Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-01-20
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The Supreme Court of West Virginia
is in session at Charleston.
Towner Schley, the fertilizer man,
presents big lot of endorsements this
week.
Read the7change in the advertise
ment of Beall & Phillips on thesecond
pgae of this issue.
We were pleased TO havea call this
week from Messrs. Licklider & Mckee,
of Vanclevesville.
Mr.. Jas. II. Walker has bought the
d. A. Walker farm, in Berkeley coun
", for So per acre.
Col w. \. Morgan killed hog on
Monday that weighed $50 pounds net
and AS pounds gross.
Rev. j. Harry Moore, of Berryville,
will preach in the Presbyterian
Church of Shepherdstown on Satur-
day and Sunday.
Some of the ice dealers of this place
have gotten their supplies of ice this
week from the canal, but ii is not of
first-class quality.
The REGISTER force has been work
ing night and day this week printing
sale bills. We do the work well and
at reasonable prices.
The Charlestown Free Press said last
week that we had been bOycotted.
This is a mistake. 1t was not a boy
cott-it was girl-got.
Hagerstown is now much interested
in the subject of electric light, and
will probably adopt a plan to illu-
inmate by that means.
Rev. J. F. Stump, of Berkeley
county, has been assisting Rev. Nr.
Neel with his revival i'll the NJ. +
Church South this week.
We must heartily congratulate our
friend j. Will Taylor. 1t is no girl
this time, but big bouncing boy that
already tries to say Dad"
Thomas c. Prince has been APP
pointed superintendent of the Har-
per's Ferry and Valley Branch of the
Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad.
The new road law requires the road
surveyors TO meet within twenty days
from the lst of January. COnse-
quently the time expires to-day.
We are indebted to Messrs. Taylor
SchaetTer, of Paramount City, Pa,
and c. y. Licklider, of Lynchburg,
Va, for interesting papers sent Us.
Otto Hairy, proprietor of the Model
Clothing House, of Martinsburg made
an assignment last week TO the amount
of $4,000. in favor of d. We'll and
others.
Mr.. Buchanan Schley, who was re
Gently elected a director of the Chesa
peake Il Ohio Canal, does not accept
the position, and has sent i'll his res
isnation.
Mr.. c. r. Hardesty bought a lot of
cattle-twenty-four head-of Mr.. l..
II. Huyett, which averaged 1900.
They were delivered on Tuesday,
Free Press
The twentieth anniversary of the
passionate Of Rev. Dr. kieffer of Zion
Reformed Church at HaSerstown was
celebrated last Sunday with appro-
pirate services.
Mr. Oliver NJ. Harris, from the low
or part of the county, has resumed his
studies at Shepherd College, and will
remain throughout the term at this
excellent school.
The gross earnings of the Shenan-
doah Valley railroad for December
were SS7S1940; the ordinary oper-
ating expenses, including taxes, SS2,-
$500; net earnings, S4,9633l.
To the Farmers-You can see a sam
pie Of locust posts at the ). V. depot.
Persons who expect TO buy should
study their interest and write TO y.
d. Miley, Charlestown, w. Va.
For the most exquisite calendars
We have ever seen we are indebted 10
our old friend Sam. Hensell, of Og-
den Bros. & Co, Knoxville, Tennessee.
They are beautiful works of art.
The first load of wood was hauled
10 the new pulp mill at HarperS
Ferry, says the Sentinel, on Thursday
1t was cut from Christopher Smiths
farm, i'll Washington county, Md.
Hon. ChaS. L. O'Ferrall has intro
duced in the House of representatives
a bill TO erect monument to Gen.
Morgan, of Revolutionary fame,
whose bones lie in Mt. Hebron Gene
terry, Winchester.
\ carload of pulp per day is the
present output of the pulp mill at
Dam No. ;. The company has pur-
chased all the poplar timber on the
land contiguous To the mill. 1t is i'll
operation day and night.
Our sage friend Captain Colston, of
the Martinsburg Statesman, last week
gave us u bit of advice which we feel
that we no doubt needed. Still, Cap
tain, if you were in our fix we believe
YOU would be just as bad
If You need anything in the way of
a watch call on Geo. X. Lewis the
Jeweler. He can furnish You any
kind, but he makes a speciality of the
Seth Thomas Watch-one of the most
reliable time-pieces in the world.
Cards are out for the wedding of
Mr.. Samuel HumrickhOuse and Miss
Nellie Bennett, of Shepherdstown.