Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-10-23
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofIntsrest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

ing in the crisp air great pleasure.
Sheriff ]. D. Billmyer has bought
for his Office large and handsome
new safe. 1t cannot be gotten up the
stairway, and today the job of hoist
ing it up through second-story win
dow is attracting good deal of atten-
ton.
Mr.. William Ward, who came to
Shepherdstown couple of months ago
to make his home, has moved to Green's
bore, N. c., with his family. His son.
in-law, Edward holland, whose sudden
death was referred to last week, died
in that place from having run nail
into his foot.
The Jefferson County Sunday School
Convention will be held in Charles
Town on Friday and Saturday, No
vember IA and Is, and on Sunday,
November 16, Sunday School mass
meeting will be held. Some of the
best talent to be had will be procured
for these meetings.
The biggest potatoes we have ever
seen were left at the REGISTER Office
on Monday by John L. Athey. The
largest one weighed 5 pounds and
another weighed 81 pounds. Mr..
Athey raised many other very large
ones. We think he will hold the
championship as potato raiser.
G. NJ. Beltzhoover and o. E. Spohn
have had nice brick pavement laid
along the Duke street side of their
properties. The waste places in our
town are gradually being improved.
For hundred years or more this was
rough way not fit for use by pedes-
TRANS. Let others emulate such i'm
provements.
Last Saturday morning as two big
locomotives were being hauled through
Shepherdstown in the local freight
train bull-nose on one of the engines
broke and pulled out. The engines
are enormous ones and were built for
the Georgia Central Railroad. They
were side-tracked here until a new
bull-nose was forwarded.
Mr.. Clarence G.. Watson, beloved
husband of Bessie Watson, died after
short illness of typhoid fever at his
late home, So L Street, N. E., Wash
ington, D. c., on Sunday, October 18th.
Mr.. Watson leaves widow and two
daughters to mourn his loss. Mrs.
Watson was Miss Bessie Moler, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Moler, of
Millville. He was 80 years of age.
VIM. Fl. Wilson, trustee, sold at
public auction the well-known hotel
and springs property at Shannon dale,
FIVE miles south of Charles Town.
The property sold included, besides
the hotel and springs, two farms, one
Of lS9 acres upon which the springs
are located and another of l25 acres
lying east of the former. Both farms
are we'll improved. Il. G. Getzendan-
ner, who recently sold his farm north
of Charles town to John A. Ware, was
the purchaser at bid of $9,O55.
Our local coal dealers have sold
pretty nearly all the anthracite coal
they had in stock, dividing it up into
small lots among their customers.
They say that it will probably be at
least a month before they can get
fresh supplies in. Providence has
favored the people by giving us an
unusually mild autumn, the season
being fully three weeks late this year.
Ordinarily in this section stoves have
to be started by the 1st of October,
but there has been little or no use for
fire up to this time.
Mrs. Eliza sperow, wife of Mr..
George T. Sperow, died at her home
in Berkeley county, between Shep-
herdstown and Martinsburg, Tuesday
evening of last week, aged So years.
She had been i'll for long time. Mrs.
Sperow, whose maiden name was Ropp,
was woman Of the highest Christian
character, good neighbor, a faithful
wife and a loving mother. Besides
her husband, she is survived by two
sons, Henry and Oscar Sperow. She
was buried on Thursday, service being
held in the Presbyterian church in
Shepherdstown, Rev. DIR. Charles
Ghiselin officiating, and she was laid
to rest in Elmwood Cemetery.
A large number of the electric lights
on the side streets of our town have
been burnt out and are worthless, and
the prospect is that there will be no
lights on these streets for some time
to come. 1t has been demonstrated
that the series lights are impracticable,
and the necessity now stares the coun-
Gil in the face of putting them all on
the same circuit that supplies the
commercial lights. This will require
the stringing of more wire and the
placing Of several transformers, in
volving an expenditure of about $500.
1t is believed, however, that it will
pay, for it will furnish number of
additional incandescent lights to those
who desire them in their houses, thus
increasing the town revenues, and will
do away with the destruction Of the
costly series lights, which has been
such an expensive thing to the town:
1t is to be hoped that the council will
have the necessary changes made, for
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