Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-11-15
LITTLE LOCALS.

church. The pastors adjourned II
meet again on Monday after the frs
Sunday in December.
The returns from the late election
show that Gray Silver, Democrat. ha
been elected in this senatorial dis.
trict by $50 plurality. Mr.. Silver
carried Jefferson by sos and Hamp
shire by S74. Mr.. Outcalt carried
Morgan by sos and Berkeley by So.
When Shepherdstown folks awokt
this morning they found the roofs O.
the houses and the ground covered
with snow to the depth of fraction
of an inch. 1t was the fret snow Of
the season, except for few scattering
fakes, and according to the old say.
ing we will therefore have fifteen
SHOWS during the ensuing winter.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
of West Virginia will hold its annual
meeting in Charles Town next week,
and the local members of the order
are making elaborate preparations for
the event. A big parade will be held
on Wednesday, November 21st, be.
ginning at $50 o'clock. The town Is
being handsomely decorated for the
meeting.
The classes of Mrs. n. L. Snyder
and o. E. Spohn, of the Lutheran
Sunday school, will give soup, serve
luncheon and sell candy Saturday eve.
ming of this week from six to ten
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Snyder,
the proceeds for the benefit of the
church. Their friends and the people
generally are invited to patronize
them. Good things to eat will be fur
nished.
Claymont Court, the home of Otto
q. Won Schrader, near Charles Town,
and formerly owned and occupied by
Frank R. Stockton, the author, has
been sold to Mr.. Murphy, of Detroit,
Mich, for $4,000. Mr.. Won Schrsd-
er purchased the place a few years
ago, and it is said at that time he paid
$35, 900 for it. 1t is one of the finest
estates in Jefferson county and has
about $50 acre of land attached. The
dwelling alone cost ovee $4,000.
The cornerstone for the new South
ern Methodist Church at Shenandoah
Junction will be laid by the Masonic
order on thanksgiving day, Novem-
Der Goth. Three services will be held
during the day. At 1890 a. m. a
service of thanksgiving; at 8 p. m.
the laying Of the cornerstone; and
at 80 p. m. a devotional meeting.
Prominent speakers will be on hand
for the occasion. A thanksgiving din
ner will be served by the ladies of
the church.
Some days ago young son of John
Jones committed an unprintable ofense
at the Shepherdstown Graded School,
and the principal of the school, Prof.
F. A. Byerly, gave him a thrashing.
The father Of the boy thereupon swore
out warrant for Prof. Byerly's ar
rest, and Tuesday he was tried before
Magistrate Lee II. Moler. Prof. By
erly demanded jury trial, and after
hearing the evidence the jury prompt
ly acquitted him. We think the ver-
dict is in accordance with popular
sentiment.
Abram Sissler, a well-known young
man of Shepherdstown, was arrested
the other day and given a hearing
before Magistrate Lee II. Moler on
warrants sworn out by Michael Wright
and Lawrence Wright, the former
charging him with the larceny of a
sum of money and several articles of
value. and the latter with taking a
a gold watch. Sissler was employed
at Wright's merry-go-round the past
summer, and is accused of having re.
tanned part of the money he collect
ed. Lawrence Wright claims that he
gave Sissler watch to be delivered
to another party, and that he failed
to do so. Sissler denied the accusa-
tons in the first charge, and said that
Wright had given him the watch.
After hearing the evidence, Magis.
trate Moler committed him to the
county Jail in Charles Town to await
the action Of the grand jury.
The entertainment to be given by
the Hawthorne Musical Club of Bos.
ton this Thursday night in the Shop
herd College auditorium, promises to
be most enjoyable. Besides playing
on many different instruments and
rendering the most delightful music,
a minstrel sketch that has made a
great hit in other cities will be pro.
duced, while Osgood, the trick violin
ist, is a whole show in himself. The
members of the company play on al
most every known and unknown ar
ticle, from a bootjack to the Swiss
bells The admission will be so cents,
and children 25 cents. Season tick
cts for the whole course of lectures
and entertainments to be given this
winter can be secured, however, at
$1.50 for the series of five perform
ances. The management hopes that
the people may buy the season tick
cts, and thus assure the success OF the
course. Tickets and reserved seats
at Reinhart's Pharmacy.
Trouble has befallen the Shepherds
town colony OF negroes who have been
making their headquarters in Hagers-
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