Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-06-24
Briefs.

cent piece which he declares at one
time was all that stood between him
and dsad-broke condition.
The Board Of Regents OF the State
Normal Schools will meet in Wheel
ing on July 9Th for the purpose Of
making the appointments for the en-
suing year.
One Of our largest fruit-growers in
forms the REGISTER that the apple
crop will lie almost a complete failure
this year, and that there will be little
fruit of any kind.
Mr.. Charles Carter shot a grey crane
last Monday near Moler's Cross Roads
that measured g feet from tip to tip
Of its wings and 81 feet from its bill
to the end of its tail.
Our local stockholders have been
shipping great many lambs to the
city markets this week. They have
been paying in the neighborhood OF
1915 apiece for them.
A colored man working ut the lime
kiln at Bakerton was seriously hurt
last Saturday. The cable caught him,
causing him to fall distance Of about
% feet, head-foremost.
Mr.. John p Brown, one OF the old
est citizens of Charlestown, died in
that place recently at the age OF "a
years. He was postmaster there for
number OF years prior to the war.
The State Superintendent Of
Schools says: 1.-The catalogue of the
Jefferson county schools is by far the
most complete and best arranged
public school catalogue that have
ever SEEM
Mr.. Jacob Myers, Of Antietam,
caught carp weighing 10 pounds in
his fishpot last Saturday night. Rev.
p. G. Edwards tested its quality, and
even Methodist preacher says it was
better than chicken.
Mr.. Watt" Grove, well-known in
this place. and who attended school
at the College of st. James last year,
was awarded prize, at the closing
exercises of the school, for improve
ment in arithme tic at astronomy.
The twenty-fourth anniversary of
the Shepherdstown Auxiliary to the
American Bible Society will be held
Sunday evening, July Sd, ats o'clock,
in the Southern Methodist Church.
Rev. Thomas Cotton will be present.
Foster, who seems to have cinch
on the weather, says that from the
Goth of this month until about the
25th, of August we will have lots OF
hot weather. This is to be expected,
but he says it will be much hotter
than usual.
Hon. VIM. l.. Wilson writes to the
REGISTER that there will be a COM
petitive examination in Charlestown
on Wednesday next, June Goth, for a
cadetship in the United States Naval
Academy. 1t is open to youths be-
tween 16 and 81 years of age.
The editor has received this week
one of those very seductive letters
from New York showing how large
fortune may be quickly made by deal
ing in green goods" We will con-
tinue to accumulate, however, by the
old methods at the same old stand.
The Middleway Guards have decided
to quit soldering and have been mus
tered out by the Governor. The boys
NAV have been scared out OF the bus
mess by their experience in guarding
! the Charlestown Jail last January, or
it may be the annual encampment
last summer did it.
Mr.. Ct. Il. Hodges has commenced
the erection of his new warehouse
and grain elevator at Kearneysville,
and will have it finished in time to
handle this years wheat crop. Mr.. 5.
r. Licklider is building new dwell
| ing house and store combined at the
same place, on lot purchased from
Mr.. Hodges.
The Pulp Company at Harper's
Ferry, says the Sentinel, has made ar
rapgements to put an electric light
plant in their mills and will also
furnish lights to all citizens of the
town who desire them. The town
council has contracted with the Pulp
| Company to have the streets lighted
by electricity.
Messrs. J. Frank Legge and Jas.
w. Kerney have opened lumber
yard in Shepherdstown, and will lay
in a stock of lumber to supply all
probable needs of this community.
We hope the new enterprise will be
well patronized, for it will be great
convenience to our people. They
have already received some good
| contracts.
The directors Of the Morgan's
| Grove Association met last Saturday
and arranged for the immediate con-
struction of a new ladies' building.
Mr.. James f. Maddox has the con-
tract for putting it up, and Legge "
Kerney will furnish the lumber. 1t
is to be 80 by 20 feet in size, and will
be a conveniently arranged and
neatly finished building.
On Easter Sunday Mr.. A. X. Smith
had a pocketbook containing Sl75
taken from his overcoat pocket in
church at Rohrersville, over in Wash
ington county. Every effort was made
to detect the thief but all to no pur-