Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-04-26
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

! -Four cases or smallpox were ulSCOVcIeo
last Friday among the men working on
the double track of the Western MARYLAND
Railroad at Big Pool, in Washington
county.
Governor Cornwell has appointed Ii.
X. c. Wiles, of Williamson, TO be menu
Der of the State Public Service Commits
sion, succeeding Elliott Northcott. re-
signed.
A complete schedule of the obligations
of F. Mertens' Sons, of Cumberland, re-
Gently thrown into bankruptcy, shows
that the firm owes 81. 1S4, ll6 The assets
are considerably less.
In the Berkeley Circuit Court on Tues
day Judge Woods granted partial divorce
TO Mrs. Emily Bishop Crawford from
William Douglas Crawford, and awarded
TO her the custody OF their infant daughter.
The tax rate OF Allegheny county; Md,
has jumped up 81 cents on the hundred
dollars. Last year the rate was $l.OO,
this year il will be 1927. Why do not
all those booze joints keep down the tax
rate?
The Northern Virginia Power Company
has bought motor truck to be used in
hauling coal from Millvlle station TO the
electric plant several miles distant. The
truck will do the work of six two-horse
teams.
Because OF difficulties in securing ma
chinery and equipment, it is stated that
the raising OF the dam and the improve
ment of the electric power plant at Mill
vile, this county, will not be attempted
| this year.
Miss Ella E. M. Cannon, milliner OF
Brunswick, was stricken with apoplexy
last Friday while talking to some ladies'
| in her store, and died in few moments.
She was 46 years of age. Miss Cannon
was native OF Bolivar. this county, and
was a sister OF the late DR.. William Can
| non.
Notice has been given TO all the en-
ployees OF the B. & o. Railroad that the
management welcomes the cultivation OF
unoccupied land belonging to the company
for the purpose OF growing food products.
| The company is DESTROYS that the gardens
should be so arranged as to present a
neat appearance.
Morgan H. Shriver, an engineer on the
Norfolk & Western Railway, died last
Saturday at his home near Hagerstown,
from typhoid pneumonia, aged 80 years.
He was the first to die in family OF
thirteen children. He is survived by his
wife and seven small children. He was
a native OF Berkeley county.
The city of Martinsburg will on the 9Th
of May take vote on the question OF
issuing $4,000 OF bonds for paving
streets, building subway under the b.
& o railroad tracks at Queen street, for
the erection OF a building for the tiremen,
to provide an incinerating plant and for
various other public improvements.
Judge John w. Mason, one OF West
Virgina's most distinguished citizens,
died at his home in Fairmont Monday
night, aged Is years. He was formerly
u. s. Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
served on the Virginia Debt Commission,
was circuit Judge for number OF years,
and was also a judge of the Supreme
Court OF Appeals of West Virginia.
Landlord John r. Hamilton moved the
kitchen and dining-room equipment OF
the Palm Hotel 10 the Jefferson the first
of the week, in order that the work OF
remodeling the first floor OF the former
for the use OF the Jefferson Banking and
Trust Company may be started. Meals
are now being served only at the Jeffer-
son. In line with the policy of many
other hotels OF the country the Jefferson
will soon be operated on the European
plan.-AdpOcate.
Fifteen acres OF alfalfa land which has
been producing the plant for the past
eleven years on the Hopewell farm OF d.
Z. Roger, in the Leetown neighborhood,
is being plowed for corn. The tract has
yielded IS or Sc crops or cuttings OF hay.
Three crops have been cut every year
until 1916, when only two were harvest
ed. In three seasons since the land was
seeded to alfalfa four cuttings have been
made. In the last few years the alfalfa
plants have been gradually thinning out,
so that il was hardly worth cutting with
out reseeding. Mr.. Roger is enthusiastic
about alfalfa as stock food and has
about 30 acres OF it on another part Of his
arm.-AdpOcate.
Frederick q. Rust, member OF PROM
inent Loudoun county family, who died
last week at Stauhton, Va, where he
had been living as recluSe for a long
time, left an estate worth upwards OF $780,
600 10 M. V. Reid, Of Staunton. Relatives
OF Rust have employed counsel TO break
the will. He left them nothing. as they
had been estranged for years. Rust own
ed number OF houses, and in each are
stored great quantities of antiques and
mahogany furniture, some Of tile crates
and cases having never been opened.
He had a mania for buying anything made
OF mahogany. In his home near Staun-
ton is smal-Sized arsenal, the collection
OF weapons representing almost every
type of which there is any history, even
as far removed as the most primitive ill.,
struments OF warfare. Rust's executor
has found large quantities of fine old Ii
quors in the wine cellar. This stock
consists ofimported brandies, champagne
and other wines, as well as English ale,
nj rs ,uhich &c hain0 crtardo6 hv orrpad