Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Capt. E. z. Hood, veteran news
paper man, has been appointed post
master at keyser, upon recommends
ton OF Congressman Geo. M. Bowers.
The people Of Smithsburg, Washing
ton county, Md, are a good deal wor7
ried about the activities OF a firebug
in that section. Several barns have
been burned by incendiary fires.
The sixty-acre farm OF the late Fred
l.. Sener, mile east Of Chewsvilie,
Washington county, Md, was sold at
public sale last week in Hagerstown
for 1925 an acre. Ernest Remsburg
was the purchaser.
W. L. Rinard and II. Lloyd ZONES.
of Mt. Savage, Md, have filed an ap-
plicatiOn with the State Road Com
mission for permission to operate "a
bus line between Harper's Ferry and
Charles Town and on to Berryville
and Winchester, also to Rippon and
intermediate points.
Since it has been made public that
the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal went
heavily into debt last year, the sugges-
ton has been made that il be made
INV DldiC IOdi IIOII1
to Washington. II could be made into
one OF the finest roads in the world,
along the beautiful Potomac river and
through the Allegheny and Blue Ridge
mountains, with practically no grade
from one end to the other.
State Treasurer Charles A. SNYDER,
OF Pottsville, Pa, has his eye on tho
goVernorship of Pennsylvania, but his
nome people want him to answer q
lew questions before they endorse him.
Ihey want to know how he has been
able. on the modest salary of State
treasurer, to build a Sl25,OOO palace.
IN which he has a gold room and
gold piano that cost $4,000 or how
ne could AFFORD to buy 81 500 dog and
OTHER expensive articles. p. S.-He
Is no relation to the editor of the Reg
lister. This branch OF the family does
mt run to gold pianos and such.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
having constructed two large specially
designed motor cars for passenger SER
vice between Green Spring, Romney,
Moorefield and Petersburg. They will
seat twenty-four passengers, respec
tlvely, one of these being a trailer.
The manufacturers have promised 70
deliver them within five weeks, so this
new passenger service will be installed
by or before March l. The cars will
De equipped with airbrakes and cleo
trio lights and heated from the exhaust
or the engine. Similar motor cars
nave been in successful use on the
railroad running from Winchester to
Wardensville.
David Henry Beck, who died at his
nome on Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry.
several weeks ago, by his will directs
MS executor to pay to Mrs. Virginia
Beck, wife of the testators brother,
George Beck, the sum of one hundred
dollars, and then authorizes him to d.
VIDE all the remainder of his estate
among his children, namely, Mrs.
Daisy Marshall, Mrs. Bertha ZONES,
Lewis Henry Beck, w. F. Beck and
David Harold Beck. The son last
| named is nominated executor without
oond, and IS empowered to sell all the
real estate for the purpose of division
among the heirs. b. F. Moler and n
Scarlet are the subscribing witnesses
to me will, which is dated December
81. 1921.
The Board of Public Works at
Charleston has approved an agreement
too the removal of the debris of the
Cd State capitol building. The con-
tractor Will remove the ruins in return
ior the material that can be salvaged.
1t 5 estimated that there are 4,O1O0O
VI oFlcA, 40 tons of steel beams, col
umns' plates and sash weights and 2s
ton5 OF pipes, radiators, etc, in add
'cH to large quantities of stone. The
site Of the old capitol. it is said. will
DC i.'iaed into lots and sold at auc-
t,on IN the near future. Governor
morgan has expressed the opinion that
IL VIII bring enough to pay for the new
site fronting on the Kanawha river.
mile distant. But there are those .
VINO doubt this, especially in view of
tne fact that the new site includes
about fifty handsome residences.
J ". Nuckles, who owns and &C.
cupies dwelling fronting on the west
side Of the Norfolk & Western Rail
va, north of the B. & o. at Shenan-
lohh Junction. with a lot that extends
PACK to the ridge road, is TO move the
IouSc. turn il around, and set il on \
rev foundation facing the latter road
The Grange will require that the house
he transported about one hundred
yaraS Excavations and stone work
on me new site are now being done.
iHf. Nuciles changes the location of
u : cWeiling so as to protect his chill
q II. VINO, it was feared, would get
OF me railroad track at the present
20 alton. Wire entanglements be-
t"StI the house and the railroad track
Woi'i have been Just as effective
u @gh the parents probably never
IT eat of that-Advocate.
= man Wiener, the Charles Town
Junk and hide dcaler uas nlnin.;a