Evening star., 1922-08-13
LYNCHBURG.

LYNCHBURG. Va. August - 'Spe-
ciaD.-Lyle G. Woodson. manager OF
| o. drug store here. who was shot Tues
dav by G.. c. Bailey. owner Of the
store. is improving and attending
physicians believe he will recover.
Bailey still refuses to talk:
The city government here mas re-
tired on half pay the veteran K. RI.
Wills who worked as city carpenter
for twenty-seven years. during which
time he was away from work only
eleven days.
The police department here is now
bending its efforts to solve the muir
der of William Jones. a nineteen
year-old youth who was killed the
night of July 29. on the theory that
the shooting was for the purpose OF
robbery Although mare than ten
days since the boy was shot the de
nartment has been unable thus far
to secure the slightest clue that
would tend to solve the mystery. SUD
stantial rewards have been offered
for a solution of the murder.
Reports from Appomattox county
show that hailstorms late last week
did heavy damage to growing crops.
and that in one section. covering
radius of about ten miles. many 1arm-
ers have had their crops ruined from
so to 100 per cent.
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J.vnchburs Tobacco Warehouse Cor
poration, who made a personal in
spection, finds the damage heavy.
! Some farmers will not attempt 10
cut their tobacco. One farmer IS re-
ported to have. had 15,0OO mis- co1n-
pletely destroyed.
/ Where the crops have not been in
iured by hail, conditions are excel
lent, many farms having prospects
for Yields far above the average
The pipe foundry OF tne LSnchouis
; Foundry Company has been forced to
close on account of the non delivery
of raw materials. a condition incident
to the setting up of embargoes o! tne
Norfolk and Western and chesapeake
and Ohio railways, due to the heaVy
! ginia-Virginia non n-union fields. Un-
less relief is prompt the plant OF
the GIamorgan Pipe and Foundry
Company will also have to close for
the same reason
The state convict camp, which
worked for more than year on the
state, highway leading through Am
berst county. has just been moved to
Bedford county. where 1t Will assist
in the construction OF the hignway
About ten miles of the road already
has been macadamfzed.
c. G. Patterson. for the Patterson
Drug Company. has purchased from
W. b. Foster the west corner OF fth
and Main streets. now occupied by
cafe. The price was $4,000. subject
to a lease which expires a year hence.
The same property sold in 1852 for
S25.O 900 in Confederate money.
Announcement has been received
here of the engagement Of Miss
Georgina Brylkine.of Petrograd. Rus
sia, to J. Rives Childs of this city,
who has for a year been connected
with Russian relief, and former re-
porter with the Washington bureau
of the Associated Press. The date for
the wedding is not yet announced
here The prospective groom is son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John w. ,Childs of
this city.
Rev. George Floyd Rogers, rector of
st. Johns Episcopal Church here, who
has resigned to accept q call to st.
Peters Church, Charlotte, N. c., has
also sent his resignation as president
Of the Home for Homeless Boys in
Allegheny county, which ahe, founded
about fifteen years ago, while rector
of the Episcopal Church at Covington.
Since that time Mr.. Rogers had man
aged the institution. "
Mrs. Josephine Harvey Smith. sixty-
six years of age. widow of Isaac Met
teaux Smith, died Wednesday at her,
home. a, 81