Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-19
BRIEFS.

q,. Judicial convention VIII oe
~" Cbarlestown OH Saturday, the
..o lemons. cheap sugar, coun-
I'D city bacon, at w. L. Lickli-
ders. IN,
,,-.rough's show is billed to e1-
ribit in HaserstOwn' on Wednesday,
october )
sweet potatoes, watermelons, egg
~, r,nteloupes, apples, at W. p.
Li,klider''
r,. supreme Court OF Appeals will
in Charlestown on the eth OF
september.
-, can have the REGISTER from
mill the first Of next January
fr 80 cents.
r,. concert in the town hall next
PROMISES to be very fine. Be
.grgto attend.
r,you want the news, read the REG
-rp But read your own copy, not
borrowed one.
r,. II. +. Sunday School of this
,.,s held it, picnic in Morgan's Grove
On Wednesday.
yov j. the time TO clean the streets
AMI cutters of the weeds that are
.-,ujn, so luxuriantly.
Don't forget the concert in the town
ball next Friday and Saturday even
;.,.. August Goth and eth.
W. are indebted TO our kind friend
,.,m FImwood Farm, Miss Sallie Hill
a-a basketful of fine apples.
Harris, New Nickel-Plate Show is
advertised to give a performance in
>1.pherdstown next Monday.
Calvin Tabler is the member OF
,s- new Republican congressional
committee from Jefferson county.
Sheriff Davis has called in Jefferson
r,ryty bonds numbered /, 2, 3, 4, and
,oftne denomination Of $1,000 each.
There are $4,000 words in the English
language and yet the blushing beau
often struggles for words TO express
himself
The Reformed reunion at Pen Mar
,on plac. on Thursday. Quite num-
f-rofpersons from Shepherdstown at
tended.
Mr.. Albert Hill, who lives below
town. had pitch fork run into his
arm accidentally by colored man
a,r week.
-Four Of the trees in front OF the col
Ir.- were cut down this week. The
tree, we're dying and they will be re
placed by young ones.
Peter Nose, of Sharpsblrg, late of
Co. 4, First Maryland Regiment, Po-
touac home brigade, has been gran
I-d pension az the rate of IS per
month
Mr. Frank Mccormick, eldest son
Of Dr. c. Mccormick, of Berryville,
! jed ut the home of his parents on
Tuesday Aug. 9th, aged about 81 or
% years
The mother Of Rev DR.. j. A. Holt
helms pastor of tue Reformed Church
a, Mart.nsburg, died at her home at
Muncy, Pa. on August 9TH, ut an adj
vauced age,
We are informed that the Hon.
Stuart Walker is regarded with some
suspicion since the disappearance OF
Congressman Bynum's high hat at
Marjnsburg IA few weeks ago.
Messrs. Osbourn & Ronemous, mer-
chants at Keller, have sold out their
stock of merchandise to Emanuel
ShariTer and Charles b. Moler. The
new iru will take charge the first OF
October
\ gentleman living in Ohio has writ
ten to the Rev. b. F. Cronise, OF
Sharpsburg, to know if he can get II
square stone that will weigh a ton
from the banks of the Antietam for u
cornerstone for church.
The river is extremely low at this
point just now. The cement mill
boat had 1. hard time getting up to
the lock on Monday, and it was not
loaded very heavily, either.
The Democratic convention for the
nomination Of two delegates in the
legislature from the seventh district
Berkeley, Morgan and Jefferson coun-
ties-wiIl be held at Berkeley Springs
on Monday next, August 22d.
The Charlestown Cornet Band,
headed by all enthusiastic crowd from
That place, came to town Tuesday
night, on their way to serenade and
congratulate Col w. a. Morgan on
The >ucc- - of the old sheriffalty ticket.
Mr. d. f. Billmyer came near being
hlrt at his mill near town few days
ago. y board on which he was
Standing broke under him, and had
he not caught himself in time he
would have fallen into the race-way
below.
1t Is noted tLat an unusual number
OIL IOcuStS are heard this summer, anc
particularly at present. August Il
TIE month when the locust swarms III
largest numbers, and its appearance
j. The harbinger OF hot weather, as
rule.
John Ridge, boy thirteen years o.
age whilst attempting to jump on
moving freight train on the Western
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