Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-12-07
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Shenandoah junction, recently bought
handsome home in Cumberland.
He paid $4,000 for it.
Mr.. Lewis D. .Syester, well.known
lawyer of Hagerstown, was married
Yesterday in Washington Court House,
Ohio, to Miss Helen Parrett, of that
place.
Last Thursday Frank Tierney, a
Hagerstown railroad man, ate his first
thanksgiving dinner at home in 80
years, always having been out on his
run on that day.
Mrs. Joseph King, widow, aged
81 years. of Leitersburg, almost every
day this fall has 'husked corn and APP
parently suffered no i'll effects. She
has busked total of $50 shocks so
far this year.
An unknown colored man was
found Tuesday under the bridge of
the B. & o. Railroad over Opequon
creek just east of Martinsburg. He
had evidently fallen from the bridge
and had hurt himself so badly he
couldn't get away. He had frozen
to death.
A dynamo in the power-house of
the Charles Town Light and Power
Company burned out about 1880
o'clock last Thursday night, leaving
the streets of the town in darkness.
1t will be some time before the damage
can be repaired, and the plant put in
operation again.
J. R. Clifford, colored, of Martins
burg. has petitioned the Board of
Pardons for a pardon for his son,
Paul Clifford, who was convicted Of
the murder of Jacob Turner, and
whose case is now before the Court Of
Appeals of this State. 1t is said that
the Cliffords will move to Chicago.
During the season just closing co.
$50 barrels of apples were shipped
from Winchester, and almost as many
more from the stations between that
place and Martinsburg on the Cum
berland Valley Railroad. About
100000 barrels were shipped by the
B. & o. from points between Wood
stock and Winchester.
Adam w. Brown has rented the
new Jefferson Hotel in Charles Town
and will hereafter conduct the house.
Mr.. Brown was manager of the old
Carter House for a number of years,
and is an experienced and competent
hotel man. He will make the Jefer-
son, which is new and up-to-date
hotel, a popular resort for the travel
ing public.
Prof. W. E. Rumsey, Of the expert
ment station at Morgantown, is con-
Quoting experiments in the orchard
of Faulkner, Clohan & Bowers, near
Martinsburg, for the purpose of as
certaining just what sort of prepare
ton is best to eradicate the San Jose
scale. A number Of different sprays
will be used, and the results will be
carefully noted.
A Hagerstown paper of last week
had the following item: "Petle Dom
err colored, was sent to the House Of
Correction for six months for car
jumping. He was also accused of
beating up Gertie Boward. He said
the reason why he avoided arrest for
month was because he Lad a bad
hand" This probably refers to Petite
Ross, of unsavorY reputation in Shep-
herdstown.
G. Carlisle, lneman for the
Southern Bell Telephone Company,
was killed in an accident in Lynch.
burg on thanksgiving day. Carlisle,
whose home is in Berryville, was at
work on an aerial cable. While push
ing himself on a wire cable from one
pole to another 80 feet above the
street he touched a high current cleo
trio power wire with one of his feet.
Instantly he was precipitated head
first to the ground. He was taken
to hospital, where two physicians
did all that was possible for him, but
he expired His body was sent to
Berryville for interment.
"You ladies wear the biggest hats l
ever saw in all my travels as an evan
gelist, and, for the convenience Of
those behind you, must request that
you take them off " So spo, the
Rev. John E Brown, the noted Mis-
souri, evangelist, who is conducting a
great revival at Braddock Street
Methodist Episcopal Church in Win
chester. Mr.. Brown said that it was
impossible to preach to flowers, dead
birds and plumes, no matter how
pretty and expensive they may be
Women composed the larger part Of
the congregation, and he said he
wanted to look them square in the
face and tell them they could get to
Heaven on their good looks, for the
Virginia girls, he thinks, are the
prettiest and most attractive he has
ever seen. These few words caused
every hat to come off instantly.
Mrs. Anna Reed, an aged widow
who lived at Two Locks, in the west
ern part of Washington county, Nd,
was killed by vicious ram last Fri
dav. Mrs. Reed was crossing field
when she was attacked by the ram