Evening star., 1912-07-21
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Stockholders and Directors of
Railway Meet.
HEAT AFFECTS HIS MIND
Prof. Rinker Overcome While on
Visit to Florida.
LIGHTNING DOES DAMAGE
Strikes Bed in Which Man Sleeps,
But He Escapes Uninjured.
Barn Burned.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

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The annual meeting of the stockholders
and the directors of the Winchester and
Washington City Railway Company was
held here this week. and a larger number
of stockholders were present this year
than at any meeting since the company
was organized seven years ago, and each
member of the board of directors was
also present Lewis F. Cooper of Win
| chester was reelected president, Charles
Mullikin of Washington was chosen to
succeed himself as vice president, and
Shirley Carter of Winchester was again
| elected secretary and treasurer. The
members OF the board of directors were
also reelected. The board declared a
| semi i-annuaI dividend Of per cent. The
reports Of the president and Supt D. NJ.
Swink told Of the vast amount of new
| work done during the past year and the
completion of improvements at the COM
panys water and steam power electrical
plants at Millville, Jefferson county, w.
Va, by which the capacity has been prac-
tically doubled. A new transformer build
ing is to be erected in Winchester at
once.
| Prof c. P. c. Rinker. who has been at
| the head of a business college in Martins
burg for several years, became mentally
deranged from the intense heat while on
a pleasure and rest trip to Florida recent
| ly, and when efforts were made to bring
| him home q week ago his condition be-
| came SO serious en- route that when the
train reached Washington 1t was found
necessary to take him to a private sani-
torium near Evansville. Md. message
from that place states that Prof. Rinker
! Is slowly regaining his mental and phySt-
cal faculties.
Ross Baker and r. c. Miller, who are
riding on bicycles from Atlanta to New
| York. in order to win purse OF $100.
IL they make the trip within six weeks.
were here several days ago. a week
ahead of their schedule and stated they
were confident of winning the prize.
Barn Burned in Storm.
During an electrical storm which struck
the southern section Of Frederick county
one evening this week lightning struck
and burned barn on the farm Of A.
| Fl. Hotel. and two of his sons and
hired man, who had taken refuge in
| the barn, were stunned and hurled to
the ground, being rendered unconscious.
| The flames were making rapid headway
! when the young men regained their
senses, and they succeeded in liberating
a number OF horses and cattle. During
| the same storm the home of Julian
Steele. at Stephens City, was struck and
damaged by. lightning, and at Woodstock
Davenport Keller. who was In bed. was
stunned by the lightning. which set fire
| to the bed, the springs of which melted
like wax. Keller was hurled into the
middle of the room and rendered un-
tinguished, the house was badly dam
| aged
| Ofhcers and enlisted men of the vari-
Gus military companies in the Virginia
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and no little displeasure that Acting
| Secretary Oliver of the War Depart
ment has notified Adit. Gen. Sale that
the government will not pay the state
soldiers at the Mount Gretna encamp
ment this year II the state continues
| to make a payment also for the services
of the soldiers. There has been much
grumbling among the men during the
that the state authorities have plan
under consideration whereby the de-
| ficfency can be made up for the benefit
of the men when the troops hold their
encampment in this state next year.
/ The Winchester police overlook Mack
Morgan Of Martinsburg and Theodore
| Perkins, a sixteen-year- girl Of Middle
town. this county. who had eloped from
the latter place. and who We're just in
the act Of boarding a train for Hagers-
town, where they had planned to be mar
fried. The prospective groom had also
arranged to borrow more money from
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burg The girl was detained at police
headquarters until deputy sheriff came
at the request of her mother and took her
back home.
1 Rev. Peter MereWether Boyden has
signed as pastor of Meade Memorial
Protestant Episcopal Church at White
Post. Clarke county. where he has been
stationed since the fall of 1910 and will
go to Mount Airy, Md, early in Septem
ber to accept call.
/
| Washingtonian Willed a Farm.
| Making provision for the support Of
himself. his wife and one SON during
| their lives, William d. Hickman. whose
death occurred recently i'm Frederick
county, has left a will bequeathing to his
ison-in-law, Lee J. Cave of Washington.
q valuable ty-three-acre farm near
Stephens City Mr.. Cave has taken pos
| session of the farm. He and his wife
| cared for Mr. and Mrs. Hickman and a
son. Lester Hickman, for number of
years. Some of the Hickman children
| were left S. and another 81 by the will.
William M. Glaize, a farmer of Freder-
| ick county. and Miss Daisy M. Miller,
daughter OF Mrs. Mary Miller of this city.
| were married early this week at the home
OF the formers sister, Mrs. Harry Sntder,
In Carlisle Pa, by Rev. Mr. Koontz OF
the United Brethren Church.
Early summer apples which have been
shipped from Frederick county to the