Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-24
GROWERS ARE HOLDING ON
Keep in Touch With Markets
Through Own Association.
BATTLE ON SALOON ISSUE
"Wets" and "Drys" in Winchester
Lining Up for Hard Fight.
Peach Packers Scarce.
Special Correspondence of the Star.


WINCHESTER, Va, July %, 1910.
Apple buyers from the northern and
eastern markets who have been here
during the past week seeking to obtain
options on the large Frederick county
orchards have been informed that none
of the local growers intends to grant
such concessions until late in the season.
Although there will be a large crop in
the northwest, apples have failed in
many of the large producing states of
the middle west, and the crop is also
short in Europe. and particularly in
England, where the Virginia valley ap-
pies find ready market.
Through associations the local growers
are in touch with the situation as we'll
as the buyers, and the owners of the
large commercial orchards of Frederick
| county and adjoining territory will not
make contracts until about the LIST of
September. The apples here this year
will he of exceptionally fine quality, and
no less than 100000 barrels for export
purposes will be picked. The growers
say they have every reason to expect
the crop this year TO yield as high if
not better prices than last year Some
OF the Frederick county pippins sent to
England last fall retailed at IS a bushel
in the London, Liverpool and Sheffield
markets.
Slayer May Go Free.
1t is generally believed in Hampshire
county that George Fletcher will not
be convicted of first degree murder on
the charge of shooting and killing ]. W.
Blake few days ago, but that he may
go free altogether Fletcher and his
wife left Pennsylvania, it is said in or
der TO avoid q Oft
Mrs. Fletcher had been obnoxious, but
after truce had been declared Blake
was permitted to board with the Fetch
ers at their new home, near Romney.
He is said to have become Intoxicated
the other night, and drove the Fletchers
from the house. During the excitement
Fletcher grabbed a shotgun and fired. He
went for warrant, and when the sheriff
came to arrest Blake the latter was found
dead.
Blakes stepfather, who came on from
Sylvia. Pa, stated that Blake was re-
garded in that section as bad man."
and that he had served a term in the
penltentlary. Blake'S remains had to be
buried at the expense of the county, The
burial was at night, and people who
were present say the night burial was a
weird and uncanny spectacle. Lanterns
had to be used.
The taxpayers of Romney, Hampshire
county, W. Va, have appointed a COM
mlttee to act in conjunction with a COM
mlttee of the town council in the matte r
or selecting a source for the projected
new water supply. and the citizens meet
ing also Endorsed the proposition to issue
bonds. Since the Hampshire Southern
railroad was built from Romney to
Mooretield by Washington and New York
capitalists real estate prices have ad-
vanced steadily, and number of large
| lot sales have been held during the
| past two weeks. Additional water power
facilities will have to be provided in Rom
ney and vicinity in order to meet the
demands Of new industries.
Lining Up for Fight.
| chester are said to be preparing for a
whirlwind campaign, which is to begin a
week or ten days before the local option
election here August 8. Both sides are
busy gathering in campaign arguments,
and 1t is expected the Anti-Saloon League
| of Virginia will send experienced cam
paigners into the fight. The campaign here
little over two years ago, when the sa-
looms were voted out, was one of the
| most heated in the history of the state
Mrs. Frances Clayton Headley, wife of
Frank o. Headley, president of the Head
ley Chocolate Company of Baltimore, died
| in Winchester this week at the home OF
her parents, Capt. and Mrs George W.
kurtZ, after a lingering sickness, aged
| husband, one son, her parents and four
| sisters
Preparations are being made at Har-
pers Ferry for the annual Jennie Smith
picnic, to be held July %, and which will,
as usual, be attended by hundreds of en-
ployes OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
and their families and friends. Miss
Smith, who is known as the railroad
| evangelist, has made arrangements to
| come from Washington and speak to the
men,
1t was stated today that another ice
| factory and cold storage plant is to be
erected near the Cumberland Valley rail-
road freight yards in Winchester, to be
| one of the largest industries OF the kind
in the south. The promoters will cater
principally to the apple trade in the stor-
age business.
Harry Osburn, a young married man
and member of good family of Jeffer-
son county, is in Jail at Charlestown
awaiting the action of the grand jury on
the charge of forging the name OF Henry
Snyder, his employer, to check for 40.
Oscar Compile, who served in Company
X, I'd Virginia Infantry, during the civil
war, died recently at his home at Boil
var, w. Va, aged seventy-seven years.
His family, one of the oldest of Harpers
| Ferry, was identified with the old United
States armory there during the war.
Killed by Fall on Glass.
| While SuHeTlnS from du attain VI
epilepsy. Lewis Brown. young son of
James Brown of Shenandoah, Va, fell
through a glass case in store and was
SO badly cut by the broken glass that he
| died.
| The body of a white man found in
| fish pot in Opequon creek, near Martins
burg, recently, and which was buried by
the county after 1t had been thought I'M
possible to identify him, turns out to be
| Tice NJ Roberts of Brucetown. this coun-
ty, who had been working in Martins
| burg bakery and who had wandered
away His brother-in-law, Charles F.
| Laise of Bunker Hill, had the body ex-
| humed and he was able to identify the
decomposed corpse as that of Roberts by
| the peculiar formation of his teeth.
| A new military company Is In process
of formation at Charles Town. and John
| 81 rother Mnn has been elected captain, Ia