Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-05-22
BRIEFS.

Garden hoes and garden seeds at
cost at w. p. Licklider's.
The loveliest thing in dress goods
this spring is the pretty girl.
w. p. Licklider can supply your
wants in china or glassware.
Lots OF new goods in endless va
riety at NJ. s. Hiteshew's this week.
Warner yeast, bacon of all kinds,
fresh groceries, at W. p Licklider's.
\ Washington syndicate purchased
hundred lots in Roanoke last week.
Vi. :. Hiteshew will receive to-day
1iOnew hats. Also flowers, ribbons
etc.
PEOPLE borrow trouble because it
i. easy to get and need not be paid
back.
The commencement exercises of
Shepherd College will be held on Fri
day. June 18th.
The only place you can get Tet-
lows Swan-Down with perfumery is
nj NJ. :. Hiteshew's.
Fresh cakes and crackers, prunes,
reaches, bananas, oranges and lem
ons. at w. p. Licklider's.
1t is more natural to a man to lie in
bed in the morning and wish he was
rich. than to get up and earn dol
lar
Mr.. J. Mitchell Slower has just re
fused S45, 900 offer from New York
party for hi. peach farm at Edge
mont
First Lieutenant VIM. f. Craighill,
OF the L. 5. Engineer Corps, has been
transferred from st. Paul, Mimi, to
Montgomery, Ala.
The ladies of Duftields will hold a
strawberry festival for the benefit Of
the Episcopal Chapel at that place on
June 18th and 18th.
The first instalment OF the County
Court proceedings will be found in
this issue, being the financial state
ment of the county.
Laura, the fifteen year-old daughter
of Capt Kirk Cunningham, died at
the home of her father in Berkeley
county last Thursday.
Three children born TO different
families in Minnesota this spring are
web-footed. We should say that this
indicates a wet season.
There seems to be a trust among the
ice dealers in Shepherdstown. They
are asking cent pound for Iceland
very poor quality at that.
Potomac Building Association No.
s will offer for sale several shares OF
stock next Monday evening st 100
o'clock at the REGISTER office.
NJ. Z. Baker has for sale lot Of
choice potatoes, suitable either for
Planting or table use. Will sell them
in quantities at reduced price.
\ Virginia man caught rabbit the
other day that had a gold watch
chain around its neck. He is now
looking for the rabbit that has the
watch
The yield Of grapes this year will
probably not be very large one,
from present indications. The apple
crop will not be as large as was first
thought.
The weather got to be pretty cold
last Saturday and Sunday, and Sun
dav night there was some frost i'll the
low places, though not enough to hurt
anything.
Bishop Wilson has presented to
Editor Gallaher, OF Charlestown, a
cane made from tea stock brought
from China. Thus is long-felt want
Of wood supplied.
The drought was broken last Fri
du, by gentle rain that fell for half
a day. and vegetation was greatly
fre,hened Twenty miles north of US,
little or no rain fell.
The Hagerstown Mail reports the
purchase of a house Oh Salem Avenue,
that city, by Mrs. John ID. Staley, of
Shepherdstown. We understand the
price paid was 81 800
TIE clerks in the United States
Trpasurer's Office identified $4,000 OF
the Sl7 900 charred and burned in the
recent wreck near Warning Station
OH the b. & O. in Maryland.
The May party at Uvilla Hall last
Monday evening was great success,
An immense crowd Of persons was
present-more than could get in the
hal,-and all who were there had u
thoroughly enjoyable time.
An instructive and comic panorama
entertainment will be given at Moler
Gross Roads, Saturday night, May
2Sd. Admission - cents, children, III
cents. II bad weather, the hrst Soou
night thereafter Entertainment to
commence at p. III.
Mr. q. Il. Licklider left at the REG
INrER office the other day twig from
peach tree that seems 10 indicate a
fine crop of this delicious fruit. AL
though only about 2Oinches long, this
twis contained sixty healthy peaches,
aud Mr.. Licklider says the other
branches Of the tree were equally as
full.
'Babyland" for May is a delightful
little magazine for the bables-and by
babies We mean the youngsters from
one to six year old. The many pretty
pictures and bits Of stories and jingles