Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-07-26
Items OF Interest.

All locomotives vi lllc DdiuuioiS "
Ohio Railroad are to be equipped with
electric headlights.
To date, West Virginia has given
$5eS, $50 10 the Red Cross war fund-ex- /
ceeding her quota considerably.
Receivers have been appointed for the
Williamsport Canning Company, which
has been in financial difficulties.
"The Fairmont," splendid new hotel
just finished at Fairmont, w. Va. was
formally opened on Monday. 1t cost
$4,000
Mrs. Eugene L. Booth died last We'd
nesday in Harper's Ferry, where she had
been located for a brief time, from typhoid
fever. She and her husband had been
missionaries in Japan for 35 years. Her
husband, three sons and a daughter sur
vive her.
With the exception of Boone, Ohio,
and Jefferson counties, every county in
West Virginia has filed application for
Glass A roads, according to Chairman
Williams, OF the Road Commission. Re-
ports were received Friday from Raleigh,
Tucker and Berkeley counties, asking
that they be included in the federal aid
arrangement.
The census bureau at Washington,
basing its figures upon the recent army
registration, estimates the population OF
West Virginia at l.356,907. Jefferson
couniy's population is placed at 2,436,
and Berkeley at 22,393. The largest
city in the State is Wheeling, 81, 43l, with
Huntington second, 1921, and Charles
ton third. 1907.
A petition in bankruptcy has been filed
against Col. John +. McGraw, OF Grafton,
to adiudicate him a bankrupt. Colonel
McGraw owns large amount OF property
in various sections OF West Virginia, but,
il is said owing TO the fact that all OF il is
mortgaged, nothing has been accomplish
ed in the efforts OF the creditors during
the past few years, since the Bank of
Grafton, a heavy creditor, failed. A suit
was filed in Webster county over year
ago, but the matter was never brought 10
head. The recent move will throw all
of his property on the market. in all
probability, in the next few months.
Mrs. Robert Patterson, who is only l6 |
years old, is in custody in Morgantown
on charge of bigamy. which she does
not deny. A few months ago she married |
at Clarksburg Ray Holmes, member OF
the State National Guard, and when his
country called him he answered. Fol-
lowing her husbands departure the
child-bride joined carnival company,
with which she went TO ConnellSville,
Pa, where she met and married Robert
Patterson, another National Guardsman,
on June 26 On July 2 Patterson took
his bride to Morgantown. Meanwhile
Ray Holmes was discharged from the
guard and found his wife there. When
Patterson returned home he learned the
condition OF affairs and tainted.
Raymond @. Koenig and H. E. Nit
chell, OF Washington, said to be con-
nected with the army, ran their auto
mobile into tributary OF the Shenandoah
river, four miles east of Winchester, last
Saturday afternoon, and were rescued by
an clipping couple from Maryland in
another car. Both parties were bound
for Winchester. Koenig's lip was severely
gashed on a barbed-wire fence. Both
men were badly cut and bruised about
their faces and bodies. The car in which
the Westinghouse were riding lett the
road near bridge and plunged down an
into the stream. They were
found in semi conscious condition by |
Ernest E. Koogle, Middletown, Md, and |
Miss Mary B. Poffenberger, Sharpsburg,
Md. After the rescue the runaways were
married at Winchester by Rev. DR..
George S. Bowers.
Contractor r. q. Collins, Jr., OF New
York, began work last week on the new
State road between Knoxville, Md, and |
Harper's Ferry, connecting West Viz
ginia with Maryland's big system OF
roads. A steam shovel is being |
used for the grading, and considerable
t,aodu,oy hoe ham ,,,oda NJ tho K,ovy;IIa |
end of the road. The relocation Of the |
road from Knoxville 10 Weverton neceS-
states some very heavy grading. The
cut that has already been made right at
Knoxville is not circumstance TO what
will be required little further west, at
the end OF South Mountain, where it
will be necessary TO hew the road bed
out OF almost solid rock for considerable
distance. This fact will make this mile
OF road one OF the most costly ever built
in Maryland. On the two and a-half
miles of road from Weverton TO Harper's
Ferry, comparatively little grading will
be required. Instead OF following the old
road, between the tracks OF the B. & o.
Railroad and the c. & o. Canal, from
Knoxville to Weverton. distance OF ap-
proximately one mile, the new road will
lie entirely on the north side the tracks
nearly TO Harper's Ferry, where it will
cross on the overhead bridge which is
now in use. A new bridge was recently |
built al that point by the railroad, and il |
is very substantial structure. The right |
OF way for the new road was furnished |
by the railroad. The relocation OF the |
road is valuable to the company because
OF its eliminating five grade-crossings. |
II is also reported that the company plans
the laying ofadditional tracks, encroaching
upon the ground now occupied by the
highway. The cost OF this right OF way,