Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-07-22
BRIEFS.

PeSseor Vi the Lutheran church at
Funkstown, Md, died suddenly OF
heart failure last Sunday morning.
She was Al years of age.
The annual Harvest Home festival
will be held in Jones's woods, near
Billmyer's Mill, on Thursday, August
4th. Everything that can be will be
done to make the day enjoyable.
Mr.. Fl. G. Marten has bought the
immense brick smoke-sta at An
tietam Furnace, about three miles
below Shepherdstown. He has some
thing like million of bricks for sale
now.
The Berryville and the Shepherds
town baseball clubs crossed bats at
the former place on Wednesday and
had very close and well-contested
game. The Berryvillians won by a
score Of to3.
Mr.. Levi Porter bought the Lucy
Bunkins house and, lot sold by j. s.
Bragonier, trustee, last week, paying
S26s therefor. Mr.. d. S. Rentch
bought the little piece of ground ad-
joining for $15.
Aunt" Malvina Wilkinson, most
respectable old colored woman Of
Shepherdstown, died last week at the
age of about 81 years. Julia Staley,
another well-known colored woman,
died on Monday.
Little Shaulter Trussell has pair
OF young 'coons, which are the source
OF much pleasure to the small folks
just now. Unfortunately, however,
'coons do not retain angelic DISPOSE
tons as they grow older.
The Shepherdstown Rod and Gun
Club will hold big match shoot at
this place on Wednesday, August Sd,
when splendid lot of prizes will be
contested for, aggrsgating in value
$3.50 Fuller otice next week.
After fifteen years experimenting,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has decided that wooden cross-ties
are the most satisfactory of all the
many sorts that have been tried, and
will hereafter use no other kind.
The new town hall has been COM
pleted and Is now ready for occupan-
cy. The stage fixtures will be added
later. The room is splendid one,
and we believe is far superior to the
halls usually found in country towns.
The ladies Of the Lutheran Church
at Unionville will serve dinner at
that place on Saturday, August 9th,
and in the evening OF the same day
will have a festival in the grove.
They wish to raise money for the i'm
provement of the church.
Mr.. s. L. Williams, who has been
for several years a grain dealer at
Shenandoah Junction, has sold out to
Mr.. w. n. Lemen, Of Shepherdstown,
who will buy grain and conduct
similar business there. Mr.. A. G.
Moore will manage for Mr.. Lemen at
the Junction.
Messrs. B. F. and G. E. Langdon
have sold to Mr. John Sharp, OF
Chambersburg, Pa, the Heflebower
farm, recently purchased by them,
and bought OF Mr.. Sharp his interest
$3.50 acres in the "Myerstown Farm"
old Joseph Myers place-in this
county, for $14,000.-Spirit.
Mr.. Henry Vanmetre, of Schop-
pert's Ford, who about month ago
had leg broken by being thrown
from n horse, again last week had the
same member fractured by some cat
tie on his farm throwing him down in
the barn yard and treading upon the
leg, with the result above stated
MartinSburg World
A young man named Taylor, of Win
chester, Va, while bathing at Island
Pork on Tuesday, dived into what he
thought was deep water, but which
really was quite shallow. he struck
a rock and broke his arm. he was
carried to the clearinghouse OF Miss
Annie Trail and the fracture given
surgical attention.-Sentinet.
A well-known agent for the Deer
ing Binder Company, whose veraclty
is unquestioned in Shepherdstown
where he resides, says that his COM
many will have a machine at the
Worlds Fair that goes into the stand
ing wheat and cuts, binds, threshes,
separates, grinds, kneads and bakes,
throwing off continual shower OF
biscuits as the finished product. A
grand machine, truly.
The Teachers Institute for Jetfer-
son county convened In the court
house in Charlestown, last Monday,
Superintendent Ramsburg in the
chair, and organized by electinS Miss
Florence Snyder and Geo. p. Shirley
secretaries, and T. w. Coleman re-
corder OF minutes for publication.
Prof. Armstrong could not be there
and Prof. II. C. Miller, of Fairmont,
was sent to take his place.
Last Sunday evening when lamp
lighter Jimmie Jones went to lishtthe
Gasoline lamp at the Reformed par