Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-07-10
NOTES FROM NEARBY
The population of Hsgerstown by
the State census is 1884.

The population of Hsgerstown by
the State census is 1884.
The annual meeting of the Vir.
glnis Press Association will be held
at Lursy July 1918.
The shirt waist man is admitted 70
services in Braddock- Street Metho.
dist Church, Winchester.
The new Shepherd College build
ing, Shepherdstown, will cost S26,-
444. herman Fouse, of Psrkersburg,
is the contractor.
The town of Shenandoah, Page
county, has $l,42O in bank and
doesn't owe q penny, SO says a CORE.
spondent of the Page News.
Hon. s. Rolfe Millsr, editor of the
Warren Sentinel, Front Royal, and
his family, will sail next month for
Germany, where they will spend a
year.
Fire destroyed the store building of
y. Z. Story, together with contents,
postoffice and telephone exchange, at
Gap Run, Frederick county. The
damage is $1,000.
Miss Nellie Britner Marten. of
Shepherdstown, and Harvey Walker
Hartman, of Clsrksburg, will be mar
RED In the Lutheran Church,
Shepherdstown, July 18th.
Wesley p Bell, the we'll known
telegraph operator 1T Shenandoah
Junction, has been made stock agent
for the b. 4 0. r. r. in charge of the
territory east of the Ohio River,
with a salary of $125 per month.
Miss Mary n. Annette, daughter
of Mrs. L. j. Annette, of Halltown.
was married last week to Mr.. Robert
L. Bowers, of Charlestown, at the
parsonage of the Calvary Methodist
Church South, Baltimore.
The Warren Sentinel wants the
democratic county committee to make
arrangements for the election of del.
egates to the Norfolk convention.
The Sentinel says nine-tenths of the
democrats of Warren are for Monta
que for Governor.
The Sentinel complains again of
the poor prospect of a good wheat
crop in Warren county. 1t saws that
in many cases, owing to the fiy and
wet weather, the crsp will be almost
total failure.
Miss Blanche Taylor, daughter of
Mr.. Geo. w. Taylor, of Winchester.
and Mr.. John Morris Hammersla. of
Philadelphia, we're married at the
brides home in Winchester last We'd
nesday by Rev. W. H. H. Joyce.
Pennant Knitting Mills, of Phila-
delphia, will locate In Shepherdstown,
having been induced to come there
by the Board of Trade of that place.
This new industry will give employ
ment to about 80 men and women.
The Crawford Wooden Mills at
Martnsburg will erect large add
tIOn and thus give employment to so
additional hands, running the num-
Der OF employees up to 800.
During a rain and hail storm near
Relief, Frederick county, lightning
struck Herbert Massie and killed him.
The binder on which Massie was sit
ting was wrecked and the horses at
tached to same stunned. Massie was
IA years old.
Mr.. 5. Rosenmeyer, the popular
haberdasher and shoe man of Win.
chester, leaYes New York this week
for Germany to visit his old home
and relatives. Mr.. Henry Beatier.
another we'll known merchant of
Winchester, is to spend part of the
summer with kinsmen in Germany.
The Richmond Dispatch of Sunday
publishes pictures of some of the
pages of the constitutional conven-
ton, among which we note that of
Gibson Roy Warthen, son of Hon. A.
l.. Warthen, of Front Royal. Like |
his father, Master Gibson is a fine
looking fellow.
Prof. A. Kilmer has been removed
as principal of the Shepherd College, |
Shepherdstown, by the Board of |
Regents, for apparently no other |
cause than that he was a democrat. |
Prof. Kilmer made q most efficient
officer and the press of West Vir-
ginia are condemning the action of |
the Board of Regents in the strongest |
terms.
1t is said that Z. A. Wilson, of |
Salisbury, n. O., who put in the wat
er system at Luray, is about to sue
the town. He contends he should be |
paid for "solid rock' at the reservoir |
and the community maintains that it
was 'loose rock" work. The counsel
engaged will include Mr., Marshall |
Mccormick for the plaintiff.
Charles Hirst, a well known citi-
zen of the Purcellville neigh borhood, |
committed suicide Saturday morning |