Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1905-10-13
LOCAL BRIEFS.


1t is stated that Hon. Il. st. Ge
Tucker. the new president of til
jamestown Exposition company, WI
in few days resign as dean of tn
law school of Georgetown University.
Tuesday night five prisoners escape
from the county Jail hv cutting th
bars of the window. Those escapin
We're Kemp HOwdyshelI aud Emmett
Grant. and three negro prisoners.
Rev. Il b. Southall. recen lily of High
land, the newly elected pastor OF tn
Lexington Presby terrain church, will
occupy his pulpit next Sunday morn
ing.
The city treasurer has called in fol
redemption $4,000 of five per cent
bonds, part of the call recently au.
thoIizing by the city council and ma
yor.
The Shenandoah Valley Orchard Com
pany, with headq uarters at Mount
Jackson, Shenandoah county, b is been
Incorporated, with a capital of $50, 600,
for the purpose of planting a large fruit
orchard near that town.
The Virginia Stove Manufacturing
Co, of Waynesboro, of which Mr.. Geo.
Craig is secretary and treasurer, last
week made it's first shipment, which
was consigned to Mr.. L. X. R)by of
this city.
At the last meeting of the officers of
the First Presbyterian church, it was
decided to Invite the Synod of Virginia
To mee6 at the First church in 1906.
This movement has the hearty support
of the wOmen's societies of the church.
This year Synod meets in Richmond.
The goth anniversary of the landing
of the Jews IN this country will be
celebrated throughout the United
Sta ties in the Hebrews sonagogues and
Sabbath-schools on November % 26. the
Saturday and Sunday before Thanks
giving day.
Hon. b st. Geo. Tucker, who some
time ago was elected president of the
jamestown Exposition company, to
succeed Gen. Fltz Lee, has formally
accepted the position, and last week
personally inspected the work being
done there. He is highly pleas ed with |
the outlook for the success of under
taking.
Mrs. Alma Scheffer Dubois, laugh |
ter of Mr.. j. G. Scheffer of this city, !
committed suicide in Washington en-
Saturday afternoon by taking carbolic |
acid. 1t is thought that her mind be-
came unbalanced from the loss of her |
little child. Some years ago she mar
RED Chas. f. Dubois, clerk in the |
Treasury Department. She was a |
beautiful woman and very popular when |
she resided here.
Mrs. Pace, wife of Mr.. Il. A. Pace,
met with a serious accident, on Satur
day, some distance this side of Mt.
Sidney, to which place she was going |
with her daughter, Mrs. M. F. John
son. They met an automobile and |
Mrs. Pace became frightened at the
actions of the horse, jumped from the
buggy and broke her right thigh. She
was taken to her daughters home !
where her injuries received attention. |
She is getting along now as we'll as can |
be expected.
While in WaynesborO this week a |
representative learned of
some extraordinary apple sales, The
crop from one orchard near that town |
had brought $4,000 and there were
many sales at from $4,000 to $4,000,
which means that the growers sold |
their apples on the trees at those figures,
the purchaser doing the picking, bar
reling and shipping. What Is true of
Waynesboro and section in this regard |
is pretty much so all over Augusta
county. The apple crop has far ex-
ceeded the wheat crop and is much
more profitable. Local barrel makers
have been rushed to tue limit with Or
ders, some being compelled to work day
and night. In spite of this many apple |
buyers have been compelled to ship
barrels from distance, some comm G
vet and the barrel makers think the
worst Of the rush will be over.