Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-01-03
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere

canal. Of this amount S9,605 tons
were for Williamsport.
An oyster supper will be held at
Shenandoah Junction on the 18th and
18th of January for the benefit of the
Episcopal Chapel at Dufields. The
public patronage is invited.
Michael Morgan, of Harrisburg. and
a son of Dennis Morgan, of Sharpsburg,
was killed on the railroad in Pennsyl-
vania several weeks ago. He was for
merly resident of Sharpsburg.
Mr.. M. B. Baker guessed nearest to
the number of grains of corn in jar
at the town hall and won a silk quilt
Tuesday night. 1t looks as though
the fates are fayoring Mr.. Baker at
last.
Our youthful neighbor across the
way, Master Strother Pendleton, got a
Christmas gift he didn't want-fell of
the stage in the town hall the day
before Christmas and dislocated his
elbow.
While driving near Sharpsburg re-
Gently John Keefauver was held up by
two men and robbed of $3.50. Joseph
Gray and William Fry were arrested
for the crime, and Justice Blackford
held them in $500 bail each.
Mr.. D. J. Sloan, vice-president OF
the Shenandoah Milling Company, and
formerly manager of the company's
store at Charlestown, was married in
Ha rtmansville, Ohio, recently. The
bride was Miss Lucy M. Phan, of that
place.
A number of fish have been caught
in the canal the past week or two.
Before the freeze the fish were caught
in drag nets. Afterward the fish
could be seen under the ice in holes,
when they would be captured by cut
ting away the ice.
Joe Cookus, Jr., has a record of nine
years unbroken att tendance at the
Reformed Sunday school in this place
hasn't missed Sunday in all that
time. Mr.. John Lamb has not missed
a Sunday at the Lutheran Sunday
school for three years.
Mrs. Barbara Fry, Sharpsburg,
gathered some loose paper from the
table and threw it in the stove and
accidentally went with it twenty-four
dollars. Seeing the predicament, she
pulled the paper out, but succeeded In
saving only few of the bills.
George w. Castle and Van L. Volt,
both of Williamsport, had shooting
match in Hagerstown Tuesday night,
Castle fired two bullets through Wolff S
coat, but neither was hurt. Castle
and his wife have had falling out
and it is said that Wolff is the cause.
The corporation has bought and put
in place twenty-five new street lamps
to replace the old gasoline lamps which
had become almost entirely worthless,
The new lamps burn coal oil, and are
regulated so that they will burn for
any length of time desired. Mr.. L. W.
Pofenberger furnished them.
For a number of years the Hagers-
town fair and the Frederick fair have
been holding their exhibitions on the
same days. Each association has now
appointed committee, which meets
| in Baltimore today to consider the
matter of having different dates. 1t
is to be hoped that an amicable ar
rangement may be effected.
Monday morning Edward Fur was
among the skaters on the river. He
skated into an air-hole and was soused
in the icy water. He held on to the
edge of the ice until rope was thrown
to him, by which he was hauled out
of danger. Bernard Trussell was try
ing to skate backward, when he fell
forward and cut bad cash in his
forehead.
By repeated requests from many OF
our citizens Rev. c. II. Hockey has
consented to present again the cantata,
The Birth of Christ" at the town
hall on Friday night Oh TINS week
The general admission will be kept
down to 10 cents, children under II
years 5 cents. Reserved seats at
Trussell's store at Is cents. The
cantata has been highly comphmented,
and there should be a crowded house
again on Friday night.
The Hagerstown Mail gives thrill
ing account of the escape of Frank
Wheeler, a young colored man of Shep-
herdstown, from the police of that city
last week. Wheeler had mingled IN a
Christmas riot on Hagerstowns Bow
The oA,cars oornered him but he