Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-03-02
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DR.. James NJ. Ransom, Dentist, will
be in Shepherastown all OF next week.
The measles among the children are
subsiding, and the schools are filling
up again.
Firemen's meeting tonight. I'm
portant business to be transacted.
All should be present.
Mr.. Joseph McMurran has gotten in
n SUPPLY of garden seeds of every de-
scription. See advertisement.
James Taylor, a worthy laboring
man of this vicinity, has been granted
a pension by the government.
We have room for more subscribers,
so stop borrowing the REGISTER and
come in and put your name down.
Oranges never were better than
they are this year. The Shepherds
town merchants sell them very cheap,
too.
About a dozen persons from this
place visited Sharpsburg last Satur-
day night and took supper at the fes-
tival there.
Received this week at Trussel's Cal
ifornia hominy and apricots, golden
russell and penny oranges, lemons,
bananas, &c.
Senators Kenna and Faulkner have
been sending numerous Congressional
documents to their constituents i'll
this neighborhood.
The directors of the HagerstOwn
Fair have decided to hold their next
exhibition on the 18th, nth, 18th and
18th of next October.
Mr.. Geo. II. Hagley, the Charles
town merchant, will have his store
room enlarged and another story
added TO the building.
The Martinsburg Independent says
the Grand Army Post at that place
has arranged for a lecture there by
Mrs Belva Lockwood.
Dried fruits of all kinds, navy and
Lima beans, hominy, buckwheat, cod
fish, scotch herring and best of roller
-four by barrel or sack, at Trussells.
No questions of burning public
interest are before the people, conse-
ouentlv it is likely that the approach
ing corporation election will be a
quiet one.
FOR RENT-The two-story brick
house on New street, adjoining resi-
dence of H. W. Potts. Possession
given April LIST. For terms, &C. APP
plv TO J. S Bragonier.
Charlestown sent big delegation
TO the industrial convention at Wheel
ing this week They took the 1888 Is.
so. express at Shenandoah Junction
on Tuesday afternoon.
Michael F. Haley, a canvasser for
Baltimore publisher, fell down the
steps at the Baldwin House, in Ha-
gerstown. last Thursday, and received
iniuries from which he died on Sat
urday.
Services appropriate to the Lenten
season are being held every Wednes-
day and Friday afternoon inthe Epis-
copal Church, and on Wednesday and
Friday evenings i'll the Lutheran
Church.
For a cough boil one ounce OF flax
seed i'll pint of water, strain and add
n little honey, one ounce of rock can
DIV, and the juice of three lemons,
mix and boil well. Drink as hot as
possible.
Suit has been instituted by Messrs.
WIN. Brown and Thos. Mouse, resi-
dents of Four Locks, against the canal
company. The claims are S735 and
SSOOrespectively, for services rendered
the company.
Rudolph Herr, Jr., of Four Locks,
Washington county, Md, was muir
,derously assaulted with a club by a
negro several days ago, and is now III
a critical condition. His assailant
made his escape.
Lost, one evening last week, 1t is
thought between the residence of Mr..
Crowl, in Maryland, and Wagner's
corner, in Shepherdstown, a gold
bracelet The finder will be rewarded
by leaving it at this office.
Mr.. Joseph n Chiswell, brother
of Mrs. Geo. NJ. Duke, Of this county,
was married in the Reformed Church
at Adamstown, Frederick county, Md,
last Thursday evening, to Miss Fannie
SnoufTer, daughter of q. w. Snoutfer,
Esq.
We understand that the public sale
at Capt. NJ. J. Billmyer's on Tuesday
was largely attended, and excellent
prices were obtained. Cows brought
as high as S37. and the horses brought
Sl3j, Sl65, and one three-year-old
half Percheron sold at S20050.
1t makes the average editor pretty
mad to have a subscriber stop his
paper because he reads something i'll
il that don't suit him, and then sneak
across the fields to his neighbor'S and
sponge paper from him. We know
of a couple of men of this sort.
Mr.. Mason Hesser, of Clarke county,
Va, fell under the wheels of IA train
on the Shenandoah Valley Railroad
while attempting to get on a car n few
DAYS ago. One of his legs was dread
fully mangled and had to be amputa-
ted.
Specialties in Dentistry-Attaching
hey crowns TO roots, treating diseases
of the Gums, inserting the best teeth