Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-06-28
BRIEFS.


will sell halffare tickets between all
stations on its line for the 4th of July.
Tickets will be on sale July I'd, good
to return until July 5th.
o. Howard Roger, Esq, General
Passenger Agent of the Shenandoah
Valley Railroad, was in town on We'd
nesday on business connected with
the Morgan's Grove exhibition this
fall
The Shepherd Fire Department has
ordered new uniform trousers for its
members, which will be worn first at
Martinsburg on the 4th of July. s. p,
Humrickhouse & Son have the con-
tract for furnishing them.
Mr.. Casper Stump, well-known
Berkeley county man and formerly
deputy sheriff, died of dropsy at his
home in Gerardstown last Monday,
aged about so years. He was the
father of Rev. j. P. Stump.
Mr.. Thos. Jones lost one of his driv
ing horses this week. The animal be-
came frightened while being har-
messed to a buggy on Camp Hill, and
dashed down an elm bankment, break
ing his leg and badly damaging the
vehicle. The horse was shot.-Har-
Per's Ferry Sentinel,
Conductor John Doll, one of the
most popular men on the main stem
of the B. g. o. Railroad, has rendered
his resignation to take effect July. 1st.
Capt. Doll takes this step so as to
give his attention to the management
of the Mountain View Hotel, which
he has leased at Harper's Ferry.
The July Vide Awake, published by
ID. Lothrop Company, has been re-
ceived, and is a notably interesting
number 1t is magazine that COM
bines more strongly than any other
the interesting and the instructive,
aud no family of children ought to be
without it. 1t is well worth its price,
$40 a year.
An effort is to be made by some of
the young men of Shepherdstown to
organize baseball club, and a sub
scription paper will shortly be passed
around to see if some money cannot
be raised for that purpose. We hope
that liberal contributions will be
made and that base ball club will be
gotten on a permanent basis. Smaller
towns than this support good clubs.
For the past two weeks the allah
sorbing subject here has been the
binder question. After listening to
all the agents we find that the Os-
borne beat the Whitley, the Whitley
beat the Osborne, the Wood beat the
Osborne and Whitley, and both of
these beat the Wood. The agents also
beat each other, but the farmer who
bought binder was beaten worst Of
all
A suit was instituted last week by
Mr.. Joseph West against the Corpora
ton of Martinsburg, to recover dam
ages resulting to his property on East
John street from the grading of the
street. He asks for $1,000 damages.
1t is claimed that in grading this
street his house has been left sitting
about twenty feet above the level,
and entrance to the house is nearly
prevented.
The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of
the Music Teachers National Associ-
alton is to be held in the Academy of
Music, at Philadelphia, on July 2, 3,
f. 5. Judging from the programme,
just received, the meeting will be of
great interest and educational value
to all music teachers who attend.
Programmes can be obtained by adj
dressing Lily r. Church, Vice-Presi-
dent for this State, at Parkersburg,
w. Va.
The Charlestown Water and Manu-
featuring Company last week con-
Guided contract with Messrs. Lippitt
and Woods, of Phillipsburg, n. j., for
the stand-pipe for the water works.
1t is to be fifteen feet in diameter by
fifty feet in height, and is TO be COM
pleted by July 18th. The excavation
has been made for the foundation of
the stand-pipe, and work upon the
masonry will be begun at once
SPIRIT
The last meeting of the Board of
Education of this district for the cur
rent year will be held Saturday morn
ing to make settlement with the sher-
if. All persons having accounts
against the schools of this district
should present them properly anthem
ticated on or before that morning. All
claims not presented by that time will
be excluded. The first meeting of the
new Board of Education will be held
on Monday next.
Ten Minutes to Twelve" is the I'll
tie of the new novel, by NJ. q. McClel-
land. in the July number of Lipphn-
colts Magazine. The story cannot fail
to add greatly to this brilliant young
authors reputation. The plot is in
tricate and exceedingly well worked
out, and in the delineation of charac-
ter Miss McClelland shows the same
firm touch and keen understanding
of the people she deals with that has
characterized her previous stories.
Ten minutes to Twelve" is just the
kind of novel to take away for sum
mer reading.
All the farmers of this vicinity have
been busy harvesting this week, and
some few have finished by this time