Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-09-07
NOTES FROM NEARBY.
Martinsburg's apple carnival will be

Martinsburg's apple carnival will be
held September 18th TO 3Oth.
lanes Irby, a negro of Charles Town,
wss arrested for a serious offense against
daughter of D. W. Hyatt. The Child
is but eleven years OF age.
Announcement was made last week OF
the engagement of Miss Alice Osburn, OF
Kabletown, and Mr.. David H. Allen, OF
Summit Point. The wedding was fixed
for October.
The B. & o. has awarded TO LunStrum
& Stratton, of New York, the contract Tor
the construction of its big yards at Cum
DO, near Martinsburg. The work will
cost about $350.OOO.
A year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Martin, living near Cearfoss,
Washington county, Md, tell into a
crock of water on Monday, and before
the child's plight was discovered it had
drowned.
AT Frederick, Md, the other evening,
a colored boy got frightened in a moving
picture show and yelled "firep" A PAN
ic was narrowly averted. The boy was
sent to Jail for sixty days for raising a
false alarm.
BY a mistaken turn of the steering
wheel on a new Ford automobile, J. A.
Deering, of Shenandoah Junction, wrecked
the machine on the roadside one mile south
of the Junction Tuesday morning. Mr..
bearing was taking the machine from
Charles Town and had Chester Cockrell
with him to give instructions in operating
if. They had passed the home of Circuit
Clerk Daniel and were on straight piece
of road. Suddenly twist was given the
steering wheel, and the car veered to the
right and against rock that protruded
from bank on the roadside. Mr.. Cock
rell tried to straighten their course, but
wasn't quick enough and the impact
threw him against the windshield, which
was smashed by the collision. The right
front wheel was torn off, and considera-
bic damage was inflicted on the trans
mission parts of the machine. Advocate.
Justice H. T. Miley at Summit Point
on Friday of last week committed Ed
Robinson, colored, to the Charles Town
Jail for stealing three steers owned by
lanes Hahn, a farmer OF the Summit
Point vicinity. Robinson, who lives at
Brucetown, is said to have taken the
steers from pasture field in the early
hours OF Tuesday morning, and brought
them to Charles Town TO sell. The
butchers here suspected that something
was wrong with the transaction, and hes
itated TO buy. Robinson became uneasy,
abandoned the cattle in Charles Town,
ard left for Virginia, where he was cap
tured day or two later. Two colored
men who met Robinson with the cattle
on the road to Charles Town and can
identity him will be the principal witnesses
against him at his trial, which will prob
ably be held at the October term OF
ourt.-AdvOcate.
Thomas Green Peyton, Of Charles
Town, has successfully passed his mental
and physical examination and was admit
ted as midshipman in the U. S. Naval
Academy at Annapolis last Monday. He
received his appointment from Hon. Geo.
c. Sturgiss only a few days before the ex-
piration OF his term as Congressman.
Tom comes through good fighting stock
on both sides OF his house, every gener-
alton of his family having beenrepreSent-
ed in the army and navy since the forna-
ton of the government. He is descend
ed from John Green, Colonel OF the
Revolutionary War and one OF the found
ers of the Society of Cincinnati. His
grandfather, Col. H. Ashton Ramsey, OF
Baltimore, formerly an officer in the old
navy, was Chief Engineer fthe Merrimac,
and in command of that vessel at the
close OF its fight with the Monitor in
Hampton Roads. His uncle, Lieut.. Chas.
r. Ramsey, of the 2lst U. S. Infantry, was
killed while leading charge in the Phil
ippines, and saved his command by the
heroic sacrifice OF his life.-AdpOcate.