Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-05-16
!. LITTLE LOCALS.

West Virginia preached able sermons
IN Trinity Episcopal Church, .Shep.
herdstown. last Sunday morning and
evening. At the morning service he
confirmed class of twelve persons. (.
d, W. Potts is having an artesian
well bored on his place north of town.
The well-diggers bored through 81
feet OF clay before they struck rock.
A tavorite pastlme. is to guess how
TAR they will go until they strike
water.
Rev. j. w. Hubbard, assistant SD.
perintendent of the Childrens Home
Society at Charleston, was in Shep-
herdstown last week collecting for
this most worthy cause He received
the usual generous contributions from
this place.
The Martinsburg World is urging
the people of that place to make
needed repairs to the Berkeley coun.
ty part Of the road between Shep.
herdstown and Martinsburg. This
road is in mighty bad order from the
Jefferson county line.
The Shepherd College and the Ha.
gerstown High School teams played a
game of ball here last Saturday. and
our boys were beaten by score of Is
to 6. Yesterday our team went to
st. James College and had the felicity
of walloping their adversaries by a
score of IL to 5.
Mics Rebecca Engle, of Keller. this
county, and Mr.. Charles Clegg, of
Charles Town, were quietly married
in Martinsburg last Wednesday after
noon by Rev. ]. B. Chamberlain. The
bride was dressed in brown silk, with
hat to match. They will make their
home with Mr.. and Mrs. B. D. Engle,
parents of the bride, at Keller.
Captain Floyd w. Harris, of Wash.
ington, has bought the Stoke farm.
near Aldie, in Loudoun county, Va,
from Thomas E Durbin, of Erie, Pa,
who became its owner short time ago.
The place contains $50 acres and the
price paid was $4,000. Captain
Harris was recently in Shepherdstown
looking at some Jefferson county places.
James Parker, colored, aged about
seven years, a grandson of Arthur
Parker, residing on the south side Of
town, was fatally burned about 6
o'clock Saturday evening. His grand
mother W Mt out to milk, leaving him
and some other children in the house,
when he lighted a paper, from which
his clothing took fire. He died Sun
day morning.-Charles Ioa0n Spirit.
Crosses of Honor will be bestowed
by Lawson Bolts Chapter, U D. G ,
on memorial day, May 25, at Edge
Hill Cemetery, Charles Town, upon
B. D. Avis, B. E. Beavers, Charles
Balthis, Geo. R. Barnhart, James Fl:
Conklyn, Ignatius ]. Fennick, Geo. Il:
Hagley, J. E. Hilbert, >Geo. W. Mar
low, Daniel NJ. knight, James G.
Wilmington, ]. T. Williams and R.
L. Wysong.
They had 4 mad dog scare at Camp
Hill, Harper's Ferry, last week. The
people satisfied themselves that the
dog was really mad by using the old
fashioned test: The dog was killed,
his body saturated with turpentine
and then set afre; if the hair burns
of under these conditions, he Was
sure. enough mad. In this case there
wasn't hair left, SO the conclusion
was unquestioned.
A colored man named Fox, who
worked in the quarrles at MartinsburG
was found lying along the B. q o.
Railroad track near Kearneysville the
other day very badly hurt and clad
only IN his underclothes. The pre-
sumption is that he was struck by a
train, but how he lost his clothing is
mystery. He was unable to tell
anything about the occurrence. He
was taken to his home near the Bower,
where he'is said to be at the point of
death.
Friends of Mr.. Joseph M. Turner
in this county will regret to know of
his resignation from the government
service on account of i'll health. Mr..
Turner has been connected with the
Department of Agriculture for some
years and for the past three years
had his headquarters in Louisville,
Kentucky. Immediately after his
resignation, he left for an indefinite
solourn in California. Mr.. Turner is
a native of the vicinity of Kearneys-
Vile. -Advocate
Miss Minnie B.-Wilson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Wilson, OF
this place, and Mr.. W. G.. Adams, of
Atlantic City, N. j., were married
last Monday evening at the LutheraL
parsonage in Shepherdstown by Rev.
DR.. n. 6. Haithcox. The bride has
recently been employed in the office
of the Independent, in this place, and
the groom is printer of Atlantic City.
They left Tuesday night for their home
in the latter place, We hope that
they may be very happy:
Rev. John R. Matthews, NJ. A., will
hold a mission in Trinity Episc opal
Church, Shepherdstown, beginning
this Friday evening and continuing