Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-05-18
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are HappenInp In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

De held at Shenandoah junction Sat-
urday of this week. An interesting
programme is promised.
The ladies of the PRESBYTERIAN
church will serve strawberries and
icecream at the Uvilla hall on Friday
evening, June I'd. The public is cor
daily invited to attend.
Company B, First Maryland Regi-
ment, Hagerstown, has decided to visit
Shepherdstown Sunday afternoon, May
28th, and decorate the grave of Harry
NJ. Turner, the only member of the
company who died while in service.
Local hunters who have been tramp
ing the woods say that there are
scarcely any squirrels to be seen this
year. Several persons have hunted
all day without seeing a squirrel.
They must have been frozen during
the blizzard.
Mr.. Daniel Webster Hendricks, Jr.,
of the Uvilla neighborhood, and Miss
Sallie A. Link, daughter of Mr.. w.
H. Link, of Bakerton, were married
in Charlestown Thursday of last week.
Rev. Frank a. Strother performed the
ceremony at the Southern Methodist
parsonage. We extend our congrat-
ulatiOns to the young couple and wish
them great happiness.
The Hagerstown Spoke and Bend
ing Company, which has for number
Of years operated in Jefferson county,
bying timber and handling lumber,
has determined to move South, and
viii close up its business here. Harry
L. Munday, who has been the mana
ger, does not yet know whether he will
80 South or not. The company will
sell It's horses, wagons, ETC., at public
sale in Charlestown on June "a.
Through the kindness of Robert Glib
son we have added to our museum an
other treasure-the bride bit used by
the late COL VIM. a. Morgan during
the civil war. Early IN the war Col.
Morgan captured a Union officers
equipments, and he took for his own
use the bride, and used it all through
the struggle. Fourteen horses were
killed while wearing that bride, and
Col. Morgan kept it until his death
few months ago.
\ stereopticon entertainment will
be given next Monday night at Zion
church, under the auspices Of the la
dies of the church, by J. Minniss
Johnson, Of Baltimore. An ilIustrat-
ed lecture will be delivered, and it
will be interesting, amusing and in
structiye. The proceeds are for the
fund to purchase a new church organ,
and the public are invited to patron
ize the entertainment, which has been
highly recommended. Admission is
- cents.
Two organ-grinders were in Shop
herdstown last Friday with a monkey
of unusual intelligence 1t performed
many tricks, much to the delight of an
admiriug crowd of little folks. 1t
showed high civilization by drinking
beer, but it evidently had not forgot
ten its wild life in the woods, for when
it saw box Of croquet balls in front
of Remnants drug store it promptly
grabbed one of them and tried its best
to break it by pounding it on the pave
ment. 1t thought the croquet ball
was a cocoanut.
Two colored worklnen at the stone
quarry at Keaneysville got into
row there on Monday evening and
one had his skull cracked by blow
struck by his antagonist with crow
bar. The one that had his skull
cracked first struck the other on the
head with a pick, cutting deep cash
in his skull. The one struck by the
pick then picked up a crowbar and
struck the other over the head with 1t,
cracking his skull. He is now laid
mp and is not expected to recover.
The other fighter has skipped the
community.-WmtiaSJurg World.
NJ. S. Hiteshew and his son Roy
left on Monday for New Oxford, Pa,
and Mrs. Hiteshew and John leave
tomorrow. As heretofore stated, Mr..
Hiteshew has bought out store
there, and will make his home In
that place. He will keep, groceries,
queensware, house furnishing goods,
etc. We regret to see Mr.. Hiteshew
and his family leave ShepherdstOwn,
which has been their home for the
past eleven years. They were desira-
BILE residents of our town, and had
many friends here. We hope that
they will prosper in their new home.
There was considerable excitement
among the colored people in Shep-
herdstowu the past week, owing to
the tact that Sheriff Baker had sum-
moned a number of witnesses to APP
pear before the grand jury to give
evidence concerning certain persons
who were living as husband and wife
without having gone through the for
maIity of getting married. Glib Ball
and Delphi Ross exonerated them
selves by getting married. Several
others who anticipated trouble left
the county, while the remainder OF
the offenders awaited further develop
ments in fear and trembling. a num-
Der OF these cases were presented to
the grand Jury on Tuesday, but that
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