Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1907-08-01
The ShepherdstoWn Register.
THURSDAY. AUGUST l. 1907.
BRIEFS.

Our local dealers are Offering 83
cents a bushel for wheat today.
Buy flock of VanMeter's stock
ewes that raises the big early lamb.
If you are looking for good flock
of heavy bone and heavy shsaring
ewes, call on 1. D. VaDMeter.
Miss Kate Reinhart sprained her
ankle last Saturday night while up
town with friends.
Rev. II. /. Stephens has had JEFF
ferson County telephone put in the
Southern Methodist parsonage.
For Sale-A bunch of young, black.
faced ewes and some dorsels. I. D.
VanMeter, just west Of Kearneysville.
Mr.. Dwight McQuilkin has been
most kind and efficient this week in
doing reportorial work on the REGIS
TER.
Miss Genevieve Rightstine has been
reappointed teacher of the Lemen
School west of town for the coming
year.
The Greensburg Sunday School will
hold festival on Saturday evening"
July 9th, beginning at early candle.
light.
The freme1 will test the new hose,
recently bought by the council, at
halfpast six o'clock this Thursday
evening.
The annual harvest home of Mt.
Wesley NJ. E. Church takes place to-
day in G. W. D. Folks woods near
Swan Pond.
For Sale-A saddle and driving
mare, runabout, harness. saddle and
bride. Apply to Herbert @. Miller,
Kearneyssllle, W. Va.
The Ladies Aid Society of st. Peters
Lutheran church will hold an ex-
change on Saturday, August 3rd, in
NJ. B. Bakers hallway.
The National Citizens Bank of
Charles Town will pay four per cent
on time deposits that are subject to
withdrawal on demand.
Four per cent interest, compounded
semi-annually, can be obtained on
your money deposited With the Ma
tional Citizens Bank of Charles Town.
Mr.. John Luther Kindall and Miss
Ella Swope, both of this county, were
married July 2lst at the Methodist
parsonage in Shepherdstown by Rev.
G. F. Bonn.
Miss Ella M. Kelsey will sell per-
sonal property at her home in Shop
herdstown on Saturday of this week.
Advertisement may be found elsewhere
in this paper.
A game of baseball will be played
in this place Friday afternoonat 3
o'clock between the Shepherdstown
and Berryville teams. No admission
will be charged.
Mr.. NJ. K. Rightstine, who has
been in Washington for some time
past, came up to Shepherdstown on
Tuesday to help the editor Of the
REGISTER in his time of sore need.
Charlotte Washington, wife of
Milton Washington and well known
colored woman of this place, died
Tuesday morning. aunt" Charlotte
was woman of many estimable
qualities.
Principal J. G. Knutti, of Shep-
herd College, will conduct summer
institute at Elkins, W. Va. next
week. The following week he will
visit Institutes in Berkeley and Tuck.
er counties.
The Shepherd College catalogue
will be issued within the next two
weeks. Principal j. G. Knutti has
had calls for them from large num-
Der of prospective students in various
parts of he State.
The county court of Berkeley coun-
ty has fixed the levy at % cents on
the hundred dollars for the current
year. The road tax is ten cents In
each district except Hedgesville,
where it is eight cents.
The sale of the farm of the late VIM.
H. Byers, advertised for last SAtur-
day, did not take place, the property
having been withdrawn because of in
sufficient bids. The farm will prob
ably be disposed of privately.
The ladies of the Shepherdstown
Presbyterian Church will hold their
annual lawn tste on the lawn of Mr..
TT. Jones, at Billmyer's Mill, on the
evenings of August 10Th and 18th, to
raise funds much needed. All are
cordially invited.
An ugly fight occurred in sharps-
burg on Tuesday afternoon between
two men of that place. The fight
was in front of the burgess Office and
after they had knocked each other
down several times, Burgess 0. 1.
Reilly ran out and separated the men.
The fight was the result of an old
grudge.
A specialcar from the United, States
fish hatc,,ery at White Sulphur
Springs, with 10000 young speckled
trout aboard, went through here yes,
terday morning. Several thousand
of the trout were left off at Shenan-
1t T,,ot;on from whence they