Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-10-12
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

A Chinaman now owns real estate III
Charles Town. Kin zee, the local lair-
dryman, has bought the Wageley property
in that place for 1925.
Daniel F. Sullivan, aged 4Oyears, form
erly of Martinsburg, was accidentally
killed by steam crane last Saturday in
the Washington Navy Yard, where he
was employed.
Miss Virginia Remsburg and Boyd {.
Pownal, both of MartinSburg, went TO
Haperstown last Thursday afternoon and
were married at the First Baptist parson-
age by Rev. E. K. Thomas.
Terry Triggs has sold his farm OF ll2
acres near Bunker Hill, Berkeley county.
TO Edward Swartz for So, 1000. Mr.. Swartz
rec emily disposed of his farm OF Sc acres at
Bunker Hill to the ]. T. Baker Lime Com
pany, who own extensive quarrles there.
He got 10000 for it.
DR.. l.. M. Allen and J. T. Fisher, OF
Winchester, have jointly purchased the
farm of Edward w. Grant near Clear
brook. The farm is quite small, having
only AZ acres in it, yet the price was
s16.4l6. Most OF the land is in orchard
that bears good crop Of apples almost
every year.
David L. Henderson was indicted al
the term of federal court in ClarkSourg
last week for stealing mail sack at Shen-
andoah Junction, from which he got SlS,-
600 in money and checks. 1t is said that
Henderson had worked in the construction
gang at the Junction, waiting for oppor-
tlinity to rifle the mails.
The Advocate saysthat a pumpkin vine
on the farm of Mrs. James Melvin, three
miles southeast of towE, has made rec
ord for itself this year by producing 81
pumpkins. Not one of the fifty is said
TO be feeble imitation Of real one, but
all are OF good size. A neighbor OF Mrs.
Melvin has been figuring out the pie area
that vine as prolific as that one will
yield. He finds that if all the pies that
could be made from those fifty pumpkins
were placed in row, the pies crust
touching, they would reach nearly a
quarter of a mile, and would supply pie
food for $50 men one meal.
From Rockingham county, Va, comes
an extraordinary story. While sitting on
sofa, talking with the man whom she
was to marry in several days, Miss Will
lie Supinger, of Messy Creek, suddenly
and without moments warning fell for
ward into the arms of her fiance, and in a
few seconds was dead. Sudden heart
failure caused her death. Several hours
later, Elmer Berry, railroad man, went
to his home in the same neighborhood,
and while at the supper table was telling
his young wife about the strange death OF
Miss Supinger. Mrs. Berry, herself a
sufferer from heart trouble, arose from
the table, took several steps forward and
fell dead on the floor.
Rev. E. B. Bruen, aged IS years, pas
tor ofthe Presbyterian churches at SPRING
field and Three Churches in Hampshire
county, this State, and Miss Sallie Shan
non, aged IS years, Of RomneY, were
drowned in the South Branch of the Po-
tomac last Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Bruen was
a boarder at the home OF Miss Shannon's
parents. With the young lady he start
ed to drive to Three Churches, where ne
was to have preached Sunday afternoon.
They never reached there. Monday
morning the buggy cushion was found on
an island just below the treacherous ford,
and mile farther down was found the
drowned horse, attached to the broken
buggy. The South branch OF the Poto-
mac is swollen, and it is supposed they
were swept down in attempting to cross
the ford near the wire bridge. Rev. Mr..
Bruen came from Richmond, Va. The
whole county has been searching for the
bodies of the unfortunate victims, but we
have not yet heard of their recovery.
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