Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-05-30
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The annual commencement OF Irving
College and Music Conservatory, at Me-
chanisburg, Pa, of which DR.. E. E.
Campbell is president, will be held June
lst TO June 9Th.
A million young pike perch were plac-
ed in The Potomac river at Hancock last
Friday. The fish came from the U. 5.
hatcheries at Washington and were sent
out by u. S. Fish Commissioner Geo. IA.
Bowers.
According to the report OF accountants
from the office OF the State Tax Com
missioner, former Sheriff q. w. Biser, OF
Morgan county, will have to return to the
State and county the sum OF $2,4lb.69,
having unlawfully taken for his use fees
and allowances TO that amount.
Charles Hill and Rodney Clipp, resid-
ing near the Shenandoah river, in Kable-
town district, few days ago caught ten
carp, each weighing from ten to thirty
pounds. The fish were found in pool
of water on bottom land that had been
flooded by the recent freshet in the river.
Advocate.
We are reliably informed that radium
has been found in the excellent waters
that have made Berkeley Springs famous
for so many generations. In view OF
the further fact that gold is now known
to abound in ordinary sea water, we con-
fidently look for the millennium-at least
a time is surely coming when everybody
can be prosperous and free from pain,
with a reasonable hope of living on in
definitely. We wish that we had Jug
of that Berkeley Springs water right
now.
AT the corporation election in Charles
Town last Thursday the "WetS" elected
mayor and three councilmen by narrow
maorities. For mayor, John S. Easter
day defeated Clarence D. Eby by % plu-
rality. For council, DR.. c. L. Skinner
defeated H. C. Page by Is majority !;
Charles E. Conrad beat Clayton L. Haines
by II votes; and r. D. Shugart won
over C. E. Miley by 2 votes. The new
councilmen, who take their seats the first
of June, are said to favor high license.
with the number of saloons limited to
four or five. The question of license or
no license depends upon the action OF
the County Court.
Alfred B. Young, who was wanted by
the United States authorities for fraudu-
lent use OF the mails in connection with
the operations of the Potomac Refining
Company, on the Maryland side OF the
river above Harper's Ferry, was caught
in Canada. Young was at first thought
to be in Europe, and the government
officials made efforts TO locate him there.
Clues led to Canada, however, and he
was found in Trenton, Ontario, where
his relatives reside. After conference
with the law officers of the Canadian
| government, Postoffice Inspector Carter
B. Keene served Young with the neceS-
sary papers requiring his return to the
United States. Young voluntarily &C
companied the officers to New York,
where he arranged to have bail given by
the National Surety Company, of New
York, and went TO Baltimore.
The South Branch of the Potomac,
renowned as the fisherman's haven, will
shortly have large government fish re-
serve within few miles OF its confluence
with the North Branch of the Potomac,
near Green Spring, Hampshire county,
w. Va. The Senate Committee on Fish
cries has favorably recommended the bill
introduced by Senator Watson providing
for the establishment OF the reserve. Its
exact location and the amount of the ap-
preparation will be determined by United
States Fish Commissioners Bowers and
his associates. Mr.. Bowers will within
few days visit Hampshire county to look
over the proposed location. The re-
serve will not be many miles from the
Hampshire Club, between Romney and
Moorefield, where many sportsmen from
Baltimore, Washington, PittSburg and
Wheeling 60 every summer. The South
Branch is famed for its bass.