Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-29
SEPTEMBER 8, a, 8 AND 8, 1895.
The Date of the Great Morgan's Grove Fair to
be Held at shspherdstown-The Prospects.

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be Held at shspherdstown-The Prospects.
If one may judge from indications
the Morgan's Grove fair to be hello
next week at Shepherdstown will bt
the greatest exhibition held in this
section. Far more exhibits have been
booked already than ever were shown
and every department will be crowd
ed. Visitors will be here from hun
bred miles in every direction. The
programme is as follows:
Tuesday, September 3-Interstate
tournament at 1870 a. m.
Wednesday, September Adde'S
es by Postmaster-G General VIM. l..
Wilson on 1.-THE Farmer and the New
Tariff, " and by Hon. Josiah Patterson,
of Tennessee, on "The Money CUES
ton" Judgingof exhibits, cavalcade
of stock, trap-shooting contests, base
ball, etc.
Thursday, September 5, Maryland
Day-Addresses by Hon. Geo. L.
Wellington, trap-shooting, cavalcade OF
stock, baseball, etc.
Friday, September 6-Baby show,
awarding of premiums, sales day.
Messrs. Robert Gibson and A. S.
Morgan have secured the professional
base ball team of Hagerstown, Nd,
and Martinsburg, W. Va, for two days,
Wednesday and Thursday, during the
fair. A space will be enclosed in the
field east of Col. Morgan's house and
an admittance fee of % cents will be
charged, and 10 cents extra for the
grand stand. The game will be called
at go o'clock each evening. AS both
teams have been strengthened for the
occasion, and as our people seldom
have a chance of seeing game of ball
between professionals, the attendance
should be large.
The managers of Morgan's Grove
fair are grateful to the press not only
of this section but Of Pennsylvania and
Maryland for the many complimentary
notices relating to the great exhibition
to be held next week. The papers OF
Baltimore, Hagerstown, Williamsport
and other cities of Maryland, those
of Carlisle, Chambersburg and other
points of Pennsylvania, as we'll as the
press of our own State, have been par
ticularly kind and have said many
pleasant things about our fair which
our people should appreciate.
Excursion rates will be given by all
the railroads of this section. Trains
will leave Martinsburg on B. & O..
Railroad at $50 a. M, each day, ar
rive Morgan's Grove at lO,l7 a. m;
leave Morgans Grove 5.l7 p. m, ar
rive Martinsburg ESQ., p. m. Leave
Hagerstown 7.45 a. m. (and special
Thursday at $50 a. n.y., returning
leave Morgan's Grove 6p. m. each
day. All the regular trains on the
| Norfolk & Western Railroad will stop
at Morgan's Grove.
The handsome prizes to be awarded
at the interstate tournament at the
fair are now on exhibition in the win
dow of the postofice room, in the REG
1sTER building. They are worthy Of
competition, and from the number of
invitations that have been accepted by
knights throughout Maryland, Virgin
ia and this State, it looks as though
lively contest may be expected.
There will be large number of side
shows of various sorts at the fair. A
| olass-bloWers combination, a fat man
weighing 700 pounds, freaks of vari-
Gus sorts, and fakirs of all kinds will
be on hand. The Babbitt Soap Com
pany will have novel exhibition, at
| tached to which is minstrel show.
Mr.. E. T. Licklider, Of A. S. Dan
bridge & Co., was at Williams Grove
| this week, and secured for exhibition
at our fair next week a portion Of the
exhibit made by the Syracuse plow
company at the Worlds fair. 1t is a
very handsome display, and one Of the
plows in it is valued at 800,
Music will be furnished during the
fair by the HagerstOwn Band, the
Keedysvills Band, the BoOnsborO
| Band, the Febry Female Band, and
perhaps others.
Persons wishing orders for reduced
rates from any point on the Baltimore
| & Ohio Railroad to Morgan's Grove
fair may obtain the same by writing to
DR.. T. G. Stotler, Shepherdstown.
Mr.. J. S. Coleman, progressive
| farmer of Summit Point, will exhibit
Poland-China hogs, driving horses and
English terriers at the fair.