Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-12-23
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

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ly appreciated. And the cost is but
one dollar.
The town council last Friday night,
at special meeting, passed the ordi-
nance permitting the Maryland Tele-
phone Company to erect its telephone
line in this place.
The ministers of Shepherdstown are
invited to meet at the residence of Rev.
G. G. Everhart Friday, December "A,
at three o'clock, to arrange for union
services in observance of the week OF
prayer.
A Popcorn Social will be held at
the fremen's fair on the evening OF
December 29th. This will be unique
and attractive feature of the fair
You can find out more about it by at
tending the fair that night.
Our country friends can do no bet
ter than to deal in Shepherdstown.
The stores are filed with attractive
lines of goods Of every sort, prices are
low, and they can be assured Of fair
dealing on the part Of our merchants.
The Parthenian Literary Society Of
Shepherd College will give musical
and literary entertainment in the town
hall this Thursday evening, December
23d, which we can assure our readers
will be quite interesting. Admission
10 cents. Performance begins at $50
o'clock.
The first annual exhibition of the
Poultry and Pigeon Fanciers Associa-
ton Will be held in Hagerstown Jan
uary %, % and q, 1898. Mr.. John
c. Hoffman, of Shepherdstown, will
give information to any person inter
ested and will furnish catalogues upon
application.
Messrs. Frank L. Billmyer and
Walter Mcdonald sold their big
Hereford bull to HagerstOwn butch
er last week. 1t weighed LAO
pounds. The bull had to be sold be-
cause Of his utter disregard of fences
and the means of restraint that were
used to keep him in his place.
From the Masonic notes in the
Beloit (Kansas) Gazette we learn that
Mr.. J. Louis Welshans, formerly Of
Shepherdstown, was raised to the
third degree in Mt. Vernon Lodge
No. AS, A, F & A. NJ, on Tuesday
night. Afterward about sixty of the
Masons sat down to sumptuous ban
quet given by Mrs. Emma Port, aunt
of Mr.. Welshans.
We direct the attention Of our read
ers to the announcement Of the Balti-
more Sun elsewhere in this paper.
The Sun has a larger circulation than
any other city paper that comes to this
section, and many persons now regard
it as an everyday necessity. 1t is IN
diligently and decently edited in
every department, and is especially
desirable because of the completeness
Of its news service from the Virginias
and Maryland.
DR.. D. W. Border, of Kearneys-
vile, was caller at the REGISTER Of
fee this morning. DR.. Border is the
pioneer apple grower Of that vicinity,
and is deeply interested in fruit cul-
ture. He has a hundred acres in APP
pie trees, and says he hopes to see
Jefferson county a vast orchard in
years to come. His advertisement
elsewhere in this paper expresses what
he is willing to do to further this end.
DR.. Border is thinking Of establishing
a barrel mandatory at his place near
Kearneysville.
Gauger H. C. Berry has been dis
charged from the government service.
Mr.. Berry was one of the employees
at the Hannis distillery who instituted
injunction proceedings against Collect
or White to prevent his removal. Later
Collector White preferred charges
against him to the Secretary of the
Treasury. Mr.. Berry, through coun-
sci, filed his answer to the charges, and
he doesn't know whether his removal
was the result of Secretary Cages de-
cision or not, as no explanation accom-
PANIED the notification.
The water has been drawn from the
Chesapeake & Ohio canal and naviga-
ton closed for the season. DR.. Massa-
more, secretary of the Maryland Fish
and Game Protective Association, was
notified by U. S. Fish Commissioner
Brice that the work of seining the
canal for bass would begin yesterday
at Little Falls. The work will be
done under the supervision of Capt.
L. G. Harron, and the party will work