Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-04-11
LITTLE LOCALS.

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School will hold an exchange Saturday at
M. B. Bakers store, proceeds for the
missionary cause. Lots of good things
to eat.
Mr.. w. Irvine Mcdonald, of Berryville,
and Miss Pearl Brown, of Martinsburg.
were married in Hagerstown last Sunday
at the Lutheran parsonage by Rev. j. S.
Simon.
The Jefferson County Telephone Com
pany has purchased the property OF the
late Joseph Barry on Camp Hill, Harper's
Ferry, and will remove the Harper's Fer
ry exchange to it.
Boating on the c. & o. canal is now
going on bEiskly. The first boat was
loaded at Cumberland last Thursday-No.
Is. with Captain Charles Fox at the helm,
bound for Georgetown with ll6 tons of
coal.
The first baseball game of the season
will be played in ShepheIdStown next
THURSDAY, April 18th, when the Shep-
hero College team will play against the
boys OF the Shenandoah Valley Collegiate
Institute, Dayton, Va.
The Easter dance held in Shepherds
town on Monday night under the man
agement OF MeSSrS. Spedden and Spohn
was very enjoyable TO those who partlcl-
pated. Among those in attendance were
d number OF persons from out OF town.
The Berean Class OF the M. L. Sunday
School is preparing an interesting tenn
perance programme. Date will be an
nounced later. Every member OF the
berean class is requested 10 meet in the
class room Saturday, April Is, promptly
at 800 p. m.
The body of Mrs. W. H. Greever, OF
Columbia, s. c., was found IN the Poto-
mac river below Washington last Friday.
Mrs. Greever, whose husband is PUBLISH
or OF the Lutheran Visitor, disappeared
about two months ago while unde1fhe
care OF nurse in Washington. 1t is be-
lieved that she persisted while attempting
10 cross 10 Virginia on the ice, and the
river has just given up It's dead.
The Bentztown Bard" whose charm-
ing poetry and prose writings in the
Baltimore Sun have been enjoyed so
much by the people OF this section, will
deliver lecture IN HagerStown Friday
evening OF this week under the auspices
OF the Washington County Historical So
clety. His subject will be "A Trip to
Childhood Town." and the lecture will
be gwen in Trinity Lutheran Sunday
school room. Tickets may be secured
at w. H. H. Needy's iewelry store.
o. B. Leievre, living at Bunker Hill,
has had two domesticated wild geese on
the stream running from his spring for
the past year or so, and when the wild
geese are flying over they getvery noisy.
A few nights ago they were especially
noisy, and on going out 10 investigate, ii
was found that a real wild goose had
come down to the other geese. Mr..
Letever and his hand found no difficulty
IN driving the wild goose into the carriage
house, and there they caught him and
clipped his wings.-MQrtinSburg States
man.
Col. William J. Knott, OF Jefferson
county, VAS he,c during this week in at
tendance al the session OF the Federal
court as grand juror. We are informed
mat he has been prominently spoken OF
IS suitable candidate for the Democratic
nomination. for Congressman at-large.
Col. Knott is eminently qualified for this
post, anG certainly deserves any thing the
narly might bestow upon him. He halls
rom the true and tried democracy OF OLD
Jefferson county, and is honest in politics
as ne is in his buSiness.-MartmS6urg
! Statesman.
Deputy Marshal w. d. Brown gathered
III two alleged "oootleggers" Sunday,
Doth of them negroes, Welton Green, OF
Charles Town, and George Ball, also
said 10 be from Jefferson. The men Piled
their traffic Saturday night after the train
came in from Harper's Ferry. U. S.
Commissioner w. H. Thomas Monday
morning gave Green hearing and hello
the man for u. S. Court. He admitted
his guilt, the chief witness against him
oeing his sister, who swore she purchased
liquor from the accused. The other man
viii be given a hearing Tuesday. The
inquiry started after batch OF negroes
got into scrap Saturday night and some
we're arrested. 1t developed that the
liquor had been sold prior to the fight
MartinSburg Journal
Mary Holmes, colored woman VINO
lived on the Wysong place mile or two
south OF ShepherdStown, is langulShing IN
Jail in Pennsylvania on tile charge OF
stealing. The woman was working tor
Mrs. ]. q. Cromwell in WayneSboro, Pa,
and last week she disappeared, together
with clothing and jewelry valued at about
800. Stephen Staley, chief OF police oil
Waynesboro, accompanied by Constable
Rowland, OF Hagerstown, got on her trail,
and last Thursday came here in an auto
mobile. Constable Robert Shipley, OF
ShepherdStown, went with them to the
girls home, where they found her with
her family. The loot was discovered IN
tub and Mary was put under arrest,
The stolen property consisted OF three
skirts valued at $50, gold hat-pin worth
S25 and several gold pins valued at S.
each. The girl was taken TO Chambers
burg, where she was placed in Jail to
await trial.