Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-01
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

very pleasant party TO their grand
daughter, little Margie Britner, last
Friday evening. Thirty or forty of
her youthful friends were present.
She received many presents.
Last Saturday Mr.. Levi Porter was
sitting in front of B. S. Pendleton's
store, and when he attempted to get
up he was seized with the cramp and
fell back against large glass in the
store front, smashing it to flinders.
On Thursday of last week Boyd
Reinhart and Willie Hammack were
wrestling in play when by some means
the elbow of the latter was dislocated.
Drs. Tanner and Grove were called in
and rendered the necessary surgical
aid.
Mr.. Geo. H. Bell Will deliver lee
ture in the Southern Methodist Church
next Wednesday evening, at : clock,
on "China and the Chinese He will
appear in the native Chinese costume,
and a very interesting address may be
expected.
We regret to learn from the Charles
town Adrocats that the wife Of Maj.
W. H. T. Lewis, president of our
county court, has been made quite help
less by a stroke of paralysis She has
been great sufferer from rheumatism
the past year.
A game Of baseball between the
Hanover and Hagerstown clubs was
played at Hagerstown Tuesday and
ended in free fight Ross Fayman
was umpire, and earnest but inettec-
tive efforts We're made by the Hanover
players to kill him.
The Harper's Ferry Sentinel says :
"All the necessary arrangements have
been made for bringing John Brown
Fort back to Harper's Ferry. The
work will be Immediately undertaken.
Miss Kate Field was here this week
and left on Wednesday morning for
Chicago"
There were a number Of strangers
in Shephe1dstown last Sunday-bicy-
clists and those who drove here in car
riages from other places. Among the
wheelmen were All Do Ye, young
Chinese from Hagerstown, who had a
fine aluminium wheel that weighed
but Is pounds.
The Baptist Sunday schools of Mar
tinsburg, Hagerstown, Charlestown
Shenandoah Junction, Mt. Zion and
other intermediate points will hold
their annual picnic this year at Island
Park ON "Wednesday. August 18th
This Will be a grand reunion Of Bap'
lists all along the line,
Wesley seibert, Shepherdstown''
tousorial artist, has moved his barber
shop back into the new Entler build
ing, from which he was routed by the
fire couple Of months ago. He ha.
added some new furniture, etc, anl
is better prepared now than ever to
| give satisfaction to his customers.
Miss Mary Myers has been appoint
ed teacher in the primary department
Of the Shepherdstown graded school IL
place Of Miss Bette Chaplain, who
resigned to accept a position in tn,
Charlestowu school. Miss Myers, VIII,
is a graduate Of Shepherd College, ha.
had experience in teaching, and VI
have no doubt will give satisfaction IN
the important place she has been callel
upon to fill.
An EXCHANGE aptIv asks "Whel
the breezy boomers are the universe
90, how Will tailors press the crease
into them, Id like to know? Whel
the baby's head is nodding and want
to take nap, how can mamma lul
her darling ina bifurcated lap Whel
the chickens so a grubbingin the gar
den in the spring, how can Bridge
shoe the creatures with no skirts t,
flop and fling"
James Beard, colored man claim
ing to be from Brunswick, Nd, wa
arrested and lodged in jail at Charles
town Saturday night, charged witt
shooting, but not dangerously wound
ing, five colored persons on Islam
Park, near Harper's Ferry, Saturday
at colored peoples picnic. 1t ]
stated that he got into an alteration