Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-10-07
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

property valued at $5O,OOO.
In Hagerstown last Friday marriage
license was issued TO Harry c. Stenger,
IT,, aged Is years, and Miss Pearl Fear
now, aged 81 years. The parents OF the
youth made written request of the court
clerk that he issue the license. The young
couple are from Williamspor.
IN list OF veterinarians endorsed by
the State Department of Agriculture for
the inspection and testing OF live stock
for interstate shipment are the following
in this county: w. A. Coyner, Shep-
herdstown; H. B. Langdon, Owen l..
Lockwood and q. w. Stephens, Charles
Town.
The secretary of State has granted a
charter to the DUPONT DeNemours Pow
der Company OF Delaware. Its announ-
ced that the company will greatly en-
large its plant at Nemours, near Bluefield.
and will erect magazines for the storing OF
explosives at Martinsburg, Huntington,
Charleston, Piedmont and other places in
West Virginia.
A Guernsey cow in the Delaware COL
lege Farm herd has earned 1865 in one
year. After deducting SAP for feed and
SAB for labor, she shows net profit OF
$3.50 for the year. This cow produced
in 365 consecutive days 1861 pounds OF
milk and 1888 pounds of butter fat.
The fact that the average cow OF Delaware
produces only 1900 pounds OF milk
year and about 100 pounds of butter fat
makes the record of this cow especially
noticeable.
The Hagerstown Mems Bible Class
held meeting in the First Christian
Church in that place last Sunday. The
classes assembled at the public square,
proceeding thence in body to the First
Christian Church, where addresses were
delivered by several prominent speakers.
The meeting was in the interest OF the
temperance cause. The members OF the
union, il is said, will take an active part
in the political campaign and will throw
their support TO the legislative candidates
who have publicly expressed themselves
in favor of county wide and Statewide
prohibition.
A rather prosperous looking man OF
about 80 years of age strolled into the
West Virginia headquarters in Washing
ton last week and asked if Romeo H.
Freer had registered as g. A. X. visi-
tor. He was much shocked when he
was told that Colonel Freer had died
several years ago. He announced that
he was son of Colonel Freer, who was
prominent resident OF this State, and
said that he had left home when he was
twelve years old and had since been
pretty much all over the world. He has
been in South America for some time,
and had not heard from home for years.
Mrs. King Stone, wife ofthe millionaire
owner OF the Clay Hill estate, near Mill
wood, Clarke county, Va, who until re-
Gently was Miss Madge Stokes, member
of prominent and wealthy society family
of Washington, has recovered all Of her
imported French evening gowns, which
were carried off recently by number OF
negroes, who held Saturday night orgie
at the Clay Hill mansion while Mr.. and
Mrs. Stone were on an automobile trip to
Washington aud Baltimore. George
Wilson, a mulatto girl, who had been
employed at the Stone home, paraded up
and down the streets Of Wildwood the
following day alfred in one OF her mis-
tress' $500 Partisan dresses. She was
sent TO Jail for six months for her part in
the affair.
The State convention OF the West Vir-
ginia division Of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy, in session last week in
Clarksburg. adjourned on Thursday TO
meet next year in Huntington. The fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year were
elected: President, Miss Jennie Price,
Lewisburg; first vice-president, Mrs. R.
V. Campbell, Bluefield; second vice.
president, Mrs. George c. Stone, Clarks-
burg; recording secretary, Miss Sallie
Lee Powell, Shepherdstown; cores
ponding secretary, Miss Kinnie E. Smith,
Parkersburg; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Strib-
ling, Martinsburg; historian, Miss Ora
Tomlinson, Charles Town; registrar, Mrs.
Bruce Yokum, Beverly; recorder of the
Cross OF Honor, Mrs. T. S. Carter, Fay
ettesvile; director OF children's auxiliary,
Mrs. Charles L. Reed, Huntington.
Harry Russler, aged about Is years, a
son of J. w. Russler, OF Martinsburg.
had very trying experience last Sunday,
from the effects of which he may be a
long time recovering. Russler has been
working in the Sharpsburg neighborhood.
Last Saturday night as he was walking
along the pike about a mile south OF
Tilghmanton he was struck by an auto
mobile and hurled TO the side of the road,
where he lay unconscious. The car never
stopped, and the young man lay by the
side of the road from midnight until Sum-
day evening at 5 O'Clock suffering from
broken ankle, severe cash in his side
and his body covered with bruises. Per-
sons passing along the road on Sunday
saw the man lying there during the day,
but supposed that he was just sleeping
and passed by without paying any atten-
ton TO him. Harry Thomas, of Sharps-
burg. who had passed in the morning,
saw him still there when he returned in
the evening, made an investigation and
found Russler seriously wounded. The