Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-09-16
LITTLE LOCALS.

The annual Jefferson county SIM.
gay school convention will be held a,
haoietown November Sd and 4th. Presi.
dent J. d. Muldoon is ALREADY engaged
is preparing for an interesting and
helpful convention.
Capt. Jas. S. Phillips has purchased a
ford coupe from the National Highway
Earage. The members of the Luther
an Church have purchased from the
garage Ford touring car for the us.
OF their pastor, Rev. |. D. Woman.
Harry r. Remsburg, near Sharps-
ourg, has purchased the little Hubert
Stottlemyer farm Of 1917 acres a mile
from Sharpsburg, along the Haeers-
town pike. on private terms. Mr.
kemsourg will have big stock sale
in about ten days.
We have been requested to call A..
tentlon 10 the town ordinance which
foroios the running at large Of COWS
within the corporation limits. There
mas been considerable complaint recent
~ that the law is not being observed
by the owners of live stock.
Among the new students at sbep.
nerd College this term is Miss Lillian
Buzzerd, daughter of our friend for
these many years, Mr. S. S. Buzzerd.
publisher of the Berkeley Springs Mes
senger. Miss Buzzerd has been an eff
hcient helped in her fathers newspa-
per work, and we know that he will
miss her.
Shepherdstown officers are getting
sort OF peeved at the frequency with
which Norfolk s. Western Railway
train men dump demented persons on
this community. Within the past
couple of weeks two mentally unbal-
anced women have landed here. A
colored woman from Maryland, crazy
as June bug, got off train Monday,
and our local authorities had a deal
OF trouble getting rid of her.
Notice of suit has been filed in the
county clerks Office by the United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Com
pany, of Baltimore, against G. B..
Wentzell, of Harper's Ferry, for $4,000
with interest from March IS, 1916.
The notice also gives the information
that the building and lot known as the
old Presbyterian church property on
Shenandoah street, Harper's Ferry, will
be attached and sold to satisfy the
claim that is the basis Of the suit.
Through the good Offices of Con-
gresham Geo M. Bowers an award OF
compensation of $50 month to Charles
Trussell Cor wife,, OF Halltown,
Jefferson county, has been made by
the government. Prior to being in
Quoted into the military service young
Trussell held a responsible position
and was the average normal young
man. He saw service with the A. E.
F., and soon after his return home it
was noticed that his mind was affected.
His physicians pronounced his case as
rather unusual. He seemed to be liv-
ing entirely in another world or with
in himself. He grew gradually worse,
until he had to be sent for confinement
in the State hospital at Hunting
ton. Congressman Bowers has final
ly succeeded in getting compensation
for him, payable to the wife as
guardian.
Among the duties of the county
court will be the necessity of providing
new polling places in Jefferson coun-
ty, now that the women will have q
vote and the number Of voters will be
considerably increased. We hope that
the court will take the trouble to pro-
vide decent quarters for the holding
of the election. Heretofore any old
thing would do and some sinking old
places have been used as polls-a livery
stable having been one of the choice
rooms used for some years in Shep-
herdstown. Let us have bright and
clean and comfortable quarters for
polling places, such as self-respecting
ladies and gentlemen may have no
hesitancy in entering. Away with the
dark and dingy and smelly polling
places, which certainly have not been
a credit to our county in the past. Now
that suffrage is here, with women hav-
ing a part in our elections, let us i'm
prove our political methods all around.
Because she was the "ugly duckling"
Of the family, Marie Kolwiszki was
placed in the basement of her parents
humble home, at Joliet, ILL.,, sixteen
years ago and did not see daylight I'M
til last Saturday, when she was rescued
by Robert Martin, States attorney,
and the health authorities. Her
mother, who has five normal children,
decided when Marie was two years old
that she would not develop into nor
NAL child. So she was placed in the
basement, "where she would not be in
the way" There she had remained
ever since. A single window admitted
slender shaft Of light, the only il
Elimination she ever saw. She has
the physical proportions Of child Of
six years and the mentality Of baby Of
two. In her lonesome existence she
has never learned to talk. Because
Of the lack of exercise and poor food,
her muscles are virtually useless. The
States attorney is making an investi-
cation to place the responsibility for
the alleged criminal negligence.
A search of more than month
eliminated in the arrest in Hagers-
town OF Ernest E. Van Lear. former
Pennsylvania State policeman, Of Har-