Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-01-23
LITTLE LOCALS.

MT. u. FRANK turner, OF Ine Dduh
of Charles Town, has been in Shep.
herdstown this week assisting in the
auditing of the books of the Farmers
Bank, preparatory to Cashier E. Rush
Turner taking charge.
Prof. Carl w. Littler will deliver a
lecture in the Shepherd College audi.
forum this Thursday night on the
manufacture Of steel and iron, and will
illustrate the lecture with many ste
reopticon views. Admission 25 cents,
Zach T. Fleming, of the Leetown
neighborhood fell down fight Of steps
last Sunday while visiting his son-in-
law, Mr.. Fritts, and injured himself
very severely. DR.. Hirst was called
in and gave surgical attention, but
Mr.. Fleming has been suffering good
deal.
W. 81. Merchent, of Shepherds
town, has applied for the benefit Of
the bankruptcy law, and meeting Of
his creditors will be held in Martins
burg next Monday, when trustee
will be appointed. Mr.. Merchent
was formerly in the butchering bust
ness and also kept provision store in
the Grant building.
The other day Messrs. William and
Rutherford Wysong cut down a large
hickory tree on their farm east of town,
and when they sawed it into sections
they found that it was q bee tree.
They got about twelve pounds of fine
honey from it. The bees few away,
though the cold weather probably soon
caused them to perish.
We are sorry to note painful &C.
cident that befell Mrs. Lee 81. Moler,
one of Shepherdstown'a most highly
regarded residents, on Tuesday.
While walking in front of J. @.
Shows home on Princess street she
slipped on the ice and fell, breaking
her wrist. DIR. Banks reduced the
fracture, but it has given her good
deal of pain.
The milk trust which was formed in
Shepherdstown some time ago had but
brief existence. The price of milk
was raised from FIVE cents to seven
cents quart, but good many people
cut down their supply and some re-
fused to buy at all, whersupon the
trust surrendered. The price has
gone back to FIVE cents, though wheth-
er or not any water is used we are
unable to say.
A friend in Charles Town asks us to
correct an item in last weeks paper,
which stated that the report that Rev.
F. L. Fraser, of Hagerstown, had ac-
cepted call from the Baptist Church
of Charles Town was incorrect. AS a
matter OF fact, Rev. Mr.. Fraser had
accepted the call, and afterward with
drew his acceptance, putting the
Charles Town congregation in posi-
ton that they did not at all relish.
Rev. II. l. Stephens, pastor Of the
Shepherdstown M. E. Church South,
has received a letter from Bishop A.
W. Wilson, of Baltimore, who has
Just returned from his eighth trip
around the world, visiting all the
great mission fields in the East, in
which he says he will rededicste the
church in Shepherdstown on Sunday,
March 9Th. On Sunday night he will
deliver an address on the missionary
outlook.
Rev. R. johnson Campbell, former
ly pastor of the Methodist Church at
Harper's Ferry and who is well-known
in Shepherdstown, has left the minis
try. he left the Methodist Church
and became a minister of the Episco-
pal Church, serving for a short time
congregations in Cumberland and
Frostburg, Md. Then he engaged in
mission work IN New York. He il
now connected with a Chicago real eS-
tate firm.
We direct especial attention to the
big advertisement this week of J. F.
Thompson & Bro, Martinsburg.
This clothing firm, which has been
engaged in business in that place for
the past twenty years, and which has
had extensive dealings with the peo-
pie of this county, will be dissolved.
The senior member, James F. Thomp'
son, will retire entirely from business,
and ]. Frank Thompson is uncertain
as to what he will do. They will sell
their entire stock of clothing, mems
furnishings and hats at prices that are
explained in their advertisement, and
a rare opportunity is afforded the peo-
pie to get bargains in these goods
Read what the firm has to say.
Interesting exercises sommemora
tive of the one hundred and first an
niversary of the birth Of General Rob
ert E. Lee were held in the Presby'
terrain Church in Sbepherdstown last
Sunday afternoon. Rev. DR.. Charles
Ghiselin delivered an earnest and ell
oquent address on General Lee as thu
Christian soldier, and those who hearC
it regard it as one of the ablest efforts
that has ever been heard in this place
DR.. Ghiselin held the close attention
of the audience, which was composet
of the Veterans, Sons Of Veterans
Daughters of the Confederacy anC
other persons from the town and vi
cinity. Rev. DR.. Fl. @. HaithcoI ant
Rev. G. E. A. Marshall assisted il
the service.