Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-07-30
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

: The wheat crop of W. @. Frazier, of
the Summit Point neighborhood, av.
eraged % bushels to the acre.
Jane Webb, colored, died in Cham
bersburg. Pa, last week, aged l02
years. She was born of free parents
in Charles Town.
DR.. Page Milbourn will not be re.
appointed president of Kee.Mar COL
lege at Hagerstown, the trustees hav-
ing concluded to make change.
The store of Il. s. Pofinberger at
st. James station was robbed early
last Thursday morning. The thieves
carried off quantity Of shoes, cigars,
provisions, etc.
The manufacture of cement has
been commenced at the big new Port
land cement plant just completed
along the Western Maryland Rail-
road near Hagerstown.
Horace L. Bender, well-known
lawyer, committed suicide in Cham.
bersburg, Pa, on Tuesday by shoot
ing himself. Financial trouble caused
the act, as 1t is said that he had mis-
used trust funds.
David Jones, negro convicted Of
wife beating at Frederick, Md, was
well whipped on Monday. By order
of the court, Deputy Sheriff Danner
laid on twenty lashes, good and strong,
with wagon whip.
The new frame dwelling.house &C.
cupied by Decatur Leblanc and family,
at Nipetown, Berkeley county. was
burned with its contents last Saturday
night. No one was at home at the
time, and the fire is supposed to have
been caused by an incendiary. The
loss is 81 500, insurance 81 900.
Mrs. Minnie F. Renner, Sharps-
burg, was awarded one cent damages
in her suit against her husband, A.
R. Renner, and Bremen Bros, whole.
sale liquor dealers of Hagerstown.
Some time ago Sheriff Earnshaw laid
an attachment against Renner for $50
for bill owing Bremen Bros. Sew.
eral cattle were attached and Satur-
day morning Mrs. Rsnner proved
ownership af the cattle and judgment
was given in her favor.
The board of education Of the Ka-
bletown district elected the following
trustees of the several sub. districts
Summit Point, 81. T. Miley, R. O. Col
ston, and VIM. T. Wilmington; Ripon,
Daniel Hefebower, ], Ed. Wilt, and
B. F. Yates Myerstown, A. NJ. Bush,
B. F. Ware, and Robert R. Smith |;
Kabletown, Logan B. Shut, Gerard
M. Rissler, and John G. Boyer Fair
mount, L. W. Clipp, Thos. N. Hill,
and John A. Clipp. Teachers will be
paid salaries according to the grade of
their certificate as follows: $45 for
grade No. l; $40 for No. 2, and $33
for number 8.
After committing numerous turns at
law breaking in which larceny in vary
ing degrees figured, DR. Samuel
Cohen, who sold eye glasses in this
county, was arrested at Emporis, Vir.
ginia, and taken to Washington for
trial. The charge upon which he was
arrested was that of obtaining watch
from Washington jeweler on approx
al and failing to return it. From
Bernard Throckmorton, liveryman
at Bluemont, it haze been learned that
Cohen is wanted there for the alleged
hiring of a horse on April %, and
failed to return it. Throckmorton Of
fsred $25 reward for the arrest of Co.
hen, and the recovery of his horse.
Cohen spent the winter at Bluemont.
When he left this county last fall, it
is said that he took with him livery
team from Harpers Ferry, and forgot
to send it back. Cohen is about 80
years of age, and is said to have mar
ried in Martinsburg.