Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-07-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.
The teachers institute for LETTERS,

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The Virginia ore bank near Baker
ton started up full blast last Thursday.
The property is now owned by Mr..
Edward Mealey, of Hagerstown, and
1t is said that operations will be pushed
right along and considerable improve
ments made.
Mr.. G. 7. Hodges shipped the first
carload Of new wheat from Shepherds
town on Tuesday. Mr.. Lemen has
been buying some also for his mill.
The market has stifened some the
past week, and our local dealers are
paying &c cents today.
Messrs. Becker Bros. have set out
100000 tobacco plants on their big
farm on the Blue Ridge mountain, east
Of the Shenandoah river, and expect
to raise a great crop. Demory Broth
ers have just raised an immense build
ing for the curing of the tobacco.
The ladies of the Lutheran Church
will hold a lawn festival Friday and
Saturday evenings Of next week, July
% and q, at the new college. Ice
cream, cake, homemade candies,
chicken-soup, etc, will be served. The
patronage Of the public is solicited.
a stable belonging to Mr.. Chas. H.
Trail, and occupied by Mr. James C.
McGraw,at Harper's Ferry was burned
last Thursday. Insured with wash
ington 6 Alexander. The burning of
the stable gave rise to a report that
McGraw's brewery had been destroyed.
The secretary of the One Hundred
and Thirty-second Pennsylvania Reg
iment has ordered the window in mem
DRY Of the members of that regiment
who fell at the battle Of Antietam,
which will be placed in the Holy Trim
ity Lutheran Memorial Church at
Sharpsbwg.
If the following item from the Mar
tinsburg World is true, the Berkeley
county farmers are very different from
all others that we have heard of. The
Uor1dsays: MANY of our farmers are
well content with present prices for
wheat, and are selling, some even in
advance of their threshing."
Peaches are beginning TO move.
During the past week several hundred
baskets have been shipped from the
farm of DR.. a. S. Reynolds near
NIoler's and that of Mrs. Azemia Shep-
herd and Mr. A. N. Shepherd, above
town. They were sent to New York
and Pittsburg, and we understand
brought excellent prices.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. NJ. Hopper gave
delightful house party at "Rock
View, their beautiful home on the Po-
tomac near Bakerton, last week. The
Jolly crowd consisted Of DR.. and Mrs.
Bassanper. Of New York Mrs. J. W.
Jett, of New Jersey Mr.. Harry Wei
borne, of Florida Mrs. Arthur y.
Wilde and Mr.. c. NJ. Wood, Of Staun-
ton, Va; Miss Bette Wilde, Edgar
Elmo and J.T. Hopper, OF Martinsburg.
At a meeting Of the Shepherdstown
Chapter of the Daughters Of the Con
federacy on Saturday last the follow
ing delegates We're appointed to the
| State convention to be held at Mar
tinsburs ON Friday at ? o'clock; Miss
Julia Grove, with Miss Lucy Schoppert
alternate; Miss Sally Powell, with
Miss Alice Peudleton alternate. The
next meeting will be held on Saturday,
July oath, at : o'clock P. M, at Mrs.
NJ. Z. Buffers, on Main street.
The annual Lutheran reunion will
be held at Pen-Mar next Thursday,
July 22d. A fine program has been
arranged, including addresses by DR..
E. J. Wolf, Prof Eli Huber, DIR. S.
W. Owen, DR.. W. H. Dunbar, Senator
George L. Wellington and others. The
famous Bee Hive choir, of York, Pa,
assisted by Zeigler's Pen-Mar orches-
ira, will furnish the music, No eXcur-
sion has been announced by the n. 4
W. Railroad, and it is not likely that
one will be run.
Vice-President Barr, of the Norfolk
and Western Railway Company, has
issued a circular announcing the aP-
pointment Of L. Z. Johnson, late Of
the Lake Shore Railroad, as general
superintendent in charge Of transpor-
tation service, maintenance Of track,
real estate and all other property Of
the company. In the interest Of econo-
my twelve clerks in the motive power
DEPARTMENT of the \. & W. at Roanoke
have been notified that their services
will not be required after July 10Th.
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