Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-06-02
sHARpsBuRd NEWS.

We can congratulate ourselves on hav-
| ing had one OF the incest decorations Gays
we have had for long time, If the horse
show people of Hagerstown did try TO
snow us under-but we got there just the
same. They scattered hundreds OF CIT
culars around on memorial day IN our
town, trying TO get our visitors. :.
Harry Thomas went to Shenandoah
Junction on Sunday evening and brought
| the memorial day SpeakerS-MesSrS.
Pearre and Hamilton. They were quar-
tered at the Antietam Hotel. The ad-
dresses at the cemetery were the best Tor
some time, and the procession was The
finest that marched up for years. A great
| many strangers were here, and the NUM-
Der in attendance, considering the many
places to 90, was good. Very few from
| this section went to the mule and heller
races at Hagerstown..
Considerable complaint was found with
the livery stable keepers who fed and
cared for the teams on decoration day
because they charged 40 cents for horse
feed and for keeping horse in a stable
to hay all day. When man objects to
charge like that at the present prices OF
hay and other feed, he ought TO stay at
home and saw wood.
Mrs. Emily Hendricks, OF Sacramento,
Ky, has come to Our town to make her
home with Whitfield Grayson. She is
a great aunt 10 him.
Mrs. Mary E. Grayson, OF Luray, Va,
is here visiting Mrs. Saline M. Grayson.
We were informed that an offer was
made to the drum corps at HagerStoWn
TO keep them there for the horse show,
but it wasn't so easily bought OFT.
The merchants and Shopkeepers did a
thriving business this year.
Rev. Jacob Carter, his wife and family,
| of Creagerstown, Md, are visiting Mr..
Carter's mother in this place.
Rodney Swain and wife, OF Cumberland,
are here visiting their relatives.
Mrs. CLYDE Rohr and children, OF Bal
timore, and Mrs. Edna Mann and children,
of Hancock, were here visiting Joseph
Rohr's family.
Mrs. Samuel Stride, who has been in
Washington for the past eight months, has
returned home and is now very seriously
ill with cancer Of the stomach, with little
hope of recovery.
Charles Pry has returned home from
Washington for short stay with his TAM
lily here. y,.o,
John Pry and grandson, of Frederick
1 county, Md, spent a week here with MIS-
Frank Pry and sons.
Miss Martha Reilly is on the SICK list
this week, suffering with gathering:
By an order from the burgess OF the
town, all dogs will have to be muzzled
after the 3lst of May. If caught on the
street without a muzzle they will be shot
by the town police. -
Mrs. Cornelius Boyer, near Eakle
Cross Roads, fell down a stairway at her
home, badly bruising herself.
A young intoxicated man from Sandy
Hook was lying on the high wall on Gem
etery hill in front of John E. Otto,S when
he fell to the road below, about 10 feet
He was badly bruised by striking on the
cobbled drain.
Charles Dorsey's barn is almost ready
to be raised, as soon as the stone maSons
are done.
Hall Wilson is spending week at the
home of his mother in this place. Hall is
a motorman on a street car line in wash,
ington. He is almost to the 2OO-pouno
mark in weight.
Miss lula Hebb, who had been spend
ing the winter with her sister near Bal
timore, has returned to her home here.