Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-01-10
Neighborhood News.

n stedm nedtlng plant LAS peen lu-
stalled in the Lutheran church at
sharpsburg.
Woodstock, Va, has awarded a
contract for the construction of sys-
tenn of waterworks.
Edgar B. Stewart, formerly of Mar
tins5urg, has been elected mayor of
Morgantown, this State.
Geo. W. Doll, former resident of
Martinsburg, died in Alexandria, Va,
on Tuesday aged IS years,
DR.. Emory NJ. Bowlus, leading
citizen Of Middletown, Nd, died last
Sunday of heart trouble, aged 49
years.
The census gives the population of
Hagerstown as 1881, Frederick
1926, Boonsboro 700, Sharpsburg
1000, Williamport l,472.
Monday night the store CT J. W.
Athey at Boyce, Va, which was also
the postofice, was destroyed by fire.
Loss about 81, 200, partly covered by
insurance.
The fine, large barn on the farm of
the late John Arnold in Loudoun
county was destroyed by fire last Sat-
urday, causing a loss of over $4,000.
II was insured.
Albert A. Long, formerly of Mar
tinsburg, was struck and killed by a
B. & o. train in Cumberland last FRI
day while on his way to work. He
was "a years old.
Saturday afternoon Mamie, the H.,
year-old daughter of Mr.. William NJ.
Kahn, near Berryville, formerly Of
Charlestown, was so severely burned
that her life has beer despaired of.
Charles H. Smith, a well-known
young man Of Hagerstown, died last
Saturday, aged SO years. He was i'll
long time with consumption. He
was once member Of the Legislature.
There is talk of extending the Ha-
gerstown electric railway from Ha-
gelstown to Boonsboro within a short
time, and afterward on to Keedysville,
Sharpsburg and thence across to Will
Transport.
Thieves entered the stable Of Levi
Beachley near Williamsport, the other
night, and picking out one of the fin
est sheep in the flock, carried it 800
yards from the stable, killed and
dressed it, leaving nothing but the hide
and head.
Rev. c. A. Hoy, formerly pastor of
the Lutheran church at Funkstown,
has been deposed by the Maryland
synod and has been asked for his or
dination papers which he has returned,
Rev. Hoy has been espouslng the cause
OF Dowieism in Chicago,
The Martinsburg World says that
two young residents of Berkeley coun-
ty, Richard H. Johnson, son of Jacob
Johnson, of Bunker Hill, and Miss
Katie Tabler, of Tablers Station,
eloped to Washington last week and
were quietly married in the capitol
city.
On January lst Mr., Joseph L, Lloyd
and Miss Alice L. Baker were mar
ried in Martinsburg by Rev. G. S.
Trump at the Lutheran parsonage,
and on January I'd, by the same, Mr..
Alonzo Meadows and Miss Lula ].
Monaghan were also married at the
parsonage-all from Berkeley county.
Farms in the Middletown Valley
have been bringing good prices. The
Henry Biser farm, l49 acres, brought
$3.50 an acre the Jacob Routzahn
farm, 1873 acres, $7725 John G. Stone
farm, 1859 acres, $3.50; Rev. 8. A.
Hedges has sold his half of the farm
near Middletown, l6O acres, to his
brother, Joseph Hedges, at $72 an acre.
The Berkeley circuit court convened
in Martinsburg on Monday, Judge
Faulkner on the bench. The grand
jury returned the following indict-
ments; Charles Young, felony, mali
ciously shooting Michael Moran with
intent to kill; Harry and Edgar Lord,
felony, numbering Joseph S. Hess
Harry Lord, misdemeanor, carrying a
revolver; Ed Lord, misdemeanor, car
rying a revolver; William Strine and
Jennie NJ. Houck, misdemeanor Will
liam strine, misdemeanor.
Attorney James N. Mason, Jr., left
Friday for London, Ky, on law bust
ness. This is the place to which Gov
ernor Taylor removed his legislature
last winter when he wanted to get it
into fighting quarters, and as when
Mr.. Mason went out there last summer
he was compelled to transact business
with one man who had killed seven
men and had been in the penitentiary
under life sentences three times, JEFF
ferson county may have a vacancy ere
long in the Office Of prosecuting attor-
ney.-8pirit.
A well-dressed stranger worked an
old trick on several of the most prom
inent merchants of Martinsburg very
successfully last week. He bought
goods to the amount of rs cents at the |
butcher store of William Johnson, in
payment for which he rendered a Peo-
pies National Bank check for $40,
made to g. W. LOOMS and signed H,
n. Raymond. He also bought pair
Of shoes from P l. Deatrick and hand
ed a like check to him Both of the |