Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-04-02
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The city of Muncie, Indiana, with q, 900
population, has voted out the liquor sd
looms by majority Of 462.
John Fisher was killed yesterday near
Keedysyille by getting caught under a
large locust tree that he had helped to
cut down.
Saloon-keepers in West Virginia are
wondering what they will do with their
bar fixtures after July lst. Sell ii in
Hagerstown.
The little town of Mt. Airy, Md, was
partly destroyed by fire yesterday, an
entire business block being burned,
causing a loss al $4,000
President Wilson on Saturday sent to
The Senate the name of Attorney Richard
E. Byrd, of Winchester, to be federal dis
trict attorney for.the Western district oil
Virginia.
Five horses and seventeen COWS were
burned to death when the barn on the
farm of Aaron Hoffman, near Leitersourg,
Md, was destroyed by fire. The, loss
amounted 10 5000.
The nomination OF ]. Frank Thompson
to be postmaster at Martinsourg was
sent to the Senate last Wednesday, and
confirmed on Friday. Postmaster E. I.
Henshaw's term expires April Is, 1914.
G.. A. Northcott, OF Huntington, hasire-
signed as a member of the State Board OF
Regents, and Governor Hatfield has ap-
rointed as his successor his brother, FL
lott Northcolt, formerly United States
minister TO Venezuela.
Iohn w. Vanarsdale, OF Berkeley
Springs, died in Maninsburg last Satur-
day, aged Ga years. Mr.. Vanarsdale was
on the way 10 hospital in MdrtinsbTg
and as he stepped from the station to
cab he dropped dead. He is survived by
his W ife and six children.
On Monday a new order regulating
shipments bv parcel post became eftec-
tive. Parcels OF books weighing more
than half pound will now be forwarded
at regular parcel post rates. Book pack
ages, howeveL weighing less than halt
pound will continue TO be sent at hall
cent an ounce or fraction thereof.
One of the boldest robberies ever per-
petrated in this State occurred in Hunt
ington last Saturday night, when two
deSperadoes entered the jewelry store OF
H. ]. Homrich and held up clerk with a
revolver while they gathered in diamonds
and other Jewels worth some $4,000.
The thieves made good their escape and
have not since been heard from. Mr.
Homrich was formerly from MartlnSburg.
Not having heard OF her husband for
nearly three months, Mrs. Frank II. Nash,
OF Brunswick, fears that he was caught |
in a cave-in near Doe Gully tunnel, West |
Virginia. and is one OF the three uniden-
titled men who were killed. A commit
fee of the Brotherhood OF Railroad Engin-
GERS will visit that section 10 learn if Mr..
Nash was in the accident. He lei
Brunswick in. December, and il is under
stood that he went 10 that section OF
West Virginia, where the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad is making extensive i'm
movements, II was learned that one OF
the men killed had a tato mark on his
arm, and this corresponds to a deScrip-
ton of Mr.. Nash.
Officials of the Jefferson Farmers Blu
reau have contracted with Mr.. Glenn J.
Moomau, of Pendleton county. W. Va,
to become the farm adviser and demon
strator for this county. His term Of ser
vice will begin April |, and his, employ
ment is for one year. His headquarters
will be ct the Court House and he will be
at all times ready to respond to the call
OF those needing his services. His duties
will be 10 counsel and assist in whatever
manner the exigencieS OF the particular
case may demand. The membership
dues in the bureau are fixed at five dol
lars, and il is expected that sufficient
number of the progressive farmers OF the
county will join the organization 10 make
il permanent success and power for
onOd