Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-11-09
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Frisby Hildebrsnd, retired farm
er, died at his home near Sharpsbnrg
last Sunday, aged II years
John W Breathed Bridges, prom
inent merchant of Hancock, Nd, died
yesterday after brief illness, aged 40
years.
DR.. George William Larrick, a
prominent physician OF Frederick
county, Va, died on Monday, aged
SO years.
William W. Carter. of Hancock,
fell in the canal at that place the
other day and was drowned. He
was A years old.
DR.. Samuel P. Latane and Miss
Elizabeth Faulkner Love, two promi-
nent young residents Of Winchester,
were married yesterday.
G. w. Biser has sold the Washing
ton Hotel at Berkeley Springs to
Hon. A. r. Unger for $45. 900. And
still the editor of the REGISTER hash t
gotten that dinner promised him by
Editor Pendleton.
A large bank barn on the farm
owned by William Watts and tenant
ed by Harvey Frinatrock, mile and
a-halffrom Hagerstown, was destroyed
by fire last Thursday morning, togeth-
er with 1900 bushels Of wheat, 600
barrels of corn, 80 tons of hay, farm
ing implements. wagons, harness, etc.
Loss Sc 600, insurance S. 900.
An epidemic of diphtheria has
broken out among number OF fami-
lies on the east side of the Shenandoah
river in Charles Town district Two
deaths have thus far resulted from it.
As a precaution against the disease
spreading the board of health has or
dered the school at Manning 8 closed
for a time to await Developments
Advocate.
The dam being built across the
Shenandoah river at Millville, this
county, by the Winchester and Wash
ington Electric Railway Company is
well under way, and the contractors
expect to finish it by December 10th.
The contract for installing the tur-
bine wheels has been let to the James
Loffel Company, of Springfield, Ohio.
The price is $4,000.
A young woman from Washington
was very painfully hurt at Martins
burg last Sunday. As the Washing
ton excursion train was leaving the
station some boys put railroad tor
pedo on the track, and when it ex-
ploded piece of the flying metal
struck the young lady in the face, cut
ting through her eyeball and proba-
bly, destroying the sight.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the West Virginia Horticultural So
ciety will be held in Martinsburg
next week-November Is, l6 and
II. The programme includes many
papers by practical horticulturists
and experts in fruit culture from
West Virginia and other States. B.
G. Collingwood, editor of the Rural
New Yorker, and experts from the
Experiment Station at Morgantown
will be in attendance.
Last Sunday Rev. DR.. ]. A. Hof-
helms celebrated the thirtieth ami
versary of his pastorate Of the Re-
formed Church of Martinsburg. His
congregation on Saturday presented
him with a purse of gold. DR.. Hof-
helms went to Martinsburg from Al
legheny, Pa, in 1875, and the con-
gregation then numbered 1856; now
there are 325 members. The Re-
formed church edifce, built under
the direction of the pastor four years
ago, is one of the finest churches in
this section.
The Berkeley County Court has
completed the work of hearing the
appeals from the valuation placed on
property in that county by State Tax
Commissioners Smith and Rigsby, and
the cases are now on record in the
county clerks Office, There were 50
appeals from the figures handed in by
the commissioners, the greater portion
coming from outside of Martinsburg.
OF these 81 were filed by Assessor
Smith, who asked the court to make
corrections in that number of valua-
tions because of clerical errors. Of
the remaining appeals 80 were allow
ed and q rejected by the court.