Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-02-10
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

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us a dollar-and we will do the rest.
Jeweler Beaumont and Sergeant
Dunn labored assiduously this week to
get the town clock in good repair, and
now it is performing all right. Mr..
Beaumont gave the clock thorough
cleaning.
Mr.. Will Terrell has rented the
store-room in the Billmyer block now
occupied by Mr., j. D, Billmyer, and
will open a stock of general merchan-
disc in it about the first of April.
Mr.. Billmyer will open store in Ha-
gerstown.
The Baltimore Sun says that Miss
Gertrude Raisin, daughter of Mr.. l.
Freeman Raisin, gave dinner party
last Wednesday night in honor of her
guest, Miss Nellie Lane Butler, of
Shepherdstown.
A big camp of Gipsies have been
located in Folks woods, west of town,
the past week. Clusidine Lowell, a
member of the band, was fined $40 at
Martinsburg for assaulting Fred
Grund with a whip. He promptly
paid the fine.
Mr.. c. Frank Henneway, Of Paris,
Texas, an actor Of note, is here for
the purpose Of organizing company
to produce the comedy Uncle Joshua
Whitcomb" at an early date in the
town hall. 1t is said that the per-
Torrance is a frst-class one as given
under his direction.
Persons who had ice-houses to fill
hustled themselves last Friday and
Saturday, and now full supply has
been stored away against the warm
weather of next summer. Excellent
ice was obtained from the river, being
hauled from the opposite side, where
it had frozen more soidly than on this
side.
We advise our readers to keep their
eve on the advertisements of Rein
hart's Pharmacy, which will appear
regularly in the REGISTER hereafter.
This model drug store already has a
reputation that is bringing it trade
from far and near, and its enterpris-
ing proprietors will keep the public
posted as to their specialties by-up-to
date advertising,
Rev. c. H. Hockey is prepared for
cold weather. He bought lot of
cord wood some time ago, and this
morning some Of his parishioners from
the Uvilla neighborhood hauled it in
for him, about a dozen teams being
employed. Mr.. Hockey gave them
all good dinner, and the question is
yet undecided whether he has made
or lost money. A saving bee IS next
in order, we suppose.
Mr.. Powell Evans, owner of the
electric light plant in Hagerstown,
stated to the city council Of that place
that he had purchased about 500 acres
of land on both sides of the Potomac
river, at Weverton, Washington coun-
ty, and river bottom land, and it was
the purpose of himself and others,
whom he expected to take into The
project, to build an immense dam
across the Potomac at Weverton and
conduct power to Hagerstown for the
operation of factories there.
There is some sort of difficulty be-
tween the officials and employees Of
the Norfolk & Western Railway. One
rumor says that the telegraph opera
tors want more pay and that the fire
men and engineers want no colored
men employed as fremen. The officers
of the federated organization, com
posed of telegraphers, fremen, engi-
neers and conductors, have been in
Roanoke the past week, and some
thing is in the wind. The officials
went over this division of the road last
Sunday, and stopped for some time in
Shepherdstown.
Capt. Walter Hutchings, the popu-
lar passenger conductor on the n. &
w. Railway, returned last Monday
morning from the meeting Of the Old
Reliable Conductors Association, and
after tour that lasted several weeks,
and extended over distance Of about
1900 miles, arrived in Hagerstown
on time to the minute. There was not
an accident of any sort to mar the
pleasure of the trip. The party went
far into the interior Of Mexico, and
saw all the sights of that section, in
Guiding a typical bull fight. Mrs.
Hutchings accompanied her husband.
The funeral services of the late John