Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-06-18
LITTLE LOCALS.

mile from town, unimproved.
Harvest is at hand. Already some
farmers have begun to cut their wheat
and by the first of the week work will
be on in earnest. The wheat stands
up well, and there will be good sy.
erage crop in Jefferson county.
!. Mr.. John W. Link, of Dufields,
this county, student at the Lutheran
Seminary at Mount Airy, Philadel.
phia, will preach in the Lutheran
Church in Shepherdstown Sunday
morning at half-past ten o'clock.
A meeting of the members of the
Southern Soldiers Memorial Associa.
ton will be Saturday at $50 O'Clock
at d. NJ. Loyns's chop, for the pur.
pose OF electing officers for the ensu.
ing year. A full attendance is de-
sired.
The meeting of the Democratic
State committee at Martinsburg to
consider the senatorial situation in
this district was not held yesterday.
We have been informed that it was
postponed for one week at the request
Of Mr.. McIntire, who claimed that he
had not been notified of the meeting.
Henry Kyd Douglas Camp, United
Sons of Confederate Veterans, of Shep-
herdstown. accompanied by the Shep-
herd College Drum Corps, last Sunday
attended the Confederate memorial ex-
ercises in Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagers-
town. An excellent address was de-
hvered by Herbert s. Larrick, of Win
chester.
The surviving members Of Oompa-
MES D and A, Twelfth Virginia Ca
valry, had an interesting reunion at
Morgan's Grove last Saturday. A
call of the roll of Company D, dis
closed the fact that, Notwithstanding
large number of gallant members of
this organization filled honored
graves, yet more than sixty still sur
Vive. 1t was decided to hold another
reunion next year.
Charles ]. Fisher, former resident
of Harper's Ferry, was murdered in
Pittsburg last week, and his wife, who
was formerly Matilda McKinny, Of
Winchester, and her paramount, Rus
sian named Mike Rando, are in jail
accused of the crime. The woman
says that Rando killed her husband by
hitting him in the head with pick.
Fisher, who was "a years old, was
sort of dwarf and was formerly we'll
known about Harper's Ferry.
A meeting will be held in the old
Shepherd College hall this Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock, when Hon. The
odore Alvord, superintendent of the
West Virginia Anti.Saloon League,
will deliver an addaess. At The same
time an Anti-Saloon League for Shep-
herdstown will be organized. 1t is
hoped that there will be large attend.
snce of temperance people, and that
this community shall join the ranks of
the organized towns to fight the liquor
traffic.
The town council of Harper's Ferry
has passed an ordinance requiring the
saloons to keep the shutters down and
no frosting or curtains on their win.
dows not only on Sunday (Which is re-
CURED by the State law but also on
week days, so that those who are on
the street can observe what is going
on inside. We don't know whether
this is good ordinance or not. We
somehow doubt if it is wise to let the
public see what is going on in the sa'
looms.
The bell that has hung in the tower
of the old Lutheran church for the
past thirty years was taken down yes.
terday and transferred to the new
church, Miller Bros. having contract
ed to move it. The bell is fine toned
one, weighing about LOO pounds,
and was cast in 1877 by the McShane
foundry in Baltimore. The old bell
that had hung in the old church fIom
the date Gifts erection in 1875 until
the new bell was bought, now hangs
in the tower Of the keepers house at
Elmwood Cemetery.
]. W. and ]. @. Blackford, of Shen-
andoah Junction, with engineer Ben
ton Blackford and three colored
helpers, made an Interesting trip a
few days ago, when they ran a trac.
ton engine from that place to
Waynesboro, Pa. With their engine
hauling another engine that was"dead"
and a wagon containing coal, etc,
they left the Junction at 2 a. m, and
at p. m. were in Waynesboro, COW
ering a distance of AZ miles in that
time, averaging little over two and
a-half miles an hour. They went by
way of Shepherdstown and Hagers-
town and most of the time were in a
pouring rain. They will either have
their engines repaired or buy new
one.
In the new organization Of the Hsr.
per's Ferry Stone & Lime Company,
stone being added to the style of the
company, there are but four of the
old members remaining, with seven
new ones, all capitalists of Pittsburg.
Of the new organization NJ. NJ. Rees
is made president, D. A. Rees vice
president and treasurer, with M. M.
Rees, D. A. Rees, ]. D. Gallery, E.
nnrhorn and Ins w Rlackmore,