Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-07-03
NOTES FROM NEARBY

IN Frederick county are good.
The Sentinel says that the Metho,
dists of Front Royal contemplate the
building of an elegant new church
In the near future.
The National Guard of District o!
Columbia, 1,500 strong, will camp
ten days In Loudoun county. Thew
are to arrive July 18th.
Harry Glare. a painter of Front
Royal, died suddenly recently. He
was taken sick st work at Benton
Vile, and death came while being
conveyed home.
The Warren Sentinel SAYS that
several prominent farmers of War
rem county report that many fields of
wheat have been damaged by the fiy.
Also, that corn is in q fine condition.
Insurance rates have been material
ly reduced in Lursy, since the COM
pletion of the water works, the saw
ing In many cases, in this respect,
being enough, or more than enough,
to pay the water tax of 25 cents on
the hundred.-Psge News.
Rev. DR.. r. r. S. Hough, lately
pastor of the Methodist Church in
Berryville, will preach the annual
sermon TO the old Confederate sol
diers of Warren county in the Meth
odist Church at Front Royal Sunday.
July 18th.
Last Wednesday Miss Meta Taylor
Schley, of Shepherdstown, became the
bride of Mr.. Charles Walter, of
Chambersburg. Pa, IN Trinity Epis-
copal Church, Shepherdstown. The
bride is one of Shepherdstown's fair
est daughters.
John Newton Dunlap, of Charles
town, has returned from the Philip
pines Islands. He served as first
sergeant of Co. B. Forty-sixth Vol
unteer Infantry. He has been in
the service two years. His regiment
went into the field with 1926 rank
and file and returned with $40.
The Leesburg Mirror saws the
prospect for u fine wheat yield is good
IN Loudoun county, although some
of the farmers complain of the W heat
not being well filled in some places.
In Jefferson county, dispatch saws,
that the yield of wheat will be ex-
ceptionsbly good.
The proprietorship of Taylor Ho-
tel, Winchester, has again changed
hands. Mrs. Julia Brubaker, who
succeeded her late husband IN the
management of this well hostelrv.
has been succeeded by Col. Edward
{. Johnston, q former commercial
traveller, of Baltimore.
Sam Newton, charged under four
indictments with breaking aud en-
terlng some stores and the postoffice
at Upperville on the night of June
p, was tried at Warrenton last week.
He was fccnd guilty of each offeuse
and was sentenced to sixteen years
In the penitentisry.
The chsrtering of the Purcelville
National Bank at capital stock of
$4,000 gives Loudoun county three
national banks, the two in Leesburg
having deposits subject to check
amounting to 100000. This is a
good indication of the prosperous
condition of Loudoun county farm
ers.
The Potomac Lime and Stone Co.,
of Keller, Jefferson county, has been
chartered with a 100000 capital.
The company will quarry stone, man
ufacture lime, cement, fertilizer, and
get out coal, lumber and wood at
Keller. The incorporators are Chas.
+. and VIM. o. Keller, Raymond
Ford, a. ID. Ward, q. G. Bye and
Chas. Wamm.
Monticello" the celebrated stall
lion of Mr.. j. Frank Manning, of
the Chsrlestown neighborhood.
while exercising and playing in a lot
near his stable few days ago, rear
ed, lost his balance, and falling back
ward, suffered conclusion of the brain
from which be died. He was a large
brown horse, standing seventeen
hands in stocking feet, and was val
ned very highly.
The warm, bright weather of the
past ten days has greatly improved
the prospects for a splendid crop of
peaches. All fruit is doing nicely
and it is expected that shipments of
peaches to the North and East will
begin during July. Prominent
growers here assert that more peach
es will be shipped than we're sent
out two years ago when the crop was
exceptionally large Winchester
News Item.
Capt. John S. Undertake, of
Front Royal, who was paralyzed rec
emily, died last Monday morning
week, aged SO years. He leaves a
wife and six children. During the
civil war the deceased was in the
employment by the Confederate gov
eminent in the manufacture of gun
powder at st. Marks, Fla. He was
twice by the yankees and