Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-01-08

Every family ought to subscribe for
,be REGISTER.
Road w. p Licklider's new adver-
,isement this week.
II ,ou want TO get the best sale
,;us come to the REGISTER office.
Cant. Richard Henry Lee has been
elected county judge of Clarke county,
Va.
II is said that the Luray Inn, which
wss DESTROYED by fire last fall, will be
rebuilt
BENJAMIN Dunmore, a wellknown
ronng colored man, died here week
before last.
Don't think that because thisis leap
wear every woman in town has her
cap set for you.
The REGISTER starts the new year
with most gratifying number OF
new subscribers
1t is said that pink-eye has made its
appearance among the horses in the
southern end of this county.
Mrs. Ruhan.a McGlincy, formerly
Of Shepherdstown is extremely i'll at
her home in Harper's Ferry.
Hiram, the eight-year-old son of Rev.
B. +. Bausmann, of ArendtSville, Pa,
fell and broke his right arm recently.
Mr. George Cross has moved with
MS family into the new dwelling house
recently built by him on the home
place.
There'll be some good singing at
the concert in the town hall Saturday
night-bstter than is usually heard in
towns Of this size.
George H. c. Neal, leading Balti-
more merchant. and a relative of
Rev. j. w. Tongue, of Charlestown,
died last week of the grip.
Ashton Boswell, bright boy from
Bridgeport, just over the river, is
clerking in Mr.. b. S. Pendleton's store.
He succeeds Harvey Greenwood.
Mr.. A. C. Payne, executor of Jesse
Payne, deceased, sold the Payne
farm of 236 acres, in Berk eley county,
to Jesse p Ridgeway, for S3S per
acre
Mr. r. S. NJ Hoffman is agent for
the Domestic sewing machine, and
will be glad to give prices, terms and
any other information to those who
wish to buy.
Our esteemed contemporary, the
Harper's Ferry Sentinel, which has
been improving right along, has bios
spmed out in gorgeous new head
ing. Hope the Sentinel will not get
top heavy.
Mr. Daniel Hefiebower has sold 100
acres of his farm in the lower part Of
this county, with improvements, to
MeSsrS b. f. Langdon & Bro, for
about $4,000.
Mr.. James Lemen is very i'll at the
home of his son. Mr.. w. Manning
Lemen. near town, and his advanced
age, it is feared, forbids any hope OF
hisrecovery. The whole household is
down with the grip.
Mr.. T. ]. G. Williams, business man
ager, and Mr.. Edwin Bell, senior edi-
tor, have retired from the Hagerstown
Mad Mr.. James T. Briscoe has been
selected as business manager and Mr..
Richard J. Hamilton editor.
As is well known, during the past
year the firm of Smith & Funk has
been conducting a saw, planning mill
and lumber business in our midst
B0oasbOro Times Just think of an
editor living a whole year with all
those things in his midst.
Last Saturday morning the town
hall in SaLdy Hook, Md, was de
stroyed by fire. The lodge-room OF
the Mssons was in the same building,
and all the emblems and equipments
- OF the order were burned. Loss about
$1,000; covered by Insurance.
After the 1st of Jsnuary, 1892, the
section under control of Mr.. James K.
Hughes of the G. & o. Canal is ex-
tended TO Dam No. 5, and the section
OF Mr.. w. II. Hassett will also be made
TO that point. This does away with
the section now controlled by Mr.. j.
B. Masters.
IpdegraffS, that popular Hagers-
town firm that sells everything that
people wear from birth to death Eek
eept ladies' hats start the new year
with new advertisement in the REG
lister. Updegraffs is great estab-
hShment, and the people over this
way like it.
LOST-A brown and yellow colored
uo%, answering 70 the name of Ring.
When last seen was following w. h.
mott towards Harper's Ferry on the
18th OF December. Any information
concerning the same will be thankful
" received by Samuel Nj. Knott,
Moler'S, w. Va.
Last week Mr.. NJ. \. Martin bought
OF ). Lee Simmons, Of Frederick, Md,
MS farm, "Moorefield,' in Falling
Waters district, containing 395 acres,
Tor which he paid cash. This farm
Joins his other farm, Maidstone,
and gives him 665 acres. He has
rented the Simmons farm to John II.
Lindsey, of jefferson county. Mar.
t'astwg Statesman.
Judge Handley, of Scranton, Pa,