Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-13

recent canulQaLe IoT Iic ieS t'i"'aiS V
spent S14.50 in the campaign, ac-
cording to his expense account which
he filed Tuesday. Of that amount,
$40 represented the entrance fee.
Newport News.-Local police have
been invited to help Camp Eustis au-
thorities nab the thieves who stole
a quantity of silver and linen in camp
about August l. The property was
in the care of the quartermaster's
corps, and had been stored in one of
! the warehouses.
Richmond.-T Civic Association
of Richmond of which Branch John
son is secretary, VIII ask the next
legislature to amend the socalled
Sunday blue laws in such. manner
that there can be no doubt as to in
depreciation, it has been announced
by Mr.. Johnson. Similar associa
tions in all the cities and counties in
the state will be asked to lend their
influence to the movement, he said.
Harrisburg.-No Democratic as
pirant for Supreme Court Judge of
Pennsylvania filed nominating Pc
ttion in the period for entering judi
cial primary papers at the office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
which expired last midnight. There
are but two candidates. They are
Justice William |. Schaffer, of Ches
ter, appointed by the Governor last
year, Republican candidate, and
Charles Palmer, Ridley Park, Prohi-
bition candidate. This is the first
time that there has been no Demo-
cratic candidate.
Danville.-Considerable speculation
is being indulged in here with re-
gard to the vacancy in the Fifth Con-
gressional district through the death
of Representative Rorer A. James.
Friends of two local Democrats have
started booms for them, they being
Commonwealth Attorney John ".
Carter and Judge Edwin j. Harvey,
who retired from the Circuit Court
bench in 1918 and has since been
practicing law here.
Y Observation-Disclosures Institute has
Just closed the most successful sum-
mer school in ali it's history. Some
637 colored teachers came from IT
states. Virginia led the list with 1877
and was closely followed by North
Carolina with 166. South Carolina
sent 81; Maryland, So; Georgia, 81;
Tennessee, 25; and Mississippi, q.
"More than one-half of those who
were refused admission on account
of lack of room," said DR.. George P.
Phenix, vice principal of Hampton
Institute and director of the summer
school, "were from states not con-
tiguous to Virginia"
/ Fredericksburg.-J. j. Forrer and
! G.. S. Mullen, of Richmond, engineers
of the STATE. Highway Departme mt,
were here Thursday in company with
| A. H. Bell, resident engineer. These
road officials are making an inspec-
ton tour of the maintenance of State
roads in this section of Virginia.
/ Suffolk.-"Mystery joe" the silent
man who has been in Nansemond
County Jail for some months, was
sent to Williamsburg to the State k"s-
pital Yesterday. A commission of
lunacy was held over Joe, and the un-
fortunate man was sent to the hospi-
tai. Scores of letters have been re-
ceived here from persons whose loved
ones were missing, wives who wish
to ascertain the whereabouts of their
husbands, sisters looking for broth
ers, and fathers and mothers seek
ing children. Nothing has been re-
ceived to shed any tight on Joe or
his people, and it is believed he will
remain a mystery.
/ Richmond.-The yield per acre of
Virginia wheat is the smallest since
1903, according to the August report
of the United States bureau of mar
kets and crop estimates. The aver
age yield per acre as ten bushels,
compared with 1875 bushels last year,
and 12.S bushels the ten year aver
age. In 1903 the yield was S.4 bush
els. Wheat came through the winter
in excellent shape, the April | condi-
ton being 90 points above the ten
year average, but from this time to
harvest there was rapid decline.
The poor yield is attributed to the
spring freezes, rust. Hessian FLY ard
unfavorable weatehr during May
and just as the crop was ripening.
Winchester.-R. Gray Williams,
president of the Hardley fund trus-
tees, has cabled Mrs. Marguerite E.
Harrison an invitation to tell her
story of experiences in Russian
prison OH the Handley lecture plat
form here upon her return to the
United States. Lectures by ceie-
b~it;cs or international repute ccrsti-
tute part of the Handley educational
system here. Mrs. Harrison made her
first public speech in America here
at the invitation of the Handley
foundation, speaking on her expert
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