Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-04-12
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our Nelghberheod and Elsewhere.

EDWARD turr, Shepherdstown
boy who enlisted in the regular army
some time ago, sailed from New York
for the Philippines last week on the
/ transport Sumner. He is in the Fourth
Cavalry Regiment
1t is the general belief that this
viii be a fine fruit year. The contin-
ued cool weather has prevented the
buds from swelling too soon and the
| probability is that when the blossoms
do come they will be all right.
We are glad to note that the town
council has reappointed John F. Mad
deX as town sergeant for the ensuing
| year. Mr.. Maddox is one of the best
officers our town has ever had-com-
| petent, courageous and conservative.
The splendid panorama of the Pas
sion Play Of Oberammergau will be
given In the town hall on Friday
evening, April 9th. This is an en-
teItaiument Of high merit and should
be largely patronized, Further notice
next week.
Shepherdstown will have but two
liquor saloons the ensuing year, The
council has granted recommendation
for license to John G. Lambert and
| H. j. Chamblin. J. Lee Walters,
who ran a saloon last year, did not
apply for license.
The ladies Of Trinity Episcopal
church viii serve good, substantial
supper for fifteen cents, and will also
have soup, icecream, cake and home
made candy at the town hall on Sat-
urIay afternoon and.night, April 2Sth.
| All are welcome.
The workmen at the Bskerton quar-
ria- went on a strike last week for a
| iav OF ten hours at the same price
they had been getting for ten and "a
| hall hours. The management cheer
| fully granted the request and work
was resumed as usual.
A charter has been granted to the
Grove Mining Company Of Harpers
Ferry, Of which J. R. Grove is presi-
dent. The company has been formed
| to operate mining lands on the Ever
! ha.t place, in Loudoun county, three
miles from Harper's Ferry.
We rarrat 10 note that Samuel r.
| L.caGJer, the well.known Kearneys-
Vile merchant, has been obliged to
make am assignment, the papers hav-
ing been fled on Monday last. Geo.
". Beethoven, Esq, Of Shepherds
/ town, is named as the trustee.
President Fink says that while the
. Pennsylvania Railroad will in meas
ure control the Norfolk & Western,
there viii be no change in the indi-
/ uIuality of the latter road. There
| ought to be some changes in the indi-
/ v.lgals who manage the n. q W.
The Junior Epworth League and
| the infant department of the Southern
| Methodist Sunday school will give a
measuring party in the parlors of the
. Enrler Hotel next Monday evening,
I Visitors are expected TO pay accord
ing to their height ia feet and inches.
James E. Baruhart is making i'm
rI5veueuts to his property on New
Street The old stone pavement that
. b done duty there for perhaps a Gen.
fury is TO be replaced with a nice
. brick sidewalk, and neat and orna-
meataI fence VIII replace the Pallng
| fence that encloses the yard.
Mrs. A. A. Abbott writes from
/ Cleveland. Ohio "The REGISTER Is
Ia most welcome visitor every week,
/ BRINGING to mind the dear old town
as on. looks down the Main street to
. the sweet blue mountains, and past
/ homes we have known all our lives,
rsop.ed by the best men and women
. ON earth.
We call attention to the advertise
inert of p. S. Pendleton, Shepherds
town progressive merchant, elsewhere
/ IN this paper. He has gotten IN
. large and varied stock Of goods sulta-
. BE TO the season, and the fact that
| his customers come from every Sec
| ton of the county is evidence that ne
lneases the people. His prices are
| very low
John II. Sisler, a Shepherdstown
| bow who is soldering in the Philip
mines, has sent us a copy Of the Manila
| Times. The newspaper business is
| evidently a paying thing in Manila,
| for we notice that the subscription
mice ofthe Times is twenty (Mexican)
| dollars year. The paper IS well
. sled with advertisements Of wine,
wbi,,ev and beer, and saloons seem
to be the chief business places.
awakening last Saturday morn
inc Mrs. Bessie X. Lamon, widow OF
. Mr. Robert Lamon, Of Berkeley coun,
Itv. found. to her astonlshment and
alarm. that she had lost the sight IN
her left eve during the night. When
She retired she noticed nothing wrong
with her sight, and as she had no
trouble with her eyesight whatever it
was inexpl3inable. Mrs. Lamon lett
Immediately to see specialist IN
q Washington.
) The holes have been dug and the
ro,ss distributed for the telephone
= line between Shepherdstown and Mar
tinsburg. The work OF setting the me
roles and stringing the wires Will