Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-23
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.
special CORES popd"n-- of Tho Star.

SP"'iIl Correspondence of The Star
WINCH ESTER. Va, January %
The Baltimore and Ohio railroa 4
authorities are said to have practi-
cally doubled the force of detectives de.
tailed this week to guard seventy-fve
carloads of alcoho! in the c.assif7ca.
tion yards at Brunswick The alcohol
was received several days ago from
the west for shipment to New York.
where the consignment viii be loaded
on steamers and shipped to France for
'ha' government. Although all the
cars are sealed the railroad company
is taking no chances, and has accord
insly thrown a heavy guard around
all the, cars containing the barrels and
tanks. The alcohol is in bond and is
consigned to the United States internal
revenue collector in New York, who will
superintend the loading at the g, eamsbin
pier. The consignment is the largest
That has ever been received at one
time in Brunswick. and that town s
declared to be the wettest dry town
in the United States for the time being
The remarkable recovery of Mrs
Lucy Bailey. wife of William Bailey OF
Charles Town. w. Va. from an aft1ic-
developed within the Uranium, directly
below the center of the forehead. has
been given almost world ide celebrity
by the proceedings of the Parchment
can Scientific Society in Washington
recently. Her case was made the suh
ject OF a lecture by Dr. Thomas Will
liams. a brain specialist of that CITY
who originally diagnosed her trouble
and recommended II treatment that re-
stored her to health. In this audience
a hive iri.,
from every country in the western
hemisphere. The growth had been re-
moved by exposure to an N-ray ma
chine. DR.. Williams exhibited photo
graphic plates showing the varying
phases of the case from the beginning
to the end of the treatment, and sa id
that it was the second case of this dis
order known to the medical profession,
the first having occurred in France
several years ago.
Henry r. Rees. cashier of the bank
of Brownsburg in Rockbrdge county.
Va. disappeared several days ago
from his home. and the little town
has since been stirred to it's depths as
a result OF the cashiers sudden de-
parture. Rees was traced as far as
Roanoke, but no further. When the
absence of Rees became known Off
GERS of the bank made an examina-
tton Of his books and il was found
that his accounts were correct and
that he had not taken any money not
belonging to him.
J. I. Trtplett of Woods:ocN and Ediu-
burg. who has secured control of the
Rock Spring Electric Company. is hav-
ing a concrete dam 40 feet long and
twenty lone feet high built across the
Shenandoah river. SO that his com
pany will he enabled to furnish addi-
tional electric current for. towns and
manufacturing industries in that sec
ton of the Virginia valley. The wa
ter will have q fall of 1906 feet, and
engineers say the dam will impound
20.000.O00 gallons of water Some Of
the people living in the vicinity of
the dam have raised the question as to
whether it would stand in flood time,
but the engineers say there is no
danger.
DR.. NJ. G. Huffman. well known
physician of Bunker Hill, Berkeley
county. narrowly escaped serious in
jury q few nights ago. when in re-
spending to a call he lost control of
his automobile. which skidded and
plunged down a hill. turning over
three times and landing against
fence. The machine was wrecked, but
the physician escaped with a few cuts
and bruises.
Field DEPUTIES of the United States