Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1912-10-10

Ta1ewell.- Farmers dismantied the
road machinery Of this county which
was located in the Jefferson district
and hauled It to a point where they
wished road built, circumventing
the order Of the engineer ID charge Of
the work, who had giyen orders for
the machinery to be moved to another
point in the county. The engineer re-
fuses to operate the machinery where
1t has been taken and the farmers de-
cline to take it to its ordered destina-
ton. The trouble will be referred to
the State Highway Commission. In
April, 1911, the people Of the county
voted a bond issue Of $625, 900 for the
improvement of the county highways,
and work on the same has been pro-
crossing rapidly, Notwithstanding the
fact that many of the citizens who OPP
posed the bond issue have tried in
every possible way to cripple it. The
Board of Supervisors have wrangled
continually as to who was boss" and
how and where the money should be
spent. The unauthorized action Of the
farmers was q climax to this dispute
Roanoke Revenue agent R. E.
Henry returned to Roanoke from Car
roll county and reported that a real
battle was waged in the Fancy Gap
district, near Lamsburg. between
Fancy Gap and Pipers Gap. The reye-
nue. men, while cutting up still, were
fired on by the operators Of the outfit
Twenty odd shots were exchanged and
finally the moonshiners were put to
flight. So far as is known no one was
wounded. The locality in which the
encounter occurred is the territory
secured last spring by detectives in
search of Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards, then at large. The still which,
the officers cut, up was mile from
the home of Byrd Marion, one Of the
men arrested in connection with the
Hillsville tragedy and who later was
released
Winchester.-Mrs Isabelle Burwell
Mayo. 70 years old, wife of Peter H.
Mayo, the millionaire tobacco mer
chant of Richmond, was stricken with
paralysis and died at Powhatan, their
Clarke county estate near Wildwood.
Her remains were inferred in .the
graveyard at Old Chapel, near Mill
wood, Sunday afternoon. She was
daughter of the late George H. Bur.
well and was born in the mansion on
the noted Carter Hall estate. In addi-
ton to her husband, she leaves two
daughters, Mrs. Thomas N. Carter, Of
Richmond, Va, and Mrs. Bennehan
Cameron, of Raleigh, N. c.; two sis
ters, Mrs. T. H. v. Randolph and Mrs.
r. Powell Page, and one brother,
George H. .Burwell, all of Clarke
county.
Harrisonburg. The Rockingham
Memorial Hospital, which has been in
course of erection four years, at q
cost of 1000, was opened to the pub
lie with public ceremonies, attended
by a large crowd from town and
county. When William G. Leake, of
Harrisonburg. died Ave years ago he
bequeathed 1000 for founding hos
pital. The hospital site adjoins the
State Normal School grounds, in the
southern part Of the town. Popular
subscriptions, the secret orders and
the churches of the county aided in
raising the money necessary to conn
plete the. building.
Lynchburg. The Virginia Lumber
Company filed voluntary petition in
bankruptcy, in which liabilities were
placed at $s9,972 and assets at $125.-
998. Creditors are scattered from
Boston to Florida. R. T. Yates, presi-
dent of the company, filed personal
petition, in which his liabilities were
placed at $49,295, with assets of 1884,
100. Of which $4,000 is stock in the
Virginia. Carolina Lumber Company.
Lynclburg.-The annual meeting of
the Lynchburg Young Mems Christian
Association resulted in H. H. Harris
being chosen president for another
term. Other officers elected were:
First vice-president, Walter Petty
john; second vice-president, Richard
Hancock; secretary-treasurer, Aubrey
E. Harvey.
Lypchburg. The convention of the
National Commissary Managers AS
ISOLATION, which was secured for
Lynchburg some time ago through the
efforts of the Chamber of Commerce,
will meet here May 81 and 28 of next
year.
Lynchburg. L. Mitchell, Nor
folk and Western brakeman, is at his
home here suffering from fractures of
an arm, collar bone and shoulder.
Mitchell was sideswiped by car while
switching.
Fredericksburg.-H. NJ. Lillard, of
Madison county, has four remarkably
old horses. Their ages are 20 years,
rs. 24land %. aggregating 100 years
for the four. They all had the same
mother.
Fredericksburg. Rev DR.. John
Moncure, aged so years, an Episcopal
minister Of Richmond, who had sum-
mer home in Stafford county, was
drowned while fishing in Chappawam-
sic creek, near Whitewater, as was also
his servant.
MISUNDERSTANDING has com
menced the erection of an additional