Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-06-30
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

RE. l.. Miller has disposed OF his
lease of the Hotel Jefferson in Charles
Town to Mrs. E. c. Seibert, who has
been conducting the Palm Hotel in that
place, and she takes possession the first
OF July.
William MuStetter, seventeen years old,
of Berkeley county, fell from B. & o.
freight train near North Mountain last
Friday and was so badly injured that he
died soon afterward. An arm and leg
were cut off.
The neighboring town OF WilliamSport,
Md, got bad scare Saturday night,
when a couple OF stables were burned and
several houses were set afire. Four fine
horses and several hogs were burned TO
death.
Otis Smith, a farmer near Leitersburg,
Md, while harvesting few days ago,
stopped his binder TO oil it. The horses
frightened and started TO run and he was
knocked down in front OF the machine.
His legs and arms were frightfully cut by
the knife, but he will probably recover.
Homer V. Barrow, an employee of the
Western Maryland Railroad, was run over
by an engine and instantly killed in the
Hagerstown yards last Saturday. The
unfortunate man, who was p years old,
was from Ridgely, Va, a station on the
c. V. Railroad between MartinSburg and
Winchester.
Terrific storms and cloud bursts caused
great damage TO crops and other property
in the western part OF the State the first
of the week. In Jackson county the
streams became raging torrents, and the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Miller was
swept down creek and both of them
were drowned.
Iohn L. Mace, one OF the men who was
so badly hurt when the bridge at Williams
port, Md, collapsed year or two ago,
and who got a verdict from the Penn
sylvania Steel Co. for $500, again won
in the Court OF Appeals, where the case
was carried. The lower court was al
firmed with costs.
In the circuit court at Charleston, w.
Va, on Monday Judge Burdett dissolved
the injunction recently granted to the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad against
the operation OF the two-cent fare law,
and ordered the railroad to refund at the
Charleston, Huntington and Hinton offices
the excess of fares collected over cents
to holders OF coupons. A stay of 60 days
was granted the railroad in which to ap-
peal the case.
Last Wednesday night on the farm Of
Luther Rogers, at PurgittSville, Hamp-
shire county, night riders cut down 500
peach trees. BloodhoundS were brought
from Moundsville Thursday afternoon and
rushed to the field in an automobile, but
nothing came OF their work. A year ago
Rogers lost about 100 trees in the same
manner, He has had some differences
with neighbors.
II is said that number OF the Wheeling
churches are aboliShing mixed ChoirS.
Within the past few months a score OF
churches have readjuSted their choirS by
having male quartetteS because ofan cab
sence of harmony" in the dress of the
women. One pastor, who started the
movement for entirely male chiorS, says
the trouble is that many OF the women
dress too gaudily, are too giddy, talkative,
inquisitive, and always criticiSing the
wearing apparel OF the members OF the
congregation
Deeds to evidence the transfer OF real
estate have been filed for record in the
county clerks office as follows: Frank
Beckwith, special commissioner, to Frank
Nichols, one-half acre at the Blair lime
works, for 800; Robt V. Shirley to Lloyd
L. Watson, twenty acres of detached TIM
berland west OF Summit. Point, ConSidera-
ton not given; Thos. R. Moore TO c. F.
Wall, Is lots on the Charles Town Boom,
$3.50; Charles Painter to Charles ViandS,
house and lot on east side of the Shenan-
doah river, 1925; E. w. Howard, TO Eliz-
abeth H. T. Leavell, 6 lots, Charles Town,
$55O.-AdpOcate.