Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-22
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Clarence X. Chrissinger, 6l years old,
was killed Monday in Hagestown byfalling
from aporch. He struck his head against
the floor and sustained fracture OF the
skull.
John Magruder, of Hagerstown, COM
mitted suicide yesterday by drowning
himself in Antietam creek, near that city.
He had been respondent because OF i'll
health.
Aaron Middlekauff, of Fairplay, Wash
ington county, Md, claims to have made
IS l-3 bushels OF wheat to the acre on
seventeen acre field on his farm this year.
The field had been heavily lined within
the past five years and had been brought
10 high state of cultivation.
Special trains last Saturday carried a
number of b. & o. officials and other
prominent railroad men to inspect the
Magnolia cutoff. We trust that they
likewise inspected that alleged station at
Shenandoah Junction, which is such
distrace TO the railroads that use it.
Following courtship by mail and with
$500 in his pockets and 80 days leave
OF absence from the steamship Franklin,
]. d. Browntown, OF McKeespoEt, sailor,
went TO Hagerstown to wed the girl. She
had agreed by letter to marry him, but
when he presented himself at her door
the girl declared it all TO have been a joke.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
ofthe Northern Virginia Power, Co., which
supplies electric current all through this
section from its plant on the Shenandoah
river at MiIlvile, this county, was held
in Winchester on Tuesday. Reports
showed profitable conditions, and divi-
dend of 6 per cent for the past year was
declared. Lewis F. Cooper was re-elect-
ed president
Captain Jack Faw, soldier of fortune
and picturesque character in the neigh
borhood OF Bristol, Tenn, was killed at
Jefferson, N. c., by an explosion. He
had travelled extensively and was once
member OF the Tennessee Legislature.
He was 60 years old. Captain FaW's first
wife was Miss Flora Timberlake, OF this
county, and number of years ago he
resided at Shannon Hill, below Charles
Town.
AS an indication OF the great number OF
automobiles now touring the country the
count OF Eli Frost is interesting. Mr..
Frost sat on his porch the other day near
Braddock Heights and counted the NUM-
Der OF automobiles that passed along the
old national pike, now State road main
tanned by Maryland. From $50 a. m. to
10 p. m. 676 cars passed his home. OF
these, $40 passed east and 336 went west
ward.
Mrs. Ida A. Troxel, a widow, OF Ha-
gerstown, has filed suit for SIC. 900 against
the estate OF Charles ]. Cramer, wealthy
one-legged llveryman, who died there
recently, leaving $4,000 worth OF real
estate. Mrs. Troxell alleges she kept
house for Cramer, washed his clothes,
bathed him, collected his rents, Watered
his live stock, managed his lodging
houses, attended his furnace and arranged
his funeral.
A bad automobile accident occurred
near Fishers Hill, south OF StraSburg,
Va, last Saturday afternoon, when a
large touring Car in which was a party
from Sharon, Pa, went over a bank and
was overturned. Mrs. Fred w. Koehler
was killed outright and Mrs. S. H. Ruhl
was badly injured, having both collar
bones broken and two ribs fractured.
The husbands of the two ladies escaped
with spralns and bruises.
George Johnson. near Leitersburg, Nd,
claims that about three weeks ago he set
Is eggs under hen in the chicken house
at his home. About week afterwards
the hen left her eggs and refused 10 60
back any more. They were left as they
were. The other morning Mrs. Johnson
went into the chicken coop to gather the
eggs and TO her great surprise found
eleven peeps chirping away and two
eggs picked and two more about to come
out of the she'll
To make inexhaustible the supply OF
game on the Deford reservations near
Luray, Va, novel plan has been adopt
ed by Thomas Deford, of Baltimore,
owner of the Deford Tanning Company.
Pheasant and quail eggs are being set
under ordinary hens-usually bantams.
By this means more than 500 OF these
birds have been Matched this summer.
H.R. Flanders, Connecticut professional,
has been brought to the reservation.
Pheasants and quail on this hunters par
adiSe have been developed to an unusual
size.
More than a dozen wells, constituting
the main source Of the water supply OF
the town OF Myersville, Md, have been
condemned by the State Health Depart
ment, and Saturday the various users were
notified not TO drink the water from them
unless thoroughly boiled. Samples OF
water from the various wells were ana
lyzed by the department both from
chemical and archaeological standpoint.
The letters received Saturday give the re-
suits OF these analyses and state that the
percentage of undesirable matters was
entirely too great for good water.
A distressing occurrence happened at
Brunswick, Md, last Thursday morning.
Edgar Merriman, the nire-year- old son
of ]. H. Merriman, B. & o. engineer,
with youthful companion had found a
skiif in the canal They took possession