hanover
county, died Of gastritis, aged 80
years.
Miss Jessie Gary, daughter OF John
S. Gary, OF Silcott Springs, Loudoun
county, and Frank Cant, OF Washing
ton county, Il welI-known farmer OF
that section, were married at the resi-
dence of the brides parents on We'd
nesday by DIR. |. B. Lake, Of Upper.
Vile
A dispatch from Woodstock says
John Jewell, Of Rileyville, while at
tempting to cross from one ear to
another Wednesday night was thrown
from fast freight on the Norfolk and
Western and killed instantly, his neck
being broken. Just few minutes prior
to the accident he was warned by his
companion not to attempt to cross.
Jewell had been working in the stone
quarry near Martinsburg, W. Va, and
was returning home by beating his
way on the freight.
Representative Harry L. Maynard
announced yesterday that he would
contest the award of a certificate to
former Representative William A.
Young as the democratic nominee for
Congress from the second Virginia
district, on the ground Of Irregularities
in certain precincts of Norfolk city
and Norfolk county in Tuesdays pri-
mary. The face OF the returns shows
Mr. Young to have been nominated by
So majority.