Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-01-29
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things oflnterest that are Happening In
Our Neighborhood and elsewhere.

SUBSCRIBERS this WeeR-gOt mau dnt
quit because their accounts were giveI
to collector. The way to avoid thi
unpleasantness is to pay up promptly
The next lecture in the Shepherd
College course will be on Wednesday
February 18th, when Hon. Walter
NJ Chandler, of New York, will de-
liver his celebrated lecture on "Th'
Trial of Jesus From Lawyers Stand
point"
The engagement Of Miss Katharine
Shepherd Lucas. daughter of Mr.. anc
Mrs. James B Lucas, of Shepherds
town, to Rev. Walter B. Stehl. rector
of ST. Psul's Episcopal Church, Centre
vile, Nd, has been announced. The
wedding will take place in Trinity
Church. Shepherdstown, shortly after
Easter.
DR.. R. O. Grove has rented room
in the building of the Misses Sheetz,
corner of German and King streets,
and will open an Office there for the
practice of his profession within a few
days. His family will return to
Shepherdstown the first of April. DIR.
Grove, it will be remembered, moved
from this place to Martinsburg last
spring.
Larry Brown has recently gotten,
in partnership with Harry Blunt, of
Washington, fine thoroughbred horse,
Mars, which he will keep at his
place near Shepherdstown. Mars is
a fine, spirited animal of frst-clas pedi-
gree and good points, and there ought
to be decided Improvement in horse
flesh now that he has been brought to
this neighborhood.
Superintendent H. c. Burgau has a
big force of men at work on the one
mile level of the G. & 0. canal, oppo-
site Shepherdstown, making repairs
to the entertainments. A sloping stone
wall is being built on the inside Of the
towpath, so as to prevent it from
washing when overlooked by freshets.
Some similar work will be also done
on the fve-mile level.
Mr.. John w. Grant, one of our old
est citizens, met with q painful acct
dent last Friday afternoon. AS he
was walking out to the Billmyer farm
he slipped and lell against fence with
such force that his right shoulder
bone was broken. giving him quite
severe injury. DR.. G. W. Banks gave
him surgical attention, and ne is get
ting along pretty well now.
In the circuit court at Martinsburg
last Thursday Charles Greenfield, COL
ored, pleaded guilty of petit larceny,
upon the charge of robbing fellow
prisoner, and was sentenced to thirty
days in Jail Charlie has been in Jail
most OF the time since he has been in
Martiusburg, and he will probably
make tracks for home as soon as be
gets free-and he'll probably stay here.
The REGISTER has come to be tacit-
ly recognized as the public sale organ
of this county, a position to which 1t
is entitled because of its large circula-
ton among the people and its splendid
sale bills. Numbers of stock dealers
and other buyers subscribe for it dur
ing the sale season to keep themselves
posted. Farmers in Jefferson and
Berkeley counties will make money
by advertising their sales in the. REG
lister.
A partly decomposed body of a
white infant child was found Monday
night in a vacant lot in the suburbs
of Charles Town. The fact was re-
ported to the authorities and a war
rant was sworn out before Justice G..
Frank Gallaher, charging Letha Nc
Golrick, a young white woman, with
being the mother of the child and
causing its death after birth. There
was a deep cash in the neck of the
child and three stab wounds in its
body-one over the heart, one in the
back and the other in the abdomen.
The young girl was arrested and
lodged in Jail, and a coroner's inquest
held. Prosecuting Attorney James
NJ. Mason appeared for the State, and
Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover, Jr., represented
the accused. After hearing the evil
dence the coroner's jury returned a
verdict charging the young woman
with the murder, and she was held
for the action Of the grand jury. 1t
is charged that she gave birth to the
child Dacamhar Oath