Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-09-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of interest that are HaoaenIns 4,
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

town, and It Is now almost ready for
occupancy. Mr.. n. B. Maddox did
the carpenter work.
Senator Elkins asks US to say that
he will be glad to send to farmers and
other persons interested, until his
quota is exhausted, on requests sent to
him at Washington, copies of the latest
Year Book of the Agricultural Depart
ment.
Mr.. Thos. L. Hess has rented Mrs.
Minnie Shepherds dwelling on Main
street.-the Quigley house-and ex-
poets to move his family into it soon
from Halltown, where they have been
living for some years. We are glad to
have this addition to our town.
While Messrs. W. J. Shepherd and
c. c. Frazier were having friendly
wrestling match at Morgan's Grove
last Friday Mr.. Shepherd had the mis-
fortune to have one of the bones in his
left leg broken below the knee. He
will be laid up for some days by the
accident.
The flying horse outfit of Messr,.
Gantz, Neikirk and Storm, which ex-
hibited at Morgan's Grove fair last
week, has been set up in Mr.. Trassells
lot just south Of King street. The
proprietors are from our neighboring
town Of Boonsboro, and they conduct
their business with the utmost pro-
priety.
1t looks as if Charlestown will soon
have telephone system, as the super
intendent of the Gordon Telephone
Company is now in that place arrang-
ing matters TO that end and has Sc
cured considerable number of sub
scribers. 1t is designed to extend the
system all through Jefferson county
and connect with lines in other States.
We hope that this business will quickly
end in talk-telephone talk.
The Norfolk & Western Railway
Company's surplus at the end Of the
business year was $1,144,598. We
earnestly recommend to its manage
ment that a small part Of this sum be
set apart for the erection of new
freight depot at shepherdstown,
Think of a road with so much cash on
hand doing business at such an i'm
portant point as this through the me-
dunn of an old freight car on a side
track! What reflection on somebody
this has been for four or FIVE years.
The internal revenue departing Mt
decides that the holder Of an IN
stamped check may stamp it and can
eel stamp, that the check need not be
sent back to the maker to be stamped.
This is common sense. The purpose
of the stamp is the collection of the
revenue. The object of cancellation
is to prevent reuse of the stamp. 1t
has also been decided by the depart
ment that ministers must afix ten
cent stamp upon the marriage license
certificates to be returned to the
clerks Office for record.
We have added to our museum this
week genuine treasure presented to
US by Mrs, Peary, wife Of Lieutenant
Peary, the famous Arctic explorer.
1t is a most interesting model of an
Eskimo kyak, or hunting boat, COM
pletely equipped, made of sealskin and
tipped with ivory. 1t was made by a
patient native of the far North, and
was brought home by Mrs. Peary
when she returned from that famous
trip towards the Pole. We prize the
gift most highly-both for the associa-
tons connected with it and for the
interest it possesses Of itself.
1t is said that the editor Of near
by country paper recently picked up
a Winchester rifle and started down
street to deliver the weapon to its
owner. The delinquent subscribers,
however, got it into their heads that
he was on the war path, and everyone
he met insisted on paying what they
were owing him. One Of them wiped
out debt of ten years standing. On
his return to the Office he found a
load of hay, fifteen bushels of corn,
ten bushels of oats, ten bushels Of po-
tatoes, a load of wood and a barrel Of
turnips that had been brought in by
delinquents.
The pardoning by Gov. Atkinson OF
Robert Mcdowell, the negro convicted
of burning Sheriff Bakers house sever
al years ago, continues to receive the Sc
verest condemnation in this county
Sheriff Baker says he has letter from
Gov. Atkinson saying he would take nc
;n Tho matter until he got all the