Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-20
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Building Railroad Connection
to Help Manufactures.
HOUSE BURNED TO GROUND
Home of Ellis Oar, Farmer, Destroy
ed, With Its Contents.
MIR. CHURCH TO MAKE SPEECH
Will Be One or Speakers at Fred
erick County Sunday School
Association Convention.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, October 10. 1912.
The work of building a connection be-
tween the Baltimore and Ohio and the
Cumberland Valley railroads in the north
ern suburbs of Winchester was begun
this week. The construction of the road
was decided upon by representatives of
both companies after the matter had been
pushed by the Business Mems Associa-
ton of Winchester and Frederick county.
The officers of the association have al
ready opened correspondence with a num-
Der of capitalists, who recently indicated
their Willingness to build manufa cturing
enterprises in Winchester if the connec-
ton between the two railroads was made.
Representative James Hay of the sew
enth congressional district of Virginia
has been spending the past week cam
paigning in Frederick county. The larg-
est meeting of the week was held here
Thursday night. Although the republic
cans and the socialists have. nominated
candidates for Congress, the seventh dis
trfct is a democratic stronghold, and Mr..
Hay, who had no opposition within the
party for the nomination, will probably
be reelected.
The home of Ellis Oar, a farmer living
near Gerardstown, Berkeley county, w.
to the ground several nights ago, to-
gether with all the contents. Mr.. Oar
and members of his family were calling
On friends at the time. They left a
lighted lamp in the house, and the lamp
is supposed TO have exploded, setting the
place afire. The loss, amounting to sew
eral thousand dollars, is partly covered
by insurance.
Kemper Winsborough Yancey, who I'M
til few years ago was the most noted
athlete and foot ball champion at the
University of Virginia. and who has since
been engaged in farming and fruit grow
ing at Crozet, Va, was married this week
10 Miss Edith j. Stanford, daughter of
wealthy ranchman of Del Rio, Tex.
The wedding took place in Christ Prot
estant Episcopal Church at Houston. The
young couple will visit the formers rela-
tives at Harrisonburg before going to
their new home at Crozet.
NJ Z. Church of Falls Church. president
of the Virginia Sunday School Associa-
ton, is to be one Of the principal speak
ers at the fifth annual convention or the
Frederick County Sunday School Asso-
citation which will be held in Market
Street Methodist Episcopal Church here
October "a State Secretary Thomas G..
Diggs of Richmond is also to make sew
eral addresses.
Fruit Shipped Abroad.
\ New York apple buyer. who was
here this week making selections OF
fancy fruit for English retail trade. was
shown some particularly fine specimens
of York Imperials, which. he stated,
would retail from 50 to s.. 30 a dozen in
many of the larger cities of South Amer
lea. Few apples grown in this section,
however, are shipped to South America.
A large part of the fancy grades grown
in Frederick county this fall have been
sent to Liverpool and Glasgow, where
they are commanding unusually good
prices.
Miss Lucy Anna Huyett, a trained nurse
of Reading, Pa. who came recently TO
visit relatives at Brucetown, died Thurs
day of intestinal tuberculosis at the VIII
chester Memorial Hospital. aged forty
six wears She was daughter OF Amos
Huyett of Reading. where her body mas
been taken for burial. A NUMBER OF
family connections live in Washington.
The Shenandoah valley will be we'll rep
resented at the annual convention or the
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
which will be held in Washington begin
ming November II. Practically ali the
local chapters have elected their dele
gates and alternates. ana ACCORDING 70
the present enrolment of members IN
Virginia this state will lead all others IN
voting strength at the Washington meet
ing.
Allen G. Lewis Of Gerardstown and Miss
BeuIah Belle Chorpening, daughter or
Mr.. and Mrs John Chorpening of InWood,
Berkeley county. W. Va. have just an
nounced their marriage. which took place
last Sunday in Martinsburg, the ceremony
being performed by Rev. r. v SwitZer
at the parsonage of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The regular midyear meeting OF the
board of missions of the Baltimore con,
ference, Methodist Episcopal Church
South. is to be held in Front Royal. va;
October % and -, and one of the special
features of the meeting will be a session
devoted to the men and religion forward a
movement, which will be accompanied py
a banquet Judge f. d. Newman Oh
Woodstock, lay reader of the conference;
will preside. Bishop A. w. Wilson OF
baltimore and other eminent churchmen
are to deliver addresses during the con-
ference.
Feast for Confederate Veterans.
Turner Ashby Chapter. Daughters OF
the Confederacy. of Winchester. have al
ready begun their annual preparations
for sending boxes Of turkeys and other
seasonabIe delicacies to the Confederate
Soldiers Home at Richmond for the an