Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-05-16
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Going to Richmond
HARVEST will be early this year.

daylight now
saturday, June 18th, will be decora
tiop day in Shepherdstown.
Cbsrlestown's corporation election
uin take place next Thursday.
Send us a dollar and try the REGIS
TER for the balance of the year.
few spring chickens have made
.hsir appearance, selling for % centr
each.
samuel Muck caught in a net the
ether day a carp that weighed 10a
pounds
NO news is good news" perhaps
Rpt YOU can't make an editor be-
lieve it.
Five hundred locust posts just re.
csived and for sale by James w.
Kerney.
Several of the public schools of this
district will close Friday afternoon
for the term.
So far this year about LOO miles OF
new railroad have been built in the
United States.
The death roll of thepast two weeks
has been an unusually large one for
this community.
Barring accidents, the new bridge
will be opened just in time for Nor
CANS Grove fair.
Mr.. Vim. r. Miller has been repaint-
ing the Shepherd house, occupied by
Col 4. K. Boteler.
The showers and sunshine of the
past week have made the garden
things grow nicely.
Ii is probable that the Berkeley
Spring. Hotel will not be opened TO
visitors this summer.
James Mansfield and Chas. Fl.
Briggs, of Harper's Ferry, have been
granted increase Of pensions.
A colt was foaled in Keedysville,
Nd. few days ago, without eyes.
Ii belongs TO Mr.. Poffenberger.
Governor Fleming has appointed
Col. VIM. NJ Clements, of this county,
Paymaster-General on his staff of
officers.
Mr.. f. C. Williams, the popular
Martinsburg druggist, has sold half
interest in his store to Mr.. Louis
Mathaei
Mr.. Joseph A. Piper, formerly of
Sharpsburg, was married TO Miss
Cora c.. Burrows, Of near Xenia, Ohio,
on April 30.
\ meeting of the Jefferson County
Farmers Alliance has been called for
Saturday afternoon at o'clock at
Charlestown.
Harry Deshon, boy twelve years
old, has been arrested at Winchester
for stealing mail matter from a lock
box in the postoffice.
The sale of lots at Basic City closed
last Friday. About 375 lots were dis
posed of during the three days sale,
aggregating about 100000.
Take your wool to Hodges, where
YOU can realize the highest market
price. Two cents a pound extra when
goods are taken in exchange.
Potomac Building Association No.
3 will offer for sale several shares of
stock next Monday evening at 7.3O
o'clock at the REGISTER office.
The Charlestown Free Press is q very
good paper, but that's no reason why
our copy should be borrowed" with
out our consent nearly every week.
Jacob Robinson, colored, has bought
a part of his fathers lot on New
street, near the pike, and will put up
a dwelling house there this summer.
The Commissioner OF Internal Rev
enue has recently rendered a decision
that butter artifioially colored is sub
iect to a revenue duty Of two cents a
pound.
The indication are that a great
many persons from this vicinity will
attend the unwilling of the Lee Statue
at Richmond on the Goth of this
month.
Dr. J. w. McSherry and Mr.. James
T. Geyer are the Democratic and Re
publican nominees for mayor OF Mar
tinsburg. Both parties will run
straight tickets.
The commencement of Oak Grove
school, Mrs. Ida Neill, teacher, will
be held on Tuesday evening, May
10th, at 80 o'clock. The public are
Invited to attend.
In Roanoke on Wednesday OF last
week there were no less than eleven
meetings of as many large and I'M
portant companies and corporations.
1t is thriving place.
The Friday morning supplement to
the Baltimore Sun contained a lltho-
graph ofthe cruiser Baltimore, and
portraits Of its officers and crew, very
handsomely gotten up.
There are few idle men in Shep-
herdstown this spring, and all who
want work can get it. Considerably
over hundred persons are employed
On the Shepherd turnpike.
The Martinsburg Herald says that
Judge Daniel b. Lucas will open
law office in Martinsburg when his
present term expires, unless he is nom
mated for the same position.
1t has been long time since there
there has been a more favorable out
look for a large crop of wheat than