Thunderstorm and Wind

Thunderstorm and Wind

Hit Washington

> Thursday afternoon, July 12, about 6 o’clock, a freak (windstorm ■whipped through Washington, causing some inconvenience and ’ expense but injuring no one.

Mrs. Lewis Turner received one of the more seriousl blows of the storm when lightning burned outi Iher electric stove, with ithe dinner ! chicken frying thereon. She transported the hot rolls to her neigh* bor, Mrs. W. C. Campbell, and let them finish cooking.

The yard at the hoirfe of Mrs. Prank Moffett was . strewn with, limbs and branches of trees.

Mrs. Downing Wood got caught . with a carload of children on their ■way from the swimming Role when a fallen tree blocked the road. She was rescued by Charles G. Reid and ^others who chopped the tree out of the way. _ Trees were broken in the Epls-' copal church yard ^ a tree limb fell in the yard of Mrs. B. R. Cox; and a falling branch at “Mt. Prospect” broke a window glass from the car of John Caskie, a guest at the W. A. Miller home. -' One of the old apple trees was blown down on the Gteest lot, now being fixed up as the town playground. The tree nearest the street (was the one to go and it was the shade to be used for the pic; nic table and the little tots’ sandbox. ' \ "

At Harris Hollow Farm, Mrs. Elizabeth DeBergh entertained the "bridge club in a romantic fashion" of a former day—coal-oil lamps and candles—when a falling tpee got a power line.

Telephone service was disrupted for days. Local calls were resumed shortly after the storm, but longdistance calls wens'impossible until many wires were put up again.

Charlie Bruce bad some extra twigs to pick up from his lawn. Tis known that went against his "grain, seriously, for he declares Mrs. Bruce walks around the place looking for dead leaves for him to trim and pick up, anyway, and a wind-storm just located more for her to see.

Mrs. Virginia P. Ptomaine

•• Sirs. Virginia Partlaw Romaine, 88, of Ramsey, N. J., died July 7, at her home after a long illness.

Mrs. Romaine, daughter of Judge Ira Partlow and the late Mrs. Partlow of Welch, W. Va., is survived by her father, two sisters, Mrs. Helen Partlow McLean of Cherry Point, N. C., and Mrs. Alice Partlow Billings of Detroit,Mich.; her husband, Berchard Romaine, and a daughter, Andrea.

Mrs. Romaine was the niece of Mrs. D. C. Updike and Mrs. Rosa Bishop of Washington, and Mrs. B. R. Cannon of Castleton.

Funeral services will be held today at the Episcopal church in, Ramsey and burial will be at "Ivy Hill,” cemetery, New Jersey.

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