Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1901-01-17
BRIEFS.

Pay your taxes anu save Tue lh'ei
est that is now accommodating.
Try the REGISTER a year-only a
dollar. Six months for so cents.
Weather Prophet Hill has stopped
prophesying until the weather gets
more reliable.
County Court will meet January
18th. The Circuit Court will convene
February 18th.
Pay your taxes and save interest
and costs. The retiring sheriff must
settle up accounts.
Col. Forrest w. Brown has qualified
as administrator of the estate of the
late R. w. Morrow,
DR.. W. T. Henshaw, member Of the
Legislature from Martinsburg, is pref
ty sick with fever in Charleston.
Delegates Cushwa and Wetzel and
Senator Burkhart have our thanks for
legislative documents from Charleston.
The brewery at Harper's Ferry, for
merly owned by Winchester capital
lists, has been sold to syndicate Of
Alexandria, Va, men.
EFT. Lickhder will be in town every
day until further notice to receive tax
es. Pay up now and save interest,
and avoid further trouble.
Arnold L. Moler, son Of Mrs. Alice
Moler, who was badly hurt four weeks
ago, is able to be out again, owing to
DR.. S. T. Knots careful attention.
Mr.. William T. Webb, of Harper's
Ferry, and Miss Alice V. Spinks, of
Charlestown, were married yesterday
in Charlestown by Rev. H. H. Kenne-
dy
State Superintendent of Schools J.
R. Trotter calls the attention Of teach
ers INVEST Virginia to the ACCESSIBILITY
Of observing John Marshall day on
February 4th.
Irwin Bros. & Leedy, cigar manu-
facturers at Shenandoah Junction,
have Just completed an addition to
their factory at that place, necessita-
ted by their growing trade.
Charles Broadway Rouss has sent
the Independent Steam Fire Company
of Charlestown, check for $500 to
help defray expenses of their banquet
to be given on February II.
Sheriff J. Davis Billmyer will use
the room over the Jefferson Savings
Bank as a sheriff's Office, and will fun
nish it with the comforts and conven-
fences necessary. 1t is desirable
room.
Mr.. Presley Marmaduke has sold
his desirable farm at the edge of Shep-
herdstown to ex-Sherif William Me-
Donald. The farm contains $50 acres.
well improved, and the price paid was
$50 al acre.
Montaville Flowers, of Boston, was
to have given an entertainment in
Charlestown Monday night. At the
appointed time he presented himself
in Charleston, some three hundred
miles away, having left out the W.
Vanmeter Brothers, of this place,
will open grocery and notion store
in Shepherdstown next week, occupy
ing the room in the Richard building
formerly used by H. NJ. Ramsburg.
]. Roland Show will clerk for them.
John w. Brown, who keeps the
Shepherdstown and Halltown pike in
order, claims to be the champion rock
crusher in Jefferson county. He chal-
leng4s any man in the county to break
stones with him, but bars steam crush
ers.
Recent weddings in Charlestown by
Rev. H H. Kennedy Dec. &c, 1900,
Frank P. Dinkle, Bolivar, and Miss Es-
tella Glassford, of Charlestown, at par
sonage; Jan. 2, 1901, VIM. Dunn and
Miss Sarah NJ. Dunn, at Franklintown,
this county.
The Shepherdstown Chapter of the
I'D. C. will hold its regular meeting
Saturday afternoon, January l9, at
8 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Kate
Reynolds. 4 full attendance is de-
sired as this is the time for the an
nual election of officers and payment
of dues.
One of most valuable publications
of the kind that we have ever seen is
the Washington Post almanac, a copy
of which has been sent US. 1t is a
miniature encyclopedia, full of inter
esting facts and figures and general
and special information. 1t is worth
a great deal more than the modest
price asked for it, 80 cents.
Miss Emma c. Graham was married