Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-07-21
Briefs.
Blackberries are ripe.

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Straw hats at half price as T. B.
Lines.
TO to Hills Pharmacy for fishing
tackle.
Sweet and sour pickles at w. P.
Lickhders.
25pairs ladies slippers at cost. W.
?. Licklider.
Lake herring and mackerel at W.
P. Lickliders.
y. NJ. c. A. picnic at Island Park
next Thursday.
Teachers Institute in Shepherds
town August q.
New crop turnip seed in bulk at
Hills Pharmacy.
Go to W. P. Licklider's for best
bargains in shoes.
Mems suits at greatly reduced
prices at T. B. Lines.
Fresh groceries aud vegetables al
WAYS on hand at Hodges.
Prices reduced on slippers and
summer shoes at W. P. Licklider's.
Standard sewing machines for 5000.
Cal. and see them. c. D. Wysong
Butter is 10 cents a pound and
eggs are 10 cents dozen this week.
Wheat is quoted at 81 cents today
by our local dealers. Corn is 81
cents.
Wall will ship fat stock, Saturday,
July 5Oth, at B. & o. depot, Charles
Town
Richard Henderson purchased 16
good grade stock steers of G. F. Wall
this week.
HAY is selling at from 81 to So
ton, out Of the field. The hay is of
excellent quality.
Miss Genevieve Rightstine has
been reappointed teacher of the pub
.s school at Lemens.
Bass fishermen are still signing over
tie condition of the river, which is
We, too muddy for fishing.
Secretary Boyer has our thanks for
COMPLIMENTARY tickets to the Inwood
lair, which will be held August % to
25.
T. NJ. Chapman, of Shenandoah
Junction, has been appointed to
clerkship in the Navy Yard at Nor
folk
The Southern Methodist Sunday
school will hold it's annual picnic at
Morgan's Grove next Thursday, July
2s,h.
An advertisement in another COL
umn of the REGISTER asks for an old
family Bible that we hope may be re-
stored to the one who desires it.
Nelson R. Roberts is having large
barn and hay barracks built on his
place near Middleway. Edward W.
Arhey, Of this place, is the contractor.
William N. Blackford, a we'll
known citizen of Sharpsburg, was
rara,yzed Wednesday night Of last
week, and has since been in a serious
condition.
The weather the past week has been
l1st right for hay-making, and the
farmers are cutting and storing the
biggest crop that has been gathered
here in years.
J. C. Randall, the well-known d.
I-ctory man of Shepherdstown, is get
ting out a directory of the towns II
the Valley of Virginia between Win
chester and Staunton.
Last Friday was St. Swithin's day,
and as no rain fell then it will be dry
Tor forty days, if the old prophecy
holds good. Nevertheless, We have
had one shower since then.
News from Charles Town is to the
effect that Col. r P. Chew will be
presented as a candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Congress from
this district at the Grafton convention
on August I'd.
At a meeting Of the Democratic
senatorial committee for the fifteenth
district at Martinsburg on Tuesday,
it was decided to hold the senatorial
convention at Berkeley Springs on
Wednesday, August Oath.
Persons desiring to take the trip to
Norfolk and other points arranged for
by C. A. Licklider will please notify
Mr.. Lickider this week. Unless
there is a larger number than is now
known, the trip will be abandoned.
James F. Thompson, the Martins
burg clothier, has presented to Joseph
Z Yontz, a blind Confederate veteran
OF this place, handsome Confederate
uniform. When he ruts the uniform
on, Comrade Yontz will expect to be
addressed as Colonel.
Arrangements have been completed
for the encampment of the National
Guard of the District of Columbia
near Harper's Ferry, August lst to
18th. A large number Of troops will
be present and hundreds of others
will visit the encampment.