Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-03-26
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things oflnterest that are Happenlngln
Our Nelghborhood and Elsewhere.

April. Watch the date. He is will
ing to stake his reputation on this
prophecy, so its ful6llment or failure
will make or break him.
]. S. Reinhart has resigned his po-
sition with ]. W. Myers & Co., for
whom he has been travelling for FIVE
years, and will associate himself in
business as partner with George S.
Knott in the general mercantile bust
ness at Moler's, this county,
Bids are advertised for in the REG
ISTER this week for the heating, plumb
ing and wiring of Shepherd College.
The Board of Regents is maturing
plans by which the money can be Sc
cured for the completion of the new
building in time for next falls session.
Richard f. Kimball, attorney for
the Maryland State Game and Fish
Protective Association, has gwen an
opinion in which he construes the law
to be of such effect as to make It lie
gal to catch black BASS in the Poto-
mac river in Maryland from The lst
day of April to the 18th day OF June.
Prospect Avenue on 1.-The Boom is
to have the first park as result Of
our village Improvement sentiment.
| II. w. Potts has lot there, and he is
setting out trees and shrubbery and
will cleanit up and enclose it, so as to
make it a playground and reservation
spot for the public. Let the good
work 80 on.
Miss Salie Powell Wager, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. Jas. P. Wager, of Culpeper,
Va, and Mr.. Warren Throckmorton
Whiting of Charles Town, were mar
RED yesterday afternoon at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Howell Brown,
near the latter place. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. l. R. Mil
bourn. A reception followed the GER
emory.
The Martiusburg Statesman wants
the people of Berkeley county to build
a good turnpike from that city to the
Jefferson county line, there to connect
with the good roads leading to SheP-
berdstowu. They ought by all means
to DO it, In few years the people Of
Mart.usburg and Berkeley county will
/ find it very advantageous to come o
| Shepherdstown to do their trading,
and they Will want good roads.
There have been some petty acts Of
vandalism in town recently that
ought to Be severely punished if the
perpetrators could be discovered.
Handsome thermometers in front Of
/ the clothing stores of Jacob Winter
mover aud T. B. Line have been de-
stroyed, and the woodwork at the en-
trance TO the REGISTER building has
been cut and marred. We hope an
example may be made of the offenders.
The entertainment in college hail,
the fourth in the series OF Shepherd
| College lectures, announced for April
| 10th, has been changed TO Tuesday,
April 18th, the 10th falling on Good
Friday. The famous enter tainer,
Fred High, will fill the programme
on this occasion. He has fine rep
utatiou as humorist, ventriloquist
and pautomimist, and he may be eX-
pected to give most pleasing per-
Torrance.
The Potomac Knitting Mills at this
| place are now running on full time,
under the management of Charles j..
Miller, and about twenty hands are
regularly employed. This number
will be increased as new machines are
gotten in order. The stockings that
are manufactured here are Of frst-class
quality, and the factory will undoubt-
eIlv have a successful career with Mr..
| Miller as manager. G. w. Shelley,
formerly Of Reading, is superiutend-
ent.
Tho ronor license at Parsons. this
State has bsen fixed at $1,000 a
ro .,,~' .n5 Of Frl,;ns last wear each sa-
l ea'' ga t q, tLa tawn c160 rar month
rs T Sb r@'a ~ t the license is oniv
:I60 rssr Tba sentiment for bjob
49,. NV ', -. ~ onJ;t IL recoanized
-,.,Tg o - 5q g@ar3' Method Of re@njat-
a. @ .l i,,'s' I;"nor The nr;TiIeoe
Of selling liquor IN ShepherdstoWjn
next year ought to be well worth
$1,000, whether 1t IS Pai@ by one 1--WE
or more saloons, ana we, we nope our . cry ),
fathers Will see 10 IL that this amount