Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-04-28
LITTLE LOCALS.

herdstown, on Saturday, May 7th, at
8 o'clock a. m.
A game of baseball will be played
Saturday between the Shepherd Col
lege team and the Summit Point club.
Game called at 8 o'clock. A game be-
tween Shepherd College and St. James
is scheduled for May 9TH at st. James.
The ladies of the Reformed Church
will hold ladies' exchange in G. D..
Wysong's agricultural building every
Saturday. opening at 10 a. m. Fresh
cakes, rolls, beaten biscuits and pies
will be sold. All are invited to pa
tronize the exchange.
Walter W. Trout, of;Martinsburg,
rode from Martinsburg to Baltimore
on his motorcycle last Sunday, and
made the distance of over a hundred
miles in 6 hours and IS minutes. He
went through Shepherdstown like a
streak of creased lightning.
The editor of the REGISTER and his
wife will have open house Friday
of this week, when they will celebrate
the twentieth anniversary of their
marriage. No invitations are issued,
but all our friends and patrons will
be given hearty welcome.
Guy Helferstay, who was arrested
on the charge Of stealing horse and
runabout from James Hopper, near
Shepherdstown, had hearing last
Thursday in Charles Town, and was
committed to Jail to await the action
OF the grand jury at the May term OF
Circuit Court.
Congress has finally agreed upon the
increase of pay for rural mail carriers.
The carriers will be permitted to carry
merchandise for pay upon the request
of patrons along their routes, but are
restricted as to receiving subscriptions
and delivering newspapers, magazines
and periodicals.
: If you want eggs for Matching pur-
poses from the best strains of Ply
mouth Rocks in the country, write to
Walter H. Shipman, proprietor of the
Jeferson Poultry Yards, Charles
Town, w. Va. Orders left at Rein
harris drug store, Shepherdstown,
will receive prompt attention.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
will spend 100000 for rolling stock
at once. The money was secured by
a loan in Philadelphia a week ago.
1t is semi-of1icially stated that this
money will go toward buying score
of locomotives, 1000 box and coal
cars and a new stock Of passenger
coaches and combination express, bag
gage and mail cars.
One Of the REGISTERS appreciative
friends from Bakerton wrote US the
other day that she had dreamed she
had paid her subscription, and wanted
to know if that would serve the pur-
pose. Dreams so often 90 contrary
that we fear this is not safe way of
settling debts. Besides, Shepherds
town merchants won't accept dreams
as currencY-indeed, you can't even
trade nightmares in thi. town.
Miss Minnie Brooks, who is well
known in Shepherdstown, where she
visits Mrs. Minnie Shepherd, was
badly hurt in Baltimore last week.
She was driving a high-spirited horse
in the park when the animal ran
away and she was thrown from the
carriage, sustaining severe cuts and
bruises. The horse jumped into a
carriage in which DR.. Hiram Woods
was driving, upset it and fell upon
the Doctor, who was seriously injured.
The REGISTER is in receipt of an
interesting letter from c. G. Welty,
of Colo, Iowa, Jefferson county boy
well known here good many years
ago. He says: eve cant well dc
without the REGISTER. When l get
it the first thing l look for is the
deaths, and | see that a great many
of my oil friends are dropping off,
Civ. my regards to my old acquain-
tanc.s in yonr neigbborhood, par
ticularly Captain Billmyer. Tell DR..
Reynolds l have never gotten the
pup yet.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers
is determined to push its fight against
the Southern Express Company, and
letter has been issued to agents Of
the Norfolk & Western Railway that
will close the bars still tighter. After
Saturday agents will refuse to give
the target to trains which carry e1-
press matter delivered by "scab" men,
and are asked to examine express cars
if they have reason to believe such
packages are carried. 1t seems to be
a pretty bold thing to hold up mail
and passenger trains for such reason,
but the operators will obey the orders
of their offices if the railroad accepts
express from scab agents.
Mr.. Sam E. Osbourn, son of Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. Osbourn, of this coun-
ty, who is now attending Princeton
University. has been appointed a pro-
fessor in the Lawrenceville Prepare
tory School of Princeton for 1904 05 at
a salary of$l 900 year and expenses
for his first year. He was recon-
mended by the faculty committee Of
the University as the best man they
put out this year, and the appoint.
ment was given him over two hundred