Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-02-11
LITTLE LOCALS.

lIOA IOWH WoiO R
most pleasant evening.
There will be the annual meeting
of the Henry Kyd Douglas Camp at
headquarters on Tuesday evening,
February 10th, at 7 o'clock, for the
purpose of nominating officers for the
ensuing year. All members are cor
daily invited to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph L. Cookus
will celebrate the thirtieth snniver-
sary of their marriage by holding an
open reception on Friday evening,
Feb. 10Th. No formal invitations are
issued in town, but they invite all
their friends to be with them.
There was bad wreck on the Nor
folk g. Western Railway in the Shen-
andoah yard early yesterday morning,
when freight train No SO ran into a
yard engine head on Engineer Dam
lei Wallace, of Hagerstown, was Sc
verely scalded. Passenger trains
were greatly delayed.
Geo NJ. Beltzhoover, trustee, has
sold to Jacob Rush the farm formerly
owned by Miss Mary Shepherd, four
miles north of Shepherdstown. The
farm contains 152 acres, and Mr..
Rush paid S. $50 for it, an average
OF $500 per acre Mr.. Rush s son
will take charge Of the place.
A mistake was made last week in
announcing Jacob S Moler as a can
didate for assessor in tn second dis
trict 1t should have been Jacob S
Reinhart, whom we have heretofore
mentioned as candidate for thls office
We suppose Mr. Moler is willing to
turn over to Mr. Remnant the votes
be has gained by the mistake in the
announcement. Mr. Remnant is max
ing a spirited campaign and expects to
be the next assessor for this district.
The United Telephone Company,
which controls the lines in this section,
has made some changes in its sched-
ules of rates-the effect of which, we
are sorry to say, is to make the SER
vice more expensive. Phone-holders
in Shepherdstown now have to pay 10
TO Is cents for messages to points in
Frederick, Clarke and Warren coun-
ties, Va. These points have hereto
fore been reached without extra charge.
The same rule applies to conversations
from places in these counties to Shep-
herdstown. We now have the privi-
lege OF talking only to points in JEFF
ferson and Berkeley counties without
paying extra.
The negro who half killed Mrs.
Shields and her daughter at Roanoke,
Va, is yet uncaught. All the sus'
poets that have been arrested have
proven their innocence. The feeling
in Roanoke and that section of the
State is very bitter against the negroes
and no insolence is tolerated. Four
negroes were dismissed from the Roam
oke shops because Of Incorporate talk
and one was nearly killed. A negro
was also run out of Shenandoah for
his utterances on the affair. A negro
woman who was stirring up feeling by
her imprudent talk was chased by
mob and was so badly scared that she
went into spasms, and it is since re-
ported she died.
The reflection of the great fire in
Baltimore was plainly seen in Shep-
herdstown Sunday night. A hundred
miles separates the two places, and
the Blue Ridge mountains are between,
yet the clouds caught the light and
held it and a broad streak of red
showed how fierce the flames were.
A number of persons from Shepherds
town and from the county went to
Baltimore to see the wonderful spec
tacle R, c. Ringgold. of the Ring
gold. Reinhart Company, who was
here, left about four o'clock Monday
morning for the city, as did also E H
Relnhart, NJ. B. Baker and H. L.
Snyder The Rlnggold- Relnhart
Company was only block or two
west of the fire zone.
A parrot with history, which be-
longed to Samuel II. Miller, near
Sharpsburg, died last Monday. The
bird was 5S years old. Messrs. Nor
gan and Rentch Miller went to Cali
tornia from Maryland in l849, hunt
ing gold, and when they returned they
came back by the Isthmus Of Panama.
Here they bought couple of parrots,
which they carried home to Sharps-
burg. One Of them died some years
later, but the other was tough old
bird and lived to endorse the adage
that the good dieyoung He was well
cared for and was highly regarded by
the Miller family. During the battle
of Antietam, in the Civil War, bullet
struck the strap by which Pollys cage
was suspended, and the bird was
shocked and angered. Damn the
Yankees I" it exclaimed, and was
rutled for quite while. The parrot
was given to Thomas Miller, and when
he died he left it to Samuel H Miller.
When it died few days ago 1t was
buried on the Miller lot in the grave
yard, in compliance with request of
Thomas Miller.