Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-07-13
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

nesday.
Gotlieb F. Weber, well-known citizen
OF Morgan county and a former member
of the West Virginia Legislature, died
last Friday, aged Is years.
Mr.. Archibald A. Lamar, well-known
grocer OF Martins5urg, died very sudden
ly in that city last week from acute indi-
gestion, aged SO years. He is survived
by his wife, who was Miss Rose Deck,
of Washington, also brother and four
sisters, one of the latter being Mrs. T. L.
Watson, OF Middleway.
AT Parkersburg on Monday VIM. H..
Allen, who had family troubles, shot and
killed his wo-year-old daughter as she
lay asleep in her baby carriage, and after
a futile attempt to kill his wife shot him.
self seriously. The murderer formerly
lived in Charles Town, where he was
known as "Windy" Allen.
James Barrett, young man from North
Carolina, who was with the recently dis
banded Dan Rice Circus, afterward
worked few days for Zach I. Fleming,
and Yesterday was arrested on a charge
of having stolen about $50 from young
Joseph Fleming, having extracted it from
the latter's trousers pocket. He was
held by Justice Gallaher for the grand
jury.-Spirh
Harry Pryor, of Williamsport, was I'M
able TO sleep one OF the recent hot nights,
and getting out OF bed he went to a viii
dow and leaned out TO catch the breezes.
He fell asleep and woke up suddenly when
he hit the ground two stories below. He
fell from the window head first, but his
body turned and he landed upon his feet,
spraining his left ankle. Otherwise he
was not injured.
The Citizens Electric Company, which
recently bought the plant of the Charles
Town Light and Power Company, bank
npt, has been organized by the election
of Thos. c. Bowling as president and gen.
eral manager, and Capt. H. c. Getzen-
danner as secretary and treasurer. q. E.
Hughes, B. F. Langdon, Gerard D. Moore,
H. c. Getzendanner and ThoS. c. Bow
ling are the directors.
A charter was issued in Charleston last
week TO the Jefferson Evaporating Com
pany, to be located near Kearneysville,
this county, to cure fruit, store and pack
fruit, own and cultivate orchards. Its
principal office will be in Martinsburg, and
its authorized capital is $4,000. Elsye
B. Stewart, Robt. H. Stewart, Nota K.
Weaver and J. M. Woods, OF Martins
burg, and Benjamin q. Pratt, OF Hacken-
sack, N. J., are the incorporates OF the
company.
Miss Edna Miller, II years old, OF Bal
timore, who has been with the family OF
N. T. Frame for some time, was with a
picknic party at Newcomers dam on the
Opequon, and with others went in bath
ing in the creek in the afternoon. She
staid in too long and the heat and water
affected her mind. DR.. Tonkin was
summoned to the scene and found the
girl getting violent. He brought her to
the City Hospital in his automobile after
administering the proper remedies. She
is better.-MartHSbWg World.
A few weeks ago a man named PreSz-
burg landed in Hagerstown from New
York and proceeded TO build up a first
class amusement place that he called
Electric Park. The enthusiastic HagerS-
town contractors and merchants, with
fat profits on generous orders in mind,
gave Mr.. Preszburg unlimited credit and
work was done and furnishings were
provided on lavish scale. Before the
proprietor had chance to realize on his
investment the creditors became clamor-
Gus, and finally, TO escape them, PreSz-
burg slipped out of town between dark
and daylight. His debts are said TO be
some $4,000, and there is great sadness
in Hagerstown.
"Died drunk, aged 7 years." Such
might well be the epitaph OF little Hazel
Cline, the seven-year-old daughter Of
Lewis Cline, of Keedysville, Md, who
died last week after drinking four ounces
of whiskey. During the absence OF her
mother from the house, the little girl pro-
cured an empty four ounce bottle, and
going to the sideboard filled it with whis-
key from larger bottle. She then went
to wagon shed at the barn, crawled in
to buggy and drank the liquor. Later
she staggered into the house and told her
mother she was drunk. A physician was
at once summoned. He used stomach
pump, butthe child went into commissions
and died shortly afterward.
Three men, horse and buggy plunged
over an embankment into an abandoned
quarry of the Standard Stone and Lime
Company at Millville Tuesday night, and
two OF the men, Scott Costello and Will
Pierce, the latter colored, had their skulls
fractured by the fall. Bud Pierce, BROTH
er of one of the men injured, escaped with
a few minor injuries. The men were re-
turning from Harper's Ferry whittier they
had gone to celebrate the fourth of July.
When they reached the Millville vicinity
on the return trip, they turned out of the
county road, and followed over piles OIL
rocks, put there to prevent travellers from
going that way, an old road that had been
abandoned because OF the development oil
the quarries at that point. The latter
course led TO the brink of the quarries
into which the entire party fell. Cos
tello is a married man with family and
has been employed by Rosser Engle or
the Beavers farm near Riverside school,