Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
VALLEY Of VIRGINIA
Citizens May Be Cited for Re-
moval of SchooIhouse.
ROMANCE OF TELEPHONE
Washin gton Man Marries West
Virginia Girl.
STROBE URGED FOR CONGRESS
Not a Single Criminal Case in
Frederick County Court-Killed
by His Own Train.
STROBE URGED FOR CONGRESS
cial Correspondence Of The Star.

/ the result of school building being
! moved from one site to another after a
case affecting the property had been de-
| cided by the court short time ago. 1t
| was stated today that no one. apparently.
| knows when the building was moved. and
/ it is the general belief that it was taken
away at night by previous arrangement.
| Lawyers and others interested in the mat
/! ter recall the recent contempt cases be-
| fore the United States Supreme Court in
! Washington. which resulted in Sheriff
Shipp and others of Tennessee being sent
to Jail for failure TO carry out the courts
| mandate. and it is predicted by some in
Clarke county that similar fate may be
dealt out to those who hauled the school
| house away after the court had passed
/ upon the case.
i w. o. Dawson. superintendent of the
/ Shenandoah Lime Company. lies in pre-
i carious condition at Strasburg as the re-
suit of being terribly injured by pre-
mature explosion of dynamite while pre-
i pairing to fire blast few days ago.
His face was badly lacerated and his
hands and arms were mangied.
! Walter Whately of Crozet. Va, secre-
| tary and treasurer of the Virginia State
| horticultural Society. who was here yes
| terday making arrangements for the an
| nual meeting of that organization in this
city January . and g. declared that &C
| cording to the information already In his
possession the display of fruit will be by
far the finest ever seen in Virginia.
Wedding Ends Romance.
[ A romance of the telephone switch
board eliminated in the marriage this
week of Miss Agnes c. Henry. the pretty
| daughter of William E. Henry of Win
chester and John ]. Bridgeman of Bridge
ton, n. j., the ceremony having been
| performed by Rev. DR.. Louis D. Stultz,
pastor of the First Methodist Protestant
Church at Bridgeton. The young couple
became acquainted while the bride was
/ stationed at MorgantOwn, w. Va, as
hello girl in the telephone central.
| The local option. election held at Char
| lottesvile this week, called at the in
stance of the liquor interests, resulted III
a victory for local option by 1So major
ity. The town went dry two years ago
by forty majority. It is generally be-
| lieved that the place voted dry again on
account of the close proximity Of the
University of Virginia.
! w. r. Wingate and J. c. Hall, who
were recent. arrested in Roanoke
/ charged with making and circulating
! counterfeit twenty dollar gold coins, were
| given three years and eighteen months
/ respectively, in the United States court
| for the western district of Virginia, Judge
Henry Clay Mcdowell presiding, at Har-
risonburg this week., Both men entered
| pleas of guilty. They will be taken to
| the Atlanta penitentiary. W. r. Hens
| ley cried like a child when he was given
thirty days in Jail and one-hundred-
| dollar fine for making and selling liquor
without a license. w. H. Bates. charged
| with irregular entries in the distilling
of brandy. was given three months in
| the Madison county Jail. Ernest Brown
of near Winchester was given year In
| the Hanover reformatory for stealing
| letters and money from rural mall boxes,
and Junius Douglas who confessed to
having taken letters from "a box in the
| Harrisonburg post Office. was sent to the
same institution for year.
J. Newton Laws. native of Clarke
| county. who served in Company A, 1st
| Virginia Cavalry G.. s. A., during the
civil war. died this week at his home i'm
Front Royal aged siXty-eight years. aft
er an illness of pneumonia He was a
| member of Unity Lodge, a. f. and A. NJ.
/ He leaves his widow, five daughters and
| one son.
Strasburg to Enlarge Water Works.
Plans have been completed for the en-
| largement of the water works at Stras-
burg i'm order to make the supply equal
to the demand. 1t is proposed to connect
a large spring with the present rese. voir.
Announcement is made of the marriage
Of Miss Ollie De Haven. daughter of Car
son De Haven. formerly OF Collinsville.
Va, but now of Paw Paw. W. Va. to
Henry G. Hudson at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs B. v. Shade. No. 1876 Gresham
place no, Invest. Washington. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Joseph
| Episcopal Church. After a northern tour
Mr.. and Mrs. Hudson will live in Wash
inston.
The remains of Robert e. Lee Ander-
/ lfoI in, No" In Oh, "a
| where he had been connected with the
| Baltimore and Ohio railroad for several
years, were buried in Mount Hebron Gem
| etety, this city. He was forty-two years
old, and was married twice. His widow
| and five children survive. together with
one sister. Mrs Lille H. Yeatman of
| Washington.
| It is reported that the friends OF State
| Senator Aubrey e. Strobe of Amherst
| county are urging him to become candi-
| date for the democratic nomination for
| Congress from the tenth Virginia district,
which has been represented for number
| of years by Representative II. d. Flood
of Appomattox.
Buys John Browns Fort.
Rev. N. C. Bracket has bought the
| old engine house at Harpers Ferry.
known as John Browns fort. and Is
moving it from the Murphy farm to the
storer College grounds.
| When the docket was read in the cir
| .uit court of Frederick county this week
! the fact was revealed that for the first
| time in many years there is not single
rriminal case pending in that court. and
here is no county prisoner in the jail.
! Harry May, who bought twenty acres
of land near Bunker HILL Berkeley coun-
~, some years ago for $500, sold the
tract this week for $4,000 cash.
! A w Richardson, a Norfolk and
Western railway freight brakeman, who
| lived at Hagerstown. was. run over and
killed by his own train at Riverton this
| week He fell from car anu was crush
| ID by the wheels. His remains were
| taken to Luray for burial.
| Although the highways of Jefferson
| county. W. Va, compare favorably with
1 those of any other county In the valley
OF virginia, the people of that county
are now clamoring for better roads as
| result of being awarded prize of $500
| by the New York-Atlanta good roads
| tour. which was held recently. The
/ Judges declared that the roads Of JET
| ferson county traversed by the tour
/ lists were among the best they found be-
1 tween New York and Atlanta.
The first legal meeting Of the stock
/ holders of the Shenandoah Valley Agri-
/ cultural Society to be held in many
| years at which a majority of the stock
/ was represented, took place here this
| wooL. and Logan r. Fay the wealthy