Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-09-02
VIRGINIA NEWS
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Lynchburg-Several days ago here
DR.. George p. Hammer, president Of
the Piedmont Field and Stream As
ISOLATION, gave out a signed state
ment, in which he charged that poll
ties have prevented State officials
and departments f rom enforcing
and departments from enforcing
ton. DR.. Hamer sent clippings OF
the statement TO the State Depart
ment of Game and Inland Fisheries
and to Governor Trinkle. a very
prompt reply has come to Or. Ham
er from the Governor, in which the
Governor says: II am referring your
letter, with clippings to Colonel W.
Mcdonald Lee for his attention AS
it appears to me, the Department of
Game and Inland Fisheries should
give this matter attention"
Norfolk-Major Charles B. Bor-
land today issued q call to all Nor
folk men who hold commissions in
the officers reserve corps Of the Uni
ted States Army to meet in the Coun-
ell chamber at City Wednesday
night, September A, for the purpose
of forming a Norfolk chapter of the
Reserve Officers Association.
Strasburg-At hearing before
Justice l.. b. Hurn here on Monday,
Frank Burner. of West Strasburg,
was committed to jail on the charge
of criminal attack to await the ac-
thion of the September grand jury.
Burner has just completed four years
in the Laurel Reformatcry as an IN
corrigible.
FreeliRg-Emmett Fleming, a far
mer of Georges Fork, drank a guam
tity of carbolic acid n day or two
ago He suffered intensely, but,
through medical aid. was relieved to
an extent. He and his wife have
been separated for some months.
Atlanta-With a record of three
terms in the Federal prison at At
lanta, and facing a fourth, Walter
S. Buchanan, Self-confessed psychic
pathological subject arrested yes
terday at TreVilianS, Louisa county,
for the alleged use Of the United
States mails for the purpose Of de-
frauding merchants and others, de-
clares he had rather be in the peni-
Tertiary in the Georgia metropolis
than in the finest hotel in Richmond.
And he is loolig forward, he says,
to the return to his "old camping
grounds"
Richmond-An act Of the 1922 Cen
eral Assembly, establishing q prohi-
bition enforcement division under the
! jurisdiction of the Office Of the At
/ torney- General, and abolishing the
State Department Of Prohibition,
went into effect last midnight, and
the enforcement Of all State prohibi-
| ito laws is now in the hands of At
torney General John K. Sauders or
/ his authorized agents. Harry B.
Smith, who has been State Prohibi-
| ton Commissioner, will, under ap-
pointment Of Mr. Saunders, become
the State prohibition director and is
expected to qualify for the duties Of
the new position today. Attorney
/ General Saunders has not yet an
nounced the policies to be pursued
uder the new law, other than that
good men will be selected to fill the
important posts and that the laws
will be enforced. Last spring four
men were named as directing agents
and there has been 4 rumor TO the
effect that the office Of directing
/ agent will be abolished. and only a
corps of inspectors maintained.
Fredericksburg-A beautiful wed.
! ding ceremony was solemniZed We'd
nesday at $50 q. m. at nuptial mass
in st. Mary'S Catholic Church in
this city. when Miss Martyna The
'reSa Danneh., daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Danuehl, became the
; bride Of Wilbert Joseph Heffernan of
I Pontiac, Mich Father ID. +. Cole
man performed the ceremony. Miss
Sallie CassiGay was the maid Of hon
or, and she wore a gown Of lowered
canton crepe and carried q large
bouquet of OtheGa roses. After a
wedding trip to Niagara Falls and
! Canada. Mr.. and Mrs. Heffernan will
| make their home in Pontiac, Mich
Lynchburg-Dr. and Mrs. Nicho-
las Leftwich Kabler, of Bedford
/ Springs. have announced the en-
gagement and approaching marriage
of their daughter, Miss Leila Flippin
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