Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-02-26
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofInterest that arc Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

gregations In the Lutheran church IL
Shepherdstown and at Uvilla last Sun.
day.
Miss Myrtle Lee Widmeyer and
Mr.. John Wesley Rice were married
in the Reformed church in Martins.
burg yesterday by Rev. J. A. Hof.
helms.
Mr.. Edward Oberlander, of Summit
Point, this county, died recently at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Towers,
in Cumberland, from typhoid fever.
He was 50 years of age.
1t is said that wholesale liquor dealers
have sent considerable sum of money
to Shepherdstown to be used in con-
trolling the election here in March.
This is foreign interference that ought
not to be tolerated. and our people
ought to resent it.
The principal of Shepherd College
desires to know how many families in
Shepherdstown wish student boarders
for the spring term, beginning March
%, 1908, Please inform him at an
early date of the number of students
you can accommodate, whether boys
or girls, and the price of board and
room per month. Let US provide well
for the comfort of our boarding stu
dents and encourage their stay with
us. A good representation ofstudents
from the Eastern Panhandle counties
will insure the maintenance Of our
school by the State
The suit of the corporation of Shep-
herdstowu against the Trust Company
of West Virginia, of Eikins, was set
tied out of court last week. The trust
company, it will be recalled, was on
the bond Of John F. Maddox, former
sergeant Of Shepherdstown, and the
corporation sued it for the amount of
his shortage. The trust company
paid over to the town officers the sum
of $475, which was about $50 less
than the amount claimed by the town.
President Wilson gave draft for the
above named amount, and there will
be no further action in the matter.
There was a very exciting half hour
at the home of WIN l.. Reinhart, near
town, last Friday night. One of the
chimueys Of the house caught fire aud
communicated to the inside Of the
dwelling, which became so filled with
smoke that those of the family who
were upstairs were afraid to try to
descend the stairway. 1t was with
the greatest difficulty that they man
aged to escape from the house, and
being very scantily clad, and the snow
deep on the ground, they suffered
good deal By hard work Mr.. Rein
hart and the older members of his
family finally succeeded in extiuguish-
ing the flames, but it was very mar
row escape.
Shepherd College has been literally
treated by the finance committees Of
both the Senate and the House. In
the appropriation bill presented to the
Legislature last week ample provision
Is made for the finishing and equip
ment of our new school building and
for the running expenses Of the same.
The total sum agreed upon by the IL
nance committee to finish and equip
the building and run the school, not
counting the salaries, for 1908 and
| 1904 is $44,980. This sum is pretty
sure to be allowed by the Legislature,
and the welfare of our school seems
assured. transportation bill passed
the House on Monday, and will pass
the Senate pretty nearly as it came
from the committee.
Major J. A. Hunter, right-Of-way
agent of the B. & O. Railroad, and his
assistants, Mr. Wilson and Mr.. Nc
Jilton, have closed number of OPP
tons the past week for the B. q o.
cut, off through Shepherdstown, and
their work is pretty nearly finished in
this neighborhood. They have gotten
options for the right-of-way from all
the landowners between the Berkeley
county line and Shepherdstown, and,
with one or two exceptions, east Of
town as far as the farm OF w. j. Knott,
Jr. The right-of-way men have or
ders to get options for the entire line
through this county by the first of
March, and where agreements are not
reached commissioners will be ap-
pointed to condemn the necessary land.
The railroad seeks to have all arrange
ments made for an early beginning of
active work, and the dirt will begin
to fly in the near future.
The loud ha ha that was heard
upon our streets on Friday last was
notice that Charlie Greenfield was
again on his native heath, and his
chocolate colored smile is once more
in evidence. Charlie has been play
ing in hard luck. Last August he
went to Martinsburg to work for DR..
Grove. The first day he was there he
was arrested with very slight provoca-
tion-it is said the Martlnsburg Off
GERS are always on the lookout to earn
fee--and thrust into the bastile. Later
slick fellow prisoner got Charles into
more trouble, and he was accused of
robbing another inmate of the Jail.
This additional misfortune kept him
in durance vile until last Friday, and
though he was fed heartily he longed
with great longing for his old haunts.