Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-06-15
LITTLE LOCALS.

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has severed his connection with that
school, and in the fall will resume
his studies at the University of Viz
GINA.
Miss Lucy Beltzhoover, who has been
teaching in the Fayetteville Academy,
at Fayetteville, W. Va, is at her
home in this place for the summer
vacation. Prof. A. G. Kimler, for.
merly of Shepherdstown, is principal
of this institution.
Prof. j. D. Muldoon has been in
Morgantown this week attending the
commencement of the West Virginia
University. He gets his A. B. de.
gree from the University this year.
Mrs. Muldoon and the baby are also
IN Morgantown for few days.
J. E. Romine, formerly of Auburn,
Nebraska, has opened watch and
clock repair shop in the Rightstine
building, on Main street, and will be
glad to have a share Of the public
patronage. He promises to do first
class work and guarantees satisfaction.
Messrs. John P. Kearfott and ia
cob S Osbourn, Of KearneYsville, Mr..
Joseph B. Vanmeter and his daughter
Miss Mamie, of Berkeley county, and
Mr.. Phineas Rush, of this place, are
attending the annual reunion of Con-
tederate veterans in Louisville, KY,
this week.
E. E. Cooke, of the insurance firm
Of Washington & Alexander, Charles
Town, was in Shepherdstown Tuesday
to settle the loss incurred by the de-
struction of the Office building at Nor
gan's Grove fair grounds last week.
Mr.. Cooke paid up in full, as it was
total loss.
A revival has been in progress in
the Southern Methodist Church at
Bakerton for the past week or two,
and there have been number of con-
versions. Some of the converts de-
sire to be immersed, and this ceremo-
ny will be conducted at Knots Mill,
on the Potomac river, Sunday after
noon at o'clock.
Ten or twelve members of Henry
Kyd Douglas Camp, United Sons Of
Confederate Veterans, Lieut.. F. F.
Clendenning, commanding, went to
Hagerstown last Sunday to participate
in the memorial exercises in honor of
the Confederate dead in Rose Hill
Cemetery. Col. Buchanan SchleY
delivered the address.
Tuesday evening while James NJ.
Myers was engaging in shoeing a colt
at his shop on New street the animal
reared and struck him in the head
with one of its front feet. A painful
scalp wound was inflicted, the cut
being so long as to require several
stitches to close it. MIR. Myers is
getting along fairly well, but is still
kept at home.
Invitations have been issued TO the
marriage ofRev. John Edwin Triplett,
Jr., and Miss Dorothy Alice Watson,
daughter of Mrs. Dora NJ. Watson, of
New York, June 29th in the Scotch
Presbyterian Church, New York. The
groom elect is the oldest son Of Rev.
J. E. Triplett, of Dufields, this county,
and is assistant pastor Of the Scotch
Presbyterian Church.
Z. R. Turner, land assessor for
Jefersol county, has finished the
field work and is now engaged with
his assistant, Charles J. Miller, IN
making out the books. Mr.. Turner
has covered the ground very thorough.
ly and has personally interviewed
almost every landowner in the county.
1t will take month or two to get
his books in order.
Harrison Robinson and his wife,
respected colored couple of this place,
celebrated the thirty-eighth anniver-
sary of their marriage last Thursday
night by giving reception at "AsburY
Hall" A large number of persons
were present to congratulate them
and enjoy the feast that had been pro-
vided. The couple received great
many presents of every sort, lnclud-
| ing generous gifts of useful and or
uamental articles from their white
friends.
James Wilson, young colored man
of Shepherdstown, g son of Isaac Will
son, was shot and probably fatally
wounded yesterday morning in Mar
tinsburg by a notorious negro woman
known as Long Fannie" Jefferson:
The two were at negro Joint and
were under the influence of "dope,
when a quarrel ensued. The woman
shot Wilson, putting 39'calibre bull
let lust below his heart and inflctlng
q wound that is likely to cause his
death. She was arrested.
The Winchester and Washing ton
City Electric Railway Company has
announced that it has bought the
milling property two miles above
Millville. Jefferson county, on the
shenandoah river, and will immedl-
ately begin the work of constructing
bic concrete dam and power house
1t is proposed to generate electric
mower here for the lighting of varl-
ons towns in this section, and also to
run the electric railroad that is pro-
;ected to run eventually from Wash
ipgton to Winchester and other valley
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