Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-25
EDINBURG ITEMS.
Empty whiskey barrels for sale.
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The Broadway News says: Mr. d. B
Sites has secured the services OF Mis-
Calohau Of Edinburg, as GoverDcss.
Everything nice, clean and fresh at the
Bakery. Bread, pies, cakes, &C., Of the
very best.
DR.. B. F. Maphis dentist, will be in his
office, in Edinburg, Sept. 2oth, and ie-
main six days.
Mr.. Joseph Glenn, the telegraph opera
tor at Brandy Station, on the X. x ID. X.
r., is visiting friends in this place.
Rev. ]. B. McInturff, County Superin-
tendent of Schools, preached in the
United Brethren church here, morning
and evening of last Sunday.
Miss Maggie Hisey has just received
her stock OF fall millinery and will be
glad to have you call and examine IT,
feeling confident that she can satisfy you
in style, quality and price.
Mr.. J. i. McClanahan and wife, of
Albrights, w. Va, who have been visit.
ing relatives and friends in PowelPs Fort,
this county, took the tram at Edinburg
on Monday for their West Virginia home.
All parties indebted to me will please
come forward and settle up their accounts,
as need money. All accounts unpaid
by the lst of October Will be placed in
the hands of an officer for immediate eel
lection. Respectfully,
J. r. BAKER.
The ladies of the Mite Society of the
NJ. L. Church. South, of this place, will
hold festival in Hisev's Hall, on Satur-
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good one, and as delicious refreshmtn ts
will be served at low figures these earnest,
faithful workers should be most literally
patronized.
As our efficient town sergeant was TAX
ing his usual round about IL o'clock one
night last week, he ran across man in a
corn patch who was Just making free
with the corn. 1t was fortunate for the
depredator that he is in the same bust
ness with the sergeant or an arrest would
have been IN order.
Right here at the Bakery for groceries
Everything you can want IN that line
Canned goods of every description, ctfiee,
sugar, teas, spices, cheese, dried beef, he.
Bacon and lard IN any quantity from a
pound or less up to all yOu want. Re-
member that we keep full aud complete
stock, everything of the best, and all at
the lowest figures.
III. A. WHIsSEN 81 BRO.
The following account of the sad death
of DR.. John NJ. Myers, which occurred in
Washington city, is from the Washington
Post, of the 18th inst:
'Dr. John NJ. Myers, of Virginia, was
found dead IN bed in a room at the Golden
Eagle House, corner d street and New
jersey avenue northv est, yesterday morn
ing at 1880 O'Clock. An empty ph;sl of
chlOroform was near him on the pillow,
but whether he killed himself id, ntal-
" OF purposely is not known.
"Df. Myers, with his brother. Mr..
Abram Myers, stopped at the Col len
Eagle Wednesday night, and the former
appearing restless and nervous asked to
be assigned to rooms at once. Mr.. Brandt,
the proprietor, requested the gentlemen
to register their names. but DR.. Myers
said be was tired, and that morn Il would
do as well.
"The gentlemn were assigned TO diff |
ferent rooms, and about III o'clock DIR. |
Myers went down stairs and asked Mr.. !
Brandt where he would find the nearest |
drug store. He was told to 90 to the one
at the corner of Indiana avenue ard Fist |
street, and no sooner had he received |
directions than he walked ont OF the hotel |
laying. that he would return in ii Icw |
moments. Nothing more was seen of him |
until he was found dead in his bed, with |
the b0tl1 labeled "chloroform, from
Crook & Co.." layi near him.
ut was Just before Z O'cllc6 that Mr. |
A -, IN. Ill
asked Mr.. Brandt if the doctor had come
down, and being told that be had not he
went upstairs to his brothers room, and |
opening the door saw him lying on the |
bed face down and pressed against book. |
He gave him shake and tel him to get |
up, but the.e was no response, and closer
examination showed that he was dead
Mr.. Myers ran down stairs end told Mr. |
Brandt that his brother was dead. The |
pOprietor could scarcely believe the gen
tleman, but when he saw, upon investi- |
CATION, that his guest was dead, he came |
out of the room locked the door, hasten
ed to the Sixth precinct station, and in
formed the officers, who at one notified
CO. oner Pattison.
"The body was rot removed until the
corner had made an examination, and,
after hearing the statement of the dead
mans brother, gave a certificate of death
from an overdose of chlCroioTm accident
ally taken.
"Mr. Myers SAID that bis brother had
been in the habit of taking cllorcform in
order to make him sleep, and that this had
been his custom for several years. He said
he did not believe bis brother had taken
his own life intentionally, as there was
no cause in the world for him to do So
The remains were removed to Lees I'M
dertakng establishment and prepared for
burial"
Dr. Myers body was brought to Edin-
burg on the afternoon train of Friday,
and was buried at Union Forge on Satur-
day evening. Rev. H. Tallhelm conduct
ed the funeral services on Sunday fol-
lowing. DR.. Myers was son OF the late
Mai. Myers, of the 9TH Va, Cav, and
was born at Henrietta Furnace, this coun-
ty, IN March, 1853. He was a graduate
of Jefferson Medical Coll'g9, Philadtl-
phia, Pa. He practlced for four or five
years at WeInersvIlle, Pa, but has been
living for the past six Years at Wears
Switch, Montgomery Co., Va. His age
was 80 years, 6 months and days. He
leaves a widow and three children.
EDINBURG, VA, Sept. 10, 1891.