Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-07-13
NOTES FROM NEARBY.


from Buchanan. Va, to their loft
distance Of la miles, in three hours
which IS at the rate of 50 miles a.
hour.
On his way home from Ohio 10
Washington last Saturday President
Harding stopped of in Hagerstown.
where he was pleasantly entertained
by members Of the Republican county
committee at the country club.
DR.. Clarence w. Spears, head coacl
OF the West Virginia University foot
ball team, is in Martinsburg this week
to take the State medical examination
He expects TO practice medicine il
Morgantown when the football season
is over.
Plans for a tour of the famous Shen-
andoah Valley by the Virginia Press
Association, composed of editors of
Virginia newspapers, have been COM
pleted. The association will be in ses-
sion in Harrisonburg on July 81, and
will come north through the valley 10
Winchester, where they will be enter
tanned by Senator II. F. Byrd.
Lewis Harbaugh, aged p years, re-
siding near Hagerstown, was drowned
Sunday afternoon in the Antietam
Greek near there when he was seized
with cramps and sank before those
on the bank Of the stream could swim
TO his assistance. The drowning oc-
Cured where negro had lost his life
exactly one week before The BODY
was recovered after about two hours
work by Sheriff Cline and two dep
uties.
Fred Mooney, against whom an in.
dictment for treason is pending in the
Jefferson Circuit Court on a change of
venue from Logan county, is a candi-
date for the House of Delegates in
Kanawha county. The announcement
of his candidacy is published in the
last issue Of the West Virginia Fed
erationist, the State organ Of the
United Mine Workers.
Among those taking the State med
ical examination at Martinsburg this
week is Lester Ours, Petersburg, W
Va, who attended Shepherd College
for number Of years prior to the
war. After leaving Shepherd College
Mr.. Ours graduated from West Vir-
ginia University, and then pursue
further studies in an Ohio college.
1t is believed that anthrax has de-
veloped in the big dairy herd at Brook
hardwood Dairy Farms, in Washington
county owned by Isaac E. Emerson
Close watch is being kept on the cat
tie by officials of Maryland and the city
health officers of Hagerstown. Bacter2
biological tests are also under way al
the University of Maryland at Col.
lege Park and Washington City. Th1
officials state that with the precautions
that have been taken there is no danger
of the spread of the disease to other
herds or to human beings
The State road commission an
nounces that 35S miles of road have
been completed and 493 miles are uni
der construction as a result of the
contracts let since the beginning Of
construction in November last year,
This sounds mighty well, but people
of this section would welcome with
much more warmth an announcement
that the road from Martinsburg to
Charles Town will come by way of
ShepherdStown instead of following a
route that is satisfactory to only a few
and a very few-landholders.
The two children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Julian Carey, of Martinsburg, aged one
painfully cut and bruised Sunday af-
ternoon when the car in which the
Carey family was riding collided with
another machine on the Maryland State
road near Frederick. The children
were taken to the Frederick Hospital,
where medical attention was given
them, and they were able to leave the
hospital Monday morning. Mr. Carey
is secretary of the Martinsburg Y. M.
G. A. The family was on the way to
visit in Baltimore.
The West Virginia Public Service
Commission has under consideration
the application of the town of Frank
lin, in Pendleton county, for authority
to construct dam on the south side
of the Potomac river. The applica-
ton was submitted a few days ago
by M. S. Hodges, clerk of the House
Of Delegates, who is serving as coun-
sci for the applicant Ii is set forth
in the application that Franklin by
its charter has the right to manufac,
ture, supply and sell to the public, hy
draulic, electrical or other energy or
power produced by water. The propos-
ed dam would be located just south of
Franklin. I'd.
With the aid of a broken yardsticll
and a painters ladder, Joseph Doran,
a desperate character, escaped from
the Winchester, Va, Jail Saturday eve-
ming, and thus far has eluded recapture.
With the piece OF yardstick Doran
sprung an old lock, and climbing to
the top of a wall with the ladder, he
grasped the limb Of a tree, dropping
to the ground and getting away be-
fore the authorities knew OF his de-
nnroo ubo alec went nv the