Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-11-29
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

Cushwa & Small have the contract
for Henry Reynolds's new dwelling
house on New street and are now
pushing the work along.
The Norfolk & Western Railway
has had a nice brick pavement laid at
its Main street crossing, in accordance
with the request of the town council.
We have never displayed as fine a
line of books as we have this year,
either in quantity or quality. Some
especially for boys and girls as well
as older people. Watch our window.
Remnants Pharmacy.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society and the Juvenile Society will
hold joint meeting in the primary
room of the NJ. Z. Church South,
Thursday night, Dec. 9th, at 7 P. m.
The public is cordially invited.
The Norfolk & Western Railway
put its winter schedule into effect last
Sunday. The only change is in taxi
ing the accommodation off on Sundays.
That promised fast train to and from
the South has not yet materialized.
The stable belonging to Postmaster
c. W. Foltz, at Foltz, Berkeley coun-
ty, was destroyed by fire last Thurs
day night. The fire was started by
the accidental overturning Of Ian
tern. The loss is about 5000, with
no insurance.
We call special attention to the pros
pectus of the Wheeling Intelhgencer
in another column. There is no bet
ter paper in West Virginia than the
Intelligencer. 1t is clean, conserva-
tive and newsy and credit to our
growing and enterprising State.
The ladies of the Reformed church
will serve dinner and supper today
Thanksgiving day. in the town hall,
A fine dinner, with turkey and all
seasonable good things, will be served
for So cents, and supper for % cents.
The patronage of the public solicited.
The Odd Fellows of Shenandoah
junction will hold supper Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday evenings,
Nov. % and 80 and Dec. lst. The
public is cordially invited to attend.
The Odd Fellows especially desire the
cooperation of all the ladies who can
make it convenient to attend.
Mr.. A. B. Bush, formerly Of Shep-
herdstown, where he was principal of
Shepherd College, but who has recently
been president of Central University
at Pella, Iowa, has entered the Bap-
fist ministry. Mr.. Bush has accepted
a call to bis first charge at Eddyville,
Iowa, and has entered upon his work.
We call special attention to the new
advertisement of W. P. Licklider this
week. Mr.. Licklider has opened his
Christmas goods, and has such an as
sortment of china, glass, lamps, novel
ties, etc., as is not often seen outside
the cities. He extends an invitation
to the people of Jefferson and adjoin-
ing counties to call and see his new
goods while the stock is unbroken.
DR.. Hopkins Gibson, the dentist,
has been obliged by his increasing
business to take another room adjoin-
ing his Office in the REGISTER Build
ing. The rooms have been handsome
ly papered and Will be nicely fur
nished, one as a reception room and
the other as an operating room. They
are ideal apartments for his profession,
and his patrons will appreciate his
efforts to provide them with these
comforts.
The stonemasons have finished the
foundation walls of the new graded
school building and the bricklayers
are ready to go to work, as soon as
the ioists are set. The foundation is
frst-class piece of work, apparently,
1t is not only substantial, but being
faced with our best blue limestone pre-
sents handsome appeaance. There
is base course Of light stone around
the front and east side of the building
After a long period Of idleness work
has again been started up at the Po-
tomac cement mill, a mile below Shep-
herdstown, under the management OF
Major H. W. Blunt. A riprap dam
has been built across the river on the
site of the old dam, the mill has been
put in repair, and for the first time in
number of years the kilns were put
in operation last week and cement
stone burned. The work will not be
strongly pushed until next spring but
it is hoped then to rebuild the dam Of
concrete and have the works running