Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-09-28
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

October 10th TO 18th.
The Potomac Valley Round Table will
meet in Martinsburg November 10th and
18th.
William Dunn, near Charles Town,
has a pig that was born with three ears.
1t is a good souse breed.
William Schnauffer. the cashier the OF
wrecked Savings Bank of Brunswick, was
arrested last week for embeZzlement, and
will have to stand trial in the court at Fred
erick.
Miss Blanche E, Butler and Mr.. james
H. Wright, both of Darkesville, Berkeley
county, were married last Saturday night
in Williamsport by Rev, D. Upton Bair
at the Lutheran parsonage.
Mrs. Annie E. Myers, widow OF j..
Frank Myers, OF the Mechanicstown
neighborhood, has bought VIM. c. Whit
more's property in Charles Town, and
will move there some time this fall. She
paid s., 700 for it.
The Charles Town Spirit says that
Capt. H. c. Getzendanner will erect a
two-story addition, 20 x 81 feet in size,
to his residence in that place. 1t will be
pebble dashed, with slate roof, and among
other features will contain large ball.
room.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Mccormick, OF
Berryville, have announced the engage
ment of their daughter, Miss Gertrude
Mccormick, to Thomas Reynolds, of Nor
wood, near Berryville, and formerly OF
Scranton, Pa. The wedding will take
place this fall
Rumsey c. S1nithson, of Charles Town,
and Miss Marie c. Hoover, OF Ports
mouth, Ohio, were married yesterday
morning at Harper's Ferry by Father
Lynch, of the Catholic Church. The
ceremony was witnessed by the parents
OF the bride and few friends.
&c. Cassidy, a travelling salesman for
a wholesale whiskey house in Cincinnati,
was found dead in his room in the Bald
win Hotel Friday morning, with the gas
turned on full. He had spent cornwall
evening in the saloons, and was probably
responsible for his own death.
"Marty" Green was arrested in Hag-
erstown on Tuesday on the charge OF
selling liquor without license. The alb
normal thirst that has been developed in
Hagerstown is so great that it cannot be
quenched by the regular dealers, even
though whiskey saloons literally line the
streets of that wide-open town.
Miles w. Pannett and c. N. Campbell,
special commissioners, have closed the
sale of 165 acres OF land, with improve
ments, on the Brucetown road mile and
a-half southwest of Middleway, TO A. l..
Omps, of Frederick county, Virginia.
The land sold was part of the estate OF
the late VIM. F. Pannett. Mr.. Omps,
who gets possession March |, 1912, paid
Sc, 500 cash for it.-Adv0cate.
AT York, Pa, a few days ago the Har-
risburg district conference OF the M. E.
Church adopted resolutions censuring
President Taft and his cabinet for allow
ing their names to be used by liquor deal
ers and brewers associations. The res
olutions included the entire cabinet, but
were aimed directly at Secretary OF Ag-
riculture Wilson, who was recently elect
ed honorary president Of an organization
composed OF brewers.
AT Parkersburg, this State, on Monday,
William Allen, formerly of Charles Town,
plead guilty to the charge OF numbering
his own child, babe scarcely two years
of age, and was sentenced TO serve life
sentence in the Moundsville Penitentiary.
The crime was committed on July 10
last, when Allen blew the child's brains
out while she lay sleeping, and after
making an Intellectual search for his wife,
shot himself with suicidal intent, but re-
covered from the wounds. Aliens at
torneys intended fighting the case on
grounds of insanity, but finally advised
their client TO plead guilty. After plead
ing guilty Allen told the court in explain
alton of his crime that "his wife and her
mother drove him to it.