Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28

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married DR.. C. F. Boyle thirty-one
years ago. Their daughter. Belva. mar
rfed John Nave. Their children are the
fifth generation. Mrs: Whip was the
six are living-John B. and sperry T.
Of Centerville. Frank of Johnstown.
Henry and Mrs. Anna Donahoe of Cum
berland and Mrs. Martha Bane. near
Burli ,. W; ~, va o,,., One son. Jacob.
8. 1863. She had thirty grandchildren.
thirty-one great-grandchildren and four
great-great-grandchi One of her
great-great-g is eleven
years old, Beatrice Nave, daughter of
John V. and Belva Nave of Cumber-
land.
Martinsbure. w. Vn-The White Sui
phur Springs Company. Inc. has en-
tered NONRESIDENT attachment agains st
Lawrence Perrin of Baltimore, who was
declared sane by lunacy jury last
week. for $28O.77. The attachment was
sworn out in the superior court by
springs company. According to the
attachment, Perrin is indebted to the
company for charges the lattev paid on
baggage from Cincinnati and New
York.
Norfolk, ya-The Norfolk and West
ern Railway Company, according to
announcement In local official circles
here. will continue its improvements
at Lamberts point during 1917. The
Information Is that the company will
build two steamer warehouses there at
a cost of $1.s00,000. and make other
improvements that will carry the ex-
penditures for Lamberts point up to at
least 100000.
wcstminster, Md.-Unable to survive
the shock of his wife's death, to whom
he had been married for nearly half
eight years old, died suddenly here. His
wife, Mrs. Rachel Shrivers. seventy
years old. succumbed last Friday to
pneumonia.
Wheeling. w. va.-Local physicians
are puzzled over the case of Stanley.
ten-month-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Yamschesa of South Wheeling.
Fed on beer and cabbage the BABY
weighs only four pounds. yet appears
to be In fair health. 1t has been placed
in the hospital here.
Richmond. va-The Virginian rail.
way has placed orders for ten 325-ton
Mallet type locomotives. and Is re-
ported to be In the market for the
purchase of 1000 freight cars. The
Norfolk and Western has ordered 1000
ventilator box cars, and, in addition
will also build l 900 gondola cars in Its
own shops at Roanoke. The Southern
Richmond. in Spencer, S. C, and at
other points busy rebuilding old freight
cars, and these shops are turning out
many that are as good as new.
Elkton. Md.-Justin A. Brown. ninety
years old. said to be one of the last
survivors of the Light Brigade at Bala-
klava in the Crimean war, died at his
home here after several weeks illness
Berkeley Springs. w. Va-While
hunting on Sleepy Creek mountain
Tracy H. Lintz of this place killed a
good specimen, and weighed twenty
three pounds. While fox hunting
Philip Minghini. Alex Mason. James De
Haven and Edward Hayes, with the as
sistance Of their dogs. succeeded In
killing a catamount near the Mount
Vernon orchard not far from Martins.
burg. The dogs chased the animal VI
a tree and Hayes sent a bullet through
it.
Roanoke, va.-Records in the office:
of the Norfolk and Western railway
show that during the past year that
company has built 1,1O5 miles OF sec
ond track. all in Virginia: side tracks
ward tracks, etc. 6444 miles; has ex-
pended for freight station and YARD
changes at Winston-Salem. N. c., $751;
900, and it has also installed seventy
miles of automatic block signals. The
| system now has 743 miles of line con
| trolled with automatic block signals
| 1t operates passenger trains on 1,91-
miles of line of which 631 miles have
automatic block signals and 9O5 miles
n on automatic block signals.