Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-02

valley at the outbreak of the civil war.
and hundreds of the young men
serving in the I'd Virginia Regiment
are descendants of the men who helped
to make up the army of Stonewall
Jackson.
The third disastrous storm to strike
the northern portion of Shenandoah
county and the northern and western
sections of Warren county within
short time occurred day or two ago,
when cloudburst was experienced in
the immediate vicinity of Strasburg
Junction, where considerable damage
was done to the property of the South
ern railway and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad. The former was the
heavier loser as the water flooded what
is known as the lower yards to a depth
of three feet by actual measurement.
while all the tracks of both railroads
were under nearly two feet of water.
The water rushed through Strasburg
with great force, flooding portions of
the town. In some sections the electric
light and telephone services were Sc
verely crippled and 1t was several days
before the damage was fully repaired.
Many officials and trainmen as well
as retired employees of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad were at Lexington,
Va Wednesday afternoon in attend
ance at the funeral of Capt. Jacob Rod
erick, seventy-four years old, who died
suddenly of acute indigestion at his
home in that place. He had been in
continuously. most of the time as a
passenger conductor. and of the thou
sands of passengers hauled by his
trains none was killed and none sert-
ously injured. He had a clear record
with the company. During the civil
war. while serving In the Confederate
army, he was captured by the Federals
and imprisoned in Fort Delaware, but
escaped, swan Delaware bay, made his
way back TO Baltimore and finally to
his old home at Harpers Ferry. Con-
ductor Roderick is survived by widow,
one daughter and one son.
Announcement was made yesterday
of the marriage of Miss Mamie Cooley,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. James Cooley
of Middletown. Va. to Harry Edgar
Gruver of Reliance, Warren county.
Va. which took place Wednesday at
the home of the brides parents, Rev.
J. II. Haley of the Southern Methodist
Church officiating. The young couple
will live at Reliance, where young Mr..
Gruver is engaged in farming. He is a
son of Mrs. Mary S. Gruver and the late
prominent families.
The work of erecting modern
white way" in Winchester has been
rushed with all possible speed during
the past week by Engineer A. l.. John
son of Richmond and the new system
of lighting the business sections and
several of the residential streets will
1t is now expected. be completed and
the night of the Fourth of July when
the entire city win be brilliantly iHu-
minated by electricity. 1t is also
planned TO have large electric signs
and other electrical devices erected for
the occasion. The Fourth of July is
TO he celebrated on a gigantic scale
and with more pretense than for many
years. There will be a monster pa-
rade. In which practically every organ
ization will participate. and there will
be racing events at the fair grounds
in the afternoon. while the night will
be given over to the electric carnival
band concerts and masked balls
Ernest S. Taite, a hotel manager Of
Wilmington. Del. who is president of the
Capitol Tour Association, and a parry
or friends spent some time this week
on trip of inspection over the west
ern part of the associations itinerary.
visiting Winchester, the Luray caverns
Staunton. Hot Springs and White Sul
phur Springs The descriptive book
lets gotten out by the Capitol Tour AS
ISOLATION. containing maps and expIan-
atory notes, as well as halftone en-
cravings of the principal points of in
terest between New York and Wash
ington and the summer resorts OF
Virginia. are being widely distributed
over New England. New York, Phila-
delphia, Washington and other parts
of the east. Practically all the motor
lists from the north and east and the
middle west who are making tours of
ginia and West Virginia springs are
including Washington in their itin-
erary.
Stricken with acute indigestion while
walking along the street a few even
ings since, Mrs. Fannie C. Hull. mem
Der of one of the Oldest and best known
families of Winchester, fingered sew
eral hours and died without regaining
consciousness. She died at the home
of William Hite. into which she had
been assisted when first stricken She
was member of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South and was for many
years a singer in the choir. She was
a daughter Of the late William SIagle |
and was the widow of c. S. J. Hull, a
former agent of the Baltimore and Ohio !
railroad here. Her nearest relative is
Albert F. Slagle. brother. OF Chicago
She leaves a valuable estate. both in |
realty and personal property.
large number of the women of
winchester have formed an organize
ton for the purpose of providing the
necessities of life for the families of a |
large number of the men of Company |
l. "a Virginia Regiment. who are now
on their way to the Mexican border.
Many of the militiamen left good posi- |
lions, and without their wages and
ea1ariea THAR fanilioA would soon be.