Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-05-17
BRIEFS.


Soma of the pavements in town
ood repairs very badly.
Rev L. r. Mason will preach at
nufields Sunday, May 10th.
All the public schools in Shepherds
.own District close this week.
Flannel shirts will be popular for
,+lsmen's wear this summer.
F. Suman has been appointed
ostmaster at Keedysville, Md.
Notice change in the advertisement
Of Lowenstein Bros. & Co. this week.
There will be number of excellent
.neakers at Shepherdstown on June
lst.
Presiding Elder Smithson Rumsey
preached in the NJ. E. Church South
last Sunday,
Il is said that there have been al
most as many fishermen as fish along
the Potomac this Spring.
Don't fail to notify your friends
+bat Shepherdstown is u delightful
Mace TO spend the summer.
West Virginia receives this year
from the General government S5.695.6
rthe equipment of militia.
postmaster-General Wanamaker
avs he does not think the time has
v.r come for penny postage.
Rev. H. C. Mcdaniel will preach in
Sbepherdstown on Sunday at 1870
and Mt. Wesley at o'clock.
The commencement of Oak Grove
School will be held on Wednesday
evening. May 22d, at 7.3O o'clock.
Messrs. Nathan Hibarger and Jos.
Cox. of Sharpsburg, have obtained
Government employment at Washing
ton
The dedication of the Catholic
Church in Charlestown will take
Mace Sunday, May &c, services at II
a. III.
Mr.. ID. l.. Rentch has fitted up an
arrangement for furnishing temper
snre drinks at his store next to the
postotlice.
The stockholders on the jefferson
Savings Bank reelected all the old di-
rectors at the annual meeting on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Sophie Munder, daughter OF
Mr.. William Updegraff, OF Hagers-
town. died last Sunday in Baltimore,
aged % years.
Mr.. James w. Kerney has put up
building at his coal yard for the
storage of the Wood binders, for
which he is agent.
The usual exercises will be held at
Antietam National Cemetery on May
3Oth. The programme will be an
nounced next week.
The only patent granted to citizen
Of West Virginia last week was to
Frank q. Caldwell, of Wheeling, for
sheet metal roofing.
Potomac Building Association No. 3
will offer for sale several shares of
stock next Monday evening at Z o'clock
in the REGISTER Office.
The Teachers Institute for Berke-
lev county will begin June Sd and he
conducted by L. S. Fleming, principal
Of the Grafton graded school.
The exhilirating exercise of GRO
quette is being INDUCED i'll by the
beaux and bellies of Keyser.-Trl6ne.
What sort of a game is croquette, any
way.
Mr. Bushrod c. Washington, of
Charlestown, has been elected Vice
President for West Virginia OF the
Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution.
Two carloads of southern strawber-
ries went through ShepherdStown last
Sunday night, bound for the New
York market. We wish they had
stopped here.
Mr.. James r. Richard has improved
hi, dwelling-ho on 'Tater Hill by
Notwithstanding the gable end, and
we understand will have the entire
house reprinted.
The commissioners of Washington
county, Md, have added $50 per acre
to the assessed value of the Edgemont
peach lands. The peach growers
don't like it at all.
The first excursion to Island Park
was held last Saturday, when the
National Geological Society met.
Hon. w. l.. Wilson and ID. b. Lucas,
ED, made addresses.
Hagerstown will have an interest
ing show on the 4th of July. The
National League of American Wheel
men will meet there then, and hun
dredS of bicylsts will attend.
Rev. \. A. Black, of Huntington,
Pa. will preach in the Reformed
Church at Shepherdstown on Sunday,
May 10Th, at 1890 a. H., and at
kearneysville the same day at Bpm.
One of the huge weeping willow
trees on the right hand side of the
gate of Antietam National Cemetery
was blown down by the storm on
Friday evening. The tree was dam
aged so badly that it had to be re-
moved.
st. Andrews Chapel, recently built
near Manning's School House by Zion
?. +. congregation, was opened Sun
day afternoon for service and general
Use. The chapel is an exceedingly
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