Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-01-26
LITTLE LOCALS.

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Miss Steady, a pupil of Powhatan
College. Charles Town.
Mellon R. Roberts has sold his farm
near Middleway, on the Charles Town
and Middleway pike. containing 900
acres, to G. F. Keiter, Of Frederick
county, Va. The consideration was
$4,000. Mr.. Keiter's son, Il. G. Kei-
ter, will farm the place.
Roland Myers, who was 80 badly
hurt by being struck by an engine at
Martlnsburg week or two ago, is do
ing fairly well, and unless further
complications set in he will probably
recover. A number of persons from
this place have been to see him the
past week.
No better sale bills are printed in
this part Of the country than those
gotten out by the REGISTER Office.
The circulation of the REGISTER is so
much larger than that OF any other
paper printed in Jefferson county
that an advertisement in it is sure TO
bring better results.
Each Friday morning from this
on there will be special song service
at the chapel exercises in Shepherd
College, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m.
Miss Williams will have charge of the
music and will also sing. The friends
of the school and the public generally
are cordially invited to be present.
Miss Myrll Williams, the music
teacher for Shepherd College, has en-
rolled large class, and those who
contemplate taking either voice cul-
ture or piano lessons will do we'll to
make application before all her time
is taken. Her ability as a musician
and teacher is generally recognized,
We are glad to say.
The message of Governor White
shows what it cost to send the mill
tary to this county last summer to
guard the negro rapist, George Will
liams. The total cost was $2,l58l2.
Of this amount $561.77 was for trans-
portation and $1,58695 for pay of
officers and men and for their SUBJ
sistence while on duty.
VIC. Feagans, postmaster at Wheat
land, this county, has received notice
from the Postmaster General that the
office will be discontinued FEBRUARY Is,
after which date the people of that
locality will have their mail delivered
from Summit Point. Mr.. Feagans
has been the faithful postmaster at
Wheatland for thirteen years.
A ministers and laymen's meeting
will be held in Grace Baptist Church
at Shenandoah Junction on Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, January, q,
% and 90. The first service will be
held Friday night at 7p. NJ, when
the opening sermon will be preached
by Rev. L. R. Melbourne. The pub
lie are cordially INVITED to all the
sessions.
officials of the Hagerstown trolley
company on Monday went over the
road between Boonsboro and Sharps-
burg, with a view to laying out
route for the extension of the electric
line. The trolley has been in opera
ton between Hagerstown and Boons-
boro Tor some time, and it is now pro-
posed to extend it to Sharpsburg and
Antletam Battlefield, a distance of
six or seven miles.
Mrs. Mamie Daniels has sold her
dweiling-house on Main street to Mrs.
B. F. Harrison for $500 cash. Mrs.
Daniels has bought from DR.. A. S.
Reynolds the property on Washington
street known as the Virginia House,
the consideration being a sum be-
tween 81 800 and ST. 300. Mrs. Dan
iels will move into the property the
first oil April. Capt. Lee II. Moler,
the present tenant, will move Into M.
B. Bakers house on Princess street.
Charles swope, well-knovn tim
Der cutter of Shepherdstown, met with
painful accident in Hagerstown
Monday night, He was walking along
Church street about midnight when
he fell and broke his right leg near
the ankle. He lay on the street for
some time before anyone came to his
assistance. Cabman Edward Gallag-
her finally found him and hauled him
to the Office of DR.. Watkins, where
his injury was attended to, Swope
was later brought to his home in Shep-
herdstown.
Several inches of snow fell here
Tuesday, making about the fourteenth
snow of the season. Tuesday night
high wind swept down from the uortb
and all day Wednesday and last night
furious gale ragged. The snow was
blown in every direction and in many
places was drifte / deeply. Some OF
the country roads are impossible on
account of the drifts. It's lucky there
was no more snow, or we might have
been worse of than we are. A cold
wave now prevails, and this morning
the thermometer was at zero.
Guy Helferstay has been arrested in
Roanoke, Va, on the charge Of desert
ing from the United States Army. 1t
is alleged that he deserted from the
Jefferson Barracks, in Missouri, No
vember so, 1902. There is standing
reward of $50 for the capture of de-
serters from the army, and a detective