Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-09-06
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Blue was dead In MartlnsDurg, out
Bill turned up on Saturday and said
that the report could not be proved
by reliable authority. Monday he
got 80 lively Sergeant Shipley had to
lock him up.
Among the subscribers to the REG.
lister this week who called at our
office were Messrs. Thomas Files.
Clinton Welsh and Wasley Bowers.
of Berkeley county; Frank Jones, of
the Uvilla neighborhood; and L. O.
Engle, Of Keller's.
Norman Hartzell, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Hartzsll, whose illness
was referred to in our last issue. was
operated upon at Johns Hopkins Hos.
pital in Baltimore last Friday. The
operation was success, and he is re.
ported to be steadily improving.
The heavy rains during August
uncovered a good many relics of the
Civil War in this section. William
Wysong found a number of articles on
his farm east of town and hundreds
of bullets and other relics have been
picked up on Antietam Battlefield.
Mrs. Lizzie Frazier met with a
painful accident last Friday night.
AS she was descending a stairway she
tripped and fell, breaking both bones
in her arm. Mrs. Annie White, who
lives west of town, had the same mis-
fortune last week. She fell in the
yard at her home and broke her right
arm.
A special term of the Jefferson
County Court was held last Saturday,
and the court appointed Milton Burr,
William Wilt, James M. Hendricks,
John P. Kearfott and F. P. Lynch,
who with the members of the court
shall constitute a body OF ten viewers
to report upon the matter of building
a bridge across the Shenandoah river.
Mrs. Mary Grove Shepherd is en-
Pertaining a number of her Baltimore
friends at house party at Bellevue
this week, among her guests being
Miss Alice Rasin, Miss Virginia Car.
michael, Mrs. PinkneY Craig, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Gatchell, Mr.. Barbour
Danger6eld and Mr.. Max Wheeler.
Mrs. Shepherd gave most enjoyable
dance Wednesday evening in honor
of her guests, which Was attended by
a number Of persons from this neigh.
borhood.
1t is said that the Western Mary.
land paid $3.50 in fines to the POST
Office Department during the month
of August for failure to make connec-
ton at Hagerstown with the Norfolk
& Western mail train for the South.
The railroad company has to pay
fine of $25 every time it misses the
connection. This method of punish
men doesn't .eem to help the matter
very mush, however, and the people
mho miss their mails are thoroughly
exasperated.
Adam S. Link, the carpenter and
contractor, Of Duffelds, is slowly re.
covering from very painful accident
that befell him week or two ago.
He was at work on Charles Moore's
house at Bakerton, and was on top of
the porch when board that he was
holding to gave way. He fell back.
ward to the ground, a distance of
about ten feet, and sustained very
painful injuries to his shoulders and
neck. He ia able to get about some,
but is still suffering from the fall.
Emanuel Griffith, who lives north
of town, claims to waste as little am.
munition as any man in the country.
He recently bought 25 cartridges, and
so far he has killed 20 squirrels. two
chicken hawks and ID snakes-and
has two of the cartridges left. The
other day as he was walking along
the river bank at Mint Spring he saw
a big copperhead snake lying on
rock, and beside her were twelve
young ones, each about foot in foot
in length. The old snake made sew
eral attempts to bite him, but he fred
load of shot at her, killing her and
annihilating all of the young ones.
Mr.. Griffith holds the record.
There was an exciting town election
in Sharpsburg on Monday. when the
following ticket received Is votes and
was elected: Burgess. O. T. Reilly |;
assistant, George NJ. Mongan; COM
miasiouers, Samuel Neikirk, Joseph
Hammond, Aaron Knode. James
Marrow, Henry 81. Miller. This
ticket was known as the high license
ticket, as it advocated an increase in
the license for liquor saloons from FIVE
dollars to twenty-five dollars A
ticket headed by j. F. Staubs, ad.
vocating low license. received lS votes
and another headed by Thomas R.
Blackford received 81 votes. The
victors had triumphant procession
Monday evening.
1t seems likely that Gray Silver
will be nominated for the State Senate
from this district. At the primary
election in Martinsburg last Friday
night he carried four out of the FIVE
wards, giving him eight delegates to
two for G. W. Boyer. 81. s. Cushwa
got none. The primaries in the coun.
try districts were held Saturday af-
ternoon, but Mr.. Boyer announced
Saturday morning that he was out Of