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reducing expenses all along its lines,
It Is said that Superintendent Blake
will make a trip over the Shenandoah
Valley division next week with view
to looping off wherever possible.
Attorney John 7 Porterfield, repre-
senting The owner, James H. Robinson
sold frame residence property, with
three lots on Camp Hill, Harper's Fer
ry, to Messrs Young and Staley, of
Frederick, Md, for $2,100 cash.
c. j. Roberts, St. Adams, near Hun
tington, this State, lost a leg through
stubbornness. While chopping wood
he cut a terrible cash in his knee, but
spurned surgical attention Gangrene
set in and DIR. Vickers found it neces-
saFy to amputate the member. The
surgeon said had a surgeon been called
in>fhe first placethe leg would easily
have been saved.
Ther9Will be no grand jury for Nor
gan county at the April term Of court,
there being no necessity for one. The
jail is empty aad has been for some
time. in fact, very few prisoners have
been incarcer&tod therein during the
past niha months. All of which tells
it's own story for a no-license town.
Those favoring saloons may talk as
they please, but they can't get away
from the fact that where there is no
booze there is better, order and fewer
arrests for violations of law.-@Morgan
Messenger.
Announcement has been made of the
marriage of Mr.. Henry Lee Murray,
our popular young townsman, to
Miss Elizabeth Vaudiver McGampbell,
daughter of Mrs. Mary E. McCampbell,
of Goliad, Texas The wedding took
place on Wednesday, March 22nd, at
the home of the bride. Miss Nc
Campbell has been frequent visitor
to our town and has host of friends
here. Mr. and Mrs. Murray will be at
home in Charles Town after April 1st
Rev. Father Sebastian Rabbia, pas
tor of ST. Mary's Catholic Church, Ha-
gerstown, since 1887, died suddenly of
heart disease at the rectory Monday
morning, aged "a years. He had been
ailing for two years with Bright'S d.
sease. While eonversing at the rec
tory with Rev. Albert E. Smith he
suddenly fell to the floor and expired
without speaking. Father Rabbia was
a native of Italy, being born Novsm-
ber Is, 1910. at Cuneo, Province of
Piedmont. He studied at the Colegia
Bringonele Sale, Genoa, and was or
dained priest May 26, 1865, by the
Archbishop of Genoa.
DR.. Jonathan A. G. Hover. for many
years prominent druggist of@.Mar-
tinsburg, died at his home there Tues
day, aged 81 years. He was a native
Of Clear Spring, Md. ) and was gradu-
-ated from the Baltimore Medical Col
lege in 1852, and practiced his profess
sion in Natchez, Miss, before going to
Martinsburg. He was deputy sheriff
for. several years and later engaged in
the drug business, which he followed
until two years ago, when he retired
from active BUSINESS He was Mason
of high rank and for more than a
quarter of century a prom .nebt
figure in business and professional
circles. tf7s}rt
The question of bridging the Shen-
andoah is a live one just now, and it
looks as if the promoters were pro-
ceeding along TIL right lines, Toll
bridges like5stoll= roads are a relic of
barbarism, and we believe that. the
Harper,,s1 Ferry and Shepherdstown
bridges, serving as they do three good
sized towns. s5s1uld>be fairly appraised,
acquired anu r. ed BY the county. The
cost OF the nsv bridge should be in
part assumed i hose who. by, err
hance.neatr in va!ae of their lands.
will most benefit, and it is understood
that these property ownsrs are willing
to do their fufl share. We need g
bridge somewhere between Harper's
Ferry and the Clarke county line, anC
see no reason why W. can't get it
j with the cost fairly apportioned- lie
tween the county and the main benef
ciaries.