Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-06-27
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


The Red Men Of Msrtinsburg are
arranging for big celebration in that
city the 4th of July.
Mr.. Levi Miller, well.known
Berkeley county man. was paralyzed
last Friday and has since been crit
ically i'll.
A handsome new Southern Meth
odist Church was dedicated at Wood
stock, Va, last Sunday. 1t is brick
structure and cost $2l,0
Miss Mabel Grimes and Mr.. John
G. Noll were married in Martiusburg
last Thursday nigh. at the home of
the bride by Rev. W. D. McCurdy.
1t is reported that Judge Louis E
McComas, formerly of Hagerstown,
now of Washington. is to be married
in few weeks to Mrs. Upton Muir,
Of New York.
The late Michael Miller, of Ha-
gerstown, did not leave will, and his
daughter, Mrs. T. L. Richard, and
his son, William Miller. took out let
tiers of administration on the estate.
A bad break in the towpatb of the
@. & o. canal about FIVE miles below
Williamsport stopped navigation the
past week. The break was fifty feet
long and extended below the bottom
of the canal.
A contract has been awarded by
the county to the Canton Bridge Co.,
represented l.y w. J. Grim, to erect
an iron bridge over Evitt's run at
Bloomery Mill. The bridge is to be
completed in August.
Lieut-Col. Lloyd NJ. Brett, adju.
taut. general, District Of Columbia
Militia, has been to Harper's Ferry
making preparations for the coming
annual encampment of the District
National Guard, which will begin
July IA.
A stranger visited Martinsburg
last week. and after forging the names
of ]. Il. Fulk. F. D. Staley and W.
O. Nichlas to checks ranging in
amount from $40 to $25, got the
worthless checks passed and made
his escape.
Extensive improvements are to be
made at Edge Hill Cemetery. Charles
Town, this summer. A new receiving
vault will, be constructed and new
walks of concrete WILDE made. 1t
is also proposed to have uniform
level surface for all newly made
graves, instead of the present system
of mounding.
Robert Carlisle, aged 65 years, waa
shot and instantly killed Monday
night near Bluemont, Loudotn coun-
ty, by Dunk Nottingham, aged 10
years, of Front Royal. The murder
er had been disorderlY on Carlisle's
place, and when ordered away he got
a gun and fired load of buckshot in
to the old mans breast. Nottingham
was arrested and put in the Leesburg
iails
George Walker, farmer living in
Falling Waters district, was arrested
last Saturday and placed in Jail for
kidnapping two little girls. He had
gone to Martinsburg, where be got
drunk, and as lie was returning home
he induced two little girls to get in
bis buggy with him. The children's
parents were much alarmed until they
found out where they were. He did
not offer to harm the children.
The newly organized Young Mems
Christian Association of Martinsburg
has elected the following directors for
the ensuing year: President, Hon.
Chas. J. Faulkner vice-president,
George Ryneal, Jr. treasurer, F. s.
Emmert secretary, B. D. Myers;
directors, F. S. Emmert, L. M, Ben.
der, II. L. Alexander, A. 81. Stanley,
G. J. Seibert, B. D. Myers, l., Il.
Thompson. E. F. Mhlard, George Ry.
neal, Jr., j. M. Woods, Ii. MNGrove,
Alexander Clohan, o. G. Dudrow, E
g. Henshaw, E. R. Sigler, W. 81.
Crawford, z. T.. Brantner, F. e.
G laichen.
A contest almost attaining to the
proportions of war is on hand between
the town authorities of Harper's Fer
ny and number of liverymen who
do business there. Some time ago
the Harper's Ferry town council issued
an order di. Getting that liverymen or
their employees should not go within a
certain distance of the B. & 0. depot
to solicit business. The order had
been ignored in numerous instances
and on Thursday there was a whole.
sale arrest of those who violated it.
Liverymen and employees to the num-
Der of eighteen or twenty were taken
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