Evening star., 1913-06-15
Normal for Sunday Schools.

This portion of the Virginia valley is
expected to be we'll represented at 4
normal training school for Sunday school
workers. probably the first of the kind
ever known In Virginia, which will be
held in Roanoke from July to II. 1t
Will be held under the auspices Of the
general board of religious education of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, but
other denominations have been invited to
unite. The territory covered by this
gathering includes the Virginias. the Dis
trict of Columbia, Maryland and Penn
sylvania, and Is known as the third de-
partment of the board.
Allen Nicodemus a business man, is
confined to his home at Martinsburg suf-
fering from a badly fractured nose and
severe bruises on his face and body as a
result Of stepping from an automobile
while it was In motion in the vicinity of
Inwood. Berkeley county.
George William Hausenfluck and Miss
Naomi +. Flowers members of Frederick
county families were married here at the
parsonage of the First Baptist Church.
Charles Fisher. a peglegged colored
man. who was this week convicted Of
murder in the second degree, having fired
the revolver shot on the night of April
10 which caused the death within forty
eight hours of Clyde j. Carpenter, local
agent of an Alexandria insurance COM
pany, has been sentenced to twelve years
in the Virginia penitentiary. Fisher grim
ned Cynically on hearing sentence. He
is said to have expressed himself aS
being satisfied as he expected q verdict
carrying with it the death penalty. -Four
others who confessed that they were i'm
plicated in the shooting will be arraigned
Monday and sentenced.
Although the apple orchards of Berke-
ley county. w. Va. were not hit SO hard
by the late April frosts as were many In
Frederick county, Va, and other portions
of the Shenandoah valley fruit belt, Prof.
NJ ]. Giddings of the West Virginia Uni
versity who has been making orchard
examinations during the past week. re-
ports that the cedar rust is doing great
damage in the Berkeley county orchards
this year.
Another chapter of the noted Bosser-
man case was opened at Staunton. when
arguments We're heard in the corporation
court in the divorce suit brought by Lu-
ther b. Bosserman, business man.
against his wife, Mrs Clara Rowzee Bos-
serman, after he had found her alone in
the Bosserman house with Albert ID.
ing term of several years In the peni-
tentiary for shooting Mr.: Bosserman.
Judge ker announced that he would rem
der judgment in the case July ~ on the
evidence that was IN at that time.
Ohio railroad at Harpers Ferry has been
completed and hereafter passengers Will
be required to use 1t for passage between
the east and west tracks OF the main line
An iron fence will be erected in order to
prevent people from crossing over 10 the
track grade. The subway reduces the
danger at Harpers Ferry to a minimum.
Mrs Bergman z. Price of New Mar
ket, Va, has issued invitations for the
marriage of her daughter. Miss Mary
Eleanor Price. to Rev. Charles Jacob
Smith. June %. in st. Matthew's Lutheran
Church at New Market
A. s. Allen has been elected general
nf h1,
Horse Show Association, which holds its
first annual exhibition in Charles Town
July 81 and August 1.
Arthur Dutrow, n young yard conductor
of the Baltimore and Ohio road, WAS ter
ribly crushed between two cars q few
nights ago and died in the Martinsburg
Hospital. He leaves a wife. one child
and a large family connection.