Evening star., 1922-07-31
$3.50 ACRES SOLD
TO j. S. IN virginia
Government Acquires Blue
Ridge Mountain Tract for
Forest Reserve.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

/ Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va. July 31.-A deed
conveying $3.50 acres of Blue Ridge
| mountain land by the city of Lynch
burg to the United States govern
| ment has just been recorded in the
clerks office of the Amherst circuit
| court. the government paying the
J city $36,7252s for the acreage. The
| land is to become part Of the Natu.
! raj Bridge area of the federal forest
| reserve.
! The city about fifteen years ago
| bought up a number of small farms
! and allowed them to grow up in
| underground to protect the source OF
| the water supply. The city still re-
tains considerable acreage around the
! dam, which is 22.6 miles from the city.
| Peter A. Lawless, who was a special
| representative of the British -Ameri-
| can Tobacco Company, London, LETT
| an estate valued at 100000 and A. M.
| Campbell has been appointed ad-
| ministrator.
| City Manager E. A. Beck has an
nounced the selection of r. w. B.
Hart. an assistant in the department.
to succeed B. A. Bennett. a director
! of the public works department OF
| the city. when Mr.. Bennett goes to
Charlottesville September / to be-
| come city manager.
! After the records of the circuit
! court have been housed for years in
an old office. the board OF supervisors
of Campbell county has made an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the erec-
ton of thoroughly freproof build
! ing for the clerk and records. The
/ work is to start soon, contract hav-
ing been let to w T. Jones of Lynch
| burg.
4, DEGREES for divorces have been en-
/, tered in the corporation court here
IN the cases of c. H. Higginbotham
against Kate Higginbotham and w.
7. Wiley from Louise Wiley. Both
| suits were based on claims of deser-
tion.
For the first time here In five
years or more local real estate agents
have surplus of houses to rent The
condition, it is thought. is due to the
building OF more new residences this
| year.
, A. c. Knehr. who has been physical
director of the Lynchburg Y. NJ. c. A.
for eight years, has resigned here to be-
come industrial physical director Of the
association work at Binghamton. N. Y.
| The Manufacturers and Wholesalers
! Association will entertain hundreds o!
merchants from the southern states
here this week. during the trade week
nick were held in the police court
here Monday on the charge of ex-
tortion and impersonating county
officers lately when they. took a ring
| from W. E. Wilson, who was sitting
by the side of the road with young
lady The ring later was turned over
by Minnick to city police.
John o. kizer. seventy-five years
of age. resident of this city, died
in Wheeling, W. Va. Sunday, while
| visiting a son. He was a Confeder-
| crate veteran.
| Commandant George A Garland
until recently secretary of the Sal
walton Army for special efforts al
Baltimore. has been transferred to
take charge of the Lynchburg corps
.succeeding Adjt. James Mars, trans
ferred to Hagerstown. Md.
Work of installing seating for up
ward of 5000 people in the farmers
tobacco warehouse here for the Billy
Sunday meeting, which is to com
mence September 20. has been started
The Folkes scholarships at the
University of Virginia have been
awarded again to FendaIl L. Gregory
and Preston Nowlin of Lynchburs
and Mike Jones. jr.. and W. NJ. Bass
of Campbell county.
| After making every other effort
that suggested itself to retain the
services of Rev. r. Homer Anderson
as pastor of the Lutheran church
there. the people of Strasburg have
| appealed to the officials of Holy
Trinity Lutheran Church here to
forego its claim on the minister, in
order that he may be retained for the
] the names Of about 200 people. said