Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-28
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA
Statewide Prohibition Finds
More Endorsement.
INTEREST OVER DECISION
Historic Hotel. at Woodstock Sold
at Auction.
SPANISH WAR VETERAN DIES
Fruit Show to Have Notable Speak
ers-Farmer's Son Missing-Pure
Food Inspector Busy.
SPANISH WAR VETERAN DIE
pecial Correspondence Of The Star.

vention of the Anti-Saloon League of
Frederick county, which was held In the
city hall auditorium yesterday. Resolu
tions were adopted asking the general
| assembly to call an election to enable
| the people to vote on the question, and
| it Is expected other county conventions
will pursue the same course. Among
those who made addresses at the con-
vention were Rev. Ed j. Richardson OF
the northern district and Rev. Charles
E. Stuart of the southeastern Virginia
district The meetings of the convention
were largely attended and much interest
| was manifested.
! Involving the administration of the big
| Handley Iund OF more than million
collars, the property of the city OF Win
| chester. the case of the board of Handley
| trustees against the Winchester Memorial
| Hospital was argued in Richmond this
week before the supreme court of APP
| peals. \ decision is expected in a short
| time, and the outcome is awaited with
much interest, as the real point of the
suit is whether the city council or the
trustees shall have the right of DISPOSE
| ton Of the Handley fund. Judge John
Handley of Scranton, Pa, left the bulk
| of his estate to Winchester for a two
hundl ed-and-fif NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. library
and schools for the poor.
Must Go to Jail.
Macmillan Hirsch. the Harrisonurg
horse dealer, who was recently convicted
| of manslaughter and sentenced to nine
years at hard labor in the Virginia peni-
Tertiary for killing his brother-in- law,
Louis Isaacs. at Harrisonburg, has been
denied a writ of error by the supreme
court of appeals, and it is expected he
/ will be taken to the state prison next
week.
The Geary Hotel property at Wood
stock. Shenandoah county, was sold
| privately this week to John f. Bemis, a
liveryman of that place, for $500, which
| includes the furnishings. The Geary
| Hotel was the headquarters of Federal
and Confederate generals during the
civil war.
Frank Denver Mitchell, who was
paralyzed while serving in the United
States cavalry, died this week at the
home of his father, James Mitchell, at
Marlboro, Frederick county, in his
twenty-eighth year. He served six years
in the Philippines and other foreign
| countries. He leaves his parents and
/ several brothers and sisters.
A large fruit show will be held j con-
| nection with the annual convention of the
| Virginia Horticultural Society In this city
| on January and q, and according 10
| present indications it va. exceed in size
| anything of the kind ever helu by the
I
invitations to deliver practical addresses
| during the convention are Col. G.. b.
| Bracket, United States pomologist; Dr.
W. NJ. Scott and Prof. NJ. B. Waite of the
United States Department of Agriculture
| at Washington.
The authorities here have been asked to
| locate George Fiddler. young son ofs Will
liam Fiddler, farmer living near Bruce
| town, frederick county, who disappeared
| from his home early this week. Searching
1 ba
| but the boy cannot be found. 1t is
feared that he has fallen into the hands
of kidnapers.
Fire Department Celebrates.
| The entire Winchester fire department
celebrated Thanksgiving day with a large
parade at night. rfremen from Martins
burg, w. Va, were also in the process
| sion. which consisted of about 500 uni
| formed firemen an every piece of fire
| apparatus in the city.
Several thousand acres of land which
| have been cleared of timber by the De-
ford Tanning Company of Luray. situated
in Virginia a..d West Virginia, are being
made ready for apple trees, it being the
| intention of the company to engage
| in the fruit business as we'll as the
leather industry. 1t is said the new
| orchard will be one Of The largest in the
| United States.
Rev. A. A. P Neel. ST., a widely known
minister of the NJ. e. Church South. d ed
| a few days ago at Frankfort w. Va,
| after several months illness of tubercu-
| losis of the throat, aged sixty-nine years
| He was superintendent of public schools
| of Jefferson county for several years,
| after retiring from active ministerial
| work.
F. P Staley, the state pure food in
| spector, has been spending the past week
in the Shenandoah valley inspecting flour
| mills, bakeries and grocery stores in gem
or lrfio r,l-r -
| to firms dealing in country butter, and it
| is sad the inspector will have warrants Is
sued for merchants who are alleged TO
have sold short-weight print butter.
Hampshire Southern Road.
| The Hampshire Southern railroad. which
| Is now being built from Romney to
| Petersburg, w. Va, by wealthy Wash
! ington, New York and West Virginia CAPT.
| talists. will probably be extended to
Franklin. w. Va, to connect with another
new road for which a charter has just
been granted in Virginia and West Vir-
| ginia. The construction work is progress
| ing SO rapidly between Romney and
Petersburg that it is now believed the
trains will be running -ong before the time
stipulated in the contract. The big steel
bridge near ROmney has been completed
and the concrete work on the Oldfelds
bridge is we'll under way. Work on the
tation buildings has been in progress
.or the past two weeks. 1t is said that
| land is increasing in value rapidly in the
| vicinity of the new raiiroad, which will
| open up one of the wealthiest sections of
West Virginia, and that it is planned to
set out thousands of fruit trees on the
| eastern side of the mountains.
Chesapeake and Ohio canal navigation
| will, 1t is stated. close earlier this year
| than usual on account of extensive i'm
provements to be made to the towpath in
| the vicinity of SnepherustOwn. 1t is ex-
pected the water will be drawn off some
| time next week. A large number of men
are now at work getting out stone for the
| improvements on the five-mile level above
Shepherdstown. temporary railroad
track will be laid in the bed of the
canal and a dinkey engine used.
To Bring Apple Display Here.
The big apple display, which was ad-
mired at the recent annual banquet of
the North Shenandoah Fruit Growers
Association, will be taken to Washington
ana exhibited during the sessions Of the
Southern Commercial Congress in Deem
Der. 1t is expected that many fruit
growers of this section of the state will
attend the congress.
julius Douglas, cOlOred, has been ar
rested at Harrsonburg by post office in
| spector and held for trial, charged with
stealing letters containing valuables from
| the post Office box of d. G. Deyier, a
| jeweler of that place.
Over 10000 pounds of turkeys were
week to the northern markets. and the
commission merchants of that place paid
out about $50 600 to the farmers.
Howard Keesecker, alleged horse
/ thief escaped from Jail at Berkeley
Springs a few nights ago by unlocking