Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-03-07
LITTLE LOCALS.
Tho Things of interest that are Happening Ia
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

quired to pay an income tax. 1t is
said that Jefferson county will pay
more income tax than Berkeley county.
1t costs the people of the United
States, SOS, 100000 year to be born,
800, 100000 to be married, $l5,000,-
600 year 20 be buried, and $780,
100000 to get drunk. What it costs
to get sober has not yet been figured
out.
The Willow Spring farm" belong
ing to the estate of the late Thomas
Locke, advertised for sale on Wednes-
day last, we understand, was bid in
by Mr.. Elisha Locke, of Summit Point,
at $50 and fraction per acre.-Ad-
vocate
The Potomac Cement Mill near
Shepherdstown, which is operated by
Major H. w. Blunt, will start up
about the first of April. We under
stand that the outlook for prosperous
season is better than it has been for
number of years.
Hon. Virgil A. Lewis, State Super
intendent of Schools, writes us that he
has begun the preparation of work for
the State Educational Association,
which meets in Shepherdstown the
first week in July. Prof, Kimler is
pushing ahead with the necessary ar
rangements at this end of the line.
There will be meeting of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary Society OF
the NJ. E. Church South in the church
this Thursday evening at 7.3O o'clock,
to which the public are most cordially
invited. Miss Laura Strider, who has
Just arrived from Japan, will be pres
ent and talk on mission work in Japan.
The Legislature at its recent session
passed law imposing license Of
$500 year on cigarette dealers. This
will effectually stop the sale of ciga-
rettes in West Virginia. Most of the
Shepherdstown dealers are glad to stop
selling them. They say that the profits
were very small and the annoyance
great.
Engineer Hunt, of the Norfolk d
Western Railroad is going over the
line of the road between Hagerstown
and Shenandoah measuring the dis
tances between stations, locating all
culverts and bridges, and measuring
the distance between all the depots
and postofices. He was in Shepherds
town yesterday.
Mr.. Geo. w. Boswell repaired the
old hand 6re.engine and yesterday al
ternoon it was given trial. 1tthrew
water with its old-time power, and
seemed to be in frst-class order. 1t
has been newly painted also. The old
engine ought to be kept IN good order
now, and we should like to see new
company organized to manage it.
Miss Clara Fellers, of Vanclevesville,
Berkeley county school teacher, her
sister, Miss Bessie, and Mr.. John
} Scharff were driving in buggy neal
Martinsburg last Friday when the
horse took fright at the cars. The
buggy was thrown over an embank-
ment and the occupants pitched out
: Mss Clara had her arm broken and
| Miss Bessie was badly bruised.
The Potomac river rose considerably
last week by the melting Of the snow
: and Thursday and Friday the ice
passed off. There were some very
large masses, but we have heard OF nc
serious damage being done. The dan
across the river at the Potomac Cement
) Mill about mile below Shepherdstowr
was pretty nearly all carried away
; but it was in badly broken condition
, before.
2 Williamsport, Nd. had very ex
citing town election or Monday. The
old officers were showed under com
. pletely. John A. Fleming was elect
ed burgess, F. L. King assistant bur
CESS, and John F. Conley. NJ. V. B
> Harsh, G. w. Thompson, II. G. Ar
dinger and S. P. Miller commissioners
, In Boonsboro James P. Ford was elect
ed burgess and T. w. Williams assist
ant burgess.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad
has begun running sleeping coacf
between Hagerstown and Philadel
phia. The coach going east will b.
on train No. 10. leaving Hagerstowl
at 9 p. M, and passengers may remain
in their berths till 7 a. m. The coacl
e west-bound will be accessible at II
o clock in Philadelphia, leaving ther'
r about midnight and reaching Hagers