Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-02-13
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

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poned on account of the death Of Mrs.
Hanger until further notice.
Mayor ]. S. Fleming has appointed
Edward T. Licklider, Jacob Terrell
and Joseph Byers to be commissioners
at the corporation election, and John
w. Harp and Joseph E. Smooth to be
clerks.
The following list of letters remain
uncalled for at the Shepherdstown
postofice, February Is, 1896: Rev.
Geo. W. Wharton (2), Mrs. R. Reid
mon, Philip Taylor, Miss E. S. Under
wood PACKAGE.
At the regular meeting of the town
council on Monday night last it was
agreed to submit to the voters the
question of license or no license for
liquor saloons at the approaching cor
poration election.
The firm of Stephen Chappell & Co.,
Hagerstown, has been changed. Mr..
Chappell retires, selling his interest to
Messrs. F. G. Burhans and H. L.
Fields, who will continue the business
under the name of Burhans, Fields &
Co.
Have your printing and advertis-
ing done by the REeIsTER-good and
satisfactory work at low prices. Even
if you get a certain sort Of work for
nothing at other places you may lose
money if you do not get the benefit
of the REGISTERS advertising.
Mr.. Adam Bowman, the mail carrier
between postofice and N, & W. depot,
was seriously injured Tuesday night
in attempting to get upon a hack.
Before he got seated, the horses made
a sudden start, throwing him from the
vehicle. An ankle-bone was broken,
and bones in his foot dislocated, etc.
Free Press.
Robert Mcdowell, colored, who was
convicted in the circuit court of Jeffer-
son county Of burning the residence Of
Sheriff Eugene Baker, near Leetown,
on March II, last, and who was SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life, was
taken to that institution last week in
charge of Deputy SheriffS. c. Young
and Font Jenkins.
The Berkeley County Society for De-
tecting Horse Thieves has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President. George o. Sperow; vice
presidents, H. L. Couchman, James H.
Small, J. T. Catrow, R. G. Burkhart,
James B. Small and William Kilmer;
treasurer, George P. Riner; secretary,
DR.. S. n. Myers; assistant secretary,
J. n. Thatcher.
The Charlestown Spirit says that
Prosecuting Attorney Forrest W.
Brown and some of our justices Of the
peace have recently been making war
upon some Of the numerous fsh-traps
in the Shenandoah river in this coun-
ty. Every fsh-trap in West Virginia
waters is in direct violation of law,
and the owners of any remaining ones
should hasten to save themselves troub-
lie by tearing them out at once.
Mr.. H. B. Shipley, manager of the
Antietam Cement Works, below this
place, has rented the front room in the
REGISTER building vacated by Mr.. S.
P. Humrickhouse. Mr. Shipley will
fit the room up as an Office for the &C.
ment company, and will occupy it in
few days. Mr.. Humrickhouse has
moved his tailor shop to Miss Annie
Warmers house on Princess street.
Mr.. J. w. Gardner announces by
card in another column that he is a
candidate for reelection to the office
of assessor in this district. Mr.. Gard
ner has held the Office of assessor for
the past three years, and has been
capable and faithful official, discharg-
ing his duties with fidelity and to the
satisfaction of the people generally.
He is popular gentleman and a good
Democrat, and the man who beats him
will have to hustle.
Dan Roberts, young colored blood
of unsavory reputation, brutally as
saulted Lewis Wilt, white man from
the east side of the Shenandoah, in the
restaurant of VIM. Walker, last Sat-
urday night, inficting severe injuries,
which necessitated the surgical atten-
ton of Dr. c. T. Richardson. Roberts.
who was sent to the penitentiary for a
similar ofense in 1892, skipped out
and is still at large.-CharlestOacn
SPIRIT.
Mr.. Charles NJ. Ronemous, of the
vicinity of Uvilla, this county, an