Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-07-27
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

ing on one of the amusement affairs
at Coney Island.
The BerryvilIe horse show will be
held August 23d and Oath. Secretary
Chas. NJ. Brouu has our thanks for an
invitation to attend.
Mr.. Charles w. Shaull and Miss
Amelia NJ. DeHaven, both of Martins
burg, were married in that place
Tuesday by Rev. c. S. Trump.
Philip Slime, Martinsburg boy IS
years old, fell under stone truck at
the quarries there on Tuesday and
had one of his legs crushed of.
Miss Florence Gill has resigned her
position as teacher in the Martinsburg
High School, and Miss Leila Bitner,
of Kearneysville, has been appointed
in her place.
Mollie Funkhouser, little girl
who lived near Strasburg, Va, tried
few days ago to start fire with
coaloil. The oil exploded and she
was burned to death.
Bertha Rogers, young woman Of
Hagerstown, killed herself last week
by taking poison. She was from Lu-
ray, but her home life Was unhappy
and she ended her trials by taking
carbolic acid.
Russell Reynolds, a boy ten years
old, was sitting on the wall Of lock
of the canal at Cumberland the other
day, when his hat blew into the wa
ter. In reaching for it he fell in and
was drowned.
Rev. D. B. Floyd, formerly Of
Funkstown, but who has recently been
pastor Of Lutheran church in Wash
ington, has resigned his charge to be-
come professor of Hebrew and Greek
in Susquehanna University at Selins
Grove, Pa.
N. D. Athey, an employee Of the
B. & O. Railroad at Martinsburg, was
killed in the railroad yards at that
place last Saturday night. An engine
and caboose backed over him. He
was 81 years old and leaves wife
and two children.
The engagement of Miss Elizabeth
Faulkner Love, of Winchester, to DR..
S. P. Latane, prominent physician
of that town, has been announced.
The wedding will take place in the
fall. The bride-elect is a daughter
of DR.. and Mrs. William S. Love.
w. E. Hoffman, who has been treas,
urer of the corporation Of Berryville
for the past dozen years, is reported to
be short in his accounts to the amount
of about $4,000. 1t is said that he
will make good the amount in ar
rearage and that no action will be
taken against him.
Rev. DR.. J. Horace Lacy, Of the
Presbyterian Church at Clarksburg,
Tenn, has formally accepted the call
to the Presbyterian Church Of Win
chester, which was extended to him
some months ago, but which he had
declined. He succeeds Rev. Julian
S Sibley, who went to Pensacola,
Fla, over year ago.
At the risk of her own life Mrs.
Simon Stickles, OF Clarke county,
saved two little children from possible
death by huge copperhead snake
which was crawling into the bed in
which the children were lying. AS
the reptile turned on Mrs. Stickles
she seized a heavy club and slew it
after an exciting battle.
The directors of the Winchester and
Washington Electric Railway Com
pany have received about twenty APP
plications from contractors for the
plans and specifications of the big dam
that is to be built across the Shenan-
doah river at MilIviIle, this county.
Bids for the construction of the dam
are to be opened August %.
Rev. w. c. Scha effer, who is now in
Berlin, Germany, has notified the
council of Emanuel Lutheran congre-
cation, Woodstock, Va, that he will
accept the call to become the pastor.
He will return and take up this work
October l. Mr.. Schaefier is the son
of Rev. W. G. Schaefer, Of Savannah,
Ga, formerly of the Virginia Synod.
During a thunderstorm that passed
over Berkeley county one day last
week the house o! James A. Mayhem
at Bedington was struck several times.
One of the bolts entered through a
room in which the family were gath
cred and tearing a big hole in the
wall passed through without injuring
anyone. But they were almost scar
ed out Of their wits.
Third Vice-President George L.
Potter, of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, is given as the authority for
the statement that negotiations are
in progress regarding the sale Of the
Valley Railroad, between Strasburg
and Harrisonburg, which was bought
by the Southern Railway some years
ago, when the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad was in receivers hands.