Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-19
TAXDE[|NQUENTS
WARNED T0.SETTLE
Winchester Judge to Call
Grand Iury's Attention
+! to Law.
MANY FARMERS SUFFERED
/. LOSSES By RECENT FIRES
Band Of Yegsmen Reported Active
Again in Valley Towna-Heavy
Hail Destroys Fruit.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WINCHESTER. Va July 1s.-When
the corporation court for the city OF Win
chester is convened Monday morning by
Judge T. W. Harrison, it Is expected the
court VIII address the grand jury and
quote certain sections Of the state law
providing for the prosecution of mer-
chants and business and professional
men generally who have not settled with
the commissioner Of the revenue for
their state license taxes. All merchants
and others who have not renewed their
license taxes since the LIST of May are
doing business unlawfully, because their
licenses expired April 80. The majority
have paid. but many have not, and in
view Of the fact that the law is plain
there is no other course open to the
grand jury but to return indictments.
Much damage has been done by light
ming, sparks from locomotives and other
sources to the property OF farmers in
Frederick and Clarke counties of Vir-
ginia and Jefferson and other adjoin-
ing counties of West Virginia during the
the burning Of the barn. silo. sheds and
all contents on the farm Of Luther Nc
Cauley. south Of Winchester. All his
newly harvested wheat. along with farm
ing implements and other farming sup
plies went up in smoke.
Marshall Burns, living on the Colston
farm in Jefferson county. lost about
twenty acres Of wheat in the shock. a
large field Of hay and some valuable
timber on the stump. Fencing, straw and
timber, belonging to b. F. Ramey. a
neighbor. were destroyed about the same
time. A wheat field containing upward
OF 500 bushels OF grain, on the farm of
p. W. Harrison at Rippon station. went
up in fame and smoke in short time.
Great numbers of people from Fred
erick, Clarke, Jefferson and other coun-
ties attended the funeral today Of Miss
Annie Colston, Seventy-three years old.
who died suddenly Of heart disease
Thursday at the home Of her brother,
was stricken few moments after break
fast, and died almost instantly. Miss
Colston belonged to an old and promi-
nent Clarke county family. and was an
active member of the Baptist Church.
Her pastor, Rev. DIR. Julian Broaddus of
Berryville, OBLIGATED at the funeral and
her remains we're inferred in Mount Heb
ron cemetery in Winchester. Two broth
ers and four sisters survive. .
The first of the big church reunions to
that of the Reformed congregations Of
the District of Columbia and the states
Of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and
Pennsylvania, Thursday.
The weather was ideal for the occasion,
and the crowd was estimated at about
5000 or 10000. Tue principal address
was made by Rev. DR.. Levan Of North
Wales, Pa.
School Superintendent to Meet.
Superintendent Of public schools have
been notified that the annual conference
Of state superintendents will be held in
Lynchburg July . and 30, with Supt
R.. c. Stearnes of the department of pub
lie instruction presiding. The meeting
will offer a medium for the free exchange
of ideas between departmental officials
on the one hand and the city and county
school officers on the other.
A band Of yeggmen. which recently quit
operations in the Cumberland and Shen-
andoah valleys when county and railroad
officers got too hot on their trails, are
reported to have become active again,
office at Timber Ridge, near Lexington.
Va Fortunately. there was only SO in
cash and stamps in the Office at the
time, although much larger amounts are
usually kept in the safe.
John o. Nicodemus, one Of the largest
fruit growers Of the Winchester section,
who has acquired much of his great
wealth by marketing his own fruit in
stead of selling 1t to foreign buyers, has
bought mill property near Waynesboro.
Pa. where he had. big orchards. and is
making alterations which will give him
a five-story cold-storage plant of 10000
barrels capacity. A twenty-ton refrig-
Grating plant is also being installed.
Unique Fire Exhibit.
A unique exhibit showing the method
of volunteer fre-fighting three-quarters
of century ago and those of today will
be made by the Sarah Zane fire company
of Winchester at the annual convention
of the Cumberland Valley Volunteer
Firemen's Association in Chambersburg,
Pa. during the last week of July. This
company has an old-timc hand suction
pump, which Is In good working order,
and has been ever since they bought it
in 1910. and 1t is said to be the Oldest
piece of fire apparatus in this section.
Wardensville, Hardy county. reports
that hail as large as hen eggs fell CON
radius of ten or fifteen miles around
that place. doing great damage to ap-
pie and peach orchards. corn fields gar
dens and crops generally. Great guam
titles of fruit were either knocked of
the trees or so badly pelted and cut
and bruised by the hailstones as to
make it almost unfit for the market
Large fields of corn were torn and tat
tered by the hail.
The remains of Mrs. Sarah Suggett
fifty years old. wife of Robert Suggett
who died from cancer in Martinsburg.
W. Va, the early part of the week
we're brought to Winchester and inter-
red in a graveyard at Charlottesville,
Frederick county.
Wedding Sequel to Phone Romance.
John ]. .Hetzel. wealthy banker.
capitalist and politician of Martins
burg, whose first wife died several
years ago. and whose family is prom
inent in social circles. was married
this week to Miss Naomi Hovermale,
at Berkeley Springs. where he has been
living. since becoming interested in
several enterprises there. One of his
new ventures is a telephone company,
and Miss Hovermale. was employed at
central" II was there that the ro-
nance began --s'..
The regular summer meeting of the
Virginia Horticultural Society, held
Wednesday In connection with the
rural life conference at the University
Of Virginia, was attended by u large
number of fruit men representing prac-
tically every section Of the state. Sew
eral addresses along practical lines
from Washington and others by men
from the Virginia experimental station
Thomas Wood steck. forty-two years
old. wealthy Frederick county fruit
grower, died late yesterday in the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania Hospital in
Philadelphia from the effects of q
the removal Of q tumor from his brain.
Mr.. Steck was one of the most pro-
gressive apple growers in Virginia and
originated many new methods Of