Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-02-05
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofinterest that are Happening In
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

Our Nsighborhood and Elsewhere.
1t is said that new bank will bt
organized in Charles Town, to b.
known as the Merchants and Farmers
Trust Company.
Among the recent naval orders We
notice that Acting Assistant Surgeon
P. S. Rossiter is ordered to the Naval
Recruiting Station, Baltimore.
Edward w. Athey has bought o.
John @. Hoffman two lots on Prospect
Avenue, just south of the corporate
limits of town, and will build himself
a comfortable dwelling-house thereon
There were three weddings in Mar.
tinsburg last Wednesday: Mr.. Luden
G. Wintermoyer and Miss. Rhoda E.
Riser, Mr.. Edgar Payne and Miss
Mary E. Brown, and Mr.. Eliza Sprink-
lie and Miss Bertha Bratt.
There are many things in red now
for st. Valentine day favors. Pretty
things among these are tiny muffs
made of red crepe paper, the center
of the muff to be pulled out at the end
to disclose candy box.
Miss Mary Engle and Mr.. Frederick
Moler, both of this county, were mar
ried Wednesday evening of last week
at the home of the brides father, Mr..
William Engle, near Keller. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. E.
H. Earring, Of Harper's Ferry.
Peach experts in different sections
of the South mountain belt state that
so far the peach trees have escaped
injury from the cold weather, and the
prospects are promising for a large
yield next summer. An examination
of the orchards has been made and
very few frozen buds have been
found. Even the tender buds of the
cherry and apricot have withstood the
winter.
Henry W. Potts has bought of Jacob
Wintermoyer thirty acres of land
opposite Bellevue, short distance
north of town, paying $75 an acre for
it. Mr. Potts may eventually build a
home upon the tract, which is beauti-
fully situated and convenient to town.
Mr.. Potts has also bought from R. S.
NJ. Hoffman a lot Just south of town,
containing 81 acres, for which he paid
$500.
Death came with startling sudden
ness one day last week to Frank
Adams, colored man about so years
old who worked for ]. M Marshall near
Keller, this county. Adams went to
the woodpile to cut some wood. He
picked up the axe, but before he made
a stroke he fell forward dead man.
He had not been heard to complain of
being i'll, except that he was bothered
some with indigestion.
The Shepherdstown Fire Depart
ment has bought the lot on the corner
of New and King streets formerly
owned by H G. Marten for the pur-
pose of erecting an engine house and
fremen's hall upon it. The purchase
price is $3.50 We hope the fremen
may be supported in their efforts to
erect a sintable engine house, and
eventually we will perhaps get the old
market house out of the street which
it has SO long obstructed.
w. N. Lemen is arranging to build
new grain elevator at mis- place in
Shepherdstown to replace the one de-
stroyed by fire couple Of months ago.
1t will be a large and well-arranged
structure with the modern improve
ments, and will afford ample facilities
for handling grain and transactiug
the other business in Mr. Lemen's line.
Adam S. Link, of Dufields, will have
charge of the work, and William Phil
lips Sons, Charles Town, will furnish
the lumber.
Attorney Geo. NJ. Beethoven, Jr.
of Charles Town, who has been taking
an especial interest in the movement
to secure monument to Rumsey, has
received from the Rumsey Electrical
Manufacturers Co., in Philadelphia,
photograph of the great inventor.
taken from portrait painted by Ben
iamin West, of London, 1870. James
Rumsey was born March, l749, at
Bohemia Manor, Cecil county, Md,
and was the son of Edward and Anna
Cowman Rumsey. He died il Lon
don, December %, 1892, and his re-
mains were inferred at st. Margaret's,
Westminster.
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