Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-04-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happenlne In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

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ture is published on the fourth page
of the REGISTER this week. In our
opinion it is poor law.
Uncle Levi Ross's chimney called
out the fire department and a big crowd
of people again last Friday evening.
If Uncle Levi doesn't clean that chin
ney he'll be without roosting place.
A Martinsburg man who was trou-
bled with severe pain in the stomach
swallowed dose of his wife's hair re-
storer by mistake. The pain left him,
but he expects internal whiskers at any
time.
At Charlestown last Friday Will
lam Dean and Joe Getzen, two young
colored sports, became involved in a
quarrel, when Getzen shot Dean with
a pistol, inaicting serious wound in
the lung.
Letters remain uncalled for in the
Shepherdstown postofice for Mrs Nell
lie Farlay, Mrs. Jacob Fulk, and two
for Mr.. John Selden. Persons calling
for these letters will please say they
are advertised.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Lutheran Church will sell ice
cream, cake, homemade candies, chick
en- soup, ETC., in the town hall next
Monday EASTER evening. The pub
lie is cordially invited,
The fellow who couldn't afford to
take his home paper sent a dollar to
a Chicago frm-in answer to an ad-
vertisement in a circular-for patent
pocket fire escape. He received a
New Testament for his pains.
The receipts at the Martinsburg
postofiice last year were $40, 240, sufi-
cient to entitle the town to the free
delivery system. There are many pre-
liminaries, however, and it is not like
ly the free delivery will begin soon.
We think the town council has done
well to reappoint Sergeant Dunn. He
is an unusually efficient officer, and
even if his salary is little higher
than has been paid in the past, it is
not too much to pay for good man.
Special bargains in prunes this week.
We will sell you &c prunes at 3 cents
a pound Sc prunes 8 pounds for 20
cents; l0c prunes 8 pounds for % cents;
12!c prunes, extra large, pounds for
27 cents, at The Great Bargain Store.
Mr.. Frank Gardner, who recently
moved to Jefferson from Loudoun
county, Va, has built a comfortable
house on the Allstadt and George
Lynch tract Of land, purchased by him,
in the vicinity of Melville, and has
moved there with his family.
CONGRESSMAN A. G. DAYTON has made
public list of persons he has recon-
mended for various postofices in his
district. He has selected Mr. VIM. A.
Chapline for the Shepherdstown post
Office, Mr. A. Trump for the Kearneys-
Vile Office, and C. Il. Baden for Boil
var.
The charming comedy, "Our Awful
Aunt, and other exercises, including
a very laughable farce, will be given
n the town hall, April oath, by class
es t and ) of the Lutheran Sunday
school. Admission 10 cents The pro-
ceeds are for the benefit Of foreign mis-
sions.
The Martinsburg Herald, telling Of
colored man falling in well, says
at was at first thought his leg was
broken, but an examination showed
that the bone was only fractured
The Harper's Ferry Sentinel says that
certain persons have made "false mis-
representations" Of its editor.
Be sure and attend the Mother
Goose drill by the infant department
of tue Lutheran Sunday school in the
basement of the church Saturday even
ing of this week. A pleasing enter
tainment is promised for the small sum
of ten cents, and the proceeds are for
the missionary cause Performance at
80 o'clock.
Mr.. Samuel J. Boyd, farmer, who
resides near Charlestown, has lnstl-
tuted suit in the circuit court Of JEFF
ferson county against Miss Julia Boyd,
his niece, for SANDER, claiming$10,OOO
damages. Miss Boyd resides in Phil
adelphia, Pa, and is daughter of the
late Col. Augustus Boyd, of that city.
Her attorney made motion to re-
move the suit to the United States
Circuit Court.
Baker Rimbach, who had worked a
couple of weeks for Mr.. j. N. Trussell
at his new bakery, got tired, or home
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