Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-07-17
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

into camp at Rafting Springs, near Har-
per's Ferry, on July 23d.
George R. Vending, Jr.. of Charles
Town, has been appointed vice consul
general to tine Argentine port OF buenoS
Ayres.
A large collection OF "lost' articles re-
mains in the hands Of those who have
been Clearing up the camp site at Gettys-
burg. Among them are seventeen set OF
! false teeth.
Two saloons in Hagerstown were
broken into and robbed of whiskey last
Saturday night. The rum-holes there
have succeeded in creating the unquench-
able thirst.
Douglas Hart, Charles Town negro
was arrested at the colored campmeeting
at Inwood last Sunday for selling liquor
on the sly. He was committed 20 jail to
await the action Of the federal grand jury.
John Simmons, Hagerstown colored
bow. was arrested at the lnwood camp
meeting last Sunday for smoking cigar
cites, and being under age he was sem
fenced by Magistrate Lloyd and fined
$3.50.
Frederick (Poodle) Warner, for years
a well-known character OF Washington
county, Md, but who for some time past
has been an inmate OF the insane asylum
at Sykesville, Md, was accidentally
killed by railroad train last week.
A fire last Thursday morning destroyed
two dwelling-houSes on Heirs island,
in the Shenandoah river at Harper's Ferry,
tenanted by John Cooper and Charles
Rockenbaugh. The houses, which be-
longed to the pulp mill company, were
| insured.
Berkeley county is working its jail pris-
oners on the public roads, and ii is said
that the results are fairly satisfactory.
The average OF the gang kept onthe road
is 10, and two guards are detailed to
watch them. They work about eight
and a-half hours day So far none OF
the prisoners has attempted to escape.
The Jefferson County Telephone Com
pany is having carload of ten-pin cross
arms distributed along its lines in the
county. The new cross arms are OF
Georgia yellow pine and will be put in
place OF the six-pin croSS-arms now IN
use on the company'S poles, TO enable
the strnging OF more wires, the increase
in business making longer cross-arm
necessary.
While fishing at Big Rock Hole, in
Town creek, Allegany county, Md, Clar-
ence Trenton caught a swapping turtle
that weighed 1877 pounds. The turtle
is of the black variety and is said to be
the largest ever caught in Western Mary
land While being landed the turtle
seized Trenton's foot and bit through the
shoe into the flesh, inflicting severe
| wound.
DR.. Wilson A. Long, practising ply
stefan OF Frederick, Md, and his office
assistant, Miss Jennie Weller, were ar
rested on Tuesday for stealing automo-
bile tools from the Frederick City Gar
age. Search of the doctors rooms re-
suited, it is alleged, in the finding of six
kits OF tools, besides some extra pieces.
The accused persons were held for the
grand jury.
d. Gold Miller, OF GerardStoWn, has
just received check and bill OF sale from
a Pittsburg firm for his crop OF Yellow
Transparent apples sold during the past
ten days. He had over $50 barrels OF this
fancy fruit from two acres of ten-year-old
trees, and the average price was $6.OOper
barrel, making the gross sales from this
two acres for the crop just harvested
considerably over 1900. The apples
were flawless. -MTtinSbWg Journal.
An engagement OF great interest, which
| has just been announced, is that OF DIR.
LOUIS M. Allen, OF Winchester, and Miss
Dorothy Gipin, the only daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Brooke Gilpin, OF
"Scaleby," near Boyce, Clarke county,
Virginia. The date OF the wedding, which
will be an important social event, has
not yet been decided upon, but it will
take place during the latter part OF De-
cember or the first part Of January next.
John Everhart, a former resident of
Berkeley county, committed suicide in a
peculiar way at the Weston Insane Asy-
lum. He had been in that institution for
treatment since last fall. Anew days ago,
while service was being held in the
chapel, he slipped away and got into the
drug room, where he found bottle of
carbolic acid and drank sufficient of the
poison to cause his death. He was SO
years old, and is survived by his wife
and eight children.
Stephenson Seminary has had some
queer experiences in her long life of
nearly 81 years, but new situation has
developed, one with which the learned
| faculty confeSSeS itself unable to cope.
Honey bees are swarming within doors,
and have taken entire possession OF two
rooms. The unwelcome little visitors
are very buy, making themselves thor
oughly at home, and duly fulfilling the
mission which nature has made theirs.
But their field OF activities is disputed,
and threatens the peace and comfort of
the legitimate inhabitartS.-ChQrleS Town
Advocate.
Russell Rosenberger, aged 20 years,
died, last Sunday at Memorial Hospital,