Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-21

crowd that has attended a horse sale in
Rockingham county in the past ten years.
Horse buyers were there from New York,
Washington. Pennsylvania. Maryland,
West Virginia and from all parts of Vir-
ginia. The receipts from the sale
amounted to over $4,000. and the prices of
the horses averaged $3.50. Several train
loads were shipped away before the next
morning.
Front Royal. the seat of Warren county,
is just now enjoying d building boom
which is giving employment to large num-
bers of mechanics. Col. r. B. Murphy has
bought thhe old Methodist Church prop
erty and is remodeling 1t for post office
purposes, the government having already
signed long lease The Masonic fra
ternity has begun the erection of a new
building, which will be used for lodge and
business purposes; new school building
will be erected at cost of S2o.OOo; r. L..
Evans Of Washington is erecting fine
suburban home, and many other handsome
residences are being built in the new resi-
Dental portion near Riverton.
One year from the very day on which
she became the bride of John Connor, a
farmer of Refuge. this county. Mrs. Fam
ME Common passed away. Her death took
place a few days ago, following linger-
ing illness of a complication of diseases.
She was thirty-one years ola and a
daughter of the late Walker Clint of Shen-
andoah county She had premonnition
Of death and made all her funeral ar
rangements a few hours before she ex-
pired. She leaves her husband, one sister,
two brothers and an aged grandmother,
Mrs. George Showalter.
Fell Down a Lime Kiln.
William Lemley, an aged stonemason of
Stephens City, this county, lies in pre-
-car1ous condition at his home as the re-
suit of plunsing headlong down a lime
kiln at Vaucluse on Wednesday and land
ing among a pile of broken rocks He was
standing on ladder when the rung
broke. The man fell in a heap, and was
seriously injured and terribly cut and
bruised, but he is expected to recover.
The common council has passed an
ordinance giving the Cumberland Valley
Railroad Company the right of way to
extend it's tracks across several streets in
the northern suburbs of Winchester in
order to afford better facilities for ship
pers. and fruit men in particular. The
new tracks will come within one hundred
yards of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
and it is expected that both roads will be
connected at this point
DR.. Stuart MCGUIRE. some of the late DR..
Hunter MCGUIRE of Winchester, read a
paper at the meeting of the Tri-State
Medical Association at Charleston. S. c.,
Tuesday night ON THE Post-Hospital
Management of Surgical Cases
A meeting will be held under the aus
pices of the laymens missionary move
ment of the Southern Methodist Church
at Charles Town, w. Va, Monday. 1t is
expected that Bishop A. W. Wilson of
Baltimore, senior bishop of the church.
will deliver an address, and Judge f. D.
Newman of Woodstock and Rev. George
T. Tyler, presiding elder of Winchester
district, Will also speak. The missionary
movement among laymen has aroused
much interest all over the south. and it
is stated that there will be excellent re-
ports read at the meeting.
The midwinter Soiree of the Episcopal
Female Institute of Winchester was held
at the institute hall last evening An at
tractive program of vocal and instrument
tai music and literary selections was rem
dered. concluding with a farce entitled
Madam Princeton's Temple of Beauty"
Many attended the exercises.
Some Recent Weddings.
Homer Mason of Martnsburg, W. Va,
and Miss Ethel Brill, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. H. Brill of this city. were married
Wednesday at the parsonage of the
United Brethren Church 10y Rev. r. G.
Hammond. They left for Pennsylvania to
spend their honeymoon. after which they
will live in MartinsburS.
Miss Valie V. Dillinger of Waterlick
and Claude A. Stokes of Front Royal
went to Hagerstown the other morning
and were married by Rev. w. c. Griffith.
The bride is only seventeen years old, and
the groom recently celebrated his twenty
first birthday.
Miss Lillian S. Johnson. daughter of l.
n. johnson of High View, Hampshire
county, w. Va, and Ira II. Gif1n, son
of Robert Giffin of Trone, this county,
also went to Hagerstown recently and
were married by Rev. Edwin T. Mowbray
at the parsonage of st. Pauls Methodist
Episcopal Church. They returned the
following day and enjoyed an elaborate
reception.
A large and comparatively new barn
on the farm of Mrs. Ella Neill, a few
miles southeast of Winchester was
burned early Thursday morning, entailing
loss of about $1,000, with only 500 in
surance. A large quantity of hay. straw,
farming implements and vehicles were
also consumed, and number of horses
and cattle were saved by neighbors at
the peril of their own lives. some of the
animals being badly scorched by the
flames. The fire. it is thought, was of
incendiary origin.
The home Of Theodore H. McCoole, near
Capon river in Hampshire county, w.
Va, where several generations of the
McCoole family were born and reared and
died. was burned to the ground a few
days ago. the fire having been caused by
defective f1ue. 1t had gained great
Roadway before being discovered and the