Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-07-02
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

| Nose Carver. MartlnsOuJg DegrOi
was jailed the first of the week for
selling wbiskey illegally.
Mr.. Quinn Hobbs and Miss Jessie
May McElroy, both of Msrtinsburg,
were married in Philadelphia last
Thursday.
The G. F. Gibbs Company of Mar
tinsburg, dealers in dry goods, has
made an assignment for the benefit of
it's creditors.
Prof. Nathaniel R. Craighil!, for
merly of Charles Town. has been ap-
pointed dean of the school of engineer
ing in the University Of Montana at
Missoula.
Baker W. Ropp, a well known
Berkeley county farmer living near
Bedington, was stricken with paraly-
sis last Thursday and has since been
seriously i'll.
Mr.. John A. Emmert and Mrs.
Sallie Lancaster, well-known residents
of Charles Town, were married last
Saturday in Washington by Rev j.
B. Mclaughlin.
DR.. and Mrs. William Neill, of
Charles Town, have announced the
engagement of their daughter, Marie
Virginia, to Mr.. Keith Neville, of
North Platt, Nebraska.
Rev. G. G. Snyder, formerly of Hag-
erstown, Nd, but more recently of
Catawha College in South Carolina,
has been called to become pastor of
Christ Reformed Church, Middletown,
Nd.
R. L. Littleton, aged 40 years, and
Miss Mamie Turner, aged II, both Of
Clarke county, eloped to Hagerstown
last Saturday night and were married.
The BRIDES father objected to the
match.
Miss Lucy E. seibert. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John E. Seibert, Of
Berkeley county, was married recent
ly in Sacramento, CAL, to Mr.. Charles
Stewart, OF that city. They are visit.
ing in this section.
Near Chambersburg, Pa, a few
nights ago some unknown man at.
tackled Miss Cora Miller as she was
returning home from Christian En-.
deavor meeting. Her screams brought
help, but she was so unnerved by her
experience that she has become insane.
News has been received from Upper
vile, Loudoun county, that because of
the prevalence of rabies among the
dogs of that section and its appear
ance among the hounds of the Pied
mont Hunt Club the entire pack of
valuable hounds owned by the club
has been killed by order of the off,
Gals. The pack contained some very
valuable dogs and were from Ameri-
can kennels.
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals at Richmond has affirmed
the judgment of the U. s. District
Court at Martinsburg in the case of
o. L. Hendrickson g Administrator vs..
the Norfolk and Western Railway
Company. The District Court had
rendered Judgment for $1,000 in
favor of the plaintiff. The case grew
out of the death of o. L. Hendrickson,
an engineer on the Norfolk and Wes-
tern Railway, in a wreck at Ripon,
this county, on February 6, 1906.
Hendrickson's administrator brought
suit for damages and won ajudgment
in both the courts named. Attorneys
Frank L. Bushong, of the Charles
Town bar, and NJ. J. Fulton, of Front
Royal, represented the plaintiff in the
case.
The Shenandoah Pulp Company
and the Harper's FerryP ulp Company,
both Harper's Ferry corporations,
with properties on the Snenandoan
River, have decided to renew their
bond issues of twenty years ago.
The Shenandoah Pulp Company will
issue bonds to the amount of $50, 900,
bearing interest at 6 per cent. Fifty
thousand dollars of this amount is to
renew an old bond issue maturing Ju.
ly l. and the remaining $4,000 is to
be used in paying for extensions to the
company's plant. The Harper's Ferry
paper company has issued bonds to
the amount Of 100000, the proceeds
of which are to be utilized for retiring
similar amount of twenty-year bonds
maturing July l, 1908. The latter
issue of bonds is payable in gold and
bear interest at 6 per cent. In both
instances the Security Trust and Safe
Deposit Company of Wilmington,
Delaware, is made the trustee in the
deeds Of trust granted by the two
companies. Advocate.