Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-12-19
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

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per all of next year.
1t costs SO cents in stamps-besides
the wrappers and the trouble-to send
your REGISTER away each week in the
year, You can have a new copy sent
direct from this Office for Is cents
See?
Theladies of the Presbyterian church
will hold an oyster supper at Shenan-
doah Junction Friday and Saturday,
December q and %, in Blackford's
hall. Public cordially invited to at
tend.
A drove of turkeys couple of
hundred in number-were driven
through town yesterday. They be-
longed to Frank Chopper, of Keedys-
vile, who will dress them for the city
markets.
The building used as the secretary s
and treasurer's headquarters at Nor
gan's Grove was destroyed by fire last
Friday afternoon, causing a loss Of
about $3.50. 1t is not known how the
fire originated.
The marriage of DR.. ]. L. Luke and
Miss Francis Griggs Undertake will
take place in Charlestown next Thurs
day evening at o'clock in the Pres
byterian church. Dr. Luke Is a for
mer resident of this place.
w. P. Lickider has a display Of
handsome articles in china and glass
ware that is seldom seen outside the
cities. 1t Will be pleasure to you to
90 and see the pretty things and he
will take pleasure in showing them.
The Camilla Wiltshire dover land,
81 acres, was sold on Friday last by
Special Commissioners Joseph Trapnell
and Forrest w. Brown (HeAebower &
West, auctioneers), to Mr.. Davenport
Wiltshire, at $68.25 per acre.-SPiy1t.
Three burglars blew open the safe
in the wholesale liquor house Of W,
H. Dunn & Bro. in Hagerstown early
last Thursday morning, and stole about
a hundred dollars. They were traced
to Shepherdstown, but got out of town
before they could be arrested.
N.S.J. Strider, the Uvilla merchant,
prints some interesting figures in his
advertisement this week. Look them
up. His store is chuck full of season.
able goods, and you can't ask for any
thing reasonable that he doesn't keep
on hand. His prices are all right on
everything.
DR.. A. S. Reynolds filled his ice
house this week with ice from his pond
near the railroad station. The ice
was 4! inches thick and clear and
solid. Mr.. T. H. Davis also had his
ice-house filled from his pond, and j.
NJ. Toliver has been hauling a good
quality of ice from the river.
NJ. L. Eichelberger is now putting
up his power mill for grinding ear
corn. oats and other grains at his place
near Uvilla. He will be ready to serve
the public by the first of January,
1896. The grinding days will be Tues
days and Fridays of each week. See
posters for further particulars.
A very cold spell Of weather set in
last Thursday, and next day the Poto-
mac river was frozen over solidly at
this place. Along the shore the ska
ting was excellent, and few venture
some persons went all the way across
1t does not often occur that the Poto-
mac freezes over so soon in the winter
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Mr. Alvey H. Reinhart, son
of Mr.. A. P. Reinhart, of this vicinity.
and Miss Alta Ferguson, daughter o
DR.. J. w. Ferguson. The ceremony
will take place at - o'clock on Christ
mas day at Thayer, Kansas, where the
groom-elect is in the merchandise bust
ness.
The Business Mems Association O
Martinsburg has signed an agreement
with the Auburn Wagon Company, o
| Greencastle, Pa, by which the plant o
the company will be removed to tina
place at an early date. The associa
ton agrees to erect two buildings, tw'
stories high, one 60x350 feet and thu
other 5Oxl5O.
Manoah Metz was tried in the cir
cult court at Hagerstown last week fo
criminally assaulting little seven-year
old Mary H. Wellen, and was founC
guilty and sentenced to six months
Imprisonment in the Washington coun
ty jail and to pay fine of $1,000
Metz is a wealthy and prominent res
ident of Smithsburg and is about sixty
years old.