Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-07-31
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

| The Martinsburg Tobacco company
has made an assignment.
I'D. Webster, of the Charles Town
Free Press, is i'll with typhoid fever.
John M. Bechtol, a former newspaper
man of Berkeley Springs, died at his
home in that place on Monday, aged 81
years.
Rev. Father w. A. McKeefry, OF the
Catholic Church of Martinsburg, is i'll
with typhoid fever at Providence Hospi-
tai, Washington.
Three men were killed by passenger
train on the b. & o. Railroad at Doe
Gully Tunnel last Friday. In avoiding
freight train they stepped in front OF an
express.
The popular union picnic Of the various
lodges of Sharpsburg will be held near
that place on Saturday, August 9Th. An
interesting programme has been prepared
and arrangements made for big day.
The managers of the dancing pavilion
at Pen-Mar have had to forbid the turkey
trot, the tango and other suggestive and
improper dances. Some OF the dancers
had gotten very indecent, and so the new
motions have beer cut out.
The town OF Ransom, which adjoinS
Charles Town, is to have postoffice OF
its own, the Postoffice Department having
finally agreed TO establish an office there.
Congressman Brown has recommended
6. T. Stonesifer as the first postmaster.
H. Wyatt Glove, well-known ieweler
of Winchester, was found dead in his
store last Friday. He was using chloro-
form to allay pain, when he got too much
and death resulted. The deceased, who
was a native of Harper's Ferry, was 6o
years old, and leaves a wife and live
children.
The barn on the farm of Albert Roberts
near Mt. Airy, Md. was destroyed by
fire last Saturday, with all rs contents.
Unknown to the parents, the three-year-
old son OF Mr.. Roberts was trapped in
the blazing building, and was burned to
death, his plight not being discovered
until il was loo late to rescue him.
Captain Jacob Roderick, for forty-seven
years in the B. & o. Railroad service,
forty years OF which was as passenger
conductor on the Valley Branch, has just
retired on a pension. During the forty
years in which he ran train not one
passenger was killed and but few were
seriously injured while in his charge.
Edward Fisher, of Loudoun county,
was waylaid near Weverton Monday
night by two thugs, who robbed him and
knocked him over culvert, causing him
to sustain serious injuries. The distllery
at Weverton is the rendezvous of tough
characters from all around, and number
of assaults have oc6irred there recently.
Hon. Braxton d. Gibson, OF Charles
Town, has been appointed West Virginia
Division Commander OF the Sons of Con-
federate Veterans, succeeding A. 5. john
son of Union, who occupied this post OF
duty for two years. No man better fitted
for Commander or more deserving OF
the honor can be found in West Virginia
than Mr.. Gibson.
Rev. Charles Steele Davidson OF Char
lottesville, Va Friday severed his cornec-
ton with the Episcopal church by burning
his vestments and prayer book at the
gates of historic Monticello. He issued
a statement making charges against the
two Bishops Of the Virginia diocese and
caustically criticising the church which
he has served for number OF years.
Louis M. Propst, 43 years old,a widower
with nine children, and Mrs. Emma
Whetzel, 81 years old, a widow with
seven children, including one pair of twins,
were married at the home of the bride,
near Franklin, w. Va, last Sunday, by
the Rev. c. X. Lacy. The pair start
housekeeping with total of sixteen chill
dren. Propst is wel-known and pros
porous farmer.
A cherry seed was extracted Tuesday
night from the nose of Adolph Lafferty,
three-year- old son of Mrs. Joseph Latter
ty, of York, Pa. The seed had been in
the child's nose so long that it had begun
to sprout. There was quarter of an
inch sprout on it. Two months ago the
mother was seeding cherries and she
remembered that the little one had stuck
seed up its nose.
Messrs. VanMeter brothers, residing
west of Leetown, found nest of part
ridge eggs in wheat field during har-
vest. The eggs were taken to the house
and placed under chicken hen. In due
course of time brood of ten partridges
were hatched. The mother hen is show
ing as much interest in them as though
they were young chicks, and all are
doing well.-AdpOcate.
The people of the Winchester neigh
borhood are good deal disguised with
some Of the episodes connected with the
army maneuver camp in that section.
The negro soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry
are especially offensive as they parade
the streets with abandoned women. The
other night the sheriff of Frederick coun-
ty and officers of the camp raided tent
in which they found dozen or more
drunken negroes and two French-Cana-
dian women who had followed them from
Vermont. Several arrests have been
made, and government detectives are on
hand to watch for white slavers who are