Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-06-30
LITTLE LOCAL S.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

Mr.. r. ID. Shepherd has had half
mile race track laid out upon his
Wild Goose Farm, near Shepherds
town, upon which he will speed the
Kentucky thoroughbreds recently
purchased by him.
Miss Mary Strother, daughter of
Rev Frank A. Str other, won the gold
medal for photography DIT DIR. Hyde's
seminary in Winchester this year
! Miss Strother also won the honors in
the music department.
Master Eldon kerney, who was so
| badly hurt in the runaway accident
/ last week, is getting along firstrate,
and is able to be out. Both his arms
are still bandaged, though, and when
he wants to scratch his nose he has to
rub up against post.
Adam c. Seipple, OF Chambersburg,
sent nine of his homing carrier pig
| cons to ShepherdStOwn last Sunday
| and turned them loose. The distance
of 30 miles from this place home was
| covered by the swift birds in "A min
utes. All of them arrived safety.
j. Mitchell Slower, the well-known
| fruit grower of Washington county,
says that the peach prospects are the
finest that he has seen since 1888.
/ The frAit Is not extraordinarily plen-
/ tiiul, but it is exceptionally fine. He
| says he never saw the peaches larger
at this stage of the season than they
are at present.
The lawn festival to be held by the
| ladies of the Southern Methodist
Church in the college yard on the
evenings of July eth and Sth promises
to be entertaining in an unusual de
gree \ special feature will be an
open-air concert 10y our local talent.
| The usual refreshments will be served
in an attractive style.
The Martinsburg Statesman has fol
/ lowed the example of the Harper's
| Ferry Sentinel and the Charlestown
/ 1drOcate and employed young ladies
as compositors. We understand that
| the experiment promises to prove
very satisfactory. The girls pick up
the art quickly and become accurate
and swift in setting type, in many e.
| spects doing the work better than
/ men.
| Judge Faulkner has been making
an effort to keep down the expenses
| of court, and "a measure of his sue
| cess. rs can be seen from the follow
| iug statement, we note the jury eX
peuses have been reduced fully fifty
per cent: Grand and petit jury ex-
peuses for 1888, Sl,G54 10; for 1882
SIlOj.4j; for 1890, 81, 2676O; for 1891,
Sl,1G7.1O aud for 1892, his first year,
$500 40 -NartmsJ1Tg Independent.
Here's a rather able story from the
! Charlestown Free Press, Mr.. 5. II.
| HiginbOtham has a hen that made u
nest in a large oak tree on a limb
forty feet from the ground. She laid
eggs there and Matched nine chicks.
When they fell from the nest two
were killed-the other seven are liv-
ing and doing we'll She now roosts
with her brood under hollow stump.
If they fall again gravitation must be
the other way.
Mr.. ID. L. Rentch has begun in a
modest way Il new industry in Shep-
/ herdstowu-the manufacture of
brooms which he will carry on in
connection with his mattress factory.
The broomS that he has already
turned out are quite as good as any
we have ever seen, and they will
sweep just as clean aS any other new
broom We hope that the venture
will prove successful and that his bus
mess may greatly increase.
At meeting of the stockholders of
jefferson Savings Bank on Wednes-
day the old board Of directors was
elected for the ensuing year. \ report
Of the condition Of the bank shows
that institution to DE In first-class
shape, and the earnings the past
year have been greater than its
friends had hoped for. y dividend of
three per cent for the past six months
was declared upon its capital stock,
and we understand that handsome
sum was besides added to the surplus
fund.
The black stocking must go. En-
lish royalty has decreed it, aud says
that white hosiery is the proper
thing so, n it is English, you know,
white it will have to be. The change,
if we are to judge from the express
ions III our exchanges, does not meet
with uuanimou, approval. For in
stance. the keySer Tribune says black
looks much better aud can be worn
"a year without washing, an advan-
tage that white does not possess.
The REGISTER views black with favor
aud is not nvcrse to seeing white
stockings But, for real beauty, give
Us red every time.
Passengers from Baltimore and
Washington can now make better
connection for Shepherdstown than
has been possible for many years.
Baltimore & Ohio train No. Z, leaving
Baltimore at ) and Washington at
.G.15 p. ~, arrives at Shenandoah
Junction at SIS, where direct cOnnec-
ton is made for ShepherdstOwn, ar
irving here at S.44 p. IN. If the b. y
O. train is little late speak to the
conductor, who will telegraph ahead
and have the Norfolk u Western
train wait at Shenandoah Junction q