Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-03-23
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

tural, Mechanical and Live Stock As
ISOLATION will be held in the town hall
in Shepherdstown Saturday, April
lst.
Messrs. James P. and Walter R.
Staley have bought from Mr.. W. ].
Knott the tract Of land previously
owned by Agatha Andrews, near the
formers farm, east Of town. The place
contains sixty acres, and the price
paid was $4,000.
There is a rumor in Baltimore that
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is try
ing to buy the interest of the State of
Maryland in the Chesapeake & Ohio
canal, 1t is further stated that the
railroad company is willing to greatly
improve the canal and give it plenty
of business.
Mr.. Norman Lucas, son Of Mr..
Robert NJ. Lucas, and Miss Ruth
Brantner, daughter of Mrs Blanche
Brantner-all of the Duffelds neigh
borhood-were married at the Pres
byterian mause in Charlestown We'd
nesday of last week by Rev. DR.. A.
C. Hopkins.
The third Of the series of lectures
delivered to the Shepherd College
students will be- held in the study
hall Of the new building Thursday,
April 9th. The lecture will be de-
hvered by Rev. DR.. Ghiselin upon the
subject Books and Readers" The
public are cordially invited to these
lectures Lecture at p. m.
The local oratorical contest will be
held in the College Hall Friday night
of this week. The winner Of this con-
test will represent Shepherd College
in the inter-normal oratorical contest
to be held at Parkersburg April 6th.
The public is invited to be present at
the contest tomorrow night. No adj
mission except for children under II
years. Contest begins at s p. m.
Last Sunday afternoon one car of
freight train was deraled at the signal
tower below Kearneysyille, on the B.
& 0. Railroad, aud somehow or other a
report got in circulation in Shepherds
town that a passenger and freight train
had come in collision, killing fourteen
persons and injuring many others.
Several persons drove out from Shep-
herdstown, but they saw no wreck.
1t is said that no less than seven
persons contemplate opening saloons in
SUPPLEMENTARY anticipa-
ting an abnormal thirst after the
four years dry spell. One Of the al
legged applicants is from Harpers Fer
~, one from Berryville, one from
Sharpsburg, and the others from Shep-
berdstown Let them all have H.
cense-seven hundred dollars willjus
about pay for stone-crusher.
During the past winter four new
lime-kilns were put up as an addition
to the extensive works of the Washing
ton Building Lime Company at Baker
ton, this county One day last week
the kilns collapsed just as they were
about completed, and the great mass
Of stone fell upon the railroad track
and blocked it, also smashing some
sheds. The money loss is couple of
thousand dollars, and it Will take two
or three months to rebuild the kilns
The will of the late Mrs Albina S.
Coyle, who died in Charlestown last
week, has been admitted to probate.
She bequeaths 81 600 to the trustees
Of the General Assembly Of the South
eru Presbyterian Church for various
purposes, $1,000 to her sister, Miss
Mary A. Grow 5000 to the Rev. A.
C. Hopkins, 5000 to the Presbyterian
Church of Charlestown, and after pay
ing several small legacies her sister,
Mis-. Mary A. Grow, is made residual
ry legatee.
There was another agricultural I'M
plement procession last Monday, when
about thirty wagons loaded with farm
machinery bought from J. S. Myers
paraded the streets Of Shepherdstown.
Mr.. Myers led the procession, ana loI-
lowing was drum corps and the wa
CONS containing binders, mowers,
plows, harrows, etc. There were
about l25 persons in the procession
customers of Mr.. Myers. Photogra-
pher Moll made picture of the ag-
gregation. This is the second parade
of the kind during the past year. Mr..
Myers reports that he has taken or
ders this year for so binders, 10
mowers, y cultivators, so Vulcan
plows, Is harrows, 10 corn-planters
and eleven tons of binder Irvine. Shop