Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-10-08
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y" Cash Store. Don't buy until you
&c. our prices
r,s gross earnings of the Shenandoah
ine epai,rosd for the month of Au-
gust were $50, 1851 ,
There are signs for long and severe
."sr and there are signs for short
"'"'' VA winter. Take your choice.
". Magaha has sold his house
=. .ae row, on New street, to Mr.. Ben.
~ m. IF, The price paid was about s4Oo'
NJ John o. Aglionby, of this county,
one of the speakers at temper
vs." meeting in Baltimore last Sunday.
M. first corn of the new crop was
I,or Change in Baltimore Saturday.
~, wss white, and brought fifty cents a
bu.hel.
r,. Frederick and Winchester fairs
IN both be held next week. The Ha-
~.r.,own fair will be held the follow
ing week,
The fish. pots along the river have all
Ian mt in order, and those who are
',.rss,ed are snxiously awaiting rise
Of the water.
vr Frank Manning, Of this county,
emily sold two thoroughbred geld
80. to Mr.. f. n. Hayes, OF Sisterville,
Va, for 1900.
1owenstein Bros, leading elothiers
rUagerstown, make their fall and
rio,er announcement in another col
umn. Read it.
pev. Charles Ghiselin is attending
tho meeting of Winchester Presbytery,
which met at Petersburg, Grant coun-
~ W. Va, OIL Wednesday.
The Louisville Courier. Journal, in de-
,ouneing corsets, tells of post-mortem
which revealed a woman's liver actually
crt in TWO by tight lacing.
Potomac Building Association No. 2
wiIl offer for sale several shares OF stock
next Monday evening in Mr.. &. NJ.
Belzhooyer's office at o'clock.
The Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad an
pounces that it will double-track It's
Metropolitan Branch, between Wash
irytoa and Washington Junction.
Mr.. A. S. cambridge intends to at
once build n new barn To replace the
IN, burned down last week. Mr.. &. w.
Uavn will do the carpenter work.
4 couple of weeks ago the walls of
the well at the NJ. E. Church fell in,
rendering the we'll useless. 1t is now
being cleaned out and the walls rebuilt.
Our readers will find an interesting
letter from California i'm this issue. 1t
was written by young lady of Shep-
herdstown now visiting i'll the Golden
State.
Aunt" Joanna Duckett, colored
woman who was as weil-known in this
community as it is possible for anyone
10 be, died on Tuesday. She had many
81 a txtli q
Our farmer friends have been busily
engaged this week getting their wheat
seeded. The weather has been perfect
for this purpose. There will be large
acreage sown in Jefferson county.
There have been several heavy frosts
during the past week, and tomatoes and
other tender vegetables have been
nipped. Considerable damage is re-
ported to the tobacco crop in the South.
The Pen-Mar excursion business on
the Western Maryland Railroad has
been more prosperous this year than
ever before. The receipts from this
source were $40 900 ahead of last years.
During September 493 boats, carrying
j4,2O2 tons of coal, cleared from Cum
5erland on the canal. The revenue was
about 81 900. The shipments were an
increase over the corresponding month
Of last year.
The Republican County Convention
al keorneysville last Saturday elected
delegates 20 the Senatorial Convention
10 meet at Berkeley Springs, October
18th, and re-organized the County Ex-
ecutive Committee. No nominations
were made.
The Joseph Crane farm, about Ia
miles northwest Of Charlestown, con-
tanning about lG9ia acres, WAS sold at
public auction on Friday last, by Spec
laI Commissioners Hunter, Beckwith
and Trapnell, to Capt. George Baylor,
al $40 per acre.-Spirit.
According to the Leader, more ready
cash circulates at Roanoke than in any
other Virginia city of proportional size.
Fully 500, 900 is paid out monthly to
The employees of the machine shops,
railroads and steel works. WOrkmen
are bringing in their families, and the
payroll means money in hand there.
The Lutheran Observer joins with
other newspapers in advocating chang
Ing the time for the national Thanks.
giving Day from "bleak November to
golden October" 1t says that Novem-
yer Was chosen by the Puritans 10 bring
lna day near the Christmas time that it
might take the place of that festival, to
which they wera opposed. Blu. now
lhat all Christians observe Christmas
m're is no reason for appointing
thanksgiving Day so late in the year.
on Monday night, between 8 and 10
CLOCK, the Walkers Lane school house,