Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-17
News Briefs.

News Briefs.
Acting Mayor Whitaker of Lyncnburg,
Va, has notified the management Of the
local Academy of Music not to produce
The Girl From Rector's" as billed for
next Monday night. The show is billed
for Richmond. Norfolk, Roanoke ana
Lynchburg in Virginia.
brook, Augusta county, Va, aged ninety
eight years nine months and ten days.
She could read and sew up to within
three months Of her death. She was born
in Monroe county, w. Va, but lived for
seventy-five years in Allegheny county.
Outwitting their parents, who were
planning to Illustrate the marriage owing
to the tender years of the couple, Henry
r Robbins and Miss Susie A. Mears
of JohnstoWn, Va, secured a team and,
driving to Birds Nest station, boarded
the midnight express train and eloped to
Princess Anne, Va, and were married in
the parsonage of the Methodist Episcopal
Church by Rev. NJ. Watson. In their
the journey hatless. She is but fifteen
years of age.
A black bass weighing fifteen pounds
was caught in Mill creek Shenandoah
county, Va. three miles west Of Mount
Jackson This is said to be the biggest fish
ever caught in the valley of Virginia
The Bank of Manchester, Va, has in
creased its capital stock to s1O0, 900 and
hasJust secured a national charter. Prac-
tically the present board Of directors re-
main.
Carl o. Smith, a student at Shenandoah
Collegiate Institute. of Dayton, Rocking
ham county, Va, has invented a device for
holding cows tail in a stationary posi-
ton while the animal is being MIXED or
is lying down. He claims that 1t has
been in successful operation on his ia
theirs farm. at Ivy Depot, Albemarle
county.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company has awarded the contract to
Maj. Joseph II. Sands OF Roanoke, Va, for
the construction of the Petersburg cut
off. or low-grade line. nine miles in
length. The work will require several
months and is to begin right away. 1t
will cost in the neighborhood Of $1,000
There were twenty-one bidders.
The proposition to unite. Norfolk and
Portsmouth, Va, by a tunnel under the
Elizabeth river has been revived. the
Lynnhaven Terminal Corporation having
petitioned the city council for rights
necessary for its construction.
Ruth, the two-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Smith of Hagerstown,
Md, was nearly cremated in her crib,
her four-year-old brother. Leroy. who
was playing with matches. She may die.
The annual supper of the Westminster
Forest and Stream Club was held at
Westminster. Md, Wednesday night. Cow
ers were laid for twenty members. Rev.
w. I. Seabrook, president, acted as toast
master.
Miss Margaret S. Byington of New York
city, secretary of the charity organiza-
ton founded by Mrs. Russell Sage, made
an address at Cumberland, Nd. and fol-
lowing that the citizens of Cumberla nd
at a meeting presided over by Mayor
KeaD adopted a constitution and or
ganized charity association for Cumber-
land.
The Frostburg city council unanimously
decided to have a bill presented to the
Maryland legislature empowering the
council to issue bonds to the amount of
$4,000 for street improvements The
council also unanimously adopted a bill to
be presented to the legislature giving the
people of Frostburg the right to vote on
the establishment of free public library
at that place