Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-12-26
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Charles G Biggs was elected pres
ident of the new bank at Sharpsburg.
and s. s. Stoufer vice-president.
Committees we're appointed to secure
a cashier and to select banking room.
II is hoped to begin business by Feb
rusry 1st.
Alfred Burton, truant officer for
Harper's Ferry district. is making
stir over the alleged illegal employ
ment of boys under fourteen years OF
age in the qnarries at Mlllville and
Bakerton, aud thereby compelling
better attendance at the schools in
that district.
The State of New York will pur.
chase from R D. Fisher tract of six
or seven acres of lsnl on Antietsm
battlefield near the Dankard Church,
on which it will erect monuments at
future date to commemorate New York
organizations that participated in the
battle. The land was surveyed last
week.
Charles G. Biggs and A @. Strife,
executors OF Maybsrry O. Beeler. on
Saturday sold at public sale at Sharps.
burg the late residence of Mr.. Beeer
at Bridgeport. opposite Shopherdstown
The property was purchased bya Mr..
Bowles, of Altoona. Pa. for 81 325
Mr. Bowles contemplates converting
the resi- ience into a club house. The
property was sold several months ago.
but for certain reasons the sale was
set aside. The price secured Satrr-
day was an advance Of 1920 over the
previous s.le.
George Lilly. aged about 81 years
was asphyxi.ted at the National Hotel
in Charles Town sons time Monday
night. He had been employed by L
D Gezaud4nner, the proprietor, on
his farm near Kearneysvllle for sew
eral months. and on Monday went to
Charles Town to spend the night. To-
tending to leave for his home near
Eikins, W Va next morning to spend
Christmas. The superstition is that
be blew Vt the gas instead Of turning
1t out, as he informed the bellboy he
did not know ANYTHING about gas when
he was taken to his room about $50
o'clock.
Trouble is brewing between the
Jefferson County Telephone Company
and the Winchester and Washington
E ectric Power Company. With the
Increase In the patronage of the latter
company, additional power wires have
been placed on their pc es between the
power plant, near Mlllville, and Win
chester. The power wires run parallel
with the telephone wires along the
Berryville pike from Charles Town to
the Clarke county line. and the proI
unity Of the heavily laden power wires
to the telephone lines is said to seri-
ously impair the service of the tele-
phone company, 80 much 80 that COM
plants have been coming in thick and
last. What will be the outcome of
the conflict between the two comptn-
les can not now be told. --Advocate.
A serious freight wreck occurred
Monday morning on the B. & o Bail
road ten miles west of NJ .rtlnburg, re
sul,ipg in the death of one man. the
fatal injury Of another. while third
was seriously hurt. Brakeman John
Norris. % years old, of Orleans Gross
Roads. died at the Kings Daughters
Hospital in M4rtinsourg the same af-
ternoon Fireman Thomas Keeseck-
er. of M.rtinsburG. had mashed
chest. He is at the Kings Daughters
Hospital and likely to die. Conductor
McGallls, OF Brunswick, Nd, has his
left a. m badly hurt and has other con-
tusions on his BODY He was r NOV
ed to his home. The wreck occurred
GU the low grade cutoff between Cner.
~ Run aud the Hedgesville tower
The eastbound freight was being
helped up the grade BY helper en-
CINE when the air hose on the train
broke, causing the brakes to tighten
and the train to stop The helper en-.
CINE, under full steam crashed iuto the
caboose, wrscking it and throwing
cars Of coal in every direction. All
the victims were in the caboose. Fire
man Keesecker being on his way home
after completing his run. This was
first fatal wreck on the cutoff since
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