Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
GENERAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
FROM WINCHESTER.

WINCHESTER, Va. June %, 1906.
party of engineers departed yesterday
from Winchester to make more detailed
| survey of the route between this city and
the Blue Ridge mountains, near Bluemont,
to be traversed by: the Winchester and
Washington City Railway Company for its
electric line.
Intelligence has been received here of the
sudden death last Tuesday of Miss Addle
L. Smith Of this city at Sumter Ga. where
she had gone to visit her sister, Mrs Susan
Rogers
Cadet William Armstrong. jr., of Norfolk,
who eloped to Washington this week with
Miss Louise Mcintyre, daughter of Maj.
Mcintyre OF the Bethel Military Academy
| at Warrenton. Va, where the cadet attend
ed school, brought his bride to Winchester
instead of going to his home in Norfolk.
Mrs. Maude Grandles of Vaucluse this
county. died yesterday of heart trouble. Her
husband and four children. the youngest
only two weeks Of age, survive her.
At the last meeting of the board of direc-
tors OF the Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Gettysburg, Pa, plans were inaugurated
foT the consolidation with that institution of
thu theological department of the Susque-
hanna University.
The open season for bass fishing in the
West Virginia rivers began this week and
large numbers of sportsmen from all Sec
ticns of the valley of Virginia, as well as
many from Washington who are on their
summer vacations, are headed for the
mountain districts west of Winchester.
where fine black bass are caught in the
Potomac and Capon rivers.
Church Nearing Completion.
In the new Centenary Reformed Church
of Winchester, which Is nearing completion,
will be about one dozen large memorial win
dows.
Thomas Money of Clarke county this week
pleaded guilty in Judge Harrison's court
hero to q charge of robbing a lad named
Lloyd E. Moore of about $40. He was sem
fenced to Imprisonment for five years in the
penitentiary at Richmond.
Arrangements are being made by auxiliary
societies in Winchester and many other
towns throughout the Shenandoah valley to
care for large numbers of "fresh-air" chill
dren from Baltimore tenement districts for
several weeks during the heated term.
Rtsking their lives to save faithful horse
from drowning, DR.. and Mrs Frank T. Pine
OF Gainesboro. this county, had a very mar
row escape last evening in Isaac creek,
near their home,
Inspector Stricken representing the Viz
ginia Pharmaceutical Association. which
has power to prosecute, is In this section
making Investigations at all country stores
to see whether any drugs are being sold
or dispensed in any other manner than in
the original package. which must bear the
stamp of a registered druggist.
Rev. DR.. Beverly cambridge Tucker, for
merry VI w llcHe5teT, Out TOT the past
twenty-five years rector of st. Paurs Prot
estant Episcopal Church. Norfolk who was
recently elected assistant to Bishop A. NJ.
Randolph of the diocese of southern Vlr-
ginia. announced yesterday that he would
reside IN Roanoke when he begins his new
duties in the fall.
Plans for Camp Meeting.
Plans are maturing for Southern Meth
odist camp meeting at Shenandoah juno
T,tlxr O1
August Q. in charge of Rev. Thomas c.
Jcres of Halltown and Bakerton circuit.
The seventeenth annual convention of the
Epworth Leagues of Frederick district.
Methodist Episcopal Church, was held this
week at Berkeley Springs, w. Va.
Me mbers of the bar of Luray Page coun-
ty. Will give banquet at the Hotel Law
rer.ce this week complimentary to the new
circuit judge. ,Talfourd Eaas, and also to
the retiring Judge. Thomas w. Harrison of
Winchesteys whose circuit has been short |
ened by a recent legislative act
Edward Heating Of Winchester recently |
University OF Chattanooga. Tennessee in |
ona year. standing third in class Of |
forty-three members.
The degree of doctor of divinity was this |
week conferred upon Rev. James Gray Nc |
Allister, formerly pastor of the Winchester |
Presbyterian Church, but now president Of |
Hampden-Sidney College, Farmville. Va, |
by Washington and jefferson College, |
Washington. Pa, and the Central Univer- |
sity of Kentucky.
Among the Harvard Law School graduates |
this month was Mr.. William Davis Conrad |
son of the late Dr. Daniel Burr Conrad OF 1
Winchester and a nephew of Maj. Holmes |
Conrad.
Herr Leddermeiser, German inventor. |
died last Thursday evening at Winchester |
Memorial Hospital.
The peach crop of Hampshire county w. |
Va. II is conserva lively estimated by the |
growers, is worth 100000 this year, and the |
question OF securing sufficient help to pick /
the fruit Is becoming a serious matter, |
some orchards containing as many as $1,000 |
trees of one variety.
Miss Julia Gatewood Allen, daughter OF |
the late Judge H. C. Allen of Woodstock, |
Va. was recently married at the residence /
of her mother. Mrs. ]. n. Allen, to Mr.. |
Henry Allen Latane OF Buchanan. Va Rev. /
Robert G. Jett OF the Episcopal Church /
of1ciated.
Falls Church News
Special Correspondence Of The Star.