Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-02-01
LITTLE LOCALS.

MI. Erwin hae made an excellent
postmaster, and his reappointmsnt
is very satisfactory to the people OIL
that place.
The Jefferson County Mutual Tele.
phone Company is proving to be q
very popular system. Phones are
being taken in the towns and in the
country as fast as workmen can in.
stall them.
Invitations are out for the marriage
OF Miss Minnette Knapp to Mr.. George
=. Wyne. in Washington. on February
18th. Miss Knapp is well known in
Shepherdstown, where she visits tie
family of Mr.. j. s. Rightsti1e.
Rev. @. Il. Hockey, pastor of the
Lutheran Church of Waynesboro, Pa,
formerly of Shspherdstown, has de-
olined the call extended him by a
Philadelphia church. His Waynes-
boro congregation strongly opposed
his leaving.
Mr.. and Mrs. John ]. Hetzel, of
Martinsburg. have announced the en-.
gagement of their daughter, Miss An.
ma Lowry Hetzel. to Harry st. George
Tucker Carmichael. Mr.. Carmichse Ell
is a civil engineer on the Wabash
Railroad. The wedding will take
place in the spring.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will serve supper in the town hall
Saturday, February Sd. Soup, can.
dy, cake and icecream and fancy ar
ticles will also be on sale. Supper
will be served at the homes of per-
sons 80 desiring. All are invited.
Price of supper, 25 cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moorehead Miller, of
Berkeley county, have issued invita-
tions to the wedding of their daugh.
ter, Miss Laura Jane Miller, to Mr..
Roy Baker Tabler. The marriage is
to be solemnized at IL clock on We'd
nesday, February 7, at the United
Brethren church at Greensburg.
We congratulate Nelson T. Snyder
on being elected president of the
Jefferson County Court. He is an
able and active member of that body
and his constituents of Shepherds.
town district are proud of him. We
think our county has never had a
better board of commissioners than
the present one. They are liberal,
but conservative, and thoroughly
conscientious in the discharge of their
duties.
II. L. Snyder g. Co. have recently
added some very desirable property
to their list, and attention is called to
their advertisement in another COL
umn. They offer this week several
very desirable homes in Shepherds
town at prices at which it would be
impossible to build as good dwellings.
They also have several of the finest
farms in Jefferson county, including
nice little place of ninety acres near
Bardane.
About 5 O'Clock Monday evening
slight freight wreck occurred on the
N. & w. Railroad near st. James.
Two cars OF northbound freight were
smashed up, car loaded with lumber
going on top OF one loaded with pig
| iron. The wreck was caused by the
air hose breaking. The Western
Maryland wrecking crew cleared the
track after three or four hours of busy
work. The evening accommodation
train from Hagerstown was delayed
some four hours.
In the early morning Of February
9 total eclipse of the moon will oc.
| cur which will be visible throughout
the whole United States. The moon
will enter the earth's shadow and the
eclipse will begin at 8 minutes before
l a. M, eastern standard time. The
eclipse will become total at two min
utes before 2 and remain total for l
hour and 3S minutes, at the end of
which time the moon will begin to
emerge from the shadow, the eclipse
ending at 81 minutes past 4.
Despite objection on the part Of her
parents, Miss Mamie McKelvey, Viii
Transport, and Robert Swain, Sharps-
burg, were married Saturday at the
parsonage of the Memorial Lutheran
Church, Sharpsburg, by Rev. A. A.
Kerlin. The bride, who is Is years
old, went to Sharpsburg. presumably
to visit friends. When her relatives
learned that marriage license had
been secured they set about trying to
prevent the wedding, but to no avail.
The groom is 25 years old and is en-
ployed at Bakerton.
Henry Wood, colored, who had
been living alone in a shanty near
Dufelds, was brought to Jail by Con-
stable Jas. A. Smith on Wednesday.
About two dozen fancy chickens, un-
til one night last week the property
of John o. Aglionby, at Shenandoah
junction, were found in coop at
Woods place. The transfer Of pos
session was not the subject of a con-
tract between Mr.. Agiionby and
Wood, so the latter was arrested.
Wood claims he bought the chickens
from stranger whom he met on the
road, but this story is not accepted by
the neiphbors Advocate.