Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-05-09

moon was full last night.
c;r,pit court meets May 2lst'
Tho % of June is Whit-sunday.
ONLY on. more week Of school f0l
ii. children.
1ilacs are in blossom of the sweet
est fragrance.
pr.iosss men complain of scarcity
otr.ady cash.
oftb;s year l29 days are past-296
ar. yet to come.
The county court is in session at
cbarlsstown this week.
p,tronize your local newspaper and
sustain home industries,
Born. 10 Mr.. and Mrs. John G.
Hoffman, fine daughter.
The farmers have been busily en-
,,ssd in planting corn this week.
Housecleaning times have come, and
u, sound Of the tack-hammer is heard
in III. land.
Fine cabbage, tomato, beet, pepper
sweet potato and celery plants for sale
bvB. Hartzell.
The small house of Mr.. little, &C.
.gp.sd BY Mrs. Jane Huyett, has been
neatly reprinted.
The cotton from certain varieties of
.Iyer-lsaf trees has been flying over
.b.town this week.
The small boy is in his bare feet
once more, and again knows how it
fees to stub his toe.
The beauties of country life in the
Valley of Virginia are in the superla-
tive degree Just now.
There seems to be an irresistible
tendency toward emigration among the
youths of this vicinity.
VI. Shepard has assumed charge
.t.ba Hotel Powhatan at Charlsstown
and viii open it June 9Th.
Several new business enterprises are
spoken of for Shephsrdstown. Com
rstition is the life of trade.
Ifyou want to save money in the
purchase Of mems, ladies' and chill
drsns shoes, 90 to Hodges.
R.S.M. Hoffman, secretary of Nor
gan; Grove, is making preparation for
the printing of the annual premium
list.
There has been quite drop in the
price Of butter. 1t is ten cents a
pound thi. week. Eggs are ten cents
Va dozen.
On the first page of the REGISTER
this week will be found an interesting
story of the late war, told by General
John S. Mosby.
Longerbeam & Rockenbaugh have
removed the fixtures and stock of their
liquor saloon from Shephsrdstown to
Harper's Ferry.
The commencement exercises Of the
Shepherdstown Graded School will be
held in the town hall on Friday even
ing Of next week.
Nra Byers, an aged lady who lived
al Swan Pond, in Berkeley county,
was taken to the hospital for the In
sane at Weston on Monday.
Mr.. James NJ. Mason, Jr., a popular
yomglawyer of Charlestown, and Miss
Rose Nelson, of Lexington, Ky, were
married at the latter place on Tuesday
Oilast week.
Mrs. Henry Shepherd is making
numerous engagements for the occu-
Fancy Of her Belle Vue summer resort
near town. The house will be opened
the first Of June.
The Independent Fire Company OF
Charlestown Will undertake to raise
funds to construct a handsome new
sngne-hOu'e. They want to put up a
$4,000 building.
Mrs. R. NJ. Watson, the milliner,
has gotten in her supply of millinery
and fancy goods for the summer season.
Read her advertisement in another
column of this paper.
The old Seneca woods in Montgom-
cry county, along the c. & o. canal,
will be cleared away. Many tale Of
spooks seen there has been told by
supersttiOus boatmen.
Mr. Iownsr Schley showed US some
Interesting curiosities last week, among
'aem being a couple of plates on which
were printed photographs of President
Lincoln and the late Col. Ward H
Lamon.
About May 18th all the eight plan
els Will be above the horizon at sunset
and Will remain so during the last