Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-09-11
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofintsrest that are Happening In
Our keIghborhood and Elsewhere.

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thank our friends who have interested
themselves to increase our subscrip-
ton list.
Thirty-seven applicants took the
county examination held recently.
Nine received No. l, seventeen No. 2
and FIVE No. 8 certificates. One failed
to appear the second day, and six
failed to pass the examination. Ten
certificates were renewed.
Mrs. Lily Singleton Thomas has
disposed of tract Of unimproved land
containing so acres at private sale to
Charles W. L. Boyd. The land sold
is part of the Castleman farm recent
| ly purchased by Mrs. Thomas Of the
Singleton heirs. Mr.. Boyd will use
the land for fruit culture and trucking.
Advocate.
The Wilson endowment fund of
100000 for Washington and Lee Uni
versity, Virginia. being made up, Her
bert Welsh, of Philadelphia, who was
largely instrumental in raising it, rec
ommends that a fund of $780, 900 be
raised to endow a scientific and tech
meal school to be associated with the
university.
A good many persons mail the REG
IsTER to their friends after having
read the paper themselves. This
costs fifty cents year in stamps, to
say nothing of the trouble. For a
dollar year we will mail the REGIS
TER to any address from this Office,
saving annoyance and costing little
more in money.
The Charles Town Free Press has
Just entered upon its ninety-second
volume. We wish for it and its esti-
mable editor, Mr.. Gallaher, many ad-
ditional years of usefulness and pros
perity. The Free Press is clean.
honorable journal, a credit to the pro-
fession and a just source Of pride TO
its editor and friends.
The trustees of the Presbyterian
Church Of this place have sold their
manse in Shepherdstown, on Main
street, to D. Frank Billmyer for $500.
Mr.. Billmyer, who now resides at
Billmyer's Mill, intends to move
to town and occupy the new purchase
as residence. The Presbyterians
will probably build new manse In
the near future.
The funeral service of Rev. H. Max
Lentz will be held in the Lutheran
church in Shepherdstown, of which he
was pastor, Friday morning at half
past ten o'clock. The service will be
in charge of Rev. DR.. Ezra X. Bell, of
Baltimore, and it is expected that 9th
er ministers in attendance, besides
those of this town, will be Rev. L. L.
Smith, Of Strasburg, Va, Rev. j. L.
Bushnell, D. D., of Winchester, Rev.
c. S. Trump, of Martinsburg, and
Rev. R. j. Campbell, of Hagerstown.
The body will be laid to rest in Elm
wood Cemetery. The officers Of the
Lutheran church of this place and
Uvilla will be the pall-bearers.
Rev. N. o. Sewers, agent for the
Children Home Society of West Vir-
ginia, has been in Shepherdstown the
past week in the interest Of the society.
A public meeting was held in the
town hall last Sunday evening, when
Mr.. Sewers made an address explain
ing the purposes of the organization.
Remarks were also made by Rev. H.
Max Lentz, Rev. J. G. Thrasher and
Mr.. Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover. Mr.. Sow
ers is soliciting contributions for the
society this week and he ought to be
literally helped, as the cause he rep
resents is most worthy one. The
Children Home Society hunts up and
cares for destitute children, takes them
to its headquarters in Charleston, and
then finds good homes for them.
Prof. J. Walter Barnes, who recent
ly decided to remove to Fairmont, this
State, has been nominated for the
State Senate by the Democrats of the
eleventh district, composed of the
counties of Monongaha, Marion and
Taylor. Prof. Barnes, who was nomi-
mated for the short term, expects to
decline the honor, as his time is so
taken up he cannot give politics much
attention. Howard Swisher, of Nor
gantown, was nominated for the long
term. The Republican nominees are
Ira E. Robinson, of Grafton, for the
short term, and Charles N. Swisher, of
Fairmont, for the long term. The
district is Republican, but that party
is so torn up with dissensions the re-
suit cannot well be foretold
The regular meeting of the town
council was he'd on Monday evening.
The council ordered the purchase Of
500 feet of new hose for the use ofthe
fire department from Baltimore firm.
The price agreed upon was 80 cents
foot, calling for an expenditure of
$500 in all, and the town was given
one years time in which to pay for
the hose. 1t was reported that Mayor
Harrison had declined to sign the no.
tees to property owners to remove
certain porches, whereupon an order
was passed requiring him to return
the notices to the sergeant. Later
the sergeant served the notices to the
persons addressed, signed with the
name of Recorder Geo. W. Billmyer.
Bills to a considerable amount were
ordered paid and the council ad-