Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-05-22
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things oflnterest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and Elsewhere.

| services Will be held at ElmWo0d Gen.
etery. The committee has not yet
completed the programme, but it will
be published next week.
The Shepherdstown Graded School
will have its closing exercises in the
town hall on Wednesday evening
next, May 20th, at s o'clock. The
pupils will render an interesting
programme, and the friends and pat
rons of the school are invited to be
present.
Real estate in Charles Town seems
to be looking up. Mayor George
Washington has sold his residence on
Washington street to George Eyster,
Esq, for $500, and Arthur Daven-
port has just paid $4,000 for the home
property of the late Albert Diehl, on
George Street.
The locust trees are laden with
bloom to degree that is not often
seen, and the sweet fragrance of the
blossoms fairly fills the air of some of
our charming country drives If the
corn crop shall be in proportion to the
locust bloom, as the old saying has it,
our farmer friends may as well begin
to build larger cribs.
Col. B. D. Gibson, chairman, has is
sued a call for the meeting OF the
Senatorial Executive Committee for this
senatorial district, to be held at Mar
tinsburg on Wednesday, the 29th of
May, for the purpose Of organizing for
the campaign, and to fix upon a time
and place for the senatorial convention
for the new 18th district, now COM
posed of the counties of Jefferson,
Berkeley, Morgan and Hampshire.
Memorial day exercises will be held
at Antietam National Cemetery on
Friday, May 30th. C. NJ. Futterer is
to be chiefmarshal. The Middletown,
Rohrersville, Shepherdstown and Kee-
dysville bands will furnish music, and |
among the organizations that will |
march in the parade will be the sons
of veterans; secret societies Of Sharps-
burg Co. B., Of Hagerstown; Wo-
mans Relief Corps and Spanish-Amer-
lean veterans. Addresses will be de-
livered by Congressman Geo. A, Pearre
and Raleigh Sherman.
Col. Forrest w. Brown and James
D. Butt, Esq, Of this county, were in
Charleston, S. c., recently on legal !
business, explained by the following |
item of the proceeding of the United |
States Circuit Court of Appeals: "JOs-
eph E. Thropp VS.. Harper's Ferry
Paper Company, appeal from the Cir
cult Court for the Northern district of |
West Virginia, Martinsburg, was ar
gued by R. T. Barton for Thropp, ap- |
pellant, and by Forrest w. Brown and |
James D. Butt for the appellee, the
Harpers Ferry Paper Company, and |
submitted"
The Winchester Telephone Com
pany, which recently passed into the
hands of the Maryland and Pennsyl- |
vania telephone syndicate, has been
reorganized by the new management
with the following officers President,
S. L. Johns, of McSherrytown, Pa. |
vice-president, R. T. Barton, of Win
chester; secretary, T. j. O'Neil, of
Hanover, Pa. manager and treasurer.
S. L. Hoover, of Winchester. Mr..
Barton, who resigned as president in
order to make way for Mr.. Johns,
who is at the head of the syndicate,
will virtually remain the acting pres
ident of the Winchester lines.
The outlook for the wheat crop in |
Jefferson county is not reassuring. |
The wheat got poor start last fall,
the winter was not particularly fav-
orable, and the drought this spring
kept it back until it is much shorter
now than it usually is at this season |
of the year. Some fields show up |
fairly well, but others will hardly be
worth harvesting. Indeed, some far
mers have plowed up the wheat and |
planted corn in its place. The hay |
crop will also be very short. The
grass is in poor condition, and though |
the rain of Monday has given tia fresh
start it cannot make large yield.
The seventeen-year locusts. which
have remained so quietly under the
surface Of the ground since 1885, are
releasing themselves from their gloomy
cells in mother earth and are now rap
idly coming forth to the light of day.
We have noticed them coming out since
Tuesday, and in few days they will
be singing their songs with all the en-
ergy they possess. The locusts are
most plentiful under trees that were
in good condition seventeen years ago,
and it is well worth while to hunt
such a spot and watch the peculiar in
sects as they emerge from the ground
and undergo the transformation that
makes them full-aedged locusts.
The new schedule of the Norfolk &
Western Railway goes into effect on
Sunday. There will be no change in
the time of trains No. 8, No. 4 and |
No. %. No. 81, due at Shepherds
town at 500 p. m, will run 80 min
utes later. The two new passenger
trains, No. and No. 2, will be added.
No. l will leave Hagerstown at 100
a. m, arriving at Roanoke at 9.O5 a.
IN. and Winston Salem at Up. m. No.
? leaves Winston-Salem 2.55 p. M,