Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-09-20
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

Mules fNONi MIAMI
Mr.. lanes Leroy Hollis and Miss
Blanche Marie Miller. both of Martins
burg. were married in that place last Sat-
urday by Rev. John H. Ford.
Isaiah GLADDEN., a farmer oithe Harper's
Ferry neighborhood, and Miss Myrtle
Medlock, OF Grottoes, Va were married
last Monday. The groom is 70 years old
and the bride l9.
George Howard, deserter from the
United States Army, was arrested in
Washington county, Md, a few days ago.
He gave as his reason for deserving that
he didn't think he would like itin Fran0.
The automobile OF Ray Merchant, OF
Charles Town district. broke down one
night last week, and he had to leave it
along the road. When he went alter 1t
next morning he found that some one had
stolen The two front tires during the night.
George D Baumgardner, welk1own
farmer and business man OF HaIli2wn,
has bought from Mrs. Annie Fin7ell her
house and LOT on Mildred stree, III Charles
Town, paying S3,75O fer IL He sill
move TO town next sprinS md make his
home there.
An unide ltified MN was killed on The
Valley Branch OF the b. & o. Railroad
near the Shenandoah Pulp Mill last FIJI
day night. II Is thought that he was
struck by train while crossing a bridge.
The man, who was about 40 wears old,
had nothing on him that would give a
clue 10 his identity.
Highland Mosslander, one of the young
soldiers who had been guarding the
bridge and tunnel al Harper's Ferry,
became very i'll last week and was taken
10 the hospital in Charles Town, where
he died in short time He had enlisted
at Port Chester, N. Y, and was member
of Company A, OF one OF the New York
regiments.
Thieves are bold in the Charles Town
neighborhood. They raided the orchard
of the Green Hill Orchard Company one
night last week and stole 40 10 80 bushels
OF peaches They also raded Rolte
Gerhardt's chicken house, near Charles
Town, and carried off $50 chickens, and
also stole a number of fowls from the
premises Of James q. Aldridge and Will
liam NARROW, along the MiddIeway pike.
Iohu w. Stewart. the weIl-known ap-
pie grower OF Berkeley county, is making
arrangements 10 harvest within the next
few weeks his great bean crop. Last
spring he planted 200 acres in navy beans
lao acres in Berkeley county ard 90
acres in Mineral courtyard they are
now about ready 10 be gathered He
expects a fine crop. Il Mr. Stewart
experiment shall turn out well. it is ex-
pected that other frut-growers OF this
section will also 60 into the cultivation oil
beans as an auxiliary crop.
The county court OF Berkeley county
last Saturday awarded the contr act for
building the bridge over the Opequon
creek at Lights Ford 10 The Ferris Bridge
Company, Of Charleston, w Va, the
price to be $500. Work will BE- COM
menced Immediately and it is hoped TO
have the bridge ready for use before fall is
over. The contract calls for a structure
OF reinforced concrete, OF a total length
OF 80 feet. There will be two arches OF 40
feet each, the one pier resting in the mid
die OF the stream. The roadway will be l6
feet wide, ard the top OF the arches will
be IL feet above low water mark.
West Virginia is suffering from a
school teacher famine, according 10 the
State Department OF Schools. The mill
tary draft and wartime salaries offered by
industries OF various kinds have drawn
heavily on the teachers, and schools all
over the State found themselves handi-
capped when they resumed their Sc lions
this week. Frantic calls are being made
on The State Department OF Shoots for
teachers, but the department is helpless.
One high school opened without prin-
cipsl, which the department has been I'M
able 10 supply. The sltultion is es-
pecially acute in the high schools OF the
State, practically 90 per cent Of the teach
ers in which are OF draft age and were
not exempted.
The famous Williams Wooden Mills,
known as the Winchester Wooden Mills
and operated for the past 81 years by
the Williams Brothers, on the Wildwood
pike, near Winchester, have been sold
and corporation has been formed which
has been granted charter by tie State
Corporation Commission. They will
operate the mills in the future and there
will be no cessation in the output OF the
plant. The charter granted is 10 The VIM
chester Wooden Mills, Inc, with min
imum capital OF $4,000 and a maximum
capital OF $4,000. Williams Brothers
were the lessees OF the Shannondale
W olen mill, near Kabletown, this county,
until the building was wrecked by Hood
on the Shenandoah river in May, 1889.