Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-05-04
LITTLE LOCALS.

Charles T. Butler, foreman of the
Panhandle, has our thanks for an In
teresting addition to our list of curl.
osities-a peculiarly shaped old duel.
ing pistol that once belonged to the
late DR.. Lane Butler.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee, commander
in-chief Of the Confederate Veterans,
has appointed VIM. Il. KearfOtt, of
this county, to position on his staff,
with the rank of colonel. Mr.. Kear-
fott is residing at present in Norfolk,
Va.
The Norfolk and Western work
train is again in this neighborhood,
and force of men will be employed
for some time in putting in perma-
nent stone culverts to take the place
of those constructed when this road
was first built.
A commission appointed by Win
chester Presbytery, consisting of Rev.
Drs. A. G. Hopkins, F. M. Woods
and Charles Ghiselin and Ruling Ell
ders J. B. Osbourn and J. H. Black
ford, organized a Presbyterian Church
at Shenandoah Junction on. Monday
night of this week.
William II. Wilson and J. B. Bra
zier, in company with Misses Corinne
and Matilda Lucas, while returning
from Shannondale Springs on Satur-
day, were thrown into the Shenan-
doah river. Their horses backed from
the ferryboat into water six feet deep,
but all were rescued unhurt.
Robert Sigler, farmer of Writings
Neck, met with serious accident last
Friday. He was riding horseback
when the horse became frightened and
threw him heavily to the ground.
Mr.. Sigler's collarbone was broken
and three ribs were fractured, and he
was very badly bruised and shaken
up.
Mrs. E. B. Spedden met with
painful accident while in Hagerstown
last Monday. She walked into an
opening in the floor of one of the fur
niture stores in that place, which had
been carelessly left uncovered, and
sustained a very badly sprained an
kle and several painful bruises. She
is DOW able to be about with the aid
of crutches.
Prof. J. G. Knutti, of this place,
has been appointed delegate to the
National Conference of Charities and
Corr ections which meets in Portland,
Oregon, the week of July 1922.
Prot. Knutti expects to attend the
conference and Mrs. Knutti will ac-
company him. N. G. Bracket, Of
Harper's Ferry, is delegate to the
same convention.
H. P. McBee, employed as fire.
man on the Valley division Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was run
over and killed at the stone quarrles
at Millville, this county, Tuesday.
He was on the tender Of the engine
and was knocked off by the chute Of
one of the stone crushers and fell IN
front OF the engine, which ran over
him. His remains were taken TO
Brunswick, his late home.
One day last week some small boys
were foohng with car loaded with
heavy stone on side track near the
railroad station, when they let the
brakes off. The car was moving to-
ward the main track when 1t was de-
rallied, possibly preventing serious
trouble. The wreck train got 1t back
on the rails. The railroad officials
have had detective here, and efforts
will be made to curtail the activities
of small boys about the railroad prop
erty.
E. Rush Turner, land assessor for
Jefferson county, has appointed as his
assistant Charles J. Miller, of Shep-
| herdstown, who has been commissioned
and entered upon his duties. Adam
Brenneman had been appointed, but
resigned after few weeks service.
There could be no better appointment
than that of Mr.. Miller. He is a con-
sentative, capable business man and
landowner, man of excellent Judg-
ment, and his appointment will be
eminently satisfactory to the people
OF Jefferson county.
The REGISTER museum has had a
couple of interesting additions this
week. The first is a Roman coin or
medal that is of an extremely ancient
character-indeed, it looks as If 1t
might be contemporary with Romulus
and Remus, whose images it bears
Mr.. E. Hayward Bowly Is the gener-
GUS giver. From Miss Bette Sheetz
was secured well preserved Hall 8
rifle, manufactured before the Civil
War at the government arsenal at
Harper's Ferry. This is breech-
loader, and was an early invention OF
that particular line of weapons.
A queer lot of junk was hauled
away from Shepherdstown yesterday
by j. P. Kline, of Martinsburg. 1t
was the stuff from the gunshop oper-
ated many years ago by the late Will
lam Sheetz on King street. Oldguns
and pistols and their separate parts,
ancient tools that were used III their
manufacture and repair, and curl
GUS collection of fotsam and Jetsam.
were carried away, and the accumu-
lation of maybe hundred years or