Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-07-26
BRIEFS.

Grove next lhursu"y'
- .a,e-Several hundred locust
ro.ts. Apply to D. L. Rentch'
Shoes of all kinds at Hodges. Cost
n,;ces for slippers of all kinds
The InwOod fair will begin on Au-
net Dist AMI continue for four days.
p Z, Snyder & Co. have for sale
~ fine farm near Kearneysville.
pocbe's Embrocation and Vapo-
rrasoIine, for whooping cough. at
Peinhart's Pharmacy.
NJ. 2 90. Book Of the Royal
pIrs for July contains some very in
t p,r. sketches of Harper's Ferry.
The county court Of Berkeley coun-
- has fixed the levy at % cents on
the hundred dollars. Last year II was
4Scents.
Mr.. H. NJ. Turner is having her
lraiI;nc.bouse on Main street neatly
,ar,;ntsd. William Rutherford is
dong the work.
Same ladies' very fine shoes, boys
.boss and misses white kid slippers
can be seen at F. T. Groves residence
at low prices.
The river has again gotten muddy
from the rain of last Sunday and
Monday, and bass fishing is once
more indefinitely pOstpond'
A meeting of all the members of
The Shepherdstown Tennis Club is
c.nei for Friday evening at half-past
E o'clock on the tennis grounds.
4 severe storm passed over the east
ON section Of the county last Sunday.
Considerable damage was done to the
growing corn in the vicinity of Mol
ers.
H. L. Snyder & Co. have added
two new farms to their list this week.
They are in the Middleway district
and can be bought for $40 an acre.
See advertisement.
CD. Keplinger has quit the ice
business, owing to his inability to Sc
cure ice promptly from the factory.
The manufacturers of artificial ice
cannot supply the demand.
Wanted-A good blacksmith 10
work for wages or to go into partner
snip. Don't want poor workman or
a drinking man. Apply to Charles
Wgboer, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
4 new bank barn is being erected
On the farm of Charles ]. Miller,
mile or two west of town. The frame
OF the barn was successfully raised
Yesterday. John Stanley is the con-
tractor.
1T meeting Of the board of trus-
tees Of the Shepherdstown colored
sctoo. on Tuesday Alexander B. Free
m4u Was reappOinted principal and
John W. Branson assistant for the en-
suing year.
John Strother Moore, son of Mr..
and Mrs. George W. Moore, of this
county, has been appointed an assist
ant In the faculty of Washington and
Lee University, at Lexington, Va.
He IS III the department Of physics.
Charles E. Walters was picking
blackberres the other day, when
big blacksnake disputed the right to
the berry patch with him. Although
the snake was only five feet long and
Mr. Walters is six feet tall, the snake
won.
The Winchester District Conference
Of the NJ. E. Church South will be
held at Summit Point August 9th.
{. W. Athey, D. W. Hendricks, ].
N. Hendricks and A. A. P. Neel,
Jr., have been elected delegates from
Shepheristown circuit.
The other day daughter of A. G.
MORGAN, living north of town, found
hen sitting on a nest full of eggs
aud another hen trying her best to
get on the nest also. In seeking to
arrange the difficulty, Miss Morgan
saw that big blacksnake was care
fully colled upon the eggs and the
hen was sitting on the snake. Her
tdher Was called and killed the ser.
Pelt, which was FIVE feet long. 1t
hal swallowe3 one of the eggs and
Was probably calculating on having
continuous feast.
VIM. Il. Burns and John B. Thayer,
two Pennsylvania Railroad officers
who have been directors in the Nor
io-k & Western Railway, have resigned
their position from the latter road,
and their places filed by the election
OF Henry G. Frick, the coal and coke
magnate, and Levi G. Weir, president
OF tie Adams Express Company.
There Wi. be no change in the policy
OF management of the N. & W., as the
difference between the old and new
directors Is only the difference be-
tween tweedledum and tweedledee.
Joseph Coyle, son of ]. NJ. Coyle,
Oh bunker Hill, had narrow escape
rom serious if not fatal injury on
EGT''ay last at the home of Thomas
campbell, near Kearneysville. Mr..
CoyIe went to the home of Mr.. Camp
Dell alter young horse. With the
assistance OF an employee they drove
nm INTO stable in order to bride
him. In attempting to do SO the