Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-07-19
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things Of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

could be seen from Shepherdstowr
Sunday afternoon.
The teachers institute for Jefferson
county will begin in Shepherdstowr
next Monday, July 29d, and Will con.
tinue in session throughout the week.
The instructors will be Prof. U. s.
Fleming, of Parkersburg, and Mrs.
Menefee, of Keyser.
Prof. Arlington c. Hines, of the
summer school of elocution, will give
an entertainment in the town hall on
Saturday evening, July 2Sth, when a
pleasing programme will be rendered,
including the popular monOlogue,
THE Shadow of Song" Admission
Is cents.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
had a delightful lawn fete at Sudley
Place last Saturday evening. A large
crowd of persons was present, the
Sons of Confederate Veterans attend
ing in a body under command Of Cap
tain Kearfott. The ladies made about
S33.
B. S. Pendleton hs, placed in his
store full set Of splendid new gaso-
line lights with Welsbach burners.
They make the store as light as day,
and show it of to fine advantage.
The lights were put in by G. W. Fer
rel, who has the agency for Shep-
herdstown.
The B. & o. Railroad has started on
the work of constructing the additional
track from Engle's to Fauvers, west
of Martinsburg. 1t is the intention of
the company to have four tracks be-
tween these two places, a distance Of
nineteen miles. There is difficulty
in securing labor sufficient to push the
work.
Mr.. Taylor Powell met with pain
full accident on the Lee farm near town
few days ago. While he was riding a
mower the machine struck a rock and
he was thrown from his seat. One OF
the wheels ran over him, fracturing a
couple of ribs and bruising him good
deal. 1t was fortunate that he escaped
the knives.
J. 2. Hines has had a very hand
some monument erected over the
grave of his wife, Josephine, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. R. Deck, in the
Reformed Cemetery. 1t is hand
somely carved shaft and is one Of the
prettest stones in the cemetery. 1t is
the work of NJ. Bowman, the Shop
herdstown marble cutter.
The new Democratic County Exec
utive Committee for Jefferson county
met at Charlestown Tuesday. and or
ganized. John NJ. Daniel, who has
been chairman of the committee for
several years, was reelected. James
W. Strider was elected secretary and
w. F. Alexander assistant secretary.
The Winchester Telephone Com
pany has installed switch board and
opened an Office in Shepherdstown.
The Office is in the small room adjoin-
ing H. L. Wintermoyer's hat store,
and Miss Cora Mundey is the opera
tor. The location is very conven-
lent one. There is now direct COM
munication between Shepherdstown
and CharIestoWn.
The friends of John ]. Cornwell,
publisher of the Hampshire Review
and State Senator from the twelfth
district, were good deal shocked
last week by the report that he was
dead. Fortunately the statement was
untrue, and Mr.. Cornwell writes US
that, in the language of Mark Twain,
the report of his death was greatly
exaggerated. We don't want John
to die until old age kills him.
Following the system adopted a
year or two ago by the B. & o. Rail-
road, the conductors and brakemen of
the Norfolk & Western Railway will
hereafter wear stripes on their uni
forms, each stripe indicating FIVE years
service. Capt. Walter Hutchings is
the Oldest conductor on the entire n.
& W. system, having been in the en-
ploy of the company for twenty years.
He was the first conductor on the old
Shenandoah Valley road.
The intensely hot and dry weather
has made the grass along the railroad
tracks like finder, and many fires have
been caused by sparks from locomo-
tives. Wheat, hay and fencing have
been destroyed in greater or less
quantities. Nelson T. Snyder lost
lot of hay and fencing the past week,
part of Thomas Files's hay field was
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