Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-09-06
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The darkey's hour is just before
dawn.
Rasutiful flower pots, painted, at
" p. I.icklider's.
y,rore invited to visit our store and
"a the new fall goods w. p. Lickli-
der
r,5,e Duckwall held special term
.s,be Circuit Court at Charlestown
tbi, week.
Rev. r. NJ. Strickler will preach in
piImvers Hall next Sunday morning
at 1890 o'clock.
Road the new advertisement of
Thompson & Tabler, Martinsburg
clothiers, on this page.
Captain George w. Green intends
% mild a summer hotel on his noun
tain farm near Harper's Ferry.
beautiful tea and dinner sets, gold
hand and decorated, fruit bowls, oys-
tsr bowls. casters. w. p. Licklider.
The Winchester Fair will be held
tbi, year October LIST to 4th, and the
Hacerstown Fair October 18th TO 18th
W p. Licklider still leads in carry
inc the largest stock of china and
class. An immense stock just received.
The REGISTER is greatly indebted
~ Miss Salie Hill for a basket of very
fine peaches. They were fully appre-
ciatcd
\ biz sixty-pound turtle that had
bren sent from Florida to Hagers-
town was put in Antietam creek last
Friday.
Fresh groceries, hams, shoulders,
sweet potatoes, cakes, crackers, choc-
olate. cheese, bologna, etc, at w. p.
Licklider'S.
Beautiful parlor lamps and lamps
for all purposes, fruit jars, tumblers,
etc. yellow dishes and bowls, at w.
p I.icklider's.
+. \. McGlone, a graduate from the
Office Of the Charlestown Free Press,
ma, been elected district attorney for
Pierce county, Dakota.
John Brantner. the twelve-year-old
son of Mr.. Frisby Brantner, of Mar
tinSburg. died of lockjaw last week.
He had run piece of bone in his foot.
\ gay party of young ladies and
gentlemen from Harper's Ferry drove
up to Shepherdstown last Saturday
evening to enjoy the music and fire
works.
Mr.. Edwin C. Engle brought very
large tomato TO the Register office the
other day. 1t weighed two pounds,
lacking half an ounce. Can anybody
beat it,
The Charlestown Free Press com
pleted.its seventy-eight year last week
The queer thing aboutthe Free Press is
that it gets more vivacious as it grows
older Long may she wave
Chief Charles Terrell had the fire
company out on Wednesday night
and gave the main street u thorough
sprinkling. 1t was a great blessing
10 have the dust settled so effectually.
\ Young lady of Shepherdstown fell
out of bed the other night and bruised
her nose and BACKED her eye and
skinned her forehead and loOsened a
jaw tooth and bit her tongue and
sprained her big toe.
Mr.. VIM. II. McQuilkin is having a
new brick house built on his farm
about a mile and a-half from town,
the MeSsrs. Sheetz doing the work.
Its perhaps little too soon TO say
who will occupy the new dwelling.
Mr. John Stuart, of Washington,
while bathing in the Potomac, near
Island Park, OH Thursday, left his
clothes i'm the little building at the
foot Of the ravine. When he returned
he found that some one had climbed
down stove-pipe hole in the roof
aud had extracted some twenty-eight
or thirty dollars from his pocket
HQpor's Ferry Sentinel.
The play of Ingomar Wednesday
evening in College Hall by the Nc
Leau-Prescott company was witness
ed by packed house. Although the
stage was so small that the actors
We're greatly hampered, they never
theleSS gave the finest theatrical
performance seen in this town In
many year. The performance was
repeated on Thursday night, and we
understand will be given again to-
night for the benefit of the colored
people
\ very interesting and exciting
tournament took place at the home
OF Owner Allen, Esq, near Summit
Point, on Tuesday, in which many
oil the young men of that vicinity
displayed exceptionally fine horse
monNhip and great skill i'll the art
OF taking rings Mr.. X. &. Rodgers,
oil Baltimore, Md, guest OF MT
Howard Allen, crowned the queen
Miss Bette Willis of Summit Point,
and Mr. Howard Allen the first maid
OF honor, Miss Taylor of Loudoun
county, Va. After the tournament
adelightful dancing picnic was held
and much enjoyed Charleston" Dem
Ocr0t.
The attention of our readers is
called to the advertisement of the
Mendenall Nurseries at Kaerneysville,
Df. ID Nv RorJor prOnriptOr we