The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-05
MEMORIAL DAY WILL
BE OBSERVED MAY is
fredericksburg Association Arrange.
Interesting Program--Ffre-AIarm
System PIaced In schools.

Especial to The Times Dispatcb I
rreoerlcksburg, Va. May 41The
women of the Confederate Memorial
Association have selected Thursday
afternoon. May is. as the time for oh :,
servingConfcderaie Memorial Day In
THIS city There will he band to head
the procession. which Will go from
the Courthouse Square TO the Confed !
crate Cemetery. and there will ha
singing DURING the exercises at the
cemetery, led BY a trained choir. The
daughters of the Confederacy and
school children VIII unite with the
Confederate Memorial Association In
decorating the graves. Tbe Confadar-
ate Veterans, Sons of Veterans. wash
ineton Guards and civic organizations
VIII join the procession and take mart
in the exercises
Miss Maude steele. of Richm ond. who
has been visiting the family of Ar Z;
Willis, in this city, has started ON n
"trip to South Dakota, where She has
taken up claim of government land.
upon which she will reside. She has 4
sister now living on a claim. which
she took UP some time ago, and is very
much pleased with her location. These
young women are daughters OF DR.
George Il. Steele. of Richmond. who
married Miss Mollie Garnett, daurh
ter of the late George w. Garnet!
of this city.
The Civic Betterment Club. an or
sanfzauon composed Of women. which
has for its OBJECT the encouragement
or better conditions as to cleanliness
and appearances in tho city. has re-
ceived n donation OF 800, which It Is
orering I'm prizes for well-keptI prem
Uses for properties whose assessed
value does not exceed $4,000 The flrst
prize is SIS. several second prizes or
$40 each and a number of third prizes
of SIS each. Tho outcome of the CON
test and the awarding of these prizes
is looked forward to with great in
terest
Professor E. II. RUSSELL president Of
tine Fredericksburg State Normal and
Industrial School for Women. has re-
turned from Colonial Beach, where he
delivered an address at tile closing
of the public school at that place The
citizens of Colonial Reach have ro-
Gently voted a bond issue OF 10000 for
the erection OF public high school
building at thnt place
Mayor III. Lewis Wallace has Of
fered reward of $a5 for any infor-
nation that Will lead to the arrest
and conviction of the party who placed
an unknown infant child under the
bridge of the raccway in this city.
The verdict of the coroner's jury in the
case was that the child came to its
dea tn from causes unknown
Henry Dannchl has been elected to
fill the newly-createh Office OF finan-
cial secretary OF tho Business Mems
Association. DR.. j. Garnett King is
the recording corresponding secretary
of the association.
a complete electrical lire alarm sys
TEN has been placed In Tie Sandstone
$4,000 public school building In this
city. and Professor IT. S. Bird. super
intendent OF schools. has had several
fire drills. Yesterday afternoon he
empticd the large building of nearly
700 pupils in two minutes and fifteen
seconds. without M accident. With n
little practice 1t is thought that the
record can be cut down to one MIN
ute and fifteen seconds.