Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-06-24
VIRGINIA NEWS

L.
Aldie, will leave foc France to en-.
gage in war work. Mr.. Goodwin, who
was formerly a missionary in China
win do special work among the
Chinese employed as laborers.
Mrs. Jean Diffenderfer, aged about
so years, is dead at Boyce, Clarke
county, as a result of drowning in =
cistern. Searchers found hey body
.:;;a : sack around ner neck and u
stone weighing about forty pounds.
She was formerly Miss Trenary, OF
Warren county.
News has been received in Fred
cricksburg Of The death o. Dr.. Rober;
Frazer at the home of his niece, Mrs.
). W. Coons, of Cllpeper. Dr.. Frazer
was formerly president of the State
Normal School ct Farmville and had
served as president of three other col
1eges for young women. Dir. Frazer
served at enc time IS United States
Consul at Palermo, Italy.
Appearance before the grand jury
in Richmond of former Chief O.: Police
r. B. Soweil Friday furnished another
sensation in the probe Of the police
bootleg scandal and gave promise OF
interesting developments. Entirely
unheralded. the calling Of Sowel is
considered as opening another long
line of inquiry into matters not
hitherto expected to come before the
grand jury.
State Food Administrator H. 3.
Sproul has notified local administra-
tors that he is authorized to purchase
for the Federal Government all sur
plus flour made from the 1917 wheat
crop offered in any standard-sizc
packages or barrels at the price OF
S1O.55, delivered in warehouses az
Richmond. Local administrators are
urging millers and dealers to unload
as much flour as they can spare.
A stranger who drove up to the
home of Mrs. Newton W. Myers az
Winchester, Saturday, had narrow
escape from being reported as Ger
man spy because Of his actions, which
aroused the suspicious of Mrs. Myer,
and her family. She finally discov-
cred that the man was her brother
William Nichols, who had been living
in the West many years, and who had
long been given up for dead, as moth
ing mad been heard from him for 50
years. A family reunion was held.
Keister Jones, farmer living nea"
Danville, who a fortnight ago was
seriously injured when he was run
over by a wheat binder, is no longer
worrying about his spelling crops.
Twenty-four members of the JUNIOR
Order United American Mechanics,
with which the injured man is affiliat-
ed, LEFT their own work and went to
Jones' farm, spending the day work
ing his crops. His wheat was safely
garnered and his tobacco crop tended.
The Virginia State library has just
completed and issued in book form a
register of the general assembly Of
Virginia, giving the membership Of
the house and senate for each session
from 1776 to the present time. The
compilation, which involved much re,
search amcng the ancient manuscripts
cf the library, has been made by As
sistant Librarian e. G. Sven and
clerk of the house Of delegates, John
W. Williams. 1t throws an interest
ing side light upon the legislative ac-
Invites Of the historic families OF the
Ola Dominion.
That affairs between military and
civil police of Petersburg have about
reached climax was shown last week
by the publication by the Petcrsbur,
Progress CT letters alleged to involve
a high officer of the provost guard Of
Camp Lee. in the drinking Of whisky
with women of questionable charac-
ter. Under 4 scven-column headline,
also, the Progress prints a story say
ing that District Attorney Richard H.
Mann has branded the letters as a
"frame-up" b. the Petersburg police
against the military police, and states
that the charges contained therein arc
unqaulifedly false.
Sixteen cases O. rabies are being
treated at the state health depart
ment, four of thu patents being from
Hcnrico county, foGr from Louisa;
Orange, enc; Hanover, one; Prince
George, one; Roanoke, one; Prince