Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1902-06-19
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofInterest that are Happening In
Our keighborhood and Elsewhere.

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attending commencement.
The Harp house on Main street, oc.
cupied by Mr.. G. D. Keplinger, is be-
ing improved. New windows have
been put in and the dwelling will be
reprinted inside and outside.
The N. & w. R. R. will sell excur-
sion tickets from stations south of the
Ohio river on July 2, 8 and 4, good
for return passage to July s, inclusive.
This will be good opportunity to
visit the sesshore and mountain
resorts.
AT the University of Virginia COM
mencement exercises Monday evening
the award for the best argumentative
essay was made to Mr.. E. P. Dan
bridge, of Leetown, this county.
The same young gentleman won the
award for the best descriptive essay.
The degree of Bachelor of Arts was
also conferred on him.
Miss Margaret Susye Ingram,d augh-
ter of John w. Ingram, of Harper's
Ferry, was married in Williamsport,
Nd, last Thursday to Mr.. Harry
Copenhaver Eversole, of Curwansville,
Pa, Rev. Henry S. Richardson oficiat-
ing. Miss Beulah Ingram, sister Of
the bride, and John W. Eversole,
brother of the groom, who lately re-
turned from service in the Philippines,
were the attendants.
Mr.. Walter Cleveland and Miss Ida
Fay Keyser, both of Harper's Ferry,
were married June II, 1902, in the
Evangelist parsonage, Frederick. Md,
by Rev. DR.. Eschbach. The bride is
the daughter of Mr.. Joseph Keyser, a
brave Confederate soldier of Cut
shaw's battery during the civil war.
The groom is the son of Mr.. Ralph
Cleveland. They reside at the groom S
home, one of the most picturesque on
Camp Hill.
BENJAMIN Hartzell's trnck bust
ness and gardening operations have
grown to such an extent that he has
been obliged to fit up an Office espe-
cially for this feature Of his work.
The office is located in his building
near the railroad station, and his
daughter, Miss Rosa, is in charge.
He has telephone installed fer the
convenience of his customers here and
in neighboring towns. Mr.. Hartzells
gardens are very fourishing just now.
The boatmen on the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal, who stopped work
last week, demanding an advance in
freight rates, have been granted an
incr ease of 10 cents for hauling coal
to Georgetown and cents to Williams
port. This was the increase asked
and makes the rates so cents to the
former and 40 cents to the latter place.
A settlement was reached after con-
ference by G. L. Nicolson, general
manager of the canal, with the coal
shippers, when it was decided to meet
the demands of the boatmen. Traffic
has been resumed and boats are being
loaded and moving on the canal as
usual.
An addition is to be built to the
REGISTER office to provide ware house
facilities for Remnants Pharmacy and
Welshan' S dry goods store and to also
give additional room for our printing
Office. The addition will be of brick
and will be two stories high. When
the REGISTER building was erected in
1894it was supposed to be large enough
for any prospective growth of the
printing business, but the increase has
for some time past demanded an ex-
tension of our facilities. The REGIS
TER has the best equipped printing
Office in this section of the State, and
it is our purpose to still further I'M
proveit.
State Superintendent of Schools I.
C. Miller has handed US program Of
the thirty-second annual session Of the
West Virginia Educational Associa-
ton, which will be held at Mountain
Lake Park July l, 2 and 8. The pro-
gram is varied and an interesting
one, and the meeting will be addressed
by number of prominent educators.
The music will be in charge of Miss
Salome Wingate, of Shepherd College,
and Miss Lutte Allstadt and Miss
Anna Woolery, also of this school,
will assist. Miss Woolery will have
a paper on 1.-THE Real Object of the
Recitation" The B. & o. Railroad
will sell half-rate tickets.
4 special from Cumberland to the
Baltimore Sun of Monday told this
interesting incident Mr.. Rowland G.
Ringgold, OF Ringgold, Reinhart & Co.,
wholesale druggists. is credited with
saving a life at Fairchance, Pa, last
Thursday. An explosion occurred at
the Rand powder mill just as Mr.. Ring
gold, who is travelling for his firm
arrived at Fairchance. There was
not a physician in the town, all being
away answering calls, and Mr.. Ring
gold at once went to the aid of the
wounded. His knowledge of medicine
was valuable, and one man, who was
in a dying condition, was revived
after three hours of incessant work on
the part of Mr.. Ringgold. He helped
several others. There was one death
from the explosion.