Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-10-03
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our NeIghborhood and Elsewhere.

lew days ago. The name OF the
brides mother is Christina Barbara
Mary Ann Sarah Margaret Bowers.
There has been a considerable fall
in the temperature since last week.
The weather got much cooler on Sun
day and fires were made up and over
coats gotten out. Yesterday morning
there was a considerable frost but later
in the day the weather grew somewhat
warmer.
A soap agent is travelling through
the country selling dozen pieces of
soap for dollar and giving as pre-
MUM So pieces of chinaware. He
gets the dollar, the purchaser gets
twenty-five cents worth of soap and
the dishes never arrive. If he comes
around your way, get your gun.
A soup will be served in the room
adjoining Wesley Seibert's barber shop
on Saturday night of this week. The
proceeds will go to swell the funds of
the Lutheran Sunday school nickel
harvest. The soup will be of the gen.
nine. old-fashioned fat chicken kind.
Mr.. F. L. Weltzheimer will be mana
ger.
The Hagerstown fair directors have
decided to prohibit gambling at the
fair this year and have instructed Priv
ilege Clerk Geo. H. Hager to admit
nothing that is against the law. This
will lessen the receipts 81 800 or 81
900, exclusive of $1,000 which the
board was offered to allow one wheel
of fortune on the grounds.
During the hunting season, from
October l, 1895, to March 81, 1896,
the N. & w. Railroad will take free
in baggage cars, when accompanied by
owner, and at their risk, the dogs Of
sportsmen or hunting parties, not ex.
ceeding one dog to each man. Owners
must furnish chain or strong ropes, so
that dogs may be securely fastened in
baggage cars.
Mr.. G. T. Licklider who won the
prize offered by the Brown Brothers
Company, nurserymen, of Rochester,
n. Y, at Morgan's Grove fair for best
display of apples, has taken the local
agency for this firm and will fill all
orders for fruit trees, etc. This firm
is one of the largest and most reliable
| in the United States and we recon-
mend it to our people.
The Juvenile Missionary Society Of
the NJ. E. Church South will give So
cable on Friday night, October IL, at
TO clock, in the basement of the church.
A very interesting programme ma"
been arranged for the first part of the
evening, after which refreshments will
be served and the small admission OF
10 cents will be asked at the door. Re
freshments free. Everybody come.
There has been a gratifying advance
in the price of wheat the past week.
The increase amounted to about SIX
cents a bushel Tuesday there was
a drop of IL cents, but southern wheat
sold as high as 60 cents. The visible
supply increased last week, and is re-
ported to be 4O,768,000 bushels. Corn
is steady at Al cents per bushel. Hogs
bring $3.50 and S. per 100 lbs. gross.
Owen Ardinger, aged about 7Oyears,
narrowly escaped drowning Saturday
night in Harper's Ferry lock. He Sc
cured a boat of Ezekiel CLANCY to go
to his home in Williamsport, and upon
entering the lock the boat struck
against the wall and threw him out IN
to the water. In falling he struck his
head against the boat and cut an ugly
cash in his head. The boat hands res
cued him, and he was taken on to Will
Transport.
In the circuit court at Martinsburg
last Thursday John S. Matthews, who
pleaded guilty to an indictment for
embezzling funds from the Valley Ex-
change Building and Loan Association,
of which he was secretary, was SEN
fenced by Judge E. Boyd Faulkner
to four years in the penitentiary. The
embezzlenent amounted to So, 200, and
was only partially secured. Matthews
is about forty-eight years of age, and
is connected with some of the well.
known families of the town and coun-
ty.
The low water in the Potomac has
so seriously affected traffic on the
canal that F. Mertens' Sons, Cumber-
land, have notified all Georges Greek
boatmen to remain at their respective
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