Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-09-04
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all K in H.
team laundry is to be established
At Cnarlestown'
r,. nublic schools Of this county
anne studies on Monday next,
Miss Agnes Gibson will reopen her
- school on September 9TH.
The Supreme Court of this State
.t Cbariestown on Wednesday.
There are forty-six State banks in
w,.t Virginia, and fourteen national
banks
Road the big advertisement of the
,-;,raroo Indian Medicine Co. on
this page.
Fifty Of the Italians who have been
Linz, nj Dam No. left for Italy
at week.
patent has been granted to Da-
ar Nichols, of Uvilla, in this coun-
81, for a car coupling.
npr streets have been frightened
chi. week by hosts ofpretty girls-our
ANN and visiting fair ones.
stable belonging to David Sim
ms colored, was burned in Charles
own last Sunday morning early.
There were some unimportant
.hsoges in the passenger schedule of
,b. y. i w. Railroad last Sunday.
The McMurray Canning Factory at
Frederick put up $4,000 cans of fruit
and vegetables in one day recently.
The typographical force of the Har-
n4r, Ferry Sentinel mashed her finger
Is,r week and came near psralyzing
the paper.
There are women who sometimes
think on Sunday that they have re-
F,i,u. but when the clothes line
breaks down on Monday they find
out they haven't.
The corporate authorities had the
street, OF the town cleaned up in an
EXCELLENT manner last week. A few
dsys Of work intelligently directed
made wonderful Improvement.
Harry Hughes, OF Hagerstown, at
tempted 10 jump on a locomotive the
other day, when he slipped and fell.
Several Of his toes were cut off, and
he had a close call for his life.
The engine-house connected with
The grain-elevator of Mr.. Alex. Parks,
al Martinsburg, was destroyed by
fire Thursday morning at an early
hour No other damage, fortunately.
We are indebted to our esteemed
friend Mr. George 7. Sperow, of
Berkeley county, for a lovely basket
Of grapes and pears. The pears were
IN. finest We have ever seen raised in
,lI, section.
The Boonsboro Times, which has just
entered on its twelfth volume, has
been sold to Mr.. VIM. l.. Irwin, grad
uaJe OF the office, by whom it will be
conducted We extend good wishes
10 the new editor
\ negro eXcursionist was killed just
below Harper's Ferry last week. He
had his head out of the car window,
or was leaning out over the platform,
when his head struck a post to u cat
tlepen, Scrushing his skull.
Martinsburg's new daily paper, the
BoJld, has made its appearance, and
The first copy, which is now on our
desk, is a quite neatly printed sheet
Of good size and we'll edited. Wew wish
lis proprietors lasting success.
Why do people wait until man is
sick and can't eat to send him good
thiug,. When he is we'll and would
like something good, no neighbor
comes in with fancy jellies, old wines.
aud things like that. Things are very
unfair
Cira-shoppers are said to be play
Ing havoc in certain sections OF the
county. In the Summit Point neigh
borhood they have utterly cleaned
up Il number of pasture fields. They
are not reported as damaging the
cOrn.- Adrocate
Miss Annie Stouffer, of Boonsboro,
Nd, reported that she was astonished
d lew days ago, on opening hard
boiled egg, to find in well-shaped
characters Oh the surface Of the yolk
the mysterious figures $50. The fig
ures were white and perfectly formed.
How they got there is mystery.
Mr. +. q. Butler was the unfortn-
nate loser Of two mares and a colt
Tuesday night. They were pasturing
On the uninclosed land around town
aud were caught by train on the y.
L W. near the brick yard. Two were
killed outright and one had both hind
.es, cut off and had to be killed.-Ad-
rOcgte.
Mr. W. Il. Baden, a well known and
highly respected citizen OF Bolivar,
died at his residence in that place
last Friday night, aged nearly 70 years.
Mr. Baden for the past twenty-four
years has been a prominent and sue
.~ssful merchant Of Bolivar. A wild
ow and seven children, all grown, sur
yiye him.
Mrs. Nancy Wilson, relict of Mr.. Asa
Wilson, formerly of Kabletown, this
but who moved to Missouri
shortly after the war, died few days
ago at the residence of her son-in-law,
Capt. w. II. Morrow, i'll Louisiana,
40, at an advanced age. Mrs. VIII
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