Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-07-13
NOTES From NEARBY.

| NOTES FROM Nt-Akbf.
! George L. Monkey, Martinsburg's most
popular barber, has gone into bankruptcy.
Bernard Sitter, OF Charles Town, WIN
was recently appointed a cadet in the
! U niied States Military Academy at Yves
Point, reported tor duty on Monday.
Arrangements have been made for the
continuance of Stephenson Seminary at
Charles Town. Rev. w. w. Carson. oil
Glade Spring, Va, will be the new prin-
cipal
Improvements are being made at the
Halltown paper mill by which the capacity
of the plant will be increased from Six
teen tons TO thirty tons OF straw board
each day.
| c. E. Wooden, of Hagerstown, has had
a 2O-ft. flag pole erected on the lawn at
his home in tina. place, from which the
American flag floats continuously. He
says that old glory will not come down
until his son, Raymond X. Wooden, re-
turns from the Mexican border. Young
Wooden is a member of Company B. OF
Hagerstown. First Maryland Regiment.
The county court OF Berkeley county
has ordered the officials OF the Martins
burg and Williamsport turnpike company
to employ guard to patrol the road be-
tween the two towns named in an effort to
put an end to reckless driving along the
highway. Reckless and drunken rowdies
travelling 10 Maryland for liquor have
made the road unsafe for ordinary use.
Hagerstown continues to have trouble
with smallpox, and there are number of
cases in that place. o. S. Hines was
stricken with the disease few days ago,
and as he had been working in a large
factory and two OF his daughters in an
other, there was CONSERVATION among the
employees. About 500 men and women
were lined up and vaccinated last Friday.
To defray the expense of a legal battle
to save the life OF her brother, bud"
Twyman, who will be placed on trial in
Page county, Va, in few days, Miss
Ella Tut, of Luray, is holding weekly
festivals at her home, the money which
she will realize from these affairs being
set apart to pay the fee OF lawyers who
have been engaged TO defend Twyman,
who is charged with murder.
Assessor J. w. Dodd recently made a
general reduction OF 5 per cent in the
assessment of the real estate of Berkeley
county, but the board of equalization and
review ordered that the assessment be
placed at the old figure. A representa-
tive of the State tax commissioners Of
flee made an Investigation, and he init
mates that even the old assessment is too
low and higher assessment will be de-
handed.
The Lutheran congregation OF Waynes-
boro, Pa, at congregational meeting.
elected Rev. John Milton Francis, d. D.,
of Sunbury, Pa, as pastor, and at the
same time, by resolution, dissolved its
association as charge with Jacobs Luth-
eran Church, several miles southwest OF
town. The election OF DR.. Francis was
made unanimously. His salary was fixed
at 81 $50 per year and parsonage.
A colored couple, Edward Mitchell and
Annie Ross, both OF Charles Town, were
married on Wednesday, shortly after high
noon, by Rev. VIM. Craven. The cere-
monY took place in the Jail, where the
groom has temporary residence, his
personal liberty having been limited there
according to an order of Judge J. M.
Woods, entered at the last term OF Jeffer-
son Circuit Court. Because OF Mitchell's
enforced stay there, he will be compelled
to forego honeymoon trip for several
weeks.-Adp0cate.
Sheriff Luther Pannett, OF Frederick
county, Va, caught real horse thief in
the person of John Grim, OF Berryvile,
Va, who was apprehended Saturday
nightinthattown. Grim, who admitted his
guilt Tuesday afternoon when his trial
came up in Winchester, stole horse and
buggy from the hitching yard in Win
chester that belonged to Liveryman Earl
Pine, of Berryville, and sold the outfit
to Liveryman Roy VanMetre, of Martins
burg. The transaction took place April
10Th.
The First Regiment of the West Viz
ginia National Guard, which had been
ordered to mobilize at Camp Kanawha,
near Charleston, will not 60 to the border.
after all. After two weeks in camp the
companies have been sent back home,
except a few soldiers who enlisted in the
Second Regiment in order to bring it up
to full strength. The Martinsburg COM
pany is among the lucky-or unlucky-
units that returns home. The Census
Bureau has given out statement that
there are 28l ,l79 men in West Virginia
eligible fer service-sound physically
and between Is and as years OF age. But
mighty few of them are enlisting.
Charles Wilson. a colored boy about
fifteen years old, is in the Charles Town
jail charged with forging and passing
check. The check was drawn on the
Farmers and Merchants Deposit Com
pany for $3.50 to the order of Henry
| Wilson. and had the name of George C..