Evening star., 1916-08-20
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| Norfolk. va.-The southern CONNER
| cial Congress will hold it's next con.
| vention in Norfolk during the week
| beginning December IL, and 1t wifi be
the greatest gathering Of that splendid
| organization. else DR.. Clarence J. Owen.
| Its managing director. will be the mos1
| disappointed parsonage in these United
| States. Last evening word was re-
ceived at the chamber of commerce
to the effect that the invitation OF Nor
| folk had been accepted by the con-
| gress. and this notification was accom-
panied by the personal assurance of
DR.. Owen that the chamber and the as
sociated business organizations Of the
city would never regret their invita-
tion.
BurkittsvfIle, Md-Mr. and Nrs
Greenberry J. R. House, aged ninety
and eighty-seven years, respectively,
celebrated their seventy-irst wedding
anniversary at their home hero by en-
tertaining their five children, eight
grandchildren and sixteen great-grand-
children.
Charlottesville. vn.-James T. Adams.
the absconding cashier of the Char
lottesville Chesapeake and Ohio freight
office. was given preliminary hearing
before Police Justice Shackelford and
sent to the next grand Jury Of the
corporation court. The warrant against
| Ernest l.. ThGrston of Richmond.
of the the funds g, y, Of The suP R
way Company during the period OF nve
years last past" was then called, but
the attorney for Thurston asked for
a continuance of the case. which was
granted. Bail was fixed by agreement
of counsel at $1,000, Charles r. Schnei-
der going on the bond
Romney. w. va.-An organization Of
women has been effected in this place
known as the Hampshire County Equal
Suffrage Association, with Miss Weeda
Wirgman as chairman. Literature II
now being sent to the voters OF the
county with the hope that IT will prove
helpful to the suffrage amendment.
The association is making arrange
ments to keep the Literary Hall open
during institute week as a rest room
for the use of the public generally.
Newport News. Va-One day in fail
and the threat of naval court, put
twenty-five Chinese members of the
crew OF the British steamer Breconia
back aboard. entirely satisfied with the
prospect of a trip to England. The
men left the Breconia Tuesday night.
when n bonus amounting to more than
$4,000 was refused. They were prompt
ly jailed. in a last effort to settle
with the men. Vice Consul Kenworthy
visited the city jail Wednesday night
and told them that unless they went
back to the Breconia all would be
tried before naval board and deported
to an English jail. The men then de-
cided that they would make the trip.
and Capt. w. Williams, master OF the
Breconia, in order to further assure
peace. promised each tend bonus
for the trip out of this port.
Keyscr. w. vn.-The annual state
council of the Patriotic Order Sons of
America will be held here August -
and 80. washington Camp, No. ~, of
Martinsburg, wiz --presented by J.
]. Overly, Ro idmyer, StewaH
Cushwa. Past S.tate President n.
Cushwa, Past State Secretary G. H.
Quenzel. now of Morgantown. and Dis.
trict President Harwood Burkhart.
Cumberland. Md.-Mentally unbal-
anced. Mrs Howard Stockman, aged
forty-two, formerly Miss Kelly Of Pres
ton county, w. Va, committed suicide
here by hanging herself She attached
a small. hemp rope to an eight-penny
nail in the wall, adjusted the moose and
kicked from beneath her a chair which
she had placed on a sofa. Her six
year-old son made the discovery and
ran out. telling neighbors that hie
mother was dead. The boy then fed
and was not found for two hours. Mrs
Stockman is survived by her husband.
four children, two brothers and one sis
ter.
Mnrtinsburg, w. ya.-Surveyors have
been in Jefferson county for a week or
more locating proposed trolley route
| from a point on the Potomac river be-
tween Martinsburg and Hagerstown.
near Williamsport, through the north
ern section of the county, passing the
Northern Virginia Power Company's
plant at Millville, crossing the Potomac
near Harpers Ferry and going through
Loudoun county to Leesburg, Va. Eight
surveyors were in the corps. Forty
years ago the Shenandoah valley rail-
/ road which was built from Hagers-
|
owned by the Norfolk and Western
Railway Company, surveyed the same
route.
EdGemont. Md.-Eli Mclean. thirteen
years old, of Philadelphia, who, with
his mother and five younger brothers.
was spending the summer with his
grandparents here, died from injuries
sustained by being thrown from a mule.
He fell upon his head and died without
regaining consciousness.
Morgantoyyn, w. Vn.-The State
Council Junior Order United American
! Mechanics will convene here Wednes-
day, September G. Past State Presi-
dent Z. Clarence Smith, Chief Justice
Joseph L. Seibert. State Conductor c.
Fl. Thomas and chairman of the finance
committee. W. a. Fulk, are expected
to attend.
CIarksburg, w. Va.-The contract
for a new Iive-story freproof building
costing approximately S5o.ooo to be
erected by United States Senator Nathan
| Goff, on his property on Sd street. here.
! which is now occupied by the NJ. A.
| Nusbaum's store, and which is to be
the new home of that concern, was
let last week.
Hoonsboro, Md.-Last February
George Menter of this town placed
iffteen white Leghorn eggs under a
hen. February % he took thirteen
| chicks from the nest. Exactly hve
months later, July %, six of these
chicks. now nearly full-grown, began
| laying.
| FoIIansbee. w. ya.LA force Of work.
men that has been tearing up the old
/ platform around the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad station here, and putting
| down a new one, has so far found Sl2
| in coin, which passengers had dropped
between the cracks of the boards.
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