Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-01-23
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

tOWn tnlS WinleI- lHcy VIII iCpioSS VIZ
wooden locks.
Alfred M. Quick, Baltimore engineer
is figuring on water system for Will
Transport. Hope that Williamsport VIII
not beat Shepherdstown TO it.
Attorney Harry A. Downs has been
appointed U. S. Commissioner at Mar
tinsburg, succeeding w. H. Thomas,
recently appointed referee in bankruptcy.
Angie Hardy, the negro who participa-
ted in the hold-up of Levi lnskeep near
Romney, several months ago, was tried
last week and sentenced to Is years in
the penitentiary.
AL Burner, aged IS years, of Page
county, Va, boarded freight train at
Charles Town one night last to ride
to Luray. At Limeton he fell from the
train and was hurt so badly he died in a
few hours.
While fishing in the Antietam creek at
Keedysville, Md. last Thursday, Charles
Lantz, aged IS years. was seized with an
epileptic fit and fell into the stream.
drowning before he could be gotten out
of the water.
Despondent because of bad health,
Reese Merriman, a Union veteran 90
years old, committed suicide by shooting
himself at the home of his son-in-law,
Robert Weber, near Knoxville, east OF
Harper's Ferry.
The Cherry Run and Potomac Valley
Railroad Company has conveyed to the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company all
of its property in Jefferson county, in
Guiding rights of way for the proposed
Shepherdstown cutoff.
II is said that Governor elect Hatfield
will press to the bitter end his suit against
Stuart w. Walker, OF Martinsburg, for
causing alleged libelous matter to be pub
lished during the recent campaign. The
Suit comes up for trial in Parkersburg in
March.
At Woodsboro, Md, few days ago,
DR.. Robert L. Hammond, leading ply
stefan, was arrested for failing TO report
case OF diphtheria under his care. he
refused to give bond and was thereupon
sent to jail, though he was afterward re-
leased.
Four divorces were granted in the
Berkeley Circuit Court the past week
Mamie V. McCaulley from o. M. Nc
Caulley, Annie E. Dawson from Samuel
Dawson, Cora E. Largent from John H.
Largent, and Otis Taylor from Mamie
Taylor.
The stockholders of the MartinSburg
Power Company have elected as officers
for the ensuing year DR.. S. N. Myers,
president; S. A. Williams, vice-preSident;
Frank E. Wilson, treasurer; James H.
Harlow, secretary; H. B. Shoemaker,
superintendent.
The grand jury in the Berkeley Circuit
Court at Martinsburg last week returned
four separate indictments against Claude
w. Stewart, charged with setting fire to
the Stewart Vehicle works, OF which he
was general manager, and which were
destroyed several months ago. The trial
will come up in February.
While plumbers were eXcavating near
an alley in the rear of Main street bust
ness establishment, in Winchester, they
unearthed over 5000 bullets which had
been buried in heap several feet below
the surface, presumably by Union SOL
diers when Stonewall Jackson was fore
ing retreat during the Civil War. The
bullets are of the "minnie ball'' mold
used in old Springfield rifles and weighed
over 200 pounds.
A meeting of fruit growers was held
last Friday at the orchards of Boyer &
Lemen, in Berkeley county, to discuss
the cedar rust and the determination OF
cedar trees. A farmer of the neighbour
hood sent word that he had a shot gun
for any person or committee that would
attempt TO cut down cedar trees on his
place, and wouldn't hesitate to shoot any
who tried the cutting. The Martinsburg
World naively adds: otherwise the
meeting was an enthusiastic one"
Last Saturday afternoon Jacob ShiveS,
lock-tender at Lock No. IS, on the c. &
o. canal, crossed the Potomac river in
skiff above Dam No 6, and meeting his
daughter -in-law, Mrs. John c. Shives on
the West Virginia side, where she had
been visiting, attempted to row back to
the Maryland shore. A strong gale was
blowing, and he lost control of the boat,
which, driven by the wind and the strong
current, was swept over the dam. ShiveS
managed to reach the shore in an ex-
hausted condition. tut Mrs. Shives sank
UOltOli anu "uo NlO"hSN. OlS
was Is years of age and had been mar
ried only two months.
What is said TO be probably the first
case on record of providing an artificial
winter for fruit trees was practiced on the
orchard OF w. F. Thomas, between Ha-
gerstown and Hancock, last week. Mr..
Thomas, resident of Washington, owns
an orchard OF 5000 apple trees that are
four years old. They are not yet old
enough to bear fruit, but they are setting
blooms, and the unreasonable warm
weather has coaxed out the buds, so that
there is danger of the whole lot bloom
ing. II they did this and later frost
should catch them the wood would be
largely killed, so MIR. Thomas consulted
with the Department of Agriculture as to
the best way of discouraging the trees
from blooming. Following their advice