The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-08-08
NEIeHBORLY NOTES.
Items Of Interest of Our Neighbors in
West Virginia and Maryland.

| Adam 5. Garris, a member of the
Washington county bar, was disbarred
Thursday at Hagerstown by Judge $
! Boyd and Henderson. The reasons foI
SO doing were given by the judges that
/ ''Garris does not now possess the quail,
fications of character and fitness requir-
! ed Of an attorney of this court, anC
that his remaining longer an enrolled
attorney of this bar cannot but reflect
discredit upon the administrations of
Justice"
Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. woodward, of
Grafton, left their suit cases sit on the
depot platform for minute the other
evening, and when they reached for them
they were gone, having been stolen.
The postoffice department is watch
ing more closely packages which are
mailed, said to have no writing within.
Several have been found to contain
writing, and the parties were fined and
in some cases imprisoned.
Mr., H. H. Mansbach, for fifty
years actively engaged in business at
Piedmont, will retire after the 18th of
this month.
DR.. Orlando S. Reynolds died at Key
ser, July 26th, from typhoid fever.
Keyser is lighted with gas.
The anti-saloon league with head
quarters in Baltimore, is making ar
engagements to enter the campaign this
fall. This league has done much to
drive liquor from the several sections
of this country.
Three tracks are being laid by the
Baltimore & Ohio between Cumberland
and Martinsburg
The Grafton Grocery & Produce
Company made an assignment. Friday
morning at Grafton.
Frank Stephenson pleaded guilty to
first degree murder in the criminal
court at Bluefeld, W. Va, Friday. 1t
is probably the first plea of that kind
ever made in West Virginia. He was
sentenced to be hanged October %.
Stephenson built an ambush and lay in
wait for Nose Blagman. miner, on
Crane Greek, and shot him to death.
The motive was to get Blagman's wife
with whom Stephenson was in love.
c. w. Swisher, the alert politician of
West Virginia, and at present secretary
of that state, is hot upon the trail for
the gubernatorial nomination.
The jamestown Exposition has failed
to make its first payment of 500, 900
due the government to repay the loan
of 81, 100000.
Attorney Dick, of Allegany county,
has been disbarred from the bar of that
county by Judges Boyd and Henderson.
John F. Clayton died at Lynchburg,
Harrison county, w. Va, Monday.
He was buried at Grafton Tuesday.
Benjamin H. Walker, aged 10 years,
was drowned Sunday while canoeing
near Cumberland. Walker leaned over
to shake the ashes from his cigar and
this unbalanced the boat.
Fights are beginning to be made in
West Virginia for legislation to keep
gas from being taken from that state
into other sections Of the country.
/ West Virginians want it all to be con-
sumed within its own borders.
J. r. Adams, secretary of the defunct
Eureka Building and Loan Association,
at Clarksburg, which went to the wall
about year ago, has been found in
South Pine, North Carolina. He wrote
back to Clarksburg to learn of a suit of
his in the courts there. The stock
holders lost about $10O,0 600 by the fail
ure
Mr.. George E. Rogers and Miss
Martha l.. Cornell, both of Rowlesburg,
were married Sunday at Clarksburg by
Rev. S. X. Arbuthnot
Mrs. Lloyd Shackleford, of Maple
avenue, Grafton, died Sunday. She
was buried yesterday
| Fairmont is raising howl against
! the way Grafton disposes of its garbage
by throwing it into the river, thus CON
Eliminating Fairmont $ water supply.
] The Allegany Grove Chautauqua at
Cumberland makes an urgent appeal
for public patronage. Hobson, of Mer-
rimac fame, was there Tuesday. 1t
appears that the Chautauqua is being
run at financial loss.
Allegheny county sends lao delegates
to the Republican state convention
which meets at Baltimore next week,
all of them travelling in special cars,
with Lloyd Lowndes at the head.
Joseph Andrews, of Barton, and a
pioneer citizen of that town died Tues
day. He is survived by a large num-
Der Of children