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WARNED BY WONEN Sex Demands Full Considera- tion When Election Tickets Are Selected. Sprcial Dispatch to The Star BALTIMORE, Md. August 1.—A number of woman candidates for the e assembly are to be entered in the primaries next month, according to present plans, unless the women are given full consideration in the selection of party tickets by both parties, Aspirants in Baltimore. Tn Baltimore city, it is said, their democ tic friends are prevailing on Mrs. William M. Maloy and Mrs. George M. aither to become cand dites. and in the republican ra Mre. William J. Funck, Mrs. Calvin N. Gabriel, Miss Grace Spofford and Miss Gertrude Leimbach are being talked about as promising legislative | material. However. no definite an- | Bouncement of the candidacy of any | Baltimore woman has vet been made. | Miss Mary F. V. Risteau of Har-{ ford county, who was the first woman | member of the last legislature, said i today she would be a candidate again in the fall for the general assembly i< to whether she would be a can- ! Qidate for the senate or the house, | ¥he has not fully decided as vet, but | Swould probably make up her mind in the next few day \e Arundel county Furcd wor n candidate in George Barber. a_ leader fin thej Teaghic of Women Voters. Mrs. Bar-, bar's name has been placed on the | progressive ticket. one of the fac-| n Anne rundel county has_an as- in Mrs. St )t the | party bix following, and has of many influential smen. among them Mrs. Robert; Moss of Annapolis, who, two years ago, herself a candidate for the legls- ruuning independently in the nary. RICHMOND WOMAN IN RACE. Mrs. Janet S. Durham Active Can- didate for Legislature. Ere to The Star. RICHMOND, . August 1.—The voters of the city of Richmond will a chance next Tuesday to show how gullant the men are, and loyal are the women. On that 3 s will select the nomi- ature, and there t in the hall Dispa an se ©of the nouse of delegate: She is Mrs. Janet Stuart Durham. the wife of a minister, and has been prominent in social work. in Rich- mond, for rears. She has been making a campaign, sticks to her k, and has made several speeches. She is a good talker ~ery attractive in manner. She was B candidate two years ago, was de- feated, and this time comes b smiling. and has been working q 1y for several weeks. She attends strictly to her campaign work, and has succeeded in making hosts of friends. 1t is in the hands of the women of +he city to nominate the entire ticket ceral hard it they will only go to the polls, but{ they appear to have lost interest after getting into one hot fight and being beaten to a standstill, and the vast majority of them quit the polit- ical field and vew they will not again vote. DEMOCRATS TO CONSULT. Party Leaders of Maryland Hold- ing Parley in Baltimore. Special Dispateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md, August 1.-—The democratic political pot i3 beginning | to boil as leaders from all over the state last night began to assemble for the meeting of the democratic state central committee this afternoon Dr. J. Hubert Wade arrived early and spent the evening at headquarters in consultation with party leaders. and said only routine business would ‘be transacted by the committee today. The clection of J. Enos Ray, of Prince Goorges county, to succeed Dr. Wade 85 chairman of the committee, Wwill \take place at the end of the meeting. . The resolution empowering the chairman to meet with the chairman of the republican committee and ar- Irange a date for the primary will be ‘adopted and the authorization of In- crefsed representation on the com- mittee for Baltimore city will be passed without strenuous opposition it was indicated. WOMAN CHECKED IN FALL OWES LIFE TO CROSSBARS Caught After 12-Foot Drop to Cer- tain Death From 60-Foot Observation Tower. &pecial Dispated to The & FROST! Md., August 1.—Mr Harry W. Groff of Berlin escaped Serious injury and certain death when fell from the top of an observ tower, about two miles east of Patch, where she had stopped 4 motoring party. wer used as a lookout for forest fires and the party had as- cended to the top by the means of smail iron steps and in prepuring to descend. Mrs. Groff fell through a trap door in the floor. She fell disiance of ubout tweive feet, where she became entangled in severa 5 in the iron work of the ure. checking her fall. This nted her from dropping the en- ince of sixty feet to the r. ground She su ed a badly-farctured t. painful bruises about the legs Mer daughter, Miss Etta and Mrs. Charles Alt- the party. off and gather were | JUMPS ON EXPRESS WAGON STOFS RUNAWAY HORSE Real Movie Thrill Givea in Win- chester in Preventing Dash Into Trafic Jam. 2 August 1.— e thrill was executed yes terday, withoyt charge or war tax, {when Maynard Wisecarver, a local jexpressman, leaped from the running board of an omobile into an ex- press wagon and stopped a runaway horse just as the animal was about 10 dash madly into a traffic jam at a sbusy street intersection. The horse—one of those with a rec- ord for never having run off—had \been left standing near a cold stor- age plant, and when Wisecarver came out he saw the horse running madly gown the street. Remembgring mhrills he had seen. on the silver screen. he halled # passing automo- Dile, and the accommodating chauf- Four speeded up until a neck-and-neck race was in progress. Finally, at an oppportune moment, Wisecarver leaped from the running board of the car 4nto the wagon, seized the reins and brought “old ' faithful” to his haunches & moment before the horse ‘would have dashed into a dozen or so nutomoblles awaiting the signal to rgo." —_— Cosina Wagner, the widow of Rich- ard Wagner and the daughter of Franz Liszt, is still living in Berlin and is reported in wretched poverty. In Ohlo girls of eighteen will no longer be able to marry without their parents’ consent, as the legal age of women has been raised from eights2n B0 bWORLY-SRG VeATE. and { al ¥ Education Systems Denounced Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, August 1.— Harking back again to what he calls the “fundamentals of educa- tion—reading, writing and arith- metic—H. Dorsey Etchison, Fred- erick attorney, who has in the past had both congressional and state senatoria] aspirations, and who a month ago headed a delegation of more than a hundred persons to protest against the county's an- nual school appropriation, again takes exception to the statement of State Superintendent Albert C. Cook that those who oppose the modern system of education would keep “people ignorant and poor.” Hits “Fat Salaries.” “When you start to burnish and polish with a lot of jargon stuff which makes jackasses out of splendid boys and pretty painted dolls out of intended sensible girls at an expense of millions of money in order to make a lot of fat places with fat salaries—supervisors with maintained automobiles—to give summer courses 1o fine Institutions in order that the system can be made more complex to taxpayers, we say here in Frederick, let those TROLLEY KILLS CHILD IN SIGHT OF MOTHER {Boy Runs Ahead of Parent and Dashes on Tracks Near Frederick. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md. August 1.— With his mother a score of feet away, frantic with fear and terror, Clarence White, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. White, Rocky Springs near Frederick, was yesterday crushed to death under an interurban pas- senger trolley of the Potomac Publi Service Company. The accident occurred near home of the parents, the child run- ning ahead of his mother as they | walked from the farm of D. Chester | Kemp, where White is employed. The body of the child was badly mangled when the car had been brought to & h i A coroner’s inquest wil be held on | Thursday., with Coroner Alban M. { Wood, presiding. CUMBERLAND TO GET NEW HIGH SCHOOLS on Camp Hill and Remodeling i South End Structure. i | Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., August The Board of Education of Allegany county has decided upon two high schools for Cumberland and to carr. out the plan, a $500,000 structure will be erected on Camp Hill, at Sedge- wick and Tilghman streets, where a site of six and one-tenth acres will be acquired at a cost of $55,600, of which amount $18874 will be paid the Henderson estate: $16.737.50, the i Cumberland Hydraulic and Cement Compavy; $12.7 to . “Leigh, 00 for a owner not { bri lot. {yet named. 1¥%Fne other higa school will be for the south end of the city and the Hodeling of the present Pennsyly el avenue school building for uh Durpose Is contemplated. ~The pres- ont. Allegany County High School building on Green strect will be used for @ junior high school and the Union street building, now the hoine of the Junior high, will be devoted to the elementary grades. MARYLAND BANKS SHOW INCREASED RESOURCES | Total June 30, for State Institu- tions, Including Trust Companies, Reported as $317,483,277. { Special Dispateh to The Staz. | BALTIMORE, Md. August 1.—The ort on the condition of the 184 State banks and trust companies, at {the close of business, June 30, just made public by the state bank com- {missioner. shows total resour o 8317.483, an increase of $6,641,056 lover the resources at the close of ipusiness April 3, the time of the last {previous call. {P'Total deposits were_$1 ‘increase of $6.164,835 o fon April 3. Bills pavable and notes {and bills Tediscounted were $5,592,- {352, an increase of $429,228 over April 3. Mortgas and judgments of rec- tord were $26,884,343, an increase of 191,249,747 over April 3. . | The report of the condition of the lgeventeen mutual savings banks of iihe state shows total resources of i 31,949, an increase of $5.440,631 over total resources on December 30, {the time of the last previous call on |these institutions. Mortgage and judgments of record were $37,157.920, or $4.002,092 more than on December 30, and the amount due depositors was $140,105,041. or $5237,558 more | than on December 30. ROCKYVILLE. /ILLE. Md., August 1 (Spe- incensed because merchant at Brink- {1ow. this county, would not sell him Igoods on credit. Willlam Bacon, a iyoung negro resident of the Brinklow neighborhood, made a vicious assault on the merchant, and as a result the negro was before Judge Samuel Riggs in the police court here. He asked for a jury trial and, in default of bail {in the amount of $500, was committed to jail to await the action of the November grand jury. Bacon, it is said, visited Cuff's store a few days ago and ordered a number of articles, which the merchant wrap- ped up. When Cuff refused to “charge them,” as requested, the negro, it is sald, struck him, knocking him down, and in striking at him a second time accidentally hit Mrs Cuff and knocked her down. Bacon was arrested the same day. Bacon was released from the house lot correction about a week ago. he having been sent there for assault. The best yield of wheat vet report- ed in this county was made by the Fields Brothers—Albert 8. J. and J. Wallace—on their farm on the Rock- ville-Gaithersburg pike, near Der- wood. From a field of seventeen acres facing on the pike, they threshed 714 bushels, which is an average of 42 bushels to the acre. Their entire crop aggregated 2,300 buslels, or an average of 26 to the acre. The annual lawn fete for the benefit of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, near airland, this county. will be held this evening on the lawn adjoining the public school building at White Ouk. Mrs. Willlam Marlowe is chair- man of the general committee in charge. Licenses have been issued by the clerk of the cl-:iit court here for the marriage of Mis: Avula M. Bower- sock and Angel D. liadice, both of Washington, and Miss Mary E. Sul- livan of Derwood, this county, and James (l:. Reed of Westmore,, rep! | ROCK jcial Becoming Richard Cuff, a the | {Plans Call for $500,000 Building| who want this high-browed, effete and cultural educational grease paint pay for it. We have stood it long enough,” Attorney Etchi- son declared. “We want a public school sys- tem that instead of, as it does now, luring a boy away from the farm and hard work, and filling the girls’ heads with visions of ‘castles in Spain,’ will rather Impress them with the responsibllities of life, and will prepare them for right citizenship in our republic. Guard for Futare Awked. “We want a public school sys- tem that will in its teachings rob the future of the dangers involved in the pursuit of pleasure, and that wil] emphasize honest, industrious endeavor. This Is the kind of pub- lic_school system we want, that will_bring comfort to fathers and mothers, instead of abiding fears. which are all around us now. and which will insure a better youth morale—a surer conception of life's duties, and a certain mental de- velopment that can run all hazards, The public school is the idea of our fathers—the modern high school, with its multitudinous plans, agents, directors, super- visors and whatnots, is the product of politics, in which the book | trust holds high membership.” {TWO HIT BY AUTO ' GRAVELY INJURED ! | Fleven-Year-Old Girls Victims of Accident Near Frede- rick, Md. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., August 1. Struck by an automobile, operated by i Paul Clemson, near this city, Vera | Kilein, eleven-year-old daughter of Charles E. Klein, near Braddock, Md., and Nellie Stoner, eleven-y daughter of Mrs. M. R. Lewis, West- { minster, a niece of Klein, are at the Kleln home in a serious condition The Klein child was hurled a dis tance of about twenty-five feet and | was unconsclous when picked up. The | Stoner girl was dragged under the {machine for a distance of 100 feet, and is horribly cut and bruised about the face and chest The condition of the two children this morning was improved. The Klein child regained consciousness last evening, and is belleved to be out of danger. State police officers are conducting an investigation. SE e 4 STATE SENATORIAL Meeting at Cherrydale May Be County's Most Important Before Voting. Star. N, Va, August 1.— Olivy Frank Special CLAR v {ter Tansiil Ball candidates for the state senal from the District of which Arlington county is a part, will speak tonight at x mass meeting of voters to be held at Cherrydale Auditorium will be the most important one prior to the democratic primary eclection next Tuesday, has been arranged by the Cherrydale League of Women Voters, Democratic candidates for ton count |of the legislature wili be heard again at a mass meeting under the Jauspices of the Arlington county dem- | oaratic committee Friday evening in {the Mount Vernon School, Dei Ray. o At a meeting of the Ladies’ Aid | Society of the Clarendon” Methodist Church, held last Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Will Roberts, on Strickler avenue. it was decided to conduct a cafeteria luncheon primary day in the dining room of the Clar- don Communi Hall for con- venience of the general public. Commencing. about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, the ladies wifl serve a menu of cheese and ham sandwiches, hot dogs, baked beans, potato, cabbage and tomato salads; rolls, doughnuts, cakes, ples. hot coffee. iced tea an 8o forth. cooked and at reasonable prices, so no one need go hungry on that day avyway. The net proceeds of the luncheon will be contributed to the building fund of the Clarendon Meth- odist Church, which is now well under construction’at the corner of Claren- don and Taylor avenue: ALEXANDRIA. Arling- 4 DRIA, Va. August 1.—The Bible class of the Methodist Protes tant Church has been organized. The adult class, including men and wom- . smbership of nine ficers follow: Norman Roberts, teach- Albert A. Huff, president;; Wil m T. Penn. first vice-president Gallie Arthur, second vice-presi- Miss Catherine Parker, secre- Miss Ethel Allen, treasurer; Miss' Julia Lindsey. organist Committees follow: Membership, A. . Huff, G, W. Hollinsworth, Elmer Otis. E.'G. Arthur, Miss Ethel Allen, Miss Catherine Parker, W. O. McCuch, Robert L. Wright. Absentees, Miss Julia Lindsey, Miss Loretto Santmire, Mrs. G. E. Cornell, W. T. Penn, Miss_Gladys Simpson Miss Hazel Hicks. Miss Louise Mitch cll, Miss Vivian Swain. Entertainment or activity, Miss Catherlne Parker, Miss Julia Lind- sey, Miss Ethel Allen, Miss Loretto Santmire, A. A. Huff, E. G, Arthur Charles R. Herbert, Elmer Otis, Paul Lindsey and Andrew Sullivan. Sick, Mrs. J. M. Topping, M 2 Dobson, Mrs. W. A. m:\n?ivr;;:,nsr\ Mrs. W. A. Anderson, jr., Charles R. Herbert, W. J. Owens, Mrs. Thomas Travers. . (‘Iuss_ advertising, Norman Roberts. Distributing song books, J. Woo yard. H. D. Currier, Walter Scott, E. A Estes, J. W. Keyser. % License Delinquents. A list of persons who have fai to pay their annual city l(r‘cnese'sllrltg‘; been prepared by City Manager Wil- der M. Rich, and within the next few days the delinquents will be cited into the police court to explain thelr de- linquency. Included in the list are business’ and - professional men and also the owners of automobiles who have failed to take out the city Hoense for thelr machines. The time or paying yz:"“)?“.p ying the licenses expired charter has been grante state corporation comfiuullo'? l:z’ tE: Capitol Pencil Corporation, Alexan- dria. wath a maximum capital stock of $50,000 and a minimum of $6,000. Pur- poses are to deal in patents and patented articles. Officers and incor- porators-are: Wiillam J. Finck, Alex- indria. prosident; Sol ‘Oppenheimer, ashington, secretary; Landze, Alexandria, Va: AUAHEE Special Prayer Service. Members of all congrégations and creeds are Invited to attend ihe spe- cial prayer services for the recovery of President Harding, which will be held from 8:30 until 9 o'clock tonight in Trinity M. E. Church, and which will be conducted by Rev. Frank A. Killmon, pastor. Martha Wuhlngon Chapter, No. astern Star, will 42, Order of the Bive s annual excursion to Mar- shall Hall tomorrow. Tickets can be purchased from the members and also at C. C. Batcheller's, 104 King —_— What is claimed to be a bul proof vest is made of strips of cli spring inserted into a woyen metallic fabric. 3 5 = r-old | CANDIDATES TO SPEAK | The meeting, which, it is believed. | eat in the lower branch The food will all be home- | of- | 700 UNINVITING ‘| City Officials Ask County to Improve “Linen” and Oth- | er “Conditions.” | P Special Dispateh to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, August 1.—Hyatts- ville always has been rated a hospita- ble town, and desires to maintain this reputation. This was clearly shown at the regular monthly meet- ing of the mayor and common council last night, when the town fathers ex- | pressed interest in its “guests” in the town lock-up. A deplorabla lack of conveniences, especially in “bed {linen.” has been révealed by an ln-l spection. The “linen” consiets of two blankets, and a well known epecies of insect was wont to play “hide and seek” in the jail's boudoir, it was sald. The mayor and common council { | have requested the county commis | sioners to furnish more modern ap- pointments. The monthly report of W. A. Shep- | herd, town treasurer, showed receipts : to have been $1,898.71, and disburse-: ments, $1,331.21, leaving a balance In the general fund of $567.50. Cash in the various other funds was report- ed as follows: Savings, $2,159.16: spe- | cial road, $1.492.50; road, $51.0 equipment fund, $117.27. Municipal Building Work. Councilman Irvin Owings was au- thorized to have such repairing and painting donc about the municipal { building as is necessary. i A motion arried that the town clerk be requested to write the chief of the Hyattsville telephone exchange asking that official to remind the local operators of the necessity of | pressing the button to sound the! locul fire siren In the case of all | a ms reéquiring the attention of | the Hyattsville department. | The council made an appropriation of $5 to cover cost of printing cards which will tell what to do {n case of a fire and which will be distributed by members of the local fire depart- ment in ville. A report submitted b: assistant ch of the local fire de partment, showed that during the | year the department has responded to elghteen alarms—five in .Hyattsville and thirteen outside of the town. The | v loss in connectl with the amount of property saved $17.775 and | the amount of insurance carried, £24,300, and the amount sa; ; the | { R. A. King, sections outside of mme.‘ | reported that during the| vear the old horse-drawn truck and two hand reels had been disposed of, and the mayor and council had added | a pumper with h , extension lad- | ders and other cquipment. The report spoke of atd rendered the department {by Firc Chief Watson of the Wash- { ington department 1 A motion was passed that Robert J. | King and Robert Rogers be author- | |ized to drive the local fire apparatus. | This action was taken upon recom mendation of the assistant fire chief, | who believed that a sufficient number {of trained men for this duty was not {now available. | The town clerk was requested to ’\\riu‘ John N. Mackall, chalrman of ithe state roads commission, request- | ing him to come to Hyattsville as his | { firet opportunity to look over condi- | tlons on a section of Maryland ave- jnue where the height of the state iroad and town sidewalk do not con- { form. A ‘motion was passed that the {finance committee be authorized to | borrow from the savings fund of the i town such moneyv as is necessary for | { continuing improvement of Arundel { avenue which is now in progress, such | {fund to be reimbursed as soon as the | 1e is made and the money for the work paid the town by the abutting j property owners. JOHN F. SIEBERT ENTERS COMMISSIONER’S RACE| Resident of Montgomery County for Ten Years Files Papers as Republican Candidate. | | Special Dispatch to The Star. CKVILLE, Md., August 1.—John; salesman and farmer of | rrett Park, today flled papers here | for the republican nomination for coun t! commissioner and county central ommitteeman. i Mr. Siebert has been a resident of Montgomery county for the past ten { years. Formerly he was for sixteen | {Years in the heating and ventilating i department of the United States Senal at Washington. In his appeal to the voters of Mon gomery county Mr. Siebert declare that it is his belief that in the office of commissioner he can give the best service to the greatest number. *“With | firm allegiance to the republican party I deem it needless to assure you that if | T am not the choice of the republicans of Montgomery county, 1 will be found | a stanch supporter of the entire ticket, | regardless of who is elected.” !MEN’S CLUB IN DRIVE FOR $15,000 FOR PARK& $3.000 Raised at First Meeting in Easton—Campaign Continues During Week. | Special Dispateh to The Star. Md., August 1.—The drive by the Men's Community Club of Easton to raise $15000 to liquidate the debt of the community | park, which they purchased about a| | vear ago as a playground for the| children of Easton and Talbot county, | began with a public meeting in the courthouse here. which was presided over by W. Mason Shehan. Three ¢thousand dollars was pledged by I forty-six members of the club. The drive {s to last all this week. and the folloe’ing were appointed captains of teams, to select their own teams of ten men each, to solicit contributions _from the citizens of Easton and Talbot county: Thomas M, Bartlett, C. V. Mallonee, T. Hugh- ! lett Henry. Charles W. Sigman, G. Elbert Marshall, Henry P. Turner and Herman Hopkins, The drive is béing conducted by J. B. Debnam of Baltimore. l.THF. MIGHTY HEALING POWER OF GOOD OLD PETERSON’S OINTMENT Ends Eczema Big Box—35 Cents When your skin is constantly itching and vou are tortured with burning_eczema, the first applica- tion of Peterson’s Ointment is sure to glve instant relief. Others may fail and often do— but the speedy manner in which Peterson’s Olntment drives away every pimple and blemish and clears the skin of all eruptions is ~ known in every drug store. Ask your pharmacist. i | Adams: polling place No. {place No. 1—L | Wallace. | Miller and Eugene E. ! precinct—W. H. Burnett and Ellis R.| THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 1, 1923. WARYLAND PARTIES | “Painted Dol and Wid Youth” \WATTSVILLE JAIL |ELECTION CLERKS FOR COUNTY NAMED Appointees to Serve at Poll- ing Places Announced by Montgomery Board. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. August 1.—Laura- son B. Riggs, J. Furr White and Frank Dwyer, composing the board of supervisors of elections for this county, have announced the appoint- ment of the following to serve as clerks of election at the various poll- ing places of the county, the first- named in each case being a democrat and the other a republican: Laytonsville district—Polling place | No. 1—J. Ernest Hawkins and Joseph Mullinix; polling place No. %—William 8. Magruder and Lenox Howes. Clarksburg—Polling_place No. 1— | J. Frank Lewis and W. Parker Bux- | ton: polling place No. 2—Roger .| Nichols and Raymond Spring. Poolesville—Frank 1. Davis Willlam J. Compher. Appointments for Rockville. | Rockville—First precent—Polling | place No. 1—Charles V. Coupard and | Walter Dawson: polling place No. 2— ! Jacob Poss, jr., and Henry A. Dawson. | Second precinet—Elbert T. Claggett | and A. Guy Watkins. Colesville—Polling place . 1—| Harold Bradford and Walter R 2—William | and | P. Leizear and Samuel Darnestown—W. Kell Thomas Athey Bethesda—First precinct—Polling oy Lochte and Lewls polling place No. 2—Mrs Kuhn and Mrs. Brenta cond precinct—Charles tevens. Third Lee Keiser Lenora M. R S King. Olne irst Chichester and Clarence T. econd precinct—Hobart G. and C. Willard Harvey. Galthersburg Lis Gaithersburg—First pre lfam C. Glovd and James Second precinct— and Newman W. Crawford Potomac—Norman L. Ingalls and 3. Taylor. Barnesvill, precinet—Robert . Cartoll. Hutton inct—Wwil- L. Howes. Thompson Polling place No. 1 “N / ) /4 iy il I / | Jewe ) Wren Rears Brood on Springs - Of Auto; Travels 1,000 Miles 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., August 1.— Fashioning and fastening her nest on one of the rear springs of an automobile, a touring car, an ordinary house wren, which had attached itself to the residence of D. T. Watts, superintendent of tha Montrose fruit farm, Amherst county, did her part of the con- struction so well that the nest rode the springs, so that the wren was able to travel in it for a distance etsimated to be at least 1,000 miles while completing the quota of eggs, setting and hatch- ing the eggs and later bringing them to the status of fledglings. Hatched on Street. Indced, it is related that the brood was hatched in Main strect, Lynchburg, more than twenty miles from home, whereupon the mother bird proceeded to find some city food for the young country Lirde to start 1ife upon. Those who are conversant with the history of the hatch do not wonder 80 much at the nest stay- ing snug on the spring of the car, but the wonder is how it happen- ed that the eggs were not jostled out and, even after birds filled the mest, how the brood managed to be lucky enough to stick, de- spite the fact that the car in its meanderings while tie brood wus being reared was sent over many mileg of typical and rough cen- tral Virginia roads. Birds Hang On. But stick the birds did and now they are about ready to be taught and shown how it is possible for W. Malcolm Young and Walter Poole; polling place No. 2—Edward L. Chis- well and Charles C. Orme. Damascus—Polling place No.. 1— Elgie D. Hawkins and John W. Hager; polling place No. 2—Calvin B. Beall and John B. Beall. Vheaton—First precinct—William A. Fidler and P. Albert Parker. Sec- ond precinct—Polling place No:. 1— Robert Murphy and John F. Cough- Jan: polling place No. 2—Francis Lelzear and Charles J. Benzdict Third precinct—A. M. Klein = and George H. Synder. Fourth precines polling place No. 1—Mrs. Veron Burdine and Mrs. Maude W. Galleway; polling place No. Mrs. Leona B. Day and Mrs. Eleanora Adams: OPEN ALL DA a “heavier-than-air” navigate the ozone. On_several occasions Mr. Watts and friends sought to perplex the mother wren by shifting the posi- tion of the car which carried the nest and substituting another in the same location, but when the wren started back to the nest with food for her brood she went stralght to the nest and not to the substituted car. $4,000 HEART BALM GIVEN HUSBAND .Alienntion Verdict First of Kind in Court of Russell County, Va. object to Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va.,, August 1.—Rus- sell county s the latest to have a case in which the allenation of the affectlons of a wife resulted in a suit for damages and a verdict for $4.000 for the aggrieved husband. Elam Smith was the aggrieved man and G. W. H. Gilmer tho offender. Smith and his wife had been married, divorced and remarri The record contains a statement | by the wife that Smith was a moon- shiner; that he did little or nothing to support wife and their two children. Smith was a farm laborer |and was employed to work on the farm of Gilmer. After he had becn his dissatisfled and wanted to ieave, but his wife did not. She then agreed to enter the employ of Gilmer, her pay being $5 a month and such things as she needed from the store. The man's wite continued to work for Gilmer, and though Smith says he tried in every way to get heor to come to wnere he was emploved she refused to do so, He placed their two children in good homes and then began his action for damages. The man asked for $20.000. The supreme court of appeals has refu to in- terfere in the trial court and the defendant will the bill. Gilmer owner of & al count farms in Russell Y SATURDAY there for a short time he became | POPULATION JUMPS IN'PRINGE GEORGES Nearly 7,000 Gain Since 1920, According to School Attendance Report. Special Disy HYATTSVILLE, The population of county is in’ excess of 50,000 against 43,547, the 1920 census figures, according to tabulation of school attendance report for county which has been received the county board of education from the 114 school principals in tlie county Last tod the the there schools a total of inst 5,309 in 1920, It is e that about one In every of the population is a school pup The school authorities admitte are experiencing difficulty fn meeting th e which necessitates morc hers, rooms and desks. Accordi to the report there has been aver: increase of pupils in each of t ast three years. From twelve fifteen classrooms with appropriate of teachers and desks must vided each vear to keep this increase, it is estimate Officials are gratified edly improved attendance of pup the increase in this respect Le even more pronounced than the ir crease in enrollment. During the past year certificates weré presented d pupils who attended school 180 da; or more. Figuring on the erage enrollment, lead enrolled in 10,026 vear were to additional number be basis of the av high school pupils in attendance with grade of 2.3 per cent. White elementar 00l pupils made a mark of $1.; and colored pupils, S, Md.. August 1 Mary H. Sparks, wiic principal of the ele- Riverda Oldenburg_of Hva named. 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