Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-11-11
STATE NEWS

| announcement has been made here, il
| is learned from reliable source that
the creditors committee of the job
bers' Overall Company, which failed
here late in 1920, has completed ar
rangements for the organization Of
the Old Dominion Garment Company
to take over the operation a portion
of the immense plant here, which the
committee recently bought at receiv-
er's sale.
Lynchburg-The Health Depart
ment here reports that there have
been sixteen deaths in Lynchburg dur
ing this year from cancer, during
which time there have been two from
typhoid fever. During October there
were forty-eight deaths in the city,
including nonresidents The births re-
ported total sixty-siX.
Hampden-Sidney, DIR. J. D. Egg
lesion, president OF Hampden. Sidney
College, yesterday sent the following
telegram to Governor 4. Lee
Trinkle: "The students this morning
at q mass meeting have requested me
to send hearty congratulations and
best wishes" When news of the over
whelming victory of Senator Trinkle,
an alumnus of Hampden-Sidney,
reached the student body of the col
lege, pandemonium reigned for few
minutes as the students expressed
their JOY. Last week, in a straw vote
cast here Mr.. Trinkle was given 4
huge majority over his opponent. This
is the ninth Governor Hampden-Sid
ney has furnished to this and other
States.
Richmond = Dr.. Cary Breckin-
ridge Gamble, aged So, known as the
oldest alumnus Of the University of
Virginia, died last night in the home
of his daughter near Baltimore, ac-
cording to information received here
today by relatives. Dr.. Gamble, who
fought in the Indian wars and was a
division surgeon in the Confederate
army under General Bragg, was born
at "Grovc Hill," Botetourt county,
Va, the home OF General James
Breckenridge.
acknowledgements Westmoreland
Davis and three American Legion
men will represent Virginia at the
today. Dignitaries from all parts OF
the world will be present to hear
President Harding pay homage TO the
soldiers of America at the burial
of one Of her unknown sons, whose
body was recently brough. back TO
the United States from France. The
former soldiers who will accompany
Governor Davis are Captain Horace
L. Smith, Jr., OF Petersburg; Ser
geant Mczof, of Hopewell, and Corpo-
rel Allen, of Richmond, who fought
with the One Hundred and Sixteenth
Infantry and who received the Dis
tinguished Service Cross and CroiX
de Guere for valor.
Lynchburg-"Jackso Speedy"
belonging TO L. A. Watson, OF this
city, won first place in the all-age
stake Of the Delaware field trial held
Tuesday 1T Oak Orchard, Del. This
is the -year-old pointer which won
third place in the Virginia trials two
weeks ago, and she is now qualified
to complete for the amatuer cham
Of America which will be run
at Grand Junction, Tenn, January
l3 next, She was bred by Duval Rad
ford, of Forest.
Lexington-F fitzgerald FlournCy,
of Bay View, Va, has been appoint
ed as Rhodes scholarship candidate
from Washington and Lee University.
Mr.. Flournoy was strongly indors-
ed for this honor last June, when
he took his degree as first honor man
among the A. B. Graduates at Wash
ington and Lee, winning at the same
time, the Napleson scholarship, the
Cincinnati orators medal and the Phi
Beta Kappa key. In May he won the
State orators medal in the intercol-
legiate oratorical contest held at Will
liam and Mary, in which seven col
leges were competing.
Winchester Attention was called
today to the fact that in many places
where Republican speakers went
about berating the Virginia public
school system and complaining gen
orally, Democrats rolled up the larg-
eSL lndJOTillcS. Mail! NOlcI > Iloi'c bccII
heard to say they would not stand
for what they considered insults to
the fair name of their State.
West Point-The Virginia Tubcrcu-
losis Association will hold Il free
clinic at West Point early next week
for the benefit of the people of this
section.
Danville.-The American Legion
committee, in charge OF the Arristice
celebration here Friday night, this
evening unanimously declined to heed
the request of the Danville Minis
teria Union that the proposed street
dance be done away with. The min
isters were represented by commit
tee which had petition with eight
names asking that this feature be
The clergy held that
Armistice Day should be one of pray
er and that the dance would destroy
its meaning.
Norfolk at the sight
of dead rat held in The hand of a
six year old Ethel Lor-
raine Sommers. daughter of j. H.