Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-08-03
LITTLE LOCALS,
The Things of Interest that are Happenlns In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere,

Inc lowest piece OF railroad IN the
State is the B. & o. at Harpers Ferry,
which is $50 feet above the tide, and
the highest is the Gauley river branch
Of the G. & 0. at Stony creek, up
among the clouds at 1928 feet.
The massive granite sarcophagus
recently erected by NJ Bowman, on
the David Billmyer lot in Elmwood
Cemetery, has been admired by hun
dreds of visitors. The memorial is
built of the finest dark Barre granite,
and this, with the tasty workmanship,
makes it a lasting ornament to the
cemetery.
There are several cases of typhoid
fever at Charlestown. This is the sea-
son of the year when this dreaded
disease is most likely to appear, and
our people should use every precau-
ton to prevent it. All premises
should be kept scrupulously clean, and
| particular care should be taken to
avoid the use Of polluted drinking
water.
Nelson T. Snyder and Oscar J.
II
Blackford have purchased from L. G.
Brotherton his cider press, which has
been located in Shepherdstown for
several years. They will set it up at
Shenandoah Junction and operate it
there the ensuing season. They will
be ready for business by August 10th.
The capacity of the mill is 5000 gal
Ions day.
Mr.. L. Rush Turner, superintendent
of the live stock department Of the
Morgan's Grove fair, informs us that
the entries of live stock that have al
ready been made indicate fine ex-
hibit in this department. One stock
raiser has engaged twenty stalls, and
Loudoun county cattle-man will
have a number of entries. Mr.. Turner
SAYS that accommodations should be
secured at once.
The directors of the Hagerstown
Fair Association met Tuesday and
fixed on Saturday, September 9th, as
the time for holding the annual ban
quet of the advisory boards. An adj
visory board for Clarke county, Vir-
ginia, was selected, as follows: DR..
Robert P. Page, chairman; G, NJ.
Brown, DR.. C. Mccormick, c. Kown-
-sler, T. I. Russell, I. S. Ware, R.
Powell Page, W. w. Bowles and H.
NJ. Nelson.
The Maryland Telephone Company,
whose lines have been in Shepherds
town for about six months past, have
connected with the telephone system
centered at Chambersburg, Pa, and
we have now connection with the
towns in that section also. 1t was a
new thing under the sun a few days
ago to talk from the REGISTER Office
to a gentleman in Chambersburg. We
wish the Winchester company would
hurry its lines to Shepherdstown, so
that Jefferson county may be linked up.
Yesterday while Miss Violet Dan
bridge was horseback riding she no.
ticed along the road bag of cats that
had been thrown there by some per-
son. Miss Violet couldn't leave the
creatures to suffer, so she undertook
to carry them home. Old Billy didn't
know what to make of a bag of cats
souirming around on his back and
naturally grew triAe FESTIVE. The
cats began to yowl and scratch, Billy
bolted, and as Miss Violet persisted In
holding on to the tabbies, catastrophe
resulted. The saddle turned and she
was thrown to the ground, sustaining
some bruises and contusions, but luck
lily escaping without serious injury.
Bob Mcdowell, the negro incendia-
nv who burned Sheriff Bakers house
and was afterward pardoned out of
the penitentiary by Governor Atkin-
son, we understand visited the neigh
borhood of the scene Of his hellish
crime a few days ago. We do not
advocate or wish to encourage lynch
law in any form, but we would adj
wise this criminal, for the sake Of
avoiding trouble, that the best thing
for him to do is to make himself ever
Iastingly scarce in these parts. The
presence of the man who not only
burned Capt. Bakers house, but came
within an ace of burning with it the
Sheriff and his wife, is, to say the
least, highly irritating to the people
of that community, and his coming
among them might be fraught with
serious resuIts.-CbarlestOwn SPIRIT.
The fourth annual excursion OF the
PIT Of Rocks boat PARTY arrived