Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-02-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happeninr In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

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poll tax on or before March lst.
Robert Gibson and VIM. H. Kear-
fott are taking active steps for the
organization of a camp of Sons of Con-
federate Veterans in Shepherdstown.
Further notice of plans Will be given.
In another column will be found
the announcement of Mr.. James NJ.
Mason, Jr., for prosecuting attorney
for Jefferson county. Mr.. Mason has
many warm supporters in Shepherds
town district.
Special Commissioners Beethoven
and Brown sold the Hoffman property,
corner Princess and New streets, Shep-
herdstown, last Saturday at public
sale. 1t was purchased by DR.. A. S.
Reynolds for 81 ,2l0.
There is well-defned case of small
pox in Hagerstown, the patient being
the nine-year old daughter of Charles
Bopp. The health authorities have
taken stringent measures to prevent
the spread Of the disease.
The State Auditor has made an
apportionment of railroad taxes due
the towns and cities of the State for
the present year. Shepherdstown's
share Is $30.04, Charlestown's $30.64,
and Harpers Ferry's $l32.48.
Mr.. R. V. Moler, of the UviIla
neighborhood, was in the REGISTER
Office yesterday. He says that he
does not intend to be a candidate for
assessor, but withdraws in favor ofall
the other candidates. This leaves
but thirteen candidates for assessor in
the field.
Rev. C. H. Hockey, who recently
went from Shepherdstown to Wayues-
boro, Pa, has been a heavy loser since
he lett here, either by accident or
robbery. a pocketbook containing
$3.50 in cash, draft for 5000 and a
check for $40 mysteriously disap-
peared, and so far nothing has been
heard from it. 1t is thought that the
money was stolen from his house.
The concert given by the ladies of
the Episcopal church last Friday even
ing was well attended, the receipts
being over $50. The programme was
an enjoyable one, rejecting credit
upon the performers and the mana
gers. Monday evening the ladies
gave very pleasant entertainment
to the participants at the Virginia
House.
Harry T. Lickider has rented, for
the present, the Billmyer property on
Church street, near the bank, and will
open there a line of agricultural i'm
pIements, including the Osborne bind
ers and mowers, harrows, horse rakes,
cultiyators, etc, and repairs for the
same. He expects to be ready for
business by Saturday, and hopes to
receive a share of the public patron
age.
The young ladies and gentlemen Of
Middleway Will give an entertainment
at the Masonic Hall, in that town, on
Friday night, February %. 1.-The
Deacon's Tribulations," Sequel to
the Deacon, will be rendered. Music
will be furnished by the Middleway
orchestra. An oyster supper will al
so be served. Proceeds for the bene-
fit Of monument over soldiers graves
in the Masonic cemetery.
1t is said that three new crushers
are to be set up in the stone quarries
near KearneysviIIe, largely increasing
the output and giving employment to
a much greater number of men. 1t
is stated that the new crushers are to
be located upon the ground, instead
of upon high trestle work, and the
stones are to be carried into high bins
by means of a moving trough, from
which they are dumped into the cars.
Allen Spots, B. & 0. brakeman,
fell from a train while switching in
the yard at Grafton, w. Va, Tuesday
morning and received injuries from
which he died that afternoon. The
deceased was seventeen years ld,and
lived with his mother in West Grafton.
His father, VIM. T. SPOTS, was killed
in a wreck six years ago, and an un-
Gle, Wells SPOTS, met a similar fate
a few years previous. They formerly
lived in Charlestown.
Shepherd College State Normal
School has Just received from the Ma
tional Museum a collection of 81
specimens of marine invertebrates,
representing seven of the nine branch
es of the animal kingdom. The spec
linens will form a valuable and inter-
esting collection. Prof Arnett inter-
ested Senator Elkins and Congress
man Dayton in the matter, and
through their united efforts the speci-
mems have finally been secured.
DIR. D. w. Border, of Kearneysville,
who spent several months in Chicago
undergoing treatment for an affection
that had almost entirely deprived him
of the use of his legs, has returned
home. He is considerably improved:
When he went to Chicago he could
barely get about with two clutches
Now he gets along fairly well with a
cane. Mr. J. L. Williamson, of the
Swan Pond neighborhood, is in Chi
cago taking the same treatment,
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