Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-10-16
BRIEFS.
Pumpkins are ripe.
Time TO hunt rabbits.

II Hagsrstown, died last week.
The farmers in Washington county
are losing many hogs from the chol-
era.
Miss Sallie Hill sent bouquet Of
lovely flowers to the REGISTER office
few days ago.
Work is progressing finely on the
new town hall. 1t will be a handsome
nom when finished.
The e1-Confederates will have a
nicnic at Inwood Park, in Berkeley
county, next Tuesday.
The editor is indebted to the clever
publisher Of the Statssman, Mr.. Boyer,
for courtesies extended.
The weather has been quite cold
,his week and brisk trade has been
going on in the coal-yards.
subscribe for the REGISTER now,
and two dollars will pay for the paper
until the first of January, 1898.
The County Alliance will meet in
the Court House in Charlestown on
Saturday, October oath, at ten O'Clock,
q. III.
The farmers are all done seeding
and many OF them are husking their
corn and crlbbing it. The crop is q
large one.
The other day strange dog walked
into Mr.. Louis Sheetz's meat shop and
then ran out again with two fine
btefsteaks.
The warehouse adjoining the Har-
ri. property, in this place, has been
torn down, and a neat fence has been
built in its place.
The attendance upon the Hagers-
town Fair was very large from this
place. The school children even took
holiday to attend it.
Shepherd College is getting along
splendidly, and applications are be-
ing received from prospective stu
dents in counties far away.
Miss Mary L. Smith, assistant teach
er in the colored school at this place,
was married on Wednesday night to
Mr.. Philip Jackson, Of this county.
The Martinsburg World says Bar
nuns show was a very poor one !;
that il carried a dead mans name
and stopped there only to feed up.
Great quantities of cells are being
caught in the fshpots in the Potomac.
At the fshpot up in the neck over
three hundred were caught in one
night
chicken flew against q lantern and
knocked it over in the barn Of Mr..
George Stouffer the other morning
early. The light set the hay afire and
the barn was burned.
Look out for counterfeit silver half
dollars. They are Of light weight,
greasy to the touch, and of defective
jingle, but in appearance calculated
TO deceive the unwary.
The Martinsburg clothiers and
turnishers, Thompson & Tabler, must
have an extremely handsome lot OF
nsckwear, Judging from the sample
they presented to the editor.
Grease spots in cloth can be easily
removed thus: Take a sharp pair Of
scissors, carefully insert the point,
and cut the cloth gently in circular
form until the spot is removed.
Seventeen wagon-loads Of Gipsies
passed through Shepherdstown last
Sunday from Maryland. Then went
into camp in the woods two miles
irom town ON the Charlestown pike.
It's rather contemplate for q man
TO get mad at the editor and stop his
paper, and then sneak over to his
neighbours and borrow the paper
long enough to read every line in it
Isn't it?
There are now 204 pupils enrolled
IN the Graded School. The change
made in the attendance Of the pupils
OF the primary room is working salts
iactorily and the little folks are get
ting along well.
Messrs. Stoufier g. Darnsr. marble
cutters, OF Hagsrstown, have received
the contract for furnishing the curb
ing to be used on the new national
road at Alexandria, Va, to be built
oy the Government.
A special train on the n. s. w. Rail
road was run from Roanoke to Ha-
sefstown last week in seven hours, or
little over "a miles per hour. Mr..
rehtl Tyler was the engineer and
mos Callahan conductor.
Tour attention is called to the sec
Qua public sale of lots by the Charles
'0"h Mining, Manufacturing and I'm
proyemsnt Company, of Charlest own,
". Va, on November 4th and 5th,
4'si' Read the advertisement and
'''end this great sale Of lots.
Ane three large silver maple trees
front 'front.' Of Mrs. Quigley's residence
love oeen cut down and carried
10y and sugar naples have been
au'ed In their places. The big trees
= 'front.' OF DR.. Buffers house have
~, v.u closely trimmed, making a de-
eu Improvement there.
g.. " the REGISTER doesn't come up to
Usual standard this week, you will
~ O~ the reason why. The editor is
hi VI quite an extended pleasure
ma - one OF the devils has his finger
oo u' and the rest of us want to