Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-03-18
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

pound and eggs are down to cents
dozen.
The new bonds of Jefferson county,
just funded, will be safe and profta-
BILE investment. They bear four per
cent interest and are free from taxes.
Mr.. A. D. Barr, of Charlestown, has
been appointed weigher of mails on
the Norfolk & Western Railway be-
tween Hagerstown and Roanoke. He
goes to work today.
Congressman Dayton has our thanks
for some government garden seeds,
and we herewith give him an invitation
to come and have a piece of pie with
us when the pumpkins are ripe.
John Frame, colored man who
formerly lived in Shepherdstown, but
who has lived at Harper's Ferry for a
number of years, died recently at the
latter place. He was about 70 years
old.
Mr.. Lynn Magruder has moved to
his farm on the Kearneysville pike,
and Mr.. Harry Merchant, of Van
clevesville. has moved to the Lickh-
der farm near town, vacated by Mr..
Magruder.
Married, at the parsonage of the
NJ. E: Church South in Charlestown,
on Wednesday, March 10. 1897, by
Rev J. P. Stump, Mr.. G. B. G, Har-
wood to Miss Caroline Moore-both of
the vicinity Of Bakerton, this county.
The Shining Stars" Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. E. Church South will
give an entertainment, consisting Of
recitations, songs, etc., in the church
Sunday night, March list, at |oo
o'clock. The public are cordially in
vited. A collection will be taken up.
The following letters remain I'M
called for in the Shepherdstown post
Office March IS: Mrs. J. A. Smith,
Miss Fannie Carter, Miss Olive Green,
Miss Lizzie johnson, Mr. H. j. Mar
tin, Mr.. H. E. Lemen package, Mag
gle Miller. When calling for the above
letters please say they are advertised,
Superintendent George Hess, Of
Antietam National Cemetery, has been
ordered to Beaufort, S. c., and the
man in charge there will take charge
at Antietam. 1t is the custom Of the
department to change them around
every four or FIVE years, but Captain
Hess has been at Sharpsburg for ten
years.
One Of the last official acts of the
retiring Governor, Hon. W. A. Mae
Corkle, was to pardon E. L. Hide
brand, who was less than year ago
convicted and sentenced to the penl-
tertiary for two years for defrauding
the Harper's Ferry Bank. Mr.. Hide
brand has decided not to return to
Harpers Ferry, but will locate IN
Pittsburg, Pa.
The Harper's Ferry and Bolivar
Building Association No. 4 has been
incorporated, with fair prospects of
success. The officers are as follows 4:
President, G. H. Trail attorney, For
rest w. Brown; secretary and treas
urer, Eugene Shugart; directors, Dan
iel Ames, H. V. Daniels, T. NJ. Con-
ner, Geo. Smith, John A. Stuart, S. I.
Jones, G. H. Trail.
Mr.. John H. Lemen, proprietor OF
the Woodside Dairy Farm, near Sny-
der's Mills, is doing brisk business
in cream now, with the prospects of
enlarging considerably, later on. Mr..
Lemen ships his cream to Cumber-
land, principally, and those who buy
from him once are always glad to be-
come steady customers. He has a fine
herd of Jersey cows.
The ringing of the fre-bell last Sat
urdav afternoon called out the fire
department and drew crowd. The
roof of the dwelling occupied by Mr..
Mason Bennett, on high street, had
caught fire, probably from a spark
from passing locomotive, and hole
about a yard square was burned IN 1t,
Nelgh0ors put the IRE ouV oe4OIe 'H0
department arrived.
Last week wood-choppers in the
woods on Mr. George Cross farm
west of town made fire IN an old
stump The wind Saturday famed
the Goals into a blaze, and soon the
woods were afre. The neighbors
gathered and got the fire under con-
troll, although it came dangerously
near the barn and outbuildings. Sew
eral cords of wood were burned.
The United States Fish commission,
L.. III 4 h q