Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-05-26
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

January for one dollar. Send along
your name-and your dollar-and
give the paper trial.
Prof. Leo p. Wheat, the wellknown
pianist who recently gave a perform
ance in Shepherdstown, has been
placed in the Maryland State Insane
Asylum by his friends.
The closing exercises of Oak Grove
public school will be held this Friday
evening at half-past o'clock The
friends and patrons of the school are
cordially invited to be present.
a young fellow who claimed to be
advance agent for Baltazar, the
magician, skipped his board bill il
Shepherdstown this week. He in.
dulged too freely in the flowing bowl
The President has decided to APP
point Major Holmes Conrad, of Win
chester, to be First Assistant Attor-
ney-General in the Department of
Justice, to succeed John b. Cotton,
of Maine.
Mr.. G. II. Mcknight, for a number
of years u resident of Charlestown,
died at his home in Albemarle coun-
ty, Virginia, on the 18th instant,
aged 20 years. He had been i'll for
several months.
\ contract has been made by Mrs.
Azemia Shepherd with a. j. Waldeck
for the Improvement of the Shepherd
graveyard next to the Episcopal Re c.
tory. The wall is to be rebuilt and
the yard to be put in thorough re-
pair.
The ladies of the Lutheran Church
of Unionville will hold festival at
that place on Saturday, June 10th,
| for the benefit of the church. Soup,
ice-cream, cake, etc, will be served,
and the patronage of the public is
solicited.
The directors of the Woman's Col
lege TO be established in Frederick
City by the Potomac Synod of the
Reformed Church have elected as
president Prof. James a. Apple, now
of the Central High School, Pitts
burg, Pa.
a party of Washington sportsmen
have purchased Of S. n. Grub u
tract of land in Loudoun codnty, Va,
extending down to the Potomac river
below Harper's Ferry, for hunting
and fishing purposes. They propose
building a $1,000 clubhouse.
At the municipal election in Mar
tinsburg last Monday Tabler and
Schill, Democrats, and Grozinger,
Martin and Lamar, Republicans,
were elected councilmen. The coun-
ell is now a tie, but u Democratic
mayor has the deciding vote.
The Surrey Company have sold the
property known as the Surrey Man
sion, located on the Wiliamsport
pike, directly south of the corporate
limits of Hagerstown, to James T..
Hardin, manager of the Kelley Insti-
tute, for $4,000. The building has
been occupied by the Kelley Institute
for some time.
Newspaper editing is very funny
business. If you give n mau a puff
he never sees it, but let one line
against him appear and he sees it be-
fore the paper is off the press; while
he would not have time to stop on the
street and say thank you" he has
time to run all over town to denounce
the editor who seeks TO print the
news.
The Gruber Family of musicians
gave an entertainment in the town
hall last Saturday night, and Sunday
afternoon a sacred concert in the
same room was largely attended.
They also gave another entertain
ment here Wednesday night, which
was enjoyed by a good-sized audi
ence. Prof Gruber is on expert VIC
linist, and plays an instrument that
is 81 years old.
In all the cities and towns of Canada
now bell is rung at nine o'clock at
night, and all persons under seventeen
years of age found on the streets after
that hour are arrested and locked up
in the station house unless they give
satisfactory explanations. This Is
done by an old law which has just
been revived. The operation of such
a law in Shepherdstown would save
many a boy and girl from going to
the bad.
Charlie Brown, the Charlestowp
ieweler. has novel scheme to inter
est and at the same time benefit his
customers. His advertisement on
the second page will tell you what it
is. Read it. Mr.. Brown writes us
that he has on hand now particu
larly nice line of solid silver and
plated ware suitable for wedding
presents. Mail orders will receive
prompt attention and satisfaction is
guaranteed.
ShepherdStOwn is to have another
saloon. At special meeting of the
town council last Saturday night
recommendation for license was
granted to Mr.. Longerbeam, of Har-
per's Ferry, who, with the assistance
of Harry Rockenbaugh, of the same
place. will conduct a bar-room in the
sink of the Entler Hotel. Shepherds
town will have TWO saloons when
this new one is opened.
The great fruit crop that was PROM
ised earlier in the spring is beginning