Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-08-10
LITTLE LOCALS.

Our enterprising contemporary, the
Charles Town Spirit, has become SO
enthusiastic over its project to build
a bridge across the Shenandoah river
that it now advocates two bridges.
Make it three Of a kind
Mr.. Martin Luther Griffith and
Miss Annie E. Wilmington, both of
this vicinity, were married in Ha-
gerstown last Sunday by Rev. W. G.
Griffith. The groom is son of Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Griffith and the
bride a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Taylor Wilmington.
The Methodist campmeeting at Ba.
kerton begins Friday of this week and
will be continued for ten days. Ser
vices held three times each day. Min
listers announced for addresses on
Sunday are Revs. George Hazel, F.
A. Strother, T. G. Jones and A. T.
Jones. Miss Daisy E. Jones, of Bal
timore, will sing.
The ladies of the Shepherdstown
Presbyterian Church will hold their
annual lawn supper in Thomas F.
Jones yard near Billmyer's Mill Fi-
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.
Mrs. Charles G. Henkle entertained
the following party recently at her
home near Uvilla: Misses Bertha
Henkle, Name and Pauline Ryder, of
Halltown; Miss Emily Williams, Of
Poolsville, Md; the Misses Osbourn,
of Keller; Misses Carrie Shilling and
Marion and Anna Henkle, Of Bolivar /;
Misses Edna Cavalier and Elizabeth
Lane, Of Baltimore.
The "harvest home" held in Folk 8
woods last Thursday by the members
of Mt. Wesley NJ. E. Church was a
grand success. The day was ideal so
far as the weather was concerned,
and visitors attended the gathering
from far and near. The total receipts
footed up to $2l547-a very crafty.
ing financial result. The committee
in charge ask US to return their CRATE
full THANKS for the generous patronage
of the public.
The ladies of the Lutheran Church
will hold lawn fete at the home of
Mrs. Hattie Hill, half mile west Of
Shepherdstown, on Friday and Sat-
urday evenings of this week. Supper
will be served each evening from 5
until 10 o'clock, at 25 cents. Ice.
cream, cake, candy and other refresh
ments will also be sold. The pro-
oeeds are for a worthy cause and the
patronage OF the public is invited.
Everybody will be welcome.
A number of Shepherdstown per-
sons have been running outlines in
the Potomac river in this vicinity,
and a good many bass and other fish
have been caught by this method.
This is strictly against the law, and
those who catch fish in this manner
make themselves liable to heavy
fine. We have been asked to give
this public warning, so that the law.
breakers may discontinue the prac-
tice. 1t is the duty of the local con-
stables and magistrates to arrest per-
sons violating the fish laws.
In tearing down the old Harris
building, corner Main and Princess
streets, two pennies were found that
had evidently been carefully deposit
ed under the bricks by the builder of
the house. One penny, dated 1875,
was found under a brick in the main
building, while the other, dated 1910,
was found in the back building, which
had been erected as an addition. 1t
is hardly probable that so substantial
a brick building was erected here as
early as 1885, as the records Of the
earliest settlers 90 back no further
than 1882. 1t is possible that an old
er house on the same site may have
been built in 1885. The house was
very old, for no one here has any
recollection when it was erected.
A number OF colored persons fro N
Shepherdstown went on the annual
excursion to the ConocoCheague camp
meeting last Sunday, and they had
all sorts of adventures. One young
man'was arrested for striking a "cullud
LADY" from Harrisburg; another missed
the train for home; still another got
off the train at Sharpsburg, installing
it for Shepherdstown, and had to hoof
it all the way to this place. The
train did not reach here until about
midnight, and the excursionista were
so played out that life was miserable
the next day or two for their white
employers. 1t is said that the order
at the camp-meeting was better than
usual-only q arrests being made i
The encampment Of the District of
Columbia soldiers at Bolivar, this
county, comes to an end on Friday,
and very considerable proportion Of
the respectable people Of the COM
munity will be greatly relieved there
by. The carousing of many scores of
drunken soldiers from day to day,
with their reckless and often indecent
conduct, has created a sentiment
against the encampment, and there
are many persons who very heartily
wish il might find some other location.