Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-02-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.


get customers.
Last night there was a snowfall OF
about six inches-the heaviest of the
season. Coming on top of Mondays
snow it will make pretty fair sleighing
for while.
THE Wanderers Return" an in
teresting play founded on Tennysons
"Enoch Arden" will be given in the
Hall at Uvilla Thursday evening of
next week by local company.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Cookus will
celebrate their china wedding-the
twentieth anniversary of their mar
riage-by holding reception at their
home in this place next Monday
evening.
There is some talk ofgetting General
Gordon to Shepherdstown to deliver
his famous lecture. We hope that the
effort may meet with success. 1t
would be rare treat to hear this elo-
quent ex-Confederate.
There has been some old-time spree
inc in town the past week or two.
The trifing amount of fines paid into
the corporation treasury is small com
pensation for the disgrace inflicted
upon the community,
1t is said that the old engine-house
known as John Browns fort, that
was taken to the Worlds Fair, is to be
returned to West Virginia. Only
eleven persons paid admission to see
the relic in Chicago, it is said.
Mr.. Samuel Lloyd, son Of Mr..
Harrison Lloyd, died at his home in
Martinsburg last Saturday night, after
a lingering illness of consumption, aged
about 33 years. He was buried on
Monday at Middleway, this county.
Rev. C. Armand Miller, of the Salem
Lutheran Church, and several members
of the family of Col. A. NJ Bowman
were severely scratched by a rabid
cat recently. They had the wounds
dressed but are naturally very uneasy.
How do you like the new dress the
REGISTER puts on. We think it is
about the handsomest in the State
certainly the prettlest the REGISTER
has ever had. The new type came
from the old and reliable John Ryan
Foundry, Baltimore.
The Harper's Ferry Sentinel says
that Garland Smallwood met with
painful accident last Monday. He
was unloading barrel of sugar from
wagon and had gotten it down on
his knee, when his foot slipped for
ward and the weight came against
his leg thus Strengthened out, fractur-
ing the bone
Shepherdstown got the fag end Of a
great storm Monday. A couple of
inches of snow and hail fell, and the
strong gale made it very unpleasant.
The storm was a general one but it was
not so bad in the east as it was in the
west. nanother column will be found
some of the dreadful details Of the biz
zard in Oklahoma.
The bargain by which Mr.. Horace
c. Osbourn had agreed to purchase
the clothing business of Mr., Jacob
Wintermoyer in Shepherdstown is off.
Mr.. Osbourn asked and was granted
the release. Mr.. Wintermoyer desires
his old customers and the public to
know that he may still be found at
the old stand and ready for trade.
Mr.. Ashton E. Boswell and Miss
Mercy c. Knode, daughter of Mr.
George Knode, of this place, were
married last Sunday afternoon at the
residence of Mr.. William Boswell, at
Bridgeport, opposite Shepherdstown.
The ceremony was performed by Rev.
c. H. Hockey. We trust that the
youthful couple may always be happy.
The white stocking for ladies wear
is to become fashionable again. They
never "had ought to gone out of fash
ion. In our opinion the lady who
started the colored stocking fad was
too lazy to do much Washing VIZ
Transport Leader. We'd like to know
what right an old bachelor has to dis
cuss this subject
The Chambersburg Repository per-
petrates story about horse belong
ing to J. NJ Wolfkill, of that place,
swallowing a 4-foot black snake that
died in the animal and came near TAX
ing the horse with it. This beats the
Shepherdstown REGIsTER.-HagerS-
tom Globe. Yes, that's so. But re-
member that our snake stories are
always live ones.