Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-08-03
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


son. the new town adjoining Charles
Town.
Company B, of Hagerstown, will run
an excursion to the Luray CavernS Au-
gust 18th.
A man named SchiIiing, from Hagers-
town, was arrested in MartinSburs Tues
day for bootlegging.
The law firm of Beckwith & Bushong,
Charles Town, has been dissolved, and
each gentleman will hereafter practice on
his own account.
The B. & o. Railroad has issued orders
TO IFS train men to put stop to the dis
play of "wet" goods by passengers on
its trains. BoiSterous negroes who have
been carrying quantities of liquor from
wet to dry towns will be summarlly call
ed down.
DIR. William W. Trail, of the Quarter
masters Department OF the U. s. Marine
Corps, Washington, D. c., has been pro-
NOTED from chief clerk at 81 600 per an
mum and appointed chief clerk in the same
office with pay at the rate OF 5000 per
annum. DR.. Trail was formerly from
Harper's Ferry.
Geo. E. Athey, who resides on Mrs.
Sarah E. Grimes'S farmat Grimes Station,
Nd, was very painfully hurt few days
ago while assisting in loading baled hay.
The hook slipped from the bale and he
fell, striking the shelvings and breaking
several ribs. DR.. Gardner was called to
reduce the fracture. Mr.. Athey formerly
lived in this section,
The city of Stanton, Va, which has
beer dry for two years, voted wet on
Tuesday, and saloons will be reopened.
The majority for the vets was lOl in a
total vote of ,484. Two years ago the
dry majority was Is. This victory was
celebrated by the vets Tuesday night in
characteristic style, drunken men and
diSorderly negroes running up and down
the streets yelling and dancing.
Deputy Marshal Dawson came to
Charles Town the first OF the week and
took Robert Page and Walter Drummond,
both colored, TO ParkerSburg for trial on
a charge of selling liquor illegally. Both
men had just completed term in Jail for
assault and battery, their conviction hav-
ing been secured at the last term OF the
Jefferson Circuit Court. The liquor sales
that they arc charged with having con-
Quoted were made at Shenandoah juno
tiou.-AdpOcate.
Heirs of the late Judge Daniel B. Lucas
have sold a portion Of Rion Hall farm ly-
ing near Halltown to Geo. D. Baumgard-
ner, at 500 per acre. The portion sold
has twenty five acres in it, with improve
ments, including dwelling, barn and
other oWbuildingS. ThoS. E. Baumgard-
ner has sold his orchard of fifteen acres, on
which are nine-year- apples trees, to
Winchester parties for $500 an acre.
The tract lies along the pike near Schaef-
fer'S cross roads.
William Allen, formerly of Charles
Town, who on July 10th killed his two
year-old daughter at ParkerSburg and
then shot himself, inflicting injuries which
it was then thought would prove fatal,
was removed from the City Hospital to
the county Jail Tuesday evening. Allen
says he does not remember shooting his
baby and claims that his mind is COM
plete blank as TO his actions upon that
day. Insanity will be his defense when
he goes on trial for murder.
Lester V. Wade, aged about 20 years.
OF Brunswick, was run over and instantly
killed near Harper'S Ferry last Sunday
morning about O'Clock. Young Wade
was a brakeman on the B. & o. Railroad,
having been in the employ OF the COM
pany only about two years. One OF the
cars on his train left the track and he was
sent back to flag any train that would be
following. He sat down on the west
bound track and is supposed to have gone
to sleep. He was struck by the st. Louis
New York express and literally cut to
pieces.
A recent dispatch from Martinsburg to
the New York Packer says: The apple
crop in the Eastern Panhandle OF West
Virginia will be confined mainly to Jeffer-
son and Berkeley counties. Jefferson
county estimates something over $4,000
barrels, or crop approximately equal to
that of last year. The present prospects
in Berkeley county are for something over
10000 barrels, or slightly larger than last
year. The growing conditions have been
very favorable, so that the quality OF the
fruit will be good. A considerable per-
centage Of the crop in both counties will
be York Imperials, with Grimes Golden,
Black Twig, Ben Davis, and other CON-
mercial varieties of importance.
Ethel, the twelve-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis H. Thompson, met
with an unusual and very painful accident
Saturday evening at the home of N. B.
Davis, southeast of town, where the little
girl and her mother had been spending a
week. Ethel was sitting on the limb Of
an apple tree while snapshot picture
was being taken of her. AS she jumped
from the limb, which was close TO the
ground, one OF the braids of her hair
caught on the limb and tore the hair loose
by the roots from one side OF her head.
The child was almost frantic with pain
for some time, while her mother was
wholly nnnerved by the shocking acct
dent, before medical assistance arrived.
The child had q Iuxitriant cttit of hair for