Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-02-21
Briefs.

taav in February!
~ our taxes if you want to vote
I .hs corporation election
a. rs 70 attend the temperance
Dc .;ng in College Hall tonight.
n Billmyer expects to have for
n, hi, ~ Friday morning fresh shad
o." the only thing politics has
~ 10 with in these days Is the
Christening y, of the baby
,c. Mollie Staubs, daughter OF
Ms os Staubs, died in Sharpsburg
In, lDV week of consumption
anew public school was opened at
shenandoah Junction last week with
Mr. Mr. Joseph Bell as teacher
morrow. Saturday, is the ed of
rt.norv, Birthington's washday-we
mean washingtOn's birthday.
The beginning of Lent was observed
Ash Wednesday by services In the
FL Episcopal Church of this place
p.y r J. Wilson will say mass in
catholic Chapel on Friday, the
o a. at 9 o'clock in the morning.
Tho nublic is cordially invited to
IA rho temperance meeting in
~ " Hall this Friday evening.
1.ra Johnson, colored, of this coun-
has been appointed a messenger
IN the Census Office at Washington.
w Charles b. Humrickhouse has
,,rsd into the vacant house belong
;a.to MFR. ii. w. Potts, on New street.
Tuesday evening the rather unusu-
,,banomenon of thunder and light
min, in February WIS observed here.
There is 10 be a wedding in Shep-
,.-ls,own in a few weeks, but those
rbo are in the secret will not let it
cut
Mr. John Kavanaugh, a worthy
.;,i,sp of Kearneysville, died some
J.vs ago. He was about so years
old
Thieves and burglars are making 1t
very unpleasant for the respectable
,..ijents of Harper's Ferry and VI
entity.
Wednesday afternoon about dusk
. heavy rain set in, and from that
,ims until far into the night it rained
very hard.
The Frederick postofRce contest
has been settled by the appointment
Of Mr.. Harry C. Keefer, Of the ETdm'-
nsr. as postmaster.
For groceries, provisions, the best
roller flour, candies, queensware,
notions boots, shoes, tobacco, cigars,
etc call on r. NJ. Billmyer.
Mr. Lee q. Brotherton has built a
neat portico to his dwelling-house on
Duke street, and has also erected a
kitchen at the rear of the house.
The Hermitage farm Of the late
John Kable, ZAP acres, eight miles
south of Charlestown, has been sold
10 Henry Stouffer for $50 per acre.
The local ice-dealers have about
given up hopes OF cutting any ice this
winter, and are looking around for
bargains in the manufactured artl-
Gle.
The REGISTER office has been busy
the past week turning out job work
fall sorts. We can do almost any
sort of printing that the public may
want.
Mr.. Fillmore Smith has resigned
bis position as teacher in the Sharps-
burg public school, and Miss Daisy
McGraw has been appointed to the
vacancy.
\ flock of wild geese passed over
the other day going
South, which would indicate, II the
sign holds good, that winter is COM
ing at last
A colored woman who lives in the
small house at the entrance to Lemens
Grove, near town, was thrown from
horse Il few days ago and had one OF
her ribs fractured.
Mr.. Thomas Flora, a well-known
and popular passenger conductor on
the second division of the b. y y.
Railroad, died in Martinsburg last
week, aged As years.
The co-partnership heretofore exist
ing between Horace Beall and ). Lee
Phillips has been dissolved by mutual
consent. The business will be con
unued by Mr. Beall.-Spirit.
The other night Il party of boys
while scuflling in front of Mr.. Nj. Is.
Bakers store accidentally broke one
Of the large windows in the glass
front 1t had TO be replaced with
new one.
BY referring to advertisement In
another column il will be seen that
the readers of the REGISTER can get
This paper and the Cosmopolitan
Magazine one year for $40, dollar
reduction.
Our friend Mr.. David Hawn was a
Ieetle' slow on the big hog question,
but he got there just the same. he
outchered his prize hog on Tuesday,
and 1t netted 1919 pounds. Last, prob
ably, but not least.
The furniture of the Watson House
mas been disposed of to Mr.. Thomas
Elliott, of the Arlington House, In
Winchester, who will on May list take
the uneGpired lease of Mrs. Watson
aud become the landlord of this we'll
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