Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12
Valley Of Virginia.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, March 11.-Con-
tracts have been awarded to a number
of firms by the light committee of the
common council Of Winchester for the
erection Of a modern white way in
practically all the business districts
and on certain portions OF a number
of residential streets. The preliminary
work has been begun. and the erection
Of ornamental iron posts and the lay
ing Of underground wires will be start
ed as soon as the material can be de-
livered. All of the old-time arc lamps
on the streets are to be abolished, and
new nitrogen lamps will be installed
Winchester viii probably have a city
manager within the next week or two
and the plan of hiring a town boss will
be tried for a. year. The office was
recently created by the council, after
the matter had been repeatedly urged
by Mayor ]. F. Ward, and it is eX-
pected that one of many applicants for
the position will be elected at a meet
ing of the council Tuesday night.
Judge j. NJ. Woods of the circuit
court of Jefferson county has sustained
the demurrer to the indictment in the
case against c. B. Wentzell. former
deputy sheriff of Harpers Ferry dis
trict on the ground that there were
not sufficient allegations in it. Went
Zell, who was also formerly postmas-
ter at Harpers Ferry. was indicted on
charge of misappropriating county
funds, The case will come before the
grand jury again in May.
The remains of Mrs. Ann Melissa
McVicar, widow of Charles w. Nc
Vicar. a former carriage manufacturer
of Winchester. who died several days
had been making her home for a num-
Der of years. were Inferred yesterday
In Mount Hebron cemetery here, Rev
W. o. Talbert of the Methodist Church
South conducting the services. She was
formerly Miss Lewis. and is survived
by three daughters. two sons and one
brother.
ASH result of speaking campaign
this week in the Shenandoah valley by
Rev. J. L. Lieber and ]. H MarsteIlar of
Roanoke. large registrations were Sc
cured from this section of the state for
the annual convention of the laymen's
missionary movement of the Lutheran
Church in the south, which will be held
in Roanoke, March IA, Is and 16
On account of sickness in the home
of the bridegroom, and because of a de-
sire to be married in the house i'm which
her mother had become a bride: Miss
Eleanor Sehmoele. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. c. B. Schmoele of PHILADELPHIA. ac
companied by party of friends, went
to Chambersburg. Pa. several DAYS ago
and was married to John Fulton Boyd
in the Mcclellan mansion, which is now
occupied by A. Nevin Pomeroy, an uncle
of the bride. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. H. A Riddle of the
Presbyterian Church and was Witness
ed by number of family connections
and friends. including Mrs. Henry
Brooke Gilpin and DIR. and Mrs. Lewis
NJ. Allen of Clarke county, Va. Mr..
Boyd is a son of the late Gen John F.
Boyd, for many years connected with
the Cumberland Valley railroad, and he
is connected with the Frisco lines. with
headquarters in Kingsville. Tex, where
the young couple will live
Thirty of the fifty steel passenger
coaches and 1855 of the 1000 steel hon
per cars ordered recently by the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad have been de-
livered and placed in service, and it is
expected the entire order will be COM
uleted in few weeks IL deliveries con-
ttnue at the present rate. The COMPANY
has also ordered thirty Mallet locomo-
lives, on which delivery is soon ex-
pected, and supplementing these orders
contracts have just been let for fifty
Mikado freight locomotives and ten
switching engines.
Company K. I'd Virginia Regiment, of
Strasburg, which was organized about
a year ago, and which attained a cred
table standing among the military or
Ranizations of the state. utterly COL
iapsed and dropped SO low in efficiency
and attendance recently that the mill
tary authorities of the state had to
close the armory and disband the COM