Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-08-18
Notes From Nearby.

Chicken thieves are operating ex-
tensively in the Sharpsburg neighbor-
hood.
The town council Of Charlestown has
fixed the tax rate at fifty cents on the
one hundred dollars.
Mr.. L. D. Getzendanner, Charles
towns new postmaster, took charge of
the Office last Saturday night. He
says he will not move the postofice for
the present. He has named as his
deputies H. N. Bradley and Chester
Dunlap.
NJ. E. Snavely, of Sharpsburg, is
making arrangements to have a party
of Massachusetts visitors conveyed
over the battlefield on September L..
The Governor and his staff will be in
the party of probably three or four
hundred, who are coming to dedicate
the Massachusetts, State monument,
That promises to be big day in that
town.
The Virginia Chassis of the Reformed
Church met in the Reformed Church
at Woodstock last week and decided
to locate an academy for boys and
girls at that place as soon as it can be
done. The late home Of Senator Il.
H. Riddleberger, on the southern edge
of town, has been secured and will be
converted into a college building as
soon as possible.
In Denver, Colorado, on July 5,
1898, Miss Churchill Hedges and
Mr.. Edward Evans were united in
the bonds of wedlock. Mrs. Evans
is the daughter Of Mr.. Decatur
Hedges, and is well known and very
popular in this county. She has been
sojourning in the west for a year or
two. Mr.. Evans is president Of the
Evans Gold Mining Company, of
Gilpin county, Colorado.-Martjn8-
burg Statesman.
The Chas. H. Kable property, at
and near Kabletown, in this county,
was sold on Friday last, by Special
Commissioners Baylor, Brown and
Trapnell, as follows; Thirty-two acres
unimproved land to W. E. Zinn, at
$40 per acre; 80 acres and farm house
to c. H. Kable, at $40 per acre; dwell
ing and lot to G. W. Bush, for $685.;
small house and lot to c. H. Kable,
for $1O6; fifty acres of mountain land
to C. H. Kable, for $3.50. Mill prop
erty not sold.-SPuit.
One of the most remarkable freaks
of lightning ever known in Clarke
county occurred recently during
severe electrical storm. The lightning
killed nine head of cattle on the farm
of Mr.. John Hulver, who lives on the
Richardson estate, near Gaylord. The
cattle were standing along a wire fence
when the lightning struck post and
ran down the wire to where the cattle
were. The bolt must have been a ter
rife one, as some Of the cattle were
thrown entirely over the fence into an
adjoining field. The cattle were very
fine ones, Mr.. Hulver having refused
an offer of $50 head for them a short
time ago.
Mrs. Frank Jenkins, who, with her
husband, resides with the family Of
Mr.. George Cunningham, near Win
chester, has mysteriously disappeared.
She left her home Monday Of last week
to visit her cousin, who resides about
two miles distant, and in going to the
place it was necessary to pass through
some woods and cross a stream. She
did not return Tuesday, but her hus-
band had no fear, as the streams were
greatly swollen by the rains, so he
waited her return until Thursday
morning, when she did not return.
He Immediately went in search Of
her, but found, much to his dismay,
that she had never reached her cous-
ms home. The whole community
has been hunted over, but no clue has
been obtained Of her disappearance.
It's feared that she was either drowned
or some foul play has been worked.
Mrs. Jenkins was twenty-eight years
of age and has two small children,
aged one and two years