Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-01-21
VIRGINIA NEWS
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Lynchburg-The Piedmont Field
and Stream Club has selected f. A.
Watson and Rev. William Megginson
to represent the association before
the Legislature in an effort to secure
passage of bill to stop pollution of
Virginia streams. Dr. j. P. Clark
and DR.. George P. Hammer are al
tcrnates. Officers reelected for 1922
are: President, DR.. G. ?. Hammer,
vice president, l. H. Adams, Jr., and
secretary treasurer, E. M. Wood.
SiXty-four representative Richmond
business men and corporations were
elected members of the Chamber of
Commerce at a meeting of the board
of directors yesterday afternoon.
They were obtained through effort
of various eteams, in the chambers
membership Campaign this week. :
Richmond Sol Schloss of India
napolis, vice president Of the Ma
tional Association of Retail Clothiers
and Furnishers, and ranked as one of
the leading business men in America,
will be in Richmond February 6 and
7 to attend the annual State conven-
ton of Retail Clothiers and Furnish
ers to be held here at this time. His
acceptance has just been received by
w. Fleet Kirk, of Richmond, presi-
dent Of the State association.
Norfolk-The City Council played it's
trump card at $50 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon when it delivered it's ulti-
matum to the Virginia Railway and
Power Company, allowing the COM
pany until / o'clock Monday morning
to decide for arbitration. II the COM
pany further refuses to arbitrate the
Council will reduce it's fare to 5 cents
and will take steps to give jitneys
the right of way over the city.
lackstone-Erection of new
100000 fireproof building at the
Blackstone College for Girls here
will be started Immediately, the
board Of trustees of the institution
having met yesterday and authorized
that the construction start at once
Contracts will be let tomorrow for
the work.
ichmond-Several hundred peo-
pie, including a large number of the
State Senators and members of the
House of Delegates attended the an
nual banquet of the Virginia Good
Roads Association. held in the GrayS'
Armory last night. Joseph 7. Nc
Allister, of Bath County, presided as
POSTMASTER Those who responded to
toasts were DR.. J. A. c.. Chandler.
president of the College of William
and Mary; Thomas B. McAdams
president of the American Bankers
Association; C. H. Huston, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce of the United
States, and former Governor Charles
H. Brough.
Williamsburg-Formal unwilling OF !
the handsome portrait of the late
Senator Richard A. Coke, of TeXas,
presented to William and Mary Col !
lege by his grandson, John Archer
Wilson, of Roanoke will take place
next Saturday, January q. Repre-
sentatives of the family of Mr.. Coke
will be present John A. Coke. jr..
of Richmond, will make the presen-
tation address on behalf of the donor,
Richmond-J.. n. Brenaman,
secretary of the Democratic State
Central Committee, yesterday issued
J. call for that body to meet here on
The night of January 81, for the pur-
pose of electing a chairman to sue
iced the late Hal D. Flood The ses-
sion will be held in the auditorium
If Murphy's Hotel.
The name of State Senator Harry
Flood Byrd, nephew of Mr.. Flood, /
md son of Richard EVELYN Byrd
Speaker of the House OF
DELEGATES and district attorney for
he Western District of Virginia, has