Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-12-20
NOTES rRox NEARBY.


smallpox in Frederick county. Md.
Hon. Geo. M. Bowers has bought
the j. VIM. Gray farm at Inwood,
Berkeley county. containing 100 acres.
Woodward and Charles Hill killed
big wildcat on the east side of the
Shenandoah river in this county re-
Gently.
John Brandenberg, aged 81 yeare.
a former resident Of Martinsburg, was
killed in a railway accident near Oak.
land last week.
A negro named Robert Jenkins was
arrested at Kearneysville on Monday.
He is charged with assaulting white
woman at Uniontown. Pa.
The annual report of the Hagers-
town fair shows that the receipts for
1906 were $37,59l.14 The fair has
balance of $7,456.42 in its treasury.
Rev. D. II. Scanlon, pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Berryville, has
gone to hospital in Baltimore for
treatment. 81 has been in bad health
for come time past.
As the result of quarrel between
Rush Chamblin and Henry Williams
in Loudoun comfy last Sunday, Will.
Jams stabbed Chamblin six times,
causing wounds that may prove fatal !.
Mr.. Earl Thomas and Miss Fannie
ShlAer, both of the Keedysville neigh
borhood, were married at 2 30 a. M.
on Tuesday. They wanted to get
away from practical jokers and sere-
naders.
The Berkeley county lawyers will
push bill repeating the law that re-
quires four terms of Circuit Court a
year in that county. and return to
the former law, under which three
terms year are held.
Frank Reno, well-known Hagers-
town boy Is years of age, committed
suicide Monday night by hanging him
self in the cellar of his home. There
is no reason known for the rash act,
unless it is because of a boyish love
affair.
o. II. Hobbs, superintendent of the
Connellsville division of the B & 0.
Railroad, has been appointed superin.
tendent of transportation of the B. &
O., with headquarters in Baltimore.
Mr.. Hobbs is a former Martinsburg
man.
The contract has been let for the
construction of the magnificent new
Handley Library in Winchester, the
contract going to the Mankin Con-
struction Company of Richmond, Va,
at $ll0, 900. The building is to be
beautiful structure of Indiana lime
stone.
A Baltimore detective captured JAS
West, colored, at Summit Point on
Wednesday, and took him to Balti-
more. West had been employed as
janitor in a postal station in Balti-
more, and when given 1925 by the Of
6cials to deposit in bank, he skipped
out of town with the money on him.
The detective traced him to the home
of his mother-in-law, Jane Simms,
near Summit Point, and his arrest
soon followed. West was PEI itent
when captured. He confessed his
guilt. and said the only reason he stole
was that he needed the money.-Ad.
vocdte.
1t is said that Postmaster Somers,
Of Berkeley Springs, is not likely to
be reappointed, as he opposed not
only Governor Dawson but also work.
ed against Congressman.slect Sturgiss
when that gentleman was seeking the
nomination. 1t is also stated that he
is not acceptable to Hon. Geo. M
Bowers and other prominent Repub-
licans of this section. We learn that
S. s. Buzzerd. publisher of the Morgan
Messenger, is a candidate for the
place, and we hope he will get it, for
he is not only most deserving gen.
tieman, but a fair and square man
who would suit the people and eli the
place with ability.