Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-01
HONOR DEAD ELKS
Lynchburg Lodge Plans for
Memorial Services.
HIGH SCHOOLS TO DEBATE
Will Discuss Question of Presidential
Term Being Six Years Only.
NEGRO HAS GREAT STRENGTH
One at Appomattox Said to Have
Carried Load Exceeding
600 Pounds.
HIGH SCHOOLS TO DEBATE
NEGRO HAS GREAT STRENGTH
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. November 80 1912.
The annual memorial exercises of the
Lynchburg Lodge of Eiks will take place
al the city auditorium and the orator for
the occasion will be l.. T. Hartsell. ex-
allied ruler of the lodge at Concord. n. c.
This lodge has had an unusual number
of deaths during the past year. these be-
ing: w. ]. Turpin, a. f. Creasey, Max
Guggenheimer. jr.. s. w. Joplin. S. B.
Younger, Dr. T. D. Hubbard. W. r. Cum
ningham and Maury F. Jordan. Fred
Harper, past exalted ruler of this lodge,
left today for Richmond to make the an
nual memorial address for the Richmond
lodge
The high schools of Lynchburg and
Roanoke are arranging for a debate to
he held here early in December. The
subject will be: Resolved. That the Pres
ident of the United States should be elect
ed for term of six years and should be
ineligible to reelection" The exact date
has not yet been fixed upon, but 1T Will
either be December Z or IA.
Appomattox boasts OF 300 people, and
the distinction of being hard by the scene
where the army of the Confederacy laid
down its arms in 80 comes now for an
other distinction, for the village has
negro whose strength seems superhuman
The village. while a thriving one for its
size, has business which some times
makes it impossible TO secure a dray and
this SamsOnike son of Ham is frequent
ly called in to work in lieu OF the mule
and wagon. He handles with ease bar
rels of coal oil, large boxes of meat and
the hetaviest sample cases carried by
travelling statesmen. Recently large
box arrived at the freight station there
which weighed go pounds. Some of the
villagers tainted the negro. whose name
is Dave Tibbs. that he could not lift 1t.
The negro. being goaded by the taunt.
II, oh, dor .lyld
easily carried it some distance. delivering
it to store to which it had been shipped.
Ready to Handle Crowd.
The acceptance of the Lynchburs invi-
tatiOn to hold the next annual Virginia
educational conference in the Hill City
has been the source of much interest
here. for Lynchburg will be in better
condition to handle the large number of
visitors next November than ever before
With the city auditorium seating 2opo
and the new Virginia Hotel in commis-
sion. the convention can he entertained
by Lynchburg IN an excellent manner.
The local Teachers Club and school
board were hacked in their invitation by
a number of local commercial OrSanlZd-
tons
Members of the local Y. NJ. C. a. are
not a little disturbed over the persist
ency in which the Dallas. Tex. associa-
General Secretary III. G. Snead of the To-
cal organization, to become general sec
rotary in the Texas city. Mr.: Snead is
considering the request of Dallas to go
there to look the field over. but it is
highly prOba BILE that he will decide to
yemain with the Lynchburg work.
Considering the poor quality of the
crop being sod, conditions surrounding
the local dark loose leaf tobacco market
are regarded as good they could be.
The crop this year is short and not as
desirable as the average, hence there Is
not the spirit in buying that would be
the case with more desirable offerings.
1t is believed the crop will be several
million pounds lighter than it was last
year, when upward of 1I.O03,O0 pounds
were sold on the local warehouse floors.
Poultry Show December 10.
Entries are being made for the Lynch
burg poultry show which is to be held
here December 1913 and for the first
time in the history OF the association
there is promise of a considerable num-
Der of out-of-town exhibitors Charles
Nixon of Philadelphia has been secured
judge for the show He goes from
the local show to officiate at the exhibit
ton at Madison Square Garden, New
York.
An interesting suit has been instituted
in Pulaski county looking to the division
of the Dublin fair grounds among about
Il
11s2 the property was decided to the Pu-
laski Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation. to be used for county fair, with
a proviso that should it not be utilized
for that purpose for three successive
years that il should revert to the original
owners The fair is dead and now 100
Persons lay claim TO title to the ten acres
under the reVersiOn clause of the deed.
The Brookneal Business Mems Club has
been formed to foster the commercial in
terests of that town with the following
officers: President. j. E. Webb; vice
president, r. r. Monroe; secretary, j. E.
Peterson: trea surer, John 3. Williams.
The town is making heroic efforts to
bring about the restoration of the bus;-
ness area which was destroyed by fire
three weeks ago. and ii is thought now
that the new buildings will be of a much
more substantial character than were
those destroyed.