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uieo AFTER an utue41r OF HeNef2l years
in his seventy .secpnd year He served
Ia Company A. Fifth Virginia Infantry.
Stonewall brigade. during the Civil
War
.Leesburg. When Mr.. and Mrs. VII
liam H. Thomas did not appear as
usual about their home. friends forced
an entrance to the house and found
Mrs. Thomas dead in bed and Thomas.
in an unconscious condition from gas,
which had escaped through the regis
ter IN their bedroom from coal stove.
Lynchbrg Rev. Ernest II. Nor
wood. of Carbon, w. Va. has been
elected to the superintendent Of the
Presbyterian Orphans Home here and
he Is expected to succeed Dr.. R. H.
Fleming, in charge Of the Institution,
about December 4. At thatlstime DR..
Fleming leaves Lynchburg to re-enter
the pastorate work In Presbyterian
church in the suburbs Of Baltimore.
Petersburg. The annual meeting Of
the stockholders of the Seaboard Air
Line Railway Company was held at
the office Of the company in this city,
Judge Watts, of Portsmouth, presided.
The others present were Inness
Brown, OF New York; Robert Leroy,
Goodrich Hatton and Robert L. Nut
ton, Of Portsmouth; William Boyce, of
Baltimore, and William r. Mckinney,
of Petersburg. The old directors were
reelected and all the acts OF the board
Of directors and the executive commit.
tee of last year were approved.
Winchester. Former United States
Senator Charles J. Faulkner, of West
Virginia, has received number Of
Black Hand letters demanding that
he place large sum of money at a
certain spot, remotely situated, or
have his house blown up with dyna.
mite. The letters have been turned
over to the postal authorities, who are
at work on the case Senator Faulk.
ner, who lives at Boydyille, an old
colonial estate in the suburbs of Mar.
tinsburg, recently had occasion to warn
disorderly people to cease throwing
whisky and beer bottles on his
premises, and 1t is thought he has in.
CURED their enmity.
Lynchburg. George e. Huffman, a
mail clerk on the Southern Railway
between Washington and Charlotte,
N. c., was arrested here on the charge
of stealing twenty thousand dollar
registered package on the night Of,
October %. Postal inspectors say
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the day following the robbery, and
that this led to his arrest. The pack
age stolen, which was insured by a
private company, was consigned by
/ keystone, w Va, bank to a cores
pondent in Philadelphia Huffman Is
thirty-two years old and lives at Penn
Laird, Rockingham county, this State.
He has had good record In the rail-
way mail service for ten years.
Charlottesville.71In announcing a
resolution of the faculty of the Uni
yersity of Virginia threatening expul-
sion from college Of any student in
dulging in alcoholic drinks President
Edwin A. Alderman has surprised the
student body. President Alderman
opened the discussion of drinking at
the assembled meeting of nearly all
of the Virginia students by denying
the rumor that had reached his ears
that drinking was winked at by the
faculty" He said: There Is GER
tain Chicago man who thinks colleges
are wicked places, and he has gotten
together set of lies and fake state
ments about drinking. doubt
whether he has done any good at all,
unless he has set the college men to
thinking. Drinking and drunkenness
are among the barbaric vices that get
themselves into the life of every
group. There has been rule against
drinking at Virginia, but it fell into
allegiance because it could not be en-.
forced. 1t must be the student opin-
ion that wipes out the excuses in
their life. The drink habit is no
longer tolerated in the civilized world,
whether it be among railroad en-
Il ployes or in the business mans world
Hereafter drunkenness is forbidden at
q Virginia, with the punishment of dis
missal. Disturbance or disorder will
not be tolerated. All organized drink
ing parties, commonly known as
ssoirees,' and all Indulgence in alco-
holic drinks is forbidden, and the vio-
lati6n means the suspension of all con-
cerned We've seen the end of it." In
speaking of the fraternity, President
Alderman dealt lightly His point was
that the fraternity must not be placed
above the college, but should serve
only as a home for the students. He
said: .All those who oppose fraterni,
ties are unwise. FraternitiNe do 20
times as much good as harm. During
the past Is years the fraternities have
reached colossal power great in phys
ical wealth. social influence and aead-
emic achievement.
Petersburg The Confederate mon,
ument at Lawrenceville, Brunswick
county, was unveiled in the presence
of a large assemblage The veil was
withdrawn by little Misses Emma
Field Hicks and Elizabeth Merdle
Hicks. A poem composed by Miss
Jennie Buford was read by Miss Lucy
Allen The monument was accepted
, by DR.. T. O. Taylor on behalf of the
Board OF Supervisors Of the county
/ Col Robert e. Lee. Jr., delivered the
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