Evening star., 1915-06-06
LEESBURG.



afternoon and inferred in Union ceme-
, terry. Mr.. Shreeve was sixty-seven
wears old. and his death was due to
heart disease. He is survived by a
widow and five sons, Frank Shreeve
of Idaho. BENJAMIN and Day Shreeve
of Washington. d. c.: George Shreeve
of southern Virginia and Gilman
Shreeve of Sterling. He also leaves a
| MI. Shreeve was at one time a Meth
odist minister
! I. Benton James died at his home
near Arimont Wednesday. after long
| illness. He was seventy years old and
an ex-Confederate soldier. He was a
| member OF the Sth Virginia Regiment
and an officer of Clinton Hather Camp
widow and several sons and daugh-
ters. He was a member of the board
of supervisors of Loudoun county for
| number of years. Funeral services
were held from his late residence this
afternoon. burial at Ebeneezer.
everything is in readiness for the
horse show here Wednesday and
] THURSDAY and the exhibition will un-
doubtedly be one of the best ever held
here, Among the largest exhibitors
are Edward B. Mclean. who has
entered large string of hunters and
other show horses: Homewood stables,
Middleburg. Va: Glenwine farm. Mill
wood, Va; Huntland farm. Middleburg;
sewell- 4 Hall and n. j. Ward. Wash
ington. D. c.; Joseph Devereux. Chevy
Chase, Md: South Castle farm. Lees
burg, O. w. Rosenberg. Frederick.
Mrs. C. V. Smith. Front Royal. Va:
Robert Barr. Winchester; George Sla-
ter. Upperville; Neville H. Whiting.
Marshall; H. D. Baker. Frederick, Md !:
B. j. Byers. Summit Point, w Va, and
a large number of others.
The Leesburg Assembly will hold a
dance at the Leesburg Inn Tuesday
evening. and a larger dance will be
, held at the town hall Wednesday
evening. Members of the Marine Band
will play for both dances.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley of Washington
I delivered the principal address at the
commencement exercises of the Lin
coin High School this week. The di-
plomas were delivered to the class by
Supt Edmonson. Henry Thomas made
the salutatory and was followed by the
address of the class president. Theo-
dore Reid Other numbers were
Class history. Miss Jane Brown; class
prophecy. Charles Brown; class poem,
gard; class oration. Leon Meek: class
song. Miss Muriel Cornwell: presenta-
tions, Augustus di Zerega: class essay.
Miss Virginia Rust; class will. Miss
MY IA otleS, tlClln SOLO, MISS
Vincent; song to undergraduates, Miss
Ruth Compiler; vocal duet. Misses Por-
ter and Cornwell: valedictory, Miss
Hazel Porter. The benediction was
made by Rev. H. NJ. Hoge.
]. r. H. Alexander of Leesburg has
announced himself a candidate for
commemorative attorney for Loudoun
county, subject to the democratic pri-
mary to be held August 3. His op-
ponent will be the incumbent. Cecil
ffFNt,r1 ~ CfrNtr-x
T. F. Mason has also announced him
self a candidate for foater delegate
from Loudoun and Fauquier counties.
his opponent being the incumbent,
number of candidates for the offices
of commissioner of revenue, commits
sioner of roads and board OF super
visors.
Tuesday next corporation elections
of mayor. recorder and councilmen for
Leesburg. Purcellville. Hillsboro, Wat
erford, Hamilton, Middleburg and
Round Hill will be held. In Leesburg
Mayor Charles F. Harrison and Re
corder Arthur B. Richard will have no
opposition, it is said. though there are
thirteen candidates for twelve coun-
cilmen.
An unprecedented and very interest
ing state of affairs prevails at Mid
dleburg. it is said, inasmuch as there
are no candidates for the Offices of
mayor or the council.
Among the Confederate veterans who
attended the reunion at Richmond, this
week. from Loudoun county, were Mark
Rodeffer, c. c. Wenner. p F. Shroff
c. T. Hawling. J. W. Furr P. H. Carr
T. H. Costello, J. A. Cockerille. I. NJ
Shumate. ]. E. Copeland. c. P Green
A. E Ankers. John E. Benedum, Will
liam Barton. Jesse Rogers, James Sin
W. Flether, Armistead Saunders. John
H. Gordon, ]. A. Skinner. John T. Simp-
son. ]. D. Hospital, j. H. Monroe, H. A.
Mccoy, E. Coffman, George Ryon and
Z. W. Fletcher.
Confederate Memorial day will be OBJ
served at Middleburg. Monday. by ex-
| ercises at Confederate Hall, followed
by the decoration of the graves of the
| Confederate dead. Henry st. George
Tucker, a native of MiddleburR, will
deliver an address and luncheon will
be served by the Daughters of the Con-
/ federacy.
| Emory w. Plaster will leave this
week for California. where the Thomp-
son-Plaster electrical cabinet will be
exhibited at the meeting of the PAN
| American Medical Congress and con-
vention of the American Medical Asso-
I citation.
| Mr.. and Mrs. William o. Russell Of
Waterford have issued Invitations to
J the marriage of their daughter, Sara,
| to DR.. Leslie Rusmiselle of Lovetts-
willie. Va. The wedding will take place
at the Presbyterian Church at Water
ford. Wednesday. June 16, at high
| noon. They will make their home at
| Lovettsville. Miss Russell is well
known in Leesburg. having taught at
the Leesburg High School the past two
| sessions.
The Auction Bridge Club was enter
/ tanned yesterday afternoon by Mrs.
/ Walter J. Harrison, jr. The guests of
! the club were Miss Julia Minnegerode
of Baltimore. Mrs. John A. Gibson and
! Misses Belle c. McAtee and Lee Ed
wards. The highest score was made
by Miss Mnnegerode.
| The Sewing Club was entertained
Thursday by Mrs. Harry Alexander at
Springwood. The guests of the club
were Miss Dorothy Dawson of Wash
! ington. Misses Ford of East Orange
N j.; Mrs. Walter J. Harrison. jr.; Mrs
| J. G. Harris. Miss McAtee and Miss
! Ada Alexander.
! The commencement exercises of the
Round Hill School were unusually in
| teresting. The baccalaureate sermon
4 was preached by Rev. Cav of Wash
/ ington. D. c.. and Rev. s. a. Parker OF
| Berryville delivered the class address
Those receiving diplomas were Misses
| Berta Baker. Nell Moore, Juster
| Fred Best and William Kuhlman
| Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lodge ceIebrat-
, ed the twenty-f1fth anniversary of their
marriage at their home in PurceIlville.
this county. Thursday evening
! Mr.. and Mrs. Robert n. Harper of
| Washington are at their country home
Caradoc Hall. near here.
HERNDON.