Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-21
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.

WINCHESTER, Va, April 2O-A par
don has been granted by Gov. Davis to
Joseph Wallenstein, a young Washing.
ton Hebrew, convicted in Winchester
about four years ago of HOUSEKEEPING
ana larceny and sentenced to ten years
IN the penitentiary. He broke into the
clothing store and ticket office of S. H.
Haoie and got away with over $500 in
money, railroad tickets and clothing.
Inc pardon is said to have been due to
5ne untlring efforts on the part of Wal
iensteln's devoted wife,
me enects Of blizzard which swept
over large section of the country last
week are still in evidence in the War
uehsVl!ie locality of Hardy county. w.
va. where considerable snow remains
On the ground and many streams flood
the lowlands. Wardensville merchants
report that the snow reached a dentb
OF n1ty-four inches on the level in the
drifts. 10
school superintendents from about
twenty counties of the state attended a
conference in Harrisonburg, presided
over by Harris Hart, who recently be-
came superintendent Of public instruc-
,lon OF Virginia. The recent school
tss was carefully studied and
the program for the session of 19181e
was clearly outlined. Mr. Hart went
INTO the campaign promising more sim
pinned methods in conducting state free
schools. and he stated that he intended
TO carry out that policy
Patitions are being circulated amonp
the fruit growers of the Winchester
section requesting Representative Har.
rison OF the seventh Virginia district
70 use his influence to defeat the pro-
WHICH. 1t is stated. will be introduced
IN congress in the near future. 1t is
CANNED that the provisions of the bill
are so drastic that few, if any, growers
couio aHord to undertake to comply
with them. 1t was proposed to intro
duce similar bill in the Virginia leg
lslature during its recent session. but
SO much opposition developed that the
measure was not presented A law
drawn up along the same lines and
passed by the West Virginia 1eeisiatmre
several years ago has been found to be
imperative
James Guy Shaffer. fireman of the
crew OF the naval collier Cyclops, re-
son Of Mrs. ]. w. Thomas of Martins
burg. w. Va, and was formerly en-
ployed here by the Adams Express
Company. He is twenty-six years old
and married Miss Mary Bell Bryarly of
Martlnsburg. He enlisted last summer
at Haserstown and was sent to Brook
Ign: the home port of the Cyclops.
All the nre Streamers and motor en-
sfHeS III winchester nave been workins
day and night during the past week
draining cellars which were flooded as
result OF upward of forty inches Of
snow melting suddenly and inundating
lowlands.
The Valley Turnpike Company. which
controls the famous highway between
winchester and Staunton. has contract
ed for 100000 gallons Of ugite, which
will be spread over the surface of the
road as soon as the material can be de-
livered.
Edward Devereaux Bowly. seventy
four, who joined Col. r. P. Chew's
noted battery of artillery in the Con-
federate army. died recently in the Sol
| diers' Home at Richmond. He belonged
to well known Winchester family and
was unmarried. Surviving are three
brothers and two sisters, one of the
latter being Mrs. Mary Webb of Wash
ington.
Instead of doing the damage feared
/ at the time. the heavy snow of last
week has had little effect on fruit
prospects in the Shenandoah and Cum
| berland valleys Farmers report that
| the snow had been of almost inestima
BILE benefit to the wheat and grass