Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-12-17
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

The Orphans Court of Washington
county, Nd, hos appointed Messrs. G.
w. Knode, L. W. Pofenberger and NJ.
c. Beeler executors of the estate of
Urias Knode, deceased, of Sharpsburg.
The town council has ordered the
mayor to enforce the ordinance against
shooting fre-crackers during the holi-
days This is right, for The boys
took too much license when the rules
were last relaxed.
Drs. Neill and Hurst on Thursday
performed an operation on Mr. John
Rust, a young man of the Middleway
vicinity, successfully reducing a dis
location of the left shoulder Joint Of
five weeks standing.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the Wheeling htellgencer in
another column. There is no more
readable paper in the State than the
Intelligencer. Bright, wideawake,
newsy, it is altogether an up-to-date
newspaper.
Former parishioners of Rev. DIR.
Vim II. Nelson in PHILADELPHIA have
sent him a check for an amount sufi-
cient to defray the expense of putting
the new furnace in Trinity Episcopal
church in this place. 1t is generous
deed that Is highly appreciated.
\ special term of county court was
held at Charlestown on Monday The
recently-elected county officials and
the magistrates and constables from
the various districts, whose terms be-
gins tie first Of January, qualified for
the performance Of their various
duties.
The Bakerton lime works has con-
tracted to furnish the B. & 0. Rail
road with large quantity Of material
for grading and filling in. All the
clay and small stones from the lime
stone quarres are loaded on cars now
and hauled away for use at various
points.
The Epworth League and Church at
UviIla are arranging to hold a new
yearand birthday party in the hallnear
the church, January l, 1897, from $50
to $50 P. IN. Appropriate exercises
will be followed by refreshments, &c.
The occasion promises to be interesting
and attractive.
The bigmonument Of the Ninth New
York Regiment has been moved from
| Antietam station to within few hun
bred wards Of its destination, 1t was
loaded on a wagon last Saturday, and
this week was pulled to Sharpsburg by
IS horses. 1t is being moved up the
| hill with cables and windlasses.
Cards are out for the marriage Of
Mr.. T. J. Yates and Mis-, Annie NJ,
Llovd, to take place at the Kabletown
church on Wednesday, December %,
at $50 p. m. Mr.. Harry Whiting
and Miss Irene Miller will be married
in the Methodist Church at Snyder
Mills December 23d at 6 p, m.
Last Saturday evening pair of
horses belonging to Mr., Fonrose Ship
lev, attached to a mower, broke away
and ran wildly through Duke street.
They turned the corner at High street,
where the machine was smashed and
the horses caught. It's a mighty
lucky thing that the runaways met no
other team.
The county court Of Berkeley coun-
tv decided not to reduce the salaries
of the sheriff, the clerks of the county
and circuit courts and the prosecut-
ing attorney. The court had been
petitioned to do so by a number OF
taxpayers of the county, but after
careful consideration decided that the
salaries were not excessive.
AIN the Virginias' is the title Of a
handsome volume of short stories by
Mr.. Waitman Barrie, our talented
West Virginia poet and author, The
book is Just out, and has been most
tavorably criticised. A few copies
have been placed in the hands of Prof.
IA.C. Kimler, of Shepherd College,
who will sell them at the publisher
price.
Capt. Frank P. Cord, former popu,
lar conductor on the Norfolk & West
ern Railway, but who has not been or
the road for year or two, Is back at
the old business. He is running as
bagsage-master at present, but his
friends hope that it will not be Ions
until he has his old place as conductor
Can't. Cord was one of the most eficien
men in the service of the n. & W., anc