Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-11-12
Notes From Nearby.
John William Cook, Hagerstown
druggist, died on Monday from ty-
phoid fever, aged AZ years.

John William Cook, Hagerstown
druggist, died on Monday from ty-
phoid fever, aged AZ years.
Francis NJ. Darby, formerly we'll
known resident of Hagerstown, died
in Baltimore on Tuesday, aged IS
years.
A marriage license was issued in
Hagerstown to Alfred L. Carper and
Bertha G. Anderson, both of Charles
Town.
David D. Emery, Of Glengarry, and
Miss Emma Franks, of Ganotown, w.
Va, were married in Hagerstown
Monday.
The city council of Martinsburg
has passed an ordinance to do away
with the slot machines and gambling
schemes in that place.
The Isaac G. Beard farm, near
Beaver Creek, Washington county,
was sold Tuesday at public sale to
William McCauley, who paid $75 an
acre for it. 1t contains l57 acres.
The Westinghouse of G. NJ. Myers.
Norfolk g. Western agent at St. James
Station, was destroyed by fire last
Saturday. He bought the property
only short time ago. The loss is
partly covered by insurance.
William Hartman, a Cumberland
Valley Railroad track hand. was
struck and killed by train last Sat-
urday night. His body was not no.
ticed, and twenty trains ran over it.,
scattering the fragments for half a
mile. 1t was torn all to pieces.
By the explosion of 40 or so sticks
of dynamite at the stone quarry one
mile west of Harrisonburg, Va, last
Saturday, W. H. Bowman, white,
Grant Dunable and Lewis Tams, both
colored, were instantly killed, and
Joseph Long, white, and John Harper,
colored, painfully injured.
The fine, large barn on the farm of
Noah Thomas, tenanted by his son,
Harvey Thomas, was destroyed by
fire last night soon after dusk. About
200 bushels of wheat, 500 barrels of
corn, so tons of hay and all the farm
ing implements were destroyed, and
four calves were burned to death.
The horses and cattle were rescued
with difficulty just before the blazing
building Collapsed. The loss lie Sc, 900,
partially insured. The light from the
fire was plainly seen in Shepherdstown.
Charles Town has bad quite a mat
rimonial boom the past week or two.
On November Ord Mr.. James Parker
and Miss Alice Ours, both of this
county, were married by Rev. B. F.
Ball; on November 8th, by Rev, DR..
A. G. Hopkins, Mr. John E. Hardy
and Miss Emma L. Dillow, both Of
this county; on November 9th, by Rev.
Jas. H. Wolff, Mr.. Egbert Hunson
and Miss Elizabeth Nicholson. both of
Virginia; November 10th, by Rev. DR..
A. G. Hopkins, Mr.. Logan Msgaha
and Miss Kate Painter. both of this
county; on November 9th, by Rev.
B. F. Ball, Mr.. Joseph Rskestraw and
Miss Hattie Wilmington, both Of
Charles Town.
Winchester Presbytery met at
Berkeley Springs, W. Va, Monday,
November 9th, and reorganized the
Presbyterian church there, which
through death and removal had lost
all its officers. Three persons were re-
ceived into the church membership,
one by certificate of dismission and
two on profession of faith. Seventeen
names were restored from a reserved
list to the roll of active members,
making the number of active mem
bers at this time sixty-three. Pres
bytery then called congregational
meeting, which elected Mr.. P. JEFF
freys and DR.. Jesse Herbert elders,
and Messrs. P. R. Lawyer and W. G..
Catlett deacons. A commission, con-
sisting of Revs Charles Ghiselin, j. II.
Moore, S. NJ. Engle and j. Nee
Duckwall, and ruling elders j. w.
Harlan and Seibert Speck, to ordain
and install these officers Sunday, No
vember 29th. Presbytery was enter
tanned by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Van
Rensselaer, at their home at a delight
full lunch served in the style of the
ENGLISH country homes.