Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-07
Van Meter Hack Is Again In
jured in Motor Accident.
FEET CUT OFF; CHILD DIES
Shirley Rosenb berger Fatally Hurt by
Moving Machine.
CROWDS ATTEND HORSE SHOW
Annual Event Of Blue Ridge Hunt
Club Proves Attractive--Leaves
Money for Missions.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
| WINCHESTER, Va, July s. 1912 |
Van Meter Hack, who injured last |
August at the time his cousin. Frederick |
| Home Hack. jr.. OF Baltimore. was killed |
| In an automobile collision in the suburbs |
of Baltimore figured in a motor cycle col |
lision on the valley pike near Kerns- |
| town, this county, a few nights ago.
being hurled headloug from his machine |
| and sustaining numerous cuts and bruises |
| while Mark Armel, with whom he col |
nded. is in the Winchester Memorial |
Hospital with his left leg broken In three |
| places and internally injured A cloud |
| of dust left by several automobiles made !
| 1t impossible for Hack and Armel to see |
each other. and when the collision oc- |
CURED each was going at high speed.
| Shirley Rosenberger, five years old, son |
| of Asa Rosenberger, living mile east OF
Winchester. died Wednesday night. sew
eral hours after his feet had been cut of
| by a moving machine which was being
| operated in a field of timothy hay by MS
father The child attempted to climb |
upon the ma chine while it was moving.
Large crowds of people from many
parts Of the Shenandoah valley. as well |
/ as visitors from Washington and Balti- |
more. attended the annual horse show OF !!
the Blue Ridge Hunt Club, which was
held Thursday in the grove surrounding
the historic Carter Hall mansion at Mill |
| wood. Twenty-Five classes were shown, |
and the competition was keen and spirit |
ed. In addition to the ring program, a |
| series of luncheons, dinner parties and !
dances were held during the afternoon |
and night by members or the hunt ciup |
at their homes.
| The corner stone of the new public |
school building at Charles Town. Jeffer- |
son county, was laid with Masonic cere- |
4 - MI or a
principal address was made by Col |
Forrest w Brown of the Charles Town |
| bar. Past Grand Master Braxton D. GID |
son Of Charles Town officiated.
Homecoming Week Ends.
| The homecoming week celebration,
which has been in progress at Front
Royal, Warren county. since Monday, was
concluded this afternoon, when Earl
| Sandt. aviator, gave several exhibi-
tons with his aeroplane. Thousands of
people who were born and reared In
/ Front Royal and Warren county came
| from all sections of the country and held
| family reunions. and parades were held
4 each day, with numerous entertainments
1 and amusements at night.
| Mrs. Virginia Faulkner McSherry, for
merly president general of the United
| Daughters of the Confederacy. who has
| been ill for several months at her home
| in Martinsburg, and who was thought TO
be recovering, suffered relapse several
days ago and is now confined to her bed
| again.
| The will of the late Miss Ella Maxwell
has been admitted to probate at Charles
Town, and In 1t is a bequest OF $1,000 for
Zion Protestant Episcopal Church OF that
place, the income from which is to be
used for home missionary work in the
| West Virginia diocese. The residue OF
the estate is to be divided among rela-
| tives.
| An interdenominational all-day song
| service was held at Inwood Park July 4,
and large crowds of people were In at
tendance from many sections of northern
and western Virginia and nearby parts
Of West Virginia and Maryland. An ad-
dress was made by Miss Rowen, national
organizer of the Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union.
Unveil Wells Memorial.
A marble and granite memorial. sur
mounted by bronze bust of Col. George
W. Wells, which was recently erected in
the national cemetery here by the COM
monwealth of Massachusetts, to the MEM
orr OF the soldiers of the Saith Massachu-
sets Infantry who were killed at New
| Market and In the vicinity of Winchester
| during the civil war, was unveiled and
dedicated this week. The principal ad-
| dress was made by H. c. Mulligan Of the
Boston bar. Several patriotic songs were
sung by Miss McFall Of Washington, who
| was accompanied by Miss keochling Of
| that city violinfst
John w. Bailey, formerly of Frederick
| county, but who recently engaged in
farming at Summit Point, w. Va, and
| Miss Helen v. Solenberger. daughter OF
Mr. and Mrs. John s. Solenberger took
their friends by surprise Wednesday by
going quietly to Washington, where they
were married.
How to eradicate cedar rust and bitter
rot was explained to large meeting of
fruit growers here this afternoon by Dr.
H. S. Reed of the Virginia experimental
station, who has been making q study of
| fruit tree pests in Frederick county for
| the past two years.
| Walter Scrivner and Miss Mary Eliza
| beth Whitacre, members Of Frederick
days ago at the home of the brides
father. w. c. Vintage. at Whitacre, by
Rev. Sewell Good. am left the same day
i for Washington, where they will make
| their home.
| An attractive program has been outlined
! for Sunday school normal institute, TO
be held under the auspices of the Potomac
conference of the Lutheran synod of Viz
gnia al Toms Brook, Shenandoah county.
July 10. II and Is. Some of tie best
known Lutheran educators, Sunday school
workers and editors Of Lutheran Church
papers in the south are to make ad-
dresses and give instructions
Jacob B. CARRIER. a member Of the
Church of the Brethren, whose death
occurred recently in Rockingham county,
left funds to be invested for the purpose
nomination in what is known as the
Il northern district of Virginia.