Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-11-30
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

As a result of a revival in the United
Brethren Church at Berkeley Springs 81
PERSONS were received into church men,
bership last Sunday.
The F. L. Dunn Company, operating a
large furniture store in Martinsburg, has
made an assignment Liabilities are
S., 900, with almost enough assets to cover
the same.
A small store building and its contents
of general merchandise belonging to John
Smallwood at Mechanicstown. this coun-
ty. was destroyed by fire last Wednesday
night. The loss was $70O or $500, with
no insurance.
Talbot Taylor Pendleton, son OF Editor
N. s. D. Pendleton, OF Berkeley Springs
has been unanimously elected captain OF
the football team OF Princeton University
for 1912. He is an all-around athlete and
one OF the best football players in Amer
lea.
Frank Dennis, the watercress man, who
is known in Jefferson and Berkeley coun-
ties, was badly hurt in an accident few
days ago near Jacksonville, Ala. His
left arm was broken and the wrist dis
located and his right shoulder was severe
" injured. Further details were not
given.
The vicinity of Summit Point expert
enced some excitement one day this week,
when deer appeared thereaboutS. The
animal was seen to pass through the farms
of Messrs. Conrad, Whiting and Cole
man, and disappeared in the direction OF
Berryville. On the farm where Joseph
Coleman resides the deer jumped into a
pasture field where some mules were
grazing. The mules chased it. Thor
oughly frightened, lie deer leaped a
fence into an adjoining field and was seen
to pass through the county. The theory
of those who speculate about the visit is
that the animal was chased out OF the Al
legheny mountains by hunters with
hounds, and when once the deer get
down in the valley, they wander about
aimlesSly.-AdpOcate.
John P. Smith, the well-known writer
and teacher, OF SharpSburg, has donated
TO the Washington County Historical So
ciety his very valuable collection OF relics
and historical documents. This collec-
ton includes the muster roll of Col. 10
seph Chapline, French and Indian War,
June and July, 1857; the muster roll OF
Col. John Miller, War of 1872; a land
grant on parchment given by the last
Lord Baltimore for Antietam Bottom,
near Sharpsburg, 1853; a collection OF
paper currency, once the money OF the
United States, from the colonial period
down to the present, including Antietam
Iron Works money, when Col. John Nc
Pherson Brien was in charge of the fur
naces; hats worn by soldiers in the War
of 1912; guns, swords, bayonetS, bullets,
shots and shells from the battlefield OF
Antietam and collection of archaeology
cal implements gathered in the vicinity OF
Sharpsburg. This is very generous
gift upon the part of Mr.. Smith.
The Martinsburg Journal says that pas
senger train No. 5, the Chicago express
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, met
with a peculiar accident last Thursday
afternoon near Hedgesville by running
into blast set off by workmen on the
Cumbo yard. Engineer B. F. Stull, OF
Baltimore, saw the explosion, applied
the brakes and called out to his fireman,
Eben T. Butts, to jump. Butts did so
and sustained bad injuries. His right leg
was broken at the thigh and he received
other minor injuries and bruises, one ear
being almost torn from his head. About
der fell in front of the engine, tearing off
the pilot and stripping the passenger
coaches of the brake equipment that pro-
jecied. No other casualties occurred,
and outside of being shaken up and scared
the passengers were unipiured. The train
was delayed an hour until new engine
could be secured. Butts was taken to
the Kings Daughters Hospital. The
contractors at Cumbo claim to have had
a man far ahead enough to flag the train
before it would run into the blast, but the
crew contend that the flagman was not
seen until too late to stop the train.