Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-12-14
DEFERRED ITEMS.


lats Friday morning. Physicians say
his death was probably caused by
drinking moonshine liquor
VIM. F. Frazier, OF Martinsburg,
young brakeman employed on the B.
& o. Railroad, was caught between two
freight cars at CumbO last Saturday
night and hurt so badly he died the
following day.
Mr.. Gray Beverly, of Winchester. a
salesman for the United States Tira
Company, who is known in Shepherds.
town, and Miss Susan Baker Faulkner.
also OF Winchester, were married last
week in Charlottesville, Va.
The freight station of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in Hagerstown was par
TALLY destroyed By fire last Wednes-
day night. Leslie Rotz, bill clerk, and
Roy Disert, cashier, lost their lives
while trying to extinguish the flames
A large quantity of freight was de-
! stroyed.
Ruth !. Churchey were married last
/ Thursday in the Lutheran parsonage
at Sharpsburg by Rev. A. A. Kerlin
/ Mrs. Susan Ardinger, wife of Thorn
as Ardinger. of Martinsburg, died last
Sunday, aged 40 years. The deceased,
whose maiden name was Poisal, is
survived by her husband and two sons.
/ The final Official figures show that
the majority OF Nicely, Democrat, over
4 Sutherland, Republican, for the United
States Senate, is 1897. For the SUI
preme Court the majority of McGin7
mis-, Democrat, over Meredith, Repub-
lican, is 6,2l2. In the second con-
gressional district the majority of AL
len, Democrat, over Bowers, Republi-
can, is 2,556.
The DR.. Albert D. Baker property at
Keedysville, Md, was sold to Ohio
Poffenberger last Saturday, for S.
600. Eight acres of land adjoining
keedysvile, also of the Baker estate,
were sold to Charles Chopper, of
Keedysville, for 81, 1855. Thirty acres
of mountain timber in the Rohrers-
willie district were sold to Harry Null
lendore for SIS per acre.
Elizabeth Zane Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution, has pur-
chased what is claimed to be the oldest
house in Buckhannon, w. Va, frame
and log dwelling, which was owned by
Emerson w. Farnsworth. 1t is said
to have been built over $50 years ago
by John Jackson, ancestor of Stone
wall Jackson. In the spring changes
will be made in the house and it will
be used as a chapter house.
The Jefferson County Fruit Grow
ers' Association, at meeting held in
Charles Town last Friday afternoon.
extended an invitation to the State
Horticultural Society to hold its annual
meeting there in February. w. F.
Alexander, the secretary, was author,
lied to extend the invitation, and il
is understood the association will in
all probability accept it, The meeting
will cover two days, and an attractive
program will be arranged
BY her will dated August %, 1917,
Mrs. Annie M. Welsh, who died at her
home at Bakerton November l8, left
one dollar to each Of her children.
Then in addition to the dollar left TO
her son, w. Franklin Welsh, she left to
him her home and all if its furnish.
ings. The will stated the son favored
with most of the property had cared
for her in her declining years, and it
was to recOmpense him that he was
given more than the other children. |.
5. Reinhart and c. d. Carter signed
the will as witnesses.
The claim of the Rion Hall estate
against the Northern Virginia Power
Company has been adjusted, the sum
of eight hundred dollars compensation
being allowed for cutting the line
trees, overlooking the Halitown- Mill
Vile road in this county. The cutting
was done without the consent of tho
owners and constituted treSpass upon
the land, and was to have been the
subject of suit, for which Geo. NJ.
Beltzhoover, Jr., had been retained
r. Gray Williams, counsel for the COM
pany, acting with Col. F. w. Brown,
after a conference with Miss Lucas
very courteously disposed of the mat
ter, thus avoiding recourse to the law.