Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-10-15
LITTLE LOCALS.
me Things oflnterest that arc Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

secretary y. ii. Shlpman announces
that no county Sunday school con ven
ton will be held this year, but that
district conventions will be held in.
stead.
Married at the Presbyterian manse
at Dufields, August %, 1908, by Rev.
j. E. Triplett, Mr.. Grady Henry and
Miss Hessie Costello, both of jefferson
county.
The plate glass that forms the front
of the G. T. Hodges store, now being
remodeled, is the largest in town and
very clear and pretty. 1t was safely
put in place this week.
The aurora borealis. or northern
lights, were very beautiful Mond ay
night. The heavens were brightly
Illuminated in the North and great
streamers of light flashed from the
horizon to the zenith.
Those of our readers on tree deliv-
cry routes who are not receiving their
papers regularly will please notify u.s.
1t takes some little time to adjust mat
tiers, but we want all our subscribers
to get the REGISTER promptly.
J. Strider Moler, who is conducting
stores at Bakerton and Keller, this
county, will change his residence from
Keller to Bakerton. Ewell Maddox
will manage the Keller branch. Rey-
holds Moler, who has been running the
store at Bakerton, will probably 60 to
Baltimore.
Edward W. Athey. the energetic
barn builder, has recently contract
ed for the erection of two large bank
barns in this county-one for Horace
G. Osbourn on his Downey farm, near
Zoar, 46 by 70 feet in size; the other
is for John L. Nicodemus, in Terrapin
Neck, and it will be 40 by 60.
The Norfolk & Western Railway is
determined that no more live stock
shall get on its bridge at Shepherds
town if care can prevent it. Wire
fences have been put up on either
side of the roadbed near the river,
and cattle-guard that is warranted
to be impossible has been put upon
the track near High street.
The Hagerstown fair managers this
year cut out the indecent hoochee-
coochee shows and also gave to the
gamblers and swindlers the marble
heart. The public will appreciate
this tribute of the directors to decency
and morality, and we predict the fair
VIII flourish the more for getting rid
of the unclean and the swindleIs.
W. H. Merchant has been shipping
a great many apples from Shepherds
town this week, and during the last
few days has sent about 5000 bushels
to Pittsburg. He pays so cents a
hundred pounds for them. A bushel
of apples will weigh from AZ to 45
pounds. John G. Reinhart has also
been shipping some choice apples the
past week.
The checks that had been given to
several ministers in ShepherdstOwn
last week by "Col. Elder" were re-
turned by the banks upon which they
were drawn, marked mo good" The
same fellow spent day or two in
Charles Town, where he played a
similar game He gave check there
and tried to get sos change from it,
but was not successful.
President Loree and General Sup
erintendent Fitzgerald of the Balti-
mors and Ohio Railroad inspected the
North Mountain end of the new cut
off last week, and spent night at
Cumbo, where the connection with the
Cumberland Valley Railroad is made.
The report is that the construction OF
the Shepherdstown section Of the cut
off will soon be taken up.
The two pieces of property offered
by Geo. NJ. Beethoven at public sale
last Saturday-the Shepherd farm
and the John Harris house-were
withdrawn because of insufficient bids.
Both are now offered for sale private
ly by Mr.. Beltzhoover. The Shep-
herd farm of 152 acres, at the end OF
the Shepherd pike, four miles north
of town, is an excellent piece Of land.
1t was withdrawn at bid OF $50 an
acre.
The county roads sustained a great
deal of damage the past summer on
account of the numerous heavy rains
that washed them so badly. The
trouble is that many Of the roads have
no bitches along the sides and the wa
ter runs over them aud washes them
full of gullies. Pike Commissioner
James X. Hendricks says that a COM
prehensive system of dltchlng is nee
essary before the roads can be prop
erly macadamized.
A steam stone-crusher was set uI
in Elmwood Cemetery yesterday and
the work of converting into macadam
the great piles of stone quarried there
the past summer was begun. The
cemetery management will make good
roads and walks through the new part
recently laid off and will also improve
the old part by putting on crushel
dust. The town authorities have con-
trantad for 800 marches of broker