Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-08
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
GENERAL NEWS HAPPENINGS
OF THE WINCHESTER SECTION.
,ecial Correspondence of The Star.

WINCHESTER, Va, July 7, 1906.
The annual meeting of the Winchester
and Washington City Railway Company
was held here this week. 1t was announced
that surveyors are laying off routes for the
trolley tracks between Winchester and the
Blue Ridge mountains near Bluemont,
| where connections will be made with the
Southern railway for Washington.
The board of supervisors of Frederick
county. at meeting held a few days ago,
granted a franchise to the Winchester and
Washington City Railway Company which
already has a franchise from the city of
Winchester and assurances that the town
councils of Berryville and Charles Town.
as well as the boards of supervisors of var
ious counties to be traverSed by the trolley
are anxious to extend every inducement
possible to encourage the project.
While standing out of the rain during the
storm of last Wednesday evening George
H. Grady and William Anderson employed
on the fruit farm of L. NJ Boyer near Win
chester were severely injured when light
ming struck the barn on J. D. O'Connell' 8
farm. where they had taken shelter Later
Grady died.
The annual show Of the Blue Ridge Hunt
Club was held the 4th instant.
Mt Weather Observatory.
Work has been resumed by the govern
tory and scientific research station at Blue
mont.
Elmer Haddo0 Of Winchester and Miss
Pearl SHELTON daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
s. D. SHELTON of Edinburg Shenandoah
county. Va. were married this week at
Toms Brook.
Shannon HILL" the historic old Rouss
home In Jefferson county, w. Va, Is being
converted into q Japanese house by William
w. Rouss. the owner.
A. Lyon King, for many years book
keeper for the White Star Milling Company
at Staunton. was found dead Wednesday
morning at his home In that city, heart dis
ease being the cause.
At the residence Of Major Francis Pea
body Leavenworth In Petersburg, Va. at
noon today his daughter, Miss Helen Mac
Gill Leavenworth.- was married to Robert
Scott Blackburn Smith. a member Of the
Clarke county bar.
Thirty years to the exact day and of the
same disease with which her mother died,
Mrs. Sarah Fry. wife Of Charles Fry Of
Greenwood. this county. passed away last
Thursday night.
An opinion has been handed down by
Judge Frank L. Christian. holding that an
employee Of an Incorporated concern has
the right to solicit labor without either
state or city license.
Convention Of Sunday Schools.
The annual convention of Sunday schools
OF the Baltimore conference, Methodist
Episcopal Church South, will be held at
Roanoke, Va, July IT to 20. Mr. w. w.
MILAN of Washington Is secretary of the
convention and a party of delegates and
visitors from that city, as well dele
gates from every Sunday school In TIE
conference. will attend or be represented.
Public school teachers from all over the
seventh congressional district of Virginia,
to the number of about $50. are attending
the summer normal school for white teach
ers, now being held in the John Kerr Me-
mortal School building. In Winchester, with
Prof. J. D. Harris of Strasburg, Va, as
dean of the faculty.
Mayor Fl. II. Baker OF Winchester has
of health that the anti-spitting law passed
by the last legislature Is not optional with
communities, but Is compulsory, and that
it must be rigidly enforced.
Suit has been filed In Jersey City on be-
half of Frederick Ford Of Winchester for
10000 damages, 1t being claimed that
while oiling machinery at the asphalt plant
he fell in a gigantic stone crusher and was
dragged through the machine, coming out
with a broken back. both legs crushed and
several ribs broken He has been In what
doctors said was a dying condition for
two months, but Is now improving.
Mrs. 8. r. Baughman of Berryville has
announced the engagement of her daughter.
A. Lutz Of Washington The wedding Ii
to take place, 1t Ia stated In the-fall
The new gateway erected by order OF the
War Department at the national cemetery
of Winchester was dedicated the Fourth
of July.