Evening star., 1916-12-03
Maryland and the VMginias

Haserstown. Md-Unusually unfor-
tunate Is John Lester Mcdonald, sew
enteen-year- son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Mcdonald. living on the Ruther-
ford farm. short distance from Mar
tinsburg, on the Charles Town road.
For each year of his life the boy can
exhibit a broken bone. The bones of
his body are SO brittle that he cannot
engage in any physical exercise or dis
play any undue exertion without suf-
-ering some i'll effects. The other day
while tossing UP and catching an apple.
he suddenly crumpled up and fell to
the ground. When friends went to his
side the lad was crying pieously and
said he had again broken his leg. Not
only had he done this. the bone being
broken a short distance below the hip.
but he had broken his left arm between
the wrist and elbow. Totaling up nu-
merous breaks in his arms and legs and
other portions of his anatomy, the un-
fortunate boy has had seventeen brok-
en- bones.
Portsmouth. va-According to a re-
port at police headquarters, there has
in South Portsmouth for several days
Humane Officer Brescia reported that
ne had killed several cats and that sev-
eral others that he was unable to reach
acted as though they were mad The
cats have not as yet attacked any peo-
pie, but seem to confine their scratch
ing and biting to chickens, turkeys and
other cats Several residents of that
section of the city report that they
have had their Thanksgiving turkey
killed by the cats
Charleston, w. Va.-That moonshin-
ing continues as big industry in Wes,
Virginia is shown by a report sub,
States marshal for the southern dis
trict of West Virginia, by one Of his
deputies, Harry Lemon. This of1cer
presented memorandum to his chief
had captured twenty stills, most OF
them having been in operation at the
time of capture.
Hagerstown, Md.-Two carloads oi
| eggs. good. fresh ones, laid by active
hens recently in far-away Kansas.
! passed through here on the Cumber-
| land Valley railroad by freight bound
for Boston. Attached to the egg train"
| is caboose in which two inspectors
are riding The duties of these men
are to keep an accurate record of the
temperature and condition of the eggs
daily. The eggs left Kansas CITY sew
eral days ago. The purpose of the ship
ment could not be learned. but 1t was
| held by those acquainted with the egg
| business that the eggs were under the
| government control as b trial ship
ment Each car contained approx
mateiy 5000 dozens of eggs. or total
! of 216.0o0 eggs The value of the eggs
| in the Philadelphia markets would be
approximately $7,740.
Blacksburg, va-At the regular
meeting in Christiansburg the board
of supervisors of Montgomery county
agreed to appropriate $500 for an in
tensive health campaign in the county,
meeting the offer of the state health
department to give 5000 for such a
campaign. The movement was inaugu-
rated several months ago by the Wom-
ans Club of Blacksburg. and the health
committee of that club has been un-
firing in its efforts to get the neces-
sary money from the supervisors. who
previously had declined to meet the
proposition Of the state department Of
public health.
MaFtinsbuHg, w. va-While grading
for the Fairmont and Wyatt railroad on
| the farm Of B. w. Shinn. near Pine
Blun. w. Va. workmen unearthed the
skeleton Of a human giant. believed to
be the remains OF . prehistoric man.
sThs skull and several Of the large