Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-09-24
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofInterest that are Happening In
Our kelghborhood and Elsewhere.

celebrate the fifteenth anniversary oil
their marriage by holding reception
at their home near town on Saturday
evening, October Sd.
Joseph B. and Garrett B. Vanme-
ter, of the Vanclevesville neighbor-
hood, sold fine pair of mules for
$3.50 this week to the American
Leather Company Of Petersburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Marten announce
the engagement of their daughter,
Margaret Beatrice, to Mr.. Charles Wal
ker Brown, Of Columbia, Alabama
The wedding will occur in December.
DR.. A. P. Thomson, of Summit
Point, has sold the apples in one of
his forty-acre orchards to Rothwell &
Co., of Martinsburg, for $4,000. The
purchaser is to pick, barrel and ship
the apples.
DR.. J. NJ. Biedler, who was in Shop
herdstown week or two the past
summer, and who is now located at
Bridgewater, Va, was married last
week. His bride was Miss Ina E.
Long, of Mt. Clifton.
E. Rush Turner, secretary and
treasurer OF the committee, requests
that all persons who have subscribed
to the fund for monument to the
late Professor McMurran will make
payment to him at an early date.
John W. Mitchell, who lives near
the Cement Mill, brought US on Mon
day one of the biggest apples we have
ever seen. 1t is of the Wolf River
variety and weighs % ounces. Now
let the Williamsport Leader take in
its horns.
Gen. VIM. H. Kearfott, formerly
of this county, has organized a camp
Of Sons of Confederate Veterans in
Pittsburg, where he is now in bust
ness. There are a number of Jeffer-
son county boys in Pittsburg and vi
cinity who will become members Of
the camp.
There is vast quantity of apples
in this section for which there is no i'm
mediate market, and the fruit growers
and farmers are having them made
into cider. O. J. Blackford's cider
press near Shenandoah Junction is
kept busy almost every day from day
light to dark.
The Charles Town Free Press an
nounces that its publication is to be
continued along the same lines as
heretofore. Louis K. Dinkle, who
has been its efficient manager for
years past during the decline of the
lamented Mr.. Gallaher, will have
charge of the paper.
The annual meeting Of the Shep-
herdstown branch Of the American
Bible Society will be held in the
town hall on Sunday evening, Octo-
Der 4th, at 7 o'clock, in the town hall.
The address will be delivered by Rev.
H. c. Haithco1, D. D., and the min
listers of the town will take part in
the exercises.
During the past week immense guam
titles Of cells have been caught in the
fshpots in the river above and below
Shepherdstown. The rains Of last
Thursday caused the river to become
very muddy and raised it just enough
to make the cells run into the fShpots
well. AS many as 200 have been
caught in one night.
Mr.. J. W. Burgan, superintendent
of this division of the Chesapeake q
Ohio canal, called at the REGISTER Of
fee on Tuesday and left for our col
lection a most interesting assortment
of arrowheads and other Indian relics.
Mr.. Burgan has splendid collection
of his own, and he has our hearty
thanks for his generosity in giving US
a share.
The orchards in the Kearneysvllle
neighborhood are breaking down I'M
der their weight Of apples, and 1t is
worth while to make a visit to see the
great quantities the trees bear. Dan
iel Socks has a particularly fine crop,
and it is said he has sold them at
$3.50 a barrel. DR.. D. W. Border
has hundreds of barrels of fine apples
il his orchards. We understand that
he will put them in cold storage to
await better prices.
Main street was quite lively last
Thursday afternoon for time Two
Italians with a hand organ and a
monkey, two other foreigners with
bagpipes, and an itinerant preacher
with long hair and stentorian voice con-