Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-09-05
Notes From Nearby.


Horst for $50 on acre.
Branches of the Washington County
Free Library will be established in al
the larger towns Of the county.
The Winchester boot and shoe fac.
tory has shut down permanently, the
business not proving profitable of late
Arthur House, a B. & 0. brakeman
was run over by freight train and
killed last Friday night at Brunswick.
Blackburn Smith, a well-known
young lawyer from Berryville, has
been nominated for the Legislature
by the Democrats of Clarke county.
For the purpose of facilitating
freight transfer, it is said the Balti-
more and Ohio and Cumberland Val
ley railroads are to be connected at
Winchester at point near the fair
grounds, north of the city.
Mr.. Edgar H. Lambert and Miss
Irene A. Smith, both of Martinsburg,
were married August 9th at Steelton,
Pa. On the 29th Mr.. R. D. Miller
and Miss Alpha E. Miller, both Of
Falling Waters, Berkeley county, were
married in Chambersburg, Pa.
Mrs. James Kirby, residing at
Wageley's shop, two miles north Of
Leetown, received painful wound
this week by thrusting pitchfork
through her foot. For a time lock-
jaw was feared, but more favorable
symptoms appeared later and at pres
ent she is out of danger.-Adrocats.
And now comes the boss snake story
of the season. Unsupported to us that
Thomas Newman, a colored man re-
siding near Myers Ford on the Shen-
andoah, few days ago killed large
copperhead snake. Being struck with
its especially great size about the mid
die he cut it open, when out came in
all some forty-two young snakes,
which he killed, making total slaugh-
ter, including the old one, Of forty
three snakes-and it wasn't a good
day for snakes, either.-Splrlt.
Because she was accused by play
mates of stealing a few dollars from
her cousin, Fannie B. Fair, girl less
than Is years old, shot herself in
the head at Waynesboro, Pa, last Sat-
urday night and died instantly. Her
uncle, who had adopted her, it is said,
repeated the girls gossip to her at
supper time. She denied it, but, Sc
curing her uncle's pistol, went to her
room, lay down on her bed, arranged
herself in a comfortable position and
fired the shot which killed her.
Harry Rutherford a young man who
has been living at Ripon, Jefferso n
county, has for some time been firing
the engine with Heiston's thresher,
and on Tuesday he came to town and
asked Mrs. Heiston for the key to the
mill to get his clothes. After he was
gone it was discovered that the desk
in the office had been broken open and
$l5 stolen. Complaint was made, the
officers telephoned to Charlestown, and
Rutherford was arrested at Ripon.
Sheriff Stuckev went to Charles Town
for the prisoner.-MartirlSb,trg States
man.
We were shown some fine specimens
of asbestos and copper ore by our
townsman, Mr.. J. Shirley Smith, taken
from property in the Blue Ridge
mountains, in Jefferson county, and
controlled by Mr.. Smith. He has
been in the mineral business for the
last nine years, and his knowledge in
this line is worthy of note. Mr.. S. is
an untiring hunter Of wealth hidden in
the earth, and we predict that one of
these days he will strike it rich. We
understand he has control of several
hundred acres Of mineral lands in our
mountains.-Advocate.
The following are the teachers ap-
pointed to conduct the public schools
of Charles Town district: Charles
Town Graded School, Professor
Wright Denny, principal; Gilmore
Neill, Misses Tomlinson, Craighill,
Campbell, Young, Engle, Mesdames
Wiltshire and Fowle, assistants; Man.
nings School House, Miss Emma Stri-
der; Riverside, 0. NJ. Harris; Mt. Hope,
Miss Irene Trussell zoar, Miss Julia
Grantham; Shenananoah Junction,
Herbert Osbourn; Browns Crossing,
Miss Idonia Avis; Wiltshire's, Miss
Meta Shirley; and Ramey' s,Miss Sadie
Watson.
BY lucky guess, Mr.. Lawrence
Whiting, a Summit Point boy, is given
a free trip to the Pan-American Ex-
position, together with all expenses
paid while in Buffalo. A northern
magazine sometime ago offered visit
free of cost to one boy in every State
in the Union, to the Buffalo Exposition,
who would guess nearest to the num-
Der of people that entered the Exposi-
ton grounds on the 4th of July. Mr.
Whiting at the time was in South
Carolina and sent his guess in as a
competitor from that State, and the
other day he received a letter contain
ing check and ticket to Buffalo,
and notifying him that his guess was
the best received from the old South
State. Mr.. Whiting left Summit
Point, where he has been visiting his
old home, for the Exposition Monday