Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-10-24
LITTLE LOCALS.

e. w. l.. Boyd has sold his farm OF 105
acres along the Shenandoah river near
Myerstown, this county to John w. Locke
for $4,000. Mr.. Locke will devote the
place principally to the growing OF alfalfa.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. T. Potterfield, who
recently bought the clearinghouse of
Mrs. Ella Strobe on Washington street,
will at once move into the house. They
have been living in the Reinhart house,
near the river.
Our friend Jacob S. Osbourn, from
south of town, brought us few days ago
some spleRdid samples of Black Twig
apples from his fine orchards. Mr.. Os-
bourn had crop this year of 400 bar
rels OF apples, which have just been safe
ly packed, about 400 barrels being Black
Twigs-the best OF them all.
Mrs. c. w. Osbourn has moved into
the Magruder house on Main street, for
merly occupied by Mrs. and Miss Sellar,
who have gone to Martinsburg. Mr. and
Mrs. ]. w. Wysong, who recently bought
the OSbourn house, will take possession,
and will remodel it for business purposes.
They will also have bakery erected in
the rear OF the house.
"a Western Girl" wholesome, hon
est, enjoyable play, will be rendered in
the opera house, Saturday night OF this
week. VIM. Wen Sheridan and Miss
Mile Beland are the stars, and there will
be dozen talented performers, includ-
ing Coles Red Hussar Band. You will
laugh part of the time and the other part
the tears will come. Vaudeville will be
given between the acts
Thomas Michael Emmart, the young
B. & .. brakeman who was injured by
the Norfolk & Westerns overhead bridge
at Shenandoah Junction on the night OF
October a, lost his fight for life at the
Kings Daughters Hospital in Martins
burg, and passed away last Wednesday
morning. The boy had been unconscious
most OF the time. He was youth Of
splendid physique and was but Is years
OF age.
]. w. Gardner is having extensive i'm
provements made to the dwelling-houSe
on his farm south of town. The frame
part has been torn down, and brick ad-
dition of good size is being constructed
to the main building, which will also be
remodeled. Mr.. Gardner has one of the
best farms in this section, and he has
been making substantial Improvements
to it since it has been in his possession,
constantly adding to its value and desir-
ability.
The United States Treasury Depart
ment destroys daily cart-load OF national
bank notes and old United States notes,
worth half a million dollars. James M.
Engle, formerly of this county, has been
appointed on the committee of four to
witness the grinding OF this money into
pulp in an eight-foot grinder run by a
thirty horse power engine in the Treasury
basement. The utmost care is used in
this operation. The money is packed in
big trunks and locked in the counting
room, followed'by the committee to the
macerator, where the money is put in
the machine and reduced TO pulp.
Ben Johnson, a colored man from
Charles Town, was arrested in HagerS-
town last week on a murder charge.
About six months ago he and Beverly
Newman, also colored, got into an argu-
ment which ended in fight. Newman
was hit in The head with stone and was
hurt so badly that he died some weeks
afterwarj in the hospital in Charles Town.
Johnson fled and nothing was heard OF
him until last week, when Charles Town
man saw him working in the horse show
ring at the Hagerstown fair. Officers
we're notified and the man was arrested
and returned to Charles Town. He said
that he had been. in Pittsburg until about
three weeks ago.
The Advocate says that J. Shirley
Smith, of Charles Town, who has been
conducting negotiations leading to the
development of valuable granite deposits
owned by him south of Roanoke on the
Winston Salem Division OF the Norfolk
and Western Railway, has contracted
with the Norfolk & Western Company to
furnish them with 100000 tons OF crushed
granite for balasting. The contract covers
a period of three years, and the price
obtained for the material will amount to
more than a quarter million dollars. MI.
Smith has also associated himself with
| Altoona, Pa, capitalists who have con-
tracted to quarry granite on his property
for building purposes.
Among the recent callers at the Regis
ter office was Mr.. w. S. Myers, OF Scrab-
bic, road supervisor for the upper dis
trict. He is one Of the men responsible
for the great Improvements in our roads,
and there isn't really bad place in his
jurisdiction. During the past summer he
has put over 200 perches OF stone on
the roads of his district, considerable
part of which was placed on the road
leading into "The Neck" Mr.. Myers
now has all of the roads in his charge
macadamized except part of the highway
between VIM. H. Martins farm and the
Scrabble road. BY another year this will
probably be completed and every foot OF
the notorious old dirt roads will have
been transformed into turnpikes. When
all the roads shall have been made good
then our road men will start in to make
them still better.