Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-07-16
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Inc blue hldge hnlttlhS COMPANY
of Eagerstown will establish a branch
hosiery factory at Berkeley Springs.
Mr.. Charles Hamilton Russell and
Miss Daisy Scenetta McGolrick were
married in Charles Town yesterday
by Rev. J. II. Wolff.
During a storm last Saturday the
new barn Of T. ]. Michael, near
Berkeley Springs, was struck by light
ming and burned. Loss 81 900.
The members of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor in Martinsburg have
declared boycott on merchants who
keep their stores open after s o'clock
in the evening.
It's announced that the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Company has
completed its line to Harper's Ferry.
This is the first introduction Of the
Bell system into Jefferson county.
The board Of education of Middle
way district has made a levy Of 80
cents for the teachers fund and 10
cents for the building fund; in Ka-
bletown district the teachers fund is
% cents and building fund 7 cents.
Mr.. John R. Prather and Miss Ma
nv Anna Mitchell were married July
9TH at the NJ. f. parsonage in Bolivar
by Rev. J. H. Marsh, and on July 8th
he united in marriage Mr.. Robert L..
Loman and Miss Fannie B. Baden, in
the church.
Samuel w. George, of Haverhill,
Mass, who married Miss Gertrude
Grove, Sharpsburg, recently, has been
appointed by Governor Bates, of Mass
achusetts, gas commissioner. Histerm
of office is three years and the salary
So, 500 year.
Rev. Sam Jones will preach and
lecture at the Chatauqua Assembly at
White Post, Va, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, July 10, 20 and 81.
Rev. j. VIM. Jones will deliver his
lecture on Robert E. Lee July Oath.
Reduced rates on the railroad.
Jack Hall, colored, aged u years,
employed on Frank B. Delaney s
canal boat, was seized with an attack
of heart disease, while walking along
the cabin of the boat at Snyder 8
warehouse, one mile west of Sharps-
burg, Friday evening, and fell over
board. His dead body was recovered
soon afterwards about forty feet be-
low the boat.
Miss George Barker, of Camp Hill,
and Mr.. Charles Smith, Of Charles
Town, were married at the Carter
House in Charles Town on Monday.
1t is said that Miss Barker was en-
gagged to marry Mr.. Fount Gardner,
of MiIlville, but under pretense Of
spending the evening with friends
she was quietly married. The bride s
parents are very indignant and re-
fused to allow Mr.. Smith to remove
Miss George clothing Wesincerely
hope that the "dove of peace" will
soon rest over the hearthstones Of both
families HmpU's Ferry Times.
A recent dispatch says that Eugene
F. Ware, of Kansas, United States
Commissioner of Pensions, has under
taken to rescue and restore for Presen-
tation to the Kansas Historical Socle-
ty the scaffold from which John
Brown was hung at Charles Town in
1859. We cannot but admire (?) the
taste of Mr.. Ware and his fellow pa
triots of Kansas in seeking to secure
such an attractive relic. Whether or
not he can do so is a question, how
ever. The scaffold was afterward
used in building a porch in Charles
Town, and we believe that most of its
lumber has been destroyed.
The will of Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnson, who died recently in Wash
ington, disposes of an estate valued at
more than $l,OOO0OO. Of the nu-
merous requests, 100000 is given to
establish school for choir boys in
Baltimore, 100000 for the erection
of monuments to the late President
Buchanan, and 100000 for three
scholarships in Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. Various other requests are
made, among which Charles Town
people receive $l07, 800, as follows
May S. Kennedy, 100000; Kate
W. Riddle, $4,000; Anna Riddle,
$3.50; Mamie Selden, $3.50; Julia
Kennedy, $500; Mrs. Julia G. Ken
nedy, $4,000; Margaret Kennedy,
$3.50; Ethel Kennedy, $3.50.
The records of the clerk Office show
that D. H. Dodd has conveyed to the
Standard Lime and Stone Company
fifty acres of his farm lying in Falling
Waters district, for the sum Of $4,000
cash. The provisions Of the transact
ton are to the effect that Mr.. Dodd
shall have the right to farm the land
and to clear the timber therefrom, in
any way that may not interfere with
the operation of the said company in
quarrying and shipping limestone
therefrom. The title is good for
twenty years, with right to renew at
the end of that time for another twen-
ty years. The company is to begin
operations within FIVE years, and to
pay Mr.. Dodd one cent per ton, long
ton, for all stone shipped therefrom,
and that the minimum royalty shall
be $500 per year, but the 5000 paid
on the execution of the deed is a pay