Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-09-03
Notes From Nearby.

Luray.
Ephraim Eyler, for twenty years a
hotel keeper in Hagerstown, died last
Sunday, aged IS years.
Hagerstown men are trying to raise
100000 for the establishment of an
automobile mandatory.
Miss Dora B. Kennedy and Mr..
John Ardinger, both Of Berkeley coun-
iy, were married last week at Mar
lowe.
NJ. ]. Fulton, of Front Royal, has
been nominated for the State Senate
in the twelfth Virginia district over
Capt. Parks, of Luray.
Three boys, Thomas Warner, Noel
Moore and Claude Loughry, aged 10
to II years, were drowned last week
in Cheat river, near Parsons, W. Va.
Martin Luther Keedy, of Hagers-
town, has been selected as Washing
ton county's Republican candidate
for Judge of the fourth Judicial dis
trict of Maryland.
Miss Cordelia May Heck, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Heck, died at
her home in Martinsburg last Thurs
day, after long illness from con-
sumption, aged 8yearS.
Friend j. Hays, sub-contractor
on the North Mountain cutoff Of the
B. & o. Railroad, has been forced in
to bankruptcy by his creditors, and
his effects are now in the hands Of APP
praisers.
Last Friday night part of the top Of
freight car was blown off and land
ed on the B. & o. Railroad track
about two miles from HagerstOwn. An
engine drawing a passenger train
struck it and was thrown from the
track. Fireman Edward Marphy was
instantly killed by being caught un-
der the boiler. He was 60 years old
and was a native of Berkeley county.
The First Baptist Church of Mar
tinsburg will, beginning with Sep
TENDER l, support two pastor8-the
resident minister, Rev. T. S. Dunaway,
and a missionary in China. The
church membership has agreed to un-
dertake the support Of Baptist cler-
gyman who will labor among the Chi
nese and will pay his salary from the
revenues of the Martinsburg church.
-Stntesman.
The apple yield in Berkeley county
this year will probably be the largest
ever raised in this section. The crop
is variously estimated at from one to
two thousand barrels, but the price is
very unsatisfactory. There have been
but few buyers go far here, and the
price, from present indications, will
range from 81 Is to $3.50 per barrel.
Growers estimate that the cost Of bar
rels and barreling is about So cents
per barrel, leaving net price of 70
cents per barrel to the growers. This
is regarded as a very low price and
growers are rather blue over pros
pects.-Martjnsb,rg Statesman.
A bad wreck occurredon the Shen-
andoah Valley division of the Nor
folk & Western Railway last Sunday
evening, when a train Of live stock
dashed into the rear end of freight
train a mile or two north of Elkton.
The crews Of both engines to the stock
train jumped to save their lives, all
four men being cut and badly bruised.
Three rear cars and two locomotives
were badly damaged and the tracks
were blocked for eight hours. The
injured were E. B. Moore, engineer,
cut and bruised on body and back
sprained; A. w. Nichols, engineer,
cut and bruised on body; W. Jones,
fireman, cut and bruised ; H. H. Hair
field, bruised and cuts on body. The
wounded trainmen were taken to
Shenandoah, where they were given
medical attention.
Jacob S. Royer, retired farmer,
and father of D. T. Roger, of Leetown,
this county, was instantly killed Tues
day morning by being struck by To-
comotive on the Cumberland Valley
Railroad near Half Way, few miles
from Hagerstown, while attempting to
drive across the track in carriage
Mr.. Roger, who made his home with
his son-in-law, David Long, three
miles south of Hagerstown, left early
Tuesday morning to drive to Martins
burg. He was 5ery deaf and did not
hear the engine as it came around the
curve near the crossing. The engine
was running backward. Neither the
fireman nor engineer saw the team I'M
til the engine was within 100 yards of
the crossing. The carriage was
smashed into splinters. Mr., Roger
was thrown under the engine, which
passed over him, and was horribly
mutilated. Mr. Roger was a native
Of Pennsylvania, but lived 80 years at
Berryville, Va. His body was taken
to the latter place for buriel.