Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-05-04
LITTLE LOCALS.

Quite number OF persons from this
county are arranging to go to Little Rock,
Ark, to the Confederate reunion to be
held May l6 to IS.
Constable M. P. Crowl took to the
Girls Industrial School at Salem, w. Va,
last week Jane Herrold, girl about four
teen years old, who lived in the west end
of town.
There will be special musical pro-
gramme at Shepherd College chapel ex-
ercises Friday morning at 1890 o'clock.
An invitation is extended to the public
generally to be present.
Under orders from the Postoffice De-
partment, every piece of mail that passes
through the local postoffice during the
month of May will have to be counted
both incoming and outgoing matter.
This order is a general one throughout
the country.
The music department OF Shepherd
College, OF which Miss Eleanor Blanche
Barnes is instructor, gave very enioya-
bic recital in the auditorium last Friday
evening. The pupils rendered both vocal
and instrumental selections that were
most pleasingly performed.
A rather bad break occurred in the tow
path of the c. & o. canal at the head OF
Dellinger's whitewater, about five miles
below Williamsport, last Monday, causing
several days delay in navigation. The
break was about 30 feet long and extended
to the bottom of the canal.
B. S. Pendleton is having his store
room reprinted and otherwise improved,
preparatory to opening up in couple of
weeks with new line of goods. He
will have five, ten and twenty five
cent stock, each in department separate
from the others, and will also sell toys
as usual and line OF novelties.
A mare belonging to p. N. Brilliant,
east OF town, gave birth few days ago
to pair of very handsome jet black mare
colts. Unfortunately, however, one of
the colts died, though the other is grow
ing SplendidlY. The colts were sired by
the fine young black horse owned by Mr..
Brilliant, the dam being grey mare.
A number of persons in this neighbour
hood observed an unusually large and
brilliant meteor last Sunday night shortly
before 9o'clock. The shooting star flashed
across the western sky in majestic flight,
leaving dazzling trail of light and burst
ing into brilliant fragments before it dis
appeared. The meteor was seen also in
adjoining counties.
We think that the whole community
would be grateful if our town authorities
would take the trouble to have the town
clock put in running order. The clock
runs only day or two in the week, and
the town sergeant reports that all If
needs is good cleaning. II is said that
if the clock is cleaned and hood placed
over the works to keep the dust out this
ancient time-piece will be all right.
1t is said that the town council will
resume the good work OF having new
pavements made this year where needed
within the corporation limits. Shep-
herdstown enjoys the distinction OF hav-
ne more good pavemehts than any town
of its size in the valley, but there are still
quite a few sidewalks that need renewing.
The council will be endorsed by public
sentiment if it makes another campaign
this summer.
The Shenandoah Junction baseball team
is cutting wide swath these days. 1t is
not only beating all the teams that 60 up
against it, but intimates that it has scared
to a FRAGILE those that have not yet found
it convenient to play with them. We
will have to remind the JunctioniteS that
pride goeth before destruction and a
naughty spirit before fall, and that new
grand stand will be the scene Of great la
ME ntation some of these days.
In the Circuit Court at Martinsburg
yesterday James Myers, a white youth
only about II years old, was acquitted OF
the murder of Walter Rideout, a negro
man, in Martinsburg. On December oath
Myers and the negro had quarrel in
saloon, and after they had been put out
OF the place the negro attacked the boy,
who drew revolver and shot his antag-
oniSt dead. The jury was not long in
rendering verdict unanimously acquit-
ting him.
w. Taylor Stringer, of Glyndon, Md,
who married Miss Ruby Mcdonald. OF
ShepherdStown, has recently been pro-
noted to be assistant to President Alex
ander Robertson of the Western Mary
land Railroad, the appointment becoming
effective May lst. This is very impor-
tant position, and Mr.. Stringer's friends
are congratulating him upon his good for
tune. He has been in the Western Mary
land service for thirteen years, having
started in as a stenographer in the audi
tors office.
This is a good season for building
operations but the Baltimore & Ohio and
Norfolk & Western railroads show no
symptoms of beginning work on that
nuch-needed new passenger station at
Shenandoah Junction. The wretched old
rattletrap in which the patrons of both
roads have for so many years endured
discomfort and inconvenience refuses to
fall down, and the officials take no notice
of the complaints OF long suffering pub
lie. This station is disgrace to the
companies that compel their passengers
to use it, and the officials that stand for
such condition need waking up. We
understand that the trouble is with the