Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-08-17
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The regular August term OF the
Berkeley Circuit Court began yester-
day.
The teachers institute for Berke-
lev county is in session at Martins
burg this week.
John N. Ripple, well-kuown citi
zen of Hagerstown, died last Friday,
aged 81 years.
The Supreme Court of Appeals Of
West Virginia will meet in Charles
Town on September 9th. FIfty-two
cases are docketed for a hearing at
this term.
DR.. D. W. Border, of Kearneys-
Vile, has been appointed by Cover
nor Dawson delegate to the Nation
al Farmers Congress, to be held in
Richmond, Va, September II to %.
Rev. Edward H. Ingle, rector of
Christ Episcopal Church at Wildwood 8,
Clarke county, has accepted a call to
an English church in southern France,
and will leave in October for that
country.
The teachers institute for Jefferson
county begins at Charles Town next
Monday and will continue throughout
the week. The instructors will be
Prof. Henry R. Sanford and w. II.
Gallup.
Benjamin Holder, the young man
from Summit Point who was placed
in Jail in Charles Town last week on
the charge Of attempting to wreck a
B. & o. train, and who was said to
have made confession, denies that be
committed the crime alleged. He
says he got drunk and that the B. &
o. detective put words in his mouth
that he never used.
Mr.. Samuel Strider House died at
his home in Washington Tuesday
morning. The deceased was born at
Harper's Ferry, Va, in 1910. At
the breaking out Of the civil war he
enlisted in Company D, Capt. Kear-
ney commanding, and served through
out the war. He was well-known in
Winchester, where he was engaged
in business after the war.
The contractors engaged in the
work of constructing the dam and
making other improvements for the
Winchester Washington City Rail-
way Company at the Millvllle mill
have been negotiating with property
owners along the river between the
mill and the railroad station with a
view of laying temporary railway
tracks between the two points.
While automobiling about a mile
from Martinsburg near Kilmer s
Grove On Saturday night, W. W. Dow
ney, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney,
was attacked by four drunken young
men, one of whom snapped a revolver
in his face. When he was returning
near the same place one Of them fired
at him. He came to town and re-
turned with Deputy Sheriff Wolff,
who found the men and placed them
under arrest. All of them were held
for the grand jury.
The Secretary Of State has issued
charter to the Native Herb Rene
dy company, Of Bolivar, W. Va, to
manufacture and deal in chemicals
and other materials used in the man
ufacture of proprietary medicines.
Capital stock, $4,000. Incorpora-
tors, Charles R. R4u, of Bolivar;
Charles A. Stellings, of Boston; George
R. Bready, of Harper's Ferry; John
MacIntyre, of New York City; W, O.
Boyle, of Cincinnati, and Charles Cor
mer, of Baltimore.
Rev. J. s. Alfriend returned last
week from his visit to Warm Springs,
Va. He is on crutches az result of
a runaway accident at Warm Springs
two weeks ago. He was out driving,
when COW rose up suddenly in front
of his horse, frightening it so that it
ran. Mr. Alfriend was thrown from
his vehicle into a pile of rocks, cutting
the calf of his left leg severely and
causing green stick fracture Of his
ankle, beside being otherwise bruised
and shaken up.-Charles To,On Free
Press.
The Alumni of the University of
Virginia residing in this county or
ganized a county alumni association
few days ago at the law Office of State 8
Attorney J. NJ. Mason. Twelve mem
bers were enlisted and the following
officers were chosen: President, J. NJ.
Mason, Jr. vice-presldent, DR.. G. G..
Lucas; secretary, J. Ed. Burns, Jr. ;
treasurer, Edmund P. cambridge.
The association awarded R E. Lee
Srider, son Of l. H. Strider, Esq,
near Leetown, scholarship at the
University.
Lieut.. E H. Neumyer, of the Dis
trict of Columbia National Guard,
had series of adventures following
upon his leaving Camp Ordway at
Bolivar last Saturday morning, and
running through the rest of that day
aud Sunday. A big bunch of green
backs, nearly 5000, was stolen from
the lieutenant by negro while he
was on his way to Harper's Ferry and
hidden in ravine. The negro was
captured Sunday as he sought his i'll
gotten treasure, and confessed to the
theft when confronted by the owner.
All the money was recovered.