Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-11-08
LITTLE LOCALS.

agency of d. L. Snyder & Go.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Knode, Of Mo-
ler's, this county, announce the ap-
preaching marriage of their daughter.
Florence Virginia, to Mr.. Charles
William Flanagan, of Bakerton. The
ceremony will take place at the
brides home Wednesday evening,
November 2lst, at 6 o'clock.
Rev. II. I. Stephens received twenty.
one persons into the membership Of
Marvin Church, west Of town, last
Sunday, as result of the recent re-
vival that he conducted at that place.
Mr.. Stephens is now conducting a
series of protracted meeting in the
M. E. Church South at Uvills.
Miss s. ]. M. Markell hereby in.
forms her friends and the public gen.
orally that she has just opened stock
of groceries and fancy goods in the
store-r room at her residence in Shep-
herdstown, and solicitsta share of their
patronage. The goods are new and
fresh, and will be sold at reasonable
prices.
The county commissioners have
bought new steam drill to be used
by Turnpike Commissioner Hendricks
in quarrying stone for the turnpikes
OF the county. Three men will be
required to run the machine, which
will do as much drilling as twelve OF
fifteen men working hard. The best
way to improve our roads is to use
improved machinery.
Barber Mart Shell played a cute
trick on the Halloween depredators
last week. Soon after dark he put a
generous coat of fresh red paint on
his barber pols-ths real sticky sort
and later went home in peace. Next
morning by the dawn's early light the
barber.pols was still there and half
dozen or so of young fellows were
trying to explain in a satisfactory
manner just how their coats happened
to be covered with red paint.
Rey. W. G. Eggleston, of Middle
town, Va, a venerable superannuated
minister of the Southern Methodist
Church. and some years ago the re-
spected pastor OF the Shepherdstown
charge, last week celebrated his nine
ty-frst birthday at the home Of his
daughter, Mrs. Isaac w. Russell, in
Winchester. Except for slight attack
of rheumatism, Mr.. Eggleston enjoys
good health and Notwithstanding his
advanced age retains to a remarkable
degree his mental faculties.
The Eastern Panhandle newspaper,
published in SheE 5herdstown for the
past three years, made its final ap.
pearance last week, having died a
natural death. Messrs. Wintermoyer
and Mundey, who own the plant, have
not decided what they will do with
the material, but they will not run
the paper any longer. Col. Boone
expects to move with his family short
ly to Nunenburg county, Va, where
he will start newspaper in the new
town of Victoria, on the Tidewater
Railroad, now being constructed.
Garland Hehebower, on bis fathers
lower farm near Ripon, has had FIVE
out of nine cattle affected peculiarly
and very sick, with noses all swollen
and black. A veterinarian says the
disease is caused by fungus growth
in pasture and is not contagious, and
the only way that County Commits
sioner Hehebower can account for it is
that the recent wet weather caused
toadstools to spring up from manure
in the field and the cattle ate them.
Spirit.
Mr.. Nelson R. Roberts has resign
ed from the presidency of the Jefer-
son County Telephone Company. The
resignation will take effect at once.
Mr.. Roberts takes high ground in as
signing reasons for the step he has
taken. He is the County Commits
sioner from Middleway district, and
his public duties in that position, he
thinks, may sometime conflict with
his work for the telephone company.
He holds the view that no public Of.
6cer owing duties to hepublic should
have any connection with a public
service corporation which by any pos.
sibiEty may seek fsvors from public
officials. To rid himself entirely of
any influence when performing his
duties as a member of the County
Court, he has disposed of all his stock
in the telephone company.-Aduocats.
The election passed off very quietly
in Shepherdstown. The Democrats
had no money, and they had to stand
quietly by and see the Republican
workers march the "foaters" to the
polls and record their votes. There
was plenty of Doodle and booze for
Republican use. and they made the
most of it. 1t is said that one prom.
inent Republican had $500 for use
on election day, and in his corncrib
on Monday night fifteen gallons of
whiskey in pint and half-pint bottles
was snugly stored away. There wasn't
much left by Tuesday evening, how
ever, for it had been dispensed with
bountiful hand. The fact that the
Republicans captured all the Aoaters
and that many Democrats failed to
come to the polls accounts for the