Short Cuts in State News
Lynchburg--The Lynchburg Motor Car Company has secured an amendment to its charter to increase its capital from $25,000 to $50,000.
Danville--Decreases in prices ranging from 15 to 20 per cent were announced by local lumber firms., the new prices effect dressed lumber, flooring, ceiling and siding. No explanation of the drop is given.
Lynchburg--The Third Company of the First Virginia Provisional Regiment, National Guard, will take about 70 men to the State encampment, wich opens at Camp Lee July 12.
Lynchburg--A bridge over Beaver Creek, near Six Mile Bridge on the Concord Road, leading from Lynchburg, is reported to be in an unsafe condition and traffic is warned against its use.
Clifton Forge--George W. Stevens, president of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, gave a birthday dinner at his home at Greenlee, entertaining officials from all over the road, numbering about 100. Miss Helen Stevens acted as hostess.
Danville--Lee Beard, charged with manslaughter in the Henry County Circuit Court, as result of the accident near Martinsville several weeks ago, in which Joel Dodson lost his life when a car driven by Beard turned turtle, was exonerated of that charge.
Lynchburg--John A. Merryman, a traveling salesman here, who was injured in a Norfolk and Western wreck at Walton December 13 last, has recovered $25,000 damages from the railway company in the Corporation Court here. The4 swuit was instituted for $30,000.
Bristol--Following the announcement coming from Apalachia, Va., that a modern Moose homed is to be erected at the cost of about $40,000, an announcement is now made that plans are being made for the erection of a modern new structure to be occupied by the People's National Bank here.
Danville--J.F. Davis, formerly first sergeant in Company C, 116th Infantry, has returned to Danville with his French wife after extended service overseas. Since the armistice Davis has been attached to the ordnance department and quartered at Coblenz. In the occupied area. He is the only Danville soldier who won a French bride while he was in service abroad.
Danville--A novelty in building is evidenced here. The new storehouse for Efird Brothers now being constructed was threatened with indefinite delay through inabllity to get steel trusses shipped here. The contractor instead of waiting for the girder needed for the second floor is now putting on the roof. In other words, he is working from the top downwards.
Fredericksburg--Mrs. J.D. Smith of Berea was bitten by a large copperhead moccasin snake while crossing Greenback Farm in Stafford County. She was returning home when she stepped on the snake, which was coiled in her path. The poisonous reptile bit her on the right ankle before she could spring out of the way. Mr. Smith brought his wife here to the Martha Washington Hospital, where the wound wae cut and the poison extracted.
Fredericksburg--While crossing the tracks of Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomic Railroad Saturday at Lorton, Mrs. Martha Murphy was struck by a southbound fast train and perhaps fatally injured. The engineer stopped the train and took the injured woman to Quantico, where she wasw given first aid treatment at the U.S. Marine Base Hospital, and later was brought tothis city and placed in Martha Washington Hospital. She is suffering with a fractured skull, a badly lacerated arm, and an injured hand.
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