Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-07-08
Notes From Nearby.

ton county, shipped from the G. V. R.
R. station at Williamsport, to the
Pittsburg market in three days, ITO
bushels of raspberries, amounting to
10000 pounds. Mr.. Long employs
about seventy pickers.
The Martinsburg Fire Department
recently elected Mr. Chas. Broadway
Rouss, the great millionaire merchant
of New York, an honorary member of
the department, and upon his Motif
cation of his election, with his charac-
teristic liberality, he at once sent the
department a check for 500.
In recognition of his eminent SER
vices to the fraternity during his term
of Office, Mr.. VIM. Campbell, retiring
Master of Malta Lodge, No. 80, A, F.
& A. NJ, was at its last meeting pre-
sented handsome gold watch, suita-
bly, engraved, County Clerk W. F.
Alexander doing the presentation
honors in BETTING manner.-tSp'rst.
Between 1000 and 10000 people
witnessed the fourth of July celebra-
ton Monday at Williamsport, the most
elaborate held in Washington county
for years. There was parade, dedi-
cation of Doubleday's Battery Hill,
addresses by Hon. John V. L. Find
lay, Judge Louis E. McComas and T.
F. McCardell, flag presentation and
fireworks.
A number of ladies of Washington
county have petitioned the Hagers-
town Fair Association to offer purses
for the best lady riders in mile race,
cross-country style, to be given at the
fair in October. This event promises
to be one of unusual interest, as a
number of ladies in the county are
splendid horsewomen and are anxious
to take part.
Mrs. G. w. Santman, while carrying
an umbrella over her on Martin street
near the Lutheran Church, on Satur-
day evening, while the storm was in
progress, had quite thrilling expert
ence. The umbrella was shattered in
her hand. The wood handle probably
prevented her from receiving very
severe shock from lightning.-Mar-
tlnS6urQ Statesman.
Mr.. H. H. Gochenour, conductor
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
was found dead at Keslor's Curve,
Monday morning. He was coming
east on duty, and it is supposed that
he was struck when passing through
Paw-Paw tunnel. He resided at
Brunswick and his remains were taken
there. He leaves wife and four chill
dren. He formerly resided at Wood
stock, Va.
During a thunderstorm last Thurs
day afternoon the large barn on the
farm owned by Mrs. Catherine Le-
fever, of Martinsburg, on the Potomac
river opposite Williamsport, was struck
by lightning and burned to the ground.
The tenant, Peter Dunn, was power
less to save the building. The loss
will be very heavy, there being five
hundred bushels of wheat, one hun
bred tons of hay, six hundred barrels
of corn and quantity Of oats in the
barn at the time it was burned. No
insurance. All the stock and some Of
the farming implements were saved.
Rev. Edwin Heyl Delk delivered an
address in Trinity Lutheran Church,
Hagerstown, on 1.-THE Abuse of the
Wheel" He said the chief abuses con-
sisted in immoderate riding, in the pur-
chase of wheels by people who cannot
afford it, by riding on Sunday and men
and women together taking long rides
into the country without chaperones.
He cited medical authority to prove
that riding cramped the apex of the
lungs and induced consumption, and
that appendicitis was also induced by
riding a wheel, especially among chill
dren and young girls. He stated that
physician in Bellevue Medical Col
lege, New York, said appendicitis pa
tients had increased so per cent. since
cycling was common, and that a ma
jority of the patients at his institution
were devotees of the wheel. People
with heart disease, the Rev. Mr.. Delk
said, should never ride wheel, The
preacher pointed out the true uses of
the wheel. He was among the first
riders of the wheel, and still rides.