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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 9

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The Beei
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Danville, Virginia
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THE BEE DANVILLE VA MONDAY MARCH 10 1930 NINH RADIO TALKSIPAST SESSION' Sim Dial TOWN Memorial TOPICS Is Ruined held at three Pond church paid trl Balley three year old son PRAISES EXTRACT OR RELIE IT GAVE HUSBAND sorrow The obsequies were MRS II LOUDEN AT MODERN MARKET STORE YOU WILL IND 3 minute relief for Pain Goode and MILLIONS! 25 ounces for 25 Spring Chickens resh Dressed a Pinkh ni 1 inn "eenamint she will win the fight making during the past think of the men me into the An think I was boast we These after see invalld despite at at at at at Street church Mr Winn took as scripture text do men that I the Son of Man came finally as a direct re cerebro arterlor sclerosis a be she few their trouble and advise chjq to this great remedy at once 0 ASSEMBLY WAS SUCCESS EATURE BOY SCOUTMEET MILLIONS POUNDS U8D BY OUR COVBBNMBNT on in uu hls im the of the expedition achieve The explorers will remain Mrs Abitha Wright Yeatts one of Danville's o'dest citizens died Sunday evening at the age of 84 years at tne residence ot her son Dr Yeatts Jefferson avenue Mrs Yeatts had been an for a number of vears but her Illness had held her own until recently when a gradual decline left her very ill She gradually weakened until her passing Sunday evening at seven o'clock The deceased was born near Green Pond Va eb 6 1846 and was mar ried to Captain John Yeatts ip Nov 1866 Just after the Civil war Together they went through recon struction days spending practicably all their lives as the old homestead Her husband preceded her to the een a mint Is the answer Cleansing action of smaller doses effective because you chew it At your (he safe and scientific laxative Oaldwcll Howard erguson Bessie Sty Ci Gourley "If any of my friends in South Bos ton are troubled with stomach disor ders rheumatic pains or find chat they are in a general run down con dition I feel sure that they will fluid Miller's Herb Extract (formerly Herb Juice) to be the Ideal renu ty xor try OR CONSTIPATION Hutts Goode Katherine Mildred Lula Eg little daughter was bom on a hgmestead in northern Alberta I had four other children and I worked so hard that I suffered a nervous break down The doctor's tonic did not seem to help me and when a friend told me about Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I began to take that instead I kept on until I felt well again It brought back my strength Today can do anything thankstothe Vegetable Mrs William Parent rryW 6snd Street Seattle Washington Hu Made Good with 5:15 wrapped weeks he had of death amaz by the vitality to combat and show imorovement a complication of diseases of which was extremely se 4 Julius of Mr and Mrs Bailey of Stokes street was recovering today 1 at Memorial hospital after a badly scalded arm at the family residence Saturday evening The child' climb ed on to a chair near the kitchen stove where a pan ot water was boiling and fell forward into the scalding water The father who was repairing an automobile outside ran into the house on hear ing the cries and hastened with the i little boy to the hospital 'in absence of Dr Winn pastor of Mount Vernon Methodist church the pulpt was filled at the morning service by his brother RevJ Arthur Winn pastor of Cabell his say 4 PIONEER ELECTRICIAN DIES LYNCHBURG Va March Eugene McCarthy 66 pioneer elec triclan who worked in the first elec tric power house opera ted here died suddenly yesterday at his home hereHiS widow and four children sur vive Among the children Is Virginia Bobo Lewis ot Orlando la South Boston a Woman Wants All Her riends to About This Great Medicine Wife Gas Scare Man In the Dead of Night "Overcome by stomach gas In the dead of night I scared my husband badly He got Adlerlka and it ended'he gas" Mrs Owen Adlerlka relieves stomach gas In a Ten minutes! Acts on BOTH upperand lower bowel removing old poi ronous waste you never knew was there fool with medicine which cleans only PART ot bowelsbut let Adlerlka give stomach andoowels a REAL cleaning and get rid Ljf all gas! Patterson Drug Co adv Pure Economical Efficient very useful He surveyed 280000 square miles of hitherto unmapped country" Dunedin often called the "Pearl Cty of New has In other times cueered Intrepid explorers who pi eccdcd Admiral Byrd into the ice flocs that long held fast the secrets ot uh an unknown re gion jt continental size To these explorers including Roald Amundsen Admiral Byrd bute "They had difficulties to he said "many more than gallant men did not cease lngthe many things they had to overcome Because of aviation and our dogs we did not undergo the dif ficulties and hardships of those pioneers They deserve our utmost respect "We got used to the cold and our Houses were warm enough The mon otony was the worst thing we had to encounter'' A representative of the New Zea land government in a brief address of welcome paid tribute to Admiral Byrd as the first man to fly over both the North and South Poles and the only one who has conquered the South Pole by air Byrd replied briefly "We have been fortunate in a great many he said "and without that good for tune we would never have accom plished what we did Ail that we set out to do has been done "If I said all I who accompanied you would mg" Other members were reticent about their merits here about ten days and then will sail for New York via the Panama Canal out on a 2000 mile southern next Wednesday consists of Swanson captain of Dan and Lawrence Morscher of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound grave several year Mrs Yeatts Joined the Method 1st chuch as a young woman and re mained a devout member through out life "I She is survived by two sons John Yeatts and Dr Yeatts both of Danvlrie two daughters Mrs Mattox of Altavista Va and Mrs Cawtharve of penver Col A best of grandchildren thirty three In number and thirty six great grandchildren survive her me funeral will be o'clock this afternoon from the old nwiuutiWhU near Uiwn Rev Arthur Winn df this city conducting services o' Treasury Receipts WASHINGTON March Treasury receipts March 7 were: 94607495 expenditures $10671 1012 94607495 expenditures 10671 10129 balance 115951759 11 UNERAL MRS VAUGHN uneral services for Mrs Bettie Vaughn were held from Lee Street Baptist church yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock The Rev East conducted the services assisted by Rev A Carter and Rev Parker The following acted is pall bear ers: Adams A Boyars I Blair 'red Anderson Hall A Cook Tlie flower bearers were: Mesdames oster Adams Blair Butler Henry Hall James Cook A Cook red Ander son York Richard Brookman George Burton Daisy Cress Martin Misses May more and O' Program of Devel opment Aided by Vari ous Measures Passed basket of lilies the socially and officially and members of the corps bringing messages irom their governments wxr rait died at Saturday peacefully consciousness or been upon" the verge mg his physicians which enabled him occasionally against any one nous Death suit of blood clot on the brain accompanied by hardening of the arteries In addition he had been suffering from a nervous "disorder a bladder ail ment and heart trouble President Hoover was notified at once and with Mrs Hoover called Immediately at the Taft home to ex tend his condolences to Mrs Taft Returning to the White House he Issued a proclamation establishing a thirty day period of official mourn Ing and eulogizing' Mr Taft for "purty of patriotism a lofty dis interestedness and a devotion to the best Interests of the nation that de serve and will ever command' the grateful memory of his ''country By a singular coincidence 'four hours before Mr death As sociate Justice Edward Sanford of the supreme court died suddenly The members of the court were in Knoxville Tennessee today for his funeral services They will return immediately to attend cere monies tomorrow for Mr Taft LONDON March 10 A me morial service for William Howard Taft will be held at St Margaret's church Westminster March 17 at 12:30 The entire American naval delegation consular and em bassy staffs will attend IRST PRESIDENT TO BE BURIED IN ARLINGTON WASHINGTON March 10 William Howard Taft will be the first president of the United States to be buried in the National ceme tery at Arlington The last resting places of the other chief executives of the nation are: George Washington at Mount vernon Virginia John Adams Quincy Mats Thomas Jefferson Monticello Va James Madison Montpelier Vt James Monroe Richmond Va Andrew Jackson Nashville Tenn: Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook William Henry Harrison at North Bend Ohio John Tyler at Richmond Va James Knox Polk at Nashville Tenn I Zachary Taylor at Springfield Ky Millard illmore at Buffalo rank lin Pierce at Concord 'Y James Burtnanan at Lancaster Penn: Abra ham Lincoln at' Sprlngffeld Ill An drew Johnson at Greenville Tenn Ulysses Grant at New York City RuMw'ford Hayes at reemont Ohio James A Garfield at Cleve land Ohio Chester A Arthur at Albany NI Benjamin Harrison at Indianapolis Ind William Mc Kinley at Canton Ohio Grover Cleveland at Princeton Theo dore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay Warren Harding at Marlon Ohld Woodrow Wilson at Washington A number of citizens joined today in publicly deploring an act of van dalism at the Confederate Memorial resulting in the virtual destruction of the sun dial which was placed there some fifteen years ago in me mory of Professor Phifer for many years a noted nr Ician and teacher in Danville Dun recent weeks the sun dial has beer smgled out for at tacks being nea on casions by persv not known These dcpedatlons ia resulted in the stone cap being broken The dial itself has been stolen leaving nothing but a broken shaft The sun dial was secured by con tributions made by Professor Phifer's old pupils who are planning to have the sun dial restored and at the same time to point out to city au thorities the repeated acts of vandal ism It is chiefly on account of the des truct woik that West End tire men ure to be given special police authority and to act as caretakers of the Confederate Memorial property I A more favorable turn has been taken by Miss Georgia Wilson a 1 member of the city nursing staff who last Tuesday was struck and severely Injured by a runaway mall truck Miss Wilson developed a turn for the better last Saturday and over the week end she showed steady 1m imiremeni wnicn leans to tne uef that has been days uneral Services of William Goode Largely Attended The funeral for William Gardener Goode who died at Rel dale were held oh Thursday after noon at 4 o'clock at the Mill Creek Baptist church of which he was a charter member as well as deacon and trustee until the time that he moved to ieldale about ten years ago The services were conducted by Dr McCabe pastor of the irst Baptist church of Martinsville assisted by Rev Soots pastor of the ieldale Baptist church Mrs Pickup of ieldale assisted by the choir ot the Baptist church led In the singing ot several ap propriate hymns at the church On account of the large number of rel atives and acquaintances the church could not hold the crowd who at tended the last rites of Mr Goode At the conclusion of the ceremony In the church his remains were laid at rest In the Mill Creek cemetery The active pall bearers were Mr Goode's nephews: Henry Williams Wilmer McGhee Earl Woody Harold Woody Mitchell Woody David Hurd Goode Abram Maury Goode and Ben jamin Clifford Goode The honorary pall bearers were: leet Turner Turner lem Lee Turner Prlllaman Lee I Ross Joe Ross Robert Prlllaman Brice Stultz John Shelton Atkins Rober son Davis Burch Martin Robert Stone John son Ande Stone Bondurant Jones George Thornton Davis Ramsey A Ram sey King The flower bearers were hie nieces: Mrs itzhugh Smith Mrs Wilson Virgie Claire Goode Virginia Goode Mary Woody Mrs Atlantic Pacific Rear Admlra' Byrd and hfs party he was then Commander Byrd Left Los Angeles on the Whaler A Larsen October 10 1928 On Decem ber 2 they sailed from Dunedin New Zealand for the Antarctic not to set their feet upon land again for fifteen months and eight days On December 25 the expedition ar rived at the Ice Barrier and on Janu ary 6 In the middle ot the South Polar a permanent base was established on the Bay of Whales at Little America It was nearly eleven months before Commander Byrd and three compan ions started for the South Pole on November 28 dodging mountain ranges as they fought their way above the huge Antarctic plateau At 8:55 a November 29 Commander Byrd wirelessed that he was directly over the pole He then returned to his with abrely enough gas left to carry him to there Accompanying him on the flight were his pilots Bernt Balchen Har old June and Captain Ashley Mc Kinley aerial photographer The four men got back to Little America at 5:10 on November 29 the same day they saw the pole Besides the polar flight they made numerous other flights to the east west and south ot their base and surveyed in all it was estimated 35 000 square miles which the United States may establish a claim to in time They were taken off the Ice at Lit tle America and started back for New Zealand and home ebruary 19 of this year Just when it had begun to appear they might not be able to get out until another winter had passed The Bark City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling Expedition ever reached the polar regions either north or south as completely equip ped or so adequately staffed as the Byrd expedition It was estimated it cost In the neighborhood ot $750 000 most of which was defrayed by contributions from firms Individuals and interested associations The expedition was carried out without a single casualty among its human members 1 2 Cecil Covin bach elor who won a 20000 ideal home at a real estate exhibition Intends that a flood of letters from unmar ried ladies shall cease Therefore he desires it known that he Is engaged to Miss Margaret Graham a Scotch lassie of St Thomas Ont Often Singled Out for Attacks By Vandals Dial Is inally Stolen RICHMOND Va March Virginia's program of development along Industrial agricultural and governmental lines had Additional aid today in the form of measures written Into the statute laws by the 1930 general assembly which ad journed Saturday after a session characterized by constructive rather than restrictive legislation Laws passed by the assembijeon tain provisions for promotion of In dustrial expansion stabilizing of agriculture and further increasing then efficiency of government and in addition provisions were made for continued study of various Import ant problems Including election laws and county government Many of the provisions providing for study oj the state's various problems were recommended by Governor John Garland Pollard The governor was an advocate of a sea food rehabilitation program a com mission to study codification and revisions of election laws an in crease in workmens compensation extension of rural health woYk and Tlie executive committee of Keen Street Baptist church 'iU hold its regular monthly meeting tonight at 7 o'clock Routine matters ill be taken and plans for Easter services and the month of personal visitationof cvangclisip wlH be djseussed Q0 Local police have been notified by the Raleigh state penitentiary au thorities to keep a 'ook out for three convicts who escaped from that In siltutlon yesterday Those who escap were Lena Holt Leroy Hutson arid John Gaines all colored Details of thcescape were not given Mrs A Mitchell today received i a telegrarn from Durham an 5 nounclng the death there of her nephew Curtis Rich No details were given as to the cause of death' 4 RISON PARK HONOR ROLL Honor roll for ebruary high sec ond grade Miss Mack teacher: Ken neth Carter Paul Crider Ralph Hess Carrington Martin Myers ul ton Neal James Smith Blly Wat kins Page Yarbrough George Petty Carol Anderson Hilda Amonette Mildred Durham Nancy Glenn Gard ner Dorothy Gravely Virginia Hall Norma Jamerson Minnie Lee Mc Clelland Jane Mcall Helen Nor on Ruby Overbey Garland aWoree ley 7 Mrs Mabel Goode Goode gleston Elizabeth Scott Mrs Her bert Stone Mrs MUton Goode and others i Surviving is his wife who before her marriage was Miss Callie Eliz abeth Williams a daughter of Mr and Mrs Wiley Williams ofrank lln county and the following chil dren: WlUlam Goode Roanoke and Wharton Goode of West Virginia Marvin Goode of Pennsylvania Emory Goode ot ledale Mesdames Robs of Patrick county Em mette Bryant of errum and Elijah Mullins of Lanahan ranklin county The following brothers and sisters also survive: Goode of Bas sett David Goode of OUthe Colo rado Goode of Henry Mrs McGee of errum Mrs Woody of Bassett and Mrs Scott of Roanoke He was an uncle of Clifford Goode and Goode of Martinsville uneral services were held at Mill Creek Baptist church ranklin county Thursday afternoon and burial made In the church burial plot The above is taken from a state ment received a few days ago from Mrs Louden Clemens avenue South Boston Va who is widely known in that section having re sided In So Boston for the past eleven years Continuing her statement she said "Yes before my husband used this wonderful medicine he complained all the time of headaches seemed to have lost all his energy and wae losing in weight He suffered so with his stom ach that he could not enjoy a good meal and what little he ate caused him a great deal of suffering as his food would sour and ferent and he would bloat with gas that formed then he was always constipated kid neys were out of order and he com plained all the time with rheumatic pains and neuritis said he felt com pletely worn out and he looked it Several weeks ago he began using the Herb Extract 'formerly called Hero Juice) and in a very short time 1 no ticed that he was on the road to im provement He said the medicine was a wonderful system cleanser and a the poison waste was eliminated his appetite improved and to his great relief gas and Indigestion pains no longer troubled him He now cats three hearty meals a day says he has more energy than he had had for years and feels strong as a mule rheumatic and neuritis pains no longer trouble him he has gained in weight and is always hungry The three bottles he used sure made a different man out of him and I am thankful Indeed that we learned of this wonderful or sale and recommended by Mcall's Drug Seed Store Dan ville Va and leading druggists ev erywhere Hamlin Hamlin are manufacturers' representatlcs adv' Same Price for over 38 years uneral services for Eiigcne Jef fries who died lit Memorial hos pital on riday morning were con ducted from Lee Street church Sat urday afternoon at 3 o'clock Three preachers officiated Rev East A Winn and Taylor for mer pastor of Cabell Street Meth odist church Interment was In Mountain View The pall bcarers were: Otis Hop kins Ernest Myers rank Walton Grady Rowe Dick loyd A Lockwood Lee Overby The flower bearers: Jeffries Marshall Dickerson ackler Claud McCubbln Hall Willie McCubbln Ear Patterson A owlkes Westbrook Hobert Luther Barringer Moseley Turn er Hall Anderson red Holton A Butts Dubose Dodson Brann Lewis Petty A Woodall Culpepper Lefwich Sam Clements Mr Osll and others Back My Strength Ship Emerges rom Wastes Of Antarctic (Continued from page one) Has No Gas Now! Once a woman of her age had to be careful Today she eata anything the tvanft! Takes a Stuart Dyspepsia Tab and after bating distress vanithes Chew a Stuart Tablet after the heart iest meal and you too can smile at indigestion Stops gas and belching Ends sour risings A modern combina ion of Calcium Carbonate Magnesium and other soothing healing ingredients is the safe anti acid (2 times as effective as soda) offered in these tablets "A noeet itemach for twenty five centi" MAKE THIS TEST! Purchase a 25c handy pocket tin of Dyspepsia Tablets at your use them after meals and avoid the pains discomforts and dis tresses due to indigestion One Tablet will neutralize several times its weight of acid material in the stomach At All Drug Starts: 25c and 60c Tbt QuicHut Relief for Caetric Dlnrder STUART'S DYSPEPSIA TABLETS '(Continued from page one He is the first president to be burled at the national cemetery The place of interment was chosen yesterday by Mrs Taft and their three children Mrs Helen Taft Man ning and Charles and Robert A Taft Slipping quietly away from tne Wyoming avenue homo they drov 3 to the cemetery and selected tlie burial plot It Iles high upon a wooded hill side overlooking the broad Potomac river beyond which the city can be seen with the white House and capltol In which Mr Taft labored with such distinction plainly vis ible The two sons of Mr4 Taft Joined their mother and sister yesterday coming on Irom Cincinnati as soon as word of their father's death reached them Mrs Manning had been In the city almost continuously for several weeks Throughout the day friend's mes sages and floral tributes were con stantly arriving President and Mrs Hoover sent huge basket of tulips crocuses and yellow spring blooms The congregation with which Mr Tait had worshipped sent a large basket lilies The callers included prominent diplomatic or POLLARD EXPRESSES SYMPATHY RICHMOND Va March While the above the Virginia capltol drooped at half mast Gov ernor John Garland Pollard today sent a message of sympathy to Mrs William Howard Taft me to express for the people of Virginia" said the tele gram "our love for your distinguish ed husband' our deepest sym pathy for you in your Governor Pollard expects to at tend the funeral of the former president and chief Justice in Wash ington tomorrow Rev Winn Heard in Norfolk Rev Winn pastor of Mount Vernoir church yesterday filled the pulpit at Ghent Methodist church where he conducted special services for the launching in an intensive campaign for funds with which to pay off indebtedness on the church property Dr pulpit here was filled in the morning by his brother Rev Arthur Winn of Cabell street church and at night by Rev Hunt pastor of the DaivU'e circuit Relieves Grippy Aches IN 3 MINUTES When one of those grippy aching colds come on ahd you want Im mediate pain relief go to any drug store or soda fount and ask for a package or dose of (10c and 25c) Three minutes after taking the pain begins to recede your nerves are rested fever reduced and comforting relief sets In contains five ingredients that function together for the relief of pain (female pains Included) re gardless of its origin accomplishing in a few minutes what no one drug formula can do under 1 to 3 hours In the treatment of raging head aches sinus pains neuralgia or ear ache due to colds is unequal led being absolutely safe free from opiates or habit forming drugs and may be taken as often as needed To avoid imitative substitutes don't ask for a "headache powder' but specify and insist upon and get the original and genuine that never falls to bring quick and comforting relief Mrs Lacy Passes Away Halifax Co News was received here this morn ing of the death at Scottsburg of Mrs Lacy sister ot Howard Dickerson and Mrs Vaden both of this city She had been 111 for several years and last Spring under went" an operation at Memorial hos pital She was known in Danville by reason of numerous visits though she had not resided here permanent ly She was 68 years of age' and a native of Charlotte county She is survived by her husband and three sons also by Edward Dickerson an other brother and Mra Cem Qavls a sister of Pamplin The funeral will be held from the home some time tomorrow Mrs Abitha Yeatts Dies At 84 At Home of Som uneral Services of George Harper Largely Attended inal rites for George Harper widely known resident of the Mount Hermon section were held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock from Mount Hermon Baptist church The fu neral was one of the most largely attended ever held in the county the procession being over a mile and a nan long conducted by Rev Houghton Rev Bray and Rev Turn er Interment was made in High land burial park The pall bearera were: Sam Adams Mose Walker Robertson Thompson Howard Bailey Myers Waylcs Harrison Oscar Par rish The flower bearers were: Carson Lester Dr Pritchett Har per Julian Harper Harper Edward Harper Preston Harper Berkley Pollok A Grady William Pollok Irvin Pollok Goode Louis Smith Robertson Hugh Robertson Leonard Robertson Dr Vann Charlie Walker Dr A Robertson Tarpley Robert Herndon rank Rob ertson Clarence Herndon Calvin Charlie Wiley Sam Robertson Bolen Rutledge Carter rank Pol lok Walter Parrish Bob Blair Dan Blair Nat Payne red Burton Al lyn Pollok Charlie Pollok itzgerald Dr Garnett Clay Martin Claude Martin Bever ly Howe Coleman George Coleman Wade Blair Leonard Parrish Harvey Adklnson Howard Rogers James Wilson" Edgar Aron Roy Stowe Hargrave Col A Camden Cage Yarbrough Owen Davis Slaugh ter Gardner A Starling John Reynolds Collins Otho Hudson Tom Dodd Ashworth Taylor Martin William uller Tom Burton Watkins Julian Jordan Garland Reynolds A Carrington Lee Payne Dave Edwards Myers Evans Swanson Eugene Jeffries Is Laid to Rest riends in Danville were shocked yesterday to learn ofthe tragic deAth near Petersburg of Mrs Marian Gilm er Adkins wife of Howard Adkins of this city who was fatally injured In an automobile accident 2 miles north of McKeiiny She died a short time later in a Petersburg hospital where her companion at the time Miss Mary Mayes of Greensboro also Iles seriously injured Mrs Ad kins was driving when the automo bile skidded and turned over several times Mrs Adkins was the wife of How ard Adkins former of Danville and son of Adkins of West Main street She was a bride of about lr months formerly being Miss Marla Gilmer of Greensboro where she wai very popular The body was sent ic Greensboro yesterday afternoon foi burial Mr Adkins at present Is re sident of Washington Gathering of Local Boys Tonight Expected to Be Largely Attended A feature of the Scouters' Associa tion meeting to be held at Cabeil Street Methodist church tonight at 73o will be a radio program during which the address of Presi dent Hoover to the scout leaders of the United States gathered at Wash ington fcwill she heard This program will begin at 9:00 o'clock and will be broadcast by the National Broadcast ing company and the Columbia Broadcasting system over national networks The address wlli be m'ade at a great Twentieth Anniversary Dinner sponsored by the group the Invitations to which were Issued by President Hoover Walter Head president of the oreman State Na tional bank of Chicago and the presi dent of the Boy Scouts of America since 1926 will introduce the Speaker President Hoover There will also be several other short addresses and selections by the famed Marine band The public is cordially in vited to attend this part of fhe Association meeting begin ning at nine at Cabell street church Scout Executive Euston pointed out today that It is especially appropri ate that this Anniversary Dinner be held in Washington and sponsored by representative of the ederal gov ernment and various Natlona' Agen cies with which the Boy Scouts of America actively co operate because ot the fact that the Scouting Move ment In America had Its origin In the city of Washington It was in corporated in Washington on ebruary 8 1919 through the efforts of Wm Boyce the publisher apd Colin Livingstone a prominent citizen ot the nation's capltol and for the first fifteen years the active president of the Movement The first annual meeting was held In the East Room of the White House with Presi dent Taft serving as Honorary Presi dent Since that time all Presidents of the United States served as Honorary Presidents orTScoutlng and have actively co operated with the National council In its work With out exception they have declared the Boy Scouts Movement as one of the nation's greatest assets The Association which wlH meet tonight at Cabell street church was organized last month as one of the forward steps Inaugurated by the Patrick Henry council to make more effective the work ot the local leaders All adults connected in any way with the Movement in Danville are members of the association Jun ior assistant scoutmasters and senior patrol leaders are also eligible for membership Matters of great im portance will be taken up at to night's meeting Jas A Hancock scoutmaster of the street troop will have charge of the pro gram Ira Gunn is the president of the local association which Is pri marily an organization for the Vol unteer Leaders In scouting Danville Boy On William Mary Debating Team The Men's Varsity debating team which William and Mary college will send tour John ville Clarendon and Albert Joimeon of Carrsville The team wW meet the teams of state college at Ral eigh Emory University at Ma con and Davidson college at David son The trip will be made by automobile As well as experienced debaters these men arc prominent In campus activities Mr Swanson Lambda Chi Alpha is president of men's Honor Council president of Tau Kappa Alpha and a member of Omlcron Delta Kappa Mr Korscher is a mem ber of Ph! Beta Kappa and president of men's debate council Mr Johnson who represented Wil liam and Mary the State Oratori cal contest last year Is vice president of the Phoenix Literary society ac tive In A work and is a member of the men's debate coun Quality Meats at Low Cost 483 JEERSON STREET Nation Mourns Dab th Taft extension of rural health woYk tax reduction i1 The governor together with Immediate predecessor Harry Byrd were sponsors of other portent measures adopted by legislature These measures Includ ed the educational equalization fund the bill abolishing periodic county real estate assessments and estab lishing equalization boards and the commission for study of county gov ernment with the aim of drafting a general law 'up optional county government forms arm improvement and ftgrlcul ture stability received attention In measures offered from the floor The agricultural program provided for forestry promotion changes extend Ing the co operative marketing act to Include co operative purchasing th eextenslon of the apple grading laws to Include products In closed packages a standard milk act a re vision of the game code and an ap propriation of TaOO for a soil sur vey by Virginia Polytechnic Insti tute Other measures offered from the floor were various bills for estab lishment of a liberal arts college 'for women those providing for racial in tegrity for highway development for codification of school laws and mili tary laws and numerous other meas ures ot lesser importance Restrictive measures died in rather large numbers in committees or were voted down Among the bills failing to pass were a bill provid ing for chain store taxation legis lation requiring treasurers to report delinquent taxes a bill creating Vir ginia state bar as governmental agency Investigation of the fee sys tem In criminal law bill restricting billboard advertising legalizing boxing and railroad "full and "car limit" bills A seafood program growing out of numerous conferences by the governor and taking defnlte shape In measures adopted by the general as sembly provides for ample revenue for the administrative section which its sponsors say teeth in the administration of seafood The program passed over the votes of a stubborn minority provides also for a tax of eight cents per bushel on seed oysters shipped out of the state and a commission of fisheries with authority to make rulings with the weight and effect of law The pro gram passed almost without altera tion Election law revision was the cen ter of a fight of major Importance The assembly adopted a bill pro viding for a commission of nine members to study the laws with a view of correcting defects The bu reau of legislative drafting re es tablished during the session will codify the election laws before Ithe commission begins its work The assembly also granted authority In a bill not Included In the election law recommendations for the use of voting machines In all counties cities and towns Among those measures seeking to aid industrial expansion was the Buchanan bill allowing localities to exempt from taxation for five years new Industries coming Into the sec tion the bill passed over strong opposition and with the amendment providing that no exemptions should be granted to Industries competing with those already established Under the racial Integrity law a person is classified as any one with an ascertainable degree of negro lilood but exempts certain In dians on reservations with not more than one sixteenth negro blood The Porter Rhodes highway bill was designed its authors maintain ed to among beneftts an Im proved living condition in rural sec tions It was said to be primarily to expand the system of farm to market roads Danville Wife Killed In Auto Accident I A w7 II VA'dlll I Eyk Me rt Leg CAL LIVER 35c lb 25c CHOICE WESTERN STEER BEE Porterhouse SIRLOIN Prime Rib STEAK STEAK ROAST lb 45c lb 40c lb 35c RESH PORK BRAINS LB Smithfield Smithfield resh Pork HAMS SHOULDER CHOPS lb 60c lb 25c lb 29c.

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