Evening star., 1917-03-18

| Orange. va-Charles P. Cowherd was
|reappointed superintendent of schools
for Orange county recently by the state
board of education, which was in ses-
sion in Richmond several days. This
| is the beginning of Mr.. Cowherd's third
term. or nine years as superintendent
of schools in this county.
| Richmond. Vn-When the Virginia
Public Health Association meets for
| it's annual convention in Lynchburg
April 1918 it will exhibit for the ben
| eft of the state sanitarians all the
models its members can gather of de-
vices for the determination of the fly.
A special committee. of which DR.. Roy
K. Flanagan. assistant health COM
missioner. is chairman. is already at
work preparing the exhibit.
| Winchester. Va.-Mrs. Henry B. Gill
pin of Baltimore and Scaleby Manor.
| Clarke county. Va. will erect and equip
| at her own expense large children s
| department at the Winchester Memorial
| Hospital. according to an announce
Mcclure. presidFnt Of the hospital. The
cost will be abb $4,000.
| average public school attendance in
Allegany county of Ia per cent with
| the enrolment of the present year is
! reported by the school board. This
| does not refer to the increased enroll
ment. but to the percentage of those
| enrolled who are in daily attendance.
Homecoming, Md.-Rev. Adam c. Thom-
| son. aged fifty-four years, for eighteen
years pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of this place, but who for the
past five years has had charge of the
First Presbyterian Church at Lorain,
Ohio. died recently at his home there
following several weeks illness of
BrightS disease and pneumonia.
MartinsburE. w. Va.-One of the most
disastrous fires that has visited Mar
tnsburg in the past few years was that
which caused loss recently of at least
$4,000 to the Homrich building, North
Queen street, and the stores there of n.
J. Hammann and Charles L. Thompson.
lace store, 127 North Queen street of
which Mr.. Hammann is the proprietor,
and the cause is unknown.
has appointed Marvin Smithey COM
monwealth's attorney for Brunswick
county. to succeed L. P. Buford, re-
signed. Mr.. Smithey has been engaged
in the active practice of law in Law
renceville for the past ten years. A
large number of prominent citizens of
the county petitioned the judge to
make the appointment.
Richmond. va.-Though Commissioner
of Prohibition Peters has made no
statement. and will not until he has
had a conference with his attorneys.
it is now regarded as certain that he will
ask the supreme court of appeals to pass
upon the status of Tanhauser, a so-called
soft drink which he has ordered of the
market as Il malt beverage, and which
Il jury of the Hastings court has found
to be within the law.
Mnrtinsburg, w. ya.-Attacked by an
enraged bull, Rev. ]. Stewart Hartman,
superintendent of the Hoffman Orphan
age of the Reformed Church, located
bruised and a bone in his left hand
broken recently. But for the arrival of
his son. Frank Hartman. who drove off
the beast with a pitchfork, more serious
injury to the pastor would have re-
suited.
Charlottesville. Vn.-At meeting Of
the central committee of the Virginia
Sunday School Association recently the
date for the state convention for 1918
was fxed-February s. 6 and Z. Large
plans are already being made to
properly care for the convention.
Roanoke. va-Thirteen of the fifty
elk recently brought from Yellowstone
Park to the Virginia mountains have
died, according to reports received by
County Game Warden DR.. w. H. Saun-
ders. DR.. Saunders. however, is not
alarmed, since fourteen of fifty elk in
Pennsylvania died soon after shipment,
before the herd began to thrive;
Three elk died of fractured ribs. in
5ured in shipment; four died of i'm
pacted paunches, and six died either of
acute indigestion or laurel poisoning.
Richmond, va-Gentry Bros show is
entitled to recover s2.45o from the city
Of Grafton, W. Va, as result OF
damages it sustained when bridge in
weieht vns iu"" of one Of the company's
wagons. according to decision handed
down recently In the federal appeal
court here. affirming the district court
Of Clarksburg.
Arvonia, ya.-Two road forces nave
arrived to begin work upon the new
highway which is to be EXTENDED
through Marshall district from near
this town to Dillwyn and beyond.
This is an extension of the Mount
Zion-New Canton road. which was built
last year, and will be link In the ma
tional highway which VIII coHheS'
and the south. The road crosses the
river at Bremo and New Canton, and
extends due north and south.
Fall. Church, Va-Rev. Andrew Glas-
sell Grinnan, rector of the Episcopal
Church at Falls Church. and one OF
the most widely known Episcopal
ministers in the state. died recently
at Grace Hospital. Richmond. after
protracted illness. He was in his forty
ninth year.
Lynchburx. va-William S. Ragley.
aged twenty-five years. son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. W. NJ Bagley of this city. and w.
a. Hylton of Carroll county, aged nine
teen years, students at the Piedmont
Business College. were drowned while
canoeing recently from the Lynchburg
boat clubhouse on the James river. The
drowning occurred in the old canal in
midchannel, a short distance below the
foot bridge leading to the Y. NJ. c. A.
island playground Both bodies were
recovered later
Onancock. va.-Mrs. Molly Beasley
Bundick, wife Of Lloyd Bundick of Hay
borton. died at the Peninsula Hospital.
Salisbury. Besides her husband she
left six children. a brother the Rev. J.
C. Beasley. Schuyler. Va, and a sister,
Mrs. John w. Walker. Norfolk
Fredericksburg, Va. Mary Paige
Waddill. five-year-old daughter of
Walter Waddill. prominent real estate
man OF Danvtlle, was recently attack
ed by q dog on her way to school, was
thrown down and badly bitten on the
cheek and arm. A passerby kicked the
dog of. picked up tho girl and took
her homo.
Elkton. Md-While cunning along
Magnolia creek. Morgan Rollings, six