Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-05-06

| Our local dealers are offering 81 40
busheI for wheat today-the highest price
reached in long time. Corn is n cents
a bushel.
Let every householder and property
owner in town clean up his premises
thoroughly and make the community still
more attractive. .
| As the 30th of May, decoration day,
will fall on Sunday this year, it has been
decided to observe Monday, May 3lst,
as decoration at Antietam National Gene
terry.
| u. S. Martin has caused the formation
of quite lake at the foot OF Princess
street, the dam he has erected across the
town run having backed up pretty little
body S water.
g. J. Burner has moved his jewrley
store from the Lambert building to the
room occupied by H. L. Wintermoyer,
the halter. The latter will move his hat
store into his fathers building.
&c. Dolan, formerly of Strasburg, Va,
has opened up a first-class barber shop in
the building formerly occupied by Lester
Wells, and asks for share of the public
patronage. Mr.. Dolan comes highly rec
commended.
An esteemed subscriber in Brooklyn,
N. Y, man who knows what's what,
writes us: "The present handsome APP
pearance of the Register is much appre-
ciated, as indeed are all its other features,
which 60 to make it complete and in
teresting chronicle of the old burg and
the regious round about"
The entertainment to be given in the
college auditorium next Wednesday night
by the girls mandolin and glee clubs OF
Irving College will be a most enjoyable
performance. This concert was given in
Gettysburg, Pa, few days ago to an
enormous audience, and all who heard it
were delighted. Keep in mind the date,
May 18th.
On Saturday, May LIST, Mr.. Charles w.
Andrews, of Shepherdstown, and Miss
Jane M. Quigley, of Charles Town, were
quietly married at the home of Mr.. Henry
c. Page in Charles Town. Those pres
ent at the wedding were Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry c. Page, Miss Sally Page Andrews,
and Mr.. Matthew Page Andrews. Rev.
DR.. A. c. Hopkins was the officiating
clergyman. Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews, with
Miss Sally Page Andrews, expect to open
their home, Fruit Hill. near town, early in
the summer.
The model school and training depart
ment of Shepherd College was commenced
yesterday in the east wing OF the old col
lege building, with Miss Frieda Beinhart,
of Cincinnati, in charge. A good-Sized
class of children has been secured, but
more can be accommodated. Children
under five cannot be received, nor is it
desired to take any above the second
grade of the public school. The children
are instructed in clay and sand modelling,
paper cutting, etc. Everything needed is
furnished by the school, except paper.
| The tuition fee is dollar a month.
Some of the young folks OF the town
have gotten into habit that is liable to
get them into trouble, namely, "borrow-
ing" teams hitched along the streets,
without the consent OF the owners. Mon
day night a farmer from west of town
missed his horse and buggy from the
place where he had left them, and later
found that the horse had gone all the way
home without driver. II was a spirited
animal and it is remarkable that it had not
broken the vehicle or caused an accident
of some sort. The practice OF driving oil
with teams belonging to other persons
should be stopped.
Attention is called to the statement OF
the Farmers Bank OF Shepherdstown in
this issue of the Register The Farmers
Bank is growing steadily, and during the
past year il has made very noticeable
gains. Its last statement, in November,
1908, showed total resources OF $lOl,-
639.53. Today it has advanced to $751;
| TOT. 10. Its loans and investments five
months ago were $79,S25.49; now they
are $lO5, 4S4.S7. Its surplus and profits
amount to $5,67S.02 at the present time.
This is enviable progression, and its. Of
ficers and directors are proud of the show
ing that has been made.
William ]. Britner has moved with his
family from Swissvale, Pa, to Shepherds
town, where he will make his home in
the future, for the present occupying the
Westinghouse OF his father-in-law, John
H. Show. Mr.. Britner is former resi-
dent of Shepherdstown, but moved to
PENNSYLVANIA some twenty years ago.
Business is very dull now in the whole Of
the Pittsburg section, and he concluded to
come back to his old home, where he will
again take up his occupation, that OF
stone mason and contractor. We are al
ways glad to see our old boys and girls
come back home, and our people will
welcome Mr.. Britner and his family.
A subscription has been started by
Prof. A. M. Anthony, of Bates College,
Lewiston, Maine, to raise funds for the
purchase of John Browns Fort, near Har-
per's Ferry, and have it moved to the
grounds at Storer College, where it is
proposed to convert it into a library
building for the school. The fort was
taken down sixteen years ago and re-
moved to the Worlds Fair at Chicago
where it was rebuilt for exhibition pur-
| Noses II attracted little interest there