Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-03
News Briefs.

A big crowd is expected at Fredericks-
burg. Va. July to attend the laying OF
the corner stone of the new adminstra-
ton building of the Fredericksburg State
Normal and Industrial School for Women.
The circuit court OF Dinwiddie comfy,
Virginia. has rendered judgment ia :aycr
of the railroad in the case Of Crows adj
ministrator against the Norfok a q
Western Railway Company. Tlls s.t.c
was brought for 10000 damages Tor tas
death OF John T. Crow, who was kill,d
by a train.
After for more than a year failing To
agree upon terms. the mayor and alder
men Of Frederick Nd, have granted
franchise 10 the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company TO lay conduit lines
through the streets of the city for 4
period OF fifty years
Rev. G. r. Williamson. pastor of st.
Pauls Methodist Episcopal Church. OAK
land, Nd, has received a call to Chatta-
nooea, Tenn, and is offered a salary oc
$500.
Maj. Holmes Conrad of Winchester is -
be one of the principal speakers at Front
Royal, Va, July 4, when a monument re-
Gently erected 10 the memory of Con-
federate soldiers will be unveiled.
The tenants of the Arlineton Hotel, tho
oldest hotel in Frederick sburg, Va, AMI
one of the oldest in the state, have been
given sixty days notice 10 sacate The
for an up-to-date. fireproof structure
The Kirkwood otey Chapter Daughters
of the Confederacy. of LynchbHrs. Va,
was the first contributor to the fund to he
raised for a monument to the late Maj.
John Warwick Daniel The chapter gave
SlO0.
Robert l.. Wilmer has filed suit at
Hagerstown, Nd, to set aside a deed ex
ecuted by his mother, Mary 4. Wilmer.
shortly before she died, conveying to her
daughter, Mrs. Frank Bowers. valn-
able forty-one-acre farm without su1i-
cient consideration.
Prof. William r II. Vented has been
elected principal of West Nottingham
Academy at Elkton, Md. Prof. Vented
is a native of JacksonNald, Pa, and u
graduate of the Pennsylvania State Col
lege
Before day B. S. Hammer. near Frank
lin. Va, went to the corncrib to get
some chicken feed. and as he reached
his hand in the crib big copperhead
snake bit him on his hand. BY liberal
use of whisky and other snake bite
remedies he overcame the effects of the
poison and is recovering.
AS a part OF the plan to consolidate
the Norfolk and Portsmouth Traction
Power Company. papers have been filed
with the state corporation commission
TO merge the Norfolk and Atlantic Ter
minal Company with and into the Nor
The commissioners appointed to sell the
issue of $4,000 In bonds of Parkersburg.
w Va have awarded the entire issue
to the Fifth National Bank of Cincinnati,
which bid par and accrued interest.
The belt line around Petersburg, Va,
by the Norfolk and Western Railway
has been completed.
On a mountain road I'm North Rocking
ham, Va, on Friday horse and surrey
plunged over a ffteen-foot embankment.
Mrs. Larrick Zirkle jumped with her two
year old baby as the vehicle went down
and both mother and babe escaped injury
Prof. r. C. Lippard of North Carolina
has been elected to the chair of English
and history in Fredericksburg College.
He is a graduate of Davidson College,
North Carolina.
The plant of the Charles Town w Va,
Light and Power Company. which was
recently sold to Thomas G. Bowling, Is u
be reorganized and known as the Citizens
Electric Light Company. 1t Will have
a capital of $4,000.
A postal savings department. VIII be
opened at the Charles Town, w. Va, post
office on Wednesday, July 8.
The board of trustees of Martha Wash
ngton College, at a meeting at Abingdon.
Va. decided definitely TO erect an al
litional building on the campus.
Judge III. w. Holt OF the corporation
court at stanton. Va, having found thar
the petition Oh the vets Tor a local
option election contained sufficient
number OF signatures has ordered ths,,
election to be held August 1.
July has been fixed as the date for
The exchange of official courtesiss be-
tween Gov. Crothers Of Maryland aud
capt John I'll. Gibbons. the new super.
ntendent of the Naval Academy.
The taxpayers OF Rising Sun. Nd, have
JAILED meeting TO be held July for the
purpose or considering the proposition To
install waterworks in the town.