Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-04-29
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

A wireless telegraph station is to be
established in Hagerstown.
Thornton Perry is setting out 500 wal
nut trees on his farm near Charles Town.
Samuel Miller, of Willianisport, Md,
was sentenced to two years in the House
of Correction for brutality beating his wife.
George Katz has bought the J. H. Hobbs
building, corner of Queen and Martin
streets, Martinsburg, paying $4,000 tor
it,
Mr.. Hetzel Clark and Miss Daisy Myr-
tie Parkinson both of Berkeley county,
were married in Hagerstown last Satur-
day
Milton Rouss, of this county, bought a
pair of handsome bay horses from {. Z.
Williams, of Martinsburg, paying $1,000
for the two.
Miss Lenora Hamilton and Mr.. Mar
shall Wilson, popular young residents OF
Hagerstown, were married yesterday at
the home of the bride.
The two-year-old child Of Grant Glad
hill, near Blue Ridge Summit, Pa, swal-
lowed bean the other day, which lodged
in its windpipe and caused the child to
strangle to death.
They seem to have some industrious
thieves in the neighboring county OF
Washington, in Maryland. Several hum
dred young fruit trees have recently been
stolen from orchards in the vicinity of
Smithsburg.
The fight against the saloons in Wash
ington county has been commenced.
The Anti-Saloon League has begun the
circulation of petitions asking for local
option election some time the coming
summer or fall.
A party of 10 tourists from Boston and
other places in New England visited An
tietam battlefield at Sharpsburg yesterday.
Included in the party were a number OF
survivors of the Thirteenth MasSachu-
sets Regiment.
w. A. Thompson, newspaper man OF
Warrenton, Va, was shot and killed on
the street in that city last Saturday by J.
D. Harris, principal of the Warrenton
High School, The two men had been
enemies for some years.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Newcomer, OF
Beaver Creek, Md, celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage Monday.
Mr.. Newcomer made the anniversary
memorable by giving$l5, OOOto the Wash
ington County Hospital at Hagerstown.
Mrs. o. L. Jack has sold her lease OF
the Jefferson Hotel at Charles Town to
Robert L. Miller, of Martinsburg, who
will take charge of the hotel the first OF
May. He paid her $4,000 for the lease,
which has two years yet to run. The no
tel is owned by Arthur Davenport.
These deeds for the transfer of real eS-
tate have been filed for record in the Of
flee of the county clerk: N c. Bracket
to James F. Cassell, lot in Harper's Ferry,
$3.50; Marine T. Krepps to VIM. F. Stu
art, house and lot in Bolivar, $3.50; c. S.
Miller to Jas. H. Staley, a ga acres on
German street extended in Shepherds
town, $500; Annie E. Custer to c. W.
Ball, three tracts, containing "a acres,
near Burns ford on the Opequon, 81 ,250;
Eugene Shugert TO J. E. Robinson, half
acre, near Bolivar, $50; John ]. Ridge
way to VIM. F. Pannett, 10 1-2 acres near
the Opequon creek, $3.50; Mary E. Dun
can to William B. Duncan, house and an
acre lot at Summit Point, $500; Wash |
Twyman to Samuel H. Twyman, 2 acres
on the Harper'S Ferry turnpike, 500 and
the assumption of certain debts; Anna
A. Graham to Louisa Krepps, lot in Boil
var, $40; Newton E. Kidwiler to q. w.
Kidwler, acres near Oak Grove School,
$500; Mary E. Boyer to w. B. Licklider,
house and lot at Kearneysville, $3.50.