Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-01-04
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
The Hagerstown Bank last year
paid 81 per cent in dividends.

The Hagerstown Bank last year
paid 81 per cent in dividends.
James B Morgan has discontinued
the publication of the Qerardstown
Times.
An unknown colored man was
killed by B. & o. train just west of
Harper's Ferry last week.
Frank Scott, colored man en-
ployed in the Standard quarries at
Martinsburg, was killed by blast
last week.
Robbers broke into the store of II.
S. Cushwa at Martinsburg and stole
5000 worth of revolvers, knives and
other valuable goods.
DR.. Davis, of Boonsboro, removed
from the ear of a fve.year.old boy
grain of corn that had been in the
child's ear for eighteen months.
Ruth Webster, the three-year-old
daughter of Rev. DR.. ]. S. Webster,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church Of
Hancock, fell into cistern December
2lst and was drowned.
George Rypeal, Jr., retired bust
ness mar of Martinsburg gave 81
900 the first of the week toward es-
tablishment Of paid FIRE department
and Its equipments in that city.
The Nicodemus family of Martins
burg-Dal Nicodemus and his two
sisters-charged with setting neigh
boris house a6re, have been adjudged
insane and will be sent to an asylum.
DR.. Thomas w. Simmons, for forty
years practicing physician in Ha-
gerstown, died last Saturday in the
Washington County Hospital, after
surgical operation. He was 70 years
old.
Last Monday night fire destroyed
the large brick warehouse of the
Hagerstown Storage and transfer
Company, together with great guam
tlty of valuable merchandise. The
loss is about $4,000, partly cover
ed by insurance.
Henry Kidwell, of Sandy Hook.
was walking between the B. & 0.
Railroad tracks at Brunswick last
Sunday, when he was caught between
two cars and crushed to death in a
horrible manner. He was Is years
old.
John Hagan, of Sandy Hook,
former assistant yard master in the
B 4 O. yards at Brunswick, fell from
buggy while driving near Samples
Manor on Tuesday of last week, and
striking a sharp stone fractured the
base of the skull, causing his death at
2 clock Wednesday afternoon. He
was 80 years old.
An unexpected Christmas present
was received by Joseph + Funk
houser, of Winchester, in the shape
of check for $4,000 and interest
in payment of a debt he had lon
since regarded as lost. The money
has been due him for many years by
a Marylander, whose name Mr.. Funk
houser refused to divulge
Owing to the resignation Of N. O,
Roper as rural delivery carrier on
Route 8, Charles Town. several changes
have been made among the rural mail
force of the county. Melvin Strider,
who has been carrier from the Shen-
ando4h Junction Office, takes Mr.. Ro-
per's place, and E. II. Conner sue
ceeds Mr.. Strider at the Junction.
At Hagerstown on Wednesday
Judge Keedy signed an order extend
ing for one year the time Of the trus-
tees of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal
for the operation of that waterway.
The Wabash Railroad, which now has
an interest in the property, agreed to
the order, as it is only for one year.
The belief is becoming general that
the days of the old canal are num-
bered and that it will only be main.
tanned for few years longer.
Incendiaries in Washington county,
Nd are still busy, and the farmers
are kept in a state of constant dread.
On the night OF December Goth David |
G. Spe.sard's barn, near Chewsville,
was burned with all its contents; De-
cember 29th large bank barn on A.
L. Rogers farm, near Edgemont, was
destroyed; early Tuesday morning
some unknown villain set fire to
strawstack on DR.. j. NJ. Gaines's farm,
near Sharpsburg, tenanted by William
yesterday, and it was only by the
hardest sort Of work that the barn
was saved.
In the case of l. L. Bender. admin
istrator of the estate of D. NJ. Shafer,
deceased, against Joseph H. Shafer
and others, pending in the Circuit
Court at Martinsburg, to settle the es-
tate of D. NJ Shafer, Miss Rebecca
Daniels, niece of the decedent and
one of the heirs, asks for an allowance
of $4,000 for acting as his house
keeper. She claims also that under
their original agreement she was to
share with D. M. Shaffer as a partner
in his affairs. She claims one.half of
certain portions of the estate The
estate is valued at from $4,000 to
$4,000. The heirs will contest the
claim.
In the circuit court of Berkeley