Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1883-12-01
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thing is tiptop, and cannot help but
please.
The Fire Company has had two large
new sliding doors placed in the front of
their hall, 50 rs to make the room more
comfortable in cold weather. Capt. II.
+. Barnhart did the work.
The area of West Virginia is $4,000
square miles; the population in 1880 was
els. 443; number Of manufacturing estab-
lishments, 2,375; capital invested i'll these
establishments, SIS, SS3 300.
A kind-hearted citizen of Frederick,
Md, who desired that the poor of that
place should have something to be thank
full for, gave a large number of turkeys to
the needy Oh Thanksgiving Day.
The National Grange has been holding
private sessions in Washington during
the past week, devoted to the considera-
ton of methods for making the order
more useful to the farming interest.
Mr.. Levi Porter, of Bridgeport, oppo-
site this town, killed a pretty fine lot of
hogs this week. There were four of them,
and they weighed l $50 pounds, divided
into these weights: 357, 1913, 33l and 300.
We notice an article in several of our
exchanges telling how to keep turkeys so
that they may be nice and fat. What we
want to know is how to get turkey, and
we won't bother about his being fat or
lean.
Martinsburg has the military fever bad.
Not satisfied with having just organized Il
company of Zouaves, efforts are now
being made to rcorganize the Martinsburg
Light Artillery, and with every prospect
Of success.
The dinner given by the ladies on
Thanksgiving Day was great success,
and the suppcrs for Friday and Saturday
evenings will no doubt be equally well
patronizcd. They have plenty of turkeys
and other good things.
Mr.. Joseph Staley, one of orr enter
prisiug farmers near town, has improved
his residence on "Spring Hip with
large and comfortable brick house.
Mcssrs. David Hout and William Rice are
doing the carpenter work.
Mr.. B. S. Pcndleton, of this place, at
tended the recent session of the Y. NJ. G.
A. held in Cumberland, and was made
first vice-president of the convention.
Mr.. Pendleton reports large Attendance
and an occasion of much interest.
The sheriff OF Warren County, Va,
with many citizens of that locality, has
been, this week, securing the country i'll
search of white man who is charged
with committing an outrage on the person
of white woman in the vicinity of Front
Royal.
The rapidly growing city of Roanoke,
Va, is now lighted with gas made from
Coal Valley wv. Na.) coal, which is said
to make gas equal to any coal gas in the
country. The works cost sol 300, and
gas is furnished to consumers ut $3.50 per
1000 feet.
benjamin J. Jones, of Dickerson, Fred
erick County, Md, had colt badly cut
by getting tangled in wire fence. One
of its front legs was nearly severed from
its body. Two other colts in the same
field were also cut ut the same time, but
not so badly.
The recent rains and cOngcnial weather
have brought forward the growing wheat
so rapidly that in many of the fields 1t Is
even getting too large, and some OF tie
farmers contemplate turning their stock
upon it to Craze it down and keep it from
getting too rank.
Mrs. Eliza Maria Balch Tustin died in
Washington City on Monday, November
18th, upwards of 50 years of age. She
was the daughter of the late DIR. Balch,
and sister of the late Judge J.. z. W. Balch,
of this County; and widow of the late
Rev. DR.. Septimus Tustn.
For pure West Virginia buckwheat,
meat, cranberrcs, sweet potatoes, apples,
champagne cider, cakes, candies, crack
ers, and in fact everything usually kept
in first-class grocery aud provision
store, go to Trussell 81 Hess.
In Hardy County, this State, few
nights ago, some of the young men under
took to give ''bull-band" screnade to
David Scott and his bride. They were
treated TO load of buck-shOt, and two of
the number, young Fisher and Sommcr-
Vile, were quite seriously hurt.
Florence, a flve-ycar-old daughter of
Rev. w. b. Evcrs, Of the United Brethren
Church, residing about three miles east
of Martinsburg, was seriously If not ia
tally injured by falling under the wheels
of 4 wagon on Saturday morning last.
Her head was crushed in frightful
manner.
In consequence of the general diSsatis-
raction at the appearance and quality OF
the recently issued postal notes, the Post
liiaSlcl-beIltid III Has oI'tlcu u CHAN Sc W
be made. Hereafter they will be printed
on blue tinted paper instead of the yellow
now used. One Of the principal objections
to the present notes is that the paper on
which they are printed becomes easily
mutilated.
Mr.. Samuel Engle and daughter, Miss
Flora, of Urbana, Ohio, are visiting friends
in the Dullelds ncighborhood. Mr.. Engle
moved from jefferson County to Ohio in
1881, and is II grandson of Gen. Darke's
sister also Il connection of the large Englc