Evening star., 1922-04-30
OFFICIALS CLASH
OVER PRISONERS
Conflict Of Authority Keeps
Men Ordered to Roads
in Jail.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

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oners ordered by the court sent to
| work on public roads has arisen re-
Gently. and jailors appear unable to
| comply with one order without vio-
| lating another. A letter from Supt
!! Wood Of the state penitentiary states
that he has been advised by the at
torney general not to accept pris-
oners until they have been examined
by physician and pronounced free
| of infectious and contagious diseases.
A number of judges were said to
have ordered prisoners to the public
roads. Sheriffs and jailors have re-
fused to employ doctors to make the
q result many men ordered to the
roads are still marking time" in
jail: while the jailor collects for
| their board
Andrew Goldizen has been found
guilty Of second degree murder in
connection with the shooting and
killing of Harman Bell in Hopeville
Gap. Grant county. w. Va. and has
been sentenced to eighteen years in
| the penitentiary. Walter Hevner. in
| dicted with Goldizen, pleaded guilty
| to involuntary manslaughter, and
was given five years.
Addressing his last will and tesla
| ment ITO whom 1t may concern"
Fred 0. Miller, retired druggist. left
| all of his real and personal estate to
his two sisters. Misses Sallie L. and
Anna M. Miller. except small acre
where he had a bungalow. This and
5000 in cash he left to his friend. ].
p. Diffenderfer of Martinsville. Va.
| the property to revert to the testa-
tors sisters after Din.enderfer's
| death.
I John L. Lewis. president of the
! United Mine Workers of America. and
| a party of friends, all of whom are
attending the Logan county miners
trial at Charles Town, w. Va. spent
sightseeing in the Winchester sec
| ton of Shenandoah valley battle
| fieldsi Others In the party included
Mrs. Ed Chambers. Mrs. Mooney. SEN
ator Montgomery and Clayton Haines.
editor. Of. Charles Town.
| tions for the Handley Schools. to be
| erected here at a cost of about $780,
900, will be ready for contractors by
| May l. and contracts are to be
| awarded q month later. It was stated.
! The schools are to be ready for occu.
osnsS os isss. not later than the early fa'l
The woman's Missionary Society Of
| the Virginia Chassis. Reformed
Church. In session here. has ad-
journed to meet next year at Mount
Crawford. Va. onicers elected for
Ellen Seibert, Martinsburg. w. Va;
vice president, Mrs. S. w. Beck.
Mount Crawford: recording secretary.
Mrs. Clarence Woods, Winchester;
eorresponding secretary; y. Miss ); Annie Annie
| secretary. Mrs. Oscar Borden. Toms
Brook. Va. and treasurer. Mrs. ]. +.
! LEVEL. Mount Crawford. Mrs. clar-
ence Woods was elected delegate to
the missionary society convention OF
the Potomac Synod at High Point.
N. c., in October.
Alexander r. Pendleton. seventy
| four. wealthy retired lawyer and
one time owner Of immense timber
and farming lands in the two Vfr-
ginias. died here this week Of COM
| lower limb. A widow, formerly Mrs.
Lily cambridge Boyd. survives.
In addressing . large audience here
this week. Hanford MacNider. ma
| tional commander of the American
Legion, asserted that the govern
| disabled ex-service men and then
| pass the bonus bill. He was guest of
Robert Y. Conrad Post while here.
Rev. Boyd V. switzer, new pastor
Of Braddock Street Methodist Epis-
copal Church South. and his family
| were rendered q large reception on
Thursday evening by tho congrega-
land. Nd.
Nine graduate nurses Of Winchester
Memorial Hospital are to receive d.
plomas at commencement exercises
May 8, to be followed by dance.
The Winchester Gun Club yesterday
resumed weekly practice shoots. and
announced trophy classes for May
and June. Claude B. Stickley headed
the Il, ,dn list of shooters breaking 81 out
Albert c. Brown, for moro than
forty years chairman Of the repub-
lican committee Of Frederick county,
! has resigned on account Of advanced
| ago. He is said to be the Oldest
/! in the state.
| Funeral services were held Thurs
| day at Romney, W. Va. for Mrs. Mary
e. Cornwell, eighty-nine. mother Of
| former Gov. John J: Cornwell OF West
Virginia and Of William B. cornwell.
Stricken with heart disease while
| working in w. 8. Hiett's apple Or
| chard. near here. Albert Whitacrs.
| thirty-six. formerly Of Capon Bridge.
W. Va, died before q doctor could be
| called. His parents. = widow and
| three children survive.
| McHenry Holiday, member Of an
old Winchester family and for many
| years actively identified with civic
| and religious life in Staunton. Va.
| died at his home there of paralysis.
A widow, one son and a daughter
| survive.
The Winchester Presbytety has
1 given Rev. DR.. F. J. Brooke, Romney,
W. Va, permission to accept call
to the Presbyterian Church at Rural
| Retreat, Va. He will spend several
| weeks with q daughter in Missouri
| before taking up his new work.