Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-08-20
BRIEFS.


rh.re is lots of hustle a5ou: some OF
,,e shspherdstown girls.
D,.u.herries have been selling In
snsnherdstown at ten cents gallon.
The corporation authorities are hav-
,,s the weeds cut from the streets and
alleys.
y is said that the hay crop OF Jeffer-
-, county this year is the largest ever
known.
1odOe Fleming has been at Berkeley
sorings, holding term Of court LOT
Judge Faulkner.
Farmers, if you want your fertilizer
,;rsct from the msnufacturers, call on
Townsr Schley.
The Changers Interstate picnic at
wnl;.ms, Grove will commence on Au-
Gust 30, and continue the entire week.
Uurlburt & Hunting's show will ex-
,ibit in Sh.pherdstown on Thursday
next 1t is said to be very good circus
The Republican Congressional Con-
.on,ion for this district has been called
% meet in Keyser on the 9th Of Septem-
Ter.
MID. 5. Eichelberger, founder OF
the Martinsburg Statesman, has been
dangerously i'll at his home in Martins
burg.
po,,toes were offered OH the streets of
Bagerstown, last week, at twenty-five
cents bushel, and they were slow sale
a. that price.
Tho waters of the Potomac are dashed
,r m,nys rod and line now. Some
bass are being caught, but they are
mostly small ones.
If Won want job work of any kind,
c,ll At the REGISTER office. We are pre-
pared 10 10 any kind of printing at the
most reasonable rates.
The seventeenth annual session OF the
Crane Lodge of the Knights OF Pythias
Of this State will convene In Martins
burg October 10Th and Goth.
Potomac Building Association No. 2
will offer for sale several shares of stock
next Monday evening in the room under
the REGISTER OFFICE at S o'clock.
The weather was not altogether
favorable for the lawn festival at Mar
vim Chapel last week, but notwithstand-
ing this the sum of ninety -five dollara
was realized.
Mr.. G.. II. c. Backus, worthy citizen
aud for number years public school
teacher in this county, died at his resi-
denee in Bolivar, OH Friday last, aged
about 81 years.
The apple crop in this county Is SIM
DIV enormous. The trees are fairly
breaking down with their loads of fruit.
Apples are retailing in Shepherdstown
at forty cents bushel.
Company B will have its annual soup
on Saturday, August 2lst-which is to-
morrow. The day originally fixed
upon was rainy,.s so IL was postponed
until the above date.
There are between three hundred and
four hundred guests at the Blue Noun
tain House, near Pen-Nar. The hotel
Is thriving wonderfully, and steadily
gaining in popularity.
The crop OF wheat from fifteen acre
field Of Mr.. JAS. IL. Conklyd, says the
CharlestOwn Spirit, recently threshed
Yielded forty bushels per acre. regis.
tered machine measure.
The third annual reunion of the
Survivors of Co. ID, 9th Va. Cavalry, "
will be held ut the residence of Mr.. Wm.
4. Reilly, near Summit Point, Wednes-
dag. August 18th. at II o'clock.
The members and friends Of the Epis-
cOpal Sunday School Of CharlestOwn
held their annual picnic at Morgan's
Spring, near Shepherdstown, last FRI
day. There were about two hundred OF
them.
The time for holding the Lutheran
reunion at Pen-Mar was changed from
September 2d to September Sth on &C
count Of tie Williams Grove exhibit
ton, which will monopolize all the rail-
road facilities that week.
The District Conference for Winchcs-
ter District, VI. L. Church South. will
be held IN Middletown, Frederick
connty. Va, August n to 27. Organi-
lstion and opening sermon on Tuesday,
at half past o'clock p. m.
Mr.. II. a. Riddle, OF MartinSburg,
has been made General Passenger Agent
Of the Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company. lie takes the place of Mr..
A. MeCulloh, who has resigned on
account of advancing age. Mr.. Riddle
Will make an efficient officer.
There does not seem to be any proba-
OlIlly Of the New Dominion Paper Mill
Startling up. Since it was bought by
The Union Straw Board Company u
couple Of months ago not word in ie-
gard to the company's intentions has
Oren heard. and the mill is under the
care OF solitary Waterman. We hope
"Slll not remain idle very long.
Mr. Monroe Manning, Of this county,
"o'her OF the late Nathaniel Manning,
aho one Of the celebrated Californis
i"rIy-niners," was found dead in bed
Tie residence of his niece, Mrs.
nolmes Berry, in Winchester, Va,
monday morning. His remains were
Drought to Charlest0wn and inferred In