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

Is cents dozen.
Binder Irvine, oil and harvesting sup
plies at Hodges.
Wheat is quoted at $l.45 in our local
markets and corn at so cents.
Judge Faulkner has reappointed Adam
Brennaman jury commissioner for JET
ferson county
Election of officers for Washington
Camp, No. 8, P. o. S. of A., next We'd
nesday night at s O'Clock.
Lost, in Shepherdstown, gold baby
pin, with initials L. S. Finder will be
rewarded by leaving it at Bakers store.
The ladies of the Lutheran Church al
Uvilla will hold festival in the hall al
that place on Saturday night, June 10Th.
Tomorrow, Saturday Sunday and Mon
day will be the shortest days in the year.
The sun will rise at 434 and set at 7.28.
The summer school at Shepherd COL
lege, conducted by Prof. ]. D. uldoon and
Prof. w. M. Duke, has an enrolment oil
Al.
DIR. !. B. Chamberlain, oculiSt, will be
at the Entler Hotel, in Shepherdstown,
Tuesday, June 10Th. Eyes examined free
OF charge.
Lost in ShepherdStown yesterday, a
gold pin, set with brilliants. The finder
will be rewarded by leaving it the Reg
lister office.
All members of Jefferson Encampment,
!. o. o. F., are urged to attend the meet
ing Friday night of this week at s O'Clock.
Election of officers.
Lost, on the road between MartinSburg
and the home of w. c. Locke, on Rocky
Marsh, June 18th, go in bills. The find
er will be rewarded by leaving it with Mr..
Locke or at this office.
Frank H. CARROT, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. F. CARROT, OF the Zoar vicinity, this
county, was among the graduates OF the
Georgetown University Law School in
Washington last week.
Attention is called to the advertisement
of the creamery and butter mandatory
by ]. S. Bragonier, trustee, elsewhere in
this paper. This is valuable outfit and
is well worthy the attention of buyers.
lanes Brunswick, a well-known COL
ored barber of Harper's Ferry, dropped
dead one day last week in Erwin's drug
store in that place. Brunswick, who for
merly lived in Shepherdstown, was Sc
years old.
Miss Lizzie Brotherton made miss
step at her home few days ago, and
falling from a door into the yard, hurt
herself quite painfully. She has since
been confined to her bed, but is now get
ting better.
An unusually interesting children's day
service was held last Sunday in the M.
E. Church, when the Sunday School rem
dered creditably very attractive pro-
gramme The college orchestra assisted
with the music, which was of high
order.
The Jefferson telephone line along the
Martinsburg road has been extended to
Berkeley county, and George w. Cross
and Frank K. McQulkin have each put in
phones. Thomas w. Hammond, near
Kearneysville, has also had phone in
stalled.
The BaptiSts of Shenandoah Junction
and Leetown held a picnic at Morgan'S
Grove fair ground on Tuesday and large
crowd was in attendance. Three traction
engines hauled them to the picnic grounds,
about dozen big wagons being filled
with the merrYmakers.
Last Sunday afternoon eight members
of Company B, of Hagerstown, including
Capt Geo. L. Fisher, came to Shepherds
town and decorated the grave OF Harry
Turner, aformer member of the company
General and Henry Kyd Douglas, for whom
Company B was originally named. The
rainy weather interfered to some extent
with the occasion.
Samuel Michaels, the skilled taxider-
mist, is busy just now mounting a number
OF birds and animals at his home near
Zoar. Included in the work he is doing
is the mounting OF beautiful full-grown
deer shot by E. o. Harwood, Of Hardy
county, and great blue heron crane for
Miss Murphy, of Claymont Court. He is
also preparing a fine red fox skin for a
rug for Mr.. Matthias, of Philadelphia.
1t IS said that the pen of hogs belong
ing to the Entler Hotel got on big jag a
few days ago. 1t appears that key Of
beer ordered for the hotel bar was found
TO be spoiled, and il was put in the Slop-
barrel. When it was fed to the hogs they
drank it with avidity, and short time
afterward they were good and drunk
Some of them bristed up and got very
quarelsome, which other just acted fool
ish and silly, staggering just like the two
legged sort. Next day they all moped
around as if they had bad headache.
Tuesday night an attempt was made by
a burglar to break into Burners iewelry
store on Main street. The man was
working al the back window about one
O'Clock when he was heard by Miss Lynne
Waddel, who has room at Mrs. Girls
wells in the same building. She looked
out of her window, and when she saw
what he was up to she got her revolver
and fired at him. He Immediately rar
away apparently uphurt, and nothing ha:
since been heard from him. Suspicion
is directed toward a stranger who had ar
rived here some hours before on freigh