Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-01-28
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


The women of Harper's Ferry and Boil
ivar have organized to secure funds with
which 10 purchase suitable fire apparatus.
BENJAMIN c. Lefever has been recon-
mended for postmaster at Williamsport,
Md, TO succeed John B. Beard, whose
term expires about the middle OF February
]. Shirley Smith and Conrad R. Smith
will sell their home in Charles Town and
90 into the chicken and egg business on
a large scale on their farm near that place.
1.-THE Arcade" store in Martinsburg,
conducted by Misses Daisy and Mary
Baker, has gone into bankruptcy. Inc
liabilities are about s., 600 and the assets
81 600.
Josiah Millafd, aged SO years, and Miss
Martha Streeks, aged 63 years, were
married near Baltimore last Saturday.
They will take their wedding trip next
summer, provided the groom lasts that
long.
The estate OF the late William Rouss,
of this county, of which Henry c. Page
is executor, has been computed to amount
TO the sum of 1926, 600. This sum was
disposed OF by Mr.. RouSs in his Will, be-
ing distributed among various relatives.
A final dividend has been declared in
the bankruptcy proceeding in the case OF
Mrs. Sarah A. Talbot, OF Charles Town.
The general creditors will receive IS
cents on the dollar upon their claims.
Mrs. Talbot made an assignment about
two years ago.
The decision of the United States Court
having stopped the shipment ofllquor IN
TO this State by express or by any other
common carrier, the good effects are I'M
mediately noticeable. There was not a
single arrest in Martinsburg last Saturday
or Sunday, the usual supplies OF disturb
ance having been cut off.
Congressman Brown has recommended
the appointment of Col. Thomas +.
Hodges as postmaster at Morgantown.
The salary of this office is $500 a year.
Col. Hodges was formerly president OF
the West Virginia University, but resign
ed last summer to become the Democratic
candidate for CongresSman-at-l arge.
Charles Tyson Butcher, formerly OF
Jefferson county, and now of Chicago,
shortly will institute proceedings against
former Senator Henry q. Davis for $780,
600 TO recover some valuable lands in
Grant county, West Virginia, which are
claimed by more than $50 persons. A
previous suit was pending in the United
States court, but recently was dismissed.
Edward c. Henshaw, former postmaS-
ter at Martinsburg, was taken suddenly
very i'll last Saturday while in Charleston
attending session OF the Legislature.
Governor Hatfield, who is a practiclng
physician, was within call and he minis
tered TO the sick man. Mr.. HenShaw was
extremely ill for time from what is
thought to have been ptomaine poisoning.
Rev. Ed. ]. Richardson, formerly one
OF the field secretaries OF the Virginia
Anti-Saloon League, has taken up the
position ofassistant manager OF the Amer
lean Issue Publishing Company, the Of
fetal paper of the Anti-Saloon League. at
Westervile, Ohio, and is now living IN
that city. Mr.. Richardson has friends in
Shepherdstown, where he has assisted
in temperance campaigns in the past
There was a serious shooting affair in
Berkeley county last Thursday, two far
mers of Gerardstown district being in
volved. Stewart Barrett recently brought
suit against Joseph q. Stephens, alleging
that Stephens had aiienated the affections
OF his wife, and Thursday morning the
preliminary arguments were made in the
circuit court at Martinsburg. The same
evening the two men met in the road near
their homes, when Barrett drew revolt
yer and shot Stephens twice, once in the
arm and once in the hip. He fell and
Barrett jumped on him and beat him over
the head with revolver until he became
UNCONSCIOUS. Barrett was arrested and
placed in Jail and Stephens was taken to
the City Hospital in MartinSburg.
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