Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-12-21
Harper's Ferry Items.

1t has been some time since Harper S
Ferry items have appeared in the paper,
and renew them tins evening with no
feigned pleasure, feeling that a large
contingent of your readers welcome
them We are on the eve OF munich
pal election, and TO arrive at an lnteill-
gent discharge of our duty, it is meet
that we should consider the claims Of
the aspirants for these offices. Let us
see. The present Mayor and council,
with couple of exceptions. are before
the people again for an endorsement OF
their present years service. To begin
with, the electric plant, which II not
originally their work. yet they have de-
veoped it upon broad lines till it is a
grand, uplifting success, and the dyn-
amo has become loaded. They have
lifted the town out of sitting dust and
mire by macadamiZing its main streets,
with but small percentum extra taxa
ton. They have made also long line
Of new pavement between the two
towns and caused many private ones to
be built and repaired. The order has,
besides, been preserved with exception
allv good results, and the laws general
" administered with promptness and
Justice | think, therefore, the voters
will have no reason not TO endorse their
good services by Il reelection, but they
should do SO with the proviso that a
company desiring TO establish water
works in the town shall be given the
franchise. This, besides being great
advantage, will be inducement To people
seeking future summer homes and no.
tells and circulate some $50, 900 addition
al the next year among our trades and
working people. Let the good work 60
on. Date of election is Thursday, Jan
uary, 1900.
The candidates around town have
mum bered many of late, the most being
those for assessor, and they have very
amusing feature in their canvas. They
e!ectioneer apologetically, in case the
present incumbent, MIR. Gardner. does
not want the Office, they say, seeming
to realize the fact that his constituency
appear not just ready to shake him. 0,
well, boys, your time will come, some
sweet day You must learn to appre-
ciate the lines of the poet who sang,
You must learn TO labor and TO wait.
Cyrus Snyder, Esq, Of Washington,
ID. c.. has purchased "a 10 acre field Of
the old Richard farm, adjoining Mrs.
Adam COckrell's, and has improved it
with fancy wire fence around the en-
tire place and , iron gates opening in
To two carrageways from the road at
either end of it. 1t will be improved by
a tenant-houSe at once and a summer
dwelling later on. The site is posi- bly,
the most commanding hereabOut. fur
nishing an unObStructed view of the
country all around and picture of the
gap and lower Potomac.
Mr.. A abraham KapIon is erecting one
of he largest clothing houses in this
part of the State. 1t is in the centre OF
the town, 80 feet front, 70 feet deep and
is TO be four-story brick and stone
building with large iron and glass front
and further improved by the most mod
ern styles of architecture within and
without. He came here not so many
years ago with pack on his back, and
by asSiduity to business is now able to
launch out on broader lines He is SELL
ing Off his present stock at deeply cut
prices TO open his new building with
entire new goods. Mr.. Geo. Longer. of
Winchester. Va. is experimenting this
work and Frank +. and Henry K. Davis,
Baltimore, are the architects.
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