Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-01-18
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening III
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere

| in 30 days the entlre s'Iu0'"
ready for travel. The work is pro-
crossing very rapidly.
In renewing his subscription to the
REGISTER. Judge j. Q. A Metcalf, OF
PALMYRA, Mo, former Shepherds
town boy, says: 1t is the welcome
messenger above all the papers re-
| ceive."
Judge J. J. jackson, of the United
States Court, has appointed 5. w.
Walker receiver for the Martinshurg
Edison Electric Illuminating Com.
pany, upon the application OF John Is
! Wilson and others.
A very pleasant party was given at
Mfr. S. f. Lemen's last Monday night
in honor of Miss Blanche Reed, OF
Percyvile, Loudoun county, Va,
charming young lady who is visiting
! friends in this section.
/ TIE cold wave that came along last
/ Thursday night f"oze the ponds and
| the water in the canal sufficiently 10
make pretty fair skating. The warm
weather that followed soon melted
the ice, though, and dashed the hopes
: of those who want ice.
At the annual election at Harper's
Ferry Z. w. Beall, Democrat, was
| elected mayor over John w. Doll,
Republican, by seven votes. The
council is also Democratic. Mr.. Doll
/ is the present mayor aud has filled the
office for several terms.
| The PRESBYTERIAN ladies of Shenan-
doah Junction will hold all oyster
supper at that place on the 18th, 1911
and Goth of this month, for the bene-
fit of the chapel there. They ask the
public patronage and promise pleas
ant time to all who will attend.
Robert Lee Hamilton and Charles
Doarnberger were arrested in Hagers-
town Tuesday for stealing goods from
Norfolk & Western freight ear in
that place. Some OF the goods had
been consigned to Shepherdetown
merchants. The stolen property was
found in their possession.
Mrs. Elizabeth Graves has con
tracted with Messrs. Lippitt, of
Cnarlestown, for the erection OF her
new dwelling house on King street,
opposite the college grounds. Mrs.
Ida II. Neill has bought the lot ad-
joining Mrs. Graves's and she will al
so have dwelling house built.
Some persons sent to the REGISTER
for publication a mock prayer to
| Grover Clevelaud-a sacreligious and
senseless burlesque of a sacred thing
that should be found in no decent
| journal. 1t surprises US to see the
idiotic eiTusion in some of our eX-
changes that should be above such
stuff.
! ID. f. Dayton. who was arrested for
participation in meat stealing and 9th
er robberies in this county aud Berk-
eley with Thomas Gregory, has turned
States evidence and been sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary.
The trial of Gregory has been set for
today in the circuit court vt Martins
burg.
\ young lady named Miss Vsrnie
Myers, en- route from Pennsylvania
10 Bramwell, this State, was robbed
of her money, baggage checks, etc,
while doing in the waiting room of
the Cumberland Valley Railroad a:
HaSerstown Tuesday night. Two
Hagerstown girls are suspected OF the
robbery.
Mr.. Lamar, Of Montgomery county,
has introduced bill in the Maryland
Legislature to appropriate $4,000 for
pay ment OF labor claims against the
G.. 81 O. canal, contracted between
1877 and 1890. Most of these claims
were long ago sold by those who held
them to spectators for few cents
OH the dollar.
Mr.. Levi II. Small, formerly OF
! Berkeley county, who has been in
Baltimore for some years, but who
lived at the Relay House and was in
the habit of going to and from the
city every day on the cars, while
boarding Il train Tuesday slipped and
fell under the wheels, by which one
OF his legs was cut off.
\ son, aged fourteen, and daugh-
ter, aged twenty, Of Mr.. Geo. w.
Wilt, who resides near RipUu, this
county, Or the farm of Judge Daniel
b. Lucas, died last Saturday night OF
diptheria. These deaths occurred
within few hours of each other.
There is also another child sick with
the same malady in Mr.. Willis family
Two carloads of b. & 0. officials
visited this city "Wednesday evening
We learn that hereafter the pHsseu-
ger engines will run through to Wash
ingtOn, the crews changing here
Smaller engines will change here as
usual On the third division engines
will change at Cumberland instea d of
keyser ~ heretofore.-NartiHSbrg
Herald.
1t is expected to open the c. u o.
Canal on March /, ten days earlier
than usual The dredges will be put
to work about February 10. The
canal will be dredged as deeply as
possible, to allow the free passage of
heavy cargoes. Boatbuilder Mertens
is rushed with orders for new boats,
rs others along the line of the canal.
HhiDCs rho punal mon say are going