Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-09-17
LITTLE LOCALS.

pert delegates to the State convention,
which will meet at Huntington Octo-
Der 7th.
Perry Hockey, the little son of Rev.
and Mrs. O. d. Hockey, of Waynes.
boro, Pa, formerly of Shephsrdstowp,
is sick with scarlet fever, and their
home is now quarantined. Rev. Mr..
hockey writes to friends here that the
attack is a very light one.
Divorce cases are becoming a strik :.
ing feature of the records of the Jeffer.
son Circuit Court. At rules the frat
OF the week seven new cases were en-
tered, thus keeping up the pace that
has been maintained for several years
IN that class Of cases. A large part,
If not really the greater part, of the
court at its October term will be oc.
cupied by parties endsavoring to slip
the matrimonial yoke.-Charles Town
Aduocate.
Today is the forty.sixth anniversary
of the great battle of Antietam, which
was fought September IT, 1852, at
Sharpsburg. The battlefield was but
three miles from Shepherdstown, and
our older people well remember the
dreadful day, when the roar of the
cannon and the rattle OF musketry was
plainly heard here. Nearly $4,000
men were killed or wounded, and af-
ter the battle Shepherdstown was one
great hospital.
Ludwig Lindenkohl, who recently
married Miss Anna Morgan in Shep-
herdstown, has been seriously i'll the
past week from appendicitis. He was
operated on in Washington last Sun
day morning, and though his condi-
ton was very critical for a time, he
Is now reported to be out Of danger
and on the road to recovery. Mrs.
Morgan and her son Charles went to
Washington the first of the week to
see Mr.. Lindenkohl.
The new store-room of ]. L. Vel.
shans is now almost completed, and he
will move from his present location
within the next week or two. This is
the largest store-room in town, and is
well equipped and attractive in ap-
pearance. Mr.. Welshans will open
up with big stock of new tall dry
goods, notions and millinery. T. B.
Line, the clothier, will occupy the
room in the REGISTER building that
Mr.. Welshans vscates.
Invitations have been received here
to double wedding to take place at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ.
Smurr, in Independence, Mo-, on
September 23d, when two of their
daughters are to be married. Miss
Ellen Constance Smurr is to be mar
ried to Mr.. Frederick NJ. Hoffman, Of
Bunker Hill, W. Va, and Miss Ma
bel Bryant Smurr is to wed Mr.. Carl
j. Baird, of Independence. Mr..
Smurr is former well-known resident
Of Shepherdstown.
We are to have a new town Jail.
The committee empowered by the
council to make new arrangement
for prisoners is having the old Jail de-
molished, and two cells will be put in
the rear Of the present council room
in the fremsns building. The old
Jail was really too bad to coDfne hu.
man beings in. 1t was unsanitary and
in an out.of the way place, and in cold
weather it was almost impossible to
keep it decently warm. While the
new arrangement is not all that could
be desired, it is probably the most
economical and convenient plan that
can be provided at present.
Rev. s. W. Owen, D. D and Mrs.
Owen, Mrs. J. 81. Kausler, Mr.. John
Kausler, Miss Ssllie Kausler, Miss
Martha Middlekauff, Miss Mary G,
Rouskulp and Miss Mary R. Rous
kulp, all of Hagerstown, came to Shop
hsrdstown last Saturday to see the
handsome new Lutheran Church here.
They spent an hour OF two looking it
over, and we're most complimentary In
their expressions as to the beauty of
its architecture and the elegance and
tastefulness of it's fittings. They ad-
mired particularly the lovely memoir
ial windows, which they thought were
equal to the windows in many more
pretentious churches. Rev. E. O.
Cronk, field agent of the Publication
Board of the United Synod of the
South, was also here last week, and
gave it as his opinion that this church
is decidedly the handsomest, in its sit
uation, its architecture and its furnish.
ings, of all the Lutheran churches In
the South.
Work is being pushed very busily on
the electrical plant at Dam No. 4,
above Shepherdstown, eighty five nen
being employed in the building of the
power house and the excavating and
blasting for the head and tail races.
The walls of the power house, which
are now being laid, are very massive,
being seven feet thick and founded
on bedrock. They are built Of great
blocks of stone, qusrried on the spot.
and are laid in cement. The heavy
iron girders to support the first floor
are in place. Steam drills are bor-
ing into both sides of the great bluff
of rock that has to be blasted away
before the water can be turned into
the turbines, and men and machinery
are busy on all parts of the work.
Mr.. Shreeve, of the new firm of con-
tractors, was in town the first of the