Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-04-27
Notes From Nearby.

Charles Cline, son of D. A. Cline, o.
Martinsburg, died SUDDENLY in Wheel
ing last week. He was a popular
young man.
Under the will Of the late Mrs
Z. Dutton, the Presbyterian church o.
Charlestown will receive $500 for the
purpose Of erecting spire.
Mr.. H. B. Grim, of Vaudeville, Va.
and Miss Lulu G. Gordon, of Bunker
Hill, W. Va, were married in Mar.
tinsburg April 10 Rev. S. G. Ferguson
Secretary William Jennings, Of the
Hagerstown street railway company
predicts that trolley roads will soon
connect all the towns of Washington
county.
Three more young men Of Martins
burg have received appointment in the
U. S. Fish Commission. They are
Charles Sencindiver, Herman Evans
and Louie Wolfes.
A report has reached here that
Henry Taylor, young colored man
formerly Of HalItown, in this county,
was killed in fracas in Pittsburg last
Friday night.-SpjrH.
A few days ago young couple was
married on a Cumberland Valley
Railroad train in Hagerstown. The
parties were Mr.. Charles W. Nc
Laughlin, of Franklin county, Penn
sylvania, and Miss E. Blanche Young.
of Kaufman's station. They arrived
in Hagerstown on a southbound train.
They procured a license and minis
ter and the ceremony was performed
on the train. After the knot was tied
they proceeded on their journey south
ward.
The residence of Vina Boyd, situated
near the line between Clarke and JEFF
ferson counties, on the Blue Ridge
mountains, caught fire the other day
from a defective fue, and the house,
together with the barn and outbuild-
ings and contents, were destroyed,
The fire from the burning Of this prop
erty, it is supposed, was communicated
to the timbered land on portions Of
the mountain, which is now being
swept by a destructive conhagration.
Adam Strayer, native of Berkeley
county, died last Saturday at Bellevue
Asylum, Hagerstown, aged 81 years,
He had varied and eventful career.
Before the war he was a dealer in
slaves and a famous sporting man.
He knew and was known by most
of the prominent men Of Virginia and
Maryland, and in the height Of pros
perity his check was good for $4,000
to $4,000 at the bank. He was con-
nected with the c. & O. canal under
the late Lewis Stanhope.
The Martinsburg Statesman says ::
The Continental Hotel, for years the
most popular hostelry Of this section,
is closed for the first time for over
twenty years, and on Saturday next
the owner, D. NJ. Shaf'er, will sell the
furniture and fixtures of the house at
public auction under a chattel mort
gage given by Mrs. l. G. Linch, who
has for several years been running the
house. Mrs. Linch has opened large
boarding house in the Burkhart house
on the square Immediately adjoining
the hotel.
Robert w. Grove, by his attorney,
l.. D. Syester, filed a bill in equity to
compel Martin E. Snavely to transfer
back to Grove % shares Boonsboro
and Sharpsburg pike stock, par $50,
which Grove assigned to Snavely as
security for $25 borrowed. Bill al
leges Grove rendered to Snavely the
$25 borrowed but Snavely refused to
receive it and declined to give back
to Grove the stock that Snavely re-
ceived dividends on stock amounting
to more than the money borrowed with
interest.
The second annual meeting Of the
Jefferson County Farmers Institute
was held in Charlestown last Friday.
C. c. Brown, State institute director,
delivered an address on Purpose and
Aim of Farmers Institutes. Satur-
day addresses were made by DR.. A.
P. Thompson, of Summit Point; John
P. Kearfott, Of Kearneysville; Maj.
+. H. Mcdonald, of Shenandoah juno
ton, and COL Henry B. Davenport, of
Charlestown. In the afternoon ad-
dresses were made by Daniel Hehe-
bower, of Rippon; W. o. Norris, Of
Charlestown; c. NJ. Wetzell, of Mill
vile; J. W. Rider, Of Halltown, and
J. NJ. Hendricks, of Moler's.