Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-01-25
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Theodore F. Imbach, formerly OF Mar
tinsburg, has resigned as assistant horti-
culturist at the experiment station at Nor
gantown.
The men arrested a few weeks ago for
selling liquor illegally il MartinSburg are
being tried in the Circuit Court for Berke-
ley county this week. q. T. H. Baker is
on trial today.
Miss Grace Kantner, OF Martinsburg,
and Mr.. VIM. B. Zumstein, of Baltimore,
were married Tuesday evening at the
home of the bride by Rev. w. A. Roush,
in the presence Of number of invited
guests.
Referring to the carelessnesS Of officials
who handle the mails out of Hagerstown,
the Hag Mail says that the postal busi-
Eess for Shepherdstown is probably bot
ties. The poor old Mail is so booze
struck that it can see nothing but bottles
and think of nothing but whiskey it
seems never to issue sober sheet and
is always seeing things abnormal.
Commencement dates for State lnstltu-
lions have been designated as follows !:
West Virginia University, June 10; Mar
shall and Shepherd Colleges, June IL;
Chenille and Concord Normal Schools,
-June 10; Fairmont and West Liberty
Normal Schools. June IA; West Virginia
Colored Institute, May %; Preparatory
schools at Keyser and Montgomery, June
7.
Alexander Hamilton Patterson, Mar
tinsburg man. was arrested in Hagers-
town few days ago on the charge OF
being an habitual drunkard, and the TACT
was revealed that within the past SIX
months he had spent thousand dollars
for liquor. Having spent all OF his mon
ey, Patterson was packed off to Martins
burg, being OF no further use to the Sa-
loon-keepers who dominate Hagerstown.
Rev. Gordon |. Rider, of Grace United
Brethren Church, HagerStown, caused a
stir in that place by saying that "Sodom
and Gomorrah were no worse in some
respectsthan Hagerstownis today" The
address was made at the evangelistlc
meeting in St. Paul's United Brethren
Church, Rev. A. B. Station pastor. Mr..
Rider characterized the age as last
one, in which men are devoting their
energies to business, politics and other
worldly things, and forget God.
General John E. Roller, one of the most
prominent men OF Harrisonburg, Va, has
made an assignment. There is much
surprise at the news of his flnancia! EN-
barassment, as he was rated very rich
man. He owned many farms in Rock
lngham county, and last year paid taxes
on $685. OF real estate in that county,
and was estimated 10 own land worth a
quarter OF million dollars in other parts
vi Virginia. 1t is said he is heavily In
yolveu IN Texas lands.
A distressing tragedy occurred yester-
day near Breathedsvllle, Nd, seven miles
south OF HagerStoWn, when Cora East
erday, aged twelve years, was drowned,
dnd Frances waste, aged seventeen, died
from shock and exposure. A party OF
seven or eight school children were re-
turning from school, when they stopped
al the dam OF the ALtetam Electric Light
dnd Power Company TO skate. Nora and
Cora yesterday, sisters, and Frances and
Gus waste, brother and sister, LETT the
party and went on the ice to skate. The
Iour had not proceeded very far when the
ice broke and all went into the water,
which al this point is about fifteen feet
deep. Nora yesterday IN some manner
managed to reach the oank and Gus waste
also managed to get out OF the water and
on the thick ice. Turning around, young
TASTE, who is only IL years old, saw that
his sister was yet In the water. She had
gone down for the second time when her
brother managed to Catch hold OF her
dress and hold her up. The other Chill
dren gave all alarm and nuinoer OF per-
sons hurried to the scene. Gus waste
was still holding on to his sister, and
Doth were rescued, and taken to house
nearby. The body of Cora yesterday
was recovered two hours after she drown
ed. The body floated under the ice down
stream for a distance OF several hundred
feet. A crowd OF men who were drag
ging the creek saw the head of the dead
CHILD projecting from an airhole in the
ice, and the body was taken out. Efforts
to resuscltate her were futile. At go
the same night Frances waste died from
the exposure.
A great sensation was created in Mar
tinsburg last Saturday morning, when the
body OF Edgar J. Myers was found cold
IN death in the drug store of M. A. Snod-
grass. The tragedy was discovered by
Guy Williams, clerk, when he opened
the store early in the morning. He saw
the form OF Mr.. Myers, who had been
the chief clerk in the drug store tor the
past ten years, seated in chair in the
rear of the store, and when he spoke to
him he found that he was lifeleSs. An
investigation showed that Mr.. Myers
had swallowed capsule of cyanide Of
potassium, and had been dead for several
hours. In two notes which the unfortu-
nate young man had written shortly be-
fore swallowing the drug, ne prayed TO
God to look after his little children, and
declared that his home life was unhappy.
He also stated that some people might
think that he was either drunk or crazy,
but that he was neither. After swallow
ing the poison he seated himself, fully
dressed, in one chair and placed his feet