Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-10-13
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Let Hagerstown look to its laureis.
Sharpsburg has organized a board OF
trade.
City Sergeant J. VIM. Taylor, OF Win
chester, dropped dead as he was enter
ing his frort door last Thursday.
There is an epidemic OF dlphtheria IN
Waynesboro, Pa. Three children died
of the disease there on Tuesday.
During the past week there have been
two incendiary fires in MartinSburg, sta
bles having been destroyed both times.
Charles Hannas, of Hampshire county,
was fined $40 and costs for refusing to
permit fruit inspectors TO examine his or
chard.
Postmaster Bradley has made applIca-
ton TO have the Charles Town posiofilce
designated as one OF the new postal saw
ingS banks.
Seven prisoners escaped from the leakY
old iail at Martnsburg the other night by
kicking out sufficient bricks to make a
suitable exit.
Near Romney the other day Daniel w.
Oats climbed high up in a tree aftera coon,
He fell and was killed, breaking almost
every bone in his body.
A family horse 80 years old, belonging
TO Iohn S. Low, of Carlisle, Pa, died a
few days ago, and its owner had a coffin
made in which il was buried.
Col. w. E. Craighill, U. S. A., has been
transferred from Washington TO Portland,
Maine. Col. Craigllill has been spending
some time in Charles Town with his fam
lily.
The Hampshire Southern Railroad has
been completed to Petersburg, in Grant
county, and the road is now in regular
operation to that point for freight and
passenger service.
The saloon of |. Spencer, onthe Mary
land side of the river, opposite Harper's
Ferry, was burned TO the ground last
Friday evening. We have not heard
how the fire originated.
The stable and courthouse on the pre-
misses of the late J. T. Nichols at Hall
town were burned Saturday night, entail
ing a loss of about $4OO Insured with
Moore & Moore for $3.50.
Harry Russell Kendall, Is years old,
was leading a colt on the Hagerstown
tair grounds on Monday when it kicked
him in the stomach. He was so badly
hurt that he died the next day.
Eugene Clipp has moved back to the
county from Steelton, Pa, where he has
been engaged in the steel mills for the
past six or eight years. He will farm the
place owned by his father, the late S. M.
Clipp, west of Charles Town.
Cards have been issued announcing
the engagement of Miss Josephine COL
bert, of Huntington, to J. W. Mason, Jr,
OF Fairmont. Mr.. Mason took the law
course OF Yale and is now practicing in
Fairmont Miss Colbert was formerly a
resident of Martinsburg and is a sister to
Miss Ada Colbert, formerly a teacher in
Shepherd College.
With a change in the official board OF
the Consolidated Gas Company in Balti-
more, the prospect for getting natural gas
in this section brightens. Mayor Mahool,
of Baltimore, announced few days ago
that the question of getting natural gas
there will be taken up again in short
time. The natural gas people seem to
have overcomethe objectionSin Baltimore
by a deal with the artificial gas people,
and as soon as Baltimore is ready the line
will be built and Shepherdstown will have
a chance at natural gas.
The orchard owned by S, H. McKown,
containing 1856 acres, in Berkeley county,
was sold last week TO the McKown Or
chard Company, an association OF Mar
| tinsburg business men, at price said to
be 100000. The orchard is on the ia
nous Apple Pie Ridge, within two miles
of Inwood station. The crop OF fruit
now in the orchard is variouSly estimated
at from twelve to fifteen thousand barrels.
| Mr.. McKown was induced to sell the
orchard owing TO his advanced age, as
he felt it necessary to be relieved OF the
great care and responsibility required to
conduct and handle the products OF the
property.