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State and City 8 Richmond Tlmes-Dispatch Sunday December 15 1910 State and City Lord Lothian To Be Honored At 2:30 Dr Vincent Franks rector of St Episcopal Church will conduct a memorial service for Lord Lothian at 2:30 today at the church He will be assisted 8 Make Christmas Merrier With GIFTS Of Adkins Furniture Furniture!" Just two words but gladden the heart of any one on your gift list! Our BIG stocks make it easy to choose and our EASY BUDGET TERMS make it easy to buy Come in Monday! A Real Gift I Colonial I Secretary i not Ministerial Union Hie service sponsored by the Richmond Branch of the English-Speaking Union will be held as a demonstration of sympathy and good will toward the English people and of support for Great Britain in her present struggle Governor Price Mayor Ambler and other State and city officials will attend the service which will take place at the same time the funeral rites for Lord Lothian are held in Washington Colonel Henry Anderson head of the local branch of the union said yesterday Cadet Corps to Attend The union called upon Richmond ministers of all denominations to announce the service and to extend an invitation to their congregation to attend Units from the Blues Howitzers John Marshall Cadet Corps and Boy Scouts are expected to be resent at the service in uniform ieutenant-Colonel Rose of the Blues asked that members of his command report at the Blues Armory at 11 A for the issuance of uniforms Other Organizations Invited Members of various civic and patriotic organizations including the Red Cross Colonial Dames and Sons of the Revolution have been invited to attend the service wish to stress the fact that this is a meeting open to declared a spokesman for the sponsors are expressing our respect and honor for the English in the form of this memorial for Lord Lothian We hope that the entire community will join with us" Lord Lothian Britsh ambassador to the United States died Thursday Amelia Couple to Observe 50th Anniversary Today CHURCH Mr and Mrs William Dabney Hamner who were married 50 years ago on December 10 today are celebrating with an informal party at their home at Ammon Amelia County Invitations have been sent to 336 persons and arrangements are being made for the entertainment by the children of the couple Mr Hamner at 75 and his wife at 71 are enjoying the best of health Mrs Hamner was Miss Nancy Harriett White of Amherst County the daughter of Mr and Mrs James White Mr Hamner ywas born in Bedford County the son of Mr and Mrs John Hamner His father having died several weeks before his birth his mother came to Amelia County where the family took permanent residence near her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs A CL Wheeler Two Wedding Guests to Attend At the celebration today will be two persons from this section who were guests at the marriage Mrs Harmon of Church Road and Samuel Townsend The marriage ceremony took place at Pleasant View the home of the bride conducted by the Rev Thomas Gatewood who had performed the marriage ceremony at the parents' wedding Two years before Mr Hamner marriage he had with his brother Emmitt Hamner opened a general store at Ammon Here he conducted the store and served as postmaster for 45 years His brother looked after the farm and for several years prior to his death represented Amelia County in the State Legislature His son Hamner succeeded his Willie" as postmaster and merchant at Ammon All properties were owned jointly by and Hamner and the partnership sms in effect until Hamner died Entire 'Family Attends The celebrants will have with them today to assist in receiving their four children ther foster daughter Mrs Paulette of Branch and their eight grandchildren Their oldest daughter Annie Willie who married Joseph Sydnor is deceased The other children are Dr Jarftes Loving Hamner of Mannboro Harold Douglas Hamner deputy United States marshal of Richmond and Ammon Mrs Stanley Allen of Blacks tone and Mrs Weldon Pinchbeck of Amelia Courthouse The grandchildren are Joseph Sydnor Jr Janies Allan Sydnor and Miss Virginia Sydnor Miss Mary Castleton Hamner Harold Douglas Hamner Jr Miss Mary Frances Craddock and Miss Mary Lloyd Craddock Dr Hugo van Kuyck (Left) and Dr William Clark Confer on Transfer of Belgian Pavilion to Local Campus Architect Confers on Plans For Housing Belgian Pavilion Every woman would like to own a Colonial Secretary! It IS a lovely gift It will add beauty to the home and is something the whole family will enjoy The prices are reasonable Choose yours from the dozen or more styles on display iMMxaxamsanaxsnnnaMieaxansxnieaMmnaKassiM For HerJ Genuine LANE CEDAR CHEST Prices Start at $1750 Senator Cary Defines Stand On Education Candidate Issues First Platform Plank The first plank of his politics platform restricted solely to education and designed arouse the citizens of Virginia to the need of expanding and improving our public school system" was an nounced yesterday by State' Senator Hunsdon Cary of Richmond one of the three aspirants for the governorship who already have announced their candidacy Repeating his indorsement of the three-point school program Senator Cary said that he also favored continued improvement ot academic training establishment of courses In handicrafts teaching the obligations of good citizenship In a democracy and expansion of training in agriculture vocational training health programs adult education and moral and ethical training lie promised not only to strive earnestly for the adoption of these principles by the State but also to see that they are properly financed Essential to Keep Face "In these days of great progress In all fields of endeavor" he said In discussing the academic training point of the plank "it is highly essential that the academic training of our children keep pace with other activities For those whose intellects are not designed for professional careers it is necessary that their academic training be suited to approximate fields of activity This differentiation will immediately make it possible to elevate the standards of academic training to provide more adequately for those intellects designed for professional careers As for handicrafts he cited that the machine age now has reached the stage at which the whole world Is industrialized losing for America many of its foreign markets for manufactured goods and increasing the demand for handmade goods "In fact" he added have come to the end bf an era and the sooner our Government recognizes this fact and prepares to meet the situation the better it will be for the happiness of our people and the stability of our Institutions" Training for Fanners He said that there now are thousands of families in Virginia to whom even a small additional income would mean the difference between want and comparative comfort Recalling that courses In agriculture already have been established in the more progressive public schools of Virginia he declared that "the future fanners of Virginia should be trained to meet their problems scientifically In order that they may receive their fair share of the economic security essential to good citizenship" He pointed out that the American public education system is geared to prepare every boy and girl to go to college irrespective of their mental ability of their desire to go to college and of the financial ability of their parents to send them As a result he further cited many college graduates are in situations nearly as unhappy as those unskilled nearly illiterate people who never finished elementary school is now Senator Cary said the curriculum of our public school system be sufficiently revised and broadened to meet the needs of this generation Vocational courses will enable thousands of our boys and girls not only to find for themselves economic security and happy social adjustments but will en- (Other Chests as low as $1445) vide library auditorium and gymnasium facilities weighs 1000 tons consists of 620000 cubic feet and cost $120000 Mr Hening pointed out in emphasizing the big task of moving the building Mr Hening also disclosed that the Belgian ambassador to the United States Count van der Straten-Ponthoz has agreed to come to Richmond for the dedication of the building and has accepted the honorary chairmanship of the committee sponsoring transfer of the building to the university To Cost $800000 The entire project will cost $800000 of which $520000 has been raised and a movement for $50000 from Virginians was launched Friday Richmonders will be asked to contribute $15-000 Transfer of the first unit was made possible by a $100000 grant from the General Education Board If the university is to obtain the entire building additional funds will be needed at once it was said Assurances of co-operation by Federal agencies in adding several courses to the university curriculum have been obtained Give TABLES You'll have no trouble in selecting yours at ADKINS We have more than 100 different styles to choose from and you could give nothing that will be more appreciated! COFFEE TABLES S7IS Up DROP-LEAF TABLES $2150 Up TRIM LAMP TABLES STSS Up Others Priced PA EA As Low As gAiUU Man Awarded $2750 For Auto Injuries STAUNTON Reese Jones Negro pedestrian injured after a truck and automobile crash on Route 250 east of Staunton one of the vehicles striking him won a verdict of $2750 at the hands of an Augusta Circuit Court jury Thursday He sued for $10000 The defendants were Melvin Eavers and Fitzgerald A motion to set aside the verdict was not immediately ruled upon by Judge Crosby The architect and contractor In charge of transferring the $700-000 Belgian Pavilion from its New York Fair site to Virginia Union University here conferred with university officials yesterday on details of the movement which they said would begin in a few days Dr Hugo van Kuyck a member of the Belgian government housing board which approved the plans for the giant prefabricated structure said it will be reassembled here in the same design used at the World's Fair and will be 'readapted" to the Virginia Union campus Dr van Kuyck is a lecturer on architecture at Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology He now represents the Belgian government in the transfer of the building Belgian Workers to Cone Here A group of Belgian workers who first assembled the building at New York and were to ship it back to Belgium after the fair will come to Richmond to re-erect the modernistic structure here Dr van Kuyck said While they are reassembling the units here another group of workers will be taking down the building in New York He and Dr William Clark president of the university and Hening treasurer of the American Baptist Home Mission So-ty also conferred with a New York heating contractor on pimi for adding a boiler and extending the heating pipes to the new build-: ng The heating plant expansion will cost approximately $20000 and should be ready for use by next October Remodeling of several of the present buildings at the college with materials from the Belgian building also is planned Dr van Kuyck said A stock of materials brought to the United States by the Belgians for replacing any damaged parts of the building also will be brought to Richmond Shipments to Start Soon Several truckloads of the dis-i nan tied building already are ready for shipment and should begin moving soon Mr Hening said No decision has been made on the type of transportation to be used The first unit which will pro- An Occasional Chair for the Home! 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