Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-06-25
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
Martinsburg City Band will picnic
at Pen.Mar July "a.


Martinsburg City Band will picnic
at Pen-Mar July "a.
Chas. E. Shank, Myersville, Nd.
picked from one tree over $50 pounds
of cherries.
MARYLAND Teachers Association
will hold it's Seth annual session at
Ocean City, June 20 to July 2.
The nine-year-old son Of Franklin
Reel, of near Sharpsburg, was thrown
from spring wagon Monday into
patch of nettles and was badly stung
and had his ankle sprainsd.
The remaining contracts for the new
water system for Martinsburg were
let Monday to a Cincinnati firm for
$4,000. The work for the new sys-
tenn will be begun Immediately.
Capt. T. D. Ransom, of Staunton,
Va, brother of DR.. J. NJ. Ransom,
of Charles Town, has recently con-
Quoted negotiations for coal COM
pany for the sale of lard amounting
to 100000.
Geo. Harrison, fireman on the B.
& O.-Railroad, stepped from his en-
gine in front of passenger train near
Cherry Run the first of the week, and
was killed instantly. This was his
first trip as fireman. He leaves a
widow.
The Tabler Chemical Co., of Mar
tinsburg, has been incorporated by
the secretary of State OF West Vir-
ginia, with a capital stock of $25, 900.
The president of the company is Mr..
Gray Silver, and the secretary is Mr..
Clarence Marten.
An apparently incendiary fire de-
stroyed the stable of A. F. Bentz, in
Martinsburg, last Friday night, bum
ing up a horse, carriages and other
contents. Loss, $500. Esrlierin the
night an effort was made to fire the
stable of F. W. Trout, but it was dis
covered before any Roadway was made.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Moler informs US
that lie took out of his garden last
week ffty-six heads of wheat, grown
from single grain, which gave a to-
tai yield of some twelve or thirteen
hundred grains. Mr.. Moler has two
cabbages, not yet in head, set out on
on the Oath of April, which measure
each three feet from tip to tip Of
leaves.-Spirt.
w. D. Byron & Sons will be paid
$l44,025 by the insurance companies
for the loss on their tannery burned
at Williamsport recently. They were
allowed by the adjusters the full amount
of insurance. The firm also gets the
hides and leather, valued at $4,000,
that were saved. This is the largest
fire loss ever paid in Maryland out
side of Baltimore.
The commissioners Of public schools
of Berkeley county have granted an
increase Of salaries to all teachers in
the schools of Martins burg, except
the principals. The first assistants
to the principals were granted an in
crease from $500 to $3.50 per year
and the others from $500 to 1926.
The school year is ten months. The
subject Of again taking up the study
of music in the schools was acted upon
adversely by the commissioners.
There is general complaint through
out the Georges Creek mining region
on account OF slack work. The miners
are not making half time generally,
and some that work in the small
seams have not received more than S.
in two weeks. The depression, it is
claimed, is due to the lack of cars.
The Consolidation Coal Company, the
heaviest operator, is affected with the
rest, although they have their own
cars and the boats on the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal to fall back on. The
business men are loud in their COM
plants over present conditions. The
depression has minimized passenger
traffic on the steam and trolley lines.