Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-07-25
Notes From Nearby.

Two children of W. j. Stephens, IN
Martinsburg, have died within the past
week from diptheria.
Magistrate Geo. S. Miller, of Hag-
erstown, died at his homein that place
last Sunday, aged 81 years.
Smith NJ. Vanmeter has sold to
Thomas Files TIA acres of land in
Berkeley county at $25.75 per acre.
The Wiltshire Crane seminary build
ing in Martinsburg, recently sold at
public sale, was bought by Gustave
B. Wiltshire for $1,000.
A. M. Perry, farmer living near
Martinsburg, was seriously and proba-
bly, fatally hurt by striking his back
against the joist over shed into which
he was riding.
While going up the pike last Sun
day week at Summit P oint, Mrs. D.
w. Wilmington was kicked in the face
by loose horse in the pike, breaking
her nose and eyeglasses.
Rev. A. B. Warwick, recently as
sistant principal Of Nashville Female
College, will succeed Rev. John P.
Hyde as principal of the Valley Fe-
male College of Winchester.
Samuel D. Martin, a prominent res
ident of Hagerstown, died in Balti-
more Monday night in Johns Hopkins
Hospital, where he had undergone an
operation for appendicitis. He was
50 years of age.
Mrs. William Thomas of Hagerstown,
was notified by the Government that
the body of her son, George Thomas,
soldier, who died in the Philippines,
had arrived at San Francisco and
would be shipped home at once.
Mr.. Charles B. Rouss. of New York
has given $3.50 to the Florida monu-
ment to Confederates to be erected in
Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester.
That and monument to Tennessee
soldiers will be unveiled together this
fall.
William Ritenour was arrested at
Charles Town last Saturday for de-
serting from the United States Army,
and was taken to Washington Monday
morning, together with Clarence Man
uel, another young man from Charles
Town who recently enlisted and de-
serted.
The SPIRIT says that John Penwell
was in Charles Town the other day
with live rattlesnake that he had
captured in the Blue Ridge mountains.
Some of the folks over there were
frightened when they saw the snake
in a saloon-weren't quite sure wheth-
er it was real or not.
Sam Jones drew a crowd Of about
5000 persons to Inwood Park last
Sunday. They were highly enter
tanned by his wit ard humor and pa
thos, but as dignifed preacher Of the
Gospel he did not make much Of hit.
He got $500 for three sermons and a
lecture, but of this he made a liberal
donation to the U. B. Church Of In
wood.
The first attempt of the Berkeley
county authorities to work prisoners
in the changing was not success.
The other day six tramps were deco
rated with ball and chain and taken
out to break stone. They halted at
the first shade tree and declined to go
any further or to do any work. They
were taken back to Jail and are now
on diet of bread and water until
they change their minds.
Mr.. H. T. Miley, president Of the
board of education of Charles Town
district, authorizes US to say that he
was opposed to the removal Of Miss
Bette Chaplain, one of the teachers in
our graded school; and that the state
ment that she resigned was mistake.
She was an applicant and was removed
for no reason rejecting on her compe-
tency as a teacher. He indorses her
as one of the best and most proficient
teachers that ever held position in
our graded school.-Frec Press.
Surgeon Thomas B. Perry, small
pox expert of the United States marine
hospital service, went to Martinsburg
Monday at the request Of the president
of the West Virginia board of health
to investigate the smallpox situation.
DR.. Perry examined the cases and
pronounced the disease a modified form
of smallpox. He approved the tactics
adopted by the local health authorities
and expressed the belief that no new
cases would arise. There are now
eight patients in the quarantined house,
two of whom are adults and six are
children.
A dispatch from Martinsburg to the
Baltimore Herald of yesterday says
Richard Gregory, farmer, died of al
coholism in the Jail here Tuesday, aged
Sc years. Gregory, who had the hab-
it of getting on frequent sprees, had
been in town for the last week on one
of them. Unable to get any more
whisky, he got hold of quantity of
camphor, which he drank to satisfy his
desire for strong drink. Last night
he staggered into Stewart saloon, fell
over on the floor unconscious, and was
removed to the Jail, where he died to-
day. Two small children survive him.
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