Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-20
CULPEPER COUNTY
TO IMPROVE ROADS
Will Expend About $3.50
to Macadamize Seven Miles
of Virginia Roadways.
LYNCHBURG EMPLOYE
THE CHAMPION EATER
Special Correspondence OF The Star.

LIZ N1tfBI RG, Va, March Ia. 1913.
The Virginia Construction Company of
this city will move it's plant this week
TO Culpeper county to start on contract
awarded during the last week for the
matchmaking of the Rixeyviie and
thornton Gap roads, in that county This
work mears an estimated outlay of about
soo,oGo to Culpeper county, and it is
thought that 1t will require about eight
months of work. The two roads are to
be improved a distance OF seven miles.
In j. d. Paschal, an employee in the
yard of the United Cigarette Machine
company here. Lynchburg has probably
the champion eater of Virginia, for la st
thursday Paschal made away with a
noonday lunch that would have been
death to an ordinary man, but he sur
viVed the ordeal to put in half the day
In the afternoon without the slightest
inconvenience. For some time Pascha1
mas engaged in a bit Of Dragging as to
his eating abilities, and he arranged for
a demonstra tion After he had disposed
OF his ordinary lunch he ate two boxes
or sardines, a box of crackers, eighteen
scrambled eggs and five biscuits, the
mixture being moistened with pint of
black coffee
The Lynchburg police force has Sc
cured little light up to this time ON the
dynamiting of the home of Mrs George
NJ Jones. There is little doubt but that
'Hc MUSE WAS USHdHlteQ with a view TO
numbering Mrs. Jones. who was sleep
ing within a few feet from where the ex-
ploslve was placed on veranda just out
side of her bedchamber The city has
offered reward of 500 for the solution
of the crime
Berkeley Dunford sixteen-year-old
blind youth of Tazewell. performed last
week the feat of walking from his home
10 Graham distance of twenty miles,
comprising that distance from 1890
hn - I'll 1l-
that evening. The entire distance ac-
cording to the boy, was made on the Nor
1olk and Western tracks. which means
mat Dunford crossed a number of high
trestles and bridges, picking his way by
means Of a walking stick.
Excitement Over Gold Find.
Some excitement in Tazewell county
followed the statement that government
geologfsts at Washington reported that
gold had been found in paying quantities
in several specimens of ore taken from
property near Shawyers Mills on Clear
Fork in that county. Some prospecting
has been done, but results SO far fail to
convince the people that gold is to be
found in any great amount
The Iynchburg city council is consider
Ing the establishment of a work farm to
take the place of the city chain gang,
and during the week John P. Pettyiohn,
A. r. Long and James T. NOEL, jr., were
elected a special commission to provide
general plan for the same to be suggest
ed to the city council. A committee rep
resenting the council visited Washington
and several cities in North Carolina to
inspect similar institutions, and this COM
mission has been formed to carry out the
committees ideas
An ordinance offered in the common
council recently. providing for the prohi-
bition of the custom of druggists receiv-
ing prescriptions from physicians over
the telephone, has aroused much interest
on the part of these two professions.
The druggists do not favor the restric-
ton and the physicians are to have a
meeting to discuss the ordinance and
agree probably upon a substitute.
Strong Program for Endeavorers.
Rev. c. Morgan Compiler, president of
the Virginia Christian Endeavor Union,
is confident that the state convention to
be held in Staunton April % and 80 and
May ] VIII be the best convention the
Compiler paid a visit to the Staunton So
cieties last week and he came away i'm
pressed with the enthusiasm of the En-
deavorers. The program now in prep
aration will be strong one, with three
strong night sessions. DR.. William M.
Scott. pastor of Second Presbyterian
Church, Staunton, will preach the con-
vention sermon the opening evening, and
the tHlTu evening service Will De d0-
dressed by Mrs. Hortense Rope state
organizer of the w. c. T. L.. the serv-
ice being in the nature of a temperance
rally.
4 convention chorus of 100 voices is be-
ing trained by Prof. j. II. Reubusch and
the music is to be one of the features of
the gathering. All of the convention ad-
dresses will be made by state speakers.
The Massie Mills magisterial district in
Nelson county voted in favor of a bond
issue for $4,000 for improving the road
between Arlington, on the Southern rail-
way, to- Roseland, a distance of about
ten miles.
A petition is being circulated among
members of the Lynchburg bar indorsing
the candidacy of John S. Barbour for ap-
pointment to the federal bench for the
fourth judicial circuit, to succeed Judge
Nathan b. Golf, resigned.
B. G Anderson, a graduate of the Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute, who for six
years has been in charge of an expert
ment station at Appomattox, has been
chosen corn demonstration for Appomat-
tox county for this year at a salary of
81, 900.
Wood Brothers. large tomato growers
of Roanoke county. purchased a 200-acre
farm near Lawyers. Campbell county.
upon which they will erect a cannery.
Frank Bell, a sixteen-year-old negro.
hailng from Amherst county, is an in
mate of the Lynchburg smallpox hos
pital. this being the first case under
treatment there since the summer of 1911.