Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1891-12-04
BRIEFS.
Three weeks until Christmas.

sonal property takes place next We'd
nesday.
To gift-givers-come to see us, we
have presents for everybody. w. p.
Iicklider.
Eggs have gone up to 25 cents a
dozen, and butter is the same price
per pound.
w. p. Licklider is filling up his
groceries stock with all the good
things for Christmas.
The gift of years subscription to
the REGISTER would be acceptable
70 many an absent friend.
Mr.. Leroy Templeman, a we'll
known citizen of Fauquier county,
Va. Is dead, aged "a years.
Mr.. ID. s. Cunningham, a we'll
known Berkeley county citizen, died
in Hedgesvilie on Tuesday.
You can get wedding presents and
Christmas presents, useful and orna-
mental, at w. p. Licklider's.
The glove works at Charlestown
were burglarized of a hundred dollars
worth of goods Monday night.
BY taking look in our store, you
will get an idea OF what to give for a
christmas gift. w. p. Licklider.
Mr.. Hamilton Knipe, Of Sharpsburg,
fell and broke both bones of one Of
his legs, between his knee and ankle.
Celia Jackson, a colored woman "a
wears old, fell in fire near Berryville
the other day and was fatally burned.
Mrs. c. Bowser, Of Berryville,
Clarke county, dropped dead Thurs
day last. She was eighty-three years
of age.
Read Miss Ellen's new advertise
ment. The Little Store Round the
Corner is just chuck full of Christmas
goods of many sorts.
Mr.. d. H. Staley, a farmer living
near Breathedsville, over in Washing
ton county, lost rs Poland China hogs
from cholera this fall.
1t is said that the Philadelphia Con-
struction Company signed a contract
10 build $50 frame houses in Martins
burg inside of 80 days.
Mr. G. r. Licklider killed a big hog
Wednesday-weight $50 pounds. Bob
Travers, colored, killed one Thursday
that weighed 352 pounds.
Superintendent Ryan is laundering
things at the stone crusher. Thurs
morning he set off series of blasts
that fairly shook the town.
Senator Charles j. Faulkner has
moved his family to Washington City,
where he has rented an attractive
home at the corner of 10th and K
streets.
George J. Shiffier is on trial 10 Ha-
gerstown charged with burning ID. ).
Shiffier's barn and distributing poison
promiscuously. Much interest Is taken
in the case.
Aunt Winnie" Frazier, u we'll
known colored woman who formerly
lived on the farm of Mr.. John Will
Hanson, near Billmyer's mill, died
last Tuesday.
\ great many fat hogs are being
slaughtered this week. Send in the
heavy weights-we mean the figures,
not the hogs-to the editor for pub
lication. r. s. V. p.
Washington county commissioners
have elected Carleton Snyder presi-
dent, ID. H. Staley clerk, II. kyd
Douglas attorney, and George Wern-
er court house janitor.
1t is said that the new railroad
town of Brunswick is overrun with
tramps. Fifty were seen inone group
under temporary tent they had
erected the other day.
Mrs. Joseph A. Craighill died at the
residence of DR.. G.. G. Lucas at kear-
neysville on Wednesday morning
The funeral will be held in Charles
town this Friday morning.
There is one case on record where
advertising did not pay. A man out
in Kansas advertised for a bride and
his deserted wife turned up and had
him arrested for non-support.
The Martinsburg people are nsgo-
tating for big hardware factory
from Trenton, n. j., and will try TO
raise money enough 10 induce its
owners to remove it to their town.
Mr.. Henry Crowl, who lives on the
Dugas farm opposite Shepherdstown,
has u heifer seventeen months old
which, although it has never been
fresh, gives half gallon of milk every
day.
The Chicago Evening Post says that
the National Cordage Co, or binding
twine trust, has purchased the entire
binding Irvine plant OF William Deer
Ing & Co., OF Chicago, for $3.50, 900.
This purchase, the Post says, gives
the trust the entire control OF the
binding Irvine industry in America.
1t is said that Mr.. Jesse Graham,
the venerable lamplighter of Harper's
Ferry, and who is one of the survivors
of those captured and imprisoned by
John Brown in the old engine house
now known as John Browns Fort, .
will probably be engaged by the syn
dictate to go TO Chicago and stand
guard over the Fort during the Fair.
Mr.. Austin Locke and Mr.. Frank NJ.
Logic, who were associated in their
first cases in court last week, ac-