The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-30
FEAR FRUIT CROP
WILL Be DAMAGED
Growers i'll Valley Apprehensivc
Over Frosts, Which Generally
Come in April.

Winchester. Va, March 29.--Tho re-
turn OF warm weather last week was
not welcomed by fruit growers many
or whom declare il means that much
OF tho carly fruit will DO ruined by the
freezing frosts which will como in
April. unless all prccedents are broken.
The weather had been most favorable
,or irui' growers until the middle OF
spell OF cold weather in the Virginia
valley from January, and this had the
erect or preventing trees from bud
ding. and thus enabling them to with
stand the late frostS, but many of the
oichard men now appear gloomy over
the situation in regard TO peaches.
pears. cherries, plums and other early
fruits. Hundreds OF trees are now
budding rapidly. and should the pres
Sht warm weather continue Il few days
longer the buds will probably open.
rms section Of the country is always
visited BY freezing weather some tino
curing tue month OF April, and orchard
men arc apprchensivc. The apple trees
not thought the April frostS will have
any material eject upon that variety
81 iru,t. The FRUIT industry now leads
ana the success or failure Of these
crops means much TO every one.
residents of Winchester who own
dogs nave been warned TO keen then,
properly muzzled or pcnned up on ac-
coun OF several rabid dogs being found
running ~ large day or two ago. one
OF which was finally cornercd and shot
70 ucath. The robid animals bit and
attacked other dogs, and the latter
nave been penncd up. y mad dog from
tnc county Is reported TO have bitten
rabies. WIN
=, a After ,fs,T sInEerIng for years with rheu-
xcars old, wife OF Deputy COUNT
Treasurer Robert s. smith. ARRANGED
~ A. the details Of her funeral, selected
mi too
requested n lifelong friend to sing a
SOLO. and expired this week. at Kerns-
w WIN All her wishes were complied
hnusoand. four children, her mother,
Mrs. l. Z. Massie and two sisters.
Robert Lee rutherford and Miss Ida
rrederick County families. were mar
rried this week at Brucctown by REV.
r, a. STROLLER. of tho Methodist Epis-
copai church south. and left the same
are being entertained 10y relatives and
friends: They Will live on Mr. Ruther-
of Winchester.
Deed Tinker. Washington horse,
track record last fall. will. il is stated,
country again this fall, along with
others from the stables OF Alonzo Cor
bin OF Washington. The horse has a
trotting record of ELS Ia. He is owned
by w. -. Clarkson. Of Iiagerstown. Md.
double wedding took place one ar
ternoon last week at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Winsboro 1T Front
Royal. when their daughters. Misses
Winnie and Marie Winsboro became
the brides of Clctue Franklin Harmon,
OF Ilarrlsonburg, and John L. Morris,
OF shelby, y. g, respectively. The
double ceremony was performed by
Rev. Louis Ridasill OF the Southern
Methodist Church of LewisburG, w. Va.
At the March term of the Circuit
Court of Clarke County at BcrryvilIe
last week two prisoners. Xedckiah
Truitt and Jackson Hall. threw them
selves upon the mercy OF the court
after being indicted. and the former
got two years In state prison for torC-
Ing check at Boycc and four months
additional for trying to break out Of
Jail. while. the latter was given two
years in the Penitentiary for forging
! orders on y. Is. Wyndham, Berry
VILE merchant
AIRS. Anne Virginia Crum, seventy
nine years old, widow OF Charles l..
Crum, Il former prominent Winchester
capitalist. died on Thursday. She had
been an invalid sixteen years and
much of that time was devoted TO lit
ernry work: Her husband laid Off the
grounds of Stoncwall Cemetery OF
Winchester. the first Confederate bury
Ing ground opened in the South, and
had charge OF the work of removing
the remains Of soldiers long since dead
from other cemeteries in the Virginia
Valley. In this work he was assisted
by his wife. Mrs. Crum leaves two
daughters. She was formerly Miss
Keller and came of German parents