Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-03-07
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of Interest that are Happening In
Our NeIghborhood and Elsewhere.

town, were married MONDAY evening
last at the Episcopal rectory by Rev.
DR.. VIM. H. Nelson.
A part of the goods stolen from the
clothing store of Max Theodore, in
Charlestown, were found in a bag
near Kearneysville, where the robbers
had abandoned them.
Miss Nellie Anderson, of Berryville,
in renewing her subscription writes
1--WE are all much pleased with the
REGISTER and feel that we cannot do
without it.
We surrender good deal Of space
this week to our temperance friends,
who are earnestly working to abolish
the saloons inShepherdstown. Wehope
that they may succeed in their fight
next Monday.
The Niagara Insurance Company,
Harrison & Schley agents, has adjusted
the loss occasioned by the fire in the
jewelry store of c. E. West & Co. on
Christmas night. The firm gets $342.l5
in cash and the salvage.
Mr.. B. F. Harrison requests US to
state that while he appreciates the
kindness of his friends, he is not a
candidate for mayor and his name is
used without his consent. He says
he will not serve if elected.
Our longtime subscriber, Mr.. Rob-
ert ]. Gordon, of Martinsburg, in
sending his subscription, writes Con
tinue to send the REGISTER, so we will
know what is going on in this end of
the State. Without the paper we are
lost.
The REGISTER has added a large
number of new subscribers to it's list
again this week, most of them unso-
licited and some from distant States.
It's a great pleasure to the editor to
have these substantial evidences Of
appreciation.
We cannot better boom our town
than by making it temperance town,
and turning the money annually spent
for intoxicants into other channels of
trade. A decrease in the liquor traffic
means an increase in the grocery and
dry goods traffic.
The MartInsburg News says the
men employed at the stone quarries Of
Baker Bros. at Kearneysville have
gone on a strike. The company cut
the wages from eighteen to seventeen
cents truck. The men refused to
work for that and stopped.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward T. Line, who
moved last year from Shepherdstown
to Connellsville, Pa, have recently
built themselves a nice home in that
city, with all the modern improve
ments. We are glad to learn that
Mr.. Line is doing well there.
Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover, Esq. has been
appointed administrator of the estate
Of the late John H. little. Mr.. little
made no will, and under the law the
bulk of his property will go to his
widow, as it was nearly all personal
property, bonds, mortgages, etc. The
estate amounts to about $4,000.
A great many organizations employ
ing large numbers of laborers refuse
to have any one who is known to
drink intoxicants or to smoke cigar
cites. This is not because of any
sentiment, but simply and rurely
from business standpoint. Persons
who wish to succeed in business must
learn self control.
Mr.. Wilbur Green, of Washington,
son-in-law OF Mr. and Mrs. John H.
Show, is in bad health, and upon the
advice Of his physician will go to Col
orado with the hope of being restored.
Mr.. and Mrs. Show have been in
Washington the past week, and Mrs.
Green will return with them to Shep-
herdstown and remain here for some
time.
The annual election for corporation
officers will be held in Shepherdstown
next Monday, March 18th, when the
mayor, recorder and FIVE councilmen
are to be elected. At this time the
question of license or no license to sell
liquor will be submitted to the people.
No person will be allowed to vote if
his head tax was not paid on or before
the first of March.
Carroll D. Wright, who by his posi-
ton as commissioner Of labor has am
pie facilities for knowing, says that
for every dollar that labor receives
from the saloons and saloon products,
it would receive twenty-three dollars
if the capital and energy were put in
to other enterprise. Ifhe is half right
it is high time for labor to make an
organized effort to get rid of the in
cubus of the saloon.
A mass temperance meeting will be
held in the town hall at 7.30 Friday
evening, March Sth. This meeting is
entirely non-partisan and non-sectar-
ian, and is to advance the interest Of
no particular organization, but purely
to further the cause of temperance
IN our own town. All are most cor
daily invited to attend, and thus to
manifest their sympathy with this
cause, so closely allied with good cit
izenship.
Church Notes.
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