Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-04-12
NOTES FROM NEARBY.

NOTES FROM NEARBY.
Proprietor Thos. w. Martin announces
that he will hereafter run the Berkeley
Hotel in Martinsburg on the European
plan.
AT special election in Brunswick on
Tuesday proposition TO issue $75. QUO OF
bonds to increase the water suppl was
defeated.
Lancelot Jacques, ST., sold 10 John
Remsburg p acres of the Grove land al
The edge OF Sharpsburg that Mr.. jacques
recently purchased.
Darrell K. Koonce, who had resigned
as assistant postmaster at Charles Town,
has withdrawn his resignation and will
continue on the job.
President Trotter OF The West Virginia
University has offered to President VIII
son the services OF the six hundred cadets
OF the University for national defense.
Leon II. Ware, superintendent oil The
Martnsburg Gas Company, has been ap-
pointed receiver for the concern, which
is in financial difficulty. Suit OF a similar
character has been filed in the federal
court against the Charles Town Gas and
Water Company.
In the Clarke Giro lit Court at Berry,
Vile Judge H. H. Holt awarded to Mrs.
Margaret Barnes Burwell 500 counsel
fees, 500 costs and $50 month alimony.
pending a suit for divorce from her
husband, Thomas H. Burwell. The d.
vorce petition will be heard on its merits
about the first week in June.
T. Gilbert Wood has been appointed
agricultural field agent for the Norfolk q
Western Railway, effective April lst,
Mr.. Wood will have charge OF the devel-
opment OF general agriculture in the terri
tory tributary TO the Norfolk q western
lines, under the direction OF the agrlcul-
tural and industrial department, OF which
F. H. LaBaume is chief.
The finest farm in Ohio county, West
Virginia, is to be the home OF the poor,
plans having been completed tor the
erection OF a $4,000 building on what
was formerly the country home OF Henry
Schmulbach, the late millionaire brewer.
The county recently purchased the farm
for a site for the county infirmary Tor
$l25,00O The new infirmary will con-
tain so sleeping rooms, with accommoda-
tons for several hundred inmates. There
will be an auditorium on the first floor
which will seat 80 people.
A hint OF war preparations was given
the officials OF the Jefferson County Iele-
phone Company when they were inform
ed in reply TO an order for new country
telephones that no telephones can be
shipped at the present time, owing to the
manufacturer having more important bus
mess on hand. He gave no idea when
such an order could be filled. This failure
TO obtain the instruments will prevent
the telephone company from completing
the equipment OF some OF its new lines
now under construction in the county,
Advocate.
Fearing that the death OF her three
year-old son would prevent her from
continuing her railroad trip from Charles
ton, this State, TO Detroit, Mich, Mrs.
Eva Fiol rode for fifteen hours with the
child's body Rugged tightly 10 her breast,
blanket for his shroud He had died
during the early hours of the trip Her
other three children were with her on
the journey, not knowing their brother
had died Mrs. Fiol says she kept the
body with her IN secret because she
knew she would not be permitted to car
nv il in her arms while travelling on
railroad train. She knew there would be
delay if she announced that the child had
died, and she was eager 10 get to Detroit
where her husband was waiting for her.
She arrived Sunday evening and for six
hours sat in the railroad station waiting
for her husband. There had been
misunderstanding as TO the time when
she would arrive. Shortly alter midnight
a police officer took charge OF the woman
and her children. and later she met her
husband.