Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-26
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

If your preacher IS NOT working TOT Tic
prohibition amendment, you need new
preacher.-Morgan Messenger.
w. ]. Wright, of Buena Vista, Va, has
leased the Jefferson Hotelin Charles Town
and will take possession October lst.
The insurance men adjusted the loss
on the Stewart Vehicle Company's prop
erty at Martinsburg, destroyed by lire
last week, at $l05,0 900.
Cumberland's annual fair will be held
next week, beginning October LIST and
continuing until the 4th. There are lois
of attractions this year.
The firemen of Maninsburg have I'M
dertaken campaign to raise Sic, OO tor
new fire-fighting apparatus, including a
modern auto fire engine.
The directors of the Hagerstown fair
have decided not to allow wheel OF
fortune gambling game on the grounds
this year. Commemorate.
Last Saturday night was another gen.
eral drunk in Martinsburg. Some OF the
regular soaks in that place seem to be
trying to make up for lost time.
George w. Etter, an aged man OF Cham
bersburg, Pa, went to sleep the other
| night while he was smoking cigar. The
cigar set the bed Attire and Etter was burn
ed so badly he died the following day.
"Gapland," the country home OF Mr..
George Alfred Townsend, on South
| Mountain, is to be sold at public sale on
| October 18th, together with furniture.
paintings, etc. Mr.. Townsend is in poor
health, and does not expect to live there
again.
In the United States Court held at Mar
tinsburg last week Referee Jas. D. Butt
handed down his opinion in the Jas. w.
| McGarry bankruptcy case, refusing to
set aside and vacate the former order OF
adjudication made by him. The case
was appealed to Judge A. q. Dayton,
who heard it at once and affirmed it.
| Petite Domer, colored man who sew
eral years ago emigrated from Shepherds
town to the more congenial surroundings
of Hagerstown, has been inhospitably
treated in the latter place. Although the
whiskey saloons have no more frequent
patron than Petite, and few Hagerstowners
have gotten drunk oftener, they have run
him out of town, stern police justice
having sentenced him on Monday to six
months in 1.-THE Cut" for disorderly con-
duct.
Having fled from her home without
coat or hat because her father opposed
her marriage, Miss May Gerver, a pretty
l7-year-old girl Of Martinsburg, met her
lover, Harry Ferguson, at the station
and went to Baltimore. A telegram from
her father to the police asking them to
hold her intercepted her at Camden Sta
ton and she was taken to the Western
Police Station. Her father followed her
on the next train to Baltimore. The next
morning, however, with the assistance Of
David Kaufman, attorney, Miss Gerver
succeeded in winning over her father
and was married to Ferguson.
The State Tax Commissioner has
brought suit in the Circuit Court of Berke-
ley county to set aside the recent settle
ment of the county court with former
sheriffs Gardner and Kettering. A month
or two ago Mr.. Gardner made final set
Element with the county court and was
released from further responsibility. The
State Tax Commissioner did not agree to
the settlement, however, and he claims
that the court relieved the two sheriffs o.
certain sums which they should pay both
to the county and State. The Tax Com
missioner will seek to recover from Gard
ner about $1,000 and from Kettering
| 81. 100.
The town council OF Charles Town has
passed an ordinance providing for the
inspection of and a method of handling
milk sold to residents of that place
Every milk dealer will be required Il
procure permit from the mayor before
engaging in business. The application
for permit must be accompanied by
certificate of the local board OF health
authorizing the issuance thereof. Further
provisions of the ordinance specify the
kind of vessels in which milk shall be
delivered; a method of inspection o
diaries and dairy cattle; the standard o.
quality for milk sold, and penalties fol
violations.
An interesting breach of promise case
was tried in Martinsburg the past week
in the Federal Court. Miss Iva Lea Full
hart, of Marion, Ind, had sued VIM. V
Thrush, a prominent farmer of Mineral
county, w. Va, for $4,000 damages fol
breaking his promise to marry her. The
| jury, after hearing the evidence, rendered
a verdict CT S. 900 in favor of the COM
plainant. 1t appears that the two parties
interested were students together al
Oherbein University, where they became
engaged. Miss Fullhart kept the letters
that MIR. Thrush had written her, and
they made out such a clear case the de-
fendant had very little show. She testi-
fled that she was expecting him to marry
her until she learned that he had married
another woman last November.