Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-03-19
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Mr.. |. p. Warrenfeltz and Miss Grace
Stotler, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. 5. A..
Stotler, all of Martinsburg, were marr:ed
in Cumberland last Sunday.
AS a result of the Bieder wolf evangei-
istic services in Waynesboro, Pa, the
lodge of Elks of that place has voted TO
Danish liquor from its club rooms. The
stock of liquor on hand will be thrown
into sewer.
The city of Staunton, Va, went "dry'
las, Monday, when the ten saloons IN
that place closed their doors permanent
ly. The saloon-keepers seem to believe
that they are shut up for good, and some
OF them are selling their buildings for
other purposes. Harnsonburg is now the
only "wet" town in the valley, and it
will probably 20 dry when the voters OF
Virginia have chance at Statewide pro-
hibition.
Another tragedy with whiskey as its
foundation was enacted last Thursday
morning in Marttinsburg, when Thomas
M. Snapp shot and badly wounded his
wife and then shot himself. Snapp had
been drinking to excess, and was so
quarrelsome and brutal 10 his wife that
she determined to leave him. Finding
out that she really meant to 60 TO her old
home, Snapp filled himself with more
whiskey, and thus braced up he shot his
wife through the breast and then sent a
bullet through his own neck. Both were
taken to a hospital in MartinSburg, where
il is said they have a chance to recover.
Snapp is 40 years old and his wife is Al.
A mass meeting OF the good people OF
Knoxville, Md, and the surrounding
community. including a delegation from
Brunswick, was held last week to take
action looking TO the closing OF the death
breeding saloons in Knoxville. A rail-
road physician who was present made
the startling statement that during the
past twelve years there had been "a
accidents and y violent deaths, seven
of which were murders, all directly trace
able TO the sale OF liquor in that town.
No man knows how many other acct
dents ard deaths these saloons have been
responsible for, as number OF railroad
men from Brunswick get their liquor
from them.
Rural Mail Carrier B. H. Kuepper haul
ed last Monday l4-pound baby from
Clearspring, Md, where the infant had
been staying, to the home OF its mother,
in Indian Springs, ten miles distant, by
parce! post. The child'S grandmother
had been caring for it, and The mother,
anxious to see her babe, telephoned her
mother to send it home The grand
mother, who was sick and could not
make the trip, thought OF the parcel post.
which solved the problem. The grand
mother tagged the baby around the neck
and the postage stamps were stuck on its
brow. The ten-mile trip was made with
out the baby, which slept nearly all the
way, giving single whimper, and inside
of an hour or two the mother was hugging
her .hild.
While Ernest Barron, employed by w.
H. Rissler, was driving two COWS from
the vicinity of Shepherdstown on Monday
to farm south of Charles Town, one OF
the cattle was struck by a westbound pas
senger train on the B. & o. Railroad al
Duffields and killed. After crossing the
railroad the COWS left the road, passed
around a building and recroSSed the
tracks. Ii was while the driver was at
tempting to head them south that the
train struck one of them. Mr.. Barron,
who was horseback, made narrow eS-
cape with his own life, having jumped
with his horse from the track as the To-
connective whizzed by. Mr.. Rissler had
bought the COWS at P. n. Bnllhart's sale
south Of Shepherdstown on Saturday,
Advocate.