Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-03-13
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FRIDAY. MARCH 10, 1891.
BRIEFS.

Jacob Wintermoyers
Next Tuesday is st. Patrick's day
the time to plant potatoes.
Vim. Shafer, of Hagerstown, died
Tuesday at the age of II years.
Hagerstown tickets are not COM
plete success in Shepherdstown.
Best n. o. Molasses 60 cents, honey
syrup. so cents, at j. ID. Billmyer's.
Jacob Wintermoyer, the boss cloth
ing man, is getting in hi, spring cloth
ing.
Dotted Swiss muslins, which were
the fashion years ago, come back this
year.
Joe Jones has started in to learn
the timers trade at Mr.. II. C. Mar
tens
Chicken thievesa are getting in their
work in the Harper's Ferry neigh
borhood.
Mr.. Horace G. Osbourn will erect a
new dwelling-house at Engle's Sta
ton, this county.
West Virginia will receive $751;
BOG. 63 by the direct tax refunding act
passed by the last Congress.
Mr.. II. C. Marten, the timer, has
just gotten fine new wagon from
Philadelphia to be used in his bust
ness.
During the winter the hen may be
dilatory, but she generally comes to
the scratch when the garden is
planted.
Wen venture the assertion that
few places can boast of more pretty
flowers in the windows than Shep-
herdstown.
II you want a nice, fine spring shirt,
call on the boss clothing man. He
has just received the incest line on
the market.
II you want a nice, fine, nobby pair
OF pants, call on Jacob Wintermoyer.
He has just received $50 pairs for the
spring trade.
Auditor Duffy announces that there
does not appear single dollar de
linquent by the sheriffs OF this State
for the year 1899.
James n. Corbin, of Jefferson coun-
ty, celebrated his one hundredth and
first birthday few days ago. He is
in excellent health.
A large number of Shepherdstown
persons took advantage of the b. y
0. excursion on Thursday to visit
Washington and Baltimore.
Mr.. Alex. Osbourn has moved into
his new Westinghouse at Shenan-
doah Junction, which is comforta-
BILE and handsome building.
Potomac Building Association No.
3 will offer for sale several shares OF
stock next Monday evening at 100
O'Clock at the REGISTER office.
MIR. and Mrs. j. w. b. Frazier will
celebrate their silver wedding on
March ed They will hold a recep-
ton at their home in Shepherdstown.
Charles Hawk, boy about 10
years old got caught in the ma
chinery at the Shenandoah pulp mill
at Harper's Ferry last week and was
pretty badly hurt.
A man named Bradley was arrested
in Maryland Saturday, charged with
stealing brass from the B. & 0. Rail
road at Sandy Hook. He was lodged
in the Hagerstown jail.
Bob Burdette says OF the man who
owes subscription to a newspaper
and will instruct the postmaster TO
send it back refused" that God
wasted mud to make him"
The three canal receivers, Messrs'
johnson. Bridges and Baker, have
been awarded $4,000 for their services
as such by the Circuit Court for
Washington county-S2, 900 to each
receiver.
Sam, a negro boy who has been in
the employ Of Col. Jno. NJ. Coyle, says
the Charlestown Adrocdte, and in
whom the Colonel had implicit con
fidence, skipped last week, with thir-
ty-fve dollars Of Mr.. Coyle's money.
Yankee Doodle Dixie" is the eu-
phonious title OF new Virginia nov
el by John V. Ryals. The scene cen
tiers around Hampden-Sidney College
and is full OF local hits and names, de,
scribing events about the beginning
OF the late war.
The Weston town council has ell
acted that "all boys fifteen years OF
age and under must be off the streets
after o'clock p. IN, unless they have
a valid excuse" Seems TO us it would
not be bad idea to put the same rule
in force i'll Shepherdstown. The small
BOYS are on the streets too much al
night.
The Brunswick Herald is the title
OF a new paper just started by Messrs.
Unger l. Shafer at the new town OF
Brunswick, Md, on the b. j. o. Rail
road. Few papers start out with as
creditable makeup as the Herald,
and il it maintains the admirable
style it has set up it is sure to be a
success
The supervisors or division bosses
of the chesapeake and Ohio canal
have been appointed with instruction
to oversee the repairs OF the canal
and with orders to press the work TO
completion with all the eIertion that