Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-02-17
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

awake in the night and find your
mouth open, get up and shut it.
At the last meeting OF the S. p. g.
Band the following officers were elect
ed for the ensuing year: President,
M. Z. Spohn; vice president, G. B.
Humrickhouse; secretary, j. l.. Wal
tiers; treasurer and musical director,
o. E. Spohn.
One of our exchanges calls attention
to a nursing bottle advertisement
which concludes with the words:
when the baby is done drinking it
must be unscrewed and laid in q cool
place under tap. If the baby does
not thrive on fresh milk it should be
boiled" Poor little baby!
Master Washington Hooff, of this
place, has brass handle taken from
a coffin which at one time contained
the remains Of Gen. George Washing
ton-they having been transferred
from that to another casket. He has
also two picture frames made from
the wood of Washington's carriage
Wheels Spirit
Signor Bosco, who gave away
prizes SO literally at his entertain
ment in the town hall on last Wed
nesday evening, failed to give away
the gold watch as he promised to do
at the Thursday evenings entertain
ment. He claimed that the atten-
dance was too slim and he could not
afford to do it.
An editor of country newspaper
truthfully says: There is more Joy
in a printing Office over one sinner
who pays in advance and abuses the
editor on every occasion than over
ninety and nine righteous men who
borrow the paper and sing its praises
without contribu ting a cent to keep
it out of the poor house"
Easter Sunday falls on April I'd this
year. In 1894 it will come on March
25th, the last time in thi. century that
it will fall on so early a date. The
earliest date is March 23d and that
only in case the full moon comes on
March 21st. But this is extremely
rare, having occurred but once III
this century. and will not occur
again until the year 1000
Mr.. John +. Willy, cashier of the
Merchants and Farmers Bank in
Martiusburg, has resigned and will
accept the cashiership of the Fidelity
Bank of Durham, n. G.. Edward Rut
ledge, chief clerk to Gen. j. f. Boyd,
superintendent of the Cumberland
Valley Railroad, has been elected as
sistant cashier of the Citizens Ma
tional Bank, and will enter upon his
duties in a few days.
Lemons, grapes and tomatoes are
most valuable from a medical point
OF view and if the uses of such fruits
and their juices were persevered in
there is every reason TO believe that
not only cancer, but many other dis
eases of a similar nature with which
the skill of the surgeon and physi-
clan are unable to cope, might be act
ually cured, or so much alleyiated as
scarcely to shorten life.
The spring moving has already
commenced in this vicinity. Mr.. A.
C. Morgan has removed from Mr.. j.
n. Trussell'S property, on the Shep-
herd pike, to Maj. Henry Hagan's
farm in Terrapin Neck. Mr.. Turner
Maddox has moved from Shepherds
town to the property vacated by Mr..
Morgan. Mr. J. y. Myers has moved
to Mr.. Jacob Crows house on High
street, and Mr. Nathan Myers has
moved into the house vacated by Mr..
Turner Maddox.
A startling piece of news was circu-
lated in Shepherdstown on Thursday.
1t was to the effect that seven men
had been killed on tie b u .. Rail
road near Shenandoah Junction
Wednesday. 1t is said that the men,
who were cumming their way on a
freight train, were thrown off by
sudden stoppage Of the cars, and
every one of them was killed. We
could not verify the report mp to the
time of going to press.
The following is list of officers OF
jefferson lodge No. 100, l. o. o. f. of
Duffields, w. Va, recently elected
and installed: NJ. l.. Ronemous, n.
G.; IT. O. Link, V. G.; f. II. Osbonrn,
Sec'y.; Jas. Burr, Treasurer; j. Is.
Furtney, Warden; J. a. Link, Con
ductor; y. 5. ]. Strider, Chap; S. 0.
Dunn, r. 5. Y. c.; VIM. B. Russ, l..
S. y. g.; C. w. Myers, r. S. s.; l.. j.
Virts, f. 5. s.; II. NJ. Hill, 0. e.; K.
L. Engle, |. g.; Lewis Voorhees,, r.
S. V. G.; D. l.. Barringer, l.. s. V. q.
Another new, novel and sensational
fraud i. now beginning to make its
advent throughout the country as
the outgrowth of the Columbian Elk.
position, which seems TO have fur
nished opportunity and material for
all kinds of confidence work. An adj
vertisement appears in many of the
papers Offering steel engravings of the
original paintings from which the
Columbian stamps were duplicated at
one dollar each, size not mentioned.
In reply you enclose the necessary
funds and receive in return two
cent stamp.
AS announced in the REGISTER of
last week, Mr.. w. J. Knott, Jr., deliv