Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-08-10
B BRIEFS.


the REGISTER.
Now is the time TO watch for the
August meteors.
Even Uncle Emanuel Miller's signs
nl in dry weather.
Mr.. James d. Fayman's big grey
horse died the other day.
TRY barrel of John d. Staley's
hubr flour for $3.50, including barrel.
Mrs. Frank Bonner, of Hagerstown,
,,s. Frustrated by the heat on Tues
day.
Watermelons are becoming plenti-
fnI but unfortunately money contin-
ues scarce.
Mr.. Henry Smith lost very valua-
bla brood mare and fine young colt
nv death recently.
Mr.. James Mathews, a well-known
harrisburg citizen, died last week.
lie WAS Il years old.
Send along your premiums for the
NIorran's Grove Exhibition. Do all
Won can for the show.
The Changers picnic at Williams
Grove begins on August 9th and will
continue the entire week.
ALodge of Good Templars has been
,r.anized at Ripon, this county, with
membership of twenty.
The Sentinel says that more building
+. being done in Harpers Ferry at the
rre,ent time than there has been for
wears.
Winchester District Conference, NJ.
r Church South, will be held at Beth
,,da. near Shepherdstown, August
9gth 10 5lst.
DIR. Gibson is having his dwelling
Lou,e on New street handsomely
roiuted by Messrs. F. d. Bowly and
n. T. Smooth
Mr. q. NJ. Del Smith, an esteemed
and weIl-known resident of Middle
WAY. this county, died last week after
a lingering illness.
Tom. a young son of Mr.. CleOn
Moore. of Charlestown, was pretty
badly hurt last Friday by being hit
IN the head with baseball bat.
Rev r. NJ. Strickler, pastor of Lee
town Baptist Church, will preach in
BIhnver's Hall on next Sunday morn
inc. August 18th, at 1890 o'clock.
senator Faulkner has secured pc
,i,ion in the Interior Department for
Nr.I. Is. Snodgrass, of Berkeley coun-
~ Hi, duties will carry him TO the
far west.
\ woman may not be able to sharp
ena pencil or throw a stone at hen,
hvr she can pack more articles into
trunk than a man can do in a one
horse wagon.
II j. stated that the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad Company have put
large force of hands at work filling
with dirt and stone the high trestles
along the road.
Girls. don't wear wire bustles in
thunder storm. A Maine woman was
nearly killed the other day by a stroke
Of lightning that was attracted by the
wire hustle she wore.
The freight business on the Shenan-
doah Valley Railroad is booming now.
ON Tuesday four extra freight trains,
in addition to the regulars, passed
over this end of the line.
4 leak in the street lamp on the
REGISTER corner caused the gasoline
10 get afire so fiercely on Tuesday
night a, TO melt the glass in the lamp
and burn the top of it off.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mr.. Edward Arthur died on Wednes-
day morning. This was one OF the
three children born a few weeks ago,
all Of whom are now dead.
George Johnson, young colored
man was arrested at Harper's Ferry
recently for an outrageous assault
upon an old colored woman. He was
taken TO the Charlcstown jail.
Some of the farmers of Washington
county. Md. have formed company
To run creamery. 1t is TO be located
near Fairplav, and is the first creame-
nv To be established in that county.
Dr. T. G. Stotler, Resident Dentist,
Shepherd,town, will make his regular
visit 10 Harper's Ferry on August
18th and will remain one week. once
al the home of Edmund Chambers,
Sr.
Ned Johnson, a worthy colored man
in the employ of Mr.. John Il. Colston,
was run over by an OK cart last Fri
day. and had his thigh broken, Dr.
W. F. Lippitt, Jr., gave him necessary
attention.
The directors of Potomac Building
Association No will meet at the REG
I>TER Office next Monday evening at
\ o'clock. at which time several
shares of stock will be offered for re-
deuption.
Mr. John Mcknight, of Charlestown'
has received an order from the Har-
per's Ferry Pulp Co, for 10000 feet OF
OAK plank. He has also contracted 10
furnish the lumber for five houses at
harper'S Ferry.
The ladies of the Reformed Church
OF Sharpsburg will hold lawn ies'i-
val on the evenings of August llth
aud 18th, in the yard of Mr.. H. W.
Grove Shepherdstown folks are cor
diaiI' invited TO attend.