Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-07-04
Notes From Nearby.

the State census Is 1854.
The annual meeting of the Virginia
Press Association will be held at Luray
July 1918.
The school tax for Martinsburg has
been fixed at 67l cents on the hun
dred dollars.
Having killed off mosquitoes by
the use of coal oil, Winchester is now
about to inaugurate war on flies.
Last Saturday lightning struck the
Lutheran church at Strasburg, Va,
causing some damage, but fortunately
no fire resulted.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company will resume its system of
paying its employees cash instead of
checks as heretofore
Isaac Helms, Martinsburg colored
man, was overcome by the heat while
working in the harvest field of George
Showers, and died in few hours.
Last Thursday lightning struck and
set fire to the barn of D. NJ. Whitmore,
near Fairview, Washington county.
The building was destroyed with most
Of its contents.
The Crawford Wooden Mills at Mar
tinsburg will erect large addition
and thus give employment to 50 ad-
ditional hands, running the number Of
employees up to 800.
During the hot weather Of the past
week William Longnecker, an extern
sive apiarist at Chewsville, lost hun
dreds of pounds of honey, the great
heat melting the honey, combs and all,
which ran out Of the bottoms of the
hives.
A new industry has been started in
Berkeley county, a slate quarry hav-
ing been opened along the Cumberland
Valley Railroad. There is no doubt
that there is plenty Of slate in Berke-
ley county, but biologists have been
of the opinion that it is too badly
shattered to be Of commercial value.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed
bill, which is now before the Cover
nor for his signature, providing for
the erection of thirteen monuments on
Antietam battlefield, each to cost
800. The monuments are to COM
memorate the various Pennsylvania
commands that took part in the battle.
John Lanham, section hand on the
N. & w. Railway was severely shocked
by lightning at Berryville last Friday.
He had a crowbar under rail, when
the lightning struck the track some
distance away, ran along the rails to
the crowbar and from the crowbar up
Lanham's arm and down his body.
He was rendered unconscious for
time.
The twelfth annual reunion Of the
Reformed churches of Southern Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Virginia will
be held at Pen-Mar on Thursday,
July IS. The arrangements for the
reunion are more complete this year
than ever. The two orchestras will
lead the singing and the many voices
in the new auditorium will be feature
of the coming reunion that will hardly
be equaled at Pen-Mar in the near
feature. The new tabernacle building
Is completed and has been inspected
and accepted from the hands Of the
contractor.
An association has been formed to
acquire and preserve the "Harewood'
estate in Jefferson county, upon which
rests an old colonial mansion built in
1926 under the superintendent of
Gen. George Washington for his broth
er, Col. Samuel Washington. This
property is now in the possession Of
John Augustine Washington, lineal
descendant of Samuel Washington, and
the report says that $4,000 is asked
for the estate, which comprises 263
acres. The old mansion is noted for
its historic associations. James and
Dolly Madison were married beneath
its roof, and Louis Philippe, afterward
King Of France, and son of the Mar
quis Lafayette, were sheltered there
at various times. George Washington
often spent the summer there. Pres
ident Mckinley has been asked to join
the Board of Regents of the Associa-
ton, which now includes many prom
inent men of the country, among whom
are Grover Cleveland, Seth Low, Ad-
miral Dewey, Frank R. Stockton and
others. The purchase money is to be
raised by popular subscription.