Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-09-26
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The Baptist Church at Charles Town
has extended q call to Rev. l.. L.
Dutton, of Easton, Nd, to become its
pastor.
The Hagerstown fair board will
place SIS opera chairs on the grand
stand for use as reserved seats during
the fair.
Miss Della Margaret Oliver and
Mr.. Thomas Lloyd, both of Martins.
burg, were married in that city last
Wednesday.
Rev. W. D. Smith has sold his farm
near RipoD, this county, to Robert R.
Smith. The place contains l60 acres
and the price paid was'$S0 an acre.
Our neighboring town of Hancock
is catching the paving fever, too. No
less than 6fty.Gve new concrete side
walks are to be laid in that village
right away.
The firm of B. Ebert & Sons, hard.
ware merchants and carriage builders.
of Frederick, Md, have gone into
bankruptcy. Liabilities 100000, as.
sets $15, 900.
A small barn on the fruit farm of
Lawson Wilkinson, half mile from
Boonsboro. was destroyed by fire last
Sunday. tits supposed to have caught
FIRE from spontaneous combustion.
A hay barracks on the farm of Lo.
gan lB. Shut, near Kabletown, was
struck by lightning one day last week,
and fire ensued that entirely destroyed
it. The loss was covered by insur-
anee with Moore & Moore.
The proposed public meeting to
have been held in Williamsportlast
week in the interest of new bridge
across the Potomac river at that place
was not held, because of unfavorable
weather. Mr.. Cushwa, president of
the company, said that about half of
the needed stock had been subscribed.
Rev. G. A. Luttrell. pastor of the
M. E. Church of Williamsport, Md,
had his left leg amputated above the
knee last week in Hagerstown. When
in college Mr.. Luttrell had his knee
hurt while playing football. The in
jury never healed, and though minor
operations have been performed, they
gave no permanent relief. and ampu.
tation finally became necessity.
The passenger train leaving Ha.
gerstown at 1.30 a. IN. on the Nor
folk & Western yesterday morning
had only gotten a few miles on its
southwark journey when it ran into
a bunch Of horses belonging to W. D.
Middleknuff. Five of them had
jumped from field and wandered on
tina track, and four of them were kill.
ed. The fifth escaped by jumping
Lack into the field.
|, The real estate of George P. Riner,
deceased, late of Falling Waters dis
trict in Berkeley county, was sold at
public sale last Saturday. The man.
sion farm, al acres, was bought by
T. G. Riner at $S4 an acre; the west
end farm, "a acres, to E. 81. Tabler,
at 500. so an acre the east end farm,
SO acres, to VIM. P. Riner, at $40 an
acre the Jones Spring tract, l99
acres, mostly mountain land, to Flagg
Burkhsrt, SCI an acre.
Charles q. White. formerly assist.
ant postmaster of Martinsburg, entered
a plea Of guilty to the charge Of en-
bezzlement in the Federal Court at
Wheeling. W. Va, last Thursday, and
was sentenced by Judge Dayton to
one year in the Mouudsville Peniten.
tiary and to pay fine Of 81, 400, which
White confessed was the. amount Of
the embezzlement. White has been
incarcerated in the Jail at Parkersburg
since last winter. He was formerly
represented by Attorney Stuart W.
Walker, Martinsburg, but the latter
withdrew from the case some time ago.
Mr.. Walker was opposed to White en-
tering plea of guilty. As will be
remembered, White, who had been a
trusted official of the Martinsburg post.
Office for years, was arrested on a
charge of embezzling large sum Of
money from the money order depart
ment of the postoffce, the affair Great
ing a considerable sensation at the
time.