Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-04-26
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

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doI are doing the carpenter work.
County Assessor J. w. Gardner and
Corporation Assessor Joseph E. Smooth
are going their rounds to find out how
much property our people possess.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Snyder will
celebrate the tenth anniversary of their
marriage Friday evening by holding
an open reception at their home in this
place.
Halls show has live gorilla with
it. Prof Garner says gorillas have a
language of their own. Uncle Jesse
says he is going to try and talk with
| it.
Mr. Frank Trump has started a
butcher shop at Kearneysville, and is
doing thriving business furnishing
fresh meat to the people of that
vicinity.
A large number of Odd Fellows
from this place went to Charlestown
this morning to join with the Lodge
at that place in celebrating the 18th
anniversary of Odd Fellowship in this
country.
The corporation is putting an excel
lent new bed of broken stone on Main
street between King and Princess
streets. The improvement will cost
about 1925. Similar work is being
done at the extreme west end of Main
street.
There will be an interesting celebra-
ton at Riverton, Va, next Tuesday,
May lst, when the people Of Front
ROYAL and Riverton will formally
open the new bridges across the river
connectingthose towns. Senator John
w Daniel has consented to deliver
the address on that occasion.
Either the editor of the Martinsburg
Statesman writes hand like Horace
Greeley's or the intelligent compositor
Is excelling himself. This item ap-
peared in the Statesman last week
1.-The regular fall meeting, Mutual
Peabody, will be held at Kearneys-
vile, Jefferson county.
Read the new advertisement this
week of S. P. Humrickhouse & Som
the clothiers and furnishers. They
have a full and complete line of piece
goods which they will make up to
order, ready made clothing, hats, fur
nishings, trunks, etc. Prices are
right in every department.
Coxey's army had bad effect on
some of the people in Washington
county. At Hagerstown a colored
woman about 90 years old dropped
dead when she saw the army, and at
Boonsboro Samuel Thomas, aged So,
expired suddenly when he heard Mar
shall Browne begin a speech.
Col. ]. H. Brigham, Master of the
National Grange, and Hon. c. II.
| Knott, Master of the West Virginia
State Grange, will deliver addresses
at Swan Pond Saturday morning at
| 10 o'clock and at Molers the same
evening at $50. All farmers and the
public generally are invited.
The brick work on the new REGIS
TER building was begun last Monday
Mr.. George Alexander is the contract
or for that part of the construction
and has big force of brick-layers at
work. The front will be Of handsome
hydraulic pressed brick, furnished by
the Frederick Brick Works of Freder'
lex, Nd.
The new editor of the Harper
Ferry Sentinel says that during the
month that he has had charge of that
paper he has only taken in enough
cash to pay office expenses and one
mans board bill. He threatens tt
move the Sentinel to some other town
unless the people of that vicinity sup
port it more literally.
One of the most creditable trade
editions of trade newspaper that VIZ
have ever seen was that issued last
week by the Piedmont Herald, o
which Mr.. F. w. Rose is publisher.
1t contained excellent pictures OF the
prominent people of the town and o
its public and private buildings witt
unusually good descriptive articles,
Unless your envelope states the
number of days you wish your lettel
held the postmaster, by new ruling
will hold it thirty instead of ten days
This is important to those who do no
wish their letters detained over FIVE O.
ten days when not delivered. Come
to the REGISTER Office and have YOU
envelope properly printed. Well dc