Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-12-07

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ing the rate at So and posting bond
to cover the difference in rates in case
the decision was to leu the Sl.75 rate
stand. In case the lower rate is set
by the court, local consumers will get
a refund.
Purcellvile.-Att the education con-
| ference held in Richmond, Loudoun
county, won first prize for the best
Community League work in the state.
Loudoun county stood fourth in edu-
cational efficiency during the past
session, having advanced from ninth
to the fourth place in one year. Two
of the counties that stand ahead OF
Loudoun, Elizabeth City and Prince
George, include incorporated cities,
and the third, Arlington county, is
very denselv populated.
Warsaw.-Warsaw Lodge No. 332,
A. F. & A. NJ, held a public install
lation of officers in its lodge-room at
Warsaw on last Friday evening. The
Warsaw lodge is one of the youngest
Masonic lodges in the state, having
been chartered by the last annual
communication of the grand lodge of
Virginia. The installation exercises
were preceded by banquet, which
was served in the same building.
lliamsburg.-John Barton Payne,
former secretary of the interior, adj
dressing the Phi Beta Kappa, of VIII
liam and Mary college, at its l45th
anniversary celebration here last
night, declared "the Far East lies
across the future of the world"
Norfolk. handsome yacht
Tamarack, owned by Dr.. H. n. Tor
rey, of Crosse Point, Detroit, Mich,
was burned to the waters edge be-
tween and Z o'clock last night in
Pamlico Sound, off Pea Island, y. c.
Danvile.-The Patrick county cir
cult court convened at Stuart this
morning. at which time the recent
murder ;of Robert Alley and George
Akers at the hands, it is alleged, of
George Goings was placed before the
grand jury.
Observation-Disclosures has one of
the four tuberculosis sanatoriams
in the country devoted exclusively to
negroes. 1t can, and does, care for
more patients than either of the
others. State Senator julien Gum,
= - +,,I,
tee of General Assembly, said yes
terday that he and his fellow men,
bers were gratified to learn that the
Old Dominion is doing so much, as
compared to other states, for its tu-
berculous blacks. The negro death
rate in Virginia, he said, is two and
one-half times as great as that of the
whites.
Richmond.-Rcv.J J. 7. Mastin, D.
D., who has been actively connected
with the State Board Of Charities and
Corrections since its formation in
1908, and who was appointed super
intendent of the Methodist institute,
at Nineteenth and Grace streets, by
Bishop W. F. McMurray at the an
nual Virginia conference held in this
city in October, has rendered his
resignation as secretary of the State
Board of Charities and Corrections,
effective January 81, and Robert
Franklin Bane, formerly head Of the
Industrial school at Drivers, .Nansc-
mond county, will succeed him. The
announcement was made by Rev. S.
c. Hatcher, chairman of the board,
yesterday.
Richmond.-A twelve foot eel was
found in the working gear of motor
engine No. II yesterday. Chief
J0ynes was notified by the captain Of
the company that the engine was out
of commission. whereupon the chief
directed that the official mechanician
get busy. Upon removal " nost OF
the gear, the wriggling ecl vas To-
Gated. How it got into the machinery
is mystery. In reaching its last
resting place, the eel must have got
ten through netting very much
smaller than the eel itself.
Lynchburg-H. w. Mu1Iens, of
Washington, is prisoner in the city
Jail here tonight, and Z. G. Skinner,
of Danville, is dead at the Lynchburg
hospital, having been shot late last
night by Mulens, in the latter's room
at the Hotel Carroll here. The men
met after Mullens registered at II
o'clock, and went to Mullens' room
where they drank together for time.
An argument ensued over trifle, and
Mullens claims Skinner tried to cut
him over the heart, and he fired, the
bullet striking Skinner in the abdo-
men. Skinner was moved to the hos
pital, and was not thought to be Sc
riously inquired, but his death came
suddenly late today.