Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-10
BRIEFS.
.orb pies are ripe.

,r straw hat is now seasonable.
p.ss have been biting very we'll this
week.
ui,best cash price paid for wool at
Hodges
Mrs NJ. i. Harrington is receiving
new spring hats
storer College Commencement will
take place May SOth'
The farmers are very busy blowing
and planting corn.
The boys are happy now because
they can go barefooted.
This is the season when We all tell
warns about our gardens.
Dr J. f. Pitznogle, of Martinsburg,
has located in Sharpsburg.
They say the strawberry crop will
!. q very large one this year.
las R. Nicely has been appointed
,,o.tmaster at Leetown, this county.
The weather is settling a little.
Tho weather does better than some
subscribers.
Mr.. WIN. H. G. Kemp, one of Wash
;octon county's most respected citi-
zens, is dead.
Mr. CYRUS Helfenstein has purchased
rho Frederick daily and weekly
Times for $3.50.
Rev. r. NJ. Strickler will preach in
Ralmyer's Hall on Sunday morning
next at II o'clock.
General Flick is an applicant for
the Martinsburg postoffice, and is
.aid 10 have the inside track.
Hon. Vim. l.. Wilson will be the or
ator at the commencement at Wake
Forest College, n. c., in June.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church in the United States
meets at Chattanooga next Thursday.
The Charlestown Spirit says it has
been presented with a chicken that
has three eyes and three bills. My!
Ny,
The Lee Memorial Association has
decided on Saturday, June Sth, as
Confederate decoration day in Charles
town.
A number of new residences are be-
ing built at Harper's Ferry, and new
hotel will soon be erected OH Bolivar
Heights.
For comfort, style and dura bility,
We claim our ladies' shoes, manufact-
ured at Rochester, excel all others. q.
T. Hodges
Sunday next, May 18th, is the time
fixed for changing the schedules of
the various railroads of this part of
the country.
The barn of Mr.. David Stouffer,
near Hagerstown, was burned last
Monday morning, with its contents.
1t was insured.
Rev. Charles GhiseliD will preach i'll
Shepherdstown Sunday morning at
1890 and at Kearneysville in the after
noon at o'clock.
The streets of Shepherdstown have
been nicely cleaned up this week, and
little more work will put them in
frst-claSs condition.
The ladies' Auxiliary to the Y. NJ. G..
4. will meet in the Association room
next Monday evening at o'clock.
All members are requested to at
tend.
The school election will be held on
the 2lst of June A county superin-
tendent is to be elected and one COM
missioner for Shepherdstown dis
trict.
William Wells desires 10 inform the
public that he isprepared to do white
washing and all sorts of work at rea-
sonable prices and in a satisfactory
manner.
w A. Huddlesturn, one of the
postal clerks on the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, was bounced the
first of this week to make room for a
Republican.
Martin l.. Milbourne, an engineer
on the b. & o. Railroad, of Martins
burg, died in Baltimore on Monday
from the results of all accident week
or two previous.
Winchester was successfully lighted
up last Saturday night by the Schuy-
Ter electric light system. The event
was celebrated by parade and a big
time generally.
Mrs Sallie Fritts, wife of Mr.. VIM.
II. Fritts, and daughter of the late
Eben Trussell, died at her residence
near Leetown, in this county, on Fri
nay last, aged 40 years.
Mr.. Bassett Mitchell, of Charlestown,
who has been taxidermist in the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
Is the latest victim from this county
His official head was chopped off last
week
We congratulate the Berkeley
Springs Ne,cs upon the completion of
Its fourth volume and its beginning of
new year under favorable circum-
stances The Ne,os is a wideawake
paper.
Next Wednesday, May 18th, is the
date for the excursion to Roanoke,
Va, over the Shenandoah Valley
Railroad. This will no doubt be q
very pleasant trip, and it surely is q
cheap one.
Mr.. II. H. Graham, Baltimore
gentleman, was in Shepherdstown
last Saturdor lookin0 for n hOuSp