Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-10-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

fair. He will look after his Jefferson
county friends.
Mr.. Remsburg, formerly of Berkeley |
county but more recently of Winches-
ter, has rented the store-room of Mr..
j. L. Richard, on Main street, and |
will shortly open in it stock of gro
ceries.
Wheat has advanced four cents a
bushel the past week, and our Shep-
herdstown dealers are offering 68 cents
now. Reports from India say that the
wheat crop in that country is serious
ly damaged.
Mr.. NJ. S. Hiteshew spent last week
in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New
York, purchasing millinery, dry goods,
ETC., and he is now ready for the fall
business with an unusually attractive
line of goods.
Miss Fannie Byers, teacher of the
Greensburg public school in Berkeley
county, has reopened the school in an
other building The board of educa-
ton will atonce put up new school
house to replace the one that was
burned.
A special limitation is extended ev-
cry parent having son who does not
attend Sunday school, and who desires
to have him attend, to come to the
Sunday school convention in the Luz
theran church on Saturday next at II
o'clock a. m.
A friend from Berkeley informs us
that they are combining religion and
politics in that county. Last Sunday
a Sunday school superintendent, it is
said, took occasion as he went to Sun
day school to distribute gold-bug hats
and Republican documents. Nothing
like killing two birds with one stone.
R. S. Crawford, the head OF the big
Crawford bicycle works in Hagers-
town, says that operations will not be
resumed at his factory until after the
election. He SAYS the uncertainty of
the result deters him from beginning
work. Mr. Crawford is an ardent Re-
publican.
The Norfolk & Western Railway
will sell round-trip tickets next week
to Hagerstown on account of the fair.
The rate from Shepherdstown, includ-
ing admission to the fair, will be $l.OO.
| On Wednesday and Thursday special
train will be run, passing Shepherds
town at 9.13 a. m, and returning leave
Hagerstown at $50 P m.
The regular meeting Of the town coun-
Gil was held last Monday night, but no
business of Importance was transacted,
The street committe was authorized to
expend $75 on street improvements.
1t was ordered that the street lamps
shall be lighted on all nights when the
moon sets earlier than Il o'clock. A
number of bills were passed.
Another splendid monument is to
be erected on Antietam battlefield.
1t is to be set up in honor of the Mas
sachusetts soldiers who took part IN
the battle. 1t is to be of strlkingly
beautiful design-a granite structure
q feet long and Is feet high, elevated
on a mound. 1t will be placed at the
fork of the two new government roads,
near the Dunkard church and the Me
odemus house.
The REGISTER goes to press Wednes-
{ dav night this week-a little earlier
than usual. The reason is because
Judge Jackson has sent a request tol
the editor to serve as juror IN the
: United States court at Martlnsburg
while the foreman has an irresistible
attraction at the Frederick fair. But
all the same the REGISTER is the new
siest paper in the county-and only
rs cents for years subscription.
An attempt was made on Wednes
day night to blow open the safe IL
, the n. & w. Railway ticket Office a
. this place. The robbers gained en-
trance into the depot and rolled tn
large iron safe out into the waltln!
= room, where they undertook to blow
it open but were unsuccessful In
work is supposed to have been dom
by amateurs from the looks of tn
safe after they attempted to break
D open.-Charlesto,cn AduOcate.
We were greatly pleased to recelv
d a pleasant call from our old esteemed
friend, Captain John H. little, of tn
Shepherdstown Independent, in com
: pany with Miss Weaver, very tasci
> mating lady of Middletown, Md Oh
: Saturday last. They came over iron
j Hagerstown on the trolley and tool
t in the SIGHTS around Williamsport