Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-01-23
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.


member, we meet all competition.
Town Sergeant Dunn has rented the
old James A. Adams house on Main
street, recently occupied by Mrs. Me-
linda Byers, and will move into it the
first of April.
Mrs. C. W. Doll, of Martinsburg,
who has been having much trouble
with her eyes, went to Philadelphia
and submitted to an operation on Mon
day, by which one Of her eyes was re-
moved
Oyster suppers will be held at Duff
fields on Friday and Saturday, Janu-
airy 81 and February l, the proceeds
of which are for the purchase of new
organ for the Chapel of the Good
Shepherd.
They are not coming in at million
a week, but the new subscribers to
the REGISTER are swelling our sub
scription list at a most gratifying rate.
Seventy-fve cents gets the paper for
whole year.
Brakeman E. w. Munson, of the
n. & W. passenger service, found
fine ten-pound girl waiting for him
when he got home to Hagerstown
Tuesday morning. 1t is the first and
he is proud.
The Martinsburg Mandolin Club
Will give a concert in the town hall in
Shepherdstown, in connection with a
town hall social, on Friday evening,
January 3lst. 1t will be fine en-
tertainment
A carload of barb wire, plain gal
vanized wire, annealed baling wire
and nails, just received and for sale at
reduced prices. Also butter ohurns,
washing machines, coal sifters, lnseed
oil, paint. etc. H. c. Marten.
The ladies aid circle of the Baptist
church at Shenandoah Junction will
hold an oyster supper under the Ma
sonic Hall on Friday and Saturday
nights, Jan. "a and 25. The public
is cordially invited to patronizs the
ladies.
The farm one and a-half miles south
of Charlestown, belonging to the heirs
of the late S. D. Middlekauf, contain
ing 2l6 acres, was sold at public sale
last Friday to Mr.. Caleb Burns, at
| $685. per acre.
The case of DR.. VIM. E. Perry, now
in the Supreme Court on writ of error,
will be argued in Charlestown on Jam
uary 20, by Col. Forrest W. Brown for
the State and Capt. George Baylor and
Judge D. B. Lucas for the defendant.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Lemen and
the Misses Lemen entertained few Of
their friends at dinner yesterday at
their hospitable home near Snyder's
Mills. The editor of the REGISTER
was among those who spent an ex-
tremely pleasant day there.
"The Story of the Reformation, -
which is to be given in Shepherdstown
February 21st and 22d, was rendered
in Baltimore Monday night under the
direction of Mrs. H. E. Monroe. The
daily papers report it to have been a
fine performance in every respect.
We have received from the old and
reliable seed firm of James Vick's Sons,
Rochester, n. Y, copy of their Flo
raj Guide for 1896. 1t contains pretty
nearly everything that can be thought
of in flowers and vegetables, and has
much interesting information in it. 1t
will be sent to any address for ten
cents.
Mr.. w. 0. Nicklas has closed a
deal with Mrs. Lucy Dorsey for the
purchase of the building on Queen
Street in which are located A. NJ. Gil
bert's drug store and Lewis Bells bar
Der shop. The price paid for the prop
erty was $4,000. 1t is Mr.. Nicklas' s
intention to tear down the present
building before a great while and erect
a handsome modern business house on
the site.-Mmtinsborg Statesman.
In the Berkley circuit court at Mar
tinsburg Tuesday Samuel May was
found guilty of shooting with intent
to kill Baker Beaver. The afray &C.
cured in December. At the time May
was tenant on James Van Meters
farm and was ordered to keep off tres
passers. The evidence showed that
Beaver had offended several times af-
ter notice to stay off, and on the oc-
casion of the shooting was in the act
of picking up a stone to throw at May.
The foundation and basement walls
of the new Shepherd College building
D n /. NJ,