Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-05-07
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things oflnterest that are Happening n
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

OF lnlS week at CLOCK, WneQ w.
Quay Rosselle will deliver his lecture
on the University of Adversely. The
admission will be but % cents for this
lecture. Tickets may be reserved at
Remnants Pharmacy.
The house and lot on Prospect Az
enue formerly owned by Thomas Fitz-
gerald was sold at public sale last Sat-
urday by Special Commissioner George
NJ. Beethoven, Jr. Jacob Rush, of
Berkeley county, bought it al 81 ,415-
very good price for the property.
We understand that Mr.. Rush con-
templates moving to town and max
ing his home there.
West Virginia day was appropriate
ly observed last Friday by exercises
in the town hall under the direction
of the Shepherd College faculty Pa
pers on topics of interest to West Vir-
ginians were read by Miss Maude
Cross, Miss Alice Billmyer. Randolph
Moler and NJ. X. Rlghtstine, Of the
students, and addresses appropriate
to the occasion were made by Hon.
Geo. NJ Beltzhoover, Prof Z. F. Good
win and H. L. Snyder.
Commander w. H. Kearfott has APP
pointed Miss Louise Baylor, of Charles
Town, sponsor to represent the United
Sons of Confederate Veterans Of the
Division of West Virginia at the reun-
ion at New Orleans, Miss Hessie Mel
win, of Dufields, maid of honor, and
Mrs. D. Howe Johnston, of BlueGeld,
chaperone. Mrs. Johnston, it will be
recollected, was the lady Of Command
er Kearfott's party who was married
at the reunion at Dallas Texas, last
| year.
Cards have been issued to the ap-
preaching marriage of Miss Mary Ella
| Conrad to Mr.. Robert P. Hsrnsberger,
the ceremony to take place in Beulah
Church, on Thursday morning, May
. II, at $50 o'clock. The bride-to-be
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs VIM.
B. Conrad, of Summit Point, and is
one of the county's most attractive
young ladies. She is well-known in
| Shepherdstown. Mr.. Harnsberger is
a popular young business man Of Elk
ton, Va.
Mrs. C. H. Hockey will in about
two weeks 90 to Philadelphia for a
course of treatment to last two or three
months. She will 90 there by advice
Of eminent specialists who promise her
entire recovery of health if she will
undergo the treatment prescribed and
remain in absolute rest and quiet dur
| ING the period. Mrs. Hockey oldest
son, Keller, will accompany her. The
| baby of the family will remain here
and the other children will 60, for
| the time, to Wooster and Mansfield,
| Ohio, where they will be with relatives.
/ All of Mrs. Rockey's many friends
here hope for a successful result from
her treatment in Philadelphia
JTaynesJoro, Pa, Record.
Rev. DR.. H. c. Haithcox and his
family, which beside himself consists
of his wife and three daughters, ar
rived in Shepherdstown on Tuesday.
They were warmly greeted at the par
sonage by members OF the Lutheran
congregation, the ladies of the church
having prepared a bountiful dinner
for them, besides stocking the pantry
with a liberal supply Of groceries and
provisions. DR.. Haithcox comes here
from Columbia City, Indiana, and will
at once enter upon his duties as pas
tor Of the Lutheran congregations Of
Shepherdstown and Uvilla. We hope
that his pastorate here may be sue
cessful one and that he and his family
may like our neighborhood and our
people.
The Charles Town Advocate says
that Melvin Trusseli, a twelve-year-old
son Of J. Mason Trussell, formerly Of
the Halltown vicinity, this county, was
seriously injured in in accident at
Wheeling, w. Va, on Thursday even
ING of last week. Melvin with
number of companions were amusing
themselves by jumping on and off a
moving freight train, hauled by a
shifting engine, when in some manner
Young Trussell missed his hold and
| fell under the wheels. He was picked
up by willing hands and taken to his
home. Later he was removed to
Haskius hospital, where it was dis
covered that his left leg was crushed
in such manner that 1t was necessary
to amputate it above the knee. He
stood the operation well and it Is
thought he is now out of danger.
Young Trussell removed from this
county to Wheeling with his parents
about five years ago.
By an explosion IN the stone quar-
ries of the Standard Stone and Lime
Company at Dickerson, Montgomery
county, Nd, on Tuesday five men
were badly injured, two Of them IA
tally. One of those fatally hurt was
John Jacobs, the timekeeper, of Duff
fields, this county. Henry Mobly was
preparing for blast, with Jacobs
standing beside him, when the charge
exploded. Both men were blown up
into the air, and three other workmen
were thrown backward. Mobly had
part of his face mashed in and both
eyes destroyed. Jacobs had one side