Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-02-13
BRIEFS.
New moon today.

The grounding is strictly in it,
Wheat dropped cent this week.
An especially fine lot of potatoes for
sale by ]. s. Fleming.
Bran middlings and clover seed for
sale cheap at Hodges.
Pay your taxes if you want to vote
A, the corporation election.
Butter is l8ce pound this week
and eggs are - cents dozen.
Candidates are becoming plentiful
already. The more the merrier.
4 A part of the lumber for the new
college building arrived last week.
Mr. James w. McGarry will have
rpblic sale on Monday, March 9th.
Senator Faulkner has our thanks
for some valuable public documents,
Have yourjob work done atthe REG
1srER Office. Good work and low prices.
Mr.. D. G. Donnelly is candidate
for assessor in the Charlestown dis
trct.
The State Board Of Agriculture has
been in session at Martinsburg this
! week.
Mr.. J. D. Derr has the contract for
rebuilding the barn of Hon. A. S, Dan
drige
Next Tuesday is shrOve Tuesday
pancake day. Lent begins next We'd
aesday.
Popular excursion to Baltimore and
Washington on the B. & O. Railroad
next Thursday.
The chickenpox prevailing among
tie children of Shepherdstown-also
case or two among the grown folks.
Stanley Long, formerly of this place,
had one of his eyes injured in Pitts
burg, where he is working, few days
ago.
Rev Dr.. S. W. Owen, pastor of St.
Johns Lutheran church, Hagerstown,
in his sermon last Sunday denounced
dancing.
Tell your friends that the REGISTER
is only 70 cents year, or send us
their address and we will mail them
sample copies.
The ID of February having fallen
upon Sunday this year, the Lincoln
4 citizen observed Monday, the Sd, as
grouud-hog-day.
There doesn't seem 10 be any great
scramble for Office in Shepherdstown.
No candidates for mayor or council
men are reported.
! The large hay barracks on the Low
er Farm of the Messrs, Shepherd, north
of town, was blown down by the high
winds of Tuesday.
Mr.. George E. Adams has, we un-
derstand, rented the room of Mr. j.
5. Rightstine, on Main street, where
he will shortly open a restaurant.
The Epworth League of the NJ. E.
church will hold sociable on the even
ings of February 81 and %, the pro-
ceeis to be used for worthy object.
Mr.. LID. Getzendanner, the Charles
town hardware dealer, will erect
large three-story brick building in that
place on the site of his present frame
building.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Miller, OF Berkeley
county, was in to see us on Tuesday,
and reported an excellent sale last
week. Cattle, particularly, brought
4 good prices.
a colored woman named Mrs Pink
rey has been preaching for the past
week in the colored Baptist church in
this place. Large congregations at
tend the services.
William H. Bowers and Thornton
Moore, of this county, who had been
10 jail in Martinsburg serving sem
teuce imposed in the U. S. court, were
released from prison on Monday.
As. cambridge & Co., the energetic
agricultural implement dealers, have
bust received carload of the celebra-
Ted Brown wagons and cultivators.
Farmers are invited to inspect them.
Baggaseman Noftsinger has been
promoted conductor on the = & W.
Railroad, and extra conductor f. B.
Caaney to a regular run. Both men
have been with the road for years and
are trusted and valuable employees.
The ladies and friends of the Baker
ton N. E. Church South will hold an
oyster and icecream festival February
2lst and 22d, Friday and Saturday
evenings. They most cordially invite
az TO come and enjoy the occasion and