Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-12-25
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Get your new resola0n' In oroef '0'
1886.
,r,,o vou are 6stributing your
Christmas presents, raemoer Tue poo''
$3.50 christmas nd Happy New
ve.r 10 every one the REGISTER
resders' So.
Reside Santa Clau;the fresideh' OIL
,,N;,od States noydwindles into in
significance
T,o shenandoah hlley Railroad is
giving reduced rates passengers our
ing the Holidays
The weather has ,een warm anu
all this week, ht a cold wave is
predicted for Christms day.
Remember the super to be held by
the ladies' of Kearnesvilie during the
HOLIDAYS. 1t will b most pleasant
sfair.
The Sunday Schoo Christmas service
.t,ha Reformed Church at Kearneys-
vr,s will be held OF Christmas night
a6O'clock.
The summary of the Shepherdstown
Graded School for the month ending
n.comber eth shows that the average
,tfendance was l26.
The Baltimore American has sent us
,rsry handsome calendar for 1886. 1t
i.scredit to the publishers and a COM
fort to the recipients.
shepherd College closed on Tuesday
and the Graded School on Wednesday
FIR the Holidays. Both will legin the
frat Monday in January.
Available horse belonging to Mr..
p W. Morrow, near Summit Point, was
.illed by a night freight train on the
40. railroad recently.
We are pretty we'll filled up with adj
vsrtisements now, but after Christmas
We will give our readers the usual
amount of realizing matter.
Mfr. William Sigler, former resident
of this county, has our thanks for some
Fl Dorado (Kansas) papers. They are
handsome and interesting sheets.
Some nice glass, china and majolica
goods, suitable for Christmas presents.
Corn, pork and poultry wanted for cash
or trade. Trusseli " Hess.
Potomac Building Association. No. 2,
will offer for sale several shares Of stock
next Monday evening in the room I'M
der the REGISTER office, at O'Clock.
Fresh coarse and fine salt. pepper and
sslt petre for butchering season. Poul-
try. pork and corn wanted for cash or
trade. Trussell q Hess.
Cold, cold, cold, coal. coal, coal of
all kind for sale by Trussell & Hess.
Also, cord wood, delivered by the cord
or half-cord; corn, pork and poultry
wanted.
\ Shepherdstown troupe of colored
singers will give an entertainment in
Charlestown on Saturday. Capt. Dun
mOre's Band takes part in the pro-
gramme.
Mr.. Joseph l.. Cookus has sold his
clearinghouse aud lot on Washington
street, at tie run, to Mr.. John G. Un-
seld. The price paid was. five hundred
dollars cash.
The business men of Martinsburg are
making an effort to have shirt manu-
featuring firm establish mandatory
there which will employ large num-
Der of hands.
Miss Ida Oswald Mason, daughter OF
the late Hon. Jas. NJ. Mason, died at her
home near Alexandria last week. She
was sister of Mr.. James NJ. Mason, Of
Charlestown.
Nr. I. Hamilton Davis. residing a
lew miles north of town, lost two valu-
able horses by death recently. One died
Of lung fever and the other from some
Unknown cause.
\ new pOstoffice will be established
al Grimes station, Shenandoah VALLEY
Railroad. The postofiice will be known
As Grimes. Mr.. Jos. E. Beeler, son of
John II. Beeler, has been appointed
postmaster.
Mr.. {. l.. BarDha in one day last
week shipped eleven hundred turkeys
from Duflields TO Washington. It's
mighty hard to get a country editor TO
believe there were that many turkeys
in this county.
Mr.. c. {. Getzendanner will sell some
very valuable live stock, farming i'm
PIGMENTS, furniture, &C., at public sale,
/" Ms residence near Kearneysville, De-
eehoer 3lst. See his advertisement in
another column.
The editor has been under the weather
.u'' week with slight spell of sickness.
we hope no one will tell the editor Of
Tue Charlestown Free Press that we
"au just returned from Washington the
Jay before We were taken i'll. He might
make reference 10 illusions.
Mr.. James 3. Russell, merchant Of
winchester, and also an enterprising
FARMER and stock-raiser, recently sold
One hundred head Of fat cattle, average
weight ,25O pounds, at $40 per hun
u'ed' This is one OF the best sales of
ea'ue made this season in the lower
Valley of Virginia.
on Saturday the twu-story frame
r"elilng belonging to the late Mrs.
t"olnas Piper, and in which she resided,
I y in Sharpsburg, was sold to Mr..
AIsDy Smith for rho sum of FL ala