Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-29
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

The Charles Town morse snow VIII NC
held Wednesday and Thursday, August
18th and 10Th, and there is every hope
that If will be very successful, as many
entries have already been made.
Mount Airy farm, near Mount Jackson,
Va, owned by Daniel Kelleher, ofSeattle,
Wash, and managed by S. II. Carter,
made an average wheat yield Of 80 bushels
an acre on l6O acres. The best field
Welded 40 IL bushels an acre.
Playfully pointing gun at his aunt,
Mrs. H. E. Sands, Saturday at her home
near Rockville, Md. l5-year-old b. V.
Edwards, OF New York, her nephew,
pulled the trigger and instantly killed fer.
The boy. who was on avisit TO the Sands
home, didn't know the gun was loaded.
The Western Maryland Railway has
awarded contract for the immediate con-
struction OF so miles OF block signals, ex-
tending from Big Pool to Williamsport
and from Hagerstown to Emory Grove.
When completed the road will thus be
equipped between Cumberland and Bal
timore. The signals will be about one
apart.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
issued carefully compiled list OF apple
and peach growers in West Virginia,
Virginia and Maryland along the lines OF
the company. The full names, addresses
and the kind of fruit are shown. In ad-
dition to this, names are given OF the
largest dealers in apples and peaches To-
Gated throughout the country.
Miss Pearl Norris, Williamsport Miss
Kate Coughlin, Berkeley Springs, and
Mrs. Reeves Hill, wife of the resident en-
gineer of the Pittsburgh Limestone Com
pany, saved the barn at the Hill home,
near Falling Waters, from destruction by
fire. Miss Coughlin discovered the blaze
and gave the alarm. With no male help
at hand, the three women pumped and
threw water upon the flames Until lhey
were extinguished.
II is said that the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad will build branch line about
four miles in length from Hagerstown to
the big cement mandatory at Security,
near that city, in order to secure share
of business OF this great plant. The Sc
CURLY works have traffic amounting to
about 5000 cars annually, all OF which
goes TO the Western Maryland Railroad.
The plant now has capacity OF about
1900 barrels OF cement day. and II is
said that this will be increased to SOU
barrels daily.
Mrs. Margaret Waterman, wife OF AL
fred H. Waterman, merchant OF Baltl-
more, was probably fatally injured, and
her sister, Mrs. Margaret Haymaker, oil
Amel, Va, was seriously hurt in all au-
tomobile accident five miles south OF
Winchester last Thursday. Mr.. Wider
man and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Haymak er,
his nephew and niece, who live near
Winchester, escaped with slight injuries.
The accident was caused by a tire burst
ing while the car was descending steep
hill. The machine upset and fell into a
ditch, pinning the occupants beneath.
Thomas Fortune Ryan, of New York
and Virginia, a famous multi-millionalre,
is said TO be interested in having mod
ern highway from New York to his Vir-
GINA home in Nelson county. His sug-
geStion, il is understood. is to utilize the
good roads already in existence and link
them together, constructing the necessary
sections 10 make continuous good high
way the entire distance. Mr.. Ryan is
represented as being willing 10 contribute
literally if the counties through which
the road passes will do likewise. The
route favored is said to be through the
Shenandoah Valley, which is most direct
and at the same time furnishes the great
est amount OF good roads already in exist
ence. The road may come through Shep-
herdstown.
Love finds its way even into the poor
house, and men and women of all stations
and ages yield to The tender passion
Hannah Cline is an unfortunate young
woman from Waynesboro, Pa, who was
sent to the county home near Chambers
burg. Richard Ward was also at the
home. The Cline girl is II and Ward is
40, but they became enamored OF each
other. Steward Holler noted the affec-
ton and ordered them watched and kept
apart, and placed the responsibility upon
"Big Tom" Jones, negro, who for years
has been employed about the jail and the
alms-house and who has always been
reliable. But the cooling OF the lovers
was too much for Tom, and he not only
permitted them to meet, but assisted
them in taking French leave OF the insti-
tuition. The pair had made their way as
far south as Shepherdstown, begging
their food and sleeping in barns or hay
stacks, when officers overlook them and
hailed them back to Pennsylvania.
Because her vision was much impaired
by her inability TO prevent her eyelids
from dropping over her eyes, Mrs. Arie
Shaffer, 40 years old, OF Frederick, Md,
underwent successful operation last
week at the Presbyterian Eye, Ear and
Throat Hospital, Baltimore. Asmall strip
of flesh was extracted from each lid. Six
stitches, inserted in each lid TO close the
wounds made during the operation, were
removed yesterday afternoon by the at
tending surgeon. The operation was
similar in every detail to one she expert
enced twenty 20 years ago at the hands
of the same surgeon. To medical men
Mrs. Shaffer's loss of control OF her upper