Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-08
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

| he corporation OF IhdIicS ioWh
bought at public sale the VIM. E. Myers
property on Liberty street, including the
dwelling and livery stable, at $3.50.
Vigorous protest having been made, the
Washington authorities have decided to
continue the office OF deputy internal rev.
enue collector at Martinsburg, which had
| been ordered abolished.
A conference OF West Virginia fruit
growers will be held at Romney next
Thursday, July 18th, when discussions
will be conducted by men prominent in
the government and State service and
well-known growers OF peaches and ap-
Piles.
There was free fight Monday after
noon at the baseball game on the Hagers-
town diamond. The umpire tried TO keep
the spectators from encroaching on the
side lines, when ageneral row was started.
Time was called for ten minutes while
bunch OF ruftians fought desperately all
over the diamond. Bloody noses and
black eyes were numerous and decent
people were disguised.
Last Saturday Robert White, of ROM
ney, prosecuting attorney of Hampshire
county, and his wife and children were
going to take train for days picnic in
the country, and being late for the train,
Mrs. White ran swiftly to catch it. She
became i'll, and after the train had gone a
mile il was stopped and she was carried
TO the home of a friend, where she died
in a few minutes. Mrs. White was 80
years OF age.
Wilson Maddy, II years old, was killed
last week while operating binder on his
farm near Oak Grove Church in Green
brier county. He was working four
horses to the machine, when one of the
animals became unruly. He went to the
side OF the animal TO pacify it, when the
horse started. Mr.. Maddy was caught
by the knife OF the reaper and both legs
were cut OH between the knees ano ankles.
He lived only few hours.
There was very unusual incident in
Martinsburg on the 4th OF July, when Rev.
William Gerhardt, venerable Lutheran
clergyman, baptized his great-great-
grandchild, Leah Robert Hosey, aged
eight months. of Altoona, Pa. The cere-
mony took place at the home of L. Dew.
Gerhardt, and five generations of the FAM
lily were represented. DR.. Gerhardt, who
is in the 9Sth year OF his age, says that
he hopes TO live to marry the little girl.
Enforcement of the prohibitory laws,
which became operative year ago. have
cut the number of arrests in 35 towns and
cities throughout West Virginia more than
one half, according TO the statistics just
made public. During the fiscalyear 1914,
the last year in which saloons were legal,
the arrests were $4,000, of which approxi-
mately one-half were for intoxication.
During the fiscal year 1915, the first in
which saloons were prohibited, arrests
numbered 6,9S6, OF which 1900 were
traceable to the liquor traffic.
Edward Hackley, whose home is in
Virginia, near Harper's Ferry. is suffer-
ing from the effects OF afall over 50-foot
cliff near the clubhouse on Loudoun
mountain. 1t is supposed that he fell
over the cliff about 9 o'clock Sunday
night, and he was found at the foot Of
the cliff about o'clock Monday morning
in an unconscious condition by his brother
John. He was taken to his home nearby,
where il was found that he had sustained
the fracture OF three ribs. DR.. Hodges,
of Harper'S Ferry, attended the injured
man.
Mr.. George w. Crabbe, State Superin-
tendent and Attorney OF the West Viz
ginia Anti-Saloon League, had very
pleasant visit in the early part OF the week
with Mr.. Snyder, editor and proprietor of
the Shepherdstown Register. Mr.. Sny-
der and the Register are always found on
the right side of all great moral questions
OF the day. AT The Issue office we al
ways look carefully for Mr.. Snyder's ideas
on the liquor question, and we confidently
expect something every week as certain
ly as the paper gees to press, and it is a
rare time that we do not find something
OF the first importance. Long live the
Register and Mr.. Snyder l-AmericaH Is
sue.
A bad accident occurred Monday morn
ing near Boonsboro. when an automobile
bus containing twenty-five members OF
the Brunswick fire department on their
way 10 Hagerstowu was upset at the foot
of South Mountain. The car was driven
and owned by Theodore Warner, Of
Lovettsville, Va. 1t had crossed the
mountain, and was at the foot OF the hill
when the driver, in trying to avoid fresh
stone in the road, ran the bus into ditch.
II toppled over, and nine Of the men in it
were more or less badly injured. Four
of them were hurt so badly that they had
to be taken TO hospital in Frederick.
Some of the firemen returned home, fav-
ing had enough of the celebration, while
a number went on TO Hagerstown by troll
ley.
The bill for standard barrel passed
by Congress during the closing hours of
the last session, went into effect July lSt.
Satisfaction with the new law has been
expressed by merchants, farmers and
shippers, throughout the country. For
fruit and vegetables and other dry COM
modities, the bill provides that the barrel
must be made of slaves % l-2 inches
| Iono with heodc II 1-S iuchec in diameter