Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-03-01
BRIEFS.
title Items of a Local Flavor to Interest the
Registers Readers.

Flower and garden seed and flax
seed meal at w. P. Licklider's.
A building and loan association has
been organized at Kearneysville.
For sale, cheap, a good young mare
FIVE years old. Apply at this office.
Big bargains offered by w, P. Lick
lider if you need boots, shoes or gloves.
You may have the best paper in the
county for 81 so year. Call at this
office.
Mr.. Henry Scheelkey, former res
4 ident of Martinsburg, died at Radford,
Va, last week.
A freight train was wrecked on the
sB & 0. Railroad at CharlestOwn last
1 Friday. Nobody hurt.
If your taxes are not paid before
y o'clock tonight you cannot vote at
the corporation election.
At this writing, Thursday morning,
March is coming in like lamb. The
indications are for beautiful day.
The net earnings of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company for Jan
uary show an increase of $25, 048l2.
Glassware, queensware, wooden
ware and many other goods at cost to
close out before moving. J. n. Trus-
sell.
We have an interesting communi-
cation on the road question to which
We will give some space in our next
issue.
Mr. J. C. Irving, of Hagerstown,
has applied for the benefit of the in
solvent laws. He kept jewelry
store.
Crackers &c., tomatoes l0c., molas-
ses Sc. a pint, dried corn, cheese, peas,
beans Sc. and cracked corn at W. P.
Licklider s.
Harry Shafer, B. & o. brakeman
was knocked from a car at Brunswick
on Saturday. His left arm was crush
ed and had to be amputated.
If you spend dollar at home, it
will return to you before many days,
but if you spend it abroad it is forever
lost, both to you and your community.
What English word is it, the first
two letters of which signify man,
the first three a woman, the first four
great man, and the whole great
woman?
DR.. a. S. Reynolds is named as the
candidate on the Peoples Ticket" in
place of Mr.. Z. H. Reinhart, who re-
signed and became the nominee of the
Democratic convention.
s There will be meeting of the La
dies Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. G. A. at
Mrs. Markets. Friday, March I'd, at
8 p. NJ, to elect officers for the ensuing
year. A full attendance is requested.
The Charlestown Adcocate truly
says that when an economical fit
strikes a man, and he feels like he
ought to cut down his expenses, the
newspaper man is the very first person
he thinks of.
Dr. Joseph H King has been arrest
ed and lodged in jail in Baltimore on
the charge of bigamy. One Of his
wives is Mrs Laura " Brewer Of
Hagerstown, to whom he was married
last November.
Messrs. Robert L. and J. B. Os-
bourn have made deal in real estate
on Sandy Ridge by which the latter
gets the lO5-acre place of the former
in exchange for a 50-acre tract adj
Joining Edgewood school-house and a
certain amount of money
The burgess and commissioners of
Sharpsburg are arranging to have cor
rected their charter, which does not
describe the limits of the town and
which has been declared illegal. 1t
is contemplated to extend the limits
one mile in every direction from the
public square.
Assessor Gardner informs US that
not single pound of ice has been
harvested in Snepherdstown.-H@-
|per's Ferry Sentinel At least a half
dozen big ice-houses in Shepherdstown
have been filed, some of the ice being
six inches in thickness. And others
are being filled this week.
Mr. Henry Shepherd has bought
the property in the rear of his dwell
ing on Main street straight through
to High street. He bought from Cap
tain John Crow an unimproved lot So
by 206 feet for $3.50, and from Mr..
j. S. Myers the dwelling-house for
merly occupied by Mr.. j. B. Crow, on
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