Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-05
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The b. & o. station al Brunswick was
robbed OF $l05 in cash last Thursday in
broad daylight, and the thief escaped I'M
noticed
VIM. A Graham, farmer OF Morgan
county. committed suicide few days ago
by hanging himself in his barn. He was
60 years old.
The toll for automobiles on the Valley
turnpike has been reduced" by making
il 10 cents each way instead OF Is cents
for The round trip.
Hepburn Longerbeam killed two good
sized rattlesnakes few days ago in a
bayfield, near Manning's school-house.
One had sixteen rattles and the other
fourteen.
The office of the internal revenue COL
lector at Martinsburg has been finally
closed and Collector p. R. Harrison has
forwarded all the effects 20 the main Of
flee in Parkersburg.
Kenneth N. Gilpin, who has friends in
Shepherdstown, has been nominated by
the Democrats for member of the Virgin
ia Legislature from the district composed
OF Clarke and Warren counties.
The county court OF Berkeley county
has contracted with the Concrete Steel
Bridge Company OF Clarksburg for the
erection OF a reinforced concrete bridge
over Back creek near Bunker Hill. The
bridge will have 70-foot span and the
cost will be $3.50.
Judge Dayton has filed an opinion de-
claring the S. M. Behrend Company, OF
Charles Town, bankrupt. This conn.,
pany operated a department store, and
bankruptcy proceedingshad been resisted.
The liabilities are said 10 be $4,000 and
the assets about 81 900.
]. N. linn, OF this county, has pur-
chased OF w. H. Baldwin the Maplehurst
farm near Berryville, paying $40, 600 for
pa acres. Mr.. Baldwin has bought a
half interest in Mr.. Zinn's plumbing bus
mess in Charles Town and also dwell
ing-house belonging to the latter.
At his home in Berkeley county few
ago F. B. Keedy stepped on blow adder,
and the serpent instantly coiled it self
around his leg. He yelled for help, and
his son with a club struck the snake a
mighty blow. He killed il but at the same
time he came near breaking his fathers
leg.
A lovely incident is reported from
Weverton, Md, as the result OF carouSe
among the toughs who congregate about
the saloons OF that place. The other day
a gang got man blind, staggering drunk,
when they stripped him OF his clothing
and sent him Keeling about the place. He
wandered 10 the workmen's camp, where
he was supplied with sufficient clothes to
hide his nakedneSS.
The hold-up men and burglars who
have been terroriZing the people OF Han
cock for some time past stopped Robert
Gunnells, butcher, last Saturday night
and at the point OF pistol robbed him Of
his watch and money. Sunday officers
arrested five suspicious characters and
GunnelPS watch and other Stolenproperty
were recovered. The saloons OF Han
cock are the center of attraction for travel
ing toughs and decent people have to
suffer.
The storm at Winchester Monday de-
veloped a freak out Of the ordinary. Two
large oak trees in the National cemetery,
under which seven hundred unknown
dead of the Civil War were buried, were
blown down and with the upheaval OF the
roots three corpses of dead soldiers were
brought up and left dangling in The air.
The sight was a gruesome one. An
undertaken was quickly summoned and
the bodies taken down from the roots and
re-interred.
A fatal automobile accident occurred in
Hancock last Saturday afternoon, when
the touring Car of Charles Henley, OF
Babylon, Long Island, N. Y, was struck
and demolished by passenger train ofthe
Western Maryland Railroad. Charles
HENLEY. Jr., aged p years, was driving
the car and was killed. His mother was
frightfully injured, her leg being broken,
her nose and jaw fractured and her teeth
knocked out, while his father was also
badly hurt.
Miss Pauline Dick, ofthe Charles Town
public school, has been awarded the grade
prize OF fifteen dollars offered by the
West Virginia w. c. T. U. for the best
essay by grade pupil on the effects OF
alcohol on the human body. This is a
great distinction, as schools all over the
Stare competed and more than one thous-
and essays were written. The judges,
one OF whom was the State Superinten-
dent OF the Anti-Saloon League, were
unanimous in their opinion.
The will OF the late Tustin L. Starry, OF
the Charles Town neighborhood, who
died July 18th, has been filed tor probate
with the county court. The will, which
was drawn April 6, 1910, orders that all
his debts and funeral expenses shall be
paid that $50 shall be paid to the truS-
tees Of Edge Hill Cemetery Association
for the purpose OF keeping his lot in order
and placing monument at his grave.
The will bequeaths the remainder Of his
property, real and personal, wherever
situated, to the trustees of the Union
Theological Seminary of Virginia, at
Eichu0rd Va NJ I Strider iS named