Evening star., 1917-01-14
Maryland and the Virginias

Front Royal. Va-The Front Royal
high school and graded school started
the new year with the largest enroll
ment in the history of the school. a
total of 44O pupils including eight new
ones At a faculty meeting held in the
office of the principal committee was
appointed to make out uniform exam
nations for seventh grades throughout
the county.
Strasburg. ya.-It has been stated
that County Clerk NJ. b. Wunder has
issued more hunting licenses than any
other clerk in the valley. He has been
doing an increasing business since July,
the number of licenses issued each
month being an increase over that of
the preceding month until Novemb Der,
when he issued more in that one month
than during the four previous months
New Market, Va.-Harry Kagey re-
Gently sold to Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Zirkle
a tract of thirty-three and three quar-
ters acres of land. dwelling and out
buildings. part of the John G. Zirkle
place. at $3.50 an acre. The same day
Miss Annie Price also sold Mr.. and Mrs.
Zirkle parcel of eighteen acres ad-
joining the above tract for s121 an
acre. This gives Mr. and Mrs. Zirkle
farm of ffty-one and .three-uuarters
acres of bottom land. lying between
the river and the Southern railway.
Cumberland. Md circular an
nouncing the appointment of, r. Il.
Stout as acting master mechanic of the
Baltimore and Ohio shops in South
Cumberland has been received from the
company office at Baltimore by the
superintendent of the Cumberland di-
vision.
Hagerstown. Md.-The Farmers and
Fruit Growers Association of Chews-
Vile has elected the following officers:
president. Frank II. Kretsinger; secre-
tary and treasurer. j. Kieffer Funk,
and assistant secretary. Charles V
Yessler. r. NJ Shuman. brakeman on
the Western Maryland railway, was
badly injured in the yards in this city
recently by being struck by a draft of
cars and his right leg crushed about
six Inches below the knee
Martfnsburg. w. Va.-Chief Martin
Quinn of the fire department, who has
been keeping the only accurate records
of fires and alarms in ,Martinsburg
since he became head of the department
a few years ago, reports small num-
ber of fires for the year of 1916. There
were but fifty seven, and of these twen-
ty-seven were due to dirty and de-
fectivc chimneys.
BIuefeId, w. Va.-Judge Joseph NJ.
Sanders of this place was elected presi
dent of the West Virginia Bar Associa-
ton at it's thirty-second annual meet
ing and the following vice presidents
were elected: Ira z. Robinson, Grafton;
Frank Cox, Morgantown; Haywood Nc
Dowell. Clarksburg; W: X. Cowden,
Huntington; Wyndham Stokes, Welch,
and A. J. Horan, Fayetteville. J. r.
Morris. jr.. of Moundsville was chosen
secretary and c. A. Kreps of Parkers-
burg treasurer.
La Plata. Md.-Richard William Sill
vester for twenty years president of
the Maryland Agricultural College and
one of the early advocates of scientific
farming. died recently in the Union
Protestant Infirmary Hospital of pneu-
monia after an illness of only three
days. He was fifty-nine years old.
GordOnsviIle. Va.-Word has been re-
ceived that Ashby Mundy. twenty eight
years old. of Barboursville. employed as
head foreman on the British stock
transport Volumnia, was killed in a fall
aboard the ship recently while the
steamer was returning from Gibraltar
to Newport News.
Hamilton, Va.-Ben Lomond DR.. +.
NJ. Rixeys Manassas estate of 1912
acres, has been purchased by F. w.
Bruch of Cleveland, Ohio. The purchase
price Is said to have been $4,000. The
this section of Virginia. lies in Prince
William and Fairfax counties.
Frederick, Md.-The threatened coal
famine has reached Frederick. AS a
result Frederick folks are sentenced
to darkness from midnight until the
dawn of day for an indefinite period.
dependent upon the receipt of con-
signment of fuel. superintendent and
managers of the various factories in
Frederick yesterday reported adequate
supplies of coal. sufficient at least to
operate their plants for a reasonable
period of time, during which they could
make arrangements for an additional
supply.
OF the firing line where he spent the
last six months as driver in the
American Ambulance Corps in France.
]. Letcher Harrison. son of the late
Prof. James A. Harrison of the uni
versity, has returned to his home at the
After taking the law course
for the remainder of the session. it is
his intention to return to the American
in June for three months
services.
Martinsburg, w. Va.-The business
at the office of County Clerk Hobbs dur
ing 1876 showed a slight increase over
the figures for 1918. There were ss4
ed during 1916. as compared with s03
in 1915. There were 122 marriage
licenses issued during 1916, as against
lis In 1915.
Cumberland, Md.-With the excep-
tion of the gold watch and chain which |
belonged to her husband Elizabeth
in her will leaves all her other