Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-06-07
LITTLE LOCALS.

manner. William Rutherford did the
work for both.
There is every indication at the
present time of an abundant wheat
crop in this section. The wheat is
now in full head and is beginning to
take on tinge Of gold that makes
each field strikingly beautiful sight
as the stalks sway to the passing
breeze.
A hotly.contested game of baseball
was played here last Saturday between
the Shepherd College team and the
Middleway club. The Middleway
boys won by the score of one to moth
ing. Young and Kerns were the bat.
terry for the visitors and Grayson and
Morrow for the College team.
Mr.. Theodore Alvord, of Parkers.
burg, superintendent of the West Vir-
GINA Anti.Saloon League, was in
Shepherdstown last week in the inter-
est Of the temperance cause. Mr.. Al.
word will deliver an address in Shep-
herdstown on Sunday evening, June
18th, in the M. E. Church South.
Company D and Company A of the
Twelfth Virginia Cavalry will have
their reunion at the Morgan's Grove
fair ground on Saturday, June 9th.
Ali ex.Confederates and their friends
are cordially invited to join in the re-
union, and everybody is asked to bring
baskets. The exercises will begin
promptly at 10 o'clock.
Miss Jennie V. Harden, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson Harden, of
Berkeley county, and Mr.. Clarence
P. Harris, a young farmer of Jefer-
son county, were married on Satur.
day night at the Lutheran parsonage
in Martinsburg, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. Charles S. Trump.
They will reside on the farm of the
groom, near Charles Town.
A certificate of incorporation has
been granted to the Jefferson Pin
Company. of Charles Town, for the
purpose of manufacturing all kinds
of pins and cross arms for telephone
and telegraph lines and all kinds Of
cigar boxes. Authorized capital S.
900. The incorporators are: VIM.
E. Reed, of Gaylord, Va; E. B. Reed,
Charles E. Baylor, j. Frank Turner
and T. J. Manning, of Charles Town.
Mr.. Hezekiah Boteler has announc-
ed the engagement of his sister, Mrs.
jamie Boteler Twigg, to Mr.. Odin
Eichelberger. The marriage will take
place at Brunswick the latter part of
June. Mrs. Twigg is the daughter OF
the late Robert H. and Margaret Mar
shall Boteler. Mr.. Eichelberger was
former resident of Martinsburg, and
is chief clerk for the transportation
department of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at Brunswick.
The colored population Of the quar-
ries in the vicinity of Engle's, this
county, was again diminished by
railroad accident last Saturday even
ing. James Bryant, aged q years,
and Edward Williams, aged 10, were
walking along the B. & 0. tracks just
west of Engle's when they were
struck by the bumper of the fast To-
connective drawing train No. l. Bry-
ant was instantly killed and Will
Hams had his arm and collarbone
broken.
Mrs. James S. Phillips has bought
from the Jefferson Savings Bank the
property on Main street in Shepherds
town at present occupied by DR.. J. L.
Meyers. The price paid was So, 200.
This is a substantial brick dwelling
house on a good.sized lot, and is
very desirable property. Mrs. Phil
lips expects to make her home in
Shepherdstown and has bought the
house for this purpose. The sale was
made through the real estate agency
of H. L. Snyder & Co. g.
The Jefferson Telephone Company
has extended its line to Moler's Cross
Roads this week, and installed phones
for J. S. Reinhart, James K. Hen
bricks, DR.. S. T. Knott, G. M. Knott,
W. ]. Knott and Walter Cation. A
number of new phones have also been
placed in Shepherdstown this week,
among them being new ones for the
jefferson Savings Bank, the Farmers
Bank, w. P. Licklider, Lawrence R.
Lee, w. II. Merchent and the Eastern
Panhandle. The company is giving
fine service, and its patrons are stead
lily increasing.
Arthur Lewis, a grandson of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas w. Leggett, of this
place, aged about eight years, met
with a painful accident last Saturday.
With some other little boys he was
playing in the street with toy wagon,
when it upset and threw him under a
heavily loaded farm wagon that wae
passing at the time. One of the
wheels passed over the child's heel,
crushing it very painfully. DR.. John
L. Meyers was summoned and is CIV
ing the little fellow surgical attention.
The doctor hopes that no serious re-
suit will follow.
Miss Coopsie Keplinger. who lives
mile west of Shepherdstown had an
exciting and victorious battle with a
big blacksnake on Monday. She was
in her garden, and seeing movement
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