Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-02-25
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are HappenIng In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

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it will be thrown open for inspection.
Everybody will be welcome.
Mr.. Edward Kershaw has bought
the Julia Burke lot opposite Mr.. Jacob
Wintermoyers place, on the Kearneys-
vile pike, at the edge of town, paying
for it hundred dollars. He expects
to build house on the lot.
The four dwelling-houses and the
ten-acre lot Of ground at Bridgeport
will be offered for sale in Shepherds
town Saturday afternoon. The prop
erty may prove to be very valuable and
may be a good opportunity for invest
| ors
Capt. P. NJ. Hollis, of Middleway,
this county, has received the contract
for carrying the mails between the
depots and the postofice at Martins
burg for the next four years, beginning
July l, 1897, at the rate of $3.50 per
year.
Mr. H. B. Shaffer, prominent mer-
chant of Frostburg, Md, who visited
the family of Rev c. H. Hockey in
Shepherdstown recently, is hopelessly
i'll of cancer of the stomach. Rev. Mr..
Hockey went to Frostburg to see him
the first of the week.
The editor of the Williamsport Lead
e. seems to believe the statement of
the Nebraska Adventists that the
world will "bust up" on March 7th,
and says he is making preparations
for it. Wonder what Bro. McCardell
is doing to prepare for it.
Among the changes recently made
in the classified service in the Treas
ury Department at Washington we
notice that Mr.. John H. Schoppert
has been promoted from 1920 to $40
per annum. We are glad to note this
promotion Of our fellow-townsman.
Cards are out announcing the mar
rage of Miss Lou Lemen, daughter of
Mr.. Martin B. Lemen, to Mr.. ]. A.
Hendricks, son of Mr.. Daniel W. Hen
bricks. The happy event takes place
next Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock
in the Presbyterian Church in Shop
herdstown.
Principal Freeman, Of the colored
graded school, informs us that there
has not been a single case Of measles
among the colored children in this
community. This is a rather queer
thing, in view Of the fact that the
white children of the town have nearly
all been so afflicted.
r. G. Barker, of Bolivar, has insti-
tuted damage suit for $4,000 against
Robert B. Abel, of Loudoun county,
Va. 1t is charged that on the 18th
of January last Abel tripred Baker
and from the fall he broke his right
arm at the elbow Geo. w. Holt is
Bankers attorney.-Sentinel.
The REGISTER has Just placed big
iron safe in its business Office, and it
makes quite an imposing appearance.
Now if our friends will just pay up
lively and thus enable us to put some
thing of value in it we shall be happy.
Every time you pay your subscription
we show you how the combination
works.
In the appropriation bill introduced
in the House, Shepherd College is given
the niggardly sum of $3.50 for repairs
to old building and $3.50 a year for IL
brary and apparatus. tits to be hoped
Senator Getzendanner will see to it that
the Senate gives decent sum for i'm
provement of the new college grounds
and for other purposes.
The Norfolk & Western Railroad
will sell round-trip tickets from Shep-
herdstown to Washington next week
at S2.lO. The tickets will be on sale
March l, 2 and 8, good for return pas
sage until March 8th. The rate from
Shenandoah Junction is advertised at
$3.50 for round trip-soi if our friends
there want to save money they had
better come to Shepherdstown to get
tickets.
The Harper's Ferry Sentinel says
that it is informed by Mr.. VIM. c.
Foreman, in charge at Virginia ore
banks, that his company has ordered
increased facilities for mining, clean
Ing and shipping ore. By the first Of
March the company will have put IN
new washer with the capacity of
washing one hundred tons Of ore per
dav, and will at once increase their
output to from sixty to seventy tons
daily.
In the Circuit Court on Tuesday the
case of the First National Bank of JEFF
ferson (use of Caleb Burns), plaintiffs,
VS.. R. o. Allen, defendant, was put
on trial-Capt. George Baylor and
Judge D. B. Lucas for plaintiff and
Hon. Marshall Mccormick and Col. +.
w. Brown for the defendant. The
suit is brought upon note for 81 900,
drawn by W. B. Page, and the plea OF
the defence is that the signature OF Il.
0. Allen as first endorser was a torg-
cry.
A very pretty double wedding took
place at the residence of Mr., Charles
". Tritapoe, father of the two brides
near Melville, on Wednesday, Febru-
ary 10. The first ceremony was eel
ebrated at 6 o'clock in the evening,
when Miss Bannie was married to
Robert Lee Reed, of Hillsboro, Va,