Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-09-09
LITTLE LOCALS.


The next State teachers uniform ex-
animation will be held at Shepherd Col
lege, Shepherdstown, September 9th and
10th, beginning at 7 a. m each day.
Governor Glasscock has appointed
VIM. ]. Knott, ESQ.,, of this vicinity, a
delegate to the Farmers National Con-
greSs, which will be in session at Raleigh,
N. C., the first week in November next.
The bricklayers commenced work yes
terday on the new station of the Norfolk
& Western Railway in Shepherdstown.
Ten masons are employed on the struc-
ture, and they will run the walls up in a
hurry.
Rev. John w. Link, who has been fill
ing the pulpit of Lutheran Church in
New York City the past summer, is at
his home at Duffields for vacation before
he resumes his theological studies in New
York.
Prof. Henry T, Wirgman is moving this
week from ShepherdStown to Shenandoah
Junction, where he will teach the public
school the ensuing term. Mr.. Wirgman
and his estimable family have many friends
here, who greatly regret TO have them
move from our community.
Amos Hunt, a colored man about 30
years OF age, employed at the lime works
at Keller, this county, committed suicide
in CHASTITY fashion at Island Park, near
Harper's Ferry, last Thursday. He laid
down on the B. & o. Railroad track and
permitted freight train TO run over him,
his body being cut in pieces. The oc-
currence was witnessed by large crowd
of colored people who were at the park
on picnic. The man is said TO have
been very drunk.
The road makers in Washington coun-
ty ought to wake up and macadamize the
stretch of public road between Shep-
herdstown and Antietam Station, dis
lance of about two miles. There are
good turnpikes from Baltimore clear
through to Shepherdstown, save for this
stretch of sand and clay, and from Shep-
herdstown there are good macadamized
roads all the way down the Shenandoah
Valley as far as Stanton. We hope that
our neighbors will consider their own and
the public good and build decent road
at that point
Shepherdstown won two games from
the Hagerstown Collegians last Saturday
on our home diamond We took the first
game by score OF TO and the second
by too. Dobbins pitched the first game
and Mark Andrews the second, and both
did splendid work. Monday our boys
went to HagerStown, where they were
beaten by score of 9 to 4. We are 10
play two more games here this week
with Brunswick, Thursday at 10 a. m. and
Friday at 800 p. m. Good sport may be
expected, as Brunswick puts up good
game with us always.
The directors OF the Hagerstown fair
have appointed as members Of the advi-
sorry board from Jefferson county the fol-
lowing: c. D. Wysong, chairman, E. R.
Turner, secretary, c. n. Coleman, H. L.
Snyder, NJ. B. Baker, N. R. Roberts, |.
w. Williams, ]. VIM. Rider, J. P. Kear-
fott, n. T. Snyder. E. H. Reinhart, A. S.
cambridge and w. F. Alexander. The
members from Berkeley county are De-
catur Hedges, chairman, J. w. Dodd,
secretary, A. g. Legg, John Clendenning,
c. A. Weaver, M. A. SnodgraSs, Gray
Silver, Robert Homer, D. R. Hudgel,
John H. Lemen, Hunter Walker, Ran
dolph Hoffman.
The Eastern Convocation of the diocese
OF West Virginia will be held in St. Johns
Church, Ripon, September Is to 30, in
elusive. The services connected with
the convocation will be conducted by
Rev. A. g. Griunan, Berkeley Springs,
at 100 p. m, Tuesday, September Is.
Rt. Rev. q. w. Peterkin will deliver
sermon and administer holy communion
at II a. m, on the following day. A mis-
sionary service by Revs. ]. S. Alfriend
and c. E. A. Marshall will be held at
100 p. m, of the same day. On Thurs
day, September 30, the last day of the
convocation, there will be morning pray
er and sermon by Rev. A. J. Willis at II
a. m, and evening prayer and sermon at
100 O'Clock by Rev. J. S. Alfriend.
Some twenty-eight deeds conveying
the right of way for laying pipe line
have been put on record with Clerk ChaS.
A. Johnson in the county clerks office.
The deeds are from property owners in
Middleway, Charles Town and Harper's
Ferry districts, and the rights OF way are
given to w. Raymond Cross, to lay,
maintain, operate and remove pipe line
for the transportation OF oil or gas, and
to erect, maintain and operate telegraph
or telephone line if necessary. The line
enters the county in the neighborhood OF
Middleway, passes Charles Town through
the lands of c. N. Starry, John c. Burns
and others, and thence eastward until it
passes through the lands of Thos. E.
Baumgardner, Geo. w. NARROW, D. B.
Lucas's estate and B. F. Moler.-Spirt.
Contracts were closed few days ago
for the manufacture and delivery 10 the
New York Herald and the Atlanta Journal
of $500 porcelain enameled iron signs to
be used in the permanent marking OF the
new highway at convenient points be-
tween New York and Atlanta. 1t is in
tended to erect 1000 OF these before the
dedicatory reliability contest over the
route the last week in October, so that at