Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-11-16
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Prof. ]. w. Stayman was appointed
principal of the Keyser Preparatory
School, of which Prof, J. d. Muldoon
was formerly principal
Work was begun yesterday on the pro-
posed trolley line between HagerStown
and Clearspring. The work is to be
completed in five months.
The town of Dayton, in Rockingham
county, Va, had $4,000 fire last Sun
day. A hotel, a store, the carriage works
and three dwellings were destroyed.
George L. Miller, OF PittSburg, has
purchased the Maryland Inn, a noted
hotel at Hancock, Md. on the Old Ma
tional Pike. The Maryland Inn was con-
Structed several years ago at cost OF
$4,000.
D. ]. Kelly and James Smith were kill
ed by premature explosion OF dynamite
at Pinesburg, near Williamsport, Md.
Three other persons were injured, among
them being Ryland Scott, son OF DR.. J..
Mop. Scott, OF Hagerstown.
The parties who filed petition i'll court
to compel the Hagerstown and Waynes-
boro Turnpike Company to put its road
in repair have reached an agreement with
the turnpike officers by which the COM
pany agrees to open its gates to the pub
lie from November Is to December I'M
less the Improvements and repairs now
under way are completed earlier.
As result of the decision just reached
by the commission appointed by the Su-
preme Court of the United States to set
tie an old controversy over a boundary
line, several thousand persons who
thought they were residents OF Maryland
are declared to be livingin West Virginia,
and thrty-six square miles OF valuable
land also accrue to West Virginia.
The annual school fair and boys corn
club exhibit was held this week at Harri-
sonburg,Va. James Hedrick, Jr., OF Elk
ton, won first prize for yield, raising ll3
bushels and A pounds OF corn on one
acre; proceeds, 1888: expenses $22.75.
Nathaniel Keezell, son of Senator George
B. KeezeIl, won second, with ll2 BUSH
els and 46 pounds proceeds, 5000 ;eX-
penSes, $37.45.
David l.. Henderson, the road agent OF
MANY aliases who rifled number OF mail
pouches stolen from a Norfolk & Western
mail car at Shenandoah Junction last sum-
mer, was convicted upon his trial in the
u. S. District Court at ClarkSburg, and
Judge Dayton sentenced him 10 four
years at hard labor in the Federal prison
at Fort Leayenworth, Kansas. Deputy
Marshal A. T. Barrett took Henderson to
prison.
AT Woodstock, Va, last Sunday, dur
ing the furious rain storm band OF gyp-
sizes, composed of two men and two
women, asked that they be permitted to
spend the night in Rush'S livery stable.
During the evening, the younger OF the
women, who said she was Ethel Holland,
of Portsmouth, Ohio, told Mrs. Rush that
she was being detained against her will,
and that the other members OF the band
had threatened to kill her if she told about
it. Mr.. Rush told this to the county Of
ficialS, who Immediately took charge of
the girl against the wishes of the other
members of the band. The young woman
says she is II years old and was carried
away from Portsmouth. This was the
first chance that she had to communicate
with any but members Of the band OF
gypsies. Miss Holland will be sent back
to Ohio. The others of the band were
liberated.