Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-06-17
sHARpsBuRG NEWS.

General E. A. Carman, government
battlefield commissioner, and w. N. Pick
Grill, w. w. Dougheny, j. M. Brown,
bers OF the Indiana State Battlefield Com
mission, were here on Tuesday and To-
Gated position for State monument in
the southwest corner of the Miller corn
field to the 7th Indiana regiment on the
Hagerstown pike at the end OF Mansfield
avenue; the 9th Indiana on Cornfield av-
enue; the 10Th Indiana on Stark avenue;
the l4th Indiana at Bloody Lane and the
Sd Indiana Cavalry on the keedySville
pike near Myers mill. The State has ap-
propriated SIS, 600 for this work and they
will be dedicated September 18th, 1910.
Misses Mary and Della Snyder have
gone on visit to their aunt and uncle,
DR.. and Mrs. DeKalb, of DeKalb, Iowa.
They will stop a few days with their
brother Clarence in Chicago.
Mrs. Ada Thomas, her sons Harry and
George and Mrs. Harry Thomas arrived
last Saturday to spend the summer al
their home here.
Fred Albert, of Toms Brook, Va, who
is employed with the b. & D. Railroad al
Brunswick, is spending week with his
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. o. 7. Reil-
ly.,
Miss Bette Wilson returned home from
Camden, N. J., on Tuesday. She will
remain home for some months.
Mrs. Annie Forbes, OF Philadelphia,
Pa, has returned home here to visit her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Marshall.
Major Swift, in command of the War
College students to the number OF -, and
Lieutenant Moore, in command OF Troop
c, 18th u. S. Cavalry, with about l3C
head OF horses and mules, went in camp
on the Sherrick farm near Burnside Bridge
on Monday and will remain here until
Friday morning.
General Kieffer, Congressman from
Ohio, came on Tuesday and will accom-
pany them TO Gettysburg. General Kiet-
fer served in the civil and Spanish Amerl-
can wars and is guest Of the camp.
Mr.. Whitfield Grayson, OF Washington,
is spending week with his wife at her
former home here.
John w. Fisher, who has been spend
ing some months with his daughter, Mrs.
Laura Delaney, has gone to Roanoke
Va, to visit his children there.
Mr.. Corbett, of Hagerstown, has the
contract to put new wire fence around
the 5lSt New York monument grounds al
Burnside Bridge,
John p. Smith spent week or ten days
at Gaithersburg, Nd, visiting his relatives,
after returning from WayneSboro, Pa,
where he delivered an address on me-
mortal day.
Mrs. Homer Jones and little son Max
well, OF Keedysville, has been at the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. o. 7. Reilly
Little Max has the measles.
Jos. c. Roulette'S family. of HagerStown,
visited his auntS, the Misses Miller, IN
this place on Sunday.
Mrs. c. d. Carter and children, Mrs.
Miles and Howard Swain, OF Bakerton,
came over Saturday and spent the night
and Sunday at Edward Carriers, on the
Sherrick farm, near mere.
Bud Smith and Frank Hammond, while
digging dirt near the Mansfield monument
on Tuesday afternoon, came on to the re-
mains OF Union soldier who had been
buried there since the battle OF Antietam.
They found the bullet that killed him in
the center OF his stomach, also the frame
OF a brass picture, lady's gold ring, q
key, and Massachusetts, State button
He must have been a man 6 feet tall, by
he length of the bones.