Evening star., 1917-12-23
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.

INCHESIER, va, December 22.-
After supplying water to large con-
sumers for cents per 1000 gallons
for many years, the city of Winchester
has discovered that it is losing money
and that many of the industries using
large quantities of water are declar-
ling substantial dividends. some OF
them as high as 30 per cent. AS a
result, a halt is to be called. and water
| rates for such consumers will be ad-
vanced to at least cents per 1000
gallons. The lowest rate in 500 other
cities. 1t is shown by official figures. is
10 cents per 1000 gallons. City Man
ager Field made the discovery a few
fdays ago when he changed meters.
Harry F. Byrd Of Winchester, the
state fuel administrator. is urging the
federal administration to put interned
Germans to work at chopping wood
In the mountainous sections of vir-
permitting them to while their time
away at internment camps. Mr.. Byrd
states that there are between 1000
and 1000 healthy Germans interned in
the states adjacent to Virginia, and
he figures they can be used to advan-
tage
| Many of the drafted men from this
! section of Virginia, we'll as from
w est virginia ana ESaEsyiNanlH. VINO
have been training at Camp Lee for
the last three months. were unexpect-
edly transferred and placed in the
Regular Army a day or two ago, ac-
cording to letters received from the
men. and 1t is reported they will be
sent to France in the near future. after
a brief period of special training at
a camp further south. Many of these
men expected to spend the holidays at
home. Altogether 1000 men have been
I toll frftv1 f13y, dur $IH osf
week.
| Clinton C. Cough and Miss Lola May
Million. members of Frederick county
families. were married here Wednes-
day by Rev. r. w Rruhaker and left
on a wedding trip to the eastern cities
The same minister officiated at the
marriage of James Lester Price of
Ridgeway, w. Va, and Mrs. Anna Belle
Ritter of Frederick county.
The estate of the late Holmes Con- :
rad the widely known Virginia law
yer and solicitor general during the
second Cleveland administration, is in
litigation in the corporation court and
large number of lawyers have been
among them being Representative I.
w. Harrison. Arguments on demurrer
were heard at this term in the suit of
1.-THE executrix against the heirs. A cross
! bill had been filed by Holmes Goa
rad, jr, one of the defendants. to ascer-
tain what interest he had IN HIS
fathers estate under the will. He re-
Gently assigned a portion of his in
terest in the estate.
| A service flag containing thirty-one
stars has been placed on one side of
the sanctuary of Christ Protestant
Episcopal Church. with the Stars and
Stripes on the other side. The flag is
said to contain the largest number of
stars of any flag of the kind in this
section, and the thirty-one members
of the church who are in the military
and naval service are all volunteers.
| Friends here have received an
nouncement of the marriage of Miss
Eveline Idella Haseman. formerly of
this city, but more recently of Nor
folk, Va, to Walter ]. Irvine of that
city.
| C l. Robinson and c. VI. Solenberger
of Winchester have purchased an apple
orchard of l40 acres from a Fairmont
, wv. Va) syndicate. situated near
kearneysville. w. Va. on the main line
OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.