Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13
Valley Of Virginia.
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Special Correspondents or Inc St1.
| WINCHESTER. Va. February Ia
The Winchester common council, at a
| special meeting last night. decided to
abandon the use Of all the old-time
arc lamps for street lighting and In
stall the newest makes Of nitrogen
lamps. 1t also passed finally an or
dinance appropriating $4,000 for the
| installation Of white way" in the
business sections of the city and on GER
| tain residential streets. 1t is the in
| tention to extend the white way to
practically every part of the town as
soon as practicable.
The annual banquet Of the Charley
Rouss Fire Company of Winchester. in
celebration of the birthday of the late
| Charles Broadway Rouss of New York,
whose public and private benefactions
here amounted to more than $500. 1000,
was held last night in Rouss Hall and
was attended by more than 300 guests.
! M. NJ. Lynch of the Winchester bar was
postmaster, and speeches were made
by Attorney General John Garland Pol
| lard Of Virginia, DR.. Charles G. Maphis
and DR.. James Bardin of the Univer-
sity Of Virginia, and John Paul Of Har-
risonburg, Va.
The funeral of Harry Lee Kurtz,
newspaper man, who died of grip in
Baltimore this week, was held yes
terday afternoon. interment being In
Mount Hebron cemetery. Rev. DR..
Church. officiating. Mr.. Kurtz was the
last member of the family of Mr.. and
Mrs. P. l. Kurtz. and had been con-
nected during the past seven years
| more and Cumberland newspapers.
National anniversary week has been
celebrated by the Boy Scouts Of Win
chester during the past week. and the
evening at special service in Christ
Protestant Episcopal Church with an
address by the rector. Rev. DR.. w. D.
Smith, who organized the scouts in
nights ago in the city hall auditorium,
when addresses were maed by Scout
| masters Marshall Baker and Eugene
Cooper. City Solicitor r. Gray. Williams
and others.
With the return Of more moderate
weather, the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road is doing an enormous freight
business. For several days the low
temperatures were hindrance to get
ting traffic over the road because in
many instances engines refused to
steam properly, and the result was that
| much traffic was delayed and held up at
various terminals. but today all east
and west bound tracks are literally
crowded with heavy trains. Trainmen
are making all the time they desire,
and there is a call for every available
! man. The cry for cars has been heard
so long that the company is bending
every effort to supply the demand
John r. Cooper, ninety-two years old,
native of Strasburg, Va. but for
seventy years a resident of winchester,
died Wednesday. He leaves three
sons, J. e.; Thomas J. and Lewis F.
Ryan. all of Winchester.
Va. announces the deaths of Mr. and
Mrs. ]. II. Wheaton. formerly of that
place. but for some years past of
Petersburg. W Va; both dying within
pneumonia. Mr.. Wheaton was post
master at Wardensville during the
first Cleveland administration. His
wire was formerly Miss Mary Dida-
A. J: Rutherford. the Kearneysville
lad, who was arrested recently in Ha-
gerstown and taken back to Jefferson
county on charges of stealing a horse
and forging a check. will have to face
additional charges. as it was learned
yesterday that he obtained money on
two checks bearing the name of G. w.
Hoffman Of Shepherdstown, who has
| pronounced them to be forgeries. One
was for $50 and the other for $22.
The body of Roger Ballinger. TWEEN
| jured by a slide of rock and earth at
| the plant of the Standard Stone and
| Lime Company, near Martinsburg, was
r1s rest "a in the cemetery at
- 1''t' LniAiHs-
er had been employed at the quarry
| only a few days.
Cosmo Hamilton. the noted dramatist
and novelist and an officer of the Brit
ish royal navy air service, who Is in
America on furlough and rest, has
been secured by the Handley Library
of Winchester to deliver his lecture
The Romance and Terror of Aerial
Warfare" February 81. Mr. Hamilton
has had many thrilling experiences i'm
aerial warfare since the European war
broke out.
Bert T.. Lowe. formerly of White
Post. Va. but now engaged in business
in Shepherdstown, w. Va, and Miss
Bessie ]. Mauck, daughter of Clinton
Mauck, were married at the home Of
the brides parents at New Market, Va,
by Rev. B. c. Wilson of the Southern
Methodist Church. They will make
their home at Shepherdstown.
According to reports received here
from the Bunker Hill section of Berke-
ley county. w. Va. three farmers fam
lilies have been quarantined on account
of an outbreak Of smallpox. They are
the first cases reported in that county
in several years.
Many spring sales have already been
held by farmers and others who have
decided to move to new localities, and
auctioneers who were in town TODAY
said they have been obtaining much
better prices for livestock than here