Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-04-05
BRIEFS.

appointed postmaster.
The new house of Mr.. l.. W. Pof-
finberger, corner Princess and High
streets, is going up rapidly under the
direction of Mr.. w. M. Staley. The
lumber for the house was furnished
by Messrs. Phillips, of Charlestown.
Last week the following names were
added to the Shepherd College roll:
Miss Alice C. Slater, of Cherry Run,
Morgan county, Miss Maggie Black
wood, of Berkeley Springs, Morgan
county, and Mr.. J. w. Wise, of Hardy
county.
Mr.. Vandiver Lemen. a former we'll
known citizen Of Shepherdstown, died
at the County Infirmary on Saturday
last, aged about 20 years Mr.. Silas
Waters, of Harper's Ferry, died at
the same institution on the Goth Of
March, at the age of rs years.
The corporate authorities of our
neighboring town of Boonsboro are,
we fear, getting too good for this earth.
They have posted notices prohibiting
the picking of eggs within the corpor-
ate limits. enactment has yet been
passed, however, prohibiting hens
from laying eggs.
Hon. Simon Cameron has just passed
his ninetieth birthday. The founder
of the Free Press, the late Jno. S. Gal
laher, was nearly three years his Sc
nior. They, as typos, worked side by
side in Washington City newspaper
Office many years ago.-CharleStown
Free Press.
Mr.. Ambrose Blakeley Cramer, for
many years prominent at Bedford,
Pa, but for nine years past resident
of Baltimore, died at Atlantic City re-
Gently. He was born in Shepherds
town on the 22d of March, 1922. His
mother was sister of the late Uriah
b. Kearney of this county.
F. J. Walsh, the Trenton photo
grapher, writes to the REGISTER that
that yarn about his business being to
furnish cigarette pictures from pho
tographs of ladies sent to him is en-
tirely false. He conducts a strictly
legitimate business, and the mega
tives are destroyed after the pictures
are made.
The b. e. O. Relief Association hav-
ing wound up its business went out of
existence as chartered corporation
on March 81, and Oh Monday the re-
lief organization commenced a new
career as II department of the compa-
ny, under the charge Of superin-
tendent instead of board of mana
gers and secretary.
The people of Moler's Cross Roads
neighborhood are all extremely inter
ested in the chicken subject just now,
and two poultry associations are CEN
tres of attraction around which all To-
cal affairs revolve. One of the prom
inent farmers of the neighborhood has
a hen that lays gold dollars-but she
doesn't lay regularly.
Mr.. ]. Will Taylor celebrated an
other birthday on Monday in his
usual way by having number of
friends to dine with him. These are
always pleasant occasions, and Mon
dav was no exception to the rule. a
splendid dinner was prepared by Mrs.
Taylor, to which ample justice was
done by those present.
The dwelling house of Mrs. Hunter
that was so badly damaged by fire
some weeks ago is being repaired,
Me.srs. VIM. and j. S. Sheetz doing
the carpenter work. Mrs. Hunter re-
ceived four hundred dollars from the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad Com
pany, a spark from one of its locomo-
tives having started the contlagra-
ton.
MIR. Martin J. Gearhart, who lives
near Clear Spring, Washington
county, was burning brush in one of
his fields. His two little girls were
with him, and after their father left
the fire the children began roasting
some potatoes, when the clothing of
Estelle, aged seven years, caught fire,
and she was badly burned before as
sistance reached her.
Mr.. VIM. Il. McQuilkin has bought
from the Catholics of this place the
old Baylor house, and will immediate
lv tear down the building and remove
the material We understand that Mr..
McQuilkin will build a house on his
farm Just beyond Mr.. Keplinger's 1t
is probable that the erection of a new
Catholic chapel will be begun very
soon on the site of the building torn
down.
We refer our readers to the new
advertisement of $. p. Humrickhouse
g. Son. This firm will devote its at
tention mainly to the merchant tail
oring business hereafter, and has now
on hand a fine line of spring suitings
and furnishings They will offer their
stock of ready-made clothing at way
down prices, as they intend to quit
that branch of business. 1t will pay
you to give them a call.
A public performance of the Senior
Glass of Shepherd College will be
held in College Hall at 73O p. III. Fri
day, April 18th. The exercises will
consist of short original orations, in
terspersed with music. The friends
and patrons of the school are invited
to be present, that they may have an
opportunity of observing some OF the
work done, and of judging for them