Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-08-26
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

H. F. Byrd, who owns papers in Mar
tinsburg and Winchester, will establish
another newspaper in Front Royal.
The new iron bridge across the Poto-
mac river at Williamsport was dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies last Thurs
day.
Miss Elizabeth Gertrude Thompson
and Mr.. James D. Bowers, both OF Mar
tinsburg, were married in Washington
last Monday.
There are many cases of typhoid fever
in Martinsburg and Berkeley county, and
the people of the sections affected are
considerably alarmed.
Salty Crockett was fined s. and costs
in Martinsburg on Monday for cruelty tc
animals He had been arrested for haul
ing a calf tied in wagon.
The editor of the Clarke Courier al
BerryvilIe has been sued for S., 900 DAM
ages for libel classed as malicious, lying
and .slanderouS, by Blackburn Smith,
member of the Democratic committee oil
Clarke county,
The Charles Town postoffce has been
moved from its former location in the
municipal building to the handsome new
building erected for its accommodation
by Messrs. Getzendanner and Hughes.
II is a few doors north OF the old site.
Charles Schoening, from near Charles
Town, has bought the M. L. Dorm farm
four miles north OF Martinsburg, along
the Winchester pike. The place contains
AZ acres, IL acres of which is in orchards.
and the price paid was $1,000.
Lewis G. Albin has been elected assist
ant cashier OF the Farmers and Merchants
Deposit Company, Charles Town, Sue
ceeding John w. Locke, resigned. Mr.
Albin has been manager OF the Farmers
Supply Company since its organization.
The vestry of Trinity Episcopal Church
Martnsburg, has made unanimous re-
quest Of Rev. John S. Douglas to continue
as rector. He had accepted call to
Cheyenne, Wyoming, but it is thought he
can be induced TO remain in Martinsburg
Arthur Caldwell, of Chambersburg. Pa,
carpenter of the Cumberland Valley
Railroad bridge crew, was drowned in
the canal at Powell's Bend, below Will
Transport, last Thursday. He had re-
turned from the bridge celebration at the
latter place, and was rowing with a CON-
panion across the canal when the boat
upset and threw them in the water. The
other man escaped, but Caldwell sank
and never arose. The body was recov-
cred later.
Clinton Jones, colored man from
Engle's Switch, this county, aged about
"a years, met with sudden death in
Hagerstown last Friday night. He was
electrocuted while attempting to turn or
an electric light in Walter Harman's pool
room, operated by Peter Brown, colored
The lamp was in front window, and
Brown tried to turn on the light. Failing
to do so, he asked Jones, who was tai
man, and who happened to be passing
along the street, TO tlrn on the current
In attempting to do so Jones touched &
live wire and fell over unconscious. He
died five minutes later.
Harry Montgomery, the thirteen-year-
old son Of John Montgomery, from neal
Keedysville, Md, died horrible death
from hydrophobia in hospital in Balti-
more Sunday night. The boy was bitten
at his home by mad dog on July 10Th
a stray coach dog that bit a number O.
other animals in the neighborhood before
it was killed. When it was known thai
the dog was really mad the boy was TAX
en- to the Pasteur Institute, and though
treatment was promptly begun, the poison
was already in his veins and could not be
, counteracted. After great suffering, the
little fellow died while his grief-Strcken
father sat by his bedside. Once the
dread disease develops, there is absolute
| ly no hone.