Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-11-14
Notes From Nearby.


The Public Service Commission has
compelled the Hagerstown & frederick
Railway to sell six tickets for ~ cents
according to a decision reached yesterT
day in Hagerstown. Heretofore the
fare has been seven cents, but paSsen-
gers could buy strip Of ten tickets fol
60 cents.
Four public schools, Clearspring
Downsviffe, Woburn and Blair's valley
all in the vicinity of Hsgerstown, have
been ordered closed by Superintendent
of schools Staley, on account OF an IN
crease in the number Of cases OF the
influenza. All other schools in wash
ington county are open.
Instead of placing flowers on the
grave of Mrs. Maggie Tidler, VINO oleo
at Kernstown, Va, members OF the
Sunday school of the Southern Meth
odist Church, with which she was identi+
fed, turned the money contributed by
members of the school over to the local
chapter of the Red Cross for the benefit
of Belgian babies.
Harry F. Magruder, of the Falling
Waters neighborhood, had painful &C
cident one day this week while coon
hunting along the river cliffs onhis farm.
AS he was about to examine trap he
had set he slipped and fell, catching his
foot in limb, dislocating his knee
When he finally extricated himself, he
fell on down to the bank of the river
and his injuries, while not serious, are
very painful.
Hon. T. A. Poffenberger has been ap-
pointed by the Governor of Maryland as
Judge of the circuit court of Washing
ton county, Md, and assumed the duties
of the Office last Saturday. He sue
ceeds Judge M. l.. Keedy, who for flf-
teen years has been just and upright
Judge, and whose term had just expired
Judge Poffenberger is prominent ant
popular lawyer and has for several
years been president of the Hagerstown
Fair Association.
Thomas H. Dean, farmer OF Fred
erick county, Va, was sentenced to nj
teen years in prison on Tuesday by the
court in Winchester. He killed hi:
wife in June of this year, and entered a
plea of murder in the second degree
| The killing of Mrs. Dean occurred at
the home of "Dock" Mckee, with whom
she is said to have been in love, and
with whose parents she was living after
she had left her husband. Dean admit
ted he shot the woman with shotgun
poking the gun through an open window
while she was sitting in doorway talk
ing with the McKees. The woman has
been married five times, several hus-
bands being dead and the others di-
vorced.
The sequel to the Jacob Schlotter-
beck case, for which Mr.. Schlotterbeck
was found guilty of selling liquor with
out license, or for selling liquor in dry
territory and was fined $500 by Justice
Bitner, came to light Monday night
when his brother in-law, Andrew R.
Young, was arrested by Lieut.. of Police
Williams, en- the charge of selling liquor
| in dry territory and carrying concealed
| weapons. Young was taken before
Justice H. P. Hartman, who held him
under $500 bail in each case, for hear
| ing Wednesday evening at 7.3O. With
| the arrest of Young, it IS expected to
bring to light, where the thirsty popula-
ton of our Hagerstown has been getting
their wet goods, and maybe reveal other
interesting information3 that will be
valuable to the local authorities.-Ha-
gerstown Globe. e
| The November report Of the United
States Bureau Estimates shows that
West Virginia's crops Of 1, 145,OOO bar
rels of commercial apples, 917,OOC
bushels of buckwheat, and lO,200,OOC
pounds of tobacco represent good in
crease over the crops of 1917. The
corn crop this fall is few thousands
bushels less than in 1917, and the sweet
potato crop is also somewhat smaller
than last year. The Eastern Panhandle
counties, it is shown, have an excellent
crop of commercial apples, but in most
other parts Of the State the farm apple
crop varies from fair to very poor. The
United States commercial apple crop
this year is 25,OOS,0O compared to b..
$4,000 last year. 1t is very admirable
showing for the farms of West Virginia
seeing that so many of the hands have
been called to the colors.