Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25
Apple Crop Is Short.

Apple Crop Is Short.
At meeting of the board Of directors
Of the Virginia Horticultural Society
held this week at Staunton the state
ment was given out that not more
than 80 per cent of full crop of APP
pies will be grown in Virginia this
year, according to the present out
look; but fruit growers of Frederick
county who were in town today de-
clared that that statement would not
hold good SO far as this immediate
locality is concerned.
Thousands of trees in Frederick
county will mature and bear fruit in
paying quantities this year for the
first time, and 1t is expected that the
local crop will be much larger than
those of other counties in the fruit
belt of the state.
The administrator Of Lewis Grim of
Winchester, who sued the Winchester
and Washington City Railway Com
pany for $4,000, was awarded a ver-
dict Of $1.44s.50 this week in the cir
cult court by the jury which tried the
case. and the company gave notice
that 1T would carry the case to the
supreme court of appeals of Virginia.
Grim was killed just year ago. He
was descending pole and his foot
| caught in electric wires, causing in
slant death.
Dr. M. b. Waite of the United States
Department or Agriculture was here this
week and addressed a large gathering of
local fruit growers concerning the best
methods of preventing further injury to
fruit trees by the use of certain brands
OF spraying fluids and compounds.
Preparing for Horse Show.
All the grounds and roadways in the
vicinity of the Berryville horse show
grounds have been saturated with oil by
| the directors in order to lay the dust
| during the annual horse show. Many
important improvements will be made to
the grounds before the show opens
A large part Of the historic Boydville
estate. near Martinsburg. once the home
OF the Boyds and now the home of the
Faulkners. has been sold by Judge E.
Boyd Faulkner to the Hill Crest Land
company for $l65 an acre. Some OF the
land has been acquired by the Standard
Lime and Stone Company, and the bal
ance has been divided into building lots
Lieut.. Noah Hedding. who served in a
Pennsylvania regiment during the civil
war, and who was captured at Winches-
ter and confined to Libby prison six
months, died this week at his home at
Berkeley Springs, aged seventy years.
The Dan Rice circus, which began its
season recently in Charleston. w. Va,
week, resulting in the management max
ing an assignment at Charles Town. Trus-
tee Campbell gave twenty-thousand-
dollar bond.
Inasmuch as all the bids received for
the construction of a waterWOrks system
in Romney, w. Va, were much higher
than the amount realized from the re-
cent bond issue, the town has decided to
do the work itself Several alterations
have been made in the original plans.
Road to Use Telephones.
Linemen have just completed the work
of stringing new wires over several d.
visions of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way for the Introduction of the telephone
system Of dispatching trains. The work
was begun at Staunton, and is to be ex-
tended eventually all over the system A
telegraph line will be maintained, how
ever, for emergencies.
There was much comment in Stanton
this week when it became known that a
hotel clerk had assigned Mai Gen Leon
ard Wood of the United States Army to
an ordinary top-foor room. He registered
simply as Il. Wood, Washington, D. c.
ana the presence of the distinguished
guest in the hotel was not fully realized
until he had departed the following morn
ing for Lexington, where he addressed
the graduates Of the Virginia Military In
stitute.
Prof. j. d. Harris of Amelia, Va, ar
rived here today and made final arrange
ments for the opening of tbs Winchester
Summer Normal School for Teachers.
which begins Tuesday for session last
ing throughout July. The enrolment Is
expected to be the largest in the history
of the institute.
While Robert Il. Hoover, eighty years
old, was sitting in a chair at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. g. ID. Wine, near
Churchville, Augusta county, this week.
he suddenly expired, passing away as ii
asleep. During the civil war he served in
Company l, 9TH Virginia Regiment.
Children Start Fire.
Several of Walter Allamong's children,
who We're playing with matches a few days
ago in bedroom at their home at Steph-
enson, set fire to the house, but the struc-
ture was saved by the combined efforts
of the entire neighborhood.
The frequency of false fire alarms in
Winchester has aroused the ire Of the
municipal authorities and the fire war