Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-04-23
LITTLE LOCALS.

Quoted as formerly by ]. ]. Lyme.
Our town clock has been sky.wob.
bled for the past week or two. We
hope the town authorities will have it
repaired, for it is greatly missed when
it doesn't sound the hours and give
the correct time.
A. The ladies of the Reformed Church
will hold an exchange at the store of
Miss Ellen Welshans Wednesday,
April 29th. Special orders will be
filled, if notice be given not later than
the previous Monday.
NJ. P. Crowl, constable, is selling
out at public auction the stock Of
hardware in the store formerly conduc-
ted by ]. O. Tabler in this place. The
sale is made to satisfy several iudg-
ments against Mr.. Tsbler.
A fine stretch OF concrete pavement
is being laid along both the King and
High street sides of the new Lutheran
Church, making an aggregate of some
260 feet in length. The steps and
walks in the church yard were made
last fall.
Work has been commenced on fine
new brick pavement to be laid along
the front of the graded school property
on High street. L. G. Brotherton is
also having a new brick pavement
laid along his property on Duke street.
Keep it up.
Bishop W. L. Gravatt preached a
sermon to the knights Templar of this
and adjoining counties last Monday
evening in Zion Episcopal Church,
Charles Town and later Potomac Com
mandery, of that place, entertained
the visiting brethren at banquet.
Jacob Turner, an old colored man
who formerly lived in Shepherds
town in the rear of the REGISTER Of
fee died In the Berkeley county aims
house last Sunday. He had been
found helpless in an old stable, and
died soon after he had been moved to
the poor farm.
The Secretary Of State has issued
a charter to the Shepherdstown Con-
cert Band, of Shepherdstown. The
capital stock is 81 900 with S. paid.
The incorporators are j. D. Muldoon,
N. Mex. Wilson, A. G. Morgan, j.,
H. E. Malester and B. F. Hartzell all
OF Shepherdstown.
The new bakery, of which II. E.
Mundey is proprietor, is doing a big
business already. 1t is turning out
daily great quantities of the very best
of bread, pies, cakes, etc., and finds
ready sale for its product. Our town
ia patronizing the bakery literally
and fine trade is being secured in
neighboring villages.
The postofice and store of L. j.
Shirley at Shenandoah Junction was
again broken into last Monday night,
Mr.. Shirley, who has suffered loss
nearly every week, was on the watch
for the thief, and got a shot at him
with double. barreled gun. He thinks
he wounded the robber, but the fellow
ran and managed to escape.
Virginia Lodge No. l, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, of Harper's
Ferry, will celebrate the seth ami
versary of Odd Fellowship Sunday
afternoon, April 26. Special services
will be held at 2 o'clock in the Meth
odist Church on Camp Hill, to which
ali Odd Fellows of this and adjoining
counties are invited.
Robert F. Thompson, formerly of
the Kearneysville neighborhood, but
who has been living in Plttsburg and
vicinity for some years, has bought a
little farm near Herndon, Va, to
which he has moved. He writes US
that he prefers the country to the man
ufacturing districts of western Penn
sylvania.
Townsend Burwell, of Wildwood,
has purchased from Eben Richards, of
New York, the famous Clarke county
estate known as Carter Hall. The es-
tate comprises about 500 acres, beau
tifully situated near Wildwood, and
the price paid was 100000, or approx.
imatsly $3.50 an acre. This splendid
place originally belonged to King"
Carter, famous colonial resident of
Virginia.
Rev. Charles Ghiselin has accepted
the unanimous invitation recently ex-
tended him by the Kearneysvllle
Presbyterian Church. The Shepherds.
town Church, TO which he was under
obligations for the whole of this time,
gave him the privilege of using such
time as would not interfere with their
present arrangement of services. He
will preach at Kearneysville every
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock,
beginning the first of May.
Arthur Wilson, an employee OF the
Buxton brick works in Martinsburg,
met with an untimely death Tuesday
afternoon. He was riding the saddle
horse of four-horse team hauling
bricks, when Andrew Smaltz, riding a
bicycle, was accidentally thrown
against the horse. The animal shied
and unseated Wilson, who fell directly
under the heavily loaded wagon. The
wheels passed over his head, crushing
it and breaking his neck, and in two
minutes he was dead man. Wilson
was 80 years of age and unmarried.
The Ieotura in the COLLAGE audito.