Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-11-27
VIRGINIA NEWS
Paragraphs Picked Up Here and
W. There Throusht the State.

In the face of an opportunity to sc
to the First Methodist Church,
Shreveport, La, which has 1,20(
members and pays a salary of ST.
900 a year, in addition to a parson.
age, Rev. William E. Thompson, D
D., will accept the appointment tc
Park Place Church, Richmond, anc
will take up his residence there OF
Wednesday. He succeeds Rev. }. }
Bradford, who has just completed q
pastorate of four years at Park Place
4 George S. Crockett, a prosperous
farmer Of Accomac; his daughter,
Mrs. johnson, and her two children
driving in an automobile, were struck
Saturday at crossing near Onley
! by a aorthbound express train. Mrs
Johnson and one child were killed
and the other child seriously injured.
Mr.. Crockett suffered fractures at
the base of his skull and of one leg.
Slight hopes are held out for his
irecovery.
The recent freeze in Rockingham
was the coolest November weather
experienced in that county for many
years. In the Cherry Grove neigh
borhood more than 100 bushels OF
winter apples were frozen on the
tress and entirely ruined. Fortu-
nately, however, nearly all of Rock
ingham's great apple crop had been
gathered and marketed before the
cold wave came up the Valley.
The most destructive fire in the
history of Shenandoah, railroad
town in the southern part OF Page
county, occurred Saturday. Property
belonging to the Norfolk and west
ern Railroad amounting to thousands
of dollars was destroyed. This lnclud-
ed the company's machine shops and
roundhouse. Large numbers OF men
will be thrown out Of employment
When discovered the fire had made
great Roadway and the fire company
was hampered by the absence OF IRE
plugs in that part of the town.
Lewis Earvic Rlair. soldier, writer,
philosopher AID cons5ructionist d'ea
a. lis here II Richmcrd yesterday
nnorning y tic cig:1:y-third year OF
his age. NJ. Blair was descendant
of Rev. JOHN .. Blair, better known
in his time as "Parson Blair" and
Mary Winston. adescendant Of Isaac
Winston. the colonist, who came from
Yorkshire, England. in 1904. and set
tied near Richmond.
n. R. Hcrndon was found dead IT
bed with a bullet hole in his head and
q revolver lying beside him on Satur
day morning al The home of his cous-
in, A. C. Herndon, az Bellview. Mr..
Hcrndon, who had been on a short
business trip to Washington, reached
his cousins home on Friday after
room. He retired to his room about
7:9O o'clock, giving no intimation that
he contemplated sc|f-dcstruction.
A man, probably 10 years old, be-
ieved from letter found in his peck
ct to be Walter Go!ibart. OF Norfolk,
was early Yesterday morning found
lead in . room at 722 Sth street. N.
w., Washington, which he had rented
night for one night.
It is reliably reported in British
circles in Norfolk that the German
merchant submarine Deutschland,
low on hr way to Bremen, was pick
I'd up 300 miles off the coast Of New
England by fighting submarine. Al
though at least five allied warships.
had been searching for this U-boat
for at least five days before the
Deutschland left New London, their
efforts have failed. 1t is supposed
that for fear of making known her
whereabouts, the fighting craft has
made 10 attempt 10 sink any allied
ships on this coast.
Isaac Newton Kite, aged 40, COM
mittcd suicide near his home in
Marksviilc, district, Page county,
late Saturday By shooting himself
in the hcad.Kitc was man of family
and no cause can be assigned for the
tragedy. His domestic relations arc
said to have been pleasant.
George Corvin, who lived near
was killed near Ivanhoc
Saturday. He was employed on the
bridge construction force of the Nor |