Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-11-01
LITTLE LOCALS.

a nice little farm of 120 acres three
miles from Shepherdstown, on good
road and in desirable neighborhood
Good house and barn and running
water through the place. Call OF
write for particulars.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. E. Mundey have
announced the approaching marriage
of their daughter, Miss Edna Pearl
Mundey, to Mr.. Charles Neil Nc
Groarty, of Florida. The wedding
will take place at the home Of thu
bride on Wednesday evening, Novem.
Der l4th, at 8 o'clock.
Ellsworth Shackleford, a youth
about II years old, met with pain
full accident last Saturday. While
helping to load cars with logs, rope
holding log broke and permitted
the log to fall back. 1t struck young
Shackleford and broke his leg. he
was taken to his home and DR.. Myers
rendered surgical attention.
The Shepherdstown Choral Society
was reorganized last Saturday, with
Prof. ]. D. Muldoon as director and
Miss Eva Wright as accompanied.
The other officers are: d. L. Snyder,
president; ]. L. Dunkle, vice.presi.
dent; Miss Louise Welshans, sscre.
tary; B. s. Pendleton, Jr., treasurer (;
Miss Mary Pendleton, librarian.
Mrs. Albert T. Hill, who lives a
couple of miles north of town, q few
days ago by mistake got hold of a
bottle containing poison in place of
some medicine that had been pre-
scribed for her, and swallowed some
of the dangerous stuff before she dis
covered the error. 1t was only by
prompt treatment of a physician that
her life was saved.
Miss Rosemary Sartoris, daughter
of Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris and
granddaughter Of Gen. q. 8. Grant,
was married to George 81. Woolston
at noon on Monday in Calvary Epis-
copal Church, in New York City. The
groom Is an Englishman. but makes
his home in Florida, where he is an
architect and engineer. The bride is
known in Shepherdstown, where she
has occasionally visited.
Miss Nellie Burlington, a former
resident of Shepherdstown, and Mr..
Roy E. johnson, ofSandy Hook, Md,
were married last Thursday at the
parsonage of Christ Reformed Church
In Hagerstown by Rev. G.. @. Clever.
The groom is in the B. 60. service,
and is an estimable young man, while
the bride, who made her home here
until the past year, was popular
and respected girl. We hope they
may be very happy.
The Presbyterian Synod of Virgin
la, in session at Stsunton, on Tues
day, passed the following resolution {:
Resolved. that the Synod enjoin
presbyteries to direct their churches
as far as practicable to readjust the
salaries OF their pastors to the present
higher cost of living, if this has not
already been done by them, and in
the meantime the synod shall instruct
the stated clerk to inform sessions of
churches of the synod's action.
Halloween passed off last night
much more decorously than usual, and
very slight damage is reported this
morning. Whether this is due to the
vigilance of the town officers or
whether the boys are reforming, we
do not know. but it is very agreeable
| to note the fact that the excuses Of
former years have not been repeated.
Some of the boys threw corn on the
streets, but nobody objected seriouly to
that. Several Halloween parties
were held by the young folks.
G. w. Show has sold to Henry
| Trostle his house and eleven acres Of
land Just east of Shepherdstown for
81 800, the aale being made through
the real estate agency of 81. L. Sny-
der & Co. Mr.. Show expects to move
to Harrisburg, Pa. with his family
by the 1st of December, and Mr..
Trostle. who has sold his little farm
near Hagerstown, will move here the
first of next April. Mr.. Trostle form
erly lived near Kearneysville, and
we are glad to welcome him back to
Jefferson county.
An east-bound coal train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was
wrecked at Engle's Switch at noon
last Saturday. and traffic on the road
was INSTRUCTED for several hours. The
wreck was caueed by broken truck
under one of the cars, and Is loaded
coal. hoppers were derailed and badly
smashed. The track was torn up for
distance of about 200 feet. Passen.
ger trains Nos. 5 and SIS were held
| on the other side of the wreck for
more than two hours. No one was
injured.
The Eastern Panhandle newspaper,
which haze been conducted by Col. w.
I. Boone in Shepherdstown for the
past three years, was sold last Satur-
day by Trustee ]. s. Bragonier at
public sale. The paper was sold un-
der two deeds of trust, one for 81 5OO
held by Jacob Wintermoyer, and the
other for 81 900 held by b. E. Nun.
dey. Mr.. Wintermoyer bought the
part covered by his mortgage at 81 800,
and Mr.. Mundsy bid in his share at
II L.