Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-29
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

| P"IoNS anu oVnet Interesting events
during the day and fine display of
fireworks at night.
Married at Christ Church, on the
Blue Ridge, June 18th, by Rev. How
ard G. England, Mr. Thomas L. Cub
bage and Miss Mary E. Boyd, daugh-
ter of Mr. l. V. Boyd.
The reunion of the members and
friends of the Reformed churches of
this section will be held at Pen-Mar
Thursday, July Goth. An interesting
programme /. being arranged.
Mr.. c. j. Unger was a caller at the
REGISTER Office Tuesday, and he left
with us some of the very incest honey
that we have ever seen. Mr.. Unger
took CT pounds Of honey from one
hive.
The shepherdstown Chapter of the
U. D. c., Will meet Friday, June 3Oth,
at : o'clock at Mrs. Alice Gibson's. A
full attendance is greatly desired, as
business of Importance Will be trans
acted.
a party of young folks from Mar
tinsburg drove to Shepherdstown last
Friday night in big wagon. They
made so much noise that good many
persons thought it was travelling in
sane asylum.
The ladies of the Halltown Sunday
school will hold an icecream festival
at the school-house at that place on
the evenings of July 9th and eth.
The proceeds are for the benefit of the
Sunday school. The patronage Of the
public is solicited.
The workmen at the Antietam &C.
ment Works below ShepherdstOwn
| killed what is believed to have been
a mad dog one day last week, The
animal came from some place down
the canal, and when seen was frothing
at the mouth and swapping at every
thing in its path. So far as known it
bit no person.
William R. Miller, of Shepherds
town, and John Emerson, Of Berry
vile, are working on a big contract
for painting at Boyd's, Montgomery
county, Nd. They are painting the
Boyd mansion at that place, inside
and outside, decorating the interior in
fine style, and putting the handsome
place in frst-class order.
A colored man driving a bus load
Of persons from Harpers Ferry drove
through the toll-gate of the lower pike
last evening without paying toll, re-
fusiug to stop the team when request
ed. He was arrested by Sergeant
Maddox and taken before Magistrate
Rentch, who fined him $3.50. 1t would
have been much cheaper to pay toll.
C. NJ. Sutton, the artesian we'll
borer, who is now at work boring a
well on the college property, has re-
Gently completed three wells west Of
town-for G.. w. D. Folk, D. Frank
BiIlmyer and W. n. Lemen. Fine
streams of water were struck, that at
Mr.. Lemen's being reached at a depth
OF Sc feet and rising 43 feet in the
well.
At the annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Jefferson Savings Bank
Yesterday the old board Of directors
was reelected. Mr.. H. c. Marten
was elected secretary Of the board.
The payment of the usual dividend Of
three per cent on the capital stock for
the past six months was ordered, and
another addition was made to the sur
plus fund. The reports showed the
bank to be in frst-class condition.
Last Friday the Middletown VALLEY
ReqiSter entered upon its ffty-sixth
volume. Mr.. G. C. Rhoderick, It's
editor and proprietor, has been the
publisher for Al years, and he has a
newspaper of which he may well be
proud. We do not know Of better
local paper, and its patronage Is COM
mensurate with its excellence. We
wish for Mr.. Rhoderick and his paper
many years of continued usefulness.
The work of public improvement Is
now being carried on at the corner Of
German and Princess streets. Double
rows OF twelye-inch pipes have been
laid across German street to carry the
water that comes down Princess from
Frog Island, and the depression in
the street at that point has been filled
up with broken stone. Three ne"
crossings of vitrifed brick are belnE
laid, replacing the old stone crossings
A point of interest Just now Is tn'
artesjan we'll outfit of Chas, NJ. SUIT