Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-03-24
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/ ,osS VI SmaHpoN, stringent
f nr,S are oeine taken to prevent the
iurther spread of the disease.
Joseph F. White, well know, res
ident OF Summit Point, this cor, =
ended his life by hanging himself Ia =
thursday. No cause has been assigned
! lot the act. MIR. White was "a Years
oid and a widower. his wife HAVING
uleo aoout a year ago while the family
was iiVing in Washington. He is sur.
'iVed BY six young children.
Falling into disuse since prohih;,;o,
went into effect, the Jail at Smithshure
ND VIII no longer harbor violators of
the law, but ook-worms. The same
walls viii be lined with shelves and
the building converted into a library
oy the Library Club of the town The
iron cage in the center will be turned
INTO pergola, or exhibited as a relic
OF the oygone days of wickedness.
A spectacular fire early last Thurs.
oay morning destroyed one wing and
part of' another of the Winchester
nigh school buildings OF the Iohn Han.
uley ioundatlon, causing a loss of ff-
cen thousand dollars. The entire
school pant, consisting of Temporary
structures built of wood ana beaver
pcaro, pen1ing the erection of the Han
dley schools, was threatened with de-.
struction.
ne hrst nursery of any size on
apple Pie Ridge, Berkeley county, will
De planted on tract of land sold 70
y. +. Hetzer and associates. of vii
Transport, Md. by DR.. H. NJ. Hoffman
OF lnwood. The tract contains ira
acres, OF which about 60 acres will he
used for nursery purposes, the balance
being planted in apples and peaches
The price paid for the land was APPROX
imately $4,000.
Fire, believed to have been of in
cendiary origin. completely DESTROY
ed the home of John c. PenweIl inst
outside OF harrisburg on Sunday morn
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Penwell were Wis
iting in Charles Town at the time of
the fire. and no one had been in the
house for several days. The house
was new one having been built about
a year ago. The loss was placed at
$4,000 and the insurance at $1,000.
One of the most daring robberies
to occur in Hagerstown took place in
that city early last Saturday morning.
Robbers broke into the store OF Brewer
Brothers and hauled away the $50
pound cash register stole quantity of
wearing apparel, cartons of cigarettes,
etc. The cash register, rifled Of its
contents, approximately 500 in cash.
was afterwards found on a dump.
where it had been discarded by the
thieves.
Among the many visitors here at
tending the National Editorial Associa-
ton are two from West Virginia, pub
fishing papers within short distances
of each other and the good fellowship
OF newspaper men is strong in them
They are Harry L. Snyder, of the Shep-
herdStown Register and S. S. Buzzard
OF the Berkeley Springs Messenger.
Mr. Snyder is a regular winter visi-
tor to St. Augustine and has manv
friends here. St. Augustine (Florida)
Daily Record
Mrs. Pearl O'Brien Moler. former
ly OF Charles Town, was granted an alb
solute divorce from c. Clyde Moler,
formerly OF this county, in the Corpo-
ration Court of Winchester last week.
The wife is awarded the custody of
their young child, Harold Moler, and
herself and child until she marries,
when the same sum shall be paid to a
trustee for the benefit of the child un-
til he shall become of age. The couple
were married February 23d. 1918, and
separated in Winchester last December.
Mes,fs. John and Sweete Whiting
ton, of near Engle's, have bought the
Nichols property, stone house and an
acre of land on the road from Moler's
Cross Roads to Bakerton, near the
former place. The first improvement
that will be made on it will be the con-
struction of blacksmith shop for the
convenience of that section OF the
county, Sweete to be the proprietor of
il II will be the only Shop of the kind
between Harter's Ferry anc Shep-
ker1srown. The house a.! IL: were
sun T, A. G.. In: fGr 5000 AJvo.
sat"
Franklin M. Smallwood, 90 years
old, a native of Harper's Ferry. who
witnessed the John Brown insurrec-
ton and the subsequent execution of
the abolition leader, died at his home
in Cumberland last week. He
was a man of great vigor and was able
to do hard work long after he had
reached so. Mr.. SmallWood served
four years in the Army of Northern
Virginia. He also took partin the cam
paign defending Richmond. Later
he was gunner in the heavy ar
tillery defending the James river
against the Union gunboats. He was
put in charge of huge Parrot gun
called Laughing Charley, which was
a terror to enemy river craft. At the
surrender of Lee he assisted in park
ing the artillery given up by the South.
He witnessed many conferences be-
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