Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-09-07
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buying
We rise TO remark that ''Tater Hill'
i still ahead.
sbelby's circus exhibits at Martins
burg on Saturday.
Don't forget the new fall goods that
have arrived at w. p Licklider's.
Farmers who have threshed say
that the wheat is turning out first
rate.
The Cleveland and Thurman Club
If Shepherdstown now has 237 mem
beers.
senator Faulkner has our thanks
for useful documents relating to the
tariff.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
Of West Virginia met at Charleston on
Wednesday,
Mr.. Jeptha Hensel, an aged Martins
bprg citizen, died last Friday. He
was IS years old.
Beautiful tea set Give styles, cham
her sets. china and glass, all new, at
W. p. Lickhders.
Rev. r. NJ. Strickler will preach at
Billmyer's Hall on next Sunday morn
ing at 1890 o'clock.
Mr.. John Aiken, a Berkeley county
farmer. died recently near Gerards-
town aged 70 years.
Read the new advertisements in
this weeks paper. 1t pays to keep
posted in these things.
John Snyder, caught an eel in the
f,hpot at Dam No. the other day
that weighed six pounds.
Carload of nice, smooth stoneware
iust received by Hodges. Merchants
supplied at wholesale prices.
We receive weekly sweet potatoes,
watermelons, cantelopes, bologna sau-
sage. cheese, etc. W. p. Licklider
We 20 TO press little earlier than
chance at Morgan's Grove Exhibition.
You want school shoes at this time
Come and see what large stock Of
boots and shoes we have. w. p. Lick
ider
Bv freight wreck on the b. g. 0.
Railroad last Friday near Breatheds-
Vile. Md. whole train of freight cars
was smashed up.
We are indebted TO j. p. Marshall,
ESQ, OF Louisville, for some news
papers with most interesting tariff
literature in them.
Mr.. George Shipley, formerly Of
this place, has been elected Principal
Of the Middleburg (Loudoun county,
Va. Classical school.
Mr.. Jas. \. Green, of Harper's Fer
" has been appointed to a position
in the money order division of the
Postofiice Department.
Ifyou want spices we have all kinds
aud pure. Also tea at 80 cents per
pound and Tobacco at 80 cents per
pound, at w. p. Licklider's.
Companies \ and G, of the One hun
dred -and-th irtieth Regiment Pennsyl-
yana Volunteers, will hold their re-
union at Antietam September nth.
Mr.. Upton Burhman, a prominent
merchant of Myersville, Md, will
shortly remove TO the farm near Mar
tiusburg recently purchased by him.
After September Goth the office of
Dr. T. c. Stotler, resident Dentist,
will be closed for several weeks. Any
one needing his services should call
before that time.
Slate Pencils, paper and ink, fiber
buckets. rat traps, tubs, corn hooks
and cleavers, tar rope, baskets, stone
jars. coal hods, etc, just received at
w y. Licklider's.
General Harris, from the western
part of the State, was in Shepherds
town on Tuesday evening and deliv-
cred an address in favor of the Prohi-
bition Amendment.
Monday, September nth, will be
the anniversary of the battle OF An
tietam. A number of excursions are
being arranged 10 run from various
points TO the battlefield on that occa-
sion.
Last Thursday night big barn be
longing TO Christian Hoellenger, at
Leitersburg, Md, was destroyed by fire
with all its contents. The loss was
$1,000 The light was plainly seen
from Shepherdstown.
The Winchester Ne,cS under new
management and with new dress
comes to us this week most decidedly
improved in every way. 1t has made
big step forward, and we congratulate
it, publishers upon its fine appear
ance
The Peter Bowers farm, containing
IA acres, near Summit Point, was
sold on Friday last, by Special Com
mi>sioners Forrest w. Brown and a.
W Mcdonald Thomas West, auc-
tioneer-to Mrs. Martha Clipp' at
S4l.0j per acre.-!Spirn.
The Hagerstown Spoke and Bend
ing Company, whose shops and ma
chinery were consumed by fire some
time ago, have purchased for S0'ooO
the old sash factory, and will erect
new shops on the site in which 10
continue their business.
y new ruling of the postofiice de
partInent provides that postal chrds
that are uncalled for will be returned