Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-06-22
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

frightened and improved by the ad-
dition of handsome and stylish wall
paper. 1t was put on by Charles
Terrell.
Most of the farmers in this section
have begun, or will begin in a day or
two, harvesting. their wheat. Esti-
mates as to the crop vary. Some will
have frstrate yield, others about
three-fourths of crop, while some
fields will hardly have more than half.
Last Thursday night thief broke
one Of the windows in the front Of the
drug store Of D. Locher Grove at Shen-
andoah Junction and stole jewelry,
patent medicines, etc., to the amount
of about fifteen dollars. It's said that
there are well defined suspicious as to
the robber.
Mr.. Daniel Getzendanner, one of
the largest stock dealers in this Sec
ton, states that last week lambs to
the value of $4,000 were shipped
from Jefferson county to the city
markets. The lamb shipments have
been heavy this season. and prices
have been uniformly good.
The Martinsburg Statesman says
that last Wednesday the handsome
team Of four grey Percheron horses be-
longing to Mr. Joseph B. Vanmeter
attracted much attention as it was
driven through the streets hauling
nearly two and three-quarter tons of
wool. Mr. Vanmeter got twenty cents
a pound for the wool, yielding the
snug sum of 81, 100.
Miss a. V. Wilson and Miss Matte
Y. Dorsey, who have been doing mis-
sionary work in Mexico for the past
nine years under the auspices Of the
Woman's Board of Foreign Missions
of the NJ. L. Church, South, and for
several years prior thereto in the In
dian Territory. have returned to their
homes in Charlestown, having come di-
rect from Guadalaiara, Mexico. They
were eleven days making the journey.
G. w. Terrell, the enterprising mer-
chant, has Just placed in his store a
novelty ii the shape of the Simpson
computing scales. 1t is an ingenious
and useful apparatus, not only weigh
ing with marvellous accuracy, but 1t
computes the price Of the article
weighed in the most wonderful man
ner. Strother Pendleton says the
scales will tell the price of butter in
New York, but We think this isstretch-
ing a little.
An impudent tramp, with cane
and crutch which he didn't need as
badly as he would have had people
believe, made a nuisance Of himself
last Friday. He begged money from
the people, and then proceeded to get
drunk. He was so inpudent in Mr..
McMurran's drug store that Sergeant
Maddox was called for and arrested
the rascal. He was placed in jail for
a while, and then released and ordered
to get out Of town.
M. James B. Vanmeter is having
a new house built upon his farm near
Kearneysville, occupied by his son,
Mr.. Garrett Vanmeter. The build
ing is Of brick, "a by 80 feet in size,
two stories high, with slate roof, and
will be comfortable and substantial
home. Hez Jones, Of Shepherdstown,
did the stone work, and James Dunn,
also of this place, laid the brick, which
were bought Of Alex. Henson. Reu-
ben Small, of Berkeley county, Is the
carpenter.
Workmen under the direction Of
the street committee have been I'M
proving the square at the intersec-
ton of Main and King streets this
week. An underground pipe has been
laid on the north side Of Main street,
and the gutter filled up. a new cross
ing replaces the old stone crossing be-
tween Bakers store and Sheetzs corn
er, and a part Of the brick crossing on
King street was taken up and relaid.
The work at this point Is a very de-
sirable Improvement.
Guy Helferstay, son of Mr.. John
Helferstay, was in town the first of the
week in the uniform Of a United States
soldier. He recently enlisted in Com
panv NJ, Nineteenth Regular Infantry,
now at Camp Meade. On the Goth OF
June this regiment will leave for San
Francisco, and from thence will sail
for Manila to take an active part in
the campaign there. Tuesday night
Young Helferstay left for Camp Meade,
and John and VIII Sissler accompa-
MED him with the avowed purpose OF
enlisting in the same regiment.
A charter was issued yesterday by
the Secretary of State to the y. D.
Kellar Lime Company, of Charles
town, fol- the purpose Of manufacture
ing and dealing in lime and building
stone. The subscribed capital Is
$1,000; authorized $250,000. The
incorporators are Charles E. Kellar
of Jefferson county, W. Va; William
o. Kellar and John F. Kellar, Of
Buckeystown, Nd, and Lilly NJ. kel.
lar, Matte J. Ford, O. J. Kellar and
Bertha L. Kellar, of Frederick City
Nd.
The dam across the Potomac river
at the old cement mill below Shep'
herdstown is now almost entirely de-
E s+rove1 and offers little obstruction tC