Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-08-06
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

uay next. ODserVauon are pest maze
in companies of two.
The n. & w. Railroad has made a
contract with Cramp & Son, shipbuild-
ers, to furnish them with $50 tons of
coal to be shipped direct from the
Pocahontas mines on one train to Phil
adelphia.
Henry Brandy, colored man who
for several years was waiter at Wild
Goose Farm for the late Henry Shep-
herd, Esq, died last week at his home
in Berryville, aged 50years He had
been sick year with the dropsy.
Potomac Permanent Building Asso-
citation will meet on Monday evening
next at the secretary s Office at s o'clock
for the redemption of stock. A special
stockholders meeting will also be held
the same evening and place at 7 clock.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad
will run an excursion to Pen-Mar on
Thursday, August Goth, Train leaves
Shephsrdstown at 1913 a. M, return
ing leaves Pen-Mar 5.25 p. m. Fare
for round trip from this place IS cents.
A monument has been erected in
Zion Reformed graveyard, Hagers-
town, to the memory of Capt. Jonathan
Hager, founder of Hagerstown. The
shaft is of marble, six feet high, and
on its die is chiseled brief genealogi-
cal record.
The weather has been intensely hot
again this week. The REGISTER
thermometer yesterday stood at 90
degrees in the shade Today it is still
hotter, and 50 degrees is the record as
we write this at noon. The heat is
hard upon man and beast.
A survey is now being made of the
whole line of the G. and 0. canal I'M
der the direction of Superintendent
Nicholson. The surveyors started in
Georgetown and are going up the line
The survey is to ascertain the exact
extent of the canal property.
H. c. Marten, the enterprising hard
ware dealer and timer, has new ad-
vertisement this week to which we call
especial attention. Mr.. Marten car
ries complete stock Of goods in his
line and he is absolutely beyond COM
petition when it comes to prices.
The farm of Mr.. ]. B. Vanmetre
near Vanclevesville was visited last
week by two large eagles, and they
began to support themselves by cap
turing a lamb from his flock Mr..
Robert Vanmetre succeeded in killing
one of the eagles and wOunding anOth-
er, which was also killed the following
day. 1t is rare thing to hear of ca
giles in this section now.
The tri-weekly mail route between
Shepherdstown and Snyder's Mills has
been discontinued, and Mr.. John Turn
er, who has been the faithful mail
carrier for so long, is out of a job.
The Snyder's Mills Office is now sup
piled from Bedington, on the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad, and has daily
mail service David Horn carries the
mail over the new route.
The Philadelphia Brigade monument
arrived on last Thursday at Antietam
station. It required FIVE cars to haul
it. 1t weighs 247,600 pounds and
came from Barre, Vt. The freight
was 1894. H. G. Kotton, the con-
tractor, thought he could get the thir-
| ton shaft to its site on heavy white
oak rollers, but the work went so slow
ly it was decided to have a wagon
built especially for it
Mr.. George c. Link and Mr.. Ed.
Myers have bought the right to sell
the Economy -four bins in Adams coun-
ty, Pa, and left on Tuesday to get at
work. Messrs. Strider and Tabler are
engaged in the same business in Wash
ington county Nd; MOler and Engle in
Howard county, Nd; Mr.. A. c. Hen
bricks has also a county in Pennsyl-
vania, and Messrs. Blackford and Mr..
Burr, of Shenandoah Junction, besides
others of our county-men, have bought
rights in various counties.
Rev. DR.. S. W. Owen, pastor Of the
st. Johns Lutheran Church, and Rev.
Geo, A. Snyder, pastor of Christ's Re-
formed Church, Hagerstown, from their
respective pulpits denounced base ball
as it was being played in Hagerstown
and especially the gambling and pro-
fessionalism features said to be con-
nected with it. They advised all
Christians to stay away from the game
until it was purified of Objectionable
elements. The Rev. Mr.. Snyder also
spoke against the running of railroad
excursions from Hagerstown to Pen
Mar on Sunday.