The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-10

ABOUT the failure Of Smaller crops, as
they VIII reap handsome profits from
their apples There has been much
cltilculty experienced In obtaining com.
petent labor in the work OF picking
and packing the fruit, and In a nut1iber
81 instances expert packers fave been
brought from other sections Of the
country.
Ihere Is much activity In the vicinity
I, or the freight warehouses and apple
shipping sheds In the vicinity of Win
chester at present The Cumberland
valley and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroads have large sheds in the local
Yards, and at points within a mile
Where farmers Gun deliver their bar.
relied apples for shipment, and the fruit
liz now being sent out by the train
evening in order to prevent conges-
ton.
Members of the Acken-Kcezel Re.
publican faction in Rockingham coun-
ty are enjoying great laugh at the
expense of Captain John Paul, who Is
running for Congress on another fac
tional ticket this fall, 1t having been
brought about by Captain Paul re-
ceiving circular letter from Wash
.ngton, stating that he had been APP
pointed a referee in the Seventh Con-
gressional District. HIS friends con.
Guided at once that he had been APP
tointed to supplant John Acker. and
that the latter had been ouated as q
referee. 1t turns out that Postmaster
General Hitchcock has simply appointed
more Federal referees all over the
country. and that Captain Paul hap
pened to be added to the list. which
in no way disqualified Mr.. Acker.
Peter Winchester Rouss. the young
New YORK millionaire merchant. who
his father. the late Charles
broadway Rouss, as head OF the big
Rouss mercantile establishment, pre-.
scented the Winchester Memorial Hos
rttal with check for $500 while in
town few days ago, to be placed to
the general fund. He also directed the
board of directors Of Mount Hebron
Cemetery Association TO make extcn.
sive improvements in the cemetery, and
to have ,hc big iron fence painted at
his expense. Mr.. Rouss's parents and
ether members of the family now de.
ceased, are Inferred In the Rouss
which occupies large
space in the Gem etery, overlooking tho
shenandoah Valley FOR many miles.
Commander Louis Mccoy Mutton, OF
Winchester, who has been executive
officer of the battleship Wisconsin for
the past year. has been selected as
head of the department of ordnance
and gunncry ct the Naval Academy at |
annapolis. Commander Mutton is the |
h USE 49, -
now used at the academy, |
and was one OF the editors CT the new
dictionary now in use there. His
father the late Colonel Joseph A. Null
ton, commanded the Second Virginia
regiment for many years. Surgeon A. !
III. Dupuy Mccormick of Berryville, |
Va, has been named as head Of tho
department. Of naval hygiene and ply
siolosy al the academy.
Relatives ct Mount Jackson have re.
.eiyed news OF the death Of Charles
]. Jones, which occurred few days ago
explosion. He was employed there as
, weigher. His father was the late |
Dr.. j. H. Jones, who was FIR many
ears prominent Republican politi-
Ian in tle Seventh District.
AS soon as City Sergeant J. w Tay-
or. of Winchester died suddenly on
Thursday afternoon, there was rush
of applicants for his position. and
many prominent citizens have con-
.ennned SUCH proceedings. which were
oracticed at the time of the death of
he late sheriff. Clark II. Purcell.
Judge w. NJ Atkinson, of the Corpora,
ion Court, who is to name Sergeant
'aylorS SUCCESSOR, announced that he
WOULD entertain no thought Of con-
idering a successor until some time
tier the la:e sergeant's funeral.