Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.


Special Correspondence OF The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va. January 70
Winchester people who had been whet-
ting their intellectual appetites in an
ticipation of hearing Maj. Gen. Leo
nard Wood speak on National Pre-
paredness' were disappointed yester-
day when n letter was received from
Gen. Wood in Washington, stating that
he would be unable to speak here, be-
caus the War Department would not
permit officers to discuss military pre-
paredness publicly.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Cumberland Valley and
Martinsburg Railroad Company. held a
Boyd Faulkner at Martinsburg, NJ. C.
Kennedy of Chambersburg, Pa. was
reelected president. and all other Off
GERS and directors were also reelected.
Mrs. Mary G. Stauffer of Dayton.
Rockingham county, has been unsuc-
band. J. d. Stauffer a painter. who has
been missing since he left Detroit,
Mich. on December % to spend the
Christmas holidays at his home. He
had been working in Detroit and left
there a few days before Christmas,
y
William f. Burner, a wealthy farmer
of Page county, is reported to be in a
dying condition as result of being
internally injured and having numer-
Gus bones broken in a runaway acct
dent several days ago. He was driving
a three-horse team to Luray, the wa
gon being loaded with wheat The
horses became frightened and ram
throwing Burner out. and two wheels
of the wagon passed over his body
"a hS
trated vital organs, and the mans con-
diton is precarious.
Relatives here have been advised of
the tragic death of George W. McDon-
machinist. who was fatally injured in
Cumberland. Md, few days ago, when
an iron bar he was using in repairing
locomotive flew back and cut his
neck and also severing his windpipe
He died shortly after being removed
to hospital. He was forty-three
years old. son of Ellis Mcdonald of
Martinsburg, and leaves a widow and
three children.
Maurice Scheuer, young business
man Of Front Royal, and Miss Carrie
Ney. daughter of Mrs. Ney and the late
B. Ney of Harrisonburg. were married
this week at the home of the brides
mother, by Rabbi Jacob E. Schvanen-
field.
The funeral of Mrs. Ellen Price Har-
II,
died several days ago in Philadelphia,
where she had for years been promi-
nently identified with the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. took
place yesterday from Trinity Episcopal
Church in stanton, where she formerly
resided. She was native of Win
chester She and her husband recently
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
their marriage in Philadelphia.
The Cumberland Valley railroad has
n ah a
lookout for baggage that may contain
liquor and which may be in the hands
or persons going into West Virginia
Under the law of that state, train con-
ductors and other railroad men are
empowered to seize intoXicants and
throw them out of the car windows, or
turn the packages over to the agent
at the next station, to be forwarded
to the prohibition commissioner at
Charleston.
A party of five hunters from the
country west of Harrisonburg returned
yesterday from the Pendleton county
lW. Va, mountains with four large
bears. which they killed after desper-
ate battles. Two cubs were taken alive
The largest bear weighed nearly 800
pounds.
J. d. Cox, real estate operator. who
was run over and killed late Wednes-
day night by Baltimore and Ohio
railroad train at Cameron, w. Va, was
resident of Winchester. and had ac-
cumulated considerable property since
locating here several years ago, having
come from Charles Town, w. Va. Earlier
dispatches gave his name and address
as Lester Cox of Winchester, Ky. Mr.
Cox was a native of the Wheeling sec
ton. He and his wife went there re-
Gently to visit relatives, and he was
on his way to board a train al Cameron,
after short visit to his brother in
law. DIR. J. E. Cooper, when the tragedy
occurred. He is survived by his widow
and one daughter. Miss Theodosia Cox,
a student at Vassar College.
A special act has been passed by the
Virginia legislature empowering the
city of Winchester to vote on the ques-
ton of issuing $4,000 of bonds for
municipal electric lighting. 1t is ex-
pected a special election will be hell
in the near future. A proposition has
been presented to the common council
whereby the new plant could be in
stalled in the present pumping sta
ton building. white way" on an
elaborate scale is also planned. A sys-
tenn of nitrogen lighting is to be in
troduced. taking the place of the old
time arc lamps.
Kennedy Palmer. formerly newspaper
worker of Charles Town and Winches-
ter died recently in Richmond, where he