Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-05-25
LITTLE LOCALS,
The Things of interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere

lie now mas the eryslpelas and le IN
precarious condition.
Governor Atkinson has appointed
George w. Johnson, of Martinsburg,
to succeed himself as a member of the
Board of Regents of the State Normal
Schools.
Half rates will be allowed by the
Maryland and Virginia Bridge Com
pany for those attending memorial
services at Antietam May 3Oth and at
ShepherdstOwn June Sd.
Mr.. Henry Kyd Jones, of Shep-
herdstown, and Miss Emma Derry, of
Halltown, were married last Sunday
in Charlestown by Rev. ]. H. Wolff.
We wish them much happiness.
The entertainment Saturday even
ing in the town hall will be well worth
attending. Miss Pentecost and her
pupils will render varied programme,
interesting from beginning to end,
Miss Rosamond K. Percy, daughter
of the late VIM. r. Percy, of Frost
burg, Nd, was married in that place
Tuesday evening to Upton B. F. Ed
wards, clerk in the Hotel Gladstone.
The bride has relatives in Shepherds
town.
The Shepherdstown Graded School
will conclude its term next Thursday.
a programme of exercises appropriate
to the occasion is being arranged, and
the patrons Of the school are invited
to attend.
The Halltown public school, of
which Mr.. 0. NJ. Harris is teacher,
Will end the session Friday of this
week by giving a public entertain
ment. The Shepherd College Glee
Club will attend.
The guild of the Chapel of the Good
Shepherd will hold lawn fete at the
home of Mr.. Patterson at Dufhelds on
Saturday evening, May q, The menu
will include stewed chicken, hot wsf-
hes, pickles, icecream, strawberries and
cake.
While working at the Antietam &C.
ment works Tuesday J. w. Mitchell
was kicked on the arm by a mule, and
tits believed that bone was fractured.
1t was a very painful blow to Mr.
Mitchell, and his funny-bone still
hurts.
Confederate memorial services will
be held in CharIestown Saturday Of
this week. The address Of the day
will be delivered by Hon. John H.
Alexander, of Leesburg, Va. The ex-
ercises VIII begin at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Homegrown strawberries are COM
ing into the market-and we think
none finer than those raised about
Shepherdstown can be found. Ben
ia min Hartzell expects to pick os-
tween 1000 and $500 quarts this
season, and all the growers have pro-
mise Of large crops.
The corporation authorities had the
town run cleaned out the first Of the
week, John Butts doing the work. 1t
contained alarge and varied assortment
of rubbish, including old clothes, tin
ware, weeds, boards, branches from
trees, shoes, bottle Of beer, and many
other articles too numerous to men,
ton.
DR.. A. S. Reynolds has sold to Allen
A. Staley eleven acres Of land adJoln-
ing the latter's farm east of town.
The price paid was $l0 an acre. This
piece Of land was given to the late DR..
John Reynolds by his father when he
became twenty-one years Of age, the
object being to give him the rights
and privileges Of land holder.
The Kearneysville Presbyterian
Sunday school will hold a strawberry
festival at the residence Of Mr.. Thorn
as w. Hammond, near Kearneysville,
Saturday evening, June 10, from to
10 .. m. Icecream and strawberries
will be furnished at popular prices.
The proceeds will be devoted to i'm
provements on the church building,
and the patronage Of the public is So
Ecited.
John H. Crabill, who has been en-
gagged in the manufacture Of cigars at
Standardization for several years,
has sold out his business there to j.
w. Irwin, who has been his travelling
salesman, and Geo. E. Irwin, Of Wood
stock, Va. These two gentleman, who
are brothers, viii continue the manu-
facture Of cigars at the Junction, and
Mr.. Crabill will move to Roanoke some
time this summer.
The other day while our friend John
Mitchell was crossing the river below
town In sklf a good-slzed bass
Jumped from the water into the boat.
The law against catching bass is still
in force, but there's no statute against
bass catching themselves, and besides
Mr.. Mitchell didn't propose to have
bass splashing water all over him ev-
cry time he crossed the river. As
matter Of self-defense, therefore, he
took possession of the fish. He had it
cooked to prevent it from doing furth-
er damage and then ate it to keep 1t
from spelling.
At the election in Martinsburg on
Monday the Democrats carried four
wards and tied the vote between