Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-06-23
BRIEFS.
.aspberries come next.

For Sale-A large ornamental palm.
Apply to Mrs. J. L. Sheet.
The Virginia Photo Co., located on
Main street, near the railroad cross
Re, make all grades of photos, from
the cheapest to the best. Call to see
our work.
The children of the late G. T. Lick
lider have erected handsome Italian
monument on the family lot, in Elm
wood Cemetery. Miller Bros. fur
rished the monument.
Harvest will begin pretty generally
the first of next week-some farmers
are already commencing to cut around
the edges. There will be a pretty
fair crop in this section.
The directors of the HageIstown
fair have decided to hold horse show
on the evenings CT Wednesday and
Thursday during the fair. They will
offer 1000 in premiums.
Earl Vanmeter, a son of E. w. Van
meter, Of Berkeley county, has been
appointed by Congressman Dayton to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
He is taking the examination this
week.
Work has been commenced on
converting the Getzendanner building
in Charles Town into a hotel-the
Hotel Jefferson. S. P. Humrickhouse,
Jr., of Shepherdstown, is the architect
in charge Of the improvements.
Hendricks Daniels, son of w. c.
Daniels, of Duthelds, recently passed
the civil service examination and has
been appointed an assistant electrical
engineer in the U. S. Navy, with
headquarters at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard.
Eugene Jones, a colored man bout
IS years old, was drowned last Sunday
while swimming in a water hole in the
stone quarries near Martinsburg. He
hailed from Charles Town, and had
been working at the quarries for sew
eral months.
At the commencement Of West
Virginia University at Morgantown.
last Thursday the degree Of Bachelor
of Science in Civil Engineering was
conferred upon Brown Ferdinand
Sperow, Of Berkeley county, gradu-
ate Of Shepherd College.
The Virginia Photo Company, of
Waynesboro, Va, has located in Shep-
herdstown for a short time, and is
now prepared to make all grades Of pho
tos Call and see them at their tent on
Main street, next to the railroad
crossing, Prices reasonable.
Early Tuesday morning the y. &
W. north-bound passenger train ran
into a freight car OF the main track
about a mile from Shenandoah. The
engine was badly damaged, but for
tunately no one was hurt. The train
WAS delayed couple Of hours.
Alex. Henson, the enterprising
brick maker of Shepherdstown, has
secured the contract to furnish the
bricks for the new Carter Hotel in
Charles Town, and has already made
several shipments. 1t will take about
$4,000 bricks for this building.
Rev. DR.. J. c. Bowman, formerly
pastor of the Reformed Church in
Shepherdstown, has been selected to
fill the chair of Practical Theology in
the Theological Seminary at Lancas-
ter, Pa. He had recently resigned
the chair of New Testament Exegesis.
The grain elevator of Reed & Long
at Charles Town seems to be marked
for destruction by an incendiary. 1t
was set on fire last Thursday night for
the fourth time. Though not entire
ly destroyed, it was considerably dam
aged and some of its contents ruined,
Rev. DR.. r. B. Peery, a missionary
of the Lutheran Church to Japan for
the past eleven years, has resigned his
mission work at Saga and will not re-
turn to that country. DR.. Peery
came to this country last fall aud lee
tured in Shepherdstown some months
ago.
The Shepherdstown postofice has
been supplied with the new Louisiana
Purchase stamps. They are quite
pretty, but Assistant Postmaster Foltz
saws that those who buy them will
have to do their own licking, as the
stamps are nearly as large as an aver
age mustard plaster.
Miss Lutte Allstadt, who is en-
ployed in the Office of J. w. Barnes at
FairmoDt, this State, has won a trip
to the st. Louis Exposition, with fifty
dollars for expenses, by securing 100
subscribers to the Fairmont Times
Miss Allstadt was formerly popular
student in Shepherd College.
Norfolk and Western officials have
issued plans and specifications for a
handsome new depot for Roanoke, to
cost over 100000. 1t is understood
that work will begin on the building
at once. 1t will be located on Com
monwealth avenue, just opposite the
Hotel Roanoke. The railroad compa-
nv will trust to the new council to keep
the COWS off the streets.
Tuesday evening a Middletown
young man was sitting with young
lady in a front door on Main street
Suddenly the young fellow got up and