Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1898-11-24
LITTLE LOCALS,
The Things Of Interest that ara Hsoo.n,n. L.
Our NeIghborhood and elsewhere. :"

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In Hagerstown Tuesday seven
hundred dollars worth of Jefferson
county 8 per cent bonds, par value
800, sold for $lO5.12a.
More new subscribers this week.
One kind friend sent us three names
AN act of thoughtfulness which we
should like to have initiated by 9TH
ers.
The first real cold wave of the sea-
son arrived yesterday, and it is pretty
wintry now. In the west the wealth
er has been extremely cold with fierce
snow storms.
Go see Ruth in the town hall Fri
day and Saturday nights-a refined
and elevating performance, illustra-
tive of a charming Bible history. The
proceeds are for a good cause.
Mr.. E. w. Vanmetrs, well-known
Berkeley county politician, has been
appointed a United States inspector
of military postofice in Santiago, and
is now on his way to that island.
Mr.. Rank Garry, who works at
the Bakerton lime quarries, had his
foot painfully mashed and a bone
broken in it last week, and he has to
60 about on crutches. A horse fell on
him.
Mrs. Mary Cockrill, of Charlestown,
recently sold to ]. W. Eldridge, Hart
ford, Conn.,, the Identical Ratchet
which cut the rope whose severance
launched John Brown into eternity
some thirty-nine years ago,
The REGISTER will be sent to Any
address for one year for one dollar, or
six months for fifty cents. If you
want to try the paper for three
months send US % cents in stamps or
bring quarter to the Office.
Mrs. Mary Robinson, wife Of James
Robinson, colored, died at her home
in this place Tuesday at an advanced
age. Last night John Woods, a col
ored boy who lived with Mr.. David
Hout, died at the age of about fifteen
years.
During the performance at the town
hall Monday night lamp in the base
ment was upset and coat belonging
to one of the actors was consumed.
1t is horrible to think what the conse-
quences would have been if the cry of
fire had been raised in that crowded
hall.
The remains of Lieut.. John W. Wa
tiers, of Company B, Second Virginia
Regiment, who was killed during the
civil war at the. battle Of Fishers Hill
near Strasburg, Va, and buried near
that place, will be disinterred and
brought to Shepherdstown and buried
in Elmwood Cemetery.
The new bell purchased by the Pres
byterian congregation of this place
was hung in the tower yesterday, and
! it's first summons to church-goers
pealed out last night. The bell has a
very rich, sweet tone, clear and
churchly, and we think its sound will
carry even further than the old one.
The corporation officials have had a
new brick pavement made in front of
the lot of Miss Eliza johnson on Duke
street. This is, we believe, the first
case where the town authorities have
made a pavement because of the re-
fusal of a property owner to have the
work done. The cost will be charged
up against the property as taxes are
charged.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company has given the contract to
| the Baldwin Locomotive Works for
ten new engines at a cost OF about
| 100000. We think it would be well
for the company to spend a moderate
sum for freight depot at Shepherds
town. 1t isn't creditable to the road
to transact its freight business through
the medium of an old car on side
track.
At Roanoke, Va, on Monday, a
Jury awarded damages against the city
to Olive V. Shull, in the sum Of SIS 900,
for injuries received by falling through
bridge, a distance Of As feet. City
| Solicitor Moomaw asked that the ver-
dict be set aside as being contrary to
the law and evidence. The child Is
a daughter of Mr.. H. G. shull' and a
granddaughter of Mrs. Barbara Ray
of this place.
The corporation authorities received
another carload of vitrifed brick and