Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-07-14

p Lickliders'
~. Johnson, nee Miss Nettie Fiery.
u,r,jr,J,ug Independent. Never!
u.gerstown people are agitating
spbiect Of paid fire department.
The annual soup at Morgan's Grove
IN be held on Saturday, August
eth.
The Messrs. Shepherd will give a
% in the Gown hall this Friday
evening.
Mr. William Butler cut his hand
n-stty badly in a moving machine on
Tuesday.
Cant James Il. Leary, United States
,rmy retired, died at Harper's Fer
" recently,
Rev f. C. Ayers, of Charleston, s.
~ has accepted call to the Baptist
.rrrch in Hagerstown.
The merchants of Berkeley Springs
have all agreed not to sell cigarettes
f.rsafter. Good thing.
The Potomac river is lower at Shep-
t.r5stown than it has been for long
..r4 and the water is very clear.
Three barrels jelly glasses this
week. Fruit jars, stoneware and
heap sugar at w. p. Lickider's.
Beware of the man who never
makes mistakes. To know it ALL is
wgch worse than to know too little.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, the Kansas
salesman, was in Charlestown last
week.. he wore socks nobody saw
them.
Captain Hebb, of Sharsburg, is
fawu on the canal electricity system.
H4 saws when the mule leaves he
caves
Miss Minnie Rhineaman has been
appointed postmistress at Ripon, this
county. in place OF d. c. Adams, re
moved
An exchange says that bass are get
lin. very scarce in the Potomac river.
No wonder. Larry Rentch was a-fish-
ID. last week.
Mr. Joseph Anderson, a former cit
s-uof this county, died near Gaylord,
Clarke county, Va, last week, aged
about - years.
The value OF real estate listed for
taxation in Jefferson county, after
corrections and alterations to April
st. 1898, is s5,O7l, 2S3.
ITO to the Y. NJ. C. A. meeting at
a.j o'clock Sunday afternoon In the
college chapel. The meeting will be
Especial one. All are invited.
Charles Broadway Rouss has given
,ar Friendship Fire Company, OF
Winchester, two life-sized portraits
" himself and his son Chas. H. b.
Rouss
Las, Friday and Saturday were in
,-u,eiy hot days, but Saturday after
noon a series Of thunder storms cooled
the atmosphere and gave US much
needed rains.
Potomac Permanent Building Asso-
cs,ion will meet in Firemen's Hall
u-l, Monday evening at 8 o'clock, at
which time and place it will offer to
redeem shares.
Lemons are steadily advancing in
price during the hot weather, as they
always do, when the consumption is
so large. They leaped up fifty cents
box in one day last week.
Tie Sunday school of the Episcopal
Church had its annual picnic at Nor
gan, Grove on Wednesday, and on
Thursday the Methodists had their
l,ua. outing at the same place.
The teachers institute for Berkeley
county will begin July Gath, and will
be held in Martinsburg. 1t will be
conducted by Prof. \. G. Kimler,
Principal OF Shepherd College.
Charles Brenneke, who is said to
lave superintendent the construction
li the biz iron bridge of the b. & o.
Railroad at Harper's Ferry, died in
Iowa "a few days ago, aged 70 years.
Nj George White has severed his
.onnection with the milling firm of
a. 5. Reynolds & Co, and Mr.. Harry
Lewis has started in to learn the mil
.eF- business in that establishment.
The ladies' of the Southern Metho-
DIST Church made about $50 at their
AVN festival last week. The storms
o' Saturday evening drove them in
doors and cut of part of the profits.
The CharleStownAdrocate has moved
Us Office back to town, aud has fine
quarters in the new Weirick building.
-De Aarocate probably believes in the
Oh adage that setting hen gathers
10 flesh.
We have received the annual cata-
'osue Of Roanoke College, that ad-
~Taole educational institution at
Salem, Va. Several notable improve
"rnis are to be made at the college
The ensuing year.
lie managers of the Hagerstown
'aT viii make an especial effort this
year to have a fine display of farm
aD' garden products. They have Is
,l~d circular asking the help of the
farmers in this line.
Gabe Mitchell, an aged and well
AAown colored man, fell from wagon
"Di''t engaged in hauling in wheat
Oh the farm of Mr.. S. H. Higinboth-
an last Wednesday, and broke his
neck, death ensuing immediately
SPIRIT.