Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-04-19
LITTLE LOCALS.
me Ihings of Interest that are HappsnIoe In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

"."i'n VI tne people OF Onepherds'
town for purposes of taxation. There
is heavy reduction in the valuation
of real estate under the reassessment
made last year.
The ladies of Trinity Episcopal
church will serve good, substantial
supper for fifteen cents, and will also
have soup, icecream, cake and home
made candy at the town hall on Sat-
urday afternoon and night, April 2Sth.
All are welcome.
Gordon D. Howell, the well-known
lmpersonator, will give an entertain
ment in the town hall Friday night of
this week, for the benefit of the Shep.
herd Fire Department. Admission
10 and Is cents, reserved seats 90
cents. Tickets on sale at Reinhart's
Pharmacy.
William Henretty of Kearneysville,
was seriously hurt last Sunday at
Cherry Run. He was riding on a
Western Maryland freight train when
the trainmen ordered him off. In at
tempting to get off the train he fell
from trestling about twenty feet
high, sustaining painful injuries to his
head and body.
Several persons from Shepherds
town attended the organ recital in
HagerstOwn Monday night, when Clar-
ence Eddy, the great organist, gave
recital in st. Johns Lutheran church.
The organ is very fine one, built by
NJ. P. Moller, and under the manipu-
lation of the artist who handled it
afforded a musical treat of rare en-
joyment.
The committee desires us to state
that the Odd Fellows bazaar at Shen-
andoah Junction has been postponed
until the Goth, 9th and 29th of
April. One of the features Of the oc-
casion will be a candidates soup"
when all the aspirants for Office in
Jefferson county are invited to be pres
snt. The public generally is request
ed to extend its patronage.
An entertainment entitled the
"Courtin' of Mother Goose, full of
fun and highly interesting will be
given in the town hall IN Shepherds
town on Saturday evening, April 2lst,
by the children of the Lutheran Sun
day school. An admission fee of 10
cents Will be charged, children 5
cents. Soup will be served and can
dy sold during the evening. The
proceeds are for the benefit of the
missionary cause, and liberal patron
age is asked.
Wilson Dunmore, our tonsorial art
list, has hen that is blessed with in
dustrious habits, but she doesn't know
much about eggs. She has laid about
twenty eggs recently of various shapes
and sizes, though none of them are
larger than a pigeons egg. Some of
them are very curiously shaped, and
there's no telling what they would
hatch. DR.. W. L. Byers brought in
the other day a hens egg that had
the yolk in one part and the albumen
in another, the two connected by
sort of canal.
The Senate has passed a bill pro-
viding for the establishment Of a fish
hatchery at some point in West Vir-
ginia, and the House will probably
pass the bill also. We suggest to
Fish Commissioner Bowers that Shep-
herdstown is Just the place to locate
the hatchery. Here's the delightful
Potomac and ample supply of the
purest spring water for all purposes,
while the mint that grows along our
ripping streams is as enticing to Con-
gressional taste as the sparkling water
would be grateful to the trout and
bass.
John Grove, Jr., aged about fifteen
years, son of the village blacksmith
at Indian Springs, Washington coun-
ty, was shot in the head by Raj Reiff
Kline, aged about sixteen years, at
Indian Springs, about $50 o'clock
last Saturday evening. Death ensued
ten minutes after the shooting &C.
Cured. There is little doubt that
the shooting was the result of acci-
dent-but it was carelessness that
caused the coroner's jury to render a
verdict that Kline was guilty ofreck-
lessly discharging gun, and ne was
held for court.
Rev. J. L. KILLER and his family
left here this morning for their new
home in Roanoke, Va, except Levin
and Tom KILLER, who will remain
here to complete the present term at
Shepherd College. Our people ex-
perience real regret at the departure
of this excellent family. For four
years they have had the regard and
respect of large circle of friends, and
as a man and as pastor of the Southern
Methodist church Mr.. KILLER has done
his consistent duty in this community,
We are glad to know that his new
charge is among the best in the con-
ference. st. James is one of the most
important congregations in Roanoke,
having membership of about 700.
They have recently built handsome
new house of worship and are altogeth-
er fourishing. The pastor will have
plenty of work, but as Mr.. KILLER is
an indefatigable laborer and an or
ganizer of unusual ability We are sure
he will be the right man in the night