Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-07-30
LITTLE LOCALS.

yearly nttv teachers took the State
uniform examination in Shepherds
town last Thursday AMI Friday.
County Superintendent E. D. Turner
had charge Of the work.
The county reunion of ex.Confed.
crate soldiers and their friends will
be held August IA in O. F. Walls
grove half mile from Charles Town,
near the N. & W. Railway and the
Leetown road.
The annual picnic and reunion Of
the Tri- State League of Odd Fellows
will be held at Island Park, Harper's
Ferry, next Tuesday, August 4th.
The B. & o. Railroad will run special
trains and give reduced rates.
The annual harvest home given by
The members of Mt. Wesley NJ. E.
Church will be held in Mr.. G. W. D.
Folks woods, between Billmyer's mill
and Swan Pond, next Thursday, Au.
gust 9th. A bountiful dinner and
supper will be served and ice cream
and other refreshments will be pro-
vided. Every effort will be made to
entertain all visitors, and the people
generally are invited to attend.
F. L. Weltzheimer is preparing to
lay a stretch of concrete pavement,
aggregating some 285 feet in length,
along his property at the corner OF
King and High streets. 1t is a rather
difficult job, as good deal Of blasting
is necessary to get the proper grade.
R. G. Miller is the contractor. This
improvement will add much to that
neighborhood, which is regarded as
the most beautiful section OF the town
F. Vernon Aler, a we'll known.young
lawyer of Martinsburg, has snnoun-
ced himself as candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for prosecuting
attorney of Berkeley county on tenn
perance platform. The people ought
to support him irrespective Of party
and thus rebuke the saloon element
in Martinsburg that presumes to
dictate all nominations of both par.
ties in the town, county and district.
There will series of services at
Elk Branch Church, beginning Mon.
day, August 8, at 8 p. m. On Tues.
day and through the remainder of the
week there will be two services each
day, at II a. m. and 8p. m. Com
munion service Sunday, August 9.
Rev. D. 81. Scanlon, Phi. D., of Ber-
ryville, and Rev. D. W. McIver, Of
the senior class in Union Theological
Seminary, will do the preaching. All
are cordially invited to attend.
Baseball has been quiet this week.
A game is scheduled for Shepherds
town on Saturday at 8 p. M, when
Martinsburg will make its fifth at
tempt to win game from our boys.
Tom Reinhsrt will pitch Tor the home
team. A game will be played here
with Charles Town some day next
week, with Andrews in the box.
Whether Charles Town or Winchester
will predominant for the visitors is
not yet known.
The fifth annual festival of the
Lutherans at Uvills will be held on
Thursday, August 18th. Dinner and
supper will be served at % cents
each. An interesting programme will
be rendered both in the morning and
afternoon, including good music.
Two addresses will be delivered, one
on 1.-THE Beautiful Life on the Farm"
and the other on "a Three Years
Cruise Around the World. Every
body is invited to attend and enjoy
the day with the Lutherans.
An effort is being made to raise
funds to build a concrete pavement
along the old graveyard on Church
street, next to the colored church.
In this consecrated spot lie number
of persons who were prominent in the
early history of Shepherdstown, and
the proposed Improvement would not
only be mark of respect to them,
but il would be an act of utility to
the people in general. VIM. L. Ar
thur will receive subscriptions and it
is hoped that everybody in the COM
munity may contribute something.
The July meeting Of the Anti-Saloon
League was held in the old college
hall on Monday evening. A delight
full musical programme was carried
out. Forty.six names were added to
the roll, making total of 70. The
membership list now includes nearly
every business man in Shepherdstown
and shows that the business men OF
our town realize that the saloons are
an injury not only to man in general
but to the business mans welfare. This
activity further shows that the voters
are determined more than ever to
close up the saloons at the next mu'
nicipal election.
While picking huckleberries in the
mountain one day last week, Volney
and Owen johnson and Harry Pain.
ter, three young men Of the vicinity
of Manning's School House, killed one
of the largest rattlesnakes that has
been seen in that section in a long
time. They killed the snake by pelt-
ing him with clubs and stones. The
snake measured seven feet and four
inches in length, aud had % rattles
and one button, indicating that the
reptile was 81 years old. The Charles
Town Advocate is responsible for this
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