Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-07-22
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

$25 year on livery stables
The ministers of Winchester are hold
ing union open-air services each Sunday
evening at Gas O'Clock, on the city hall
plaza.
d. Ramacciotti, a wealthy friiitmerchant
of Hagerstown, has bought the Franklin
Hotel, on Potomac street. in that city, for
$4,000.
The board of supervisors oil Page coun-
ty, Va, will erect two bridges across the
Shenandoah river in that county, one
thee miles west of Luray and the other
sixteen miles south.
Miss Rose King, sixteen-year-old girl
OF Chaffibersburg, Pa, committed suicide
by taking thirty opium pills a few days
ago. A youthful love affair and too much
novel reading are said to be the cause.
Frederick, Md, was visited by $780,
600 fire last Sunday night. Birely'S tan
merry was destroyed, and the freight sheds,
paint shop and several cars of the Fred
erick and Middletown electric railroad
were burned.
After a spirited contest, Ralph GriggSby
was nominated by the Democrats OF
Clarke county at1tTe primary election last
Saturday for the House of Delegates.
He defeated M. H. Reardon by the slen-
der majority of four votes.
Two negro men, Robert Nelson and
Andrew Robinson, went to sleep on or
near the N. & w. Railway track the other
night at Berryville, The next train that
came along struck them, killing Nelson
and seriously injuring Robinson.
Professor st. George Tucker Brooke,
who recently resigned from the faculty OF
the West Virginia University after ser
vice of thirty years as lecturer in the
law school, has been voted pension of
81 400 a year for life by the trustees OF the
Carnegie Fund for retired college profess
SorS.
The committee appointed by the Charles
Town council TO experiment with Pc
troleum product in oiling portion OF the
streets of the town to lay dust have been
pleased with the test and have recon-
mended that all the streets much used by
traffic be treated in the same way, the
estimated cost of it being little more
than $500.
Rev. w. H. H. Joyce, well-known
minister of the Southern Methodist
Church, now pastor of Trinity Church, at
Roanoke, Va, had desperate struggle
with a negro thief in his study a few
days ago. The negro tried to kill Mr..
Joyce with a Ratchet, but the minister
disarmed him and put him TO flight. La
ter the desperate was arrested and jailed.
Directors of the Washington and Berke-
ley Bridge Company, at meeting held
Monday at Williamsport, decided TO have
the formal opening OF the new bridge on
Saturday, August IA. II is likely the new
bridge will be thrown open to free travel
on that day. Already movement is on
foot at Willamsport to have big parade
in the afternoon, to be followed by big dis
play OF fireworks in the evening.
Miss Virginia Shaull, of Middleway
was the central figure in pretty romance
which eliminated in her marriage in New
York OH Monday to DR.. J. E. Ham,
Shortly after the wedding ceremony DR..
Ham and bride took steamer for hon.
eymoon trip up the Hudson river. DR..
Ham is connected with the Marine Hos
pital, Staten Island, New York, and will
continue to make his home IN Gotham
Adv oCate.
Miss Mabelle Williams, OF Martinsburg,
and DR.. Frederick S. Robertson, of Hern-
don, Va, were married in Baltimore Mon
day evening by Rev. Dr. Carlton d. Har-
ris at the parsonage of Central Methodist
Episcopal Church South. DR.. Robertson
was graduated in 1908 from the Universe
ty of Maryland Medical School. For the
past year he has been practicing medicine
at Herndon, where he and his bride will
reside.
Miss Huda Alexander, sixteen-year-
old daughter OF Frank Alexander, living
near Brownsville, Washington county, is
in precarous condition as the result Of
a vicious attack made upon her by her de-
mented great-uncle, George Bingham,
aged about 70 years. Without a word OF
warning, the aged man grabbed Miss Al
exander while she was walking on a Sec
ond-story porch and hurled her to the
ground below, a distance of about 20 feet.
Besides broken collarbone and several
fractured ribs, Miss Alexander sustained
severe internal injuries. The elder Bng-
ham, while in a demented condition for
some time, has never before displayed
any viciouSneSS.
Former County Commissioner, John H.
Lemen and several other prominent farm
ers and residents Of. Opequon district are
making a strong effort to improve the
roads of that district, and TO that end are
asking the county court to increase the
road levy of the district from 10 cents to
20 cents on each 500 of valuation. The
gentlemen at the head OF the movement
are strong advocates of better coun-
ty roads, and hope by their efforts to
greatly improve conditions not only in
their own district but throughout the
county. 1t is believed that if they are
successful in lettering the conditions in
Opequon, other districts will follow their
example, thus improving the roads in
every section ofthe ounty.-MartiHSburg
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