Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-09-28
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

daughter, Miss Mary, to Mr.. Howard
H. Emmsrt, both of Martinsburg. The
ceremony will take place in Trinity
Episcopal church in that city on We'd
nesday, October 4, 1899, at 9 o'clock
in the evening.
Edward Cornell and Fletcher Brown
had hearing in Charlsstown before
Justice Gallsher last Friday on the
charge of being concerned in the bridge
robbery at Shepherdstown: Brown
was committed to jail to await the
action of the grand jury. The hearing
of Cornell's case was continued.
We return thanks to SecretaryHarry
| C. Keefer for an invitation to attend
the Frederick fair, which will be held
/ October 1920. The Frederick fair is
popular with the people of this coun-
ty, who are always ready to visit that
charming and hospits bic old town and
participate in the pleasures of fair
week.
Mr.. John G. Remnant has rendered
his resignation as travelling salesman
for J. W. Myers & Co., and will accept
a similar position with the wholesale
grocery firm of S. NJ. Bloom & Co.
The change will take effect October
lst. Mr.. Reinhart is frst-class sales
man and has built up large trade in
this section. He will travel mostly in
the Valley of Virginia.
Misses Emma and Maude Gatrell
gave very enjoyable party at their
home in Martinsburg last Friday
night. Among the guests were the fol-
lowing from this town: Misses Mary
and Bessie Licklider, Margaret Long,
Ella Cookus, May Hoffman, Maggie
Lambert, and Messrs. Albert Cookus,
Arch Stanley, Edward Myers, Joseph
Byers and William Myers.
Mr.. A. c. Morgan enriched our mu-
cum Tuesday by the gift Of two war
relics. One of them is a wicked look
ing short sword which his father, the
late Col. Morgan, sent home from the
first battle of Bull Run, and the other
is a shell from the battlefield of the
Wilderness, where the father of the
editor of this paper received his death
wound in 1864. We appreciate these
relics greatly.
There has been considerable local
inquiry as to the new game law, and
particularly relative to partridgssh shoot
ing. The Charlestown Adrocate says
that partridges can be killed between
the lst day Of November and the Goth
day of December, but it is unlawful,
punishable with a fine of not less than
$500 nor more than $4,000, for any
one person to kill more than twelve
partridges in one day.
We call especial attention to the
new advertisement this week of 7. B.
Lines clothing store. Mr.. Line has
gotten in a stock Of clothing and mems
furnishing goods that is up-to-date,
stylish, of frst-class quality and at
prices to suit the times. He asks in
spection of his stock. Our people
should patronize this particular branch
of home industry, for, aside from other
considerations, they can get good cloth
ing as chsaply as any other place.
Miss Virginia Kennedy, daughter
of Rev. H. H. Kennedy. of Charlestown,
has gone to Los Angeles, Cal, where
she has accepted a position as teach
er in the University of Southern Cal
ifornia. Miss Kennedy graduated from
the Woman's College of Baltimore and
afterwards spent several years in Eu-
rope preparing for her profession, as
did also her younger sister, Miss Mabel,
who is teaching history and English
literature in college at Bristol. Tenn.
Tuesday morning the Shepherdstown
Fire Department, 80 members strong,
left on the Norfolk & Western train
for Roanoke, Va, where they are par
ticipating in the fremen's convention
now in session in that city. The boys
looked very well indeed in their hand
some new uniforms J. G. Fultz is
chief of the department, with Lieut.,
Arch NJ. S. Morgan as drill-master.
They will return Saturday morning,
and in the meantime it is to be hoped
that we will have no fires.
James Lawrence McChan has re-
turned to Shepherdstown from the
country and taken up his abode in L.
W.Pofenberger's house on High street.
A couple of months of rusticating on
a farm served fully to convince him
that agriculture is not his forte. Last
Saturday an attempt to corral sixteen
stubborn cows and calves and an