Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-08-14
BRIEFS.

timothy seed for sale at e. 1. hodges
Buy your fertilizer of G. T. Hodges
u,hare YOU get good article at botto M
price. -,
In Georgia wstermelons are worth
only % cents dozen. How we wish
we lived in Georgia. , '
MFR. Levi Baker is re-erecting the
huilding of the NJ. Z. Church South al
Niddleway, this county.
Roland, little son Of Mr.. James NJ
Myers, was run over by COW the other
1,v and considerably shaken up.
A delegation OF the Y. NJ. G. A. OF
Sbenberdstown conducted serVices al
Dnffields on Wednesday night.
Mr.. W. Ii. Karicofe, of the Leetowh
peighborhood, has invented corn-har-
vesting machine which is said to do ex'
cellcnt work.
The members of Mt. Nebo Lodge No.
Of. AT. q \. NJ, are requested 10 at
TEND the meeting of the Lodge next
Monday evening. r-rgr
Mrs Catherine Baker, of Keedysville,
No.. who is 90 years of age, received a
stroke of paralysis last Monday which
Is likely to terminate fatally. 3
Mr. John w. Fawcett has sold his
clearinghouse on New street, in Shep-
herdstown, TO Mr.. James Z. Barnhart,
for the sum of one thousand dollars.
Remember the festival to be held at
Marvin Chapel tonight and tomorrow
night, all of the good things OF the sea-
son will be sold at reasonable prices. ?
The agricultural implement firm OF
Bane & Bishop, Charlestown, has been
dissolved. Mr.. Jas. w. Bane will con-
Time the business on his own account.
\ cave has just been discovered at
Lexington, Va. 1t has not been fully
explored yet, but of course the an
nouncement states that it will probably
Guido the Luray caverns.
Among the patents granted on Tues
day at Washington was one TO Hem
bricks & Shepherd, of Shenandoah
Junction, for grain drill, and to S. NJ.
Weller, Charlestown, for spoke socket.
The trial of the Hayward Hand-Gren-
ade Fire Extinguisher was postponed
from last Saturday to tomorrow night,
August 18th, at S o'clock. The test will
be made in front OF the REGISTER office.
We would remind those who are 60
ing away on a visit that they can hear
from home weekly by having the REG
IsTER mailed TO them. 1t will only cost
a trife and will give them all the news
from home.
Potomac Lodge No. 81, l. o. G. T., OF
this place, have selected j. ID. Rentch
10 represent them at the next session OF
Grand Lodge. ID. l.. Rentch, alternate.
Session will meet at Philippi first week
in September. tt @ st 7
Ii should not he forgotten that festi-
val will be in progress at Kearneysville
this Friday and Saturday evenings. Mr..
j. L. Kerfott's meadow Is the place
where it will be held, and we predict a
large attendance.
Sheriff J. Garland Hurst, the receiver
recently appointed by court, has taken
charge of the bridge across the Shenan-
doah river at Harper's Ferry, and it is
now open for travel. 1t had been closed
for several years.
As the pastor and some of the MEM
bers of the Lutheran Church here will
be in attendance on the dedicatOry SER
vices OF the Martinsburg Lutheran
Church, there will be no services in the
Shepherdstown church on Sunday.
The Camden Light Artillery. of Mar
tinsburg, in connection with the G. y.
Z. Post, will picnic at Island Park on
Saturday the 22nd. The Winchester
Light Infantry will be present and per-
haps several other military organiza-
lions.
A valuable horse, belonging to Rev,
Z. l.. Keedy, principal of the Hagers-
town Female Seminary, was stolen from
his stable last Sunday night. The thief
has been traced TO Williamsport, thence
to townsville, and from there it is sup
posed he went towards Virginia.
Mr.. Eli Mobley, one of the Oldest cit
liens of Hagerstown, died at his home
I'm that place last Thursday. i'm the S5,h
gear Of his age. lie had had remark
ably active life. At the age OF II years
he entered the army ~ a drummer boy,
and served until the close of the war of
1912.
The members Of the Presbyterian
Sunday School of Charlestown will pic
mic with tl,e Martinsbnrg Presbyterian
Sunday School At island Park, on We'd
ncsday, Aug. 26tb. All Sunday School
children of the county, and the public
generally. are invited TO accompany the
President BaLghman. Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, expected to leave
Georgetown on Wednesday evening
with two months back pay of the en-
Dioyees, amounting to over twenty
thousand dollars. Superintendent Biser,
Of the canal, has returned over five
thousand dollars in rents since Julyl.
Messrs. a. S. Daniri,ge, FL. Lee
and o.her members. Of tho J, NJ. L. A.
Of Shepherdslown, and Mr.. Charlrs A.
Lickli'ler, general secretary of Peters
burg (Va.) Association, will conduct