Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-10-02
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
Hagerstown dealers have increased
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Hagerstown dealers have increased
the price of milk to cents quart.
Hagerstown fair stock, par value
S25, sold for $33.75 share the other
day.
"Boots" Cooper, a boy IA years old,
was thrown from a horse in Loudoun
county the other day and killed.
John W. Castle, Williamsport, re-
ports having seen half hundred cells
rolled up in ball and floating in the
Potomac river near Williamsport.
Miss Elizabeth G. Williams. Of
Darkesville, and Mr.. Robert S. Wag-
ner, of Martinsburg, were married In
Hagerstown September 25 by Rev. d.
F. Downs.
The Winchester fair this year will
be held October 21-24. The prospect
for creditable exhibition is good.
The management is making every
effort to make it meet expectations.
Rev. Paca Kennedy, of Charles
Town, who graduated at the Episco-
pal Seminary at Alexandria, Va, last
spring, will leave in few days for
Oxford University, England, where
he has secured a fellowship for two
years.
The Martinsburg World says that
Pennsylvania capitalists have taken
an option on Sc acres of land near
Martinsburg belonging to G. 0. Lam
bert at the handsome price of $l4 900.
The land has fine limestone upon it
which will be developed by the new
company.
In the circuit court at Martinsburg
on Friday Judge E. B. Faulkner over
ruled the motion for new trial in
the case of George Redmond, convict
ed of murder in the first degree at a
former session of the court, and SEN
fenced the accused to life imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
Antietam Paper Company will ex-
hibit at the Hagerstown fair the lar
gest roll of paper in the world made
for newspaper use. 1t was made for
a paper in Australia. 1t is 81 inches
~ feet 8 inches-wide and weighs
upward of $4,000 ponds. The lar
gest paper made for use in the United
States is 70 inches wide.
A systematic robbery of the whole
sale notion store and overall factory
of A. w Barnhart & Co. in Hagers-
town has just been unearthed. Mau.
rice L. Brendle, a cutter, and Daniel
G. Alter, shipping clerk, are guilty,
and Brendle confessed when he was
arrested yesterday. The men would
carry goods away after working hours,
The large bank barn on the farm Of
R. Rush Lewis, one mile south Of
Frederick, was totally destroyed by
fire about 8 o'clock Tuesday morning.
There were 43 fine milk COWS in the
barn. Eight Of them were burned to
death and only seven were gotten out
uninjured. Many were so badly
burned that it will be necessary to kill
them. The loss is $4,000, with only
a small insurance.
The prohibitionists have, for the
first time, entered the field of politics
in Berkeley county. They announce
the following ticket for the November
election: Clerk of county court, ID.
W. Deck !; clerk of circuit court, Fl
E. Hare; county superintendent free
schools, T. L. Dunn; county com.
missioDers, S. @. Dunn and D. c.
Carver; House of Delegates, Rev. F
W. Gruver and E. F. Millard mag
istrate, D. Pitsnogle; constable, Sam
uel Widmyer; city school commits
sioners, Charles Beard and John w
Pitzer.
A wedding that caused pleasan nj
surprise to the friends of the contract
ing parties was that of Mr.. Washington
H. Hoof to Miss George Fl. Lindsay
on Thursday. The ceremony was
performed in the parlor of the Steph-
enson Seminary at noon, Rev. DR.. G.
N. Campbell, uncle of the bride, of.
floating in the presence of only few
of the brides relatives. Mr.. and Mrs
Hoof drove to Harper's Ferry i'm
mediately after the nuptial cere-
mony and took B. & 0. train for a
wedding trip to Baltimore and New
York.-CharleS T0wn Adv0cats.
William E. Spangler, who left his
home in Williamsport June Is, has
returned in greatly emaciated condi-
ton, and says he remembers nothing
since he left home until last Thursday
when be found himself in Grafton
w. Va. When be left home three
months ago it was 10 consult 2 physi.
clan in Hagerstown. His disappear.
ance could not be accounted for and
he now seems to be unable to explain
it. He telegrsphed Friday night from
Grafton and Saturday morning came
home. At first he did not recognize
his wife and children. He wears diff
ferent clothes from those he had on
when he left home, but does not recall
where or how be came by them.
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