Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-10-16
West Virginia Items.

In Randolph county Halves Heron
was shot and killed by Aloe Cutlip.
who was his rival for the affections Of
Miss Carrie Oxley.
The smokestack of the West Vir-
ginia Pulp and Paper Company's
plant at Luke has been completed.
1t is 235 feet high.
A number Of the coal operators in
the Kanawha district have signed the
union scale of wages, and 5000 miners
returned to work on Monday.
Cover, Drayton & Leonard's large
tapnery plant at Moorefeld will begin
operations in about two weeks. The
cost of this plant was $250,000.
Judge Rudolph Beckman, of Tucker
county, has sold his holdings of coal
land along the line of the West Vir-
ginia Central railroad near Blaine, to
the Davis Elkins interest for about
$4,000.
The West Virginia commission to
the st. Louis Worlds Fair met at
Petersburg last Friday and invited
plans for $4,000 building. No ap-
preparation has been made yet, but
$4,000 will be asked of the next
Legislature and the commission will
endeavor to have everything ready to
go ahead as soon as the appropriation
is made.
The Hampshire Review says that
Secretary of State Dawson, who is
chairman of the State Republican
committee, is levying assessments on
employees of the State institutions,
men and women alike. For the cred
it of our State we hope the Review is
mistaken, as this is the sort of email
politics that is disgrace to any party.
Suit has been entered at Berkeley
Springs in tie circuit court by T. 81.
B. Dawson against Samuel D. Moser
for $4,000 damages for alleged libel
growing out of an article published in
the Morgan Messenger last week.
Both men are prominent citizens.
The article in question grew out of
the heat of the campaign. They are
having hot time in Morgan county.
Fred Buckheimer and Willie Nc
Coy, aged 9 and 10 years, respectively,
were carried from a schoolroom in
Parkersburg Tuesday morning help
lessly intoxicated. Their actions at
tracted the attention of the teacher,
who at first could not understand
what was the matter, but soon they
became helpless and sick and were
sent home. They had secured half a
pint of whiskey from bartender, who
said he had often let them have whisky,
as the mother of one of them had au-
thorized him to let her son have drinks
whenever he wanted them. Prosecu-
ton will probably follow.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy of West Virginia closed their
annual session last Friday and selected
Parkersburg as the meeting point next
year. The following are the officers
elected Mrs. Virginia F. McSherry, Of
Martinsburg, president Mrs. L. G.
Bungton, of Huntington, first vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. B. G. Mcclure, Of Parkers-
burg, second vice. president; Mrs. Mabel
P. Anderson, of Charleston, recording
secretary; Miss George strider, of
Leetown, corresponding secretary
Miss Lula B. Burks, of Huntington,
treasurer; and Miss Mary G. Strip
ling, of Martinsburg, historian.
The Republican State Committee,
to settle existing differences in the
party, which had nominated two sets
of candidates for State Senator in the
Parkersburg district, had all four can
didates withdrawn and selected one
from each ticket as the compromise
nominees. Anthony Smith, of Har-
risville, was left off the new ticket.
On Friday he filed an official notifca-
tion to the clerk of the circuit court
that his withdrawal had been condi-
tional; that the conditions had not
been fulfilled and that he was still
candidate and would protest against
the certificate of his nomination being
withdrawn. He claims promises made
to induce him to withdraw have not
been kept. The notice caused SEN
sation.