Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-04-11
BRIEFS.
Look at j. w. Kerney's big adver-

by the Lutheran congregation of
Williamsport, Md.
1t is probable that the free posta
delivery system will be extended to
Martinsburg and Winchester during
the next fiscal year.
Last Saturday Mr.. John Maddox
killed seven snakes in Elmwood Gem
etery while he was removing some
brush. A lot of others got away.
Rev. Theodore Simpson, d. d., who
about fifty years ago was pastor of
the Presbyterian Church in Charles
town, died at Rockville, Md, last Sat
urday.
There's a good story on the first
page of the REGISTER this week We
particularly recommend it to hus.
bands in every place but model Shep-
herdstown.
The question Of paving the streets
of Bolivar was voted upon by its citi-
zens on Saturday last, and the result
was 81 in favor of the movement and
GO opposed to it.
There is to be quarterly meeting
OF the Board of Directors of the JEFF
ferson County Mutual Fire Insurance
Company at the company's Office on
Tuesday, April 18th, at II o'clock.
1T is worth knowing" says lamp
chimney dealer, though il isn't to
my interest to say it, that kerosene
will clean a chimney much better
than soap, and make it less liable to
crack"
Mr.. Jacob b. Crow has resigned his
position as ferryman at the Shep-
herdstown ferry, and has returned to
Mines to work in the railroad paint
shops. Mr.. Levi Porter gets the
place as ferryman.
The Berkeley Springs Hotel prop
erty was sold recently at public sale.
The whole establishment brought
3,312 1t was bought, by Mr.. Bond,
who represented VIM p. Dole's inter
est in the property.
Go to w. p. Lickliders and look at
the white granite dinner and tea sets
of 113 pieces. Gold band, luster band
and decorated tea sets, chamber sets
and everything you need in the glass
or china line at his store.
The negotiations for the sale of the
manufacturing shops to a Baltimore
firm have not yetresulted in anything
definite. The firm was unable to
make any contract, as it will proba
bly, be reorganized shortly.
Mr.. Thomas II. Slavery, vice-presi-
dent of the Pussy Il Jones Company,
and owner of the John Brown Fort at
Harper's Ferry, says that it has not
been sold to Chicago syndicate, but
that negotiations are pending.
Helen Russell, daughter of DIR.
Chas. f. Russell, of Sharpsburg, died
last Friday, after a long illness, aged
about fourteen years. a number OF
persons from this place attended the
funeral on Sunday afternoon.
The fire at Mr.. John II. Snyders
implement shed last week was un
doubtedly of incendiary origin. Sew
eral persons saw a man run away
from the place just a minute or two
before the fire was discovered, but he
was too far away to be recognized.
There is not much doubt that the
peach crop will be total failure.
Mr.. j. NJ. Slower, the well-known
fruit grower of the Edgemont peach
region, has just made another investi-
cation of his orchards. He says that
he could not, in his examinations, lind
any live buds.
There was large crowd present In
College Hall last Friday evening to
hear the free concert announced by
Prof. Renner. The performers, now
ever, failed 10 put in an appearance,
and after awhile the small boy be
came so rampant that the audience
was obliged to leave. No reason Tor
the disappointment was given.
Oakland Farmers Alliance was or
ganized March 2Sth with fifteen mem-
bers and the following officers Or. w.
Engle. Pres't; G. G. Conklyn, Vice
Pres't: S. ID. Engle, Jr., Sec'y }.
Aldridge, Treas'r ; o. w, Ramey'
Chap. j. w. Lloyd, Lect'r; }, ii.
Willis, ID. X. NJ. n. Whiting, Asst
D.K.;J W. Ramsburg, Steward !;
w. T. Ramey, Conductor.
Mr.. VIM. II. Byers has sent us
map of the city of Louisville, showing
plainly the path of the destructive
tornado. The dwelling house OF Mr..
Bvers was several squares from the
cyclones course, but the store OF Can
non & Byers was just n short distance
outside the limit. On the map IL
ONLY had about a quarter OF an men
to spare, but it was probably little
further off than that. The friends
here of Mr.. Byers' family are reJoIced
that they suffered no loss or harm.
Last Sunday was an ideal Easter
Day. and the sun shone brilliantly
from morning until evening with
scarce a cloud in the sky. Large con-
gregations attended the Easter servi-
ces in the Episcopal, Lutheran and
Reformed Churches. The three
churches named were most beautl-
fully decorated with fiowers-perhaps
more deliberately than ever before
Continuation services were held in the
Lutheran and Reformed Churches,