Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-08-14
LITTLE LOCALS.

N>N'SS PSi uNlC.
A meeting of the State Board of Re-
gents was held in Wheeling last week,
out the appointment OF a teacher for
Shepherd College to take Miss Waddelrs
place was deferred until a future meet
ing.
The Norfolk & Western Railway will
run another excursion to Pen-Mar on
August 18th. 1t is suggested that the
railroad folks run the train at full speed
past the Hagerstown brewery, gwine and
comm.
The members of the Uvilla Southern
Methodist Church will hold their annual
harvest home at that place on Thursday,
August 18th. Fine dinner and supper
will be served at popular prices. Every
body invited to attend.
A very interesting lecture was deliver
ed in the college auditorium last Satur-
day night by Mr.. Claude N. Bennett, of
Washington, whose subject was 1.-THE
South Today" The lecture was illus
trated by many beautiful pictures.
The annual harvest home festival of
Mt. Wesley M. E. Church will be held
on Saturday, August 10th, at the home OF
Harry Whiting at Billmyer's Mill. Sup
per will be served, beginning at 5 O'Clock,
and seaSonable refreshments will be sold.
The town council has agreed to have a
wagon go along the streets each Monday
morning to haul away the dirt that prop
erty owners will have swept up in piles
in front Of their premises. This ought to
result in having Main street kept clean
all the time.
Mr.. Leonard D. Emmert, manager of
the Hagerstown Globe, and Miss Annie
E. Remsburg, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Remsburg, of Sharpsburg, were
married Tuesday at the parsonage of st.
Johns Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, by
Rev. DR.. S. w. Owen.
There is such heavy growth of water
grass in the c. & o. canal that navigation
is seriously impeded. The flow ofwater
is interfered with and the boats are with
difficulty dragged through it. The grass
cutter, sort of submarine moving ma
chine, is kept busy all the time.
The encampment of the National Guard
OF the District of Columbia at Harper's
Ferry broke up yesterday after ten days
OF camp life. Last Sunday the camp was
visited by thousands OF persons, includ
ing 5000 who came up by special trains
from Washington and Baltimore.
J. Edward Stanley, who was hurt so
badly last week by falling from tree,
when he broke his collarbone and sus-
tanned many painful bruises, is getting
along fairly we'll though he has suffered
much pain from his injuries. Drs. Banks
and Myers have been attending him.
Go to the college auditorium Saturday
night of this week and enjoy the travel
talk by Will H. Thomas. His subject
by Will H. Thomas. His subject will be
Washington City, and moving pictures
and handsome scenes will be shown.
Admission will be free, and everybody is
invited to be present.
The teachers institute for Jefferson
county will be held in the new high school,
building at Harper's Ferry the week be-
ginning August 18th. The instructors
will be Prot. l. L. Friend, of Charleston,
ard Ms Harriet Lyon, OF Huntington,
both OF whom are regarded as among the
oeSt instructors in the State.
Thercre'S only only one bad place on
the turnpike between Shepherdstown
and Charles Town now-the hole where
the little stream crosses the road near the
W. N. Buckles place, north OF Halltown.
We hope that Mr.. Mcdonald will soon
have concrete culvert or some other
satisfactory arrangement made there. II
is death trap for automobiles.
The State Camp of Virginia, United
Confederate Veterans, will meet in Ro-
anoke September 18th TO 10Th, and it is
expected that this will be a very interest
ing reunion. The Jefferson county camp
is connected with the Virginia organiza-
ton, and veterans who desire to attend
the reunion may secure certificates by
applying to Adiutant Geo. H. Hageley,
Charles Town.
There were rumorS here this week that
Mrs. Thomas Dale formerly Miss Jose
phine Morrow and her niece, Miss Mary
Morrow, had been killed in Mexico by
insurgents while iourneying to their home
in Chihuahua. Yesterday, however,
Ruthven Morrow, OF this place, received
word that the two ladies had arrived in
safety at their destination, and the anxiety
of their friends here has been allayed.
VIM. r. Deck brought to Our office a
few days ago the top part OF six-pound
shell that was found in the river near the
old cement mill few days ago by Will
liam Muck. II was evidently one OF those
shot from federal battery on the Mary
land hills during the fight at the cement
mill in September, 1868. 1t is a curious
tact that the paper fuse of the shell was
still in place, despite the fact that it had
been submerged in the river for fifty
years.
Robert Gibson. who has had many
years experience as druggist in Shep-
herdstown and elsewhere, has concluded
to open another drug store in this place.
He has leased the room in the Winter
moyer building, next to the Register Oh
flee, formerly used as clothing store.
MIR. Gibson is now arranging for furni-
ture, equipment, stock, ETC., and hopes