Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1908-08-27
LITTLE LOCALS.

The stated fall meeting Of Winches
ter Presbytery will be held in Shep,
herdstown, beginning on Tuesday
September 10Th.
The annual fair dance given by tn,
young men Of Shepherdstoxn will b,
held In the town hall next Thursday
night, September Sd.
We have added a number of new
subscribers to our list this week. NJ
one should borrow the REGISTER wher
1t can be had year for a dollar.
We have had fine rains this week
that have been very beneficial to thu
late crops. The temperature has beer
around 80 degrees for several days.
Miss Rose Cockrell has been ap.
pointed principal of the Bakertor pub.
lie school, with Miss Ethel Moler al
assistant. Miss Grace Knott gets the
Keller school.
The regular fall term of Shepherd
College State Normal School will be,
gin Tuesday, September 9th. The in.
cidental fee has been iucreassd-it il
now $500, instead Of $3.50.
The price of fresh meat has taken 9
considerable tumble in Shepherds.
town since Hodges & Bysrs have
opened up. The average drop has
been about three cents a pound, and
there Is talk Of still another reduc.
ton.
Messrs. Chas. 81. Reinhart and B
Q. Snyder, two well-known young
teachers of this county, have been ap.
pointed to positions in the high schoo
at Eagle Rock, Botetourt county, Va.
They will take up their new work in
September.
Miss Mary E. Spong, Of Shepherds.
town, and Sergeant Charles b. Wade,
OF the United States Army, were mar.
ried last Thursday at the Lutheran
parsonage in Shsrp,burg by Rev. A.
A. Kerlln. Sergeant Wade is station
ed at Fortress Monroe, Va.
Trump's cider mill is now ready fol
business. Do not let your apples go
to waste. Because your crop is email
is the reason why you should save
your drop. We will make cider fol
you or buy your apples. Grinding
days Tuesdays and Fridays.
Rev. J. B. Keller, of Half Way
Md, will. preach in the Lutheran
Church in Shepherdstown Sunday
morning at 1870 o'clock and Sunday
evening at 7.30. Rev. Mr.. Keller
has preached here before very accep-
tably, and should be greeted by large
audiences.
DR.. Ernest Il. Bitner, son OF Mr..
J. O. Bitner, of Ksarneysville, hal
located at Msrtinsburg for the practic:
of his profession. DR.. Bitnsr is a
graduate of the Baltimore Medical
College, and is young man of ability
and character. We hope that he may
do well in his profession.
The regular monthly meeting Of the
Anti.Saloon League will be held Mon
day night, August 3lst, in the old
college hall, at 8 o'clock. A pro.
gramme Of singing and speaking will
be arranged. Take time to come tc
this meeting and show your interest
in the temperance cause, and thus en-
courage the work.
The town exchequer was increased
again the first of the week 80 the re-
suit of family row that originated al
a dance in Tiger hall, where the col.
orod population gathered for a good
time. George Manuel was the leading
actor in q thres-act melodrams, and
paid q fine of FIVE dollars and costs fol
the privilege of beating his woman.
Workmen engaged in excavatinR
for the new railroad unsarthed another
skeleton laet Saturday near the Luth-
eran church. 1t was partly on the
church lot and partly on the adjoin'
ing property. There is no record Of
any burial at that point, and the body
was probably that of soldier hastily
buried there during the Civil War.
The officers of the Hsgerstown fair
have appointed the following advisory
board for Jefferson county: @. D.
Wysong, chairman, E. Rush Turner,
secretary, @. N. Coleman. N. R. Rob.
erts, ]. William Rider, Harry L. Sny-
der, I. W. Williams, J. P. Kesrfottr
NJ. B. Baker, B. F. Harrison, Robert
Smith, E. q. Remnant, A. s. Dan
bridge.
Henry s. Baker bought half dozen
fine draft horses in this vicinity the
fret of the week for Washington
coal dealer. M. P. Crowl and his son
Robert took them to Washington, 60.
ing by way of Harper's Ferry and
Leesburg. 1t was an unusually good
bunch of horses. the heaviest weighing
LOO pounds. The prices paid aver
aged about 5000.
At the meeting Of the Tri'State
League of Odd Fellows in Martins
burg last week the following officers
for the ensuing year were elected
President, O. M. Hodgson, of Winches'
ter secretary, E. T. Licklider, Shep'
herdstown; treasurer, Mr.. Simpson,
of Maryland. Another meeting viii
be held in Shepherdstown the third
Tussday in February.