Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-09-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things Of Interest that are HAP opening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

| "olusTlul success OF maryland Gay
at Morgan's Grove, urge the man
agement OF the Hagerstown fair to
set apart Virginia day and Penn
sylvsnia day at that exhibition
The meeting of the advisory boards
of the Hagerstown fair was postponed
from Thursday to Saturday Of this
week, on account OF. the Winchester
fair. The meeting will be held at the
Baldwin House in Hagerstown.
JOS r., Jesse and Frank Howell
were arrested for disturbing Sunday
school picnic at Fairmont School
House, and Justice Heflebower fined
them $50 each and costs, with TWEEN
ty days in jail-all that the law al
lows
\ fellow who had been criticized by
the editor applied to a lawyer TO
know how he should go TO work to
break up the paper. He was advised
to buy the paper and run it for six
mOnths-and was charged S. for the
advice
Wheat took a considerable Jump
during the past week, having gained
five cents a bushel since our last re-
port. Our dealers are giving 63 cents
a bushel. Corn also went up another
cent, and is now quoted at 90 cents a
bushel.
Shepherd College started up excel
lently on Monday with GO students
enrolled for the fall term. The out
look for the cooming year is very
good indeed, and it is likely that the
attendance will be larger than for
some time past.
1t is said that The West Virginia
Central Railroad will make a strong
| effort at the next session of the Mary
land Legislature to get control of the
Chesapeake & Ohio canal, which the
railroad company wants for a road
bed to the east.
The Baltimore Building and Loan
Association has appointed Nj. d. S.
Rsntch, of this place, general agent
for Virginia, West Virginia and Mary
land. He is also agent for the Fideli-
ty and Deposit Company of Mary
land in West Virginia.
Miss Alvernon Cross has been ap-
pointed principal of the Harper's Fer
public school and Miss Kate Cham
b.rs assistant. Miss Annie Eichel-
berger is principal of the Bolivar
school and j. r. Farmhouse aud Miss
Myrtle Moler assistants.
\ young man named Grabill, aged
about twenty years, was accidentally
killed by his team while hauling wood
on his mothers farm near Hedgesville
in Berkeley county. 1t is not known
how the accident occurred, as his
dead body was found lying in the
road.
Two colored bootblacks at Nor
gan's Grove got into a quarrel, when
one stabbed the other in the back.
1t was not a very deep cut, and TO
avoid arrest they both said it was
done in play. They were both quick
ly started toward Winchester, where
they had come from.
The Children's Fresh Air Society OF
Baltimore last week sent twenty-four
children to Shepherdstown and other
points in this section for q visit OF
two weeks. Five of tho little chaps
are at Mr. Boswell's just across the
river. They have been enjoying to
the full their novel pleasures in the
country. 1t is blessed charity that
sends them.
NJ. l.. Keedy and w. C. Griffith, at
tornsys at law, have brought suit
in the circuit court of Washington
county for William Hoover against
the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company, claiming damages for in
juries received by Mr.. Hoover in a
collision in May, 1891. The amount
claimed is $1,000. He was in the EN-
ploy of the railroad company at the
time as engineman. He lives in Ha-
gerstown.
Last Thursday young man named
Harry West, who lives noar Charles
town, fell from a passenger train at
! Shenandoah Junction on his way to
| Morgan's Grove. His face was q
sight to see. There was not spot
on it that was not bruised or cut or
scratched, and one of his legs was
badly bruised also. DR.. Butler gave
him medical attention. He was not
seriously hurt, but for some reason or
other he couldn't tell much about the
accident.
Somebody remarked a day or two
ago that the sooner Our mail comes
the later we get it. This appears to
be pretty nearly true. All last week
the mail was an hour and q half late.
Tuesday of this week an engine of
the track delayed the mail train on
the Western Maryland Railroad just
beyond Hagerstown, and we got no
papers until 5 p. III. Wednesday there
was trouble Of some other sort, and
again the Baltimore mail was delayed
until night.
While driving through Shepherds
town last Tuesday we were struck by
the handsome, metropolitan appea--
ance OF the cemetery on the road