Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-04-14
LITTLE LOCALS.

A band Of Gipsies has been encamped
at the foot of Princess street this week.
The women are very gorgeously alfred
in raiment of many colors
The work OF the census enumerators
begins tomorrow, Friday, when 10000
intenogators will be turned loose on the
people. The work is to be completed in
one month Harris HeidwohI and Joseph
L. Walper will take the census of Shop
herdstown district.
George Tabler, son of Mr.. and Mrs. !.
c. Tabler, of Duffields, is extremely i'll
from internal trouble, and was last week
taken TO the hospital in Charles Town for
surgical treatment. His friends in this
neighborhood hope that he may recover,
but his condition is regarded as critical.
Employees of the Shenandoah division
of the Norfolk & Western Railway pre-
seIted to Superintendent IT Carey
fine gold watch and chain afew days ago.
MIR. Carey has been assigned to the Scioto
division of the N. & w., and there are
many regrets at his leaving this end of
the road.
General Manager N. d. Maher of the
Norfolk & Western Railway announces
that, beginning with April lst, all en-
ployees OF the company receiving less
than 1855 per month will receive a 6 per
cent increase in wages. This does not
include the organized employees, with
whom satisfactory adjustment has been
made.
Mrs. Hannibal A. Williams, noted
ShakeSperean reader and artist, will give
a recital in the college auditorium Satur-
day evening of this week, April 10th, at
s o'clock She will read GAS You Like
It," Shakespeare famous comedy, and
delightful evening is promised. Admis-
sion p cents.
Among the road Improvements planned
by Turnpike Commissioner James K.
| Hendricks for this season is a concrete
bridge over Rattlesnake run, where II
crosses the pike couple of miles south
OF town. Mr.. Hendricks also expects TO
build concrete bridge over Bullskin run,
near Wheatland.
While the furniture of Mrs. Bette But
Ter was being moved last Saturday from
the Grant house TO her new home in the
Enter house, her piano fell from the
wagon and landed with great crash in
the street. Ii was very badly damaged,
the case having been broken and SCARED
10 a considerable extent.
In renewing his subscription to the
Register, n. S. Ewing, OF Lanark, ILL.,,
says: "Send on that good old friend, the
Register, for it gives ME all the news OF
the county" Mr.. Ewing says that al
though he is prospecting il the western
country, still he bankers iJra few months
in the neighborhood ofMJler'S and Shep-
herdStown.
The baseball season was opened here
last Saturday, when Shepherd College
and ST. James College met on the dla-
mond. ST. James won by a score of to
3. The home team put up a fine game
for the first few innings, but later the boys
got TO playing in raggedy sort OF way
and permitted the visitors to walk around
the bases in perfect security.
Our esteemed contemporary, the indie
pendent, sputterS and fixes like wet
firecracker this week over an alleged
business deal in which the editor OF the
Register is supposed TO be interested. If
our neighbor had taken the trouble TO
inquire about the matter he could readily
have learned the facts and avoided re-
course to grapevine dispatches.
Application for a charter has been made
for the incorporation OF the Jefferson
Power Company, of Harper's Ferry, to
control the present undeveloped power
at Bulls Falls, on the Shenandoah river.
The incorporators are VIM. H. Slavery,
Thos. H. Slavery, Jr., Horace Thayer, OF
Wilmington, Del, and q. r. Bready and
| Gordon Bready, OF Harper's Ferry.
There is a lively controversy IN Mar
tinsburg over the question OF giving a
franchise TO the power company whose
plant is at Millville, this county, and
which wants opportunity TO supply cleo
trio power to MartinSburg. The matter
| has been before the board OF trade, but
that body seems to be controlled by the
influence Of the Martinsburg Power Com
pany. which wants no competition. Out
side of those who are financially or other
wise interested in the MartinSburg Power
Company, the determination TO shut out
competition in electrical current is re-
garded as mighty poor business policy,
and many persons think that the board OF
trade may as well diSband if it is going to
allow private gain to influence ii against
the public welfare.
Avery regrettable occurrence isreported
from Hagerstown. Mrs. Bessie Tabler,
wife of Edward E. Tabler, tenant on the
w. w. Steck farm, near Sharpsburg,
formerlyof the vicinity of ShepherdStown,
has been placed in Jail in Hagerstown on
the charge OF forging her husbands note
for S43.75, payable to c. S. Miller, of this
place, who sold her buggy. The war
rant was sworn out by Mrs. Tabler'S hus-
band, and the weeping woman was taken
to Jail only after desperate resistance on
her part. Seven children were LEFT at
home. 1t is also alleged that Mrs. Tabler
took five head of cattle, on which she and
her husband had given bill OF sale to
w. w. Steck, TO Shepherdstown and sold
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