The Washington herald., 1919-12-31
VIRGINIA BREVITIES.

VlkGlNlA BkEvlIlES.
Richmond.-Fire department sta
tions here are being used by char
table organizations as the place for
assembling gifts for the poor, which
will be distributed January Z. Bundle
Day
Richmond. A bill has been framed
by the Renters and Consumers
League, to be presented at the jan
uary session OF the assembly, which
would cut down rents to a certain
percentage of the assessed real es-
tate value.
lle.-Frank Talbot is leading
a citizens committee which will
make a campaign for S150000 funds
to be applied to Improvement of,
highways in conjunction with the
State and Federal highway building
program.
Petersburg. The store OF J. T..
Perkinson. at Marmora, Dinwiddie
County, was broken open and $4,000
stolen. The money represented the
savings of ten or more residents Of
that community who had intrusted
the unds with the grocer. All tel
ephone wires in the village were cut
by the thieves to break of COM
munication from outside. Police
have found no clues
Norfolk.-More than 1000 iron work.
ers in shipbuilding and repair work
walked out, demanding a forty-eight-
hour week. They. are expected to re-
turn soon and wait for satisfactory
settlement later.
Danville.-An army officer will make
an inspection of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute In February. it has
been announced here. A shipment of
100 rifles from the War Department
has been received and practice on the
range will be started Immediately.
Danville.-The Turner-Halsey COM
pany. Of New York. has purchased the
majority stock of the Martinsville
Cotton Corporation and will take over
the mills after the January dividend
Lynchburg-William Jennings Bryan
will speak here soon under the aus
pices of the Anti-Saloon League.
Lynchburg. Pluck" Glass was
the way Secretary of the Treas sury
Glass signed his name on the Rotary
Club register when he came here
for visit. This was the nickname
by which business men used to know
him when they played together as
boys.
Charlottesville. - Robert Houcn-
ems, &c, attempted to board a freight
train here and was crushed to death
beneath the wheels. He was a clerk
in the Smith Bros. store at North
Garden.
Richmond.-A New Year dinner
will be served to Camp Lee soldiers
by the Richmond chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Gov
ernor and Mrs. Westmoreland Davis
will attend.
Lexington. - Miss Ida Conno,,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest L.
Conner was married to Ira Granville
Billheimer.
Charlottesville A. Chan
pelle~ Charlottesville. and Miss
Agnes Beahm. of White Plains, ". Y,
were married at the home of the
brides mother on Chatterton Hill.
FredericksbUrR-E r Arm
strong and Miss Mary Bell Arm
strong, both of Stafford County,
were married at the Baptist par
sonage at Falmouth.
Pulaski-Currell Dalton, 5S, busi-
ness man of Carroll County, died
at Sylvatus. He was president of
the Bank of Sylvatus. He is sur
vived by the widow and seven chill
dren.
Lynchburg.-Miss Alice weekley,
81. is dead at her home at Coll
Well, Amherst County.
Oatlands.-Lucy Buegess, 13-year-
old negro girl, wandered in the
woods near here for four days. and
when found her feet were frozen.
She was taken to the Memorial
Hospital in Richmond.
Bestlands.-with The entire left
side of his face shot away, as the
result of hunting accident, Edgar
Wright. 90. has been taken to a
hospital in Richmond. Attempt will
he made to graft new flesh to his
face.
Richmond.-William o. Warthen,
assistant general passenger agent
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail-
road. died at his home, IA South
Harrison street.
Camp Lee.-Ma5. Gen. Omar Bundy
Is recovering from injuries he sus-
tained last Sunday when thrown
from a spirited horse.
Richmond. Col John Early
Wood. rs. Confederate veteran, is
dead at his home at Bon Air.
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