Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-09-26
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofntsrest that are Happening In
Our kelghborhood and Elsewhere.

No family interested IN Shepherdstown
or Jefferson county ought to be with
out the REGISTER.
The Shepherdstown Fire Depart
ment, 81 members. went to Staunton
yesterday to attend the State conven-
ton Of Virginia fremen. Chief Horace
Grow commands the company.
Baby Foods-Mellen's, Horlick' 8,
Horlick's Milk, Wampole's Liquid
Wheat, Eskey's Albumenized Food,
Condensed Milk-all highly recon-
mended and are for sale cheap by Nc
Murran, the druggist.
The Shepherdstown Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
will attend the meeting of the State
convention at Martinsburg in a body
next week. The convention begins on
Wednesday, October I'd.
John D. McGarry has sold to JOS
eph V. Bell a tract of 40 acres of land
lying north Of the B. & o. Railroad
just west of Shenandoah Junction, the
price paid being $1,000 per acre.
Mr.. Bell expects to plant the whole
place in apples.
In order to prepare suitable music
for annual meeting of the Bible Society
which meets on Sunday, October 6,
1901, the choirs of the town churches
are requested to meet in the town
hall on Monday evening, September
so, at $50 o'clock.
We call attention to the advertise
ment this week of the Frederick fair,
which will be held October II to 90.
The Frederick fair is always popular
with the people of this section, and its
attractions this year promise to be up
to the usual high standard.
We regret to note the mysterious
death of another of the REGISTERS
subscribers. He promised to pay us
by date named if he lived, and as
he failed to come up we take it for
granted he has died. We would not
like to say where we think he has gone.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will serve soup, cake, icecream, cara
mels and homemade tafy, ETC., in the
store room across from Gibson's drug
store, Friday and Saturday afternoon
and night, September 81 and %.
Lunch served for Is cents. All are
welcome.
Wilson Dunmore. the popular bar
Der, has hair tonic of his own man
ufacture that he is selling with con-
siderable satisfaction. He doesn't
guarantee that it will bring back lost
hair, but he claims that it will keep
for those who use it the hair that they
have. Give it trial.
The engagement of Mr.. VIM. H.
Wilson, of Charles Town, to Miss Bay
lor, of Norfolk, Va, is announced,
the wedding to take place in January
next. Miss Frances Vending, daugh-
ter of Mr.. Geo. R. Vending, of Charles
Town, will be married in December
to Mr.. Cannon, of Detroit.
DR.. Richard X. Bragonier, resident
physician of the Emergency Hospital
in Washington, was named by the Post
as one of the physicians who aided at
the Capitol in caring for the persons
who were injured last week during the
crush in the crowd that had assembled
to view the body Of the late President.
Work on our new college building
has been actually commenced at last,
VIM. L. Arthur, the sub-contractor,
having started on the work of excava-
ting Yesterday. 1t will be pleasure
to our people to see the rise of this
splendid structure, which will be the
best normal school building in the
State.
The river has been in excellent or
der for fishing this week, and our local
fishermen have been catching lots OF
fine bass at Shepherdstown, some
very large ones being taken. They
have not been biting we'll at any time
this summer, but now they seem to be
willing to make up for lost time. One
of the popular bats for them is fat
bacon cut in strips.
The United States Court, Judge
Jackson presiding, will convene in
Martinsburg October 18th. John P.
Kearfott and Nelson R. Roberts, of
this county, have been drawn on the
grand jury, and S. Yantis and Willard
Morrow are on the petit jury. The
case of the Harpers Ferry Pulp Mill
against Jos. E. Thropp, owner of the
Virginia Ore Bank, will come up at
this term.
S. A. Westenhaver, the contractor
for the new Shepherd College building,
was in Shepherdstown on Tuesday, and
with the assistance of Superintendent
Samuel P. Humrickhouse staked of
the new structure, which will bein the
center of the States lot. The contract
for the excavations has been awarded
to w. L. Arthur, and he will begin
work right away. 1t is Mr.. Weston
haver's intention to get the work along
as far as possible before cold weather
sets in.
The serious losses inflicted by dogs
among the sheep through the county
last spring and summer seasons have
prompted the farmers of the county
to inaugurate a movement for the