Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-08-01
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fair at Winchester September 10th to 18th.
One attraction will be airship flights.
Miss Pat McSherry, an estimable Mar
tinsburg lady, is seriously i'll at her home
in that place, having sustained stroke
of paralysis last Sunday.
The barn on the farm of Harry II. Ruth
erford near Darkesville. Berkeley county,
tenanted by Clinton Watson,wa Destroy
ed by fire last Friday night.
The chestnut tree blight that has killed
so many trees in Pennsylvania, has made
its appearance in the mountains around
Pen-Mar and is spreading in every direc-
ton.
Announcement has just been made OF
the wedding of Mr.. N. Howard Keedy
and Miss Agnes v. Zimmerman, both OF
Martnsburg. They were married in Ha-
gerstown July 9th.
A suit for $4,000 damages brought by
DR.. T. T. Fauntleroy against L. L. Bow
man, both of Stanton, Va, for alienation
of his wife's affections was settled out OF
court Thursday, Bowman paying DR..
Fauntleroy $4,000. Mrs. FauRtleroy is
now in Reno, New, suing for divorce.
Official notice has been given that the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company will
take over the Cherry Run and Potomac
Valley Railroad Company at meeting to
be held next October. The latter COM
pany is that which was formed to build
the cutoff by way of Shepherdsto~n.
Daniel Ridenhouse, of Hsgerstown,
likes cats and always keeps several around
the house. He has a special reason for
liking one cat that he owns. While
smoking his pipe in bed the other day
Ridenhouse fell asleep and ashes from
the pipe set the pillow afire. His cat
jumped on him and clawed him awake in
time for him to quench the fire and avoid
being burned.
The stockholders of the MartinSburg
Power Company held their annual meet
ing in Martinsburg and elected the follow
ing officers President, DR.. S. N Myers,
Martinsburg; vice-president, S. A. Will
liams, Berlin, Nd; secretary, James H.
Harlow, Darlington, Md; treasurer,
Frank E. Wilson, Martinsburg; superin-
tendent, H. B. Shoemaker, Martinsburg.
Charles Bowers, aged about IA years,
a son of William Bowers, met distress
ing death last Thursday evening at the
Bessemer quarries four miles north of
Martinsburg. Jubilant in the possession
of his pay envelope containing his wages
as water boy, young Bowers was on his
way home from work. He was climbing
across a freight train when the cars gave
a sudden jolt, throwing him under coal
car. The wheels ran over his body,
crushing if so badly that he died in the
hospital a few hours afterWard. The
family formerly lived at Samples Manor,
near Harper'S Ferry, and the body was
taken there for burial.
Seven cows belonging to B. B. New
conner, a dairyman, were killed by a B. &
o. train last Saturday evening at Flagg's
crossing, just east Johannesburg. Wal
ter Anderson, hired man, was taking
the COWS to pasture for the night, when
he found the crossing blocked by freight
trains. When they had passed, the cows
started across the track just as No. I, a
fast express train, dashed down the grade.
The locomotive plowed right through the
herd, killing five of the COWS instantly
and injuring two others so badly that they
had to be killed. Mr.. Newcomer valued
the cows at SIS each. The only injury
to the locomotive was trifling damage to
the pilot.
Helen Reisher, the pretty l5-year-old
daughter of Senator Reisher, of Chambers
burg, Pa, last Thursday cut off her hair,
dressed in boys clothing and ran away
from home, intending to "See the world"
She slept Thursday night in barn near
Waynesboro and was arrested the next
afternoon by Policeman Kenzing, who
noticed "boy" with peculiar actions
wandering around the streets. Taking
chin" in charge the officer discovered
che" was the missing girl. After Helen
left home her mother found in the girls
room her daughters pretty brown tresses,
which she had cut Oft, lying near pile
of romantic novels which the girl had
been reading.
Mayor H. H. Baker, OF Winchester,
has decided that horses cannot be legally
| tied or hitched TO trees on any public
thoroughfare, privilege which the peo-
pie have by common consent enjoyed for
time immemorial, and he has notified the
police to enforce the law, beginning Mon
day morning. Mayor Baker recently
found the law. The common council has
been flooded with complaints from per-
sons who have already been arrested and
fined for violations. The council passed
resolution suspending the ordinance
pending conference, and ordered all
fines to be returned to those who had
paid them, but the mayor has been ad-
vised that the councils resolution was
illegal and he has given orders again that
the law shall be enforced.
President Wizards policy, put into