Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-01-20
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Mrs. Harriet Simmons has sold her
house in Charles Town to c. P. and L.
E. Miley for $4,000 cash.
Miss Lennis L. Shoop and Mr.. Wilbur
E. Winebrenner, both of ~Martinsourg,
were married in Hagerstown last Sunday
Miss Effie L. Linneberg and Mr.. Chas.
r. Mongan, both of Martinsbufg, were
married in that city last Saturday by Rev.
| c. S. Trump.
The Harper's Ferry Times thinks that
the liquor license fee in that town ought
TO be increased. The saloon license IS
only $50 at present.
Mr.. Stanley Frederick Holland, OF
Washington City, and Miss Mabel Lind
| say Pine, Of Martinsburg, were married
Tuesday evening at the home OF the
bride by Rev. W. F. Locke.
In the Circuit Court at Martinsburg last
| Saturday Marshall Wood, convicted OF
burning c. o. Payne's barn last fall, was
sentenced to the West Virginia Reform
School until he is 81 years of age. He is
now 16 years old.
Hon. E. Holmes Boyd, one OF the most
prominent lawyers in Virginia, dropped
dead in Winchester last night while max
ing speech at banquet given by Cen
eraI Turner Ashby Camp at the birthday
anniversary of General Lee.
Henry J. Seiben has resigned as presi-
dent of the Peoples Trust Company OF
| Martinsburg after "a years active service
with that institution, and Cashier Frank
E. Wilson has been elected president.
Mr.. Seibert retires because OF his ad-
vanced years.
Milton T. Kibler and Miss Almira
Speck, of Bunker Hill, Berkeley county,
were married in Hagerstown on Sunday
by Rev. A. H. Irvine. The wedding was
planned for Friday, but the bride got
caught in the snow storm and was delay
ed until the bridegroom thought she was
lost entirely.
Two large frame dwelling-houSeS in
Martinsburg, occupied by the families OF
]. w. Lloyd and Elmer Hopper, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire Tuesday night
with all the contents. Mr.. Lloyd and his
wife came near losing their lives, having to
escape from an upper story by means of a
ladder. A hundred dollars in cash was
burned up. The total loss is about S., 900.
VIM. H. Wilson has sold his farm on
the east side of the Shenandoah river
near Casteman's Ferry, formerly the
home OF Judge Parker, to Mrs. Paul Kel-
ley, of Chicago. The farm has LOO
acres, with colonial residence and other
improvements. The consideration was
SIS, 900. Mrs. Kelley will get possession
in the spring. The estate is one OF the
most attractive in the Valley, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Kelley will make extensive additions
and Improvements, and will make the
place their future home. Mr.. Wilson paid
$4,000 for the place about five years ago.
As Night Operator Frank Coleman, at
the Norfolk and Western station at Elk
ton, went into the waiting room at | a. m.
Tuesday morning to replenish the fire,
two men held him up at pistols point,
robbed him of his watch and left him tied
to post. They then got the keys and
robbed the office of SAB. Trainmen on
the next freight found Coleman helpless.
One OF the highwaymen was tall man,
who made no concealment of his features;
the second was short with blackened
face. A confederate watched on the in
side. All the men escaped.
The alleged sale of six barrels of Har-
per's Ferry rock, shipped under the guiSe
of scrap brass, has landed Harry Lavine
in the clutches OF the Washington police.
The complainant in the case is Ruben Aar-
onson, junk dealer of that city, who
says the six barrels of rock cost him just
$l25. Lavne, who it is said travels un-
der string of aliases, including Nathan
Chapman, Louis Fine, Smith and Fried
man, was arrested in Pittsburgand is said to
be wanted by the authorities of many
West Virginia and Ohio towns for similar
transactions, and there were many war
rants presented for him. Among his
many victims was Joe Bremen, of Ha-
gerStoWn.