Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-08-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

y special Temperatures sei'iOs heA.
Sunday evening at 7 o'clock at the
Christian Band meeting in the NJ. Z.
Church South, led by member OF the
W. c. T. U. of Baltimore.
John B. Wilson has resigned as
cashier of the Citizens Bank at Mar
tinsburg, and Edward Rutledge has
been elected in his stead. Charles
Young was elected assistant cashier.
a lawn party will be held in the
yard of Mr.. Bakers residence, adjoin-
ing the REGISTER Office, on Saturday
evening, to raise Sunday school money.
Icecream, cake, candy, etc., will be
sold.
Mr.. A. L. Osbourn, agent of the
Norfolk & Western Railroad at Shen-
andoah Junction, has been taking
vacation, and Herbert Hartzell, of
Shepherdstown, has been filling his
place.
The school board of Martinsburg
has elected A. B. Carman principal of
the high school. ]. W. Evans was
not reappointed as principal of the
colored school, J. W. Corsey getting
his place.
The lawn festival held by the ladies
of the Presbyterian Church in the yard
of T. F. Jones residence at Billmyers
Mill last Friday and Saturday nights
was a great success. About eighty
dollars was cleared.
Thirteen is an unlucky number.
John Hockenberry was arrested at
Martinsburg and taken to Chambers
burg to answer the thirteen indict-
ments pending in the Franklin county
court for stealing, forgery and other
crimes.
John S. Mathews, secretary Of the
Valley Exchange Building and Loan
Association at Martinsburg, who is said
to be $500 short in his accounts, had
preliminary hearing last week, and
was committed to jail to await the
action of the grand jury.
There will be an interesting lecture
in the town hall next Tuesday evening
on Palestine by Rev. A. X. Kline. 1t
is descriptive of trip on horseback
through the holy land, and is instruct
i've and entertaining. Admission 20
cents, children 10 cents,
Stanley Matthew Long, Shepherds
town boy who now lives in Pittsburg,
Pa, distinguished himself last week by
winning a bicycle race from Cleveland,
Ohio, to Pittsburg. There were thir-
teen contestants, and Stanley won by
couple of hundred yards only.
The Keedysville Record says DR.. N.
NJ. Hendricks, assisted by DR.. S. H.
Gardner, of Sharpsburg, successfully
removed cancerous growth from Mrs.
T. J. Hofman's head. The wound
made by the knife is doing nicely and
the operation bids fair to be complete
success.
The body of Mrs Virginia Moulder,
whose death at Alexandria was an
nounced last week, was brought to
Shepherdstown last Thursday after
noon, and after brief service in the
Presbyterian Church, conducted by
Rev. Charles Ghiselin, was inferred in
Elmwood Cemetery.
Maryland Heights seems to be be-
coming popular as visiting place for
Shepherdstown folks. Quite a party
went down from here last Friday and
another on Tuesday. The mountain
top, like Heaven, is pretty hard to
reach; but it is mighty fine place
when you get there.
We call attention to the advertise
ment of the Baltimore american IN
another column of the REGISTER. The
american is wide-awake journal that
keeps up with the times in this pro-
gressive age, and is spicy and reliable.
Its twice-a-week edition is very pop
ulor with the farmers.
We understand that our friend Mr..
James D. Moleris a candidate for pro-
motion to the position Of superlntend-
ent of the division of postofice sup
plies in the Postofice Department at
Washington. Mr.. MOler is compe-
tent, energetic man, and we hope he
will succeed in getting there.
Mr.. James H. Conklyn writes us
that it isquite dry in the Ripon neigh
borhood, and says that unless there is
rain very soon the corn crop will be
short. Mr. Conklyn says he thinks
Shepherdstown could have shared some
of the rain we have had, as he hears
that we even had our cellars full OF
water over here.