Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-08-17
Notes From Nearby.


stolen from the premises Of James AL
bridge, three miles from Charlestown,
Wednesday night of last week. This
is wholesale stealing.
Miss Kate Currans, of Washington,
formerly of this place, who is spending
the summer with her aunt, Mrs. Felix
Moore, on Maryland Heights, was
thrown out of a buggy at Harper $
Ferry while driving and sustained
scalp injuries.
Elder Daniel Wolf died yesterday
morning at his residence, one and a
half miles east of Fair Play, Washing
ton county, aged IA years. He was
a member Of the German Baptist
Dunkards for 81 years, serving So
years in the ministry. He was large
landowner.
Mrs. Joseph Snyder and some friends
drove from Shepherdstown to Ante
tam Battlefield and hitched their
horse in the rear of the Dunkard
Church, where it got loose and in turn
ing the carriage around upset and
broke the top. Chas. Crowl caught
the horse and O. T. Reilly and Gar
field Jackson fixed the top up so they
could get housekeeping Record,
Mrs. Margaret D. Mason, sister Of
the late Ex-Governor Fred. W. NJ.
Holiday, has presented the vestry of
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church,
of Winchester, with check for 81, 200
for a memorial pew in the church, to
be known as the Holiday memorial
pew" 1t will be an elaborate me-
mortal. Prior to his death Governor
Holiday made this request for the
pew of his sister, who was his sole
beneficiary.
A citizens relief association has
been organized at Martinsburg, with
these officers President, Max Robin
son; vice-president, George W. Bux-
ton; treasurer, John 7. Nadenbousch
secretary, A. F. Lambert. A ladies
auxiliary to the association was or
ganized, with Mrs. Philip Scharmann
president and Mrs. L. Dew. Gerhart
secretary. The object Of the associa-
ton is to aid the poor and needy IN
Berkeley county.
The Equity Improvement Company
of Winchester at meeting of the
stockholders decided to 90 in liquida-
ton. The assets of the company con-
sist Of the Hotel Winchester, built at a
cost of $4,000, together with 10 acres
of land adjoining. The company
liabilities are about $4,000, secured
by a deed of trust on the hotel. The
hotel has never been occupied. The
estate of the late Judge John Handley,
of Scranton, owns $4,000 Of the
stock, which is now worthless.
Mr.. Charles Broadway Rouss, Of
New York, who recently gave the
city Of Winchester $4,000 for a pub
lie building which the latter was pre-
vented from accepting by the action
of the board OF county supervisors in
refusing to grant the city permission
to erect its building on the public
square. has withdrawn his offer Of the
gift for the present. He will wait UNI
til the suit between the county and
city, now pending, for possession of
the market square is finally decided
by the Supreme Court.
A recent dispatch from Hagerstown
says: A party of capitalists, said to
be headed by Christian W. Lynch and
William Jennings, Of Harrisburg, pres
ident and treasurer, respectively, Of
the Hagerstown Electric Railway Com
pany, are contemplating building
trolley road to Antietam battlefield,
in the southern part of Washington
county, to connect with the Hagers-
town trolley system at the Funkstown
end. 1t is understood the promoters
have quietly gone over the route, made
preliminary surveys and estimate the
cost Of the road at less than 100000.
1t is understood that the road is to
run from Funkstown, already con-
nected with Hagerstown by trolley, to
Boonsboro, TO Keedysville, through
the Antietam battlefield to Sharps-
burg. The road from Hagerstown to
Sharpsburg by this route will be 10
miles in length. The roadbed Of the
defunct South Mountain Railway Com
pany, between Boonsboro and Keedys-
vile, Will probably be utilized. AT
Keedysville connection will be made
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and at Sharpsburg with the Norfolk
and Western Railroad.