Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-04-12
LIrrLH LOCALS.

| Iue ueiue ol living green give promise
of an abundant harvest.
"A meeting in the interest of good
roadsJwill be held next Tuesday night,
April 18th, at Oak Grove School.
house. Bakerton. Farmers and all
others interested are urged to attend.
Messrs. Holmboe g. Lafferty, archi-
tects. of Clarksburg, w. Va, are now
at work getting out the detailed plans
and specifications Of the proposed
new Lutheran church in Shepherds
town.
| The first thunder storm of the seas.
on prevailed here Monday night.
There were several vivid flashes of
lightning, followed by heavy thunder.
1t rained pretty hard for half hour
or more.
Rev. Rowan, who has been pastor
of the coloIed Methodist church in
Shepherdstown the past year, has
been transferred to Pocahontas. Va.
Rev. G. @. Young is assigned to Shep-
herdstown.
We have just effected an arrange
ment whereby we get, each week, the
newest and best things in postcards,
from the largest makers in the world.
If you've got laugh left in you, come
to see US. Remnants Pharmacy.
A meeting of the Fruit Growers
Association of Jefferson county will
be held in the courthouse at Charles
Town on Saturday, April 14th, at II
o'clock a. m. All persons interested
in the growing of fruit are invited to
attend.
A Jefferson County telephone has
been installed in the Norfolk & West
ern depot at Charles Town. How
long is Shepherdstown to be back
number in this respect ? The business
men and shippers are earnestly de.
handing telephone in the depot here
and they ought to have it.
The ladies aid society of the Luz
theran Church will hold rummage
sale on Saturday, April 2lst, at the
old building on the church lot oppo.
site Shepherd College. Many useful
articles will be offered for sale, and
the event will doubtless be interesting.
Further notice next week.
Charles T. Butler, for several years
foreman of the Eastern Panhandle
newspaper in this place, has accepted
the position of foreman in the Berkeley
Springs News printing Office, and will
leave Tor his new home the first of the
week. His wife will accompany him.
We hope that Mr.. Butler may pros
per.
Alex. Henson has moved from Shep.
herdstown to Charles Town, and will
engage In the manufacture of brick at
the latter place. Mr.. Henson is per-
maps the best brickmaker that has ev-
er been in this section, and we are
sorry TO lose him from our community
He will continue to supply the mar
ket here.
The schedule OF passenger trains
stopping at Shenandoah Junction on
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad may
again be found in the REGISTER, the
company having decided to renew its
publication. This is an accommoda-
ton that the travelling public will APP.
preciate, as it isa great convenience
TO the people OF this section.
Frank NJ. Stanley has concluded to
sell his stock and farming implements.
having declined to move to the Grimes
farm, over which there has been so
much trouble. He will have sale next
Tuesday, April 18th, at the Henson
place, opposite Elmwood Cemetery, in
Shepherdstown, and will make prac-
tically clean sweep Of his effects.
The formal announcement of Ed
ward D. Turner as candidate for
county superintendent Of schools may
be found In the REGISTER this week.
Mr.. Turner is teacher of experience
and an energetic, capable man. If
he shall be elected to the position he
may be depended upon to give intel
llgent attention to the duties of the
office.
H. G. Getzendanner, who recently
resigned his position as cashier OF the
National Citizens Bank of Charles
Town, has been appointed general
manager of the Jefferson County Tel
ephone Company. 1t is, said that
special efforts will be made to place
telephones among the farmers of the
county, and the extension of new
lines will be vigorously pushed.
A great deal of interest has been
: manifested in the meeting for good
roads to be held in Charles Town next
Wednesday, April 18th. All the peo-
pie are invited to be present. and an
interesting programme has been ar
ranged, including addresses by mem
bers of the National Good Roads As
ISOLATION. Jefferson county ought to
, heartily enter into this movement.
Yesterday track hands of the Nor
folk g. Western Railway found bro
ken rod on the high bridge across the
Potomac river at Shepherdstown, and
the evening accommodation train was
hald Nm ahnlt an hnnr until Ii WAS de-