Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-06-24
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


dentally broke his leg the other day and
had TO send tito Philadelphia for repairs.
II was wooden lee.
The county court of Morgan county has
contracted for the erection OF an iron
bridge over Cacapon river near Wisner's
ford. II will cost 800.
The Martinsburg World says that Da-
vid Enter, OF that place, formerly OF Shep-
herdstown, was struck in the head and
badly hurt by a stranger that he found in
his back yard the other night.
The German Brewing Company, of
Cumberland. has bought the plant of the
Jefferson Brewing Company, al Harper's
Ferry, part of which was recently de-
stroyed by fire. The price paid was &,-
coo.
Miss Mabel Hovermale, who was hurt
at the field day exercises of Shepherd
College couple of weeks ago, and who
was later taken TO her home in Berkeley
Springs, has gone TO hospital, in order
that she might have expert surgical atten-
ton for her dislocated elbow.
Miss Nora Quinn upon returning to her
home in Hedgesville Tuesday after noon
after a visit to several of her ieighborS
found large snake in the dining room
She attempted to kill it but the reptile
went through hole in the cellar. Miss
Quinn spent the night with friends.
Harold H. Bender, a well-known and
highly educated young gentleman OF
Martinsburg, has been appointed an in
structor in the German department Of
Princeton University, and will take up his
work next September Mr.. Bender was
educated in the universities OF this coun
try and Europe.
A message was received in Martins
burg last week, stating that Theodore
Turner Tabb, anative of Berkeley county,
was drowned on Wednesday at Hagi,
Japan, while swimming. Mr.. Tabb had
been in Japan for the past year, where he
was engaged in teaching. He formerly
lived at Hedgesvile.
Plans are being prepared for a boys
dormitory for Storer College, at Harper'S
Ferry, TO replace the one recently de-
Stroyed by fire. The building will be
| three stories, built of native stone, and
will contain dining room, gymnasium and
sleeping apartments, and will cost about
SIC, 600 to $4,000.
The Board of Education of Charles
Town district met on Friday and made a
tentative reappointment of Prof Wright
| Denny and all the old corps OF teachers OF
the Charles Town High School, as fol-
lows: q. A. Batten, Miss Lallie Craig
hill, Miss Bee LaBoyteaux, Miss Mary
Campbell, Miss Mamie Young, Miss
Mary Howell, Miss Bette Beller, Miss
Lizzie Kercheval, Mrs. L. r. Melbourne,
Miss Daisy Engle and Miss Fannie Lee
Brown.
Eastern College, an institution that has
been located at Front Royal, Va, for
many years, will be removed to Manassas
and will open the session OF 1909 and 1910
there. The Baldwin property has been
| reserved, and the erection Of new build
| ings will be commenced at once. The
management of the college announced at
| the commencement exercises in Front
Royal last week that the next session
would open at Manassas. Several towns
were in competition for this institution,
and Prof. Mathew and his assistants fl
nally concluded that Manassas offered the
best opportunities for success WincheS-
| ter Star
These deeds for the transfer of real eS-
tate have been filed for record in the Of
flee of the county clerk: Thos. coleman
TO William Robinson, house and lot near
Summit Point, consideration, $500; VIM.
Robinson to Susie Reed, house and lot at
Mount Pleasant, no consideration given;
| Della M. Carter to the trustees OF Storer
College, two lots in Harper's Ferry, ST.
900; ]. S. Bragonier, special commission
err, to Sarah Washington, house and lot
on the west end of German street, Shep-
herdstown, $lS2; F. L. Bushong and
Geo. D. Moore, special commissioners,
to William c. Bragg and d. S. Hughes,
the Earnshaw property, fronting p feet
on West Main street, Charles Town, $7l0.
One of the men was working on the
bridge at Williamsport last December
when it collapsed was Clarence thinner
man, whose place was on the end Of the
boom as it swung some IS feet in the air.
He fell greater distance than any OF
the other workmen, but escaped with a
broken ankle. He recovered from his in
Jury, and last Monday, when work was
resumed on the bridge, says the Hagers-
town Herald, he felt fully able to take his
old position. But when the traveller be-
gan to move, his former equanlmity LETT
| him. Those about the traveller noticed
that he chung fast to the boom and was
motionless. They called to him, but re-
ceived no answer. The boom was
swung back and two workmen hastily
lifted Zimmerman from his position.
When he was placed upon the ground his
speech returned Zimmerman said that
when he swung out over the river all the
horrors OF the fall Of nearly six months
ago returned. 1t seemed as if he were
falling and he was seeing the former trag-
edy re-enacted. II now seems as il Mr..
Zimmerman will be unable to resume his
former position, and will probably be Civ
en- place by the Pennsylvania Steel
Company, where he will not have to
work at such dizzy heights.
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