Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-07-24
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofinterest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.


10th at the National Hotel in Wash
ington by Rev. DR.. Gibson.
Palmbaum Bros, of Charles Town,
who recently bought the Watson
House property in that place, have
decided to tear down the old building
and erect upon its site handsome
three-story hotel with modern i'm
provements and conveniences.
Geo. w. Osbourn, who lives east of
town, will build an addition to his
dwelling-house. VIM. Phillips Sons,
of Charles Town, will furnish the lum-
Der. The same enterprising firm has
contracted to provide the lumber for
the addition to the Register building,
Read the new advertisement of J.
D. Swartz, the old reliable clothier, of
Hagerstown. He offers special bar
gains in summer clothing, and it will
be to your interest to learn his prices.
Mr.. Swartz's guarantee is as good as
gold and he is clever gentleman to
deal with.
A mysterious looking circle of va
rious hues surrounded the sun yester-
day afternoon, and superstitious folks
think that it foretells some striking
event-that there'll be war, or the
Democrats will win the next election,
or Charles Town will go dry, or some
thing equally startling will happen.
At meeting of the presidents of
the boards of education at Charles
Town last week Edward T. Turner,
principal of the Harper's Ferry Grad
ed School, was chosen a member Of
the board of examiners. The board
now consists of County Superintend-
ent ]. A. Engle, Charles T. Smooth
and Z. D. Turner.
Below are some Of the special bar
gains at W. H. Poling's clearance
sale, Martinsburg-good for this week
only: 25-cent Persian lawn, l9 cents;
3O-cent Persian lawns, % cents; 35-
cent Persian lawn, 25 cents; l2t-
cent India linons, 10 cents; l9-cent
India linons, Is cents; 25-cent India
linons, Is cents; 28.cent India linons,
20 cents.
A lawn fete will be held at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. T. Nc
Quilkiu, west Of town, on Friday and
Saturday evenings, July 25 and 26.
Supper, icecream and cake will be
served. Coaches will be run every
hour after clock, and may be found
on Main street between Welshanss
and Bakers stores. They will be run
by c. w. Adams and ]. NJ. Toliver.
Weather Prophet Hill and a wet
moon knocked St. Swithin into
cooked hat last week. On Tuesday
st. Swithin said there would be a
drought for forty days. The moon
said we would have a wet July and
VIII Hill advised everybody to buy
umbrellas. Inside of three days there
was plenty of rain, and the man in the
moon and Prophet Hill are both grin
ming triumphantly.
There have been number of
changes in the teachers of the public
schools in this district and adjoining
schools. County Superintendent J.
A. Engle has been appointed teacher
of the Bakerton school; Miss Edith
Douley and Miss Laura Knode will
teach the Moler's school; Miss Rose
Cockrell goes to Kellers; Miss Clara
Greenwood gets the Edgewood school;
E. NJ. Chapman succeeds Herbert A.
Osbourn at Shenandoah Junction.
James Frank Grimes, aged II years,
died in Martinsburg under peculiar
circumstances Monday morning, at
which time he entered the drug store
of r. L. Snodgrass & Company and
said: Il am done for, and sat down.
In a few minutes he was dead. Young
Grimes was unusually large for his age,
being only II years old and weighing
$50 pounds. The examining physi-
clan aaid bis death was caused by
fatty heart, fastened by the heat and
exhaustion.
At dance given at the residence
of Albert Welsh, near Mount Airy,
six miles east of Berryville, Saturday
night, Willis Hoof, of Jefferson coun-
ty, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by a man named Smallwood.
The fight, it is said, grew out of a
quarrel about woman. After the
shooting of HooF general fight fol-
lowed, and Smallwood and Charles
Hopkins were severely hurt. The az
fair created intense excitement
throughout the neighborhood, and Of
fcers are after the participants.
There was very pretty wedding at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur
F. Thomas, near Kearneysville, We'd
nesday evening at eight o'clock, when
their youngest daughter, Edith, was
married to Mr.. Ralph Young, former
ly of St. Louis, Mo-, but now Of
Kearneysville. The ceremony was
performed in the presence OF the large
family circle and few intimate friends
by the brides pastor, Rev. Charles
Ghiselin, after which refreshments of
icecream, cake and fruits were served.
May blessings attend the happy pair.
DR.. Walter S. Link and Miss Mary
E. Prendergast, both of Parkersburg,
were married in that city on Tuesday