Evening star., 1916-08-20

Hagernf0wn, M0.@Ino daSerstoWn
Interstate Fair Association han COM
pleted the racing program to be given
at the annual fair in October. The
purses aggregate ss.45o> The events
follow:
Tuesday, October 1910 pace. $500:
2.1s trot. $500: 2.so county trot. $500;
running mile dash, $3.50, and nve fur
long dash, 800.
Wednesday. October 11-2.1s pace.
$500: 2.17 trot. $500; 2.12 pace. $500;
running mile-and-a-quarter dash. $3.50;
running four-furlong dash. 800, and
running six-furlong dash. S1oo.
Thursday, October 12-2.15 trot, $500;
o.I4 pace. $500: 2.22 trot, $500: free-for-
all trot and pace. $500; running four
furlong dash, 500: running six-furlong
dash, 500, and running one-miie dash,
$3.50.
Friday. October 12-2.1s pace, $500;
three-minute county pace, $500; run
ming consolation, four furlongs, 500;
running consolation, six furlongs. 800;
running consolation, one mile, 500.
GordonsvfIle. va. o. Campbell,
wife and five children arrived here last
week to visit Mrs. CampbelPs sister.
Mrs B. P. Allen, having motored from
their home i'm Tulsa, Oklahoma, a dis
tance of 1871 miles. Tuesday OF this
week they started on their return trip,
going by way of Washington. Hagers-
town, wheeling, w. Va. and Columbus,
Ohio. In Ohio they will strike the Ma
tional Highway. on which they VIII
complete their journey. The round trip
will be approximately $500 miles
snake has been making considerable
trouble for DR.. Mansberger of Sabra-
ton who for some time has been In
terested in the raising of hne dogs
The snake has gotten into the kennels
and has killed a valuable brood matron
of the best blood lines to be found in
the country. Prince of Floridom.
beagle worth 5000. has also been at
tackled and bitten In the same kennel,
but the owner is entertaining hopes of
saving his life. The snake so far has
made his escape.
Charlottesville. ya.-This city. seat
of the university that Jefferson found
ed, and beloved for its classic halls in
classic groves, has graduated from the
bush league and has been given her
major league diploma. Gov. Stuart
was notified by Judge A. ID: Dabney
of the Charlottesville corporation
court that as a result of a recent an
increased to 1892. Accordingly, a
proclamation went forth from the
governors office notifying all men by
these presents that Charlottesville, in
Albemarle, is now city of the first
class.
Harerstoyn, Md.-More than $4,000
Odd Fellows and their families. repre-
senting five states. took part in the
seventh annual reunion exercises OF
the order Thursday at Pen-Mar. There
were nineteen special trains that
carried members from their respective
states Those represented were Mary
land, Virginia, West Virginia, Wash
ington and Pennsylvania.
Roanoke, va-At conference of
the executive committee of the Roa-
noke Fruit Growers Association. rep
resentatives of the chamber OF COM
merce members of the agricultural and
industrial department OF the norfolk
and Western railway, with w. F. Mas
sey, secretary of the State Horticul-
tural Society, and Russell Bargamin,
director of exhibits, 1t was decided to
hold the annual meeting of the So
ciety in Roanoke December 5, and Z.
At the same time an apple show will
be held in Roanoke. and it is expected
it will be the greatest exhibition of its
kind ever given in the state.
five hundred typhoid serum treatments
have been ordered by the state au-
thoritfes for use in inoculating per-
sons living in the Kanawha valley
who were exposed to the disease since
the recent cloudburst. All persons
living in the food swept section will
be given three injections of the serum
If the state health officers plan is car
ried out. Members of the West Vir-
ginia National Guard are still en-
camped at Ronda. where food relief
headquarters have been established.
The men are working under the direc-
ton of Mayo Tolman. state health Of
ficer, and Adjt. Gen. John Bond.
Hopewen. va.-A petition signed by
Hopewell citizens asking the removal OF
Civil Justice D. O'Leary from office, on
the ground that he was illegally appoint
ed. has been filed with Judge Devaney
here The petitioners declared that this
case was only the beginning OF an ef-
fort to remove all present city officials
from office. They assert that the bill
passed by the legislature incorporating
Hopewell and providing for the appoint
ment of city officials by the governor is
unconstitutional.
Cumberland, Md.-Railroaders arriv-
ing here Monday morning from the west
end Cumberland division. Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, say that the temperature
Sunday night dropped to thirty degrees
at Altamont, Deer Park, Terra Alta and
Oakland. The frost. they added. was so
thick that it resembled a light fall of
snow. No serious damage to crops was
reported.
iarrisonEurg. ya.-Mrs. Vergie Lip
trap Weaver wife of A. F. Weaver of
Middlebrook, Augusta county, sent her six
children out to get some wood, then she
got her oil can and matches and went
into the garden. The woman saturated
her clothing with oil and ignited it with
matches. Her screams attracted her eld-
est child intothe garden. The woman was
horribly burned. Not stitch OF clothing
remained She suffered until O'Clock the
next morning, when she died. 1t is be-
lieved she feared the loss of her reason
from a growth on the brain. She planned
her self-destruction with method and
mentioned it casually to some of her
neighbors. Surviving her are her hus-
band, her mother six children and several
brothers and sisters.
Hamiin. W. Va.-Peter Minor, seven
ty-five years aid, of this county, q re-
markable specimen of rugged mountain
ing the spring he mauled $50 rails a day
and himself built 2S2 panels of seven rail
fence. He cleared five acres of new
ground and rolled his own logs, and
plowed four acres of old ground besides
the new ground. He has all this in corn.
At his mountain home, hidden in the fast
nesses, he is lover of flowers and scien-
tihcally cultivates them, having SO many
varieties that he has roses blooming all
the year round.
Fishers Hill. va.-At the annual re-
union of Confederate Veterans here
Attorney General Pollard, Lieut.. Gov.
!Gilyson and DIR. Clarence Owens of the
Southern Commercial Congress, Wash
ington, addressed an enthusiastic au-