Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OW'.o Sta.SS Sourt Tor the Northern /
District OF West Virginia, will hereafter
hold most OF the terms OF his court at
wheeling, Parkersburg and Elkins. |
The civil cases will be tried at Wheel !
ing and the bulk Of the criminal cases |
at Parkersburg and Elkins. Martins |
burg and Clarksburg will be practic-
ally eliminated.
The knitting mills at Martinsburp
have always had trouble with dis |
honest employees who in spite of all |
precautions manage to steal large guam |
tiles of goods, which they carry of |
from time to time. Within the past
week members OF the State police forcC |
have made number of arrests and !
recovered a considerable amount of |
valuable hosiery s:olcl from the Inter
woven mills. A family living at Paw |
Paw had stolen or received hundreds of !
dollars worth Of goods.
A handsome oil painting of the late
Thomas A. Moore has recently been
hung in the county clerks Office in
the courthouse in Charles Town. Mr.. |
Moore was for AZ years clerk of the |
court, and served continuously with |
the exception of few years the car
pet-bag administration had control of
the county. In addition to being
clerk, he was deputy for some ten wears
or more prior to his taking the Office
The photo was sent from New York
by his grandson, B. w. Moore, Jr.
Down in good old Jefferson county
they had jury trial at the late term
OF court and found a moonshiner guilty.
Several bottles of the moonshine were
submitted to the jury for evidence, and
now the attorney for the accused comes
forward demanding a new trial for his
client on the grounds that the jury had
drunk up part of the evidence submit
ted. Ii is our opinion that this is the
reason they found him guilty, if they
make the same brand down there that
they do around here, and it is a wonder
the verdict was not for hanging
Elkins Enterprise.
In the action for a writ Of prohibi-
ton brought before the Court of Ap-
peals last week by State Tax Commits
sioner w. S. Hallanan to prevent re-
view OF tax case by the Circuit Court
OF JEFFERSON county, the writ was de-
MED. The Supreme Court held that
the section of the code giving county
courts the review on questions of tax
ability except those Of valuation did
not provide the only remedy and that
such questions might be presented to
board Of review and equalization, and
the latter's findings appealed to the
circuit court. The case concerned tax
atiSS Of an unfinished building Of the
Standard Lime acd Stone Company, in
JEFFERSON county, and the coIT. while
allowing review on the ground it stat
ed, did not agree that the company was
entitled to appeal on the matter OF val
uation, because there had been no evil
dence before the board of review, while
such evidence is required for an ap-
peal.
The federal grand jury in Wash
lngton on Monday last indicted Charles
w. Morse, the notorious New York
ship builder, his three sons, Benjamin.
Erwin and Harry Morse, and eight
other persons connected with ship
building interests, on charges of con-
spiracy to defraud the United States
and the Emergency Fleet Corporation
IN connection with war contracts with
the Shipping Board. Among those
indicted is Colin H. Livingstone, for
mer president of the Virginia Ship
Building Company, who is well-known
in West Virginia. Mr.. Livingstone was
formerly secretary and assistant to the
late Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of this
State, and was confidentially as
sociated with the Senator in his bust
ness and political affairs. He has lived
in Washington since 1896, when he
went to that city with Senator Elkins.
His friends in West Virginia hope that
he may clear himself of the charges
against him.
A decree confirming the report of
Attorney Lafayette C. Grille, of Clarks-
burg, commissioner in the suit of the
First National Bank Of Webster
Springs, against Rose McGraw De
Beriz, administrative of the late John
1. McGraw, OF Grafton, her brother,
was entered in the circuit court al
ClarkSburg last Friday by Judge Hay,
mond Maxwell. Claims of lien credi-
tors totaling S652, 1928 are allowed,
while unsecured claims Of S354,856.2S
will be paid in proportion to the sums
realized in the liquidation Of the es-
tate. Attorney E. D. Talbot, of Elkins,
and Attorney E. H. Morton, Of Web,
ster Springs, are named commissioners
to sell the real estate. There are tracts
in Taylor, Marion, Preston, Jefferson,
Pocahontas, Randolph and Webster
counties. One of the interesting de-
tails of the report Of the commission
er was the reduction Of fees claimed
by the lawyers. One attorney who ask
ed for $4,000 will get $3.50, and an
other who wanted $4,000 will get
$3.50. In another case a request for