Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-02-06
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Fish Commissioner UeO. M. BOWELS
has returned from his trip to Europe.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to give
$3.50 toward the purchase OF a new pipe
organ for the Baptist Church of Martins
burg.
President w. A. Thompson, OF
the B. & o. Railroad, has issued an order
that any employee found guilty OF drunk
enness will be instantly dismissed.
DR.. w. F. Gruver, United Brethren
minister at Martinsburg, has given up his
ministerial work temporarily and VIII
leave for Florida to regain his health
Chas. N. Campbell, of Charles Town,
was selected by Sam V. Woods, prest-
dent of the West Virginia State Senate,
TO be his secretary during the session OF
the Legislature, and he is now filling tine
duties of the office.
Caught in the wheel of buggy while
coasting on the street in Martinsburg a
month ago, and so badly injured that
amputation of one of his legs was nee
essary. little Douglas Cunningham died
of his injuries in hospital there Saturday
night.
In order to prevent the spread OF small
pox among the colored people OF Berke-
ley county. the county court passed an
order that all colored persons in the
county outside OF Martinsburg shall be
Immediately vaccinated. There are "a
cases penned up.
Moses Vulgamott, aged 73 years, OF
Arden district. Berkeley county, was
found dead along the road Tuesday alter
noon not far from his home. He had
been in Martinsburg during the day, and
the last seen of him alive was when a
neighbor gave him lift in buggy.
Because of the alleged delay in the
shipment OF carl lad ofhorses from Mar
tinsburg to Washington in November,
Richard McHenry, of HagerStown, filed
suit for 81 900 damages in the District Su-
preme Court against the Baltimore and
OhioRailroad Company. 1t is charged that
one of the horses died after reaching
Washington as the result OF alleged i'm
proper treatment.
When George w. Frye, a Confederate
veteran of North River Mill, W. Va,
was dying, several days ago, he requested
that he be buried alongside his comrades
in Stonewall Cemetery, in Winchester.
The body was brought to Winchester by
wagon over mountains and almost i'm
passable roads, distance OF 40 miles,
and his dying request was carried out.
He was 10 years OF age.
Our able and efficient president OF the
County Court, Commissioner N. R. Rob-
erts, is champion writer of signatures,
having on Friday last affixed his name in
autograph to one hundred county orders
in the brief space of 6 IL minutes. In
this connection it may not be amiss to
say that our up-to-date county clerk,
Chas. A. Johnson. kept his county orders
made up with the run OF the court, which
adjourned on Thursday, and had them
all at hand ready for the presidents sig
nature on Friday.-Spirt.
AT Hagerstown about year ago Har-
vey B. Brewer and his wife gave Samuel
w. Sewers an option on their farm at the
price of $4,000. When Mr.. Sewers was
ready TO take up the option and buy the
farm they refused to sign the deed. He
brought suit, and the case finally went to
the Court of Appeals. He won, but still
the Brewers refused to sign the deed.
Last Saturday Judge Keedy, of the Cir
cult Court, issued an order commanding
them to sign. They declared that they
would never do so, whereupon he COM
mitted them to Jail. The sheriff took
them in charge, but when they got within
sight of the Jail they weakened and very
reluctantly signed up.
A disease known as chestnut blight
first appeared on Long Island in 1904.
The forests of West Virginia are COM
paratively free from the disease at pres
ent, but il has entered on the east and is
killing chestnut trees at rapid rate on
the west face of the Blue Ridge noun
tains in this county. Ii was hoped that
the valley of the Shenandoah, which is
without any chestnut timber, would act
as an effectual barrier to the spread OF
the disease, but within the last two or
three weeks il is found to have entered
the eastern border of the great chestnut
belt in Berkeley and Morgan counties.
Unless prompt and vigorous measures
are taken to check the distribution OF the
blight before it becomes widespread,
there is little hope that the vast quantity
of chestnut timber in the State can be
saved.
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