Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-05-30
Notes From Nearby.

Harry ID. Wilson, son OF V. W. VIII
son, of Berkeley county, died recently
in Louisville, KY.
Daniel G. W. Snyder, a retired
farmer living near Williamsport, died
last Sunday, aged S. years.
L. w. Robinson, prominent mer-
chant of Martinsburg, was paralyzed
and is in a precarious condition.
Dogs recently killed ten lambs and
injured twelve other sheep Of the flock
of W. H. Roper in Jefferson county.
Judge E. Boyd Faulkner has pur-
chased of J. w. Dodd the pair ofmatch
bays formerly owned by S. W. Bratt,
of this county.
Miss Daisy Hess and Mr.. Louis
Zimmerman, both of Martinsburg,
were married last Thursday at the par
sonage of the st. Paul's U. B. Church
in Hagerstown by Rev. A. B. Station.
At the corporation election in Charles
Town last Thursday T. G. Green, Au-
gust Shuttle and J. Frank Weller were
elected councilmen. There was no
opposition and very little interest in
the election.
W. L. Crutchley, passenger fire.
man, was killed in wreck at Cen
tralia, w. Va, few day ago. Mr..
Crutchley lived for number of years
with his uncle, Robert DickeY, at Har-
per's Ferry.
Tramps and buns along the B. & 0.
Railroad are being arrested by the
wholesale and lodged in Jail at Mar
tinsburg. 1t is mighty expensive to
the county, as they have to be fed at
public expense and the fees must be
paid.
Several attempts have been made re-
Gently to wreck trains on the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad between Mar
tinsburg and Winchester by placing
distractions on the track. A train
on Monday got pretty hard bump.
1t is thought that mischievous boys
are making the trouble.
The closing exercises of the Charles
Town Graded School took place last
Friday. The English composition
prize was won by Walter Shipman and
the spelling contest was won by Flor
ence Strider. The enrolment Of the
school the past year was 500, and ten
teachers are employed.
A charter has been granted by the
Secretary of State to the Fidelity Build
ing and Loan Association, of Charles
Town. The capital stock is $4,000.
The incorporators are B. D. Gibson,
Thos. R. Moore, Jno. Thos. Gibson, W.
C. Carrel, Charles Rissler, G. N. Cole
man, George Palmbaum and VIM.
Kahn. The Association will start in a
short time.
A ten-months-old son Of Thomas
Kerfoot, who resides at Lock No. 40
on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, in
some manner unknown got held Of
some strychnine tablets. The infant
swallowed portion Of one and was
made i'll. AS soon as the father rec
ognized what was the matter, he took
the child to Sharpsburg to the office
of Drs. Gardner and Carrot, who
managed to save its life,
In trying the old-time remedy Of
bleeding person in ill-health, says
the Winchester Star, T. Z. White, a
resident of Opequon, Frederick coun-
ty, nearly caused the death of his wife.
White thought his wife's illhealth was
produced by too much blood in her
body, so he took a penknife and made
an incision in her arm, and so much
blood poured from the wound that
Mrs. White was thrown into trance.
1t is said Mrs. White lost over a gal
Ion Of the vital fluid.
The election in Martinsburg on
Monday seems to have been sort Of
stand.off between the politicians and
the reformers. In the first ward John
w. Martin, Republican, was elected
by majority of five over Max Robin
son, the citizens candidate. In the
third ward D. G. Westenhaver, the
citizens candidate, was elected, de-
feating the Republican and Democratic
candidates. Martin Brown, Republi-
can, was elected in the fourth ward,
and Joseph H. Lloyd, Democrat, in
the fifth ward. The election of Mr..
Westenhaver and Mr.. Cline is vic
tory for the people and an assurance
that there will be no rascality secretly
carried out. Mayor Henshaw's fin
ish is likewise in sight.
William Wilmer and Harold B.
Richard, living near Black Rock, in
the South Mountain, were in Hagers-
town Monday with boxful of rattle
snakes which they caught with their
hands among the rocks. Wilmer, in
a store, took out with his hands eight
rattlers and one viper, and put some
around his neck and played with
others before a crowd Of spectators,
who stood at a safe distance. Some
one accused Wilmer of pulling the
fangs from the snake, but to prove
the fangs were still in he took a pin
and laid back the folds Of a snakes, flesh.
The fangs could easily be seen. Wit
mer said he was sometimes bitten by
snakes, but he had a remedy-whlch
was a secret-that would cure the most
poisonous bite in Is minutes.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that