Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-04-21
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


&c. Henshaw was on Tuesday con-
firmed by the Senate as postmaster at
Martinsburg. He will take charge OF the
office the lst of June.
The regular spring term OF the Berke-
ley Circuit Court began in MartinSburg on
Tuesday, Judge E. Boyd Faulkner or the
bench.
Mayor w. D. Byron, OF Williamsport,
has presented the Lutheran Church OF
that town with fine tVo-manual pipe
organ as a memorial to his wife.
Mrs. Anna M. Grant has been granted
a divorce from her husband, Lawrence b.
Grant, of Hagerstown, and is permitted
to resume her maiden name, Anna M.
Uhler.
A company has been organized at
Charles Townt to manufacture bricks, land
having been bought on the belt line for
this purpose. Among the incorporates
are John Strother, H. P. Cline and ThoS.
K. Moore.
Wells Hawks, native of Charles
Town, now of New York City, has re-
Gently been very ill in the Flower Hos
pital in that place. An operation OF ex-
tremely delicate character was performed
on him last Sunday as the only means OF
saving his life. 1t was successful, and he
will probably soon recover.
Miss Mary E. Needy, daughter OF SAM
uel Needy, was burned to death last
Thursday at her home in Waynesboro,
Pa, her clothing having caught ire
while she was burning some rubbish.
She was 30 years old. Mr.. Needy, her
father, is a well-known stock dealer and
frequently visits Shepherdstown.
]. Henry Dutterer has bought the farm
where he now lives on the Haltown pike
from his father, Jacob H. Dutterer. The
farm was formerly the property ofthe late
John H. Strider, and contains 263 acres
one of the show farms Of the county. The
price was S2l,5l9.34. Messrs. w F.
and Herbert Alexander have purchased
young orchard of As acres from the Alex
ander heirs, the purchasers being among
them, for $780, The orchard was apart
of the farm recently sold by the same
heirs to S. p. Stickell & Son, in Kaole-
town Observation-Disclosures.
Lemuel Morrison, an aged resident OF
Cedarville, Warren county, Va, who was
recently seriously injured by premature
explosion of dynamite and whose life
was deSpaired of for many days, has not
only surprised his relatives by recovering,
but they say he appears to have become
more like a man OF so than one OF II, his
present age. Mr.. Morrison had both
hands blown off and pieces of bones were
imbedded in his tace by the explosion.
He is the father of the MeSSrS. Morrison,
who formerly lived near Shepherdstown.
The handsome and costly new resi-
dence just completed by Mrs. Lou Swan
now Mrs. Rinehart CohilD formerly OF
New York, near Hancock, Md, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire last Sunday al
ternoon, with all its contents. Mrs. Swan
and Mr.. Cohill were married few weeks
ago and had just moved into the splendid
new home, most of their furniture still be-
ing unpacked Some waste in the cellar
caught fire from the furnace, and the flames
spread SO quickly that house and contents
were soon in ashes. The loss is $40, 600,
with insurance Of $1,000.
Deputy Sheriff c. B. Wentzell went to
Stanton last week, and brought to the
Charles Town Jail, Joseph BARLEY, a re-
QUESTION having been granted by the
Governor OF Virginia. Some time in jan
uary BARLEY was suspected OF stealing
chickens from resident of the Melville
vicinity. A warrant was sworn out tor
his arrest. Before the warrant could be
served, BARLEY heard OF it and quietly
faded from the landscape about Millville.
He eluded arrest until about ten days ago,
when he was captured in Staunton. The
Jefferson county grand jury returned an
indictment against him at the February
term of court.
The will of the late S. Mason Clipp
has been filed for probate in the office OF
the county clerk. II directs the payment
OF a legacy of fifty dollars to Mrs. Jane
Clpp, widow Of his son, Jerry o. Clipp,
and the same amount to each of her two
children. Another legacy of fifty dollars
is directed to be paid TO the teStator's
son, Samuel M. Clipp, of Belmont county,
Ohio. Six hundred dollars to be held in
trust by the executors for another son, E.
]. Clipp. Then the remainder of the es-
tate is to be given to E. ]. Clipp, and the
eight children of the testator by his sec
ond wife, for an equal division among
them. Messrs. VIM c. and Clarence B.
Clpp, sons OF the teStator, are named ex-
ecutorS without bond, and are instructed
to sell all the property for the purpose of
making division among the herS.-Ad-
VOcQte.
News from KeySer, this State, indicates
that there is trouble in the Preparatory
Branch of the West Virginia University
located there, of which Prof. J. D. Null
doom, formerly OF Shepherdstown, is prin-
cipal. The graduating class, which has
eight members, was instructed by the
faculty TO prepare an Grafton as arequire-
ment for graduation. This the class as a
body entered protest against, on the
ground that it was then the middle of the
term and too short time for preparation,
that it was not catalogued or announced,
and had not before been one of the re-
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