Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-04-03
BRIEFS.

grades are also lowered in proportion.
According to recently published
statistics. 29.640 children were
trounced in West Virginia's public
schools last year. There's no doubt
that at least 29,639 of 'em deserved it..
Messrs. Blackford Bros. and A. S.
Link have contracted for the erection
OF tenant house on the Morrow farm
at Shenandoah Junction, to replace
the old Neill mansion recently de-
stroyed by fire.
Miss Della Britner got the quilt
that was CHANGED off by the ladies
who held the fair during the Holt
days in this place The lucky num-
Der was three, and the amount real
lied was about S13.
Wesley Seibert has moved his bar
Der shop into the new building built
on the Entler lot, and is ready to at
tend to the wants of his customers
and the public generally, He has a
very nice room now.
After the editor of the Charlestown
! Free Press had secured a nice pile OF
wood by fervent entreaty, some low
! thief went to work and stole part Of
it. There was "nigger in the wood
pile" Mr.. Gallaher says.
| NJ. Jo.,o., C,,ou yrhn liuas naar
! Browns Crossing in this county, has,
it is said, received large fortune by
! the death of rich uncle in Philadel-
phia. Mrs. Small is sister of DIR. A
NJ Evans, of Middleway.
Wednesday was moving day, but
the slush and mud and muggy wealth
er made such disagreeable combi-
nation that few persons exchanged
domiciles. They only did so where 1t
was absolutely necessary.
Mr.. J. Will Taylor gave his annual
birthday dinner on Tuesday. The
steady downpour OF rain and the
almost impossible condition OF the
country roads prevented many of his
friends from being present.
The almost continuous wet wealth
err of the early spring has prevented
the farmers from doing their usual
work. 1t has been too wet to pillow
and the ground has been too soft to
drive wagons upon the fields.
Our correspondents are particular
lv requested to have their communl-
cations reach this Office not later
! than Wednesday mornings. 1t would
suit the printer much better II the
letters were sent to us on Tuesdays.
| Mr.. A. w. Luke has resigned his po-
sition as general manager of the pup
mills at Harper's Ferry and will re-
move to Delaware. Messrs. w. Il.
Black and Geo r. Bready have been
appointed superintendent OF the
mills.
The young people of the Scrabble
neighborhood had a most interest
ing spelling bee in the school-house
at that place the other evening.
They all proved themselves good
spoilers, too, though Miss Dora Pits
nogle and Miss Eliza Byers carried
off the honOrs.
In another column will be found
the full text of the law establishing
the State Board Of Agriculture. This
law will doubtless be of great practl-
cal benefit to the farmers. 1t is
measure for which the West Virginia
State Grange should be thanked, as
that body was instrumental in secur-
ing its passage.
DIR. A. S. Reynolds on Tuesday
bought from Mr.. John ID. Staley the
Touring mill that the latter gentle
man has operated for number OF
wears in Shepherdstown. DIR. Rey-
nolds will in all probability remodel
the old mill and convert it into a full
roller process mill, although as yet he
has formed no definite plans.
Mr.. James NJ Engle, OF Washing
ton, formerly of this county, has
bought five acres of land, at $500 an
acre, and built an eight-room house
on it at Forest Glen, n suburb of
Washington City, on Metropolitan
Branch of the B. & 0. Railroad.
Many new houses have been built
along this railroad within 20 miles of
Washington, within the last 10
months.
We regret greatly to record the
death of Mr. Robert n. Monroe, a ge-
NAL and worthy gentleman who for
eleven years has been the publisher
of the Boonsboro Times. He died last
Sunday. from typhoid fever, in the
36th year OF his age. Mr.. Monroe was
superintendent Of the Lutheran Sun
/ day School in Boonsboro, and was
prominent Odd Fellow. He leaves a
wife and one child.
Last Sunday and Monday the sun.
shine started the big snow off in
hurry, and Tuesday a very heavy
rain fell until late in the afternoon,
saturating the ground and causing all
the streams to fill up. Tuesday and
Wednesday strong streams of water
| ran down Princess and Mill streets,
and the cellars on Frog Island
were flooded The river got up very
high again, and on Wednesday it was
booming. No damage was done here,
al it takes an extraordinary flood TO
! reach the danger point.
Washington county can boast of an
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