Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-08-16
LITTLE LOCALS.

| card to w. +. Alexander, Onarles
Town, or E. Rush Turner, Shepherds
town.
The Inwood fair will begin Tuesday
of next week and continue until Fri.
day. The management Is making
every effort to have the fair bigger
and better than ever, and special at.
fractions will be provided to amuse
the people.
Mr..and Mrs. Isaac 81. Strider have
issued invitations to the marriage Of
their daughter. Miss Georgette, to
Rev. Andrew Johnston Willis, to take
place on Wednesday morning, Au.
gust %, at half past ten, in st. Bar.
tholomew's Church, Leetown.
The "Charles Town and Jefferson
County Alumni Association of Wash
ington and Lee University" was organ
lied last week by electing h. @. Get.
zendanner, president; Thos. G. Boil
ing and G. Il. Triplett. vice-presi-
dents; G. N. Campbell, secretary.
G. Willis Hodges will have public
sale of live stock on August 18th, at
his former residence on the Martins
burg road near Opequon creek. He
is selling out because Of the difficulty
of attending to the stock since he was
burnt out. Advertisement next week.
We learn that William Spence, who
was SO badly hurt at the stone quar-
ries at Kearneysville last week, and
who was taken to hospital in Balti-
more for treatment, is getting along
very well, and it is believed he will
not have to suffer amputation of his
leg.
Mrs. Bette Butler will have sale
of her household effects on August 25
and will break up housekeeping. The
house she now occupies has been rent
ed by the family of the late Samuel
H. Miller, of Sharpsburg district, who
will move into it about the lst Of Sep
TENDER.
Rev. DR.. II. G. Haithcox was called
to Harrisburg, Pa, last Sunday night
by the death of his cousin, Rev. A.
W. Lentz, retired minister of the
Lutheran Church, whose funeral SER
vices he conducted the following day.
The deceased was an uncle Of the late
Rev. II. Max Lentz, of Shepherdstown.
The morning mail missed again
two days during the past week, and
thousands of persons along the Nor
folk and Western Railway were de-
prived of their mail for an entire day.
We suggest that the Western Mary
land Railroad inaugurate wagon
system to take the place of its present
train service.
The teachers institute for Jefferson
county will be held at Charles Town
the week beginning August 9th.
The instructors are Prof. G. w. Dean
and Mrs. Ada Dodd-P Ponce. County
Superintendent Engle has appointed
Misses Mary Campbell, Mamie How
ell and Lallie Craghill a committee
of arrangements for the institute.
W. E. Claybaugh, an employee Of
the B. & O. Railroad, was struck and
instantly killed last Friday morning
by train No. 2 near the Opequon
creek, east OF Martinsburg. The poor
man stepped aside to avoid freight
train and got in front of the passen-
ger locomotive. His home was In
| Hedgesville, where he leaves a wife
and three children. He was 35 years
old.
Vernon Pence, aged about 20 years,
ofShenandoah county, Va. was drown
ed in the Potomac river at Harper's
Ferry last Saturday morning between
l and o'clock. Young Pence, who
was returning home from Washington
on an excursion train, stepped from
the train, which had stopped on the
bridge crossing the Potomac. His
cries were heard by companions on
the train as the body reached the wa
ter. The river was swollen by recent
rains, and the body was swept away.
1t has not yet been found.
In st. Peters Catholic Church at
Harper's Ferry last Thursday morn.
ing a pretty wedding was solemnzed
by Rev. J. E. Collins. The bride
was Miss Alice Frances Carey, who
lives in Maryland, just across the river
Nom Harper's Ferry, and the groom,
William Joseph Murray, whose home
is in Harpers Ferry, is government
Inspector in Panama. After recep-
ton at the home of the groom the
bridal party took the train for New
York, where in a few days they will
sail for their new home in Panama.
Messrs Faulkner, Walker & Woods
and Geo. NJ. Beltzhoover, Jr., have
entered suit in the Circuit Court Of
Jefferson county, for $4,000 dam
ages on account Of the bridge accident
on the turnpike at Weirick's Mill,
June Is, 1904, in which Melvin
Shipley was killed and his brother,
Silas Shipley, was seriously injured.
Two suits are entered-one for $lO,-
600 for the death of Melvin Shipley,
aud one for $1,000 for injury to
Silas Shipley. The two young men
who were victims of the accident
were sons of Fonrose T. Shipley, Of
Shepherdstown.
Hon. John S. Darst, assistant tax
commissioner Of West Virginia, has
heen in Jefferson county the past