Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-26
LITTLE LOCALS.

ity will have public speaking at that
place Saturday night OF this week at s
O'Clock. Mr.. John Porterfield, of Charles
Town, will deliver an address.
- Special attention is directed TO the ad-
vertisement of the National Highway
Garage this week. This firm handles the
famous Maxwell automobiles, which have
proven so popular all through this Sec
ton.
| o. H. Grubbs, who succeeds Robert
Carmichael as second operator at the
passenger station of the Norfolk & West
ern Railway at Shepherdstown, has be-
gun his work here, starting in on Sunday
last. Mr.. Grubbs comes from Walnut
Cove, NC.
Tuesday during the heavy rain part
of one of the chimneys on the Reformed
parsonage let 60, and number OF bricks
ratified down the slate roof and fell to the
pavement. Chas. E. Walters was passing
at the time, and he had 10 do some lively
side stepping to avoid the falling bricks.
Apple buyers in this section are not in
clined to bid much over $500 barrel, in
few cases offering as much as 1925.
The growers are holding out for $3.50 a
barrel, and if they don't get their price
they may undertake to market their fruit
themselves or through an agent Of their
own selection.
Joseph Turner, Jr., of this place, caught
a big carp in the river yesterday at the
foot of Princess street. He was fishing
with a dipnet when he shared the mon
ster, and had hard time getting it out OF
the water. II weighed 26 pounds and
measured three feet and two inches in
length. 1t attracted good deal of atten-
ton on the street when he brought it
home.
By a majority of 1876 out of total vote
OF TAG Winchester on Tuesday voted to
remain "dry" for another term of two
years. Two years ago the temperance
people carried the election by $50 major
ity. The temperance people called for
the election this time taking advantage OF
the tact that 300 voters, most of whom
were wet, could not vote because they
had not paid their taxes.
Misses Willie and Marks Hollida, OF
Scrabble, who are in hospitals in Mar
tinsburg, the former with typhoid fever
and the latter recovering from the effects
of an operation for appendicitis, are
doing very we'll, according to late reports,
and are expected to convalesce rapidly.
Their many friends hope that they may
soon be well. Mr.. James H. otaley.
their brother-i law, who is down with
typhoid fever, is getting along as well as
could be expected.
There was quite commontion on the
street last Saturday night when mis-
chievous colored man wheeled into a
dark corner baby carriage containing a
sleeping picaninny. When the mother
found that her baby was gone she raised
fog that spread all over the neighbor-
hood. and even after The lost had been
found she continued to express vigorous
though impolite opinions of the joker.
He excused himself by saying she had so
many he didn't think that she would miss
| just one.
The Democrats of Shenandoah juno
ton and vicinity had very enthusiastic
meeting last Saturday afternoon, when
they had an oId-fashioned pole-raising.
A poll about so feet high was raised with
proper ceremonies and the Democratic
banner was flung to the breeze. Public
speaking was held in the hall, which was
filled II its utmost capacity, DR.. w. w.
Brown presiding. Hon. c. w. OSenton,
of Fayette county, and Hon. q. K. hump,
of Hampshire county, candidate for the
State Senate from this district, delivered
excellent addresses. A very large crowd
was present at the pole-raising, and the
Democrats of the Junction feel as if they
have made good start of the campaign.
d. T. Williamson, one OF Our Berkeley
county subscribers. was in the Register
office few days ago, and recalled the
fact that fifty years ago last Sunday, four
days after the great battle of Antietam,
he went over the battlefield, being a
youth of about fourteen years Of age. He
remembers the dreadful scene very dis
tinctly. Many OF the dead had not yet
been buried, and trenches were being
dug in which they were being inferred
by scores, without coffin or winding
sheet. The ground was strewn with
equipment and accoutrements OF every
sort-cannons, guns, swords, pistols,
cartridge boxes, etc., while shells, can
non balls and bullets lay thick upon the
bloody field. II was gruesome sight
and one never to be forgotten.
For more than a week, says the Ha-
gerstown Herald, the officers had been
aware that Mrs. Virgie Marshall, alias Viz
gle Hockenberry, q years old, and Emily
Haines, of Bakerton, w. Va, 10 years OF
age, were camping, literally day and
| night, in the Armstrong woods with a
| crowd OF youths and young men around
them all the time. These girls bear
bad reputation, and have been under the
ewes of the officers, so Sunday evening
Policemen Sales and Williams and Lieut..
Barber searched the woods and failed to
find the girls. Later, they were informed