Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-07-01
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
Nartinsburg will have big celebration
of the 4tf OF July next Monday.

OF the 4th OF July next Monday.
The town council of Charles Town
has fixed the license for liquor saloons at
$500, an increase OF SIS.
A fifteen-foot break occurred in the
towpath of the canal four miles above
Williamsport the first of the week.
Mr.. A. M. Staubly, Of Maninsburg, and
Miss Virginia Printz, OF Winchester, were
married in Washington on Monday.
John Bingly, railroad clerk at Cumbo,
near Martinsburg, was run over by a Car
last Saturday and his left leg was cut off.
Alexander Parks is remodeling the
flour mill at Flagg's crossing and will
equip il with modern machinery. Fred
Snyder runs the mill.
William Locke, son OF Kemper Locke, OF
Clarke county, was kicked by colt last
Monday and was so badly hurt that he
died the following day.
During the storm last Sunday evening
the barn OF John Balm, four miles from
Hancock, was struck by lightning and
burned 10 the ground. The loss is ST.
500, partly covered by insurance.
There's feud between the Polish fac
tons at Fairmont, and last Saturday night
the Polish Catholic church and priests
residence were partially blown up with
dynamite by some of the foreigners.
Rev. T. X. Cromer, pastor of Centen-
ary Reformed Church, Winchester, has
received a call from the Reformed con-
gregation at Wolfsville, Nd. He preached
to the congregation on June 18th and was
last Sunday elected pastor. He has not
yet said what he will do.
Dogs have become such nuisance in
HagerStown that the city council is being
petitioned to put a heavy tax on them
and pass stringent regulations for them.
There are other nuisances in Hagerstown,
however, that need regulation worse than
dogS-the saloons, for instance.
News reaches us TO the. effect that Hon.
William B. Cornwell, who has been liv-
ing and practising law at Fairmont Tor
several years, will move to Cumberland,
MARYLAND, about the first OF October next,
and will locate there for the practice OF
his profession. We are glad to have him
come nearer home.-MWtinSbWg States
man.
After a romantic courtship, conducted
over the telephone, Miss frankie Ven
able, telephone girl at the Winchester
exchange, and John E. EnderS, tele-
graph operator of BerryvilIe, were mar
ried at Berryville Sunday night by Rev.
Julian BroadduS, of the Baptist Church.
The bride is the fifth girl to marry out OF
the exchange in Winchester in as many
years.
The West Virginia and PittSburg Sand
Company, of Berkeley Springs, has been
chartered to conduct crushed stone
business in Bath district, Morgan county.
The authorized capital stock is Sl25,O0O,
of which $500 has been subscribed and
$50 paid. The incorporatorS are Frank
s. Ehlen, Frank Ehlen and James F.
Rawlings, of Baltimore, John F. Sprague,
of Raleigh, N. c., and Rowland c. Ring
gold, OF ShepherdStown.
Lowdewic J. Milbourne, son OF the late
Rev. L. r. Milbourne, former pastor OF
the Charles Town Baptist Church, quail
fled for appointment as midShipman in
the u. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis by
passing the examination given recently at
the Academy. There were 274 appli-
Giants for appointment examined and only
122 were successful. The only difficulty
in the way ofhiS becoming amidShipman
is the physical test to which all candidates
are subjected before entering the Acad-
envy. Successful in this, he will become
a member of the first year class.
The recently dismantled old Paradise"
building on North George Street, which
its owner, Col. B. d. Gibson, found could
not be removed as he proposed to do, OBJ
| literates a truly historic structure. twas
built in 1896 by DR.. Edward Tiffin, after
| forwards Governor Of Ohio and after
whom the city OF Tlffin was named, on
ground purchased OF Charles Washington,
and was occupied for number OF years
by DR.. Tiffin. Among other later occu-
pants of PARADISE" have been Judge
Isaac r. Douglas, Col. Lawson Bolts, land
Hon. Isaac Fouke. Col. Gibson took
| from Paradise" when he tore it down,
| two handsome hand-carved mantelS,
which he will place in his elegant resi-
dence on East Washington street.-SphH.
A news note from HagerStown says
that thousands of apple and maple trees
in Washington county are being devasta-
! ted by insects. Samuel Detrow sent
specimens OF the insects TO State Ento-
mologist T. B. Symons at College Park.
Mr.. Symons states that the apple trees
are infested with the common green aphis
and can be controlled by applying a 10
per cent kerosene emulsion, or, what he
regards as better, "black leaf, ;" tobacco
decoction, at the rate OF to 80. He says
the maple trees are infested with the
common aphis present throughout the
State and the same remedies used on the
apple trees may be used on the maple
trees. 1t is said that the scale is attack
ing trees in this section OF the country,
and that shade and ornamental trees as
we'll as trees IN the forest are being at
attacked.
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