Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-11-20
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Leap wear will soon be here, and the
Girls are counting the days.
II YOU want any sort of job work,
tbe REGISTER office can do il well for
you.
MI. Jacob Swanson, of Martinsburg,
receive a stroke of paralysis last
week.
LAWYER Garris, of Hagerstown, has
named his little boy German McKaig
Garri>.
\ lot of red eyed bass were put in
The Potomac and the Conococheague
last week.
our friend Hagan Lemen pres ented
II, with some mighty nice apples the
other day.
\ few Wild ducks were on the river
and the ponds in this vicinity the
first of the week.
4 party of Shepherdstown gentle
men shot 50 rabbits in the Scrabble
woods last Monday.
have a seasonable and full supply
cf all goods in fancy and staple gro
,.r;es. j. y. TruSsell.
New subscribers can have the REG
1,rER from now until the first of Jan
nary. 1898, for two dollars.
am now ready TO buy and ship all
kinds of poultry. Also a few good po-
ta,oes wanted. J. n. Trussell.
Try silver-faEe hominy, new crop
y. O. molasses and mountain buck
wheat, for sale by j. \. Trussell.
Editor Adam V. Douglass, of the
keyser Tribune, has taken unto him
self a wife-Miss Ella NJ. Matlick
Mothers will be interested to know
that Ruth Cleveland obtains nouriSh-
mrnt in the way that nature provides.
\ very interesting article about Mr..
Charles Broadway Rouss appears on
the first page of the REGISTER this
week.
Miss Annie Ridenour, of this coun-
", has been promoted from 5000 TO
$1,000 in the Pension Department at
Washington.
The dental office of DR. J. l.. Luke
will be closed next Tuesday and We'd
nrsday on account of the Doctor
absence from town.
Fifty shares of stock of the Hagers-
town Bank were sold Tuesday at $50
per share, par value S15. This is the
highest point ever reached.
The Democrats of Boonsboro will
have an old-time Ox-roast at that
place on Saturday. Col. Victor Baugh-
man has given fine steer.
We are informed that eighteen or
twenty lots were sold by Mr.. james
W. McGarry at Shenandoah Junction
on Wednesday at fair prices.
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fair. is to be given in Martinsburg on
the night of December LIST. Five hun
dred invitations are to be issued.
The jefferson County Farmers Al
lance will meet at kearneysville on
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock. tits
TO be a social and business meeting.
Keep in mind the fact that the la
die. of the town hall association will
have a first class fair in the new town
hall during the approaching holidays
Matthias Spong, who was an indie
pendent ranger, and Rufus Stride, a
member of the home brigade, both
of Sharpsburg, have just been granted
pensions.
Candy, 10c a pound; cranberries,
raisins, currants. citron, oranges, lem
ons. nuts, silver-fake hominy, grapes,
and full line of fresh groceries, at j.
5. Fleming's.
They tell Of Maryland man, with
NO rest for the weary as his motto,
evidently, who crossed his bees with
lightning bugs SO they could see To
work at night.
Lost, in Shepherdstown, last Satur-
day. a small plain gold breast pin, in
which was a lock of hair. y suitable
reward will be paid if it is left at the
REGISTER office.
\ few weeks ago John W. Beas-
mann fell into ditch near Hagers-
town and broke his leg. Gangrene
set in and the limb had to be ampu-
tated. Sunday he died.
After warm rain from the South
the weather made u sudden change
ON Tuesday, and the thermometer got
way down. Ice of considerable thick
ness was formed on the ponds.
The Basic City 1drance, of which
Mrs>rs. Lindsay aud Haas are publish
er>, Las recently improved itself in
NbIutGlul manner. II IL ut'iN'N'l
one Of the best papers in the Valley
now.
We are truly glad that the esteemed
MarIin>burg Herald now publishes e1-
p.auatory notes with its various items
BY 'his system one can readily tell
the difference between joke and a
funeral notice
Mr. Pitzer, Of Ohio. who has been
in the midst Of the Hedgesville CORE
>poudent of the Martinsburg IRdepend-
sIt has returned home. Hope there IL
he no serious results to the CORE
>pondent's midst.
Read the prospectuses of the Har-
a Ia