Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-01-02
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Put in a good word for the REGIS
D..
Mr.. Jacob H Moler, of Dufhelds,
as our thanks for cash and kind
Swords
q W.P. LickTder is ready for bust
ess for 1896 with a new advertise
&neut this week
Mr.. Edmund Blunt has sold his fine
thoroughbred stallion, Massillon, to
&NIr VIM. J. Shepherd.
4 Arrangements are being made for
IA grand hop in the Casino at Dufhelds
snext Thursday, January 9th.
Forsatisfact- job printing Ofevery
kind call at tn REGISTER Office. We
do it right and rices are right.
Nobody ought to borrow the REGIS
TER now. 1t only costs IS cents to
&c, it for yourself whole year.
Remember that you can get the
REGISTER all Of this year for the small
sum of IS cents. Subscribe now.
Mr.. B. F. Harrison, insurance agent,
has our thanks for decidedly the pref
test calendar " have seen this year.
J. Mitchell oyyer, the well-knOwn
Edsemont aruit-glvwer,, fIs made an
assignment for the benefit of his credi-
tors.
Messrs. Washington & Alexander
and ]. 5. Fleming, insurance agents,
have our thanks for handsome calen-
dars
Trinity Episcopal church, Martins
burg, has ordered a new pipe organ,
to cost $4,000, from NJ. P. Moller,
HagerstOwn.
The infant child, aged ten days, Of
Nj. and Mrs. Clifton Staley died in
Baltimore last week and was buried
in Shepherdstown on Friday.
The town hall entertainments during
the holidays were only fairly well pat
ronized. Some excellent perform
ances were given by our young peo-
pie
\ good, soaking rain, just the sort
that was needed, fell all day Monday
and up until midnight. 1t was fol-
lowed by a cold wave from the north
west.
The shooting-match for Mr.. J. c.
Lambert's bear did not come off. The
owner wanted a hundred dollars worth
Of chances and the crowd wouldn't put
up that much.
The REGISTER acknowledges espec-
ial kindnesses from its friends Mr.. J.
Fred Keplinger, of Vanclevesville,
and M. Thomas E. Clevenger, Of Rip
on, this county.
For Rent-The room on Main street
now occupied by H. C. Getzendanner
as law office and formerly used as a
sLoe and grocery store. Apply to
Misses Magruder.
L. OLliker, the Martinsburg mer-
chant who had rented the Richard
property here, went back on his bar
gain. Mr. Richard offers the proper
ty for sale or rent.
Among the new subscribers to the
REGISTER during the past week is a
man who never before took a news
paper Of any sort regularly. And he
is over fifty years old.
Tie price of wheat has shfiened
little this week, reaching 81 cents in
Baltimore on Tuesday 1t is believed
by some persons that it will go at least
l0c,nts higher in the near future.
Paul Suausner bought from Mrs.
Ga,aghera lot on North Queen street,
Mar,insburg, adjoining E. E. Her
ring new building, for which he paid
$500. The lot has &c feet front and
is Il feet deep.
One of the best combinations in the
newspaper line that we know of is the
weekly REGISTER and the three-times-
a-week New York World. We will
furnish both for the small sum of SLIGO
a year. We have taken many sub
scriptons already for these papers.
During the shipping season Just
closed on the Chesapeake & Ohio ca
nal coal was transported as follows: To
Hancock, ! 900 tons; to Four Locks,
2l5 tons to Two Locks, 10 tons; to
Williansport, 81, 800 tons; to Mercer
vile, III tons; to Mccoy Ferry, 100
tons to Whites Ferry, 100 tons; to
Sharpsbug, $50 tons to Shepherds
town, 625 tons to Harper's Ferry, 81
tons to Point Of Rocks, 100 tons; to
Georgetown, 2l6,89O tons, Total,
3l2773 tons