Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-01-11
Briefs.
Little Items OF a Local Flavor to Interest the
Registers Readers.

18th. Easter comes March 20th.
Cheap boots and cheaper queens
ware. at W. p. Lickliders
Mackerel, Goldfish, canned and dried
fruits, at w. p. Lickliders.
Lewis Kaplan. a MartinsburS cloth
Ter. has made an assignment
The NJ. f. Church South will hold
a missionary tea in a few weeks,
There i some interesting reading
ON the first page of the REGISTER.
Mr. Forsythe has resigned his posi-
ton as clerk in Mr. Il. T. Hodges store
Wanted, at w. p. Licklider's, lard
bacon, dried corn, beans, cherries and
apples.
Mr.. w. c. Feagans has been APP
pointed postmaster at Wheatland,
this county.
Mat Toliver, the coIored liyeryman,
ma, added very nice looking hack
to lis equipment
The first popular b. 4 o. excursion
TO Washington and Baltimore Is an
nouuced for today.
The West Virginia State Grange
will meet in annual session at Fair
mont next Wednesday.
The passenger trains of the Norfolk
& Western Railroad are running on
excellent time nowadays
Special bargains now in certain line
of goods. Come early aud secure
bargains. w. p Licklider.
Mr. b. f. Ramey has been appoint
ed oyerseer Of the poor for Charles
town district, i'll place of Mr.. John I.
Coiston, resigned.
Homemade apple butter, home
made pickles, homemade krout,
mountain buckwheat, cheap candy,
etc, at j. y. Staiey's.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company conremplates constructing
a station at Fahruey's, between this
place and Hagerstown.
The REGISTER Office is turning out
some nice work in envelopes and
letter heads just now. Every bust
ness man ought to have them.
Scrabble gets to the front this
week. They had snow enough there
Wednesday morning TO track rabbits.
There was none in Shepheld>town.
Hiram O. Clipp bought at public
sale the Thomas H. Reel farm adjoin-
ing Sharpsburs, containing seventy
one acres of land, for SO 30 per acre.
Talking about ice, people are be
ginning to shake their heads in a very
doubtful sort of way. Not Il pound
has been gathered in this section
yet.
The Virginia State Grange is in ses-
sion at Winchester this week. Hon.
c. II. Knott, Master of the West Nir-
ginia State Grange, is attending its
session.
\ number of new subscribers to the
REGISTER the past week. Only 81 30
year for the best paper in this sec
ton. Show it to your friends aud get
them to subscribe.
Rev Dr. Henry Baker, a Lutheran
minister well-knowu in this section, l.
critically i'll at his home in Altoona,
Pa. tie received IA stroke of paraly
sis about month ago.
1t is said that another steam stone
cru>her is to be set up at kearueys
vihe toy the Standard Stone and Lime
Company. This mean work for an
Increased force of men.
Mrs Ann Cook, formerly of this
place, was painfully burned about
the hands and wrists at her home in
HaEerstown yesterday 10y u fire
caused by gasoline stove.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company has placed with the Bald
win Locomotive Works an order for
nine compound consolidation freight
engines, to weigh l35, 800 pounds each.
There is a scarcity of calendars this
year Many of the insurance com
pauies determined not to issue them
again. and other concerns did not
furnish them for economical reasons.
Capt II. Il. Emmert, who has been
captain of the military company at
MurJiusburg, has been promoted to
be commander of the second battal-
ion, first regiment West Virginia Ma
tional Guard.
Ii is said that the Cumberland Val
ley Railroad will this year make their
line double-tracl. 1t has now many
long sidiuS~ aud switches, so that the
doubIe-Jrackiug of the road will not
require much additional track.
Among the items omitted last week
III the REGISTER through iuadvertence
was our congratulations to Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Shepherd upon the birth
of very fine son. Grandfather
Reinh6rtis prouder than any body else.
Governor MacCorkle has pArdoned
from the peuitentiary George w. l.,
johnson, WHO was sent from Jetrer-
son county in November, 1898. for
criminal assault, the charge being
preferred by a woman 73 years old.
Weak testimony and the prisoner i'll
health were the grounds OF pardon.
Mr. James w. Strong is very sue
cessful sheep raiser and usually has
the earliest lambs of any other farmer
He now has 30 young lambs, the
product of so ewes, only having lost
one i'll that number. He has 20 ewes