Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-08-09
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ing.
The corn crop is coming along first
rate.
The days are getting perceptibly
shorter
r,cursion to Atlantic City next
thursday via B. & o,
Company B will have its soup at
.be Big Spring on Saturday.
The REGISTER Office has been busy
mast week on all sorts of job work
The wise man buyeth his winters
al in the summer when prices are
low.
There are rumors floating in the
- Of several weddings in the near
future.
Rev r. NJ. Strickler will preach at
pillmver's Hall next Sunday morning
at 1890 o'clock.
Charles Seibert, of Berkeley county,
...aptly had one of his ears kicked
clean off by horse.
Lewis Yeakle, of Hagerstown, went
bathing in Antietam creek the other
dsv and was drowned.
The rainbow reception in the Col
love ward Saturday evening will be
novelty well worth taking in.
"Bobbing" for eels has been a ia
vorite sport with some Of our fisher
men the past couple of weeks.
United Brethren bush meeting in
Mr. Aglionby's woods at Shenandoah
Junction on Sunday, August 18th.
Some thief entered the house Oh
Mr.. John Glen in Charlestown the
other night and stole a silver watch.
Mrs. Nancy Robinson, the aged
widow Of of the late Robert X. Robin
son, died in Martinsburg last Sunday
night.
Mr.. II. \. McComas, the able Super
intendent of the Hagerstown Fair.
has been re-appointed to his old po-
sition.
The jolly folks at Col Morgan's had
a big soup in the grove the other day.
We soup-pose they all enjoyed them
selves.
The Louisville Baseball Club stopped
in Hagerstown long enough on Mon
DAY last to clean up the local club by
score of IS to 4.
Hagerstown will soon equal Chicago
as a divorce market. There were
three applications for divorce on the
docket last Saturday.
A permit was issued to Senator
John Z. Kenna in Washington on
Monday to build a $4,000 house at
100 b street northeast.
The Reformed Sunday School has
its picnic to-day at Morgan's Grove.
The Lutherans will picnic at Lem
en- : UrOVe DeAG thursday.
The B. so. Railroad is tryinga loco
motive that burns coke instead of coal
II il proves success all the passen-
ger engines will be fixed to burn
coke.
Where can a prettier quartette of
girls be seen than that which almost
every evening brightens the Shep-
herdstown streets in a new double
roadcart?
An unknown colored man while
walking on the b. & o. Railroad
tracks three miles west of Martins
burg on Sunday was struck by loco
motive and killed.
The Charlestown SPIRIT wants the
names Of the streets placed upon the
street lamps. This effort of the Spirit
to keep strangers from being lost is
most commendable.
Joseph Hays, a negro thief and
general desperate whose reputation
is despread in the Shenandoah and
Cumberland Valleys, was arrested in
Baltimore on Tuesday.
The excursion over the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad to the Luray Cave
will take place next Thursday. Fare
for the round trip S225, including
a1tnissior, tn tha noua
A Holstein COW belonging to Stein
er Ramsburg, of Charlesville, Frede-
rick county, wrapped her tail around
tree and in trying to get away
pulled her tail completely out
Remember, farmers, that the Chesa-
peake Guano Company's fertilizers
have won the prizes for the best wheat
at Morgan's Grove Exhibition for the
past two years, and also at Moler's in
1887.
Communion services will be held In
the Lutheran Church SUNDAY morn
ING at half-past 10 o'clock. Prepare
tory services Saturday afternoon at
Soclock.
Miss Agnes Beltzhoover gave a very
pleasant party to her young friends
On Monday evening, and on Tuesday
evening Mr.. and Mrs. II. l.. Snyder
gave party in honor of Miss Rebec
Lambright.
Judge J. j. Jackson convened the
second term of the United States
Court at Martinsburg on Tuesday,
out adjourned it until October 17th,
when considerable business will be
Transacted.
Mr.. Lawrence Montague, CHIEF
gauger at the Hannis distillery, has
oeen discharged. OF course an ELL
clent(D Republican who never saw
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