Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-02-22
Deferred Items of Interest.

Deferred Items OF Interest,".
The city of Fairmont, this State, has
its fifteenth case of infantile paralysis.
The epidemic seems to have run its course
in Elkins, and the schools have been re-
opened.
James Morgan Wright. an employee o
the Security quarries in Berkeley county,
died in the City Hospital in Martinsourg
last Saturday from injuries received in
fall from an incline. He was 40 years old
and leaves wife and four children.
A new concrete bridge is to be built
over the Opequon creek at Wadesvllle,
the cost of which will be SS,964.OI.
Clarke county pays one-fourth OF the
cost, Frederick county one fourth, ana
the State of Virginia one-third The
contract has been LET to firm from Nor
gantown. W. Va.
Every now and then somebody gets
the notion that he can rob the mails and
get away with IT, but it never works.
Norman Phillips, young man who was
assistant postmaster at Woodsboro. Md,
has lust been caught at this hopeless
trick. Money had been missing from
mail passing trough the Woodsboro Oh
flee. and il took the postal inspectors
only little while 10 catch Phillips with
some of the stolen money in his posses
sion.
The following deeds have been record
ed IL the on " Of the county clerk: Mary
Meier r. the Keystone Limestone
Company four acres of land at the inter
section OF The river and Halltown roads,
Miilyille, fnr $500; Littleton Brown to
NJ H Kunner. house and lot at the
Br0ome'y $3.50; c. P. Miley to Thomas
W You the MoIer house, Charles
Town, Consideration not given; +. w.
Myers to H rry Hollida. lots 70 and Il
in block 3, Tfussell's addition to Shep-
herdstowr, for $500.
"Rosemoni." the beautiful home OF
Mrs. Elizabeth 7. Hartman, on the VIM
chester pike, near the Berryville horse
show grounds, has been purchased by
Or. w N Smuh. the postmaster OF Alex
srtri3. -" m price is said to have
brer $4,000 Dr.. Smith, who will get
D ssessr . Na.,h Isl, will make his sum-
r..r 20 49, 'hru This property is con-
II 'pT.. ''c most Oedutlful estates
i. Es.a Y. 1t has l76 acres OF
srlercid it..c. about Is acres OF which is
improved by thrifty young orchard.
The house had been entirely remodeled
by an Italian gardener.
Litiganis and attorneys who request
the circuit clerk to issue processes from
his office should bear in mind that under
the new statute the sheriif'S fees for erv-
ing papers must be paid in advance.
There is no doubt that compliance with
the provisions OF the statute by deposit
i tn rec. ry fees with the clerk will
arolH OF" process serving. The
sr"r;lf - c;.1p @ed TO account for the
ICES ana tarn them into the treasury |
whether he collects for them or not. The |
statute referred to does not apply TO Grim
iual processes issued in behalf OF the de-
fendant or to suits in equity.
Disappearing from private sanatorium
near Baltimore ten days previously, Rev. |
J. S. Enele, widely-known minister OF |
the Southern Methodist Church, was |
found dead in a'slone quarry near Pixies
vile last "Wednesday morning. His oody |
was hanging to tree. Although Mr..
Engle's mind had been deranged for some
time, his attendants observed no evidence |
of suicidal mania, and he was allowed 10 |
take walks in the neighborhood OF the |
institution. 1t was while he was out |
walking that he took his own life. Mr.. |
Engle, who was So years old, was for |
four years pastor of the Arlington Melh-
odlst Episcopal Church South, and from |
this charge he went 10 teach in a girls
school al Beuna Vista, Va. He was for |
number of years editor OF the Baltimore
Southern Methodist and later president
OF the Southern Seminary System OF
Schools. He was widely known through |
out Maryland, Virginia and West Viz
ginia. His father, Rev. ]. J. Engle, was
prominent in Jefferson county and Clarke
county, Va. Before his mental break
down he was an able and popular minister
and was very highlyregarded in the bounds
OF his conference.