Evening star., 1922-08-02
plan 100000
ELECTRIC Project
Extensive improvements Are
to Be Made in Nearby
States.
Special Dispateh to he star.

Special 0l1p1tch 70 I1o SUR.
WINCHESTER. Va. August a.-The
American Water Works and Electric
Company Of New York. which this
week completed the purchase Of the
common stock OF ths Potomac Public
Service Company for $so0.o0e. plans
to spend approximately S1.oeo.o0o on
improving the electrical power and
lighting service plants now In opera
ton in Virginia. West Virginia. Mary
land and Pennsylvania. Several OF
these plants only recently were en-
larged and otherwise Improved. but
the scope Of the business is to be
broadened.
Winchester Boy ScoutA camping
last week on Cedar creek. four nues
west Of Middletown, discovered a
large cavern while on . hikh through
q region not often traversed. They
went half a mile In various cham
bers. and 1t was said further ex-
'erful searchlights. They named it
Kit Carson's Cave"
G. e. Emerson. flour miller. formerly
OF Baltimore, aged about sixty years,
has been held for the grand jury at
woodstock. Va. on complaint Of Anna
age. apd Jesse Hickman and wife.
her parents. also have been held as
accessories in the girls delinquency.
Rev. H. J. Dudley. formerly of
Richmond, Va. who has been visiting
his brother, Rev. W. L Dudley. here.
OF Christ.
Committees are to be appointed
early this week to make al! n-y s.
sary arrangements for entertainment
of delegates and others who will at
here of the Virginia grand camp,
United Confederate Veterans. Angus,
1881, inclusive.
Plans for reorganizing the Virginia
branch Of the National Farm Fedora
ton Bureau were considered at q
committee. held last week in Roanoke
and attended by committeeman and
directors from different sections of
Funeral rvi.es were held last
week for Mrs. Columbia Darlington
Capt. John H. McKenzie. United States
Army, whose death followed a recent
stroke of paralysis.
Rev. John McVerry. whose golden
jubilee celebration here In the sum-
NOR Of 1919 was the first of the kind
ever held in the virginia diocese of
the Catholic Church. has been spend
ing the week visiting churches in the
lower Shenandoah valley. Although
about eighty-five years old. he en-
joys excellent health. and has i'm
that p Keep pA him s' busy ali Il the ct time. e"f's
Announcement has just been made
Of the marriage here July Is Of
Strother Shull and Mrs. Georgia
Graves. members Of old and well
known local families.
Friends here have been advised Of
the death last week at Asheville. N.
c., of George r. Calvert. forty-three,
widely known in the east and south
as an official Of the Western Union
Telegraph Company.
A. Meredith Woore. q University Of
Virginia student, home on vacation.
face badly crushed several days ago
when in diving from a boat in the
Potomac river he struck against q
ledge of rock on the river bottom.
John r. Hutcheson. director of the
Virginia farm extension bureau Of
Saturday at a large meeting of Fred
erick county carter and fruit growers.
Arrangements we're made for coop
erative buying Of fertilizer. seed and
other supplies.
of Shenandoah county has success
fully defended a suit brought by
Frank Orndorff. who claimed the late
Mr.. Rogers executed and signed a
bond for $1,000, payable to Orndorff.
and also had signed an agreement
giving his reasons for signing the
bond. After q trial lasting fve days.
during which several handwriting ex-
perts gave important testimony, the
jury held that the bond and agree
ment had not been signed by Rogers
While members Of the family Of
william Hefiin, near Bentonvil1e. were
attending his daughters funeral sew
eral days ago, some one robbed the
house of a large quantity OF cured
meat.
Plans for the erection at an early
date Of the George Washington Hotel
by a corporation of that name are
being whipped into shape rapidly,
and 1t is expected building operations
will be begun in . short time. ac-
cording to a statement given out by
Lewis F. Cooper, president of the
corporation. The building and fur
nishings will cost approximately
$3.50, 900, and will be situated at the
southeast corner of Market and Pic
cadilly streets.