Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-03-05
sHARrsBuRG NEWS.

Joseph Turner, who had been lock
tender near Shepherdstown, has moved
to Boonsboro, on the Moses Bomberger
farm. Mr.. William Hebb has moved
from the canal company's boarding
house and taken charge Of the lock
house. John Ainsworth takes the canal
boarding house, and Wm. Johnson, who
has been working on the canal for the
past twenty years, will move with his
son-in-law, B. F. Wyand, to Hagers-
town. Mr.. Wyand is closing out his
stock and Samuel Mumma will move
his family and the postoffice in Mr.. Wy
and's dwelling and stJre rooms.
The teachers institute, with about 40
mem bers, will meet in the public school
building in this place Friday. March g.
forenoon and afternoon, and lecture
will be delivered by the State School
Examiner in the Methodist church at
night. Prof. Quinton's orchestra will
furnish music. A good time is ex
pected an many visitors.
Mr.. Philip Grove, who has been our
n. & w. Railroad agent for the past
two years, has been given relief agent.
Mr.. Grove works from a. m. TO p. m.
and Mr.. Bender from p. m. to a. m.
The German Baptist Brethren have
closed their two-weeks service in their
church, after very well attended meet
ings. Four persons were baptised and
taken into the church.
A fitGk of wild geese passed over our
town on Monday evening to the number
of about seventy. They were going
north, and this is a sure sign of gentle
spring time.
Homer Jones, son Of Jonas W. Jones,
OF Keedysville, will next week open the
blacksmith shop that he rented here
the old Staubs stand.
DR.. McKendree Wilson, Of your town,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. J.
@. Wilson, in this place.
Mss Carrie Mumma has gone back to
Georgia, where she is engaged in the
millinery business for the spring and
sum mer season.
Mrs. John c. Bolinger, her daughter,
Mrs. Little, and her little daughter came
down from Hagerstown and spent Sun
day with Mr.. M. E. Snavely's family.
Mr.. Snavely continues &c improve and
we hope lie will be out soon again.
Weston Marker spent Monday with
friends here. He is now employed
with Grove Bros. in Hagerstown.
Peter Grice, who was housed up with
muscular rheumatism, is now able to
be out again.
Mrs. Geo. Davis and her son Dick
have gone to Sunbury, Pa, to spend
some time at her husbands former
home.
Miss Nellie Hibergsr has returned
from Philadelphia, where she bought
her stock of spring millinery goods.
s. 8. Stoutfer has several contracts to
crush stone for roads, and will begin
work as soon as the weather permits.
Mr.. John Domer died in this place on
Saturday afternoon, aged 69 years.
Mr.. Domer had been almost entirely
helpless for the past four months from
stroke of paralysis and general debil-
ity. He was a Civil War veteran, serv-
ing in the 1st and 18th Maryland Poto-
mac Home Brigade. Funeral services
Monday at o'clock in the Lutheran
church. Interment in Antietam Ma
tional Cemetery.
Auctioneer Swain sold at public sale
the household goods Of Mrs. Delaney
Spong, who will m lake her home with
her daughter in Hagerstown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Grove, Of Nor
folk, Va are here visiting Mr.. Groves
former home for week.
Mrs. NJ. T. Gross on Monday moved
her household goods to Washington.
where her husband is employed.