Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-03-08
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day
end us the news of your neighbor-
hood.
The auction at the store of j. f.
Velshans is still going on
This is Just as good time as any
sub,cribe for the REGISTER.
Fresh fish for sale to-day at R. NJ.
pn,mver's, for cash or trade only.
The pickpockets reaped rich har-
LAST on the b. & o. passenger trains
last week.
Soc that your chimneys are in good
,rasr-March winds are dangerous to
foul chimneys
Rev. r. NJ. Strickler will preach at
pIlmyer's Hall on next Senday Morn
ING at II o'clock.
March came in neither like a lamb
ora lion, but in sort mud turtle
STYLE as it were.
Mrs. J. V. Carney, Of Bedington,
has been paralyzed and is now in a
critical condition.
newspaper has been established
a. Hancock, Md 1t is called the Star
and long may it twinkle.
Mr. Stuart Hirschman, of Charles
town. has become partner in a large
.lothins house in New York.
Several answers have been received
q, the riddle in last weeks REGISTER.
The object referred to was a whale.
At a recent protracted meeting in
the Baptist Church at Charlestown
seventy persons prOfessed conversion.
"Ambipedipulation" is the new
word FOR reversing in the waltz.
Seems to us it would be easier to keep
right on.
Try Prys Golden Tinge flour. Some
pronounce it as good as Minnesota.
The price is only $3.50 per barrel, at
TrusSell's
The Baltimore Conference, NJ. f.
Church South, will meet in Alexan-
dria. Va, March 18th. Bishop Will
son will preside.
Potomac Building Association No. 3
will offer for sale several shares of
stock next Monday evenings at o'clock
in the REGISTER Office.
The recent sale of personal property
in Frederick of the late Louis McMur-
ryrealized more than 5000 y large
quantity OF goods remain unsold.
Mr. VI. u. Crowl, who had the con
tract for furnishing ice to the Shen-
sndoah Valley Railroad Company,
supplied about three hundred tons.
The latest fashionable extravaganza
among silly society ladies in garter
buckles. A pair was sold in New York
the other day that was valued at eight
hundred dollars.
Trussell expects this week Califor-
Ma peaches, apricots and plums.
Florida oranges, apple butter, bo-
logua Scotch herring, cheese, French
pruueS and fresh crackers.
The IIsgerstown Globe, the bright
est country daily that we know Of
has entered upon its eleventh volume.
We hope the circulation of the Globe
will always be III good order.
The incessant rain of last Sunday
and Monday made big raise in the
Potomac river, which on Tuesday was
very high indeed. We have not heard
Of any material damage, however.
We are indebted to our esteemed
friends, Thompson & Tabler, the Mar
tinsburg clothiers, for a handsome
new silk scarf. 1t is as pretty as
picture Their new advertisement
will appear next week.
There is one statement that cannot
be successfully refuted: The REGIS
TER Office turns out the most attrac-
tive and most neatly printed sale bills
aud posters in this end of the State
or the other end either, for that
matter
The County Court has ordered
eJ-SherifT Hurst to turn over to the
Clerk Of the County Court all delin-
quent tax bills for 1887, and the Clerk
will have the names Of the delinquents
published We heartily approve of
this plan. and as we don't expect TO
get the job of printing them we can
say this with good grace.
Next Friday, March 18th, Mr.. w.
Manning Lemen will have an unusu-
ally large sale of stock and farming
implements at his residence near
Shepherdstown. The horses and cat
lie TO be sold are better animals than
are generally sold in this locality, land
are well worthy the attention of buy
err See advertisement in this paper
and bills.
The following farms were sold in
Hagerstown Tuesday: The Warren
irlts farm, containing 165 acres, near
81 James College, TO Elias Young for
SillO per acre; the Nichols farm, con
taining 40 acres, near Brownsville, to
John T. Meats for SIS % per acre, and
the Snivelv farm, containing 300 acres,
hear keedysville, to H. II. keedy at
SOLO per acre.
Jacob Wintermoyer, the boss cloth
inS man, is now getting in his spring
stock Of clothing, and it will do you
good to see it. 1t is the finest line OF
clothing that has ever been brought
10 this town. We consider it beyond
criticism or cOmDarison. both in quail