Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-09-01
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

al Berryville.
DR.. Howard Osburn has sold the Pal
mer farm of So acres at Kabletown to Rev
Arthur M. Lewis for 81 400.
The State Encampment OF the Patriotic
Order Sons OF America will be held ir
Charles Town September 9th and 7th.
There have been four fires in Martins
burg within the past ten days, a1d the
people there are fearful that an incendiary
is at work.
The new terminal station of the Penn
sylvania Railroad in New York City has
been opened for traffic. With its ap-
proaches and system OF tunnels this en-
terprise cost 100000.
John M. Miller has sold his Gold or
chard OF l4l acres near Gerardstown,
Berkeley county, to ChaS. B. Hart, Alex.
Clohan, g. w. McKown and X. Poole for
$4,000.
Mr.. Walter Newton Fulk and Miss Ella
Leah Custer, both Of the vicinity Of
Darkesville, Berkeley county, were mar
ried last Wednesday at the U. B. parson-
age at Inwood by Rev. E. p. Webster.
John R. Miley, prominent stock deal
er of Moorefield, Hardy county, has gone
into bankruptcy, and Attorney John o.
Lemen, OF MartinSburg, has been appoint
ed receiver of the estate. Miley'S la
bilities are $S5, 900 and his assets $4,000.
1t has been reported in the newspapers
that Hon. Henry g. Davis, OF Elkins, this
State, was at deaths door as the result Of
a fall down a flight of stairs. AS mat
ter of fact, Mr.. Davis slightly sprained
his ankle a month or more ago, but is
now going around as lively as ever.
John Jewell, of Rileyville, Va, while
attempting to cross from one car to an
other was thrown from fast freight on
the N & w. Railway and killed instantly,
his neck being broken. Jewell had been
working in the stone quarry near Martins
burg and was returning home on the
freight.
The board Of education OF Charles
Town district will submit to the voters
this fall proposition TO issue S2O,OU Of
bonds for the erection OF new public
school building in Charles Town. A
modern, up-to-date school building is
greatly needed in Charles Town, and
there ought to be no hesitancy in spend
ing even a larger sum for this purpose.
An error was made in news article in
the Advocate issue OF August g, wherein
il was stated that Miss Anna Ransom, Of
Harper's Ferry, had been married in
Canada. The fact was that Ms. Annie
Rausum, a Harper'S Ferry widow, was
married at that time, the similarity in the
two names giving rise to the mistake thai
the bride was Miss Observation-Disclosures.
The burgess and commissioners oil
SharpSburg Tuesday evening accepted
the proposition OF the Antietam Electric
Power Company TO place electric lights
in the town, current to be furnished from
the company'S plant at Antietam creek al
Breathedsville. A large arc light will be
placed in the public square and there VIII
be 50 incandescent lights about the town
Business houses and private residences
will also be furnished with light. Light
will be furnished within four months
Keedysville and Boonsboro are now be-
ing lighted by the same company.
A very pretty wedding was Solemnized
Wednesday morning of last week in the
Southern Methodist Church at LeetoWn,
when Miss Anna c. Fulk, the attractive
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fulk, o.
that neighborhood, became the bride o.
Mr.. George w. Willard. The ceremony
that made them man and wife was per-
formed by Rev. C. w. Ball. The church
wasbeautifully decorated for the occasion
potted plants and smilax being used toI
the purpose. The wedding marches were
played by Miss Delvia Osbourn. MessrS
Cecil Watson and Frank Gardner were
the ushers and little Miss Sherman, ofBalti-
more. was the flower girl. The groom is
a young farmer ofthe KearneySville vicini-
ty.
Mayberry |. Patterson, HagerstoWr
business man, has filed suit in the Equl-
ty Court against his SiSter-in-law, Mrs
Ida V. Keller, asking the court to decree
that one-third OF the valuable real estate
left by his wife, Laura L. Patterson, nee
Stonebraker, be set off and assigned &c
him for his dover. He asks that account
be taken of the rents and profits OF the
real estate in question, which have &C
crued since the death of John w. Stone
braker, his dead wife's father, and which
have or might have been received by Ida
V. Keller. Mr.. Patterson declared thai
his wife'S father had only life Interest
in the property and that when he died
January Sth, 1910, his interest in the prop
erty terminated.
Thos. E. Chamblin, former resident
of Charles Town, had narrow escape
from fatal accident at RowleSburg, w
Va, afew days ago. Mr.. Chamblin, who
is travelling salesman, with his home ir
Oakland, Md, had left his hotel in Row.
lesburg, to take an eastbound passenger
train on the B. & o. Railroad. To get &c
the train, which was about due, he hao
to cross a number of tracks. An ap-
preaching fast freight train going east was
hidden from sight by box car that wa:
standing on a side track. Just as Mr.
Chamblin stepped on the track used BY
the fast freight, the locomotive struck him
His LETT shoulder and hip were both dis
located by the blow, which knocked him
over on the weStbound track. inflictinQ a