Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-02-18
LITTLE LOCALS.

been withdrawn, and No Ii and No.
IA are the only trains that stop here
now on Sundays. There was very
little travel on the train referred to,
and it was taken off because it did
not pay the company to run it.
The Spirit says that Sheriff Bill
myer has provided the jail yard at
Charles Town with two bloodhounds.
so that hereafter prisoners endeavor-
ing TO make their escape by that line
will be very liable to either be cap
tured on the spot or find something
hot on their trail ere they leave many
steps between them and the prison
walls.
The annual corporation election for
mayor, recorder and five councilmen
will be held in Shepherdstown on
Monday, March 14th The question
of license or no license to sell liquor
will be submitted to the voters at this
time. Mayor Miller has appointed )
S Rightstine, Geo W Chase and Nj.
P Crowl commissioner. of election,
and H. S. Baker and G W. Terrell
clerks.
The leap year dance held in the
town hall Friday night Was very
much enjoyed by those who attended
it. Besides the young ladies and
gentlemen from town, there were
present quite a number from the
country nearby and several from Ha-
eerstown and Harper's Ferry. The
ladies called for the gentlemen and
escorted them to the hall, and the
fair ones also invited those Of the
sterner sex to dance with them.
A very enjoyable musical enter
tainment will be given in Shepherds
town on Friday and Saturday, March
4th and 9Th, when the 1.-The Merry
Mllkmaids," an operetta in two parts,
will be rendered in the town hall.
Our local talent is now busily engaged
IN rehearsing the play, which is full
of pretty music. 1t will be for the
benefit o. the Lutheran Church. Ad-
mission will be % cents, reserved
seats 50 cents, children under II
years Is cents.
| The cold weather that has pre-
vailed so continuously since last No
vember was intensified again this
week. Tuesday and Wednesday were
bitter days, brisk winds making the
keen air cut like knife. Yesterday
the thermometer was degrees below
zero early in the morning The cold
wav" was widespread, being felt all
over the West, North, and East. In
the New England States there was
Que of the worst billiards. for several
years,
The lecture of Hon, Luther Man
ship, of Mississippi, in the town hall
last night was very enjoyable. Mr..
Mansblp Is fluent and entertaining,
and his dellneations of the Southern
colored people were inimitable. He
bad many interesting sketches and
funny yarns that kept the audience in
good humor, and his poetic flights
were very beautiful. The next lee
ture of the Shepherd College course
will be held on February Goth, when
Rev. DR.. Frank Bristol, of Washing
ton, will be here.
Mr. T. Lee Koontz, one Of the pop
ular farmers Of our neighborhood, was
among our callers Tuesday. He in
tends to have public sale next month
and quit farming. He has rented the
Hartzell building on Princess street
md will open an agricultural imple-
ment house in town about the lst OF
April, carrying full line of farm ma
chinery and implements The Bill
myer fam, which be gives up, has
been tenanted by the Koontzes for 60
ing on forty years The late Ju-
wayne Koontz farmed the place un-
til his death, and since then 7 Lee
Koontz has had it. Mrs Koontz, hls
mother, will move to Washington,
where she has several married chill
dren.
The second sherifslty ticket has
been made up and is publicly an
uounced today 1t is to be headed
by William Wilt, a highly respected
farmer of Kabletown district, and a
first class man. J B Osbourn. one
of the most substantial farmers of the
Shenandoah Junction neighborhood,
Is deputy for Shepherdstown district.
J A R. Msthena, for many years a
constable, is deputy for Charles Town
district. Vim G. Bates, a wellknown
resident of Middleway, and Frank
Drew. an employee of the Harper
Ferry Pulp Mill are the other deputies.
H. A. Carroll, of Charles Town, is
slated for iailer. The ticket is good
one, and if it is elected we are sure
will serve the people satisfactorily.
Our County Court has taken steps
to end the tremendous cost of atten-
ton to smallpox cases in Jefferson
county, and the taxpayers will appre-
ci.te the efforts of orr commissioners
to enforce reasonable economy along
this line. The Free Press says that
at special session of the court on
Monday the resignation of DIR R E
Venning as president of the County
Board of Health was received and ac-
cepted, and DR. ]. NJ Miller was APP
pointed to succeed him. DR.. William
Neill having made the lowest bid to
attend smallpox cases, etc, according
to specifications furnished by the