Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-12-01
LITTLE LOCALS.

to railroad line to Washington City.
F. NJ. Huffman, employed by the
Keystone Coal Company, Greensburg,
Pa, one of the recipients of the 1900
turkeys distributed to their men
for Thanksgiving, was signally for
tunate. Upon cutting open the tur-
KEY he found in the craw a diamond
ring with two stones. The turkey
was purchased in West Virginia.
Last Sunday appropriate sericve,
were held in st. Johns Lutheran
church of Hagerstown in celebration
Of the thirty-ffth anniversary of the
pastorate of Rev. S. w. Owen, D. D.
Rev. DR.. E. X. Bell of Baltimore,
preached the sermon. Rev. Owen
was presented by his congregation
with purse of over $500 in gold, az
a token OF their appreciation of his
fsithfulness. The presentation took
place at the conclusion oil the ami
vsrsary service.
The B. & o. Railroad has its pur-
chasing agents busy buying the right
of way for it's proposed new short line
between Hancock, Nd, and Everett,
Pa. By the construction of this line
a distance of nearly eighty miles, it is
said, will be saved between Pittsburg
and Baltimore, and the heavy grades
between Cumberland and Conceivable
will be avoided. 1t is quite likely
that the next important Improvement
undertaken by the B. & 0. will be the
construction of this line, and following
this will be the Shepherdstoun cutoff.
At the November term of the JEFF
ferson Circuit Court the following
divorces have been granted: Laura
Fitch from John Fitch; Rosina G.
Wilson from R. l.. Wilson; Elizabeth
Fuller Crocker from Frederick James
Croker; Theo. NJ. Conner from Mary
D. Conner, and John B. Brazier from
Georgiana n. Brazier. In the Con-
ner case he is required to pay his
former wife $25 month as long as
she lives and give her a deed to a
house and lot on High street, Harper's
Ferry. Mrs. Conner is allowed to
resume her former name of Mrs. Mary
D. Cochran.
The recount of the ballots demands
ed by candidates for the Legislature
and Mr.. "Zeph" Morgan, Republican
defeated candidate for Assessor in the
Second district, was completed Mon
day afternoon, and the contest was
dropped. That elects Hutsler Dem
ocrat, by SO, a change of one vote
and Wsstphal, Democrat, by %, is
gain of 2 votes, to the Legislature,
and Martin Payne, Assessor by 43 a
lo,s Of 10 votes over the original count
The case was followed with a great
deal of interest. Mr.. H. H. Emmert
represented the contestants and Mr..
Clarence E. Martin the contssteeE.
On Tuesday the grand jury for the
circuit cout of Washington county,
Nd, reported that they found certain
cattle dealers who convinced farmers
that their cattle are diseased with
tuberculosis and later purchased from
the frightened farmes the same cattle
alleged to be infected at very small
price and shipped them out OF the
country to other markets, thereby
defrauding. Sufficient evidence how
ever, was not found to convict. The
report says: eve believe there i, a
conspiracy existing between certain
stock dealers and veterinary surgeons
to defraud farmers out of their cattle
The large bank barn on the farm of
Mrs. Mary E. Hunter at Duffields,
this county, was entirely destroyed
by FIRE last Thursday morning be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock. The origin
of the fire is a mystery. Samnel W.
Hunter and farm hand were hauling
fodder to the barn when they saw
smoke coming out Of the caves, and
soon afterward the bull ling was ablaze
from one end to the other. A few
articles were saved from the barn, but
a number of farming implements and
a quantity of hay, corn and fodder
were destroyed. The total loss is
about $4,000, which is almost covered
by insuranc. placed with Washington
& Alexander. The barn was an ex-
csllent one and was comparatively
new.
Our friend Mr.. James H. Conklyn,
of the southern end of the county,
writes US an interesting letter con-
corning affairs in his nsighborhood.
He says the drouth is serious in that
section. Cisterns and ponds are dry
and the streams are very low. The
wheat does not look very promising.
There was fine corn crop in that To-
cahty. Thoma, Miley made IS bar
rels to the acre on field Of 25 acres,
B. F. Ramey made II barrels to an
acre, and a number of crops will aver
age 10 barrels to an acre. Some fine
Yields of clover seed are reported.
County Commissioner Daniel Hehe-
bower got 60 bushels of sapling clover
seed from 25 acres and hulled it all
in one day. His crop in all amount
ed to about so bushels. 1t is of fine
quality and he is selling it rapidly.
The Charles Town Advocate says
that at the recent meeting of the
Jefferson County Sunday School Con-
vertion at Bolivar some changes IN
the plans for holding conventions in
the future were adopted. 1t was de-
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