Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-10-14
NOTES FROM NEARBY


formed Church in Brunswick, Md, to
cost about 5000.
Mrs. S. A. Frazier. Mr.. Towner Potter
field and his wife and Miss Mollie Potter
field spent last week with MIR. and Mrs.
L. T. Potterfield at Graystone, their home
near Halltown.
While Mrs. Lloyd Watson, OF Summit
Point, was driving along the road a few
DAYS ago her horse became frightened
and ran away. She was thrown from the
buggy and her collar-bone was broken.
The lumber plant of the Roach Lumber
Company, in Loudoun county. near Har-
per's Ferry, was destroyed by lire last
Saturday evening, causing loss OF sew
eral thousand dollars.
Charles d. Fisher, the well-known N.
& w. engineman, who has been blind IN
his left eye for the past q years, will
have the eye removed. Mr.. Fisher has
been suffering considerably with the eye
recently.
Trinity Lutheran Church, Hagerstown,
celebrated the fortieth anniversary OF It's
organization last Sunday, when it also laid
the cornerstone OF new church which
will the finest In that city, costing when
completed over 100000.
James Johnson, aged 3Syears, was shot
and badly wounded at White Post, Va,
last Saturday by his step-Son, Carl Bur-
kett, aged IS years. Johnson was abus-
ing his wife, the boys mother, and Buff
kett shot him in the breast, inflicting what
may be fatal wound.
II is announced that the Western Mary
land Railroad will expend $4,000 on
Improvements to its property in Hagers-
town. A fine new passenger station will
be built between Washington and Frank
lin streets, just north of the present sta
ton. and the road will be double-tracked
through the city.
George Strother, colored, who was
prosecuted to conviction twice by Pros
ecuting Attorney Geo. D.. Moore, on the
charge of robbing an old man near Har-
per's Ferry, was refused new trial by
the Supreme Court of Appeals and has
been taken to Moundsville to serve a five
year sentence in the penitentiary.
Kern and Campbell, apple dealers, OF
Winchester, Va, have bought an orchard
of six acres belonging to ChaS. H. Lewis,
south of Myerstown, for $l4OO. The pur-
chasers pay for picking and packing the
fruit, and also furnish the barrels, the only
work Mr.. Lewis has to do in connection
with the sale being to deliver the apples
TO the railroad Station.-Adp0cate.
AT HagerStown on Monday State Off
Gals held up % dairymen furnishing milk
in that city and took samples from each to
ascertain whether or not pure milk is be-
ing furnished. When the first team was
stopped the driver informed all the other
milkmen he could see and told them to
look out for the inspectors. Some OF the
milkmen, rather than submit samples,
turned around and left town without serv-
ing their customers.
Last week during the Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York a correspondent
of the New York Press wrote sharp
letter from Berkeley Springs, W. Va,
giving an account of the building there on
the Potomac at Sir Johns Run OF the first
steamboat by James RumSey, which was
exhibited on the Potomac at Shepherds
town in the presence of George Wash
ington, who wrote letter, Still extant,
that told how we'll the RumSey boat made
four miles an hour up stream twenty
years before Fulton ran his Clermont up
the Hudson This letter says that be-
cause Mr.. Livingston, OF New York, a
very prominent man, lauded Fulton he
was generally accepted as the inventor Of
the first steamboat. Fulton also wrote
to friends that the idea of taking water
from the bow of the boat and discharging
il at the rear, as Rumsey'S boat did, was
impracticable, but the paddle-wheel Of
Fulton came into general use and so he
got the applause. This. however, does
not change the fact that the first boat was
propelled by steam on the Potomac al
Shepherdstown ten to twenty years be-
fore Fulton.