Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-01-21
LITTLE LOCALS.

Miller, east of town, paying $500 for
it. Mr.. Myers has moved into the
house with his family.
Our friend Sam W. Bratt, Of OK
ford, Nd, formerly of this county,
has been laid up with rheumatism
while other folks were shooting wild
geese and having fine sport. Mr..
Bratt says: 1--WE can't get along with
out the REGISTER.
Mrs. James Madison Schober an
nounces the engagement of her daugh-
ter, Katharine Clyde, to Mr.. R. Luz
Glen Reinhart, formerly of thi, place.
The marriage will take place at the
Church of the Ascension, Baltimore,
on Wednesday, January 9th.
E. G. Williams, well-known here,
has sold his drug store in Martinsburg
to Charles o. Weaving. Mr.. Will
liams has been in the drug business
for fifty years, having started IN
Shepherdstown in 1854. He re-
NAMED here for two years, when he
moved away, finally locating IN Mar
tinsburg in 1871.
The stockholders of the Farmers
and Merchants Deposit Company OF
Charles Town held their annual meet
ing Tuesday, for the purpose of elect
ing board of directors and attend
ing TO other business. The old board
was reelected and R R. Smith, of the
Myerstown vicinity, was added to the
board. Subsequently the board re-
elected the old officials.
The dry goods and millinery store
of Davis g. Byers, at Grafton, this
State, had a narrow escape from de-
struction by fire last Friday. The dec
orations were accidentally set a6re,
and it was only by the quick work di-
rected by Mr.. Byers that the flames
were conquered. The loss was sever
al hundred dollars. Mr.. W. L. Byers,
the junior member of the firm, is a
former Shepherdstowner.
The congregation of Zion Lutheran
Church of Waynesboro, Pa, Of which
Rev. c. H. Hockey is pastor, held
their last services in the old church
last Sunday. Large audiences were
present at each meeting on Sunday.
The work of tearing down the old
church was begun on Monday, and
the handsome new church building,
which is to cost about $4,000, will
be pushed to completion as quickly as
possible.
One Of our subscribers writes US to
know if it is necessary for persons on
free delivery routes to buy the regular
mail boxes in order to have the bene-
fit of free delivery. We think not.
There is no absolute requirements in
this matter, and if our friend provides
a reasonably respectable box, either Of
wood or metal, he is entitled to have
his mail placed therein. If the car
rier refuses to do 30, inform the Post
Office Department.
The Edgewood public school-house
on Sandy Ridse, about four miles
from Shepherdstown, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire early last Friday morn
ing, causing loss OF about $500, on
which there is $3.50 insurance. 1t is
not known how the fire originated, but
it is possible that it caught from the
stove. Miss Sadie Snyder is the
teacher of the school, and the sessio ms
have been resumed in W. E Osbourn's
building, near by. The board of edu-
cation will have the school continued
there the balance of the year.
There has been a change in the
sheriffslty ticket which was to have
been headed by William Wilt. 1t is
now stated that Messrs. Burns, Mich
OILS and Billmyer, who were announced
as deputies, have been induced to
withdraw, and that the ticket which
Mr.. Wilt will head will be composed
of men who have never held county
Office. James B. Osbourn is spoken
Of as a deputy for Shepherdstown
district and VIM. G. Bates for Middle
way district. There will be deputy
also for Harper's Ferry and Charles
Town districts, but they have not
been fully agreed upon.
Aunt Arixenia Turner, one of the
oldest colored persons in this neigh.
borhood, died in Shepherdstown last
Saturday night. Her exact age is
not known, but she is believed to be
about hundred years old. She be-
longed in her early life to the mother
of Hon. A. 5. cambridge, and she
helped care for four generations Of
Dandridges. She was very indus
trlous woman, and worked regularly
until a couple of weeks before she
died. She was remarkably active and
spry for so old person and had all
her faculties to the last, being able to
see and hear a. well as ever. Two
sons and three daughters survive her.
The REGISTER learns from pretty
reliable authority that there i. no prob
ability that the Shepherdstown end
of the B & o. cutoff between Cherry
Run and Harper's Ferry will be con-
structed thisye Indeed. it is likely
that the work will be delayed for at
least couple of years, for it is the
present intention Of the company to
build the great lockwood cutoff, on
the Pittsburg division, before it under
takes the Improvement here. OF
course, it is possible that there may
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