Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-11-28
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

! Among those designated dS No'i'eue'd'S
State Committeeman for the Gettysburg
celebration next July are Col. K. Preston
Chew, of Charles Town. for West Viz
ginia, and Col John H. Leathers, OF
Louisville, for Kentucky.
The town authorities Of Charles Town
are making their lookup more attractive
| by improving the heating facilities, put
ting in new iron bedsteadS, etc. Since
tire town has been dry hardly anyone
gets in Jail, so extra inducements have TO
be offered for prisoners.
Assessor-elect ]. w. Dodd, OF BeTke-
ley county, announced the appointment
of his brother, S. L. Dodd, OF Little
Georgetown, and Charles Fowler, OF In
wood, as field deputies, and OF his BROTH
erin law, Taylor Jefferson, to be Office
deputy. Miss Florence Hudgell will be
Mr.. IefferSon's office assistant.
AT Martinsburg last Saturday night
Walter Ettinger, butcher, put bundle
OF money, containing about $500, IN a
stove for safe keeping, intending to take
II out before he made fire in the stove.
Monday morning, however. his boy beat
him TO il and made up fire before the
boss arrived. When Ettinger got there
the notes were partly consumed and he
raised fog for a while. He took the
fragments of the bills to Washington on
Monday, where Treasury experts will
ascertain their value.
Mrs. Emma Keisecome started in Bal
timore on Saturday last to visit her son,
Fred Keisecome, in MartinSburg. She
had with her a satchel containing more
than thousand dollars in cash and some
papers, the money being the proceeds OF
a piece of property that she had just sold.
When Mrs. KeiSecome reached Camden
Station she discovered that she had lost
the satchel, either dropping it on the
street or leaving it on street car, and
though search was at once made, no trace
of If was found. Mrs. KeiseCome was
made i'll by her loss.
Abel ArbogaSt, OF The Sinks, Pocahontas
county, has the unusual record OF having
killed four bears with four shots. Friday
he tracked an old She-bea and three
large cubs into laurel patch He went
home for help, returning with his brother
and another man to drive the bears out
while he watched a crossing. The bears
came out and ArbogaSt killed all four OF
them, shooting but one shot for each.
Saturday he went out and killed another
large bear. On his house are stretched
the hides of two big bears and three luSty
cubs.
Last Wednesday Thos. w. Martin,
proprietor OF the Berkeley Hotel at Mar
tinsburg, started with party OF friends
for Waynesboro, Pa, and while speeding
along the Williamsport pike the steering
wheel broke, causing his car to run into
a telephone pole. All of the occupants
were thrown violently out, but escaped
serious injury. H. L. brewery was pain
fully hurt, but no bones were broken.
The machine was badly damaged. Last
Saturday night Jay Schleigell, Superin-
tendent OF the Berkeley branch OF the
Security Lime and Cement Company, &C
companied by two Italians, was driving
from Hagerstown to MartinSburg, when
the automobile Skidded and turned turtle,
landing on top of the men. Mr.. Schlel-
CELL was pretty badly hurt, an iron rod
piercing one of his legs, and one OF the
Italians had several ribs broken. The
injured men were taken TO MartinSburg.
The first and principal prize awarded
by the American Land Show in New York
last week on an apple exhibit was won
by ThoS. W. Steck, OF Frederick county,
Va. The prize was large silver cup,
valued at $3.50, and is the largest one ever
offered by an apple show in the United
States. In competition with Mr.. Steck
were apple growers from all the States
east of the Mississippi river. The con-
ditionS of the contest were that any grow
er desiring to compete should exhibit five
boxes each Of three varieties grown in
their orchards. Mr.. Steck Sentfive boxes
OF Newtown Pippins, five OF Grimes
Golden and five boxes OF Stayman Wine
sap, making 10 boxes in all. The apples
were exhibited by numbers, there being
no tag or lettering of any kind whatever
indicating the name OF the exhibitor. The
Judging was done by Prof. A. T. Van
Deman, formerly of the United States
Department OF Agriculture, who is re-
garded as the most noted expert Judge OF
apples and kindred fruits in the country.
Lee Inskeep, well-known farmer
living near Romney, this State, had a
thrilling experience early last Saturday
morning with two desperadoes. When
he went to his barn he was held up by
two masked negroes, who demanded $500
of him. They bound him and took him
to his house, where they terorized the
family with threats of what they would
do if the money was not produced. The
cook, Mary Heath, heard the commotion,
and came from the kitchen into the dining
room. She went at the robbers tooth
and toenai, and while they were beating
off her attack lnskeep freed his hands and
got his gun. The negroes shot at him
several times, wounding him slightly in
the head, but he managed to send load
of shot into one OF the miscreants, Drop
ping him dead in his tracks. The other
robber escaped, though Inskeep shot him
before he got away. The dead man
proved 10 be negro by the name Of
French Hardy, former resident OF that