Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-07-03
BRIEFS.

The hay crop will be a very SNORT o"e
this year.
This office treated itself to clean tow
Ell this week.
Truit is healthy, if fully ripe, and it
Is rood to eat plenty of it.
Iocusts are becoming scarce. Their
song is seldom heard now.
Jefferson Savings Bank will be closed
tomorrow, July 4th, that day being a
national holiday.
samuel Muck caught a bass in the Po-
tomac last Wednesday that weighed five
end 4 quarter pounds.
cool wave has been visiting this
nejghborhood during the present week.
The harvest hands rejoice at it.
The jewellers of Martinsburg will
close their places of business at 7.3o p.
m during the months of July and Au-
gust.
We are under obligations TO Mrs.
Jobp w. Hill, living below town, for a
b.sLetful of new potatoes and beans.
They were certainly good.
Nar,insburg will celebrate the Att of
Jply tomorrow by having a parade
during the day and fireworks at night.
speeches will also be made.
Those who wish employment: as can
vsssers should look up r. G. Chase q
Co.'S advertisement in another column.
The firm has good reputation.
Mr.. J. W. McCleary, of Baltimore,
and We editor went bass fishing last FRI
day, and succeeded in bagging twenty
one of the lively beauties in few hours.
The first new wheat Of the season
WA, sold in Baltimore OH Wednesday of
last week, and brought 81 per bushel.
l, was grown in Lancaster county, va.
Mr.. VIM. c. McComas, Of Hagers-
town, Monday made Sc miles in 8 hours
on bicycle the route being from Ha-
gers,own to Winchester, Va, and re-
turn.
Bishop George w. Peterkin, of West
Virginia. preached the annual sermon
at the closing exercises Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia at Charlottesville this
week.
Our friend Jimmie Jones has been
harvesting this week, and the gentleman
who had the contract for feeding him
saws Jimmie is hollow TO the end OF his
big toe.
The Sunday afternoon services Of the
IN. G.. A. are now held in the Asso-
citation room instead of Billmyer's Hall
The public is invited TO attend these
meetings.
The young ladies can write letters
twice as big as they used to anu the
cost will not be increased. a great
amount OF sweetness can now be sent
for two cents.
Ii. NJ. Shores, young man about
twenty years Of age, was so badly IN
iured in a railroad accident near Mar
tinsburg last week that lie died III fe"
days thereafter.
A society has been organized at Key
ser by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
conductors 10 protect their interests anC
10 promote a higher standard of moral
iIy and sobriety.
Watermelons have made their appear
auce in the Baltimore markets. Several
car loads were received from Georges
this week, and were sold At from go &c
$50 per hundred.
A three-year-old child Of DIR. Frisby
Rhode, residing near Williamsport
Md, fell from a fence into pool OF
water the other day, and when discov'
cred it was dead.
The Baltimore S Ohio Railroad Com
pany has employed the Frederick Bant
Orchestra 10 furnish music at Island
Park, every Tuesday and Friday during
the coming excursion season.
Thirty shares Of Hagerstown Bank
stock were sold at auction last week fol
$3.50 per share, the par value being
only $l5. This is the highest price ever
realized i'm the history of the bank.
Mr.. Daniel Slime, well-known far
mer of Middletown Valley, Maryland
Nas fatally injured by being struck by
The windlass of well. His skull was
smashed and he died in few hours:
Our newsy contemporary, the Ha'
gcrstown daily Globe, only comes to u'
enthusiastically. The Globe is such l
newsy sheet that we hate TO miss copy
Please send her along, Brother Hays.
Ex-Deputy Sheriff George W. Moore
WAS thrown from his buggy last Thurs,
day, and severely bruised. But few
weeks sgo his brother, DR.. Ii. r. Moore,
had leg broken by a similar accident
Spirit.
James Pickett, OF Hagerstown, vic
was tried and acquitted Of the charge
of shooting Edmund Gloyd last fall, wa:
arrested on Monday for the larceny OF &
watch from man named Good. lie
was admitted 10 bail.
"Our Little Ones and Nul sery" fol-
July has been received. The illustra-
tons are fresh and lovely and the sto-
ries are charming. No well conducted
family where there are any little folks
should be without it. Published by the
Russell Publishing Co., Boston.
The ladies of the VI. Z. Church South
OF Unionville will hold a festival on