Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-05-16
NAY TERN or COURT

| The May term OF Circuit Coui
opened on Monday with Judge f. !
Whiting OF Berryville on the bench
and Notwithstanding raw atmospner
which was made still damper and cool
er by intermittent showers, Woodstock
was filled with court day visitors.
Naturally The chief subject OF con
versation on the streets, or whereve
two or three had gathered together
was the great flood which at the tint
had reached its crest but mile ava!
from the court house, and hundreds o
county people journeyed to the Shenan
doah river to watch the turbulent ane
terrifying waters 60 tumbling towards
| the sea.
The unseasonablenesso of the weather
cut down the usual May merchandise
buying, and while all of the store:
were more or less busy during the
day yet there was not the volume o.
business which usually marks the frs
Circuit Court day of the Spring season
Some few horses were sold at prices
which indicated scarcity of the bet
ter specimens, and the slow demand
for anything but high class chunks.
GRAND JURY MEETS
A special grand jury. made necessary
because of fast growing criminal
docket, was impanelled upon the
arrival Of Judge Whiting and before
adjournment on Monday. the following
indictments were found:
Harry Braithwaite, Violation prohi-
bition laws.
Charles Mumaw Same offense.
Elmer Sherman, Same offense.
C. F. Turner, Same offense.
Wesley Reynard, Larceny and House
breaking.
Walter B. Good, Deputy Sheriff
Felonious Shooting.
Medgar Bowers, Larceny.
Following the finding of true bill
against Bowers a plea of guilty was
entered by his attorney, and under al
the circumstances surrounding the
case, Judge Whiting imposed fine O.
$75.00 and costs with years sentence
to Jail. which sentence was suspended
mot true bill'' was found in the
case of the Commonwealth agains
Melvin Drummond, charged witt
violating the liquor laws.
MANY CASES DISMISSED
The cases of the Commonwealth
against Delford Lutz and Freeman
Rinker were stricken from the docket,
on motion of the attorney for the
Commonwealth.
The civil docket was materially re-
duced by an order of dismissal entered
in the following case.
E. Homer Artz VS.. j. I. Triplett.
American Natl Bank VS.. Sam'l
Hickman.
Bailey & Solenberger Inc. VS.. SamI
Hickman.
j. A. Lutz VS.. M. F. Litten.
Charles E. Lowener VS.. Martha j.
Lloyd.
L. L. Madden VS.. C. G. Coleman.
State Entomologist VS.. Linden Hump
ston.
Va. Beverage Corporation VS.. Ivan
Yonce, Admr.
w. A. Wrenn VS.. So. Ry. Co., cases
FUGITIvES FROM JUSTICE.
Few criminal dockets in the State
are burdened with longer list Of fug
itives from justice than the one il
Shenandoah County, and these cases
are carried from term TO term, and il
some instances from year to year, witt
the expectation that somehow and a
sometime, these fugitives will be hale'
before the Court.
An order was entered continuing tn
cases of the Commonwealth against tn
following who have fled: Carl Conner
Milt F. Donavan, Samuel Howe, Samue
E. Pollard. Harry Robinson, Robert M
Weaver, Isaac N. Rhinehart and Alonz
A. Stewart. In this band of fugitive
are several wife deserters and an en-
bezzler.
sTRASRURG TO VOTE ON BONDS.
BY an order of the Court the town {
Strasburg is authorized to vote on tn
Issuance of $40, 900 of bonds for liquie
ating the indebtedness due to th
water supply which that town has n
Gently acquired, by driving tunn'
through the Massanutten Mountain an
tapping the water shed in the Powell
Fort Valley. A huge impoundin
RESERVOIR has been constructed in tf
Fort and the water supply is expccte
to meet the needs of the town fl
many years.
NEW MARKET TO EXPAND
Judge Whiting has ordered speci
term of court for Monday June 2, ar
la request will be made of the Governs
of Virginia to designate some judl
from another judicial circuit to no
this term to consider the application
1.-THE council of the town of New Mark
to extend the boundaries of the mu
iicipality.
| Under the Virginia law cases of til
character cannot be heard by Il
Judge in whose circuit the actie
iarises.