Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-07-24
sHARPsBURd NEWS.

Miss Blanche Poffenberger hasn't been
able to put up the flag on the Philadelphia
Brigade flagstaff, owing to someone cut
ting the rope and causing it to tall. ne
ion of the staff will have to be lowered TO
nut another one up. Mr. Poffenberger is
getting the avenue leading in to the mon
umeni in shape to put down tarVia MS
faH. IA:
ton TO his drug store, TO make room Ior
his soda water and iceCream trade. Clpp
& Beachley are doing the work. -.
Abraham Bowman, from near Green :
castle, Pa, who was member OF Inc
| 10th Pennsylvania Regiment OF Infantry:
was here Monday OF this week, and SAID
he had in his possession the saddle he
captured from major OF the second N.
c. Cavalry. He said he got II on the re-
turn of Lees army from the Gettysburg
battle. He spoke of the two dead Con-
| federate soldiers lying in the Mrs. Emory
Smith house, where they had gone to get
something 10 eat and drink. He remem-
bered seeing the one that had the onions
clinched in one OF his hands. There are,
or were, number OF persons from this
town that remembered this occurrence
and the killing of the man at the old well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Dulin came up from
Washington to spend some time with
MS. Dulin's parents. Mr.. and Mrs. o. /.
| Reilly. ,,,.
Mrs. Clarence Snyder has gone to Wis
consin, being summoned there by the
death OF her mother.
Mirvin Delaney caught the boss bass
this week-it weighed four and a-quarter
pounds. II was corker. II didn't have
SO many hooks in like the one Raleigh
caught or he would have weighed more.
Iohn and Leroy Nose, OF this place,
are encamped for two weeks on the West
Virginia shore opposite Snyder's Land
| ing.
Uncle Van Brashears sold at public sale
last Saturday a number OF tools and some
household goods. Uncle Van has given
up the cooperage business and will visit
among his children for while.
| Whitfield GraySon says his cream bus
mess has increased and he will be
obliged to establish another route. He
has also embarked into the icecream
business.
o. T. Reilly and Leonard HighbargeI
went to the 40-acre Sherrick cornfield
last Friday and in a short time found ~
bullets and a piece OF shell. SO you see
after nearly 81 years there is yet some 10
be found.
Charles Fry, who is the regularly en-
ployed laborer at the Antietam National
Cemetery, is taking weeks vacation.
He will visit the cavalry maneuvers al
Winchester for few days.
Houston Carnahan, our ice man, IS
obliged to haul ice from Hagerstown to
furnish his many customers. owing to a
break down in the EGGPLANT OF Shep-
herdstown. 1t keeps Houston busy
hauling merchandise.
Harry Shackelford and Cleveland De-
Launey are painting the public school
buildings.
John Long, of Auburn, Nebraska, one
of the first apprentices of L. E. Suman,
the Well-knoWn undertaken and furniture
dealer of KeedysviIle, was in our town on
Tuesday. He called on the Register cor
respondent, they having been boys to-
gether in Keedysvile. He went to Ne
braska about 40 years ago, and fladn
been east for many years.
Mr.. Hancock, who came here from
Barre, Mass, with his daughter, Miss
Mary, and who has been conducting a
lunch and tea house for tourists, has re-
turned to Wooster, Mass. Miss Mary
will remain for time yet.
Martin Hine, who is tenant on Mrs.
Fannie Spong's farm. split an old tree
onen this week, when out came a six
foot blacksnake. He soon killed it with
his AK.
Mrs. VIM. Farley while visiting at Mr.
David Otto's on Tuesday fell and very
seriously injured herself. They couldn't
take her home.