Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-14
IN THE NEIGHBORING STATES

which is considered a very low price for
property situated IL is and with such
history. The Valley Female College has
been closed for several years Parts of the
old fort are still standing
Mrs. Frances Courtnay Baylor Barnum.
widow OF George $. Barnum. has arrived
from Savannah. Ga, to spend the summer
with her sister. the widow of Gen. John
G. Walker of confederate fame. who was
minister to Colombia during the first Cleve-
land administration. Mrs Barnum is the
author of a number OF moves that have had
wide circulation. She is closely related 10
many of the most prominent families of
the south.
Commander Charles c. Rogers. corn
mandant of the naval station at Guantan-
amo, Cuba. is here visit to his chill
dren, who live with their grandmother. Mrs.
John G. Walker at her country home,
Mansfield" near Winchester.
The annual catalogue OF the University OF
Virginia, just issued. shows a total of 1t6
students, compared with G5l last year
There are thirty-seven states and terri
tories represented and students from Porto
Rico, Brazil and Turkey. OF the total en-
rolment, ~ per cent are members OF the
church. the Protestant Episcopal leading
with 3i4. II Methodists, 60 Baptists. ~ Ro-
man Catholics and 10 Disciples More than
- per cent are affiliated with one of four
teen other denominations.
Judge Thomas w. Harrison OF Winches-
ter is presiding over the biggest term OF
the circuit court ever held at Woodstock.
there being a large docket and over 80
jurors and witnesses summoned
Maurice NJ. Lynch has been reelected by
the state board of education superin-
tendent of schools of Frederick county and
Winchester, Clarke county. was also added
to his office.
Miss Mary r. Hack has been appointed
sponsor and Miss Katharine Boyd maid or
honor to represent Gen. Turner Ashby
Camp of this city at the annual confed-
crate reunion in Louisville next month.
A new Presbyterian church has been es-
tablshed at Shenandoah Junction. the
main lire of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, by Winchester presbytery.
Rev. William H Smith. rector of St
Georges Church at Fredericksburg. will
accept the call recently extended by the
vestry of Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church Of Winchester which has been
without rector since Rev. Ne,son Z. Dame
went TO st. Paurs Church at Ossining. y.
Y. last June.
DR.. Robert McCheyne Glass a prominent
young physician and Miss Katharine Irv-
ing Cover daughter OF Thomas Cover. "A
wealthy leather dealer. We're married at
'Angerona, the pala tial home OF the bride
on Wednesday evening by Rev. DIR. Henry
NJ. White of the Presbyterian Church. They
left that night for northern trip and were
waiting for the eastern express at Harris
burg when that train was wrecked by the
horrible dynamite explosion.
a telegram has been received announcing
the death of Capt. Philip Pendleton Powell
L. S. A, retired, who died at Santa Bar
after an illness of Brights disease. aged
fifty-nine years. He WAS a native of Mid
dleburg, Loudoun county, but was reared
a his ancestral home in Winchester being
a son of the late Mrs Ann II. IL. Powell.
He served in the confederate artillery. and
later enlisted as a private I'm the United
States army. being promoted rapidly 10
captain. and was the first eX-confederate
that held United States army commission
prior TO the Spanish-American war At
the battle of San Juan Hill. in Cuba he
was in command of the famous oh Cavalry
(colored). He leaves five sisters and one
brother, one of the former being the widow
of John Rand )ph Tucker. the eminent Viz
ginfa lawyer and statesman of Winchester.
Miss Mary Elizabeth kurtz aged eighty
four years, died this week in the house in
which she was born. and which was erected
by George Washington for headquarters
during the revolutionary period She was
the last member of her family and WAS
the granddaughter of Adam kurtz who
was one OF the famous Dutch Mess" that
marched with Maj. Gen. Daniel Morgan To
Boston from the valley of Virginia