Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-03-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening n
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

| eAOH nv PoSO "SOh' 1Ao NP"N Sd
that there are but two cases IN town,
Miss Katie Aisquith and Miss Alice
Hagley.
Sunday morning the robins were
whistling in the sunshine. In the after
noon there was vigorous snow storm,
and at night cold wave came along
and sent the temperature below freezo.
March is very tricky.
The Martinsburg Statesman says
that nothing whatever is being done
toward constructing the telephone
line from that place to Shepherdstown.
This is about the slowest telephone
we have heard Of Wake up, Win
chester
The Norfolk & Western Railway
will straighten its line between Roam
oke and Radford and build a third
track into the West Virginia coal
fields. These improvements are all
right, but the new depot at Shepherds
town should first be built.
The music pupils of Miss Urna Cum
mings had a musicale in the college
building last Friday evening, which
was attended by good-sizsd audience.
The young musicians acquitted them
selves very crsditably and showed
marked advancement.
a twelve-year-old son of Walter
Evsrhart, living in Loudoun county,
near Harper's Ferry, jumped upon a
broken hayfOrk that had fallen from
the NOW and ran it into his body. The
accident occurred Thursday evening
and he died Friday morning. He was
cousin of the Messrs. Demory, of
this place.
1t was expected that navigation on
the Chesapeake & Ohio canal would
have been opened by this time, but
one day last week the aqueduct that
carries the canal over Licking creek,
Is miles above Williamsport, collapsed
from the thawing and freezing of the
winter, and it is said will have to be
entirely rebuilt. 1t will take at least
month to repair the damage.
The jury in the case of Thomas
Delaney, who sued the Norfolk and
Western wayCompany for $4,000
damages for injuries sustained by
drinking concentrated I've at the We
ter cooler in the station at Shenan-
doah Junction, one night last Deem
Der, brought in a verdict for $500 for
Delaney in the court at Hagerstown.
General Douglas, for the railway COM
pany, applied for new trial.
1t is said that a third sherifalty
ticket will likely be placed in the
field in Jefferson county. The Ad-
rocate last week said that rumor
placed ex-Sheritf Albert F. Davis at
It's head with P. P. Marshall and But
Ter Moore as deputies. Mr.. Marshall
authorized the REGISTER to say that
he is not and will not be candidate.
He is thankful to his friends for kind
expressions, but the Office is one that
he has no desire for whatever.
Thomas w. Hammond, of the Kear-
neysvills neighborhood, has a sheep
that some time ago gave birth to a
lamb. Three weeks later she gave
birth to twin lambs, both of them
healthy and well developed. Nature
had provided sustenance for but two,
so one of them, being more or less
bullied by the first lamb, died a day
or two later. Mr.. Hammond is aware
that this is queer yarn, but those
who know him will not doubt his
word.
n. S. J. Strider, the well-known
Charlestown merchant, was in town
Monday and called at the REGISTER
Office. Mr.. Strider has rented the
house in Charlestown formerly owned
by Mrs. Latimer, and will move his
family from Uvilla to that place in a
few weeks-greatly to the regret Of
their many friends in this neighbor-
hood. Melvin L. R0nemous will move
to Mr.. Stridsr's place at Uvilla and
will conduct the store there, in which
he will have an interest.
The County Court had session on
Monday to take action as to the re-
cent valuation OF real estate. 1t ap-
pears that the valuation as reported by
Mr.. Moore for the first district was IA
per cent less than that by Mr.. Rider
| in the second district. The court,
we are informed, had right to adjust
the difference, and it reduced the Sec
ond district to that of the frst-mak-
ing it for the whole an average OF
| 500. 80 per acre. The valuers, Messrs.
Moore and Rider, did exceptionally
good work.-Free Press.
In another column will be found
the announcement of Thomas Janney
as a candidate for assessor in the first
district of Jefferson county. Mr..
Janney is a resident of Middleway
district, and is regarded as one of the
strongest candidates for this office.
He is man of ability and character,
and his friends claim for him that no
more deserving or worthy person can
be found in the county. Mr.. Janney
was in Shepherdstown Tuesday and
made a very favorable impression up
on the voters with whom he came IN
contact.
April the first will soon be here and