Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-06-28
VIRGINIA NEWS

Headed by Bishop Dennis D.
h O'Connell, of the Diocese Of Rich
mond, between 40 and so priests OF
the Catholic Church in Virginia,
West Virginia, Maryland and other
States, will gather in Richmond this
week for the celebration of the fiji
tieth anniversary of the ordination
to the priesthood of the Rev. John
McVerry, the present pastor of the
Church of the Sacred Heart.
! For long time there has been
complaint among the Republicans
that the state has not been redls-
tricted for members of congress, as
required by the state constitution.
Democrats, too, have complained
from time to time that they needed
a change in many sections. The
matter was up before the last ses-
SIGN of the legislature, and a COM
mittec is named for the purpose OF
recommending plan for making the
changes. Just what that commit
tac will recommend no one knows,
of course. but the information at
hand is that the Ninth district is to
be so altered that the voters of that
section will have q chance to make
a change once in a While.
Men employed CT public construc-
ton work and others engaged in
Winchester in various activities who
usually begin the days work at Z
o'clock refused to strike a lick Fri
| day, all because number of pigeons
had perchcd upon the minute hands
of the City Hall clock the preceding
evening and stopped the official time
piece. Bosses asked the men why
they did not 90 to work, saying they
had already lost over an hour. at
hasn't struck l." chorused a group
Of street workers. An investigation
disclosed that the pigeons had roost-
Cd on the minute hand Of the four
sides of the clock at Gas p. m.
Applications to the Comptroller
of the Currency last week for au-
thority to organize national banks
included that Of the First National
Bank of Big Stone Gap, which was
issued charter to do business as
a national Institution, with a capital
Of $4,000. The bank was formerly
the Interstate Finance and Trust
Company Of Big Stone Gap. A
charter was also issued to new
bank at Vienna, Fairfax county,
which will b" known as the Vienna
National Rank. Frank Williams Is
president, anG Vernon Gown, cashier
Application for a charter was also
made by new bank, to be known
as the First National Bank of Pen
n;ngtcn Gap, whose sponsor is R. +.
l.. Chumblcy. Capital of this in
stitut;on. as stated in the application,
is $25 900.
Vigorous denial Of an implied
charge by Senator David l. Walsh,
of Massachusetts, that Senator
Claude 4 Swanson is at heart OPP
posed to the treaty of Versailles, al
though circumstances forced him to
vote the other way, was made by
the senior Senator from Virginia III
a telegram to, Senator Walsh at San
Francisco.
Miss Carrie NJ Gregory, who was
licensed by the State Supreme Court
to practice law, is the first woman
to secure such a license. Miss
Gregory was the first woman no.
tary public in Virginia, having been
commissioned under the new con-
Stitution July 10, 1902. She was
also the first woman stenographcr
to do court work in Virginia. She
will practice here.
In fit CT dependency, G.. W.
West, an octogenarian, living with
his family in Richmond. cut his
throat Saturday morning in his
home and is now at the Virginia
Hospital lowering between life and
death. Police investigating the
case were told that West remarked
Saturday that the burdens of old
age and infirmity were more than
he could hear. He recently passed
his eighticth birthday anniversary.