Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-01-29
COUNTY COURT PROCEEDINGS.

/ ihS SOuHly SOurt 1Or JeHerS0n
County met in its regular January
term on Monday. There were present
| N. K. Roberts, president of the court
and Charles H. Moore and Logan B.
Shut, commissioners. Mr.. Roberts
was reelected president of the court
for the ensuing year.
A report of George Elliott, 7. H.
Dutrow, Jr., and Geo. B. Hoof. who
port upon the advisability of opening
and establishing as a district road the
road about a mile from Charles Town
leading from the Charles Town and
Berryville pike into Fairview Gene
terry, was as follows.
I'VE recommend only, after view
ing said road, that if the trustees OF
said cemetery company will get out
/ the rock themselves, and place same AZ
convenient point near the entrance
OF this road from the Charles Town
and Berryville pike, that the county
have same crushed ard put on this
road, as il is in a very bad condition
and much in need of rock at once. We
diSapprove of the county opening and
maintaining this road, as district
road"
The several justices of the peace of
the county in their respective maeis-
terial districts, reported TO the court
as having imposed, collected and turn
ed over to the sheriff or his deputies
during the year ended December 81,
! 1919, the following fines, and the
sheriff was ordered charged with the
same IN the county fund, as follows:
n. V. Sheetz, Charles Town district
$1,000.
trict, $1,000.
d. H. Nichols, Harper's Ferry dis
/ trict, $4,000.
R. G. Miller, Shepherdstown dis
trict, $4,000
w. F. Wilt, of Kearneysville. and
II. L. Getzendanner, of Charles Town
were recommended for appointment
as notary pebble.
! | he contract for furnishing certain
election supplies for Jefferson county
TOT both the primary and general cleo
non for 1920, was given to A. E.
| Briggs, representing the Tribune
Printing Company of Charleston, w.
Va.
The court amended the order en-
tered at a special session on Decem-
Der II, 1919, as the said order did not
interpret the action of the court rel
atlVe to the designation of the road
running along High and Washington
streets in the town Of Harper's Ferry
and Bolivar as section of Glass A
roads, and in lieu thereof designates
said road as a Glass A road, provided
the property owners in Harper's Fer
Iy and Bolivar execute legal releases
for all damages incurred in construct
ing said road, and provided the citi-
zens of Harper's Ferry sand Bolivar
agree to pay the difference in cost be-
tween the construction of said road
along High and Washington streets
and the proposed construction of said
road along Shenandoah street
The following order was entered :.
This day came the Standard Lime G.
Stone Company and fled its amended
petition asking for change of part
OF the public road leading from
charles Town pike at the old toll-pate
TO Millville at a point where the road
IS located entirely upon the lands of
petitioner, and filed in support there
OF plat showing the proposed change
and the present road. marked exhibit
!. made by ]. J. Skinner. civil en-
gineer, dated December 20, 1919. and
me court fixes Wednesday, January
18th, at 2.30 o'clock, for a committee
or its body consisting of three com
missioners to visit and inspect the
place OF the proposed change.