Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-10-29
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Rev. DR.. William Gerhardt. OF Martins
burg. celebrated his 9th birthday yester-
day. He is in his usual good health.
| One day last week Cumberland Val
lev Railroad train earned 50 CARLOADS OF
apples from points in Berkeley county
9,075 barrels in all.
Rev. ]. B. Keller. Of Half Way, Md,
known here as Lutheran minister, tell
down stairway at his home a few days
ago anu fractured his collarbone, besides
being badly bruised.
Rev. Ernest E. Weaver, pastor OF The
Reformed Church of Boonsboro, has
been elected pastor of the Walkersvllle
and Boonsboro charges, formerly filled
by Rev. Guy P. Broadly.
Mr.. Lawrence Lemaster and Miss Ger
aldine Ward, Goth OF Berkeley county,
were married last Wednesday at the home
OF the brides parents, DR.. and Mrs. Z.
A. Ward, in Hedgesville.
Andrew J. Campbell, the first man who
entered the Luray Caverns when they
were discovered in 1878, dropped dead
in the hardware store OF his nephew, J.
w. Campbell, in Luray, Saturday. He
was about rs years of age.
A carload of cattle that had been I'M
loaded from B. & 0. car at Point Of
Rocks escaped from the stockpens last
Sunday night and wandered on the rail-
road tracks. Two fast express trains
ran into them and killed nineteen OF the
animals, besides injuring several others.
Luckily the trains escaped damage.
Four boys were before Justice Doub in
Hagerstown on Monday, charged with
being drunk and disorderly. Three of
them were II years of age and tile fourth
was 20. How strange il is that the peo-
pie of Hagerstown are indifferent to the
whiskey saloons that are so brazenly
running the children OF the community.
The manhood OF that place must be at
very low ebb.
The A. d. Goetz Harness Company, OF
Charles Town, has been requested to bid
on part OF contract to furnish artillery
and wagon harness for 100000 horses for
the French govenment-75,00O full sets
for teams of four horses each. This is
the largest single order for harness ever
known to the trade-and il looks as il the
French expect the war TO last for some
time to come.
Lewis D. SyeSter, prominent lawyer
and business man of Hagerstown, fell
from third-story porch OF his residence
in that place last Friday night. His back
was broken, both legs were broken above
the ankle, and he was otherwise injured.
Although paralyzed from the waist down,
he is still living, though il is not likely
that he will ever recover. Mr.. Syester
had been i'll most of the past summer,
having suffered nervous breakdown.
Aaron Thomas Cline, anative OF SharpS-
burg and for some years resident OF
Harper's Ferry, died at his home in Graf
ton, w. Va, last Saturday, in the 10th
year OF his age. He was located in Har-
per'S Ferry during the Civil War, and as
telegraph operator he had many interest
ing experiences. He was an expert tel
egrapher and man OF practical ideas,
and supervised the construction Of the B.
& o. telegraph lines between Cumberland
and Grafton. He is survived by his wife,
two sons and three daughters.
In a speech in the Senate last week
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, named Royal
E. CaGell, of Richmond, Va, as one OF
the paid lobbyists OF the whisky dealers
who have been overrunning the capital.
Cabell was formerly United States Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue, and under
his administration official figures could
always be obtained to show thatthe more
temperate the people became. the more
whisky they drank. We had our doubts
about his figures, and now that he has
fully bloSSomed forth as hired man of
the liquor interests our suspicious have
become certainty.
In this same statement Senator Norris
named Robert Grain, Of Baltimore, as an
attorney for the whisky interests. Mr.
Grain Indignantly denies this and says he
is counsel for the brewers only-the diff
ference being that which exists between
tweededum and tweedledee.