Evening star., 1915-06-13
VALLEY OF VIRGINIA.
Specia, Correspondent of The Star.

Special Correspondent of The Star.
/ WINCHESTER, Va. June 12.-Harry
| W. Stewart. former cashier of the
First National Bank of New Market.
| shenandoah county, who suddenly dis
appeared about a month ago. after
| the directors had taken him to task
Tor spending more money than his
salary amounted to- as was an
hounced by the board. was indicted
by the grand jury of the United States
district court at Harrisonburg this
week. and will be tried during the
Roanoke term Of court there June -.
stewart. who is about twenty five
years old, and who is said to belong
! to an old and prominent Pennsylvania
family. was short in his accounts
about $4,000. He was bonded for
Sio,oN. Stewart made his way west to
| San francisco. but was brought back
| by the federal authorities
| Although the blossom blight has
| done considerable damage to certain
| commercial varieties of apples in this
section of Virginia and the contiguous
| portions of West Virginia. indications
at this time are that what fruit is
| gathered will be of exceptional quail
| lty. The peach bloom was heavy
| that some of the most extensive grow
| ers are employing experts to thin the
| orchards. so that the fruit will be of
| larger size and better quality. Peach
| growers generally agree that this
summers crop will be enormous.
Academy's Commencement Exercises
The commencement exercises of the
Shenandoah Valley Academy of Win
chester. established long before the
civil war, were held Thursday in John
Handley Memorial Library. with the
principal DR.. B. NJ. Roszel, presiding
The address to the graduates was
made by City Solicitor Williams of the
| board OF trustees. The final ball was
held afterward in the academy GYM
| nasium.
! In the United States district court
| this week at Harrisonburg. Judge Fl. c.
| Mcdowell presiding. Harvey Sutphin.
| postmaster at Merrimac Mines, Mont
| gomery county. Va, entered a plea of
guilty to charge of using post Office
money because of illness in his fam
| lily. The court ordered him to Jail for
| sixty days. The shortage is said to
| have amounted TO about $50.
Mr. and Mrs w. c. Marshall of Win
| chester, ordained recently by Bishop
Gibson at the Episcopal Theological
Seminary at Alexandria, has been as
Fauquier county. Va, and will begin
| his duties shortly. Rev. l.. r. Craighill
| of Lynchburg, ordained at the same
| time, and who has been visiting at
the Marshall home here, will engage
| in missionary work in China.
Silver Wedding Anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs Robert T. Barton gave
large reception at their home in
Winchester Thursday evening in cele-
bration of the twenty-ffth anniversary
1 of hai oh MIA n
Christ P. f. Church. June 10. 1890. Rev.
Nelson p. Dame of Washington. who
was at the time rector of the church.
was among the guests at the recep-
| ton Mr.. Barton is a well known
lawyer of Virginia. and Mrs. Barton
| is a daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry $. Baker of this city.
! Announcement is made of the mar
riage recently of George Jolliffe, a well
known young business man of Win
! chester. and Miss Harriet Maynard
Ramsburgh. daughter of Mrs. Henry
B. Ramsburgh of Frederick. Md. in
| York, Pa. They will live In Winches-
| ter.
| The remains of Mrs. Sarah Haines,
member of prominent Hampshire
county tW. Va.) family, who died
| while sitting in the sun parlor of a
Cumberland hotel. where she had been
| under treatment, have been inferred in
| the family graveyard near Romney.
| fell from a chair and died almost in
| stantly.
To Study Commission Form.
| A joint committee Of citizens and
| councilmen has been appointed for the
| purpose of investigating and reporting
| on the advisa blity of the city of Win
| chester adopting the city managership
| plan of municipal government, which
! has been tried in various sections of
| the country. Several efforts made in
| recent years to get the issue before
the voters OF Winchester have failed.
A number of farmers of the extreme
| western section of Frederick county
! are guarding their hocks of sheep by
! night with shotguns. in order to pro-
| tect the sheep and lambs from attacks
| by dogs. f. p. Brown and Charles
| Heironimus have had some of their
| best sheep killed by the rowing dogs.
| H. Brooke Taylor, prosperous young
| business man of Grimes, Frederick coun-
| ", and Miss Ann Leola Brown, daughter
of {. NJ. Brown Of Hedgesville. w, Va,
| were married a few days since at the
home of the brides parents by Rev d. F.
| Eutsler
| Richard c"Dick') Wells, a tall and
| lanky oid-tme Virginia negro. who for
| twenty-five thirty years sold lunches
to travellers from all parts of the country
| Cu D. N " Idllodu Trains DelWeeH fldT-
| pers Ferry and Strasburg Junction, died
| at his home at Middletown, Va, several
days ago. aged seventy-eight
To Watch for Speeders on Pike.
| Isaac Moore, living near Kernstown
has been sworn in deputy sheriff
and appointed special motor cycle patrol
| man of the Shenandoah Valley pike be-
| tween Winchester and Edinburg, Va.
| David F. Holt, a member of one of
| the oldest Of the pioneer families of the
lower Shenandoah vallcv, died this week
at his home north Of Winchester, aged
eighty-five years. He began farming with
| practically no financial assistance, but at
! the time of his death he owned several
estates. totaling 1.400 acres of finely cul-
tivated land.
Charles Rogers Of Hagerstown. Md,
| mangled by falling under Norfolk and
Western railway freight train at River
| ton, Va. is dead from his injuries. Both
legs were cut off and his body was also
crushed. He was unmarried
Judge Adam c. Carson of the sunneme
| court of the Philippine Islands, who came
here recently with his wife and two young
children. sailed today from San Francisco
| for Manila. but he expects to return
during the winter for a more extended
stay. Mrs. Carson and her children are
| with her mother, Mrs. D. b. Conrad. in
Winchester. "
CLARENDON.