Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-03-26
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


Mr.. James B. Copenhaver and Miss
Margaret Church, both of Martinsburg,
were married in that placeilast Thurs
day by Rev. j. B. Chamberlain.
Mr.. James W. Morrison and Miss
Losson Virginia Watson, both of Berks.
ley county. were married yesterday
in Gerardstown by Rev. R. A. White.
Capt. Geo. W. Graham, of Harper's
Ferry, has brought suit against the
B. & o. Railroad for $4,000 for in
juries received in a wreck on that
road.
Mr.. Andrew E. Sanders and Miss
Bertha L. Reid, both of Falling Wa.
tiers district, Berkeley county, were
married in Williamsport last Satur-
day by Rev. NJ. D. Gsver.
DR.. Edgar B Lefevre, of Bunker
Hill, and Mics Frances Hamilton Hen
shaw, of Arden district, Berkeley
county, were married il Washington
last Thursday by Rev. John @. Hawk.
At the city election in Hsgerstown
on Monday VIM. L. Hammond, Demo.
crat, was elected mayor over Ernest
W. Miller, Republican, by 1876 ma
jority. The Democrats and Republi.
cans each elected one councilman.
The Virginia Conference of the
United Brethren Church, in session
the past week at Keyser, W. Va. ad-
journed Sunday night. Rev. W. F.
Gruver, of Martln.burg, is presiding
elder for this district, and among the
appointments of ministers we note the
following: Inwood, E. @. Nsf; Jones
Spring, F. B. Chubb; Martinsburg, A.
B. Wilson.
The Hsrper's Ferry stone and Lime
Company was chartered last week.
The company will locate at Millville,
Jefferson county, with the right to OPP
crate any place in the county. The
authorized capital stock is $50, 900,
of which $50 has been subscribed and
$50 paid in. The incorporators are:
William M. Rees. D. A. Rees, James
D. Gallery, F. A. Dohrman and j. 81.
Blackmore, all of Pittsburg.
Mrs. Turner Ashby Pugh, wife Of
the caretaker of the hotel at Jordan
White Sulphur Springs, was attacked
Thursday afternoon by an unidentified
negro while she was alone in the no
tel with her two babies. She strug-
gled desperately with the intruder,
and finally succeeded in escaping with
her two children to the house of
neighbor. The alarm was given, but
when aid came the negro had escaped.
The employees of the Norfolk and
Western Railway Company Friday
declined to accept the proposition
submitted to them by the road on
February "a, which was: THAT in
any month that the companys gross
earnings are less than $2.500,000,
their pay will be computed on the
rates in effect previous to the last ad-
justment, this arrangement to remain
in effect for ten months" The an
nouncement of the result came after a
conference between the officials Of the
company and the general officers Of the
various labor organizations connected
with the road. The representatives of
the road announced that the matter
"was closed for the present"
The Legislature just adjourned has
amended the law relating to the sher-
ifs commissions for collecting taxes.
Heretofore, taxpayers have been al
lowed discount of q per cent on
their bills when voluntarily paid before
December l of the year such bills are
due. The law not being clear, the
sheriffs in some Of the counties have
claimed successfully that this q per
cent discount is not to be taken from
their commissions, but from the State,
and that they are entitled to 5 per
cent commissions on all taxes collected
whether the taxes be paid before or
after December l. A case involving
the right of a sheriff to retain the full
commission Of 5 per cent lie now pend
ing before the West Virginia Court Of
Appeals, but the Legislature has set.
tied the question by declaring that the
sheriff shall have only 2i per cent COM
mission on taxes collected before De-
cember l.