Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Edward H. Hartman, the railroad king
who died couple Of weeks ago, LETT his
entire estate to his wife.
Under recent order OF the Postoffice
Department, rural mail carriers will not
be required TO deliver mail at places
where there are vicious dogs.
DIR. A. P. Thompson, the fruit grower,
has recently completed cold-storage
warehouse at Summit Point. 1t is 50 by
so feet in size, and will accommodate 6 500
barrels of apples. Its ice capacity is lOO
tons.
By the will of w. H. q. Greyel, who
died recently at Atlantic Highlands, N. j.,
his grandson, Grevel Acker, is to receive
an estate of $4,000 if he does not smoke
a cigarette until he is Is years old. The
boy is now three years old.
The libel suit which was filed against
Charles R. Hughes, editor of the Clarke
Courier, by Blackburn Smith, was with
drawn from record, the plaintiff personally
instructing the clerk of the court to with
draw the notice. - Courier.
Two men from the country were ar
rested in Winchester last week for hug
ging several pretty girls about the post
office, and were heavily fined. They
ought not to have been punished so Sc
verely. The poor fellows couldn't help
it.
A trade authority estimates that there
will be sold next year in the United
States 200, 900 automobiles at an average
price Of 81, 200. This must mean that
thousands OF cars will be sold at less than
81 900. One family in every forty in the
country will have motor car next year;
there will be one Car to every 200 of the
population, and this estimate will not in
clude the retention on old cars in service.
The figures indicate practically abso-
lutte increase of motor car use in business.
Figures OF this sort mark the advent OF
the motor car as a necessity.
For falsely swearing to the age OF his
sweetheart in order to secure a marriage
license, William Moore, OF Baltimore,
was sentenced to four years in the PEN
itentiary by Judge William H. Forsythe,
Jr. Moore obtained license to marry
Elizabeth Saylor, representing that she
was Is years of age, when in fact she was
scarcely Is. The pair were married All
gust 9 and later went to the home of the
girls mother. The latter, instead of re-
ceiving the youthful couple with parental
blessing, had the bridegroom arrested.
His trial and conviction followed. twas
thought that the matter might be COM
promised, but Mrs. Saylor was obdurate,
and is said to have insisted that the law
be executed. She also is endeavoring to
have the marriage annulled.
Jonas Wimbush, young mountaineer,
of Lebanon, Va, and married man, and
Miss Mary Conner, IS years old, daughter
OF John Conner, one of Wimbush's neigh
bors, have been cured of their infatuation
for one another by severe application of
hickory switches welded by their irrate
neighbors, including the father OF the girl,
who is said to have himself administered
a portion of the thrashing to which each
of the couple was treated. Wimbush has
gone back to his wife. Wimbush and
Miss Conner were taken by their neigh
bors deep into the weeds, where enough
of their clothing was stripped from them
for the lash to be laid on freely. The
girl was whipped as severely as was the
man. 1t was believed they were prepar-
ing to leave the community together and
this rumor induced their neighbors TO take
the matter into their own hands.
George Pitzer, wellto-do farmer
who resides in Berkeley county, not far
from Martinsburg, has been made defend
ant for $500 damages in suit instituted in
the circuit court of Frederick county, Va,
by Jacqueline Hardesty, a well-known
young man OF Winchester. Some months
ago Mr.. Hardesty and Mr.. Pitzer collided
with their automobiles on the Winchester
pike. The formers machine is said to
have been badly wrecked and while the
parties occupying the autos were badly
shaken up and shocked, no one was in
jured. The accident occurred at night,
and Hardesty enters contention that
Pitzer had no lights, while the latter
claims that it seemed to him that HardeS-
ty was going to take the other side Of the
road, and had no West Virginia license,
and says he will file the suit TO finish.
Pitzer had the papers in the suit served
on him while on visit to the Winchester
Fair. He has retained Barton & Boyd, of
Winchester, and Faulkner, Walker and
Woods, Martinsburg, while Hardesty re-.
tains Richard E. Byrd, of Winchester.
The young man kissed her and she
screamed.
whats the trouble, Kitty ?" demand