Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-08-12
BRiEFS.

Uauted-Country bacon, at w. p.
Licklider's.
Cheap sugars and fresh groceries at
" p Licklider's.
Emil stock of ground and whole
.ri,r, at w. p. Licklider's.
The soup at Morgan's Grove takes
,.,c, saturday of this week.
News has been about as scarce this
,.ek a, it ever gets hereabouts.
I.lIy glasses, jars, stoneware, jugs,
flower pot, &c, at w. p. Lickliders.
The Catholic Sunday school held
f.. pirnic at Morgan's Grove on We'd
nesday.
The Lutheran Sunday School had
il. picnic at Lemen's Big Spring on
Thursday.
,reat many lambs have been ship
ned from this vicinity the past couple
Of months.
Mr.. q. Il. Sperow will kindly send
rthyt Jug of cider on Friday evening
Of this week.
pr. Daniel Morgan, of this place,
had IA narrow escape from drowning
at Atlantic City last week.
Watermelons are still pretty high
in price. and our local dealers are ask
inn. - to 80 cents apiece for them.
Mr.. John Hollis, one of the oldest
citizens of Berkeley county, died near
Grrardstown last week, aged 70 years.
Editor Haines says he was suffering
from u bad cold (D when he returned
from the State Convention. Come
of,
The Ordway Rifles, of Washington
city. under command of Capt. j. NJ
Williams, are encamped at Harper's
Ferry.
Work at the Antietam Cement
Works, below town, has been sus-
pended for a couple Of weeksto make
repairs.
The ladies Of the Lutheran Church
at KNOXVILLE made forty dollars at
their lawn festival last Saturday
evening,
An infant child of Mr.. Stevenson
died on his caual-boat a few days ago,
aud was buried in Shepherdstown on
Wednesday.
Potomac Building Association No.
will meet on Monday evening next
at o'clock in the REGISTER Office to
loan money.
Mr. James b. Morgan, publisher of
the Gerardstown Times, has in press
volume entitled Song Sermons and
other Poems"
\ large number of cOlored persons
went 10 ConochOcheague last Sunday
from this section to attend a camp
meeting there.
There were three notable tramps in
town on Wednesday. Two had but
one leg each and the other fellow had
only one good leg.
The Reformed reunion at Pen Mar
takes place next Thursday. The train
leaves Shepherdstown at 1917 II. H.,
fare for the round trip s. cents.
The presidential election will occur
this year on the Sth of November
the latest date on which it can be
held November 2d is the earliest
date possible for holding an election.
Mrs. Annie f. Wager, wife Of DIR.
f. l.. Wager, of the vicinity of Charles
town, died at Mt. Hope, Md, last Sat
urday, aged about 90 years. Her re
mains were taken to CharlestOwn and
inferred in Edge-Hill Cemetery.
The Harper'S Ferry Sentinel says:
Mr. Thos. w. Beale has purchased
OF Mr. Vim. Luke, formerly of the
Pulp Company here, his handsome
cottage near the Episcopal church.
The price, we are told, was $4,000.
Edgar Fayman, Hugh Furr,
Arthur Pierce, Will Kennard and
George Beltzhoover are camping out
mt Knots Island, below town. They
haven't done much execution among
the fish, but then there's nothing
like camping out, you know.
The Democrats of Unionville pro-
pose to organize a Cleveland club at
that place next Tuesday, August nth,
when they will entertain all visitors
with speechmaking and plenty OF
good chicken soup. The Democrats
OF the county are invited to attend.
Mr.. ID. L. Magruder, whose farm Is
about two miles from town, on the
- "a llCN SNlllC Jihts ioiSNN A'ANN
81, Of wheat this year from Al acres
all average of nearly % bushels per
acre. Dir. Magruder has gotten his
farm into fine state of cultivation.
William Henry. "A little son of James
Henry and Sallie Griffith, of this
place, aged twenty months, by
mistake got hold of cup OF I've last
Wednesday and drank portion OF
it, The child was thrown into con
WILSON'S. and died the next day
SPIRIT
Editor Brown, of the Kingwood Ar
gus, is considerably alarmed Tor fear
that the wearing Of suspenders by the
women will result in the men being
forced to wear petticoats. We don
know but that it would do some oil
these old bachelors good to put petit