Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-10-05
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neghborhood and Elsewhere.

IsTER this week. 1t will appear next
week.
The Hagerstown fair, which will be
held next week, has booked a very
great number of attractions, and will
be bigger and better than ever.
The first heavy frost of the season
made its appearance last Saturday
night, and Sunday morning vegetation
was white. Sunday night there was
another killing frost. The first ice of
the season was formed.
On the first page of the REGISTER
this week will be found very inter
esting letter from our friend Mr.. E. H.
Vickers, who is one Of the professors
in the University in Toxic, Japan.
We hope that Mr.. Vickers may find
time to write oftener.
The engagement of Miss Jane VIM
Faulkner, daughter Of ex-senator
Faulkner, of Martinsburg, to DR.. Will
lam White, banker of Nashville,
Tenn, is announced. The wedding
will take place at Boydville during
the Christmas holidays.
Attention is called to the change of
the Bible depository to the store Of
Miss Ellen Welshans, where a choice
variety of Bibles, Testaments and diff
ferent books of the Bible published
separately in quite neat binding can
be had at very low prices.
Border Stanley brought us curios-
ity the other day. 1t was big Par
adise apple that had evidently been
selected as store-house by bird.
The bird had picked a hole in the ap-
pie and buried therein hazel nut.
Maybe this sign ola hard winter.
1t is rumorsd that the Norfolk &
Western Railroad is contemplating
taking off the Sunday accommodation
train. The Hagerstown Mail says
that after awhile the n. & W. will sell
nothing but crosstie tickets, and thus
effect a more notable economy than
any previous saving yet made.
Mr.. Abnsr Albin, a former student
of Shepherd College, but who has for
couple of years been in DIR. Bishops
drug store at Charlestown, has gone to
Baltimore to take the medical course
at the College of Physicians and Sur
gsons. He is an excellent young man,
and we hope he may prosper.
George n. and G. B. Vanmeter have
arranged to set up a saw mill at their
place at the edge of town opposite Elm
wood Cemetery. They have bought
fr.t-class outfit, and expect to be
ready for business in few weeks
They hope to build up good business
aud ask the public patronage.
An entertainment known as the CO.
lonial fete will be rendered in the
town hall in Shepherdstown on Friday
and Saturday evenings, October IL
and IA. 1t is a spectacular perform
ance of much beauty and interest, and
will be participated in by couple of
hundred performers. Further par
ticulars next week.
Our fremen arrived home from
Roanoke last Saturday morning tired
but happy. They report having had
very enjoyable trip. The Roanoke
papers say that the Shepherdstown
company made very fine appearance,
and we learn that our boys came with
in an ace of winning the prize offered
for the best drilled company.
Captain Lauran F. Smith and his
sister, Miss Edna Smith, of Hagers-
town, both of whom are known here,
we're passengers on the steamer Scots
man that was wrecked on the Cana
dian coast last week. They escaped
with their lives, but suffered a great
deal from exposure. They saved their
valuablss and will also get their bag
gage. A number Of passengers were
drowned.
Rev. Charles o. Cook, who recently
resigned the pastorate Of Garrett Park
| NJ. Z. Church, Baltimore, is in Shep-
herdstown at the home Of his brother
in.law, Mr.. Henry S. Baker. Mr..
Cook has been in precarious health for
the past year or more, and he recently
received a stroke of paralysis that has
enfeebled him still further. We hope
that he may be entirely restored to
health again.
Mrs James H. Shepherd has con-
tracted with VIM. NJ Sheet for the
erection of new dwelling-house on
hsr farm two miles south Of town &C.
cupied by Morris X Hendricks. 1t
will be frame l6 by 80 feet. The old
building is one of the most ancient in
this section. 1t was originally built of
logs, chinked with mortar and small
stones, and has an enormous old stone
chimney that is of itself curiosity.
H. G. Frederick, of Millersburg, Pa,
the waterworks contractor, was IN
Shepherdstown last Thursday looking
over the situation. He found that an
ample supply could be obtained from
the Morgan and Fountain Rock springs
near town, if it could be secured on
reasonable terms. Pumping into
reservoir would be necessity, as the
springs are not elevated enOught give
sufficient force of themselves. No def
mite steps in the project were taken.
Miss Maria Richard, whose eyesight
has been failing for long time past