Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-08-17
LITTLE LOCALS.


will be held at Morgan's Grove fair
grounds Saturday, August 26th. All
old soldiers and their families and
friends are invited to bring their bas-
kets and attend this picnic and reun-
ion.
Prof. J. G. Knutti. principal Of
Shepherd College, left this morning
on a trip of several weeks, during
which he will attend number of
teachers institutes. He will assist
in conducting the institutes at Mar
cinsburg and Franklin and will at
tend several others.
Richard Snively, Robert Easton,
Paul Raby and Cassell Foster. four
Waynesboro boys, walked from that
place to Shepherdstown last week by
way of Hagerstown, a distance Of about
% miles. Here they took canal
boat for Washington, and they say
they are having glorious tramp.
The ladies of the Shepherdstown
Presbyterian Church will hold their
annual lawn supper in Thomas F.
Jones yard near Billmyer's Mill Fri
day and Saturday evenings, August
18th and 10Th. Supper, icecream,
cake and candy will be served at pop
ular prices. Come and help the la
dies get a new carpet for their church.
Contractor E. W. Athey and his
force of workmen raised the frame of
a new barn on Col. G. W. z. Black 8
place near Leetown Tuesday. 1t is
IS 76 feet in size. Charles Derr
is now building fine new barn on
l. H. Strider's "Traveler's Rest" place,
occupied by ]. T. Campbell, near
Kearneysville. 1t is so so feet
in dimensions.
Last Sunday night some miscreant
went along the town run and broke
open nearly every one Of the live boz
es where various persons kept min
nows and stole the bait. There were
many hundreds of fine minnows in
the boxes, and nearly all were stolen
or permitted to escape. 1t will not
be well for the tbieving scoundrels
if thav are discovered
Guy Rigbtstine is at his home in
this place as the result of an accident
which occurred last Friday at Mill
vile, and which came near resulting
in the loss of the sight of the right
eye. In placing bottle of coco-cola
in a refrigerator, the bottle bursted
and piece of the flying glass struck
him in the eye, cutting the ball and
inficting painful wound in his fore
head. Fortunately the sight is unin-
jured, but it was pretty close call.
Secretary D. H. Staley has our
thanks for copy of the premium
list of the great Hagerstown fair,
which is to be held October 1913.
The local board of directors Tor Jeffer-
son county is composed of G. D. Wy
song, chairman, E. Rush Turner, Sec
retary, Frank c. Manning, II. L.
Snyder, NJ. B. Baker, W. q. Gilbert,
n. r. Roberts, l. w. Williams, A. S.
cambridge, E. H. Reinhart, ]. P.
Kearfott, B. F. Harrison and J. VIM.
Rider.
Charles F. Byers expects to start
on Friday for Pennsylvania, where he
will exhibit live stock at several fairs
during the next month. He will
take with him his fine herd of regis
tered Shorthorn cattle, numbering
fourteen head, seven Shropshire sheep
and three Polaud-Chlna hogs. He
will exhibit first at the Pottstown fair
and will afterwsrd 60 to Lebanon and
possibly Lancaster and Allentown. He
has some mighty fine cattle, and we
hope he may capture many prizes.
1t is quite probable that the old
Harris house, corner Of Main and
Princess streets, recently torn down
to make room for the new bank
building, was erected in 1888. R.
G. Miller, who demolished the struct-
ure, found in one of the corners
brick on which was plainly inscribed
~. J. l. B. 1888" 1t is likely that
the initials were the uame of the
builder and the date the time when it
was erected. A house l22 years old
is somewhat ancient-but there are
buildings in Shepherdstown good
deal older.
The wedding Of Miss Anna B.
Woolery to Mr.. Howard Pinkney
Schley took place in the chapel of
Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va,
Tuesday afternoon, and was very
pretty ceremony. Miss Wootery, who
is a daughter of the late President
Woolery, of Bethany College, has
been popular teacher in Shepherd
College for the past four years. Mr..
Schley is popular young business
man of this place. Mr.. and Mrs.
Schley will make their home in this
place. Their many friends join the
REGISTER in wishing them much hap
piness.
Business on the G. & 0. canal has
been tied up this week because of a
big break in the towpath on the four
mile level between Keartoot's lock
and Dam No. 4. The entire tow
,+L 1ras ,rasbed svsv for distance