Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-08-15
BRIEFS.

rightly tickets to Pen Mar were sold
here last saturday
VI, ought to have an exhibit at
ans Grove this year.
c,npany b had its annual soup at
NJ, Spring last Saturday.
- i 70 be another tournament
po,iyar Heights on Saturday, the
!Sd
TIRE i talk OF erecting a bridge
the Potomac river at Han
cock.
NJ. pevton r. Harrison, formerly
,wortin,burg, died in Rockford, Hi
". on the 9th instant.
#. Vim. f. Heskitt, a former resi-
,tof Shepherdstown, has been APP
- postmaster at Piedmont this
STATE.
r,. supreme Court Of Appeals of
STATE will convene in Charles
,o on the first Wednesday in Sep
iember.
No 4 p. Thompson has been APP
,,ip,ed special lecturer and organizer
- Jefferson county by the Farmers
Alliance.
n,r esteemed friend George Gala
,.,i. singing his favorite hymn day
srdui.ht, NOVA charge to keep 1
have. LISA boy.
Delegates j. H. little, j. b. Lucas
,a5 Robert Rion Lucas attended the
D.mocratic State convention at Graf
,ag on Wednesday.
typhoid fever continues its deadly
.,rk in various sections OF our
s,1utv The greatest sanitary care
.hould be observed.
The Republicans Of this county will
hold a meeting in Charlestown on
saturday to select delegates to the
vs-i5u. conventions.
Mr. John w. Lucas asks us to an
r,rnce 10 the public that he is an in
5-psndent candidate for the county
,,4rkship in this county.
The Council of Charlestown has de-
,.iusd To submit TO the voters a prop
o.irion to spend $4,000 for the i'm
movement of streets, etc.
The Democratic Convention to nom
mate a candidate for this Congress
.iopal district. will meet in Keyser,
Wednesday. August 9th.
Ex-Governor Holiday, of Virginia,
who has been travelling in Asia and
Africa for some time past, has arrived
2, hi. home in Winchester.
The Shenandoah Valley Railroad
offer, 10 give greatly reduced rates to
the B-rryville races next week be-
tween Luray and Hagerstown.
Judge Duckwall held a special term
Of the Jefferson Circuit Court last
Thursday. and confirmed the sales OF
the Shaull and Balch properties.
The Peabody Institute is in session
thi, week at Parkersburg and will
continue another week. L he atten-
dance is not as large as was expected.
An immense amount of freight is
now daily and nightly passing over
the Shenandoah Valley Railroad.
The trains are running almost con-
tiuously.
Professors Bush and Miller of Shop
herd Collage are holding the teachers
institute in Romney this week. Next
week they will hold an institute in
Graut county.
The members of Marvin Chapel will
hold festival in the grove adjoining
the church on Friday and Saturday
evenings. August 22d and 23d. All
are invited to attend.
Judge Jackson has fixed upon the
23i day of September for the begin
nius Of the L. S. Circuit and District
Courts at Martinsburg, instead OF the
first Tuesday in August.
There were twelve votes cast at
DuhrId> in the school election last
Saturday The result was nine votes
iOr nine months school, one for eight
months and two for none.
General James A. Walker, of Wythe-
vile Virginia, who once commanded
the Sjonewall brigade, addressed the
Confederate soldiers in Hampshire
county at their late reunion.
J. considered the proper thing
FOR the summer girl to wear tan-co.-
orrd stockings to match her tan shoes
Whether it is proper for her to show
them i, something else, but she does.
Some of the speakers who have
agreed to come TO Morgan's Grove
have national regulations as orators
and statesmen, and it will be well
worth days journey to hear them
talk
Mrs Sarah NJ. Cooper, widow of
General Samuel Cooper, OF the Con
Tolerate army, and sister Of the late
Hon. Jas NJ. Mason, died in her
nn~tieth year, at Seminary Hill, near
Alexandria, recently.
WANTED Rankings, Rye, Oats,
Screenings, and White Corn, or will
buy damaged wheat OF any kind.
viii pay market price. Best Family
Flour $500, including Darrell.
JOHN d. STALEY, Shepherdstown.
The Reformed Sunday School had
N>picnic yesterday at Morgan's Grove.
The Southern Methodists will picnic
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