Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-08-28
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofInterest that are Happening In
Our helghborhood and Elsewhere.

and the others No. 2 and No. 8.
Bass have been biting better the
past week than for a month or two,
and some fairly good strings have
been caught near Shepherdstown.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rau,
of Clarksburg, this State, an eleven
pound son. Mrs. Ran was formerly
Miss Agnes Hess, of Shepherdstown.
The REGISTER will have a tent at
Morgan's Grove fair next week. Call
and pay your subscription. Or if you
are not subscriber, call and become
one.
Mr.. NJ. E. Spohn and Mrs. G. W.
Humrickhouse went to Middletown,
Nd, the first of the week to attend
the funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Catha-
rine Lorentz.
Ralph Douglas, infant son Of j. H.
and Mamie Hartman Blackford, died
of meningitis on August 10th at the
home Of his parents near Shenandoah
Junction, aged months and q days.
Among the callers at the REGISTER
Office the past week were Mr.. j, Strider
Moler. the Keller merchant; Mr..
Alfred Kanode, of Moler's; Mr.. ]. S.
Moler, otBakerton; Mr.. w. G. Myers,
Of this vicinity.
The Shepherdstown band has re-
Gently purchased some handsome new
instruments-tWo comets, clarinet,
piccolo, fugle horn, a French horn,
a B bass an an octavin. The boys
are very proud Of them.
Frisby Dunn jumped from second
story window Tuesday night in de-
lirium and landed on a rock below.
Strange to say, he escaped almost en-
tire!y hurt, his injuries consisting of
only few cuts and bruises.
Miss Amy Simonds, of Washington,
who has been visiting at Mrs. Daviss
and Mrs. Martens, in this place, rem
dered the solo, Let me lean, o Lord,
on Thee" very sweetly in the Re-
formed church last Sunday morning.
Judge Faux ner held special term
of the Jefferson Circuit Court at
Charles Town last Friday. Among
the business transacted was the grant
ing of new trial in the case of j. D.
Billmyer against the insurance COM
panies.
The engagement of Miss Lucy
Neville Mitchell, daughter of Mrs. j.
F. G. Mitchell, of Charles Town, and
Mr.. Stephen F. Smith has been an
nounced. Mr.. Smith is a well-known
manufacturer of York, Pa. The
wedding will take place in the fall.
Miss Mitchell recently returned from
Europe.
Sheriff J. D. Billmyer asks US to
call attention to the law forbidding
the shooting Of doves. Local hunters
have been shooting doves in this neigh
borhood, though it is specifically for
hidden by the law. The sheriff and
his deputies are required to arrest Of
tenders, and fine of $25 is imposed
upon any person found guilty.
The B. & 0. Railroad is pushing its
new line to connect with the Cumber-
land Valley Railroad with extraordi-
nary rapidity, and work between
Cherry Run and the G. V. connection
on the cutoff is being hurried with all
speed. The contractor went to New
York the first of the week to get 500
more laborers, whom he hoped to have
sent forward at once.
General Manager L. E. johnson, of
the Norfolk and Western Railroad
Company, announces that his system
has lust placed orders for 100 new en-
gines, 50 each with the Baldwin and
American Locomotive works. The
Norfolk and Western also has orders
out for 5000 coal and freight cars,
and Mr.. Johnson stated that the first
instalment Of 500 box cars is now ar
irving. They expect 25 new passen-
ger coaches early in October.
The engineering corps working on
the Shepherdstown section of the B.
& 0. cutoff have been engaged the
past week in making very careful
surveys for the approaches and bridge
across the Opequon creek. This will
be one Of the most expensive jobs on
the line. 1t is proposed, we are In
formed, to build fine stone bridge
with three arches, and as it will cross
the stream at a high elevation the
work will be both expensive and te-
dious. The surveyors have run
great number of lines in their efforts
to get the most successful results.
The financial statement of Jefferson
county may be found on the first page
of the REGISTER this week-or part
of it, as the county court has omitted
that part relating to the road expen-
ditures. The court makes partial
statement because of economical rea-
sons. We believe the public would
be quite willing, however, to bear the
additional expense required to publish
full and complete record. The law
provides that the statement must be
published in at least one paper, and
fixes the price. The printers Of the
county offer to publish it in all four
of the newspapers for one price and