Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-08-01
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things of interest that are Happening In
Our Ne!ghborhood and Elsewhere.

Maud Tabb, of Baltimore.
Principal E. F. Goodwin of Shep.
herd College has appointed Miss Mary
Wyville Syme, of Winchester, Va, tc
be teacher of elocution at this school
for the next year.
A temperance picnic under the au-
spices of the Anti-Saloon League Of
Jefferson county will be held at Shen-
andoah Junction Saturday of this
week. Everybody invited.
The temperance picnic will be held
al Shenandoah Junction Saturday all
day. All the pastors of Shepherds
town are requested to be present and
make addresses, and a general invita-
ton is extended to everybody to be
on hand.
The Transcript, newspaper pub
lished weakly at Williamsport, Md,
has suspended. This leaves the field
to the Leader, and we are willing to
bet good deal that Editor McCardell
can hold things down. More power
to his pen and more success to his
paper.
1t has been suggested that our
merchants close their stores next We'd
nesday, the occasion of the reunion
and picnic at Morgan's Grove, from
say II o'clock to 4 in the afternoon.
This would be good idea, and give
everybody a chance to attend the
gathering.
Miss Amelia Kate Wisner, daughter
Of ]. Nelson Wisner, of Martinsburg,
was married last night at her fathers
home to Mr.. Frank McCluskey, of
Evanston, III. Miss Wisner has for sew
eral years been teacher in the Cum
nocks School of Oratory of Evanston
and the groom is prominent lawyer
of the same place.
Editor James B. Morgan, of the
Gerardstown Times, set a trap for
flies and caught the pet cat The trap
was the usual tanglefoot and pussy by
accident stepped thereon. The more
he tried to get loose the more it stuck
until he had it wrapped around him
like an overcoat and the cat had to be
sheared.-Statesman.
Levi Lowell, member of the Lowell
gang Of gipsies that often camps at
Shepherdstown, was shot and killed
at Frostburg, Nd, last Saturday by
an Italian named Frank Meir. The
shooting seems to have been unpro-
voked, and a mob tried to lynch the
Italian. Lowell, who was 40 years
old, leaves wife and seven children.
Perhaps the best yield of wheat yet
reported to us is that of G. A. Helves-
tine, near Moler's whose crop averaged
% bushels to the acre. Geo. B. Coffin
barger got 100 bushels from SO acres,
an average Of little over 20 bushels
an acre. Mr.. Cofinbarger had five
acres seeded with wheat he got from
the West, and it averaged over 25
bushels per acre.
Miss Florence Hammond, of Bal
timore, secretary of the Young Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union of
Maryland, delivered a very interest
ing lecture last Thursday night in the
Southern Methodist Church of this
place under the auspices of the local
w. G. T. U. Mrs j. D. Billmyer pre-
sided, and the programme included
readings by Rev. G. G. Everhart and
Miss Lucy Schoppert.
The rain last Saturday prevented
the lawn fete by the Daughters Of the
Confederacy as proposed at Sudley
Place, but the ladies rallied at the
town hall and had a very enjoyable
entertainment there. They were
literally patronized and made COM
Portable sum for their treasury. The
Sons of Veterans turned out in uni
form under command of Captain Kear-
fott, and headed by the band had
very creditable parade and drill.
The cheerful sound of the steam
whistle at the manufacturing shops is
once more heard morning, noon and
evening in Shepherdstown, and it is
pleasant music to our people. The
Pennant Knitting Mills started work
last Monday morning, and as fast as
the new operatives can be broken in
they will be set to work at the ma
chimes. The company has, we under
stand, plenty of orders for their prod
uct, and We hope that it will soon be
busy hive Of industry out there.
The Shepherdstown band is to be
handsomely uniformed. J.F Thomp-
son & Bro, of Martinsburg, have the
contract for the new suits, and they
will be delivered in time for use at
the Confederate reunion and picnic
at Morgan's Grove next Wednesday.
The uniforms are to be of Confederate
grey, like those of the Sons of Veter-
ans, with white braid trimmings.
The headgear will be natty caps of
a stylish and becoming pattern. The
band will shine forth in their new
suits most radiantly next Wednesday,
if all goes well.
Frederick c. Holman, engineer,
was killed, and Geo. w. Holiday, fire.
man, was injured in a wreck on the
B. & 0. Railroad at Marriottsville, on
the main line near Sykesville, Nd, last
Friday. The engine, which was draw
ing the morning accommodation train,
Jumped the track and turned over,