Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-12-17
BRIEFS.

The fremen's fair is ADJOINING.
Beautiful Holiday gifts at w. P. Lick
lijer's.
Fine Christmas presents at w. p.
Licklider's.
Several inches of snow fell on We'd
ne.day night.
If you want useful present call on
W.P. Licklider.
Christmas is due in Shepherdstown a
vssk from tomorrow.
For best y. o. syrup and buckwheat
meal 90 to Hodges.
Call and see our Holiday goods.
w. P. Licklider.
Come. come, come and see our stock.
w. 2. Licklider.
Hon. VI. 5. Grantham. Of Berkeley
county, who has been quiet i'll, ia now
conyalescing.
The bows were skating on the river
last Friday, although it was just a
"leetle" dangerous.
Jefferson Savings Bank will be closed
Christmas and New Years days. both
being legal holidays.
Cranberries, raisins, citrOn, currants,
coscosnu,, lemons, &C., fresh and at
lowest prices, at Hodges.
4 Christmas service will be held at
the Me. Church South, beginning at
6o'clock Christmas morning.
The postofiice on Christmas day will
b. opened from 10 O'Clock until l, and
closed the balance of the day.
Will Crow looks handsome as new
red wagon since he has donned his new
uniform as passenger brakeman.
That there will be a good sleighing
,now for Christmas 10 the earnest desire
Of,large proportion OF our people.
All kinds Of produce that we can sell
again will be taken in exchange for
goods at cash prices. Trussell & Hess.
\ large lot of children's rocking chairs
and high ehairs-nice for Christmas
gift-iust received at X. c. Hess's Fur
niture Store.
Read the new advertisement of j. l..
Rickarl Il Son this week. They have 4
large line of goods which they are
selling cheap.
General Henry 5. Taylor, a promi-
nent.and wealthy citizen of Baltimore,
died last Sunday. He was first cousin
to Col. John E. Schley, near this town.
All our glassware, queenswnre, ma
jOlica ware and notions will be sold nj
very much reduced prices to close out
these lines of goods. Trussell & Hess.
The bad boys of Shepherd College
who kaocked our Dicks hat of on Tues
day had better not do il again. He is
still mad about it and when he gets mad
-whew!
Ii is not well TO make invidious dis
tnctions, but Jacob 5. Myers and G. b.
Humrickhouse are doing even more than
their share towards making the firemen's
fair success.
Mr.. W. T. Lennox, brother of MIR. John
7. Lennox, of Harper's Ferry, died in
Harrisburg. Pa last Friday, aged 50
years. He was buried at Charlestown
on Monday.
Mr.. K. 5. Eichelberger, of Martins-
burg, has returned to Washington. where
he has place as copy-nolder on the
Congressional Record in the Govern
msnt Printing Office.
The Town Council has indulgently
given Dermiss on TO the boys-and girls,
loo. il they want-to shoot fire. crackers
on Christmas and New Year days. The
privilege should not be abused.
The Martinsburg Independent suggests
Brother Snyder" as the next president
Of the West Virginia Press Association.
We don't know whether he means the
good-looking one or our brother.
The cement mill boat got away with
aload Of cemeni last Sunday, although
had considerable trouble with the ice.
An effort will be made to send one
more load before navigation closes.
Our enterprising contemporary, the
"llliamsport Transcript, has very much
Improved itself, and will hereafter be a
hOme-print entirely. The Transcript
has always been newsy little sheet.
Wehave an apprentice in this office
whose powers of CAB we will back
against any in the State. He is the
eighth wonder of the world. He is never
Alta loss for re-Spohn-se TO any ques-
lion.
1t is stated that Thatcher Bros. have
made arrangements to start an extern
slVe creamery at Martinsburg. Ii is to
nave all the latest improvements, with
acapacity for l 200 to 800 pounds OF
butter a day.
ar. Towner Schley, the live fertilizer
man, has proven his generosity by
uohating TO the fireman's fair half tor
VI superior phosphate for corn and oats
manufactured by the Chesapeake Guant
company, of Baltimore. This ID quite
liberal gift. and will probably b'
Glanced off at the iair.
The Columbia Bicycle Calendar fol
"'just iasued by the Pope Manufactur.
ing Co. Of Boston, Is \ truly artistic anC
Elegant work in chrome lithography
Zach day OF the year appears upon {
stparate cir, nth nnnfofinp In.