Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-29

and they have had more trouble at
Middletown than anywhere else.
A few days ago the Winchester po-
lice received a telephone message from
Middletown to collect fines and costs
amounting to $3.50, which included
the constable's fee. from Mrs. II. Mex
Twombly and Mrs. w II. Macy, I'd. both
drove through the town faster than
eight miles an hour. The Winchester
authorities tried in vain to have the
charges withdrawn. but Middletown
would not hear to it.
Autoists Forced to Pay Fines.
Constable Wiley said the chauffeur
refused to stop when signaled. The
latter declared the constable wore no
uniform or badge, and that he took
the man to be a wandering stranger.
Mrs. .Twombly insisted that her chauf-
feur was not operating the car at a
dangerous speed. and that he had never
been complained of during the five
years he had been in her service. She,
however, paid the fine and left town.
The same evening her sister. Mrs. w.
Seward Webb. heading a party of
Washington and New York friends.
who, like Mrs. Twombly and Mrs. Macy,
We're on their way from White sulphur
to Washington. came down the valley
pike. passed through Middletown. and
when they reached Winchester were
told that the Middletown constable de-
manded a fine--and costs for going
raster than eight miles an hour. Ac-
companying Mrs. Webb, who was for
merly Miss Vanderbilt. were Mr.. and
Mrs. John Henry Purdy of Washington.
Mrs. George D. Bird of New York and
James L. Breen of Sherbourne, VT. They
had made the trip from Vermont to
White sulphur and back as far as Mid
violating any law. Members of the
party declared they always aimed to
Keep within the law and respect the
rights of all other citizens but rather
than go into trial they paid their
fines.
Now that f. Graham Wilson. former
wealthy farmer and horseman of JEFF
ferson county. W. Va, has begun serv-
ing his fourteen-year term in state
prison after being convicted of criminal
ing on plan by which Wilson may be
pardoned by the governor of that state,
on the pleas that his health is falling
Looking for Disease Symptoms.
At the request of the United States
Department of Agriculture several vet
Urinary surgeons of Martinsburg have
gone to Morgan county, W. Va, for the
purpose of determining whether the
foot and mouth disease has broken
out among several large herds of cattle
on the farms of Robert Spillman and
George Mason in the vicinity of Stat
lers crossroads. A number of cows
have died of a strange and very con-
taglous disease this week, and reports
received here say many others are
SICK NO trace of the disease has been
round thus far in the Virginia valley
but the discovery of cases in Loudoun
county has caused the authorities and
railroad officials to use every precau-
tlon to prevent a spread of the disease.
According to figures given out today
by the produce dealers of Harrisonburg
more than 1900 turkeys-live and
dressed-were shipped from Rocking
ham county for the Thanksgiving mar
kets in northern and eastern cities, and
the shipments netted farmers and 9TH
ers about $4,000 This record is lower
than last years, but it will be more
than made up at Christmas time.
Oficers with bloodhounds are search
ing the mountains of Madison and adj
joining counties for Charles D. Sisk
and Harvey Melton. who escaped from
the Madison Jail several nights ago
by saving through the iron bars
Floods Majority Increased.
Belated returns from that part of
the tenth congressional district lying
east of the Blue Ridge mountains show
that the majority for Representative
Henry D. Flood of Appomattox was
considerably greater than early re-
turns indicated. His majority was
i.OoI, compared with majority of
1923 ten years ago.
City Councilman J. W. Sibert has
been inGcrsed by Representative James
Hay of the seventh congressional dis
lrict for the position of postmaster at
Winchester, to succeed the late George
II. Kinzel. who died late in October
Mr.. Sibert was also Endorsed by a
large number of local business and
professional men. He will be the only
democrat in the Winchester post office,
all others being republicans. whose
jobs are said to be safe because of
civil service regulations.
Apple growers have been warned
again by Secretary Whately of the Vir-
ginia Horticultural Society of Crozet
not to sell their good grades of fruit
at prevailing low prices. as market
conditions are improving steadily. Mr..
Whately denies most emphatically that
all cold storageS are full. He knows
of one large Virginia grower who, is
holding his number one winesaps for
81 a barrel
l.. Cameron. seventy-four years old, of
the Baltimore Conference, NJ E. Church
South, whose death occurred in Balti-
more. have been inferred in Woodbine
cemetery at Harrisonburg, Va. He was
native of Greenbrier county and
served in the Confederate army before
going into the ministry. A widow and
four grown children survive.
Wedding Sequel to Romance.
DR.. Cleveland d. Whelchel of Gains
vile. Ga. and Miss Mary A. Ruther-
ford of Winchester were married this
week In Baltimore. the wedding being
the elimination of a romance which