Evening star., 1922-08-13
WINCHESTER.

While Arthur Brown and wife went
into the thickets to pick berries near
Columbia Furnace they left three
small children at home. one OF whom.
Bennett, wandered to well on the
premises and was drowned.
While the estate of the late James
B. Cooper, retired Frederick county
farmer. was being divided according
to law. a will dated many years ago
was found between pages OF an old
German Bible. 1t left the estate to
his two sisters.
James Hounshell and five boys
killed forty-tive snakes one after
noon this week at Briery branch,
Rockingham county, of which thirty
one were rattlers and fourteen cop
perheads. They first discovered a
number OF snakes under a large stone
and during the battle others APP
peared. The slayers used clubs and
stones.
Dewey I. Bait. the car inspec-
tor recently beaten and tarred ana
feathered at HaGerstown by unknown
persons. is wanted here on a charge
of wife desertion. His wife swore
out the warrant after Mrs. Ruth
Smith Copeland shot herself in tne
breast because. she said she was
''in love with Dewey Bait and he
would not come out of the mouse 10
see her.
Samuel f.. Mcdonald. eis'hty-siN.
who served in the Stonewall brigade
of the Confederate army during the
civil war, died at his home near here
this week
Gray Silver. representative IN
Washington of the American Farm
Bureau Federation. is to be the prln-
cipal speaker at a big "get-together
farmers meeting at Endless Caverns,
near New Market. Va, August u.
w. S. Brown, Washington. and MRS.
of
friends for many years. We're married
I. few days ago at the latter place.
Charles Campbell farm employe of
Mount Jack son, was found dead. pre-
sumably from heart failure, along the
Shenandoah river bank. after beihs
missed from home for three days.
When last seen alive he was cutting
weeds with a scythe.
John =. Lillard Il prominent rage
county farmer, who bought large
farm and moved near here recently,
died this week of peritonitis. follow
ing an. operation for appendicitis,
aged fifty-three years.
State Democratic Chairman II. r.
Byrd has been spending several days
at Bristol and other points in the
ninth congressional district conter-
ring with district and county leaders
and assisting in outlining itineraries
for democratic speakers during the
fall campaign.
DR.. and Mrs. Randolph 7. Shields,
who have been spending a year IN
this country. left yesterday to sali
next week for China. where they VIII
work for the Southern Presbyterian
Church pr. shields was last year a
Rockefeller Foundation exchange
professor at Johns Hopkins Cniver-
sity. Baltimore
The new United Brethren Church
-
and which is said to be one or the
largest ard most modern and com.
plete in the Virginia conference. VIII
he dedicated August 90. the sermon
being preached by Bishop ". NJ Bell
of Los Angeles and Harrisburg.
other prominent clergymen VIII as
sist in the dedication. The Rev.
George W. Slower is pastor.
]. Elmer Shultz Of Mocksville, n. e.,
who served with the engineers over
seas during the world war. no" CON
nected with the North Carolina state
highway department. and Miss Jean
Welsh Baird, daughter of the late
MIR. and Mrs. William Nelson Baird,
Romnev, W. Va, were married at
the home of the brides sister, Mrs.
j. II. MolinG. jr
Ralph ID. Tunis. Pittsburgh. Pa,
and Miss Ruth Locke Huyett. daugh-
ter of Luther r. Huyett. Charles Town,
". Va, and until recently connected
with the nursing staff of Sibley Eos-
pital. Washington. were married mere
this week.
over one hundred men of headquar-
ters company and Company I. 116th
Infantry. Maj. r. T. Barton and Capt.
George H Grimm. respectively. com.
manding. have Joined other units OF
the regiment at Virginia Beach for
two weeks instruction under regu-
lar Army officers.
Less than $4,000 remains to be
subscribed of the capital stock of
the George Washington Hotel Cor
poration, which is to erect a S35o,ooo
hotel of 100 rooms here as soon as
the remaining stock is taken. Lewis
f,cers and directors are among the
most prominent business and profess
sional men here. Robert Lee Grant,
formerly of the old Ebbitt House,
washington, is to be manager