Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-12-19
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

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was arrested in Charles Town Tuesday
for selling liquor illegally. He will an
swer to the United States Court.
The Norfolk & Western Railway will
build handsome new passenger station
at Boyce, Va. The people OF that village
will install an electric light plant.
A large number of West Virginians
were in Washington this week urging
the passage of the Kenyop-Shepard bill,
a measure TO prevent the shipment OF
liquor into "dry" States. The bill is be-
fore the Senate.
What strangle-hold the whiskey in
terests have on Hagerstownl The school
board of that city refused the W. CT U.
permission to distribute blotters to the
pupils of the schools bearing temperance
maxims and anti-cigarette arguments.
The Norfolk & Western Railway is
buying property at the south end OF Ha-
gerstown, where il will establish yards
of its own. The N. & w. has never had
Yards in Hagerstown, having used those
OF the Cumberland Valley since its entry
into that place.
The Berkeley County Horticultural
Society is making strenuous efforts 10
eradicate the cedar rust, which has done
so much harm to the apple orchards, and
has set apart the week OF December 10th
to 2lst as the time to destroy cedar trees.
Gold Miller has already cut down l,OOO
cedars on his farm.
Fifteen thousand rainbow trout from the
United States Fish Commissions hatch
cries at Wytheville, Va, were deposited
in the Shenandoah river near Myerstown
last week. Mr.. Charles E. Harris receiv-
ed the trout at Ripon station and had
them placed in the river. The fish were
shipped in twelve ten-gallon cans.
The Charles Town Advocate says: The
Citizens Electric Company concluded ne
gotiations this week for the sale OF its
power-house, machinery, poles, wires
and franchise to the Winchester and
Washington City Power Company for
Sl6,4lS. The purchasing company had
been furnishing electricity to the Local
company for several years. The Citi-
zenS Company was organized by local
capitalists about a year ago, and bought
out the Charles Town Light and Power
Company at sale in bankruptcy. All OF
its business has been turned over to the
Winchester and Washington Company,
whose officials announce that many I'M
provements will be made in the equip
ment they have bought
The wretched distillery and the whiS-
key saloon at Weverton are taking fear
full toll from the people ofthat section and
from the railroad employees living at
Brunswick. Last Friday night E. L.
Jenkins, B. & o. brakeman living at
Brunswick, went TO Weverton, where he
spent the night, and next morning his
mangled body was found lying on the
track, with his blood and bits OF flesh
scattered for mile along the rails. He
had tried to board moving train and had
met fearful death. He was to have
been married in few weeks. Saturday
night Claude Kellison, an employee ofthe
pulp mill at Harper's Ferry, went to We
verton, and about midnight he tried to
board a moving freight train. He fel! and
the wheels crushed one OF his arms off.
He was taxed to a hospital in Frederick.
A dispatch from Charleston. w. Va,
yesterday, says: Virginia officials were
today called upon to arrest and hold for
extradition w. J. Hubbard, charged with
criminal relations with an l-year-old
inmate OF the Davis Child's Shelter, OF
this city, OF which institution Hubbard
was superintendent until few days ago.
Hubbard is supposed to be visiting rela-
tives at Broadway, Va. That Hubbard
had wronged her and had threatened to
kill her if she told anyone was the start
ling story told to the matron by the girl,
whose name is withheld. Hubbard left
several days ago. AT meeting of the
directors il was decided to sever his con-
nection with the institution. Today the
girl told her story, and Immediately
warrant was issued for Hubbard'S arrest.
The Davis Child's Shelter is maintained
by former Senator Henry q. Davis to
care for homeless children ana place them
in homes. There are at present So in
mates" Hubbard, the accused man, has
been regular visitor to Shepherdstown
for a number of years past, collecting
funds for the institution above named.