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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20
Playing Ball.

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Shepherdstown had the proud Satisfac-
ton last Friday of wiping up the earth
with the Hagerstown CollegianS twice in
succession, once with our town team and
the second time with the Shepherd COL
lege boys. In the first game the locals
piled up seven runs, while they goose
egged the CollegianS every inning. F.
Elliott and Smith were the battery for the
visitors. For ShepherdStown Dobbins,
one of Our new men, pitched splendid
game, while good old Kern, the reliable
friend of former days, was the rock OF
Gibraltar behind the bat Neither ofthese
made an error-indeed, not an error was
made by Shepherdstown in this game.
In the second game Shepherd College
won by a score of s to 3. For time it
looked as if the visitors were due for an
other shut-out, but they made rally in
the seventh inning and got the three runs
that saved them from greater sadness.
Ernst and Rouzer were the battery for
the visitors, while Athey and Gardner
served for Shepherd College without max
ing an error. Athey played an excellent
game, pulling the team out of some tick
lish places at critical momentS-once
when there were three men on bases.
The manager of the local ball team| de-
sires to impress upon the minds and
purses OF this sport-loving community
the fact that it requires a considerable
sum of money to maintain baseball team
in Shepherdstown and secure the class Of
baseball visitors that appeals to our fancy.
Further, while your patronage and finan
cial support are solicited, the Athletic As
ISOLATION promises TO give full return for
each'cent invested by you in season or
individual tickets. There is net saving
to you of so cents on ten games by Sc
curing season ticket; hence you are
urged to secure the season ticket and
give the association some ready cash.
luS tSdiii pun up q oHopPC huSiS vi
bail last Friday, and only needs your sup
port to make this season as successful as
the last one was. A schedule is being
arranged with Brunswick, Martinsburg,
Berryville, Myersville, Charles Town
and other nearby towns, but it is not
quite in shape to be announced.
The Shepherd College baseball team
visited Shenandoah Junction yesterday
and took game from the Junction boys
by score OF 10 to 3.
The local management has secured a
game for Friday, May 18th, with the strong
Brunswick team. Everyone should turn
out to see this game and let the players
and management see that they are back
OF them. Brunswick plays us the tighteSt
game of any team we 60 up against. They
play good, clean ball, and are most ac-
commodating in giving us games. While
we defeated them last season in each
game, the score was never very large and
the margin usually only one. Admission
l5c. Season tickets, good for ten games,
can be secured at the gate for Sl.OO.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

The annual Confederate reunion will be
held at Memphis, Tenn, June s, 9 and TO-,
and the Norfolk & Western Railway will
sell round-trip tickets from points in JEFF
ferson county at about SlS.25. Ifas many
as twenty persons from Jefferson county
buy tickets, and will notify Commander
R. p. Chew or Adiutant Geo. H. Hagley,
the railroad will provide special coach
for their accommodation.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20
The Secret Out.

"What made my lovely complexion ?
do not like to tell, for it was medicine,
bat the incest a woman ever took. twas
Lanes Family Medicine that did it." This
is a pleasant herb tea which acts fayorably
on the stomach and bowels, purifying
the blood and cleansing the skin like
magic. II cures headache and backache-
Druggists and dealers sell il, &c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20
Road Meeting.

After consultation with and at the in
stance of number of citizens Of Jeffer-
son county, it is suggested that a county
road meeting to be held at the courthouse
in Charles Town on Saturday, May g,
1909, at 1890 p. m, for the purpose OF
organizing Good Roads Association.
As prominent citizen of the county,
known to have the public welfare thor
oughly at heart, you are especially invited
and earnestly requested to attend.
L.C. ENGLE, Committee
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

With our foreman at home shot three
times, a printer in the Blountville Jail
half-shot, another in the office not worth
shooting, the Comet is issued under great
difficulties this week.-JohnSon City
Tenn.) Comet.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

President TAFT visited Petersburg, Va,
yesterday, where he participated in the
unveiling of monument TO General
Hartranft and made an appropriate adj
dress. The Virginians paid him great
honor and his visit was pleasing to every
body.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

Civic pride may be carried too far at
times. A Minneapolis congregation arose
and left the church last Sunday because
the minister took his text from st. Paul.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20
Among the Churches.

Among the Churches.
The Virginia Chassis of the Reformed
Church, in session at HarriSonburg, ad-
iourned on Monday. Chassis voted to
meet next year in ShepherdStown, but
ST. Luke's Church, in the Timbervlle
charge, was so anxious for the meeting
that it has asked ShepherdStown to give
way to it, and the matter will be put be-
fore the church here for its decision.
The statistical report of the classis the
past year showed the following figures 4:
Congregations, 30; Sunday Schools, 30;
communicates, 2,Sl9; officers and teach
ers, 326; scholars, 2,6lS; students for
the ministry; baptized, 3l4; confirmed,
ll2; received by certificate, AZ; deaths,
So; marriages, 81; contributions for be-
nevolence, 1892; contributions for con-
gregational expenses, 1894.
Rev. J. David Miller, of this place, was
elected a delegate to the Synod ofthe Po-
tomac, and Elder John H. Show an alter
nate.
There will be service at Elk Branch
Presbyterian Church, Sunday, May sd,
at II a. m. The usual preparatory service
will be held Friday at s p. m. and Sat-
urday at 10 a m. Preaching at Zion
Presbyterian Church Sunday at s p. M,
and every night during the week at the
J same hour
! Children's Foreign Missionary day will
be observed Sunday with an appropriate
service and an address by the pastor in
the Presbyterian Church in Shepherds
town at 1890 a. m. and at Kearneysville
at 3 p. m.
Reformed Church-Sunday School 9l5
a. m, morning service 1920 a. m. Ser
vice at Kearneysvile at 3p. m.
M. E. Church-Sevice Sunday in Shep-
herdstown at 1890 a. m. and in Sharps-
burg at 100 p. m.
an-ShepherdStown 1920 a. m.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

Among the accomplishments Of former
President Roosevelt in Africa the past
week was the Staying Of mother leopard
and the capture of the poor cubs.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

Seven persons were poisoned in Phil
adelpnia the other day by eating burdock
root in mistake for horSeradSh.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20
Graded School Commencement.

The Shepherdstown Graded School
will have its closing exercises in the
school building on Saturday, May 22d, be-
ginning at $50 O'Clock. The following
programme has been arranged:
VACATION SOQR
PRAYER .........Rev David Miller
Salutatory ...ary Ellen byery
Recitation Kittens Dallas Arthur
Reading. Two Little Confederates" ,.......:
......-..John Reynolds Entler
Recitation. Farmer Whipple, Bachelor
.........Mae Belle Little
Song. Welcome to May ..-.-...S School
Recitation, ''One Notch the Highest,
......Ruth Verona Petrie
Defamation, The Unknown. Speaker" .:..-.
.........James Douglas Frazier
Valedictory ....-..... Charlotte Stanhope Reinhart
Awarding of medal for Best All Round Student,
by Mr. H. l. Snyder.
Reading OF Promotions.
Presentation Of Diplomas to Graduates by Rev. c.
E A. Marshall.
Class Song -.Urau SiaSs-
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20
Good Blood
Means good health, and Hoods
SarsapariIIa has an unappToached
recoYd as a blood-purIfIer.

1t effects its wonderful cures, not
simply because it contains sarsaparilla
but because it combines the utmost
remedial values of more than 20 different
Ingredients. There is no real substitute
for it. If urged to buy any preparation
said to be "just as good you may be
sure it is inferior, costs less TO make,
and yields the dealer a larger profit.
Get Hoods Sarsaparilla today. In usual LIQUID
form or in ehocolated tablets known as Sarsatabs.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-20

tain Cook is a genial gentleman, and is
already making friends in this section. He
is a native of Arkansas and is a Union
veteran. He has made fine record as
SUPERINTENDENT of national cemeteries, his
last appointment having been at City
Point, Va, whence he was transferred to
Sharpsburg. He thinks that Antietam
Cemetery is one of the most lovely OF all
the national cemeteries, and hopes to still
| further improve and beautify it.
A few nights ago the meat-houSe at the
farm of Geo. W. Moore, north of town,
was entered by thieves, and a number OF
hams and shoulders taken. The thieves
| performed an unusual amount of labor to
effect an entrance. Taking a five-eighthS
inch bit they bored holes through board
an inch and a half thick forming part Of
the floor of the building. These holes
were placed so close together that the
board was finally cut in two at two places.
The piece thus detached was then re-
moved, making an opening in the floor
large enough to allow mans body to get
through. The meat-house floor being
only about two feet off the ground, the
man who used the bit had to lie on his
back while working II. There are no
clues.-Adpocate.
A curious and interesting feature OF bird
life may be observed at the home OF Ben
jamin Hartzell in ShepherdStown. Aroo-
in has built her nest on his front porch on
the top of an open window shutter,
and here, with members of Mr.. Hart
zell's family and visitors around her
much of the time, the confiding mother
raised her brood of young, until five little
robins are now well on to maturity. The
mother bird feeds her babies fearleSSly,
no matter how many persons may be
about, and evidently knows that she is in
no danger. The male bird, however, is
not quite so courageous, and Mr.. Hartzell
SAYS that if there are too many persons on
the porch he will sit on the fence or atree
near by and deliver bug or worm to the
mother to carry in to the babies. 1t is a
sweet an interesting picture of bird life,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
BOND RECORD
IS EXAMINED
JUDGE GORDON RECEIVES LET
TIE RSTATING THAT MONEY
WILL REACH HERE SOON.

Judge w. o. Gordon received a let
ter Friday from the Northwestern Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co., the company
that purchased the $15O,OOO worth of
Maury county four per cent funding
bonds, stating that the record in the
bond issue had been examined by at.
torneys, and that report thereon
would be forwarded at once.
1t was stated that there would be
very little delay or trouble In the mat
ter, so 1t is probable that the bonds
and the money will reach here by
March 18th, and the committee In
charge, will at once upon arrival of
the bonds, issue call FOR the county
warrants and begin paying them Off
as rapidly as possible, so as to save
Interest charges.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

On the morning Of Nov. ?; his son
DR. Brown. drove with Col Cooper out
10 Mrs. Burch's. showing the horse;
n O'Brien. the blacksmith who shod
the horse. testified also. the effect OF
their testimony being TO confirm that
OF Col Cooper. except that he stated
that two shoes we're put on the horsr
while col Cooper said that there were
four
on cross-examination, DR.. Brown
who is a veterinary. was unable 10
state what else he did that day ex-
cept that he went to lunch, and went
to Jail about 7 O'Clock that night.
you just went voluntarily didn't
your" asked Gen. McCarn-
With all of these witnesses the main
questions on cross-examination were
as to time. and they we're not exactly
definite on that point However,
their testimony was Of little moment
Col. Thomas s Hutchinson, followed
and told Of lending the pistol to Dun
can B. Cooper. He stated that the
pistol was a new one, and had, to his
knowledge, never been fired. Col.
Cooper asked him for a revolver be-
tween 9 and 10 o'clock on Sunday
night.
Mrs. Carmack, who was absent from
the court room during the cross-ax-
animation of Col. cooper, returned to
the court and her little son was with
her. Among the friends who sat with
her were Judge and Mrs. Thomson of
Mrs. Thomson is an aunt
of Mrs. M. r. Patterson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

velopes marked Robin Cooper" ant
e. w. Carmack."
He was followed by Maj. Vertress
who was on the stand at the noon ad
iournment and for a short time in the
afternoon.
After Mai. Vertress came r. T
Creighton, who made survey of the
locality, and gave his measurements
He testified that from the corner to the
post was LOG feet, inches; that the
sidewalk was nine feet, nine inches
wide; that it was II feet from the
poles to the Shanklin gate; that it was
1873 it., in. from the northeast cor
ner of Union street to the Union street
entrance of the Polk Flats; that it
was 141 feet from the poles to the
south fire escape of the Polk Flats;
that the poles were inches apart at
the base, and one foot apart at the
height of seven feet; and many other
measurements around the scene of the
tragedy.
One of the most interesting meas
urements he made was from the spot
where John Sharp was standing to the
poles. The distance was 1876 feet and
II inches, and it was at this distance
that John Sharp made his all-compre-
hending glance.
He stated that the centers of the
two posts were practically on the same
lowed by two witnesses whose testi-
mony was of very little Importance to
either side. The first of these was
R. B. Sigenfallen, city line foreman
for the Western Union Company, who |
took down the north post. The de-
tense introduced him to show that |
hey made an effort to have the post
preserved, but since the state had
made no charges that they had tried
o have it destroyed the evidence was
leld immaterial.
A. H. Wright, the man who got pos
ession of the pole, testified that he
lid not find any bullet holes in it on
n examination made three or four
weeks after the tragedy. However,
he pole had been lying In an open
ard during that time, was whitfield
p by curio seekers before its re-
loval, and was filled with small holes.
Drove With Cooper.
Sandy Brown, who was selling Col. 9
copper horse for Charles N. Burch ,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
THE TENNESSEAN AND THE
WEEKLY HERALD FOR $500

In this paper will be found club
bling proposition which we think every
reader who knows good thing when
he. sees it will accept. 1t is an offer
Of this paper, together with the Daily
Tennessean Sunday excepted) for
one year for So, CASH MONEY. You
may consider it good thing marked
down, If you like. 1t is a LESS
THAN COST PROPOSITION. What
we are after, what The Tennessean
is after, and the how" we got to-
gether is that we both want to length
en- our lists of PAID UP IN ADVANCE
SUBSCRIBERS. Read the proposition
and we think you will subscribe at
once.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

of Gov. Patterson, who should be al
important witness in the case, since
it was ne that caused the Coopers t.
be present on Seventh avenue at the
time they were; nor j.. c. Bradford
nor Tully Brown, who were with then
in the conference held just before they
left on the trip that ended in the
death of Senator Carmack. However
this list was only partial and the wit
nesses may yet be introduced.
The Importance of the testimony
of Lieut. Winston Pitcher, on which so
much stress was laid by Gen Washing
ton in an eloquent speech made while
the defendants were seeking to have
the trial postponed, dwindled greatly
when he got on the stand. He reached
the scene of the killing more than ten
minutes after 1t occurred, found pis-
toll eight or ten inches from Senator
Carmack's hand, picked it up and
broke it, found that there were two
empty and three loaded shells, and
turned the revolver over to Patrol
man Vaughn.
He expressed the opinion that it had
been freshly fired, but admitted that
this was only an opinion-that he did
not make sufficient tests to enable
him to state with any certainty wheth-
er it had been freshly fired or not.
Before any witnesses were intro
duced Col. Cooper took the stand to
make an explanation of his statement
that he had sent $1,000 to an old COM
rade, representing the last profit he
had received from his farm. He
qualified this by stating that 1t was
$50 that he had sent him, instead of
s1,050, and stated that his former
statement had evidently been ambigu-
ous, since he had been reported as
saying $1,000.
There was no regular redirect ex-
of Col. Cooper, and after his
short explanation, he left the stand. |
One of the witnesses introduced by
he defense was Sergt. Meadows, who
eceived two pistols from Patrolman
1aughn, one a 80 Colts, and the other
38 Smith & Wesson. He delivered
hese to the police station, and shortly
hereafter, probably on the next day,
arried them sealed in envelopes, to
he criminal court clerk. He identi-
ed the pistols as the ones in the en-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

Patterson Not included.
On this list is not included the name
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
HENRY WILLIS
IS INDICTED
WIFE MURDERER HELDoN THREE
COUNTS TO ANSWER FOR HIS
RASH DEED.

Henry Willis, who shot and killed
his wife at Mt. Pleasant, was Saturday
indicted by the grand jury on three
counts. The first charges murder in
the first degree, the second and third
with intent to kill.
1t will be recalled that Willis shot
his wife and then turned his gun upon
MS sister-fn-law, Mrs. Johnson Davis,
and his cousin, Miss Annie May Mas
sey. Mrs. Davis was slightly wound.
ed. Willis was brought here to jail
and Is now being held without bond
The grand jury also returned six
indictments for grand larceny and five
for selling liquor without license and
one for carrying concealed weapons.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
INTERURBAN MUST
PAY THE BOND
sum OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS
DUE CITY FOR FAILURE TO
BUILD THE ROAD.

The Nashville and Columbia Inter
urban Railway is due the City of Co
lumbia the sum of 100000. The
debt is secured by the personal sigma.
lures of President E. H. Mayberry of
Franklin and Mr.. John A Pitts OF
Nashville.
This amount is due by reason of the
failure of the company to have their
electric railway completed to Mt.
Pleasant by February 26th, 1909, and
will prove very welcome addition to
the city treasury.
On February 26th, 1907 the City of
Columbia granted franchise through
the streets of the town for the Nash
vile & Columbia Interurban railway.
In consideration Of the franchise the
Railway company agreed to begin
work on their line within ninety days
and to have it completed through Co
lumbia to Mt. Pleasant or to forfeit
the sum of $1,000. A bond for the
amount was drawn and signed as
stated.
The work was begun on the line
within the specified time, but the road
has so far been constructed to Frank
lin and is not in operation to that
point as yet, The matter OF the bond
will be at once called to the notice
Of the railway officials and they will |
be asked to make the payment.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
SPLENDID TRIBUTE |
PAID TO BULLOGI.
BY STATE HIDFl
.cHlEFTAIN OF maxwell n.
HoNoRED BY MANY Apss,
clATiVE FRIENDS
SPEAKER MAhES THE Il
Handsome Gold Watch And r.
Given To Astute Politician J
Has Engineered Great Ans
torious Fight.

| NASHVILLE. Tenn, Feb I'D
state-widers of the sixty-sixtb gs,.
assembly and a number from oys,
state assembled at the Ordinary =, 4
Maxwell House Friday night and J
a brief though impressive serybs
commemoration Of the great victo.l
the people have won in legjsl,.
enactments.
1t was timely and appropriate i.
vice, for 1t is at the close of N
toric and triumphant fight. and \
object was to confer honors on \
man, Judge E. L. Bullock, who N
led the forces Of good governs
through a hard-fought though Tsl
rious war.
In appropriate words the speake,
the state senate, Mr.. McKinney \
behalf Of the people of Tennessee, b.
scented to Judge Bullock a handsort
gold watch and chain. On the tor
of the outside case is engraved a ii,
ture of the capitol, and on the bad
of the watch is the monogram, e. |
B." The inscription on the inside d
the back is Grateful Tennesseal
throughout Tennessee present AI
watch to Chancellor E. L. Bullock III
great leader in great cause-Febn
airy. 1909"
Speaker of the House Taylor, in b
half of Chattanooga friends of judo
Bullock and ardent advocates Of pr
libition and law enforcement in
graceful and impressive speech pre-
iented the great leader with hand
ome watch fob and a charm set witt
small though sparkling diamond
rhe charm bears the following inscrIB
ion: Hon. E. l.. Bullock tokel
f gratitude and esteem-from Chatts
oog friends. February, 1909"
Hon. w. v. Barry, who had ARRANGE
or the melting without the knowledg
+ Judge Bullock, called 1t to order Il
few graceful remarks and Intro
uced Speaker Kinney.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05
BOY FALLS AND
BREAKS HIS ARM

Boyd Dean fell on the concrete pave.
ment Saturday in front of H. q,
Ritters grocery and broke his right
arm above the wrist. Young Dean
was running and PLAYING, on the side
walk when his foot iS7ded on some
thing slick and he was thrown to the
pavement and the arm under him. He
was taken to the doctor by Patrolmen
Green and Lancaster and the member
set. Young Dean is the son OF Mr..
and Mrs Pleas Dean in West End
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

The two principal witnesses intro
duced Friday were Maj. w. o. Yer
tress, who loaned Senator Carmaek
his pistol, with a rubber tip over the
end, and identified both in the court
room, and T. Leight Thompson, who
was one of the first to reach the body
and picked up the bullet that passed
through the neck.
Some OF the most important por-
lions of Maj Vertress' testimony were
never gotten before the jury, on ac-
count of being incompetent, but his
testimony was exceedingly interest
ing as shedding more light on the
presence of the little rubber tip in the
pocket of Senator Carmack's overcoat.
He received word indirectly that
Senator Carmack wanted to see him,
and going TO Senator Carmack's Of
fee, gave him the pistol and scabbard.
Senator Carmack put them In his right
hip pocket, and Maj. Vertress testified
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-03-05

my three year Old boy was badly
constipated, had high fever and was
in an awful condition. | gave him
two doses of Foley's Orino Laxative
and the next morning the fever was
gone and he was entirely well. Fc
ley's Orino Laxative saved his life
A. Wolkush, Cashier, Wis.-GEO s.
ALCORN.