Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1903-06-04
LITTLE LOCALS.
The Things ofinterest that are Happening In
Our NeIghborhood and Elsewhere.

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Sharpsburg, Md, were married May
81, in Sharpsburg, by Rev. A. A.
Kerlin.
Last Saturday was an ideal memo
rial day in Charles Town and was
largely attended. The address was
delivered by Major R. W. Hunter, of
Alexandria, Va.
All members of Shepherd Fire De-
partment are requested TO meet at head
quarters in full uniform on Saturday
at / o'clock p. ~, to take part in the
memorial day exercises.
A new hotel will be erected at PEN
Mar by William H. Barkdoll and Ben
jamin Shockey, of Wsynesboro Pa. who
have purchased site on the mountain
from Rev. c. H. Hockey. The tract
has frontage Of 800 feet facing the
park.
The ladies of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church of Middleway will have
an entertainment Tuesday, June 9th,
from 5 to 10 p m, in the room over
the store of Mr.. R. U. Smith. Re-
freshments will be served and there
will also be a sale of fancy articles.
At a special meeting of the town
council Monday night recommendation
for license to sell liquor was granted
to w. D. Wilson, of Hagerstown. He
will open his saloon in the store-room
of w. A. Adams, on Main street, and
Benjamin Henson will run the place
for him.
Mrs. Henry D. Beall, Of Baltimore,
announces the engagement Of her
daughter, Louise Harrison, to DR.. Will
liam G. Gwynn, of Washington. Ow-
ing to the recent death of Miss Beall's
father, there will be no invitations to
the wedding, which will take place
Saturday, June q.
Mr.. Adam Brenneman on Tuesday
cold pair of heavy draft horses to
Mr.. Ballenger, Of Loudoun county,
for $500. Had the horses been young
er they would have brought $500.
We have said before and repeat it,
Jefferson county stock is sought after
and brings good prices.-Ffee Press.
The store of P. E. Deatrick & Co.,
located at Kearneysville, was entered
last Sunday night by burglars, who
broke open the safe and secured
small amount Of money. They were
frightened away before they could
secure anything else, leaving on the
floor a complete outfit of burglars
tools.
Several dollhouse properties were
sold this week by Sheriff Billmyer and
County Commissioner Hefebower,
committee appointed by the County
Court, as follows: House at Charles
Town to Samuel Galloway, for $50;
house at Ripon to Daniel Hehebower,
Jr., for $275 and house at Halltown
to Frank Nichols, for 1896.
The workmen who have been en-
gagged Tor several months in putting
in new culverts for the Norfolk &
Western Railway just south of the
station at Shepherdstown, finished
their work this week. They go from
here to the Bullskin water-tank, near
Ripon, where they will put in some
more permanent stone work.
The decoration day exercises at An
tietam National Cemetery last Satur-
day were attended by the smallest
crowd that has been there in years,
and very little interest was manifested.
The speaker Of the day was j, Griffin
Hall, of Baltimore. The Shepherd
College cadets, Captain j. G. Knutti
commanding, took part in the parade.
A committee of trackmen and
bridgemen employed by the Norfolk
and Western Railway Company and
representing the maintenance of way
employees of the entire Norfolk and
Western system has presented sched-
ule of wages to L. E. Johnson, vice
president and general manager, pro-
viding for improvement in the terms
of employment and rates of pay. A
settlement has not been reached yet
AMI a strike may occur.
Mr.. Newton Guthrie, prominent
mill owner and merchant of Spring
field, w. Va, on Tuesday married Mrs.
Mamie B. Guthrie, widow of Robert
Guthrie, brother of the groom. The
ceremony Was performed near Win
chester, in the same house where 10
years ago Mrs. Guthrie became the
bride of her present husbands brother.
Her uncle, Rev. James H. Wolff, of
this town, who was best man at the
first marriage, oliciated. The former
event was solemnized by the brides
father, Rev. John Wolff, Of Springfield.
Free Press.
The Jefferson County Teachers In
stitute will be held during the week
beginning August "a. A petition
signed by a majority of the teachers
of the county and forwarded to State
Superintendent Thos c. Miller has
resulted in the postponement from the
date, July q, originally given out by
the local school authorities as the time
for the institute. With the institute
held in the last week of August, the
teachers will have almost their entire
summer vacation free from Interrupt