Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-12-02
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

gerStoWnS most pIoHlhent tuiLSho, 10
very i'll.
H. B. Cunningham has sold to P. K.
Harrison farm of2l6 acres in Mill Creek
district of Berkeley county for $4,000.
Albert c. Moore, a merchant OF Fred
erick county, Va, had to pay $50 fine tor
attempting to ship game birds out OF the
State.
Mr.. Ritter Moler and Miss Mary Lou
Friskey, both of Martinsburg, were mar
ried in Hagerstown by Rev. A. B. Stat
ton last Monday.
DR.. D. w. Jones, HagerStown ply
stefan SO years old, was arrested in that
place last week on the charge Of perform
ing a criminal operation.
The five-year-old son of James Miller,
living near Hagerstown, got hold OF some
strychnine pills on Monday and ate them.
The child died within half hour.
Miss Annie E. Drenner, of Sharpsburg.
and Mr.. Clarence w. Byrd, OF Harper's
Ferry, were married November 2lst at
Sharpsburg by Rev. A. A. Kerlin.
Joseph H. Snapp, of Bunker Hill, and
Miss Hattie Belle Bowers, of Ridgeway,
celebrated thanksgiving day by clipping
to Hagerstown and getting married.
]. B. Huyett, of Jefferson county, was
elected secretary of the West Virginia
Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers AS
ISOLATION at its meeting in Elkins this
| week.
d. w. Rodrick, who has been in busI-
ness in Martinsburg for the past thirty
years, has sold his dry goods and grocery
store to Noah Kirson and will retire from
active work.
Mr.. Harry Jackson Beard and Miss
Alice Keesecker, two popular young res
ldents of Berkeley county, we're married
last Thursday at the home OF the bride by
Rev. c. c. Cannon.
Pete Domer, colored, of HagerStown,
formerly OF this place, got another term -
six monthS-at the Maryland House OF
Correction last week. The Cut is ia
miliar place to Pete, as he spends about
half of his time there.
Miss Lena Sutton, daughter OF the late
Charles Sutton living at Winebrenner'S
Cross Roads, was brought to the Anna
Hughes Sanitarium on Tuesday for an
operation for appendicitis. The case is
in charge of DR.. Banks, of ShepherdStown.
and DR.. c. c. Lucas, of KearneySvile.-
| Advocate
Norman E. Pine, son OF DR.. Frank T.
Pine, of Martinsburg, committed suicide
last Friday night by swallowing a dose OF
chloroform. The young man, who was
p years old, was in good health and get
ting along well, and no cause for the rash
act is given. He formerly lived at Gains
boro, Va, having moved to Martinsburg
last March.
Miss Mary Kline, daughter OF Mr..
Charles Kline, OF Benevola, and MI.
Charles Fisher, son of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
D. Fisher, Sharpsburg, were married last
Thursday at the parsonage OF Zion Re-
formed Church in HagerStown by Rev.
DR.. ]. S. Kieffer. Both are well known
young people and their wedding came as
a surprise to their friends.
Capt. Denton M. Shupp, OF Williams
port, claims TO hold the record for max
ing the greatest number oftripS and haul
ing the largest amount OF coal on the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal this season.
He started out on April with boat No.
SO and returned from his last trip on Sat-
urday. During that time he made 10 trips
to Georgetown and to WilliamSport,
hauling 2,S75 tons OF coal to those two
places, or an average OF 1l5 tons to the
boatload. He used a four-nule team and
during the season travelled 5000 miles on
the towpath-a distance about equal to
one-third of the earth's circumference.
Benjamin F. Langdon, of Jefferson
county, by his attorneys, Forrest W.
Brown and Albert ]. Long, filed suit in
Hagerstown against the N. & w. Railway
for $850'for ~ hogs shipped from SharpS-
burg and consigned to Baltimore on No
vember Is, 1908. The railroad company
hauled the hogs as far as Hagerstown and
then sold them, it is said, under the reg
ular market price, after notifying Langdon
that they could not ship the hogs on ac-
count OF the United States quarantine in
Maryland and Pennsylvania, established
on account of the foot and mouth disease.
| Victor Rohr, OF MartinSburg, was con-
fined in the Jail at the instance OF phySi-
clans, who were OF the opinion that he
would become violently insane. The
afflicted man had peculiar halucination
that he must keep his eyes closed, believ-
ing that he was going to die, and if he
opened them would 60 to the internal re-
gions. When officers Wild and Hollis
took him to Jail in a cab he persisted in
keeping his eyes closed, saying that he
wanted 10 be i'll heaven. Mr.. Rohr is
man OF about forty years and went there
from Washington county, Md. He has a
wife and one child and quiet, inoffenSve
man, always presenting neat appear
ance. He was an insurance solicitor and
recently sold books. He grew worse
after being placed in confinement, and
was taken to Weston a day or two ago.