Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-06-22
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Briefs.

(iet yourself reduS loi Onoi Soh
Grove Exhibition.
Yesterday Thursday was the long
est day of the year.
Amt it most time to be getting up
q picnic hereabouts?
The dry weather will very likely
cause short berry crop.
Binder Irvine of best quality for
sale cheap by f. L. Licklider.
The Weather and politics furnish in
teresting topics of conversation just
now.
The REGISTERS subscription list is
steadily growing. And yet there is
room.
If YOU want TO get a glass of good
i,e-cold soda water, call on w. a.
Adams.
Mr., H. w. Blunt, of Washington,
wa. in Shepherdstown this week on
business
Send along dollar and get the REG
1.rER from now until the first of next
January.
Shepherdstown is a wet place, but
i has been mighty dry here for the
le.r month or so.
Interesting "Children's Day" ser
vice, we're held in the NJ. f. Church
Inst Sunday evening.
An interesting letter from Colorado
will be found on the fourth page of
rbe REGISTER this week.
,-heat is worth from rs to 50 cents
in Shepherdstown at present. Corn
brings 50 cents per bushel.
Wanted-Fifty bushels of old wheat.
Also fifty bushels of white corn. Will
pay cash. John d. Staley.
Water is getting scarce, and folks
are experiencing considerable incon-
venience in and around town.
The Potomac is in delightful con
dition for bathing now, and is greatly
enjoyed by numerous persons.
See advertisement of sale of the
BAYLOR property, by Trustee Geo NJ.
Beethoven. i'll another column.
The County Court of Berk eley coun-
" has fixed the levy at A. cents on the
hundred dollars-the same as last year.
Town Sergeant Arthur has gathered
in number of stray cows during the
past week and put them in the pound.
Mr.. Bassett Mitchell, of Charlestown,
ha> been appointed a taxidermist at
the Smithsonian Institute, Washing
ton
The excursion season at Island Park
opened up last week with a big crowd
of excursionists from Wilmington,
Del
There is no greater nuisance in this
make night hideOus with their bark
town than the loud-mouthed dogs that
ing and bowling.
Born TO Mr. and Mrs. G. 5. Hunter,
al Savannah, Mo, June 10, 1888, a
fine boy. West Virginia sends con
CALCULATIONS TO Missouri.
The Martinsburg Statesman an
nounces that it has not made an as
sisnuent as reported Malicious enc
mics started the report.
Keep your eye on the date opposite
your name on this paper. And if you
are behindhand, try and settle up
Printers can't live OH air.
Mr.. b. =. Pendleton has moved his
store into his new room next 10 the
College grounds, where he will be
pleased 10 see all customers.
News is very scarce this season, so
our readers must excuse lack OF inter
e>ting reading. If the people won't
make news we can't publish it.
The long continued drought has
been pretty hard on the gardens.
The vegetables will not amount TO
much unless a rain comes very soon.
\ fine Cotswold buck belonging TO
Mr.. \. ii. Vanmeter, of Berkeley coun-
". sutfocated last week from super
abundance of fat The animal was
valued at $50.
The Friendship Union Sunday
School will hold a strawberry festival
Oh the evenings of June 22d and 23d at
the United Brethren Church near
Nauclevesville.
The boss corn and wheat fields oil
this neighborhOod-Col. VIM. y. Nor
gau's Wonder what brand of fertilizer
he u,eS: Somebody whispers, 'Schley
Chesapeake goods.
The river is in good order for fish
ing now. but the small fish are SO eN-
tremely abundant that the bass are
not at all in hurry to take the bait
at the end of line.
The attention of Brother Gallaher
is respectfully invited to two fish sto-
rirs OH the first page of the REGISTER.
The snake season is a little backward,
but We get there OH the fish stories.
We understand that the Jefferson
Creamery of Messrs. Getzendanner y
Roberts. at kearneysville, Is now III
running order, and turning out a large
quantity of splendid butter each week.
our attention has been called TO a
typographical error in communica-
ton printed two weeks ago. Refer
ring to u term of the County Court III
May, 1886, it was misprinted May,
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The State Secretary of the Y. NJ. c.