Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-01-20
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


John B. Sweeney has been appointed
postmaster at Hagerstown and falls into a
fat salary OF s., 200 year. He keeps a
grocery and liquor store in Hagerstown.
The ministerial association OF Fred
erick county. Md, will push bill before
| the Maryland Legislature providing that
liquor shall not be sold agricultural fairs
in that State. Such bill surely ought to
pass.
Brunswick was very wet town this
week, when Is carloads OF alcohol were
there awaiting shipment to New York.
The alcohol is for the French government.
While in Brunswick the cars were close
ly guarded, no trespassers being allowed
near them.
AT a special election held last week in
Ransom, a suburb OF Charles Town, the
proposed bond issue for the purchase OF
the building formerly occupied by the
Charles Town High School and for the
street Improvements was carried by a
vote Of 50 to %.
Edward Shipper, young man 70 years
OF age, was instantly killed last Thursday
afternoon at the West Quarries in Berke-
ley county, when large stone rolled
down upon him and crushed him to death.
He had been working at the quarries only
few days when the accident occurred.
The Security Lime and Cement Com
pany is considering apropositlon to man
ufacture commercial potash at its plant
near Hagerstown. The war in Europe
has caused great scarcity OF potash,
which is now selling al $500 ton. Potash
is product gotten from cement rock, and
by the present methods of manufacturing
cement il is all going to waste.
Washington county. Md, finds itself
faced with debt OF $4,000. which will
in all probably soon be swelled to $780,
600. With the county overrun with
wretched liquor saloons and crime re-
sulting therefrom constantly increasing,
affairs are bound to grow worse right
along. The whiskey business is an aw-
full curse to Washington county, to say
nothing OF the annoyance TO its neighbors.
Conrad Long, MartinSburg carpenter,
met with mysterious death early last
Friday morning. He was found dead in
the yard at his home between four and
live o'clock, his head being partly blown
off by the discharge OF gun that he had
carried. His family say that he heard a
noise among his chickens and had gone
out with his gun TO chase away possible
thieves, when in some manner the gun
was accidentally discharged, causing his
death. Another theory is that he COM
mitted suicide. Mr.. Long, who was 81
years OF age. is survived by his wife and
twelve children.
A white girl 10 years old, employed in
the family OF Edward Myers, two miles
northwest of town, was the victim of
curious experience on Sunday evening.
She had visited her aunt, Mrs. Alex
ander, on the farm OF c. F. Wall, and had
left there TO 60 back TO Mr.. Myers farm,
a distance OF mile or more. about four
O'Clock. During the course Of her walk
she lost consciousness, and some time
Sunday night she was found in hySteri-
cal condition on the LeetoWn road by a
passerby, who took her TO the aims house,
where if was found that she was suffer-
ing from nervous shock and exposure to
the cold. The girl is back at work and
says she has no recollection OF what hap
pened to her from the time she left the
Alexander house until some time next
day.-AdpOcate.
The remarkable recovery OF Mrs. Lacy
Bailey, the wife OF William Bailey, Of
Charles Town, from On affliction due TO an
abnormal growth that developed within
the Uranium, directly below the center Of
the forehead, has been given almost
worldwide celebrity by the proceedings
OF the Pan-American Scientific Society in
session in Washington last week. Her
case was made the subject OF lecture by
DR.. Thomas Williams, the noted brain
expert OF Washington, who originally
diagnosed her trouble and recommended
a treatment that restored her to health.
In his audience were 300 physicians and
specialists from every country in the
western hemisphere. The growth had
been removed by exposure to an X-ray
machine. During the course OF his lee
ture, DR.. Williams exhibited Photographic
plates showing the varying phases OF
the case from the beginning TO the end
OF the treatment, and said that this is the
second cure OF such disorder known to
the medical profession, the first having oc-
cured in France several years ago.
The late Frisby Doub, who died a
short time ago at his home in Keedys-
vile, Md, was good provider. Mr..
Doub was bachelor and rather reserved
with strangers, and attended strictly TO
his own affairs. When his executor be-
gan to take an inventory of his effects in
order to list them for sale he was con-
siderably surprised to find III quart bot
ties OF whiskey and upwards OF 500 gal
Ions of wine, which he had collected dur
ing his life time. He was not a man
given to excessive drinking. In fact, so
exemplary were his habits that he was
for a long time one Of the pillars OF the
Lutheran Church at Keedysville, and
when he died his will showed that he
had set aside 81 500 to be given to the
church, expressing the wish that the
church invest this sum and use the in
come only 10 apply toward the salary of