Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-08-15
The ShepherdStown Register,
THURSDAY. AUGUST IS. 1907.
BRIEFS.

Business has been brisk in black.
berries this week at 20 cents a gallon,
Tobssco sauce, Durkee's salad dress
ing and Snider's catsup, at Schop-
pert's.
For Sale-A one.hundred. bushel
Success manure spreader, new. ]. @.
Tsbler.
Potted turkey, Vienpa sausage and
canned roast beef, at Schoppert's-
nice for picnics.
The ladies' aid society of the Lu-
theran Church will have an exchange
Saturday at Bakers store.
1t is said that the travel from West
Virginia to Atlantic City this year ia
very much less than usual.
Persons wishing tents for Morgan q
Grove must apply to Secretary E. T.
Licklider before August Oath.
The Methodist and Baptist Sunday
schools of Charles Town have their
picnic today at Morgan's Grove.
The new Southern Methodist Church
at Shenandoah Junction will be dedi.
Gated on Sunday, August 18th.
Mr.. A. s.. cambridge. near town,
wants to rent his house, furnished, for
six months, beginning the frat of DC.
tober.
Stockholders holding paid-up stock
may secure tickets upon application to
Secretary E. T. Licklider on or after
August 23d.
Miss Rhoda Needy, of this place,
has been appointed teacher of the
Chestnut Hill public school in Har.
per's Ferry district.
The Morgan's Grove fair books are
out and may be had by applying to
Secretary E. T. Licklider or calling
at the REGISTER office.
The United Brethren congregation
of Greensburg will hold festival at
that place Saturday evening, August
Slst. Everybody invited.
The Supreme Court of Appeals Of
West Virginia will meet in Charles
Town September 4. Cases for this
circuit are set for September Z.
George B. Entler has bought the
house and lot of Alex Henson, near
the cemetery, for So, 100, and in turn
has sold his dwelling-house on Pros
pect avenue to Joseph Turner for
81, 500. -
Married, August 7, 1907, at the
residence of the officiating minister in
Charles Town, by Rev. j. 81. Wolff,
Mr.. James Robert Welch and Miss
--ESss W H0ffmaster, both If Jefferson
county.
Mr.. James P. Staley and Miss Vir.
glnia Ellen Shipe, both of this vicinity
were married this morning at z o'clock
at the Southern Methodist parsonage.
Rev. H. l. Stephens performed the
ceremony.
Mr.. Abraham Carroll, of Barbour
county, w. Va, and Mrs Ella Camp
bell, of Shepherdstown, were married
Wednesday at the home of Mr.. Pink
ney Wintermoyec, near Duthelds.
Rev. ]. E. Triplett performed the
ceremony.
The ladies of the M. E. Church
South at Uvilla will have dinner,
SUPPER AMI refreshments for sale at
the hall on Thursday, August I'D
If it rains that day they will defer it
until Friday.
Troop A, Maryland National Guard,
Capt. G. Tyron Rogers, commanding,
is encamped at Charles Town for few
days. Governor Warfeld is expected
there today, and tonight ball will
be given at Powhatan Hotel in honor
of the visitors.
At the harvest home service OF
Uvilla church on August % d, Prof.
E. II. Vickers, who has been teaching
in Japan for several years, will be
present and will deliver lecture on
Japan. His wife will also be present
and will talk to the ladies.
This is the time of the year to see
shooting stars to advantage, as the
earth for several days past has been
in position where many meteors could
be observed. The meteors were I'M
usally numerous Monday night, and
as many as forty were counted In an
hour by amateur observers.
The public are invited to attend the
lawn supper to be given Friday and
Saturday evenings of this week By
the Presbyterians at the residence OF
T. F. Jones at Billmyers Mill. The
best of fried chicken, country ham
and other good things will be served,
and ieecream, cake, etc., will be sold.
John Taylor, negro prisoner in the
Charles Town Jail, made an attempt
to take his own life Tuesday evening.
He made moose out Of a strip Of his
blanket, put it around his neck and
fastened one end of 1t to the grating
above the front of his cell, and was
found hanging there by Jailor Young,
who ordered him down. Taylor got
down. and, without saying word,
Law down on bis cot.-Adooeate.
Mrs. Mary Jones. wife Of Robert
Jones, committed suicide in Martins.
burg yesterday by shooting herself
through the head at the home of her