Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-09-14
LITTLE LOCALS.

Mrs. G. T. Hodges has announced
the engagement Of her daughter,
Marie Louise, to Mr.. Daniel Bedinger
Lucas, Jr. The wedding will take
place in October.
The banquet of the directors and
stockholders of the Hagerstown fair
is being held today, in celebration OF
the fairs 6ftieth anniversary. A num-
Der of Shepherdstown guests are in at
tendance.
Charles II. Remnant, of this vicini-
ty. who was recently appointed prin-
cipal of the Boousboro public school,
has resigned. He leaves today for
New York, where he will probably
60 into business.
Hez Jones, who was so badly hurt
by being struck by locomotive last
week, has improved considerably, and
DR.. John L. Myers, who is attending
him, is hopeful that he will pull
through all right.
The Shepherdstown Graded School
opened for the term last Monday with
large attendance and a full corps of
teachers. Principal Byerly is inau-
gurating some changes for the i'm.
provement of the school.
The faculty and students at Shop
herd College, have gotten down to
regular work, and the various classes
are at their studies as of yore. New
students are still coming in, and the
enrolment is now about hundred.
The Shepherdstown Chapter U. D.
G. will meet Friday night Of this week
at 7 o'clock at the home of Miss An
META Entler. All members are urged
to be present, as arrangements must
be completed for the approaching con-
vention.
Prof. F. A. Byerly, the new princi-
pal of the ohepherdstown Graded
School, arrived here last week with
his family, which is composed of his
wife and three daughters, and they
are now installed in their home on
High Street.
Miss Myrll Williams, the talented
music teacher for Shepherd College,
has arrived from her home in Rose
vile, Ohio, and is now organizing her
classes in vocal and instrumental mu-
sic. She is a thoroughly well trained
music teacher, and our people ought
to avail themselves Of her services.
Fish Commissioner Geo. M. Bowers
has notified the editor of the REGISTER
that he will send a liberal supply Of
young bass to Shepherdstown this fall
for restocking the Potomac river at
this place. They will be delivered
within the next month or two and
will be distributed judiciously in this
vicinity.
The Jefferson County Sunday School
Convention will meet In the Presby-
terrain church at Shenandoah Junction,
September 20 and 80. Mr.. w. G..
Shafer, General Secretary for West
Virginia, will be one of the speakers,
and Miss NJ. V. Graham, who has
charge of the primary work in this
State, will be present.
Robert Douglas, a colored man of
Shepherdstown, was fined SIS and
costs by Mayor Miller on Monday for
selling whiskey without license.
He paid up and was released from
custody. There has been good deal
of illegal liquor selling here among
the negroes, and Sergeant Shipley has
been doing some clever detective
work. 1t is possible that some other
offenders may be hauled up shortly.
The morning mail from Baltimore
and the east failed twice this week to
make connection with the Norfolk &
Western Railway at Hagerstown, and
the people along this division were
deprived of their most important mail
both on Monday and Tuesday. The
fast mail train on the Western Mary.
land Railroad was delay in reaching
Hagerstown and the N. & w. train
pulled out without waiting for either
mail or express. It's mighty ag-
gravating thing.
State Game Warden John W. Avir-
etc, Deputy L. D. Thompson and
John w. Feldman Tuesday drove to
Dam No. 4, where they found four
fishpots in the Potomac river. They
returned to Hagerstown in the even
| ing and before Justice Johnston swore
out warrants for four persons who
own the 6shpots, charging them with
obstructing the Potomac river. 1t is
the purpose Of the warden to make a
test to ascertain if the maintaining OF
fshpots is lawful.
Prof. E. S. Cox, of Parkersburg,
who was to have opened the Charles
Town Male Academy, has decided
that the outlook doesn't justify the
project and has abandoned it. We COM
mend to the Charles Town people
Shepherd College in this place. Thi.
excellent institution affordsa splendid
opportunity for young men and young
women to receive an education, and
it's faculty and general conditions are
of the best. Tuition is free to stu
dents from West Virginia.
What has become of the committee
appointed by the town council to con
slider the question of removing thu
old engine-ho from the middle o