Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-05-06
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FgU line of straw hats at Humrick-
house 4 Sons.
Trunks and valises, at Humrick
house y Sons.
Thi, i. the time of year to clean up
srJ beautify your premises.
Night and negligee shirts-a nice
rrs-at Humrickhouse 4 Sons.
The County Court has been in SEES
sion M Charlestown this week.
sgmmer has arrived. The organ
Grinders have made their appearance.
An old proverb says; After dinner
.ta while; after supper walk a mile"
I, there any way of compelling
rropertv owners to make decent side
walks,
The miserable sparrows are devot-
IN. themselves to the early plants in
the gardens.
A Brooklyn inventor proposes 70
zap the earth's interior for heat and
thus save fuel.
Swish hats and fashionable shades
IN dress goods, this week, at Mrs. NJ.
l.. Hrrriuston's.
The Good Templars of Sharpsburg
have sold their hall to the knights of
Pv,lias for $500.
The Oliver chilled pillow, the best in
America, for sale and guaranteed by
Wvsoug i Sehoppert.
Mr.. Allen Entler has moved from
the Byers place TO his DWELLING
house in this place.
The Hagerstown ice manufacturers
will sell ice at 40 cents a hundred
pounds this season.
The Buckeye riding and walking
cu,iyators, the best in use, sold by
Wy,ous 4 Schoppert.
Tie Farmers Friend corn planter
and the McSherry corn drills, for sale
10y WysouE Y Schoppert.
I'll. bass have been biting. this
week very freely, and some large
strings have been caught.
Mr. G.. w. Brown, the Charlestown
jewrler, has our thanks for hand
some glass paper weight.
Lost-A jet and gold breastpin.
The finder will be rewarded by leav-
iu- il at the REGISTER office.
The Jefferson Circuit Court begins
on Tuesday, May 18th. The trial of.
H. F. Smooth is set for Monday, May
23d
\ fire in the bicycle factory at Mar
tinsburg last Thursday caused damage
10 the amount OF about a thousand
dollars.
y cistern Is feet in depth and 10 feet
in diameter is being constructed for
the use Of visitors at Antietam Ma
tional Cemetery.
DR.. J. f. Pitsnogle has removed
from Sharpsburg to Hagerstown,
where he will engage in the practice
of his profession.
Volney Mickols, an employe of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad at
Bueua Vista, was struck by an en-
CINE Wednesday and killed
The house OF Mrs Etchison which
was recently destroyed by fire caught
from defective hue, we are informed,
and not from spark. "a has been
stated
More new subscribers this week in
dictate how the REGISTER is growing
in popularity. One dollar gets the
paper from now until the first of next
January
The Kings Daughters will have a
bazaar in Billmyer's Hall on Friday and
Saturday evenings Of this week. Re
fre>hments will be served and fancy
articles sold.
q. W. Shultz & Co, Philadelphia,
have force of men at work tearing
down the old Antietam furnace. 1t
is said there are 100000 bricks in
the stack alone.
Mr. Daniel Marmaduke, of St James,
is reported to have caught in the Pc
tomac river recently a carp that
"eign ed Is pounds and measured BIZ
inches in length.
The first loaded canal boat passed
through the outlet lock opposite
Shepherdstown on Wednesday. 1t
contained sixty tons of coal for the
Potomac Cement Mill.
Mr.. VIM. S. Staley, Of Selma, Cal,
has our thanks for interesting papers
sent us from that place. Mr. Staley
writes that Fresno county is pretty
nearly solid for Cleveland.
Since the reopening of the canal
the Cumberland boat builders have
been compelled to extend their faeil-
tiles. Orders for new boats are coming
upon them with great rapidity.
Rev John L. Bushnell, for five
years pastor of st. Marks Lutheran
Church, of Roanoke, has. been elected
professor of philosophy and catechet-
les Of hee-Mar College, i'll HaSers-
town.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of Wysong & Schoppert in an
other column. They handle a splen-
did line of farming implements, and
Will do all in their power to please
their customers.
The city OF Rome was kept clean by
every man keeping his own premises