Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-11-18
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

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in Shepherdstown today.
Miss Nellie Butler will give soiree
in the town hall Friday night, in
which she will be assisted by her dane
ing class. Fancy dancing will be the
feature of the evening. Admission
twenty cents.
Mr.. A, B. Smith, publisher Of the
Martinsburg Herald, has been ap-
pointed inspector of rural free mail de-
livery, position in the Postofice De-
partment that pays him FIVE dollars
day and four dollars day for travel
ing expenses.
The memorial window placed in
Holy Trinity Lutheran Memorial
Church, Sharpsburg, in memory of
Maryland Union soldiers who fell in
the war, will be unveiled and dedi-
Gated thanksgiving day. Public exer-
cises of an interesting character will
be held.
Membranous Group is prevalent at
Martinsburg. During the past week
Mr.. and Mrs ]. T. Paulding and Mr..
and Mrs. Fred. Keiscome have each
lost a little daughter from the dread
disease. There have also been a num-
Der of deaths at Brunswick from Group
and diphtheria,
The town council has finally adopt
ed the ordinances as revised and
amended and will have them pub
lished in book form. The REGISTER
Office has received the contract for the
printing. 1t has been twenty years
since the ordinances were printed, and
many changes have been made in that
time.
Mr.. W. P. Licklider has gotten in
very large and beautiful assortment of
china and bric-a-brac for the holiday
trade, and he invites an inspection of
it at his opening. Mr.. Licklider is
probably the most extensive dealer in
this line of goods in Jefferson county,
and a visit to his store will well repay
anyone.
George W. Rowland, who was ar
rested at Summit Point last week for
stealing sheep, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to ten days in jail by JUS
tice Gallaher at Charlestown. Accord
ing to the Advocate, Rowland is a
noted thief, and has served time in the
penitentiary. Ten days in jail isn't
much of discourager.
The farm belonging to the heirs of
the late James A. Hurst and known
as "Hazelfeld," about two miles north
of Shenandoah junction, in Jefferson
county, was sold last Saturday by the
executor, A. Byrne Hurst, at public
auction. The farm, which contains
23O acres, was purchased by Mr..
Brown Hendricks at $3.50 per acre.
The oldest person living in Martins
burg is doubtless Patience johnson,
very venerable old colored woman,
living with her daughter, Phillis Car
ter, on Burke street. The old woman
is now l02 years of age and from APP
pearances may live some years yet.
She was a slave before the war and
came from Virginia here since the war.
Statesman.
The fremen are pushing their ar
rangements for the fair they propose
to hold during the approaching holi-
days. A number Of presents have al
ready been received, including hand
some souvenir bell from the McShane
foundry of Baltimore, and two rubber
coats from the Mineralized Rubber
Company of New York. Mr.. Charles
Broadway Rouss sent FIVE dollars in
cash.
Everybody thinks an editor is
mindreader. They and their friends
come and go, or there is some other
item of news, of which they never tell
the editor, and yet they look in the
paper for a mention Of it and feel
that we have sighted them. The
man or woman who tells the editor,
or sends note to the office giving
him news item, always has a warm
place in the editors heart
Charlestown experienced novel
sensation last Saturday. Three we'll
dressed men, strangers to the cOmmu-
nifty, walked up and down main street
four or FIVE times, scattering before
them small coin of various denomina-
tons. Crowds ofmen and boys Aocked
about them, and scrambled in the dust
and cutters for the coin. The philan-
thropists ostensibly had no other pur-
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