Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-06-30
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THURSDAY, JUNE 80, 1904.
BRIEFS.

Go to W. P. Licklider's for summer
slippers and shoes,
Next Monday will be the Fourth of
Ealy-a national holiday.
ForSale-Alarge ornamental palm.
Apply to,Mrs. J. L. Sheet.
Butter is down to 10 cents a pound
and eggs are 10 cents dozen.
Choice peaches reduced to s and 10
cents pound at c. NJ. Sheetzs.
Choice prunes reduced to 6 and s
cents pound at c. NJ, Sheetz's.
Lemons, watermelons, cucumbers
and all kinds Of vegetables at W. P.
Licknder's.
We now offer new potatoes, cab
bage, beets and onions, also new honey.
B. Hartzell.
If you have real estate osell, place
it with the real estate agency Of H.
/. Snyder & Co.
Boyer & Heard's high-grade Hag-
erstown hour-Purity and Gold Dust
at c. NJ. Sheetz's.
Highest grades of threshing coal at
Hodges Shepherdstown, Kearneysville
and Duthelds elevators.
Capt, H. c. Getzendanner is ar
ranging for grand tournament at
ShaunOndale Springs on July 4th.
Washington and Lee University has
conferred the degree Of Doctor Of Di-
vinity upon Bishop w. L. Gravatt, of
Charles Town.
Wheat has taken a considerab bic
drop, now that the new grain is soon
to come on the market. 1t is quoted
at IS cents today,
Pike commissioner James X. Hen
bricks has bought himself a motor
cycle, and he skins about the county
at rapid sometimes a trife
too fast, he thinks.
The lock to the steel safe in Jefer-
son Savings Bank got out of order the
first Of the week, and an expert had
to be summoned from Baltimore to
rearrange the combination.
Uncle" George Williams, a re-
spected colored man of this place, re-
ceived a telegram this morning that
his daughter Emma had died in Pitts
burg. Her body will be brought here
for burial.
A loaded canal boat struck a snag
in the canal near Groves landing,
three or four miles above town, last
Sunday, and filled with water and
sank. 1t had to be unloaded, patched
up and then loaded again, obstructing
navigation until Monday evening.
The ladies Of Zion Presbyterian
Church will hold a festival on the lawn
at Zion Church, near Bakerton, on
Saturday night, July 9. Ifthe weather
should be inclement, it will be held
the following Saturday night. Pro-
ceeds are for church repairs.
Clarence KILLER, of Shenandoah, a
Norfolk and Western brakeman, fell
from a north bound freight train at
Shenandoah Junction Tuesday evening
and sustained double fracture Of the
lett thigh. He was taken to the Rail
road Y. NJ. c. A. hospital in Hagers-
town.
Herbert Mills, 12-year-old son of
Daniel Mills, near Indian Springs,
Washington county, was instantly
killed by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun that he was cleaning Tues
day morning. The load entered his
head above the eyes, blowing off the
top of his head.
Silas Shipley, who was so badly
hurt in the collapse OF the bridge over
Evitt's creek, an account Of which
was published last week, was brought
to his home in Shepherdstown last
Saturday. He is improving some, but
is still in a bad way. A trained
nurse is with him.
Rev. F. A. Strother will hold a
woods meeting near Lincoln, Loudoun
county, Va, July 18th to 25th.
Among the preachers who will be in
attendance are Rev. G. D. Bulla, Rev.
DR.. S. X. Cox and Rev. J. W. Duffy.
Mr.. Shother invites his Jefferson
friends to attend the meetings.
The Norfolk & Western Railway,
after long delay, has at last awarded
the contract for the building Of its
new passenger depot at Roanoke, Va.
John P. Pettyjohn & Co., of Lynch
burg, have the contract. The new
De- OF is to be one Of the finest in the
State and will cost approximately
$4,000. Work will begin within
60 days.
The Episcopal Diocese fWest Vlr-
GINA, through Coadjutor Bishop Gra-
Watt and Messrs. r. W. Alexander
and Thornton Perry, trustees, has
purchased a tract of II acres on the
MaIthy farm. along the Shenandoah
river, in Jefferson county. 1t is the
intention of the church to establish an
industrial school and st. Andrew s
mission at that point. A public hall
and school building will soon be
erected.
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