Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-08-01

reservoir, burned out and was snort
! circuited with 1900 volts.
!, Lnchburg, Va-Announcement has
| been made here that the State Y. M.
| C. A. Will hold an older boys con-
ference here October 6-10, at which
boys from all pants of the State Will
be present The local association
will cooperate with the State com
mittee in making the conference, a
success.
Danville, Va.-H. C. Atkins, the
insurance agent who disappeared
here last Tuesday has ben located
in Martinsville by his cousin, Ar
thur Haynes. 1t is claimed he was
found in a state of disordered mind
at a Mart::rsvile Hotel. He will be
brought back to Danville within a
few days.
Danville, Va.-Rev. T. Ryland
Sanford, of Chatham, was elected
moderator of the Roanoke Baptist
Association, and Rev. T. F. Peters
of Kentucky, secretary, before adj
journmenr at Oak Grove Church
Thursday. The next association
will be held at Straightsone.
Lynchburg, Va.-John Schmeid-
hauser, Of Amherst county, furnish-
ed bond for the next Federal grand
jury here on the charge of operating
a moonsh;ne outfit in Amherst ;'o..
Schmeidhauser is charged with
making brandy from dried peaches.
LynchburS; Va.-During severe
thunderstorm the residence of Mrs.
James R. Gillian was struck by
lightning, the current passing down
the chimney and turning the plates
of the kitchen range upside dowc.
No one was hurt, and the damage
was very slight.
Harrisunhurg, Va-Eleven dairy
cows were recently sold by W. c.
Hoover, Of Timberville. tive lty
miles mort, of here, for $500, an
average OF S31S.y5 per head. The
cows were bought by DR.. Alhcr.
al'ueTSO'i, Htiu VI tie cISitC LloS
pital at Raleigh, n. c., who had
Travelled over greater part OF the
State in search of suitable dairy
cattle for the hospital board.
Fredericksburg, Va. Aug. 1.-AIr.
Thos. L. Hunter, member of Leg
islature, King George County, has
been superseded by Mr.. J. R. Hen
derson, of Stafford,-recetEly de-
clared to the Democratic candidate,
Mr.. Hunter rode eighty miles re-
Gently to speak in Alexandra in he
half of Mr. Tucker.
LYNCHBUiu--A. F. Thomas, for
merly State Senator from the dis
trict made up of Lynchburg and
Campbell Counties, one of the heads
of the Thornhill Wagon Company
here, in a talk before the West End
Community League at the Euclid Ave
nue. Christian Church, deplored the
tendency of magistrates and Judges
to suspend the sentences in bootleg
ging and moonshining cases.
CHARLOTTESVILLE.-The rural
school will be the main topic for dis
cussion by educators at the Rural Life
Conference at the University of Vir-
ginia, August 8 and 4. Each topic
of rural school work will be given
detailed report, which will be COM
piled into a special handbook for
school officials in rural communities.
The book will cover conditions existing
in Virginia's country schools and Will
be employed to show the Legislature
and local boards of supervisors the
need of larger appropriations for
rural educational work.
CHARLOTTESVILLE.-The sixth
session of the Episcopal Church's sum-
mer school for religious education viii
open tomorrow at the University of
Virginia and will continue through
August r. Devotional exercises will
be held in st. Paul's Memorial Church
and many prominent speakers will
deliver addresses during the course of
the school. DR.. j. Francis Ribble,
rector of st. Andrews Episcopal
Church, of Richmond, chairman of the
diocesan board of religious education,
the Rev. E. R. Carter, of the Board
of Southern Virginia, and the Rev. G..
I Otis Mead, of the Board of South
western Virginia, will be the speak
ers on the opening day.
/ BLACKSBURG.-The annual meet
/ ing of the State Farmers Institute
/ will be held at the Virginia Poly
technic Institute August 8, and 5,
and all members of the extension di-
vision, experiment station and agri-
/ cultural college force are cooperating
to make this years meeting force all
previous summer meetings into obli-
vion.
LYNCHBURG.-The remains of AN
enormous prehistoric animal, with
leg bones measuring over six feet and
other measurements in proportion,
have been unearthed in the mines OF