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I jjuisdavT 1911 BRIEFS. yw moon on Sunday. Today IS ascension day. gg paint at Owens Aliller's. I I Baby foods at Owens Miller's.

Court will meet June 8U1. futol wall paint at Owens Miller's. I Fresh vegetables at L. R. Thompson's I dailyB Meet her at fountain at Owens I I This is the last week for the public I schools.

Eastman Kodak supplies at Owens I Miller's. I Vext Tuesday be national decora- I nonday. I Wheat only 87 cents a bushel today. I Com is tic1 cents. ftr vanilla, go toj Cwens a Miller.

Armour's btar hams at 16 cents per I pound at Hodges'. I Limeades-cooling and Qwens a Miller's. Fresh fig newtons. only 10 cents perl pound at Hodges'. I Candies, both loose and in boxes, at I Owens Miller's.

I Eggs are cents a dozen and butter I is 15 cents a pound. Oxfords and pumps just I needed at Hodzes'. 1 For Sale-A good piano, cheap. Ap- I 3t the Register office. I Athletic goods, both Reach's and Spald- I -t- atOvcens a Miller's.

I You can buy at Reinhart Bros'. Sola I 3rand Rice at 8c a package. Phone us your wants this kind of I I feather Owens A Miller. We can give you canned peaches for I I a can-call Reinhart Bros. Owens ci Milleruse Freeman's icecream I only in their sodas and sundaes.

We have a new and up-to-date line of I fishmg tackle. Owens Miller. Oranges, lemons, cocoanuts and other I things at L. R. Thompson's.

Heinz' and Campbell's soups are what I vou want lor Reinhart Bros'. Dry season, but we can give you all I kinds of vegetables at Reinhart Bros'. ForSaie-Young Tamworth Pigs, from I registered stock. Apply to H. W.

Potts. I Hot! Well, I guess it is, but Owens Miller's cold soda ill cooi and refresh I you. 11 Our Tiptop and Vienna bread is taking I fee lead fresh every day. Reinhart I Don't forget that next Wednesday, I Mav3lst, is clean-up day in Shepherds- I town. I New hammocks that will please you in I price, colors and comfort, at Owens I' Pure sugar syrup, excellent for baking I purposes, only 25 cents per gallon, at I Hodges'.

I 11 ne Kegisier win ue sent any one year for a dollar, or six months We have just opened a large quantity of those nice juicy oranges and lemons? Reinhart Bros'. i Aoout sixty of the students of Shepherd College spent last Saturday on the Antietam battlefield. H. L. Snyder Co.

have for sale a tract oi 26 acres of land in Terrapin Neck that they can sell for $20 an acre, invitations are out for a May dance next Monday night in this place. The Friday night dance will be omitted. I'se more olive healthful and nutritious. Use it instead of lard and hotter in your cooking. Reinhart Bros.

There will be a meeting of the U. D. C. rriday evening of this week at 7 ociock at the home of Miss Nettie Entler. Mis? Blanche Barnes entertained the tills sorority of Shepherd College at a "tryenjoyable lawn party at Sudley Place Tuesday evening.

he Lucky Thirteen Club" had a very enjoyable picnic last Saturday afternoon the home of Misses Helen and Mary -'v south oi tovk n. The Sons ol Confederate Veterans are I requested to attend a meeting at H. L.J Wmtermoyer's store Saturday night at to consider business of im- Hiss EmmaSenseny is running ahead ht the gold medal offered for the best fl ertormer on the piano in the Martinsburg School. Miss Senseny has a num- fJB het of relatives in this county. he young people of Llk Branch Pres- ton Church at Duffields will serve JiB chicken soup, strawberries, icecream Woke on the church lawn Saturday JjB June 10th.

All are invited. 'I? I It is said that a couple of detectives are watching for violations the fish law. The season for bass hshir.gdoesn't begin until June 1st, but "Jts oi folks have been catching them I 9 interesting illustrated lecture will pven in the Shepherd College audi- 9 tothis Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. shown will be scenes from Yellowstone Park and points n. the Northern Pacific 'n llie West.

Admission cents, students and children 51 Is 'nsect Pest was discovered in 1 Sanction last week-a beetle that ate i JS eaves from ornamental trees during I 9 and worked so hard that it I YfiB defoliate a small tree in a 1 JH GOliw ti. W. Potts noticed that his trees I were being stripped, and westigation showed this unknown i be responsible. Mr. Potts 1 IB frayed his trees with arsenate ot lead! better ot the bug.

1 Wk executive committee ot the Odd I i Keunion at Pen-Star mapped out I programme at its meeting 1 last week. It was decided! the reunion on Thursday, August be speaking by promi-1 members ot the order and drills by bJ0tlS t0m various cities, while a "hands ot music will turnish music. JH expected that the Noriolk Western mn an excursion trom this E. T. Licklider, ot 1 member ot the executive com LITTLE LOCALS.

Another State uniform examination will be held at Shepherd College, in Shepherdstown, on Thursday and Friday, June 8th and 9th, beginning at 7 o'clock a. m. Mr. H. L.

Snyder announces the approaching marriage of his daughter, Louise Anna, to Mr. Lawrence Lynch, of New York. The wedding will take place the 14th of June. Mrs. R.

C. Ringgold gave a very delightful afternoon tea as a compliment to Mrs. Edwin S. Jarrett Tuesday. The guests were most charmingly entertained at Bellevue by the popular hostess.

The closing exercises of the Shepherdstown Graded School will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when an interestprogramme will be rendered by the pupils. The public are invited to be present. Editor C. S. Musser, of the Shepherdstown Independent, has been appointed a member of the board of equalization and review for Jefferson county.

He succeeds E. Rush Turner, whose term expires this year. It is said that potato bugs, or Colorado beetles, are more numerous this spring than they have been for many years. C. H.

Moffett says that they watched him where he planted his potatoes and then sat around and waited until they came up. Roadmakers are busy in Jefferson county just now, and the five stone-crushers are grinding up the rock by wholesale in every district. At the present rate of progress every road in the county will be macadamized within the next few years. A house belonging to L. D.

Maddex, near Uvilla, was destroyed by fire last Thursday afternoon. The dwelling was tpnanfprt hv Rntlpr Fncrlp whn wac awav from home when the fire started from a spark falling from the chimney to the shingle roof. Col. John T. McGraw, the eloquent West Virginian who has so many friends in this section, will address the Alumni Association of Shepherd College on Thursday night, June 8th, at 8 o'clock, In the College Auditorium.

The public are invited to attend. T. L. Jeffords and H. L.

Snyder, of this county, have been appointed by Governor Glasscock as delegates from West Virginia to the thirty-eighth annual session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, which meets in Boston June 7th to 14th. The Norfolk Western Railway will sell round-trip tickets to Roanoke May 29th to June 1st, inclusive, on account of the Sunday School Convention of the Baltimore Conference of the M. E. Church South, which meets there May 31st to June 2d. The rate is one and three-fifths, plus 25 trifling reduction.

Mr. Theo. F. lmbach, assistant horticulturist of the Experiment Station at Morgantown, has been in this section the past week looking after the apple orchards and advising with the fruit growers. Mr.

lmbach thinks that the value of Jefferson county as an apple-growing section is not yet appreciated by our people. The firm of Thompson Billmyer, which for the past year or more has conducted a general merchandise store at W. P. Licklider's old stand in Shepherdstown, has dissolved partnership. Mr.

Thompson has bought Mr. Billmyer's interest and will continue the business at the old stand, where he hopes to have a continuance of the public patronage. Mr. Billmyer has made no plans as to what he will do. The new Shepherdstown baseball team expects to open the season at Martinsburg next Tuesday.

The Martinsburg CAOm thlf if ic Hnilht paptio iiiuivaiv umi wvuv? ful if a team will be maintained there, as contributions tor its equipment and support are very meagre so far. Our boys will play Hagerstown here on Saturday, June 3d. The game will be called at an hour that ill not interfere with the memorial service. Potomac Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar, of Charles Town, has accepted an invitation from the local members to hold a session in Shepherdstown on Sunday evening, May 28th.

The Commandery will assemble in the lodge room here at 7 o'clock, and will march to the Episcopal Church, where service will be held and a sermon preached by Rev. Mr. Gibbon, of Romney, W. Va. Prominent members of the order from neighboring towns are expected to attend.

Miss Hattie Barnhart, who has been in poor health for some time past, was taken to the hospital in Charles Town last week, where a surgical operation was performed in the hope of giving her permanent relief. She is getting along very nicely now, and her friends here hope that she may be entirely restored. Mrs. Albin, wife of Dr. Albin, of Charles li- CI CUonhnraC eriy miss ucruc ouuw, ui town, was also taken to the hospital last week, where she had to undergo an operation for appendicitis.

She is now improving, though her condition for a time was critical. John H. Fox, a well-known colored man, died at his home near Bardane last Friday night, after a long illness, aged 65 years. He was perhaps the wealthiest colored man in the county, owning a couple of excellent farms well-improved and very desirable. His estate is worth from to $25,000.

He was a very highly respected man, and his death will be regretted by many friends, both white and colored. He was a genuine Christian, the soul of integrity and honesty, and his word was as good as his bond. Esteemed and highly thought of, he was an example to his race and his life shows how a really good man will be appreciated, no matter what disadvantage he may labor under. Hon. Wm.

G. Brown, Member of Congress from the second district of West Virginia, Congressman John Lamb, of Virginia, and Hon. George W. Taylor, Member of Congress from Alabama, have accepted invitations to deliver addresses in Shepherdstown on Confederate memorial day, Saturday, June 3d. Mr.

Brown is well-known to many of our people, and it is through his good offices that the above named have been secured for this occasion. Mr. Taylor is a Confederate veteran, having entered the Southern army at the age of 15 years. He is now serving his seventh term in Con- gress. He is a very pleasing speaker.

Mr. Lamb has been in Shepherdstown before and has a host of warm friends here who will be glad to meet and hear him again. PERSONAL NOTES. Our venerable and respected fellowtownsman, Mr. D.

Frank Billmyer, who has not been in good health for some months past, has been spending most of his time with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Hill, in Berkeley county, near Billmyer's Mill, and will now close his town house and make his home with her permanently. Mr. Billmyer will be missed from Shepherdstown, where he has many friends and old cronies. Major Randolph Carter Berkeley, of the United States Marine Corps, spent last Sunday in Shepherdstown, and his friends were glad to see him again.

It has been a couple of years since Major Berkeley has been here, pan of the time having been stationed in the Philippine Islands. He is now on duty in Washington, where he recently received his promotion to be major. Mr. Wm. L.

Noland, who spent the past year with friends in Jefferson county, left on Tuesday for his old home in South Bend, Indiana. He had a very pleasant visit here among old acquaintances. Mr. Noland says: "Be sure to forward to me the grand old Register, for 1 depend upon it for West Virginia news." We were pleased to have a call a few days ago from Mr. J.

W. Crow, of Williamsport, an old Shepherdstown boy who still has an interest in his native place. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, Mr. B. V.

Ardinger, of Lead, South Dakota, who is visiting in the East. Messrs. George Walters and Edward Licklider, who have been employed in the railroad shops at Roanoke, Va.f are at their homes here, the shops having closed until the first of the month. The latter will probably not likes good old Shepherdstown so much better. Mrs.

Smith and her two children, of Washington, are at Sudley Place, where thpv pynprt tn rpmain snmp timp Mrs Smith was formerly Miss Margaret Harvey, and is remembered as a popular visitor to Shepherdstown some years ago. Mrs. Reynolds Moler, Miss Ella Welshans, Mrs. R. M.

Williams and her little daughter Nellie spent several days the past week at Carlisle, with Mrs. Williams' son Clyde, who is attending Dickinson College at that place. Roy Arnold, a student at Shepherd College from Hampshire county, has been quite sick the past week at Geo. F. Turner's, where he had his room.

His sister came a day or two ago to nurse him. Mrs. Raymond Baby, who has bought the old Stipp place overlooking the river, east of town, has arrived here for the summer and is now busy placing the property in order. Prof. F.

A. Byerly, who is principal of the public school at Petersburg, W. is again at his home in Shepherdstown, his school having closed for the summer. Miss Minnie Tabler, Mr. and Mrs.

George Kemp and little son William have returned home after a very pleasant visit to relatives and friends at Altoona, Pa. Mrs. Dougherty and Miss Lucy Dougherty, of Gainesville, Texas, and Miss Roller, ot Staunton, are guests of Dr. and Mrs. M.

H. Crawford, near town. Miss Elizabeth Taylor, a member of the senior class of Shepherd College, was called to her home in Elkins today by the death of her sister Beatrice. Mr. and Mrs.

B. Frank Fulk, of the Leetown neighborhood, were among the welcome callers at the Register office on Tuesday. Miss Martha Welshans, one of our Berkeley county readers, made a pleasant call at the Register office on Monday. i -f if Mrs. Maine Lucas, 01 orunswicx, visited triends and relatives in Shepherdstown the past week.

Misses Edith Moffett and Nellie Spedden spent several days the past week with friends in Buena Vista. Va. Miss Inez Boyer, of Martinsburg, has been here the past week visiting her sister, Mrs. David Lemen. Rev.

H. C. Haithcox is attending the Lutheran conference at St. Paul's Church, Frederick county, Va. Mr.

John J.Byers,one of the Register's Berkeley county friends, called to see us on Tuesday. i Mrs. H. M. Turner and Miss Louise Anna Snyder are spending a few days in Baltimore.

Mrs. M. J. Latimer, of Charles Town, is here visiting her sister, Mrs. E.

H. Reinhart. Mr. Joseph I. Triplett, is home from Broadway, to spend some weeks.

Church Notes. At a recent meeting of the standing committee of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia held in Martinsburg, Rev. Edgar W. Halleck, of Princeton, W. was recommended for ordination to the priesthood, and Mr.

R. E. L. Strider, of Leetown, for ordination to the diaconate. Rev.

Mr. Halleck is reported as doing very excellent work in his parish, and Mr. Strider has just won the prize which was offered for the best extemporaneous sermon at the seminary. Rev. Dr.

Robert S. Coupland, of New Orleans, formerly of Charles Town, was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Virginia by the council in session at Winchester last week. Dr. Coupland was rector of Ascension Church in Baltimore until a few weeks ago, when he resigned to accept a call from New Orleans. The Lutheran Sunday School has decided to change the hour of service to 9.15 o'clock in the morning, instead of 2 in the afternoon.

The school has held its sessions in the afternoon for many years, but it is thought best now to make a change. Rev. W. A. Lynch will preach at Bakerton next Sunday at 11 a.

m. at the M. E. Church South, and at Shenandoah Junction at 8 p. m.

Subject, "Respectable Sinners." at Uvilla Sunday at 11 a. m. and Shepherdstown 7.30 p. m. Subject for both places: "Is the office of the Gospel ministry desirable M.

E. at Mt. Wesley at 10.30a. m. In Shepherdstown Sunday school at 9.15 a.

Epworth League at 6.30 p. m. and preaching at 7.30. The usual children's day service of the Presbyterian Sunday School will be held in the church Sunday morning at 10.30 o'clock. M.

E. Church 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m.

and Marvin 3 p. m. The Death Record. Ii Mr. John A.

Thomas, a native of Jefferson county, who was in point of service it one of the oldest engineers in the employ A of the B. 0. Railroad, died last Sunday at his home in Baltimore, aged 61 years. His death was the result of Bright's dis- it ease, from which he had suffered for some time past. Mr.

Thomas went to Balti- more from this county about forty years ago and entered the B. 0. service, For twenty-five years he was a locomo- tive engineer, serving continuously until ft about six months ago, when he retired gi from active work. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and of the Masonic fraternity. Mr.

Thorn- fi as is survived by a sister, Mrs. Mary Smallwood, of this county. His wife, who died some years ago, was Sarah C. di Needy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

H. F. Needy, of Shepherdstown. The funeral si service of Mr. Thomas was held in Bal- si timore Tuesday rooming, and then the ti body was brought to Shepherdstown and a interred in Elmwood Cemetery.

Much sympathy is expressed for Mr. and Mrs. Peyton R. Harrison, of Martins- V( burg, on account of the" death of their 31 bright and interesting son, Holmes Boyd le Harrison, wnich occurred last Monday, His death was caused by heart failure, following an illness of five weeks from fever, and is a great blow to his parents. He was eleven years of age, and was a very promising boy.

01 Rev. Dr. Reverdy Estill, rector ofjhis- C( toric St. John's Episcopal Church and one of the leading Episcopal min isters of Virginia, died in Richmond on Tuesday. He was a native of Jefferson county.

Robert Hopper, an estimable young th man of Bakerton, died yesterday, after a long illness from consumption, age 18 years. The funeral takes place tomorrow, j. to An Incident of the Battle of Antietam. j. Our Sharpsburg correspondent sends us an interesting story from that place this week.

A few days ago a party traveling in an automobile, among whom were sev- eral Confederate veterans, visited Antietam Battlefield, and were shown over the 1, scene of the great fight by 0. T. Reilly, the well-known guide. One of t'-e vet- to erans told Mr. Reilly that he was a mem- ber of the Third Virginia (Stewart's) Cavalry, and during the battle was detail- ed with four other men to carry a message from General Stonewall the tu Dunkard Church, to General A.

P. Hill, who had just arrived from Harper's Ferry on the Confederate right. He found Gen- eral Hill in the corn field on the Caleb Michael farm calmly munching an ear of to green corn that he had pulled from a stalk, et When the courier asked for General pi Hill the man eating the corn inquired what he wanted, and when told that he ri carried a dispatch from General Jackson, sc said: "1 am General Hill." The veteran 2. said that the General wore nothing to at designate his rank, and looked just as the to other soldiers. The despatch was then delivered, and that it was important was at shown by the fact that it was by General st Hill's timely action that the Union troops 3.

under General Burnside were checked. Fi Of the five men who were sent with the 11 dispatch to General Hill, three were killed th before they reached him. The veteran al Mr Pnillu that hpfnrp with tc the message he had found a cow near the tr Dunkard Church, and he had milked her, in filling his canteen. He afterward gave s( General Jackson a good drink of the milk, c. Golden Wedding.

On Tuesday, May 16th, our revered townsman, Dr. A. C. Hopkins, and his estimable wife had the unusual happiness hi of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of o1 their wedding. Dr.

Hopkins was mar- cl ried in 1861 to Miss Anne Pleasant At- ol kinson, daughter of Rev. William Atkin- th son, of Winchester, and niece of Dr. John tc Atkinson, of Hampden-Sidney, with whom she was living at the time of her in marriage. Dr. Hopkins then had charge tii of the Presbyterian Church in Martins- burg, but soon left to go into the Confed- as erate he was known as the th "Fighting Chaplain." In 1866 he was th called to the Presbyterian Church in tli Charles he has been the be- it loved pastor ever since.

During the af- hi ternoon and evening a large number of cl Dr. Hopkins' congregation and many tc other friends called to offer their congrat- ulations. Their beautiful home was a mass of lovely flowers, principally den in color, sent by friends, and the whole informal reception was most de- lightful. Dr. and Mrs.

Hopkins had with them their three daughters, Miss Mary, Miss Amelia and Miss Anne Pleasants, anri fhpir snn Rev. A. C. HookinS. of Buena Vista, with his wife and A.

C. Hopkins, 3rd. Mrs. Hopkins'sister, Mrs. Van Lear Perry, who had been her bridesmaid, was also Press.

a A Poor Weather Prophet. a( It is high time that a change is made in 111 the management of the government's 171 weather bureau, for most persons have 01 lost confidence in its prognostications. 171 With all this part of the country parching cl under most unseasonable heat, and with crops crying aloud for rain, Mr. Moore and his assistants have just been making sport of us. Saturday, Sunday and ei Monday last the weather sharps predicted showers and thunderstorms in profusion, but on none of these days could a cloud be seen as big as a man's hand, and so 'r we could only hold the prophets in deris- tc isn.

Fortunately our local weather prophet, Will Hill, predicted rain for Tuesday, and, sure enough, there was a sprinkle of about forty drops. Yesterday there was a short shower, enough to re- tt vive droopihg hopes that we will soon 01 have the much-needed rain. The condi- tion is really serious, and unless we have to good rains in the near future the crops will be materially damaged. There were some good showers north and south of us Tuesday and Wednesday. At Antietam Next Tuesday.

Interesting exercises are planned for decoration day at Antietam National Cem- etery, Sharpsburg, next Tuesday, May a 30th. Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, of llli- A nois, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, and former Senator Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, will be present and deliver addresses, and pos- sibly Secretary Knox may also attend, The procession will form in front of K.

of P. hall at 12.30 o'clock and march to the cemetery, where the usual exercises will be held by the G. A. R. posts, followed by addresses by the above named speakers.

It is anticipated that a large a crowd will be in attendance, as the programme is of unusual interest. i Owens Miller's soda water is made from distilled water only. a the Circuit Court. Thursday was general confession day i the Jefferson Circuit Court, says the idvocate, a number of those indicted ending a plea of guilty. Gordon Bowman, Idgar Rodrick, Frank Mundey and Bragg acknowledged to gambling and rere fined five dollars each and costs, icob Scheerer, who appealed from the sntence of a justice of the peace who ad fined him $25 for assault and battery, leaded guilty to the charge and paid the ne and costs.

Turner White pleaded uilty to a charge of selling liquor to a linor, and C. C. Getzendanner to an inictment for assault and battery. White's ne was $20 and costs and Getzendanner as assessed $50 and costs. The trial of James Reed, or Lukas, inicted for shooting Edward Grove in arper's Ferry a couple of months ago, rellted in a verdict of guilty of unlawful tooting, the penalty for which is one to ve years in the penitentiary.

Reed is stranger, and since his incarceration he as talked little about it is slieved by those with whom he has conjrsed that the man is from Washington, id has been careful to conceal his troubs from friends. Nollies were entered in the cases of enry Johnson, Daniel Tucker, George all, Edward Mitchell, Mate Kimes and ud Kimes, indicted for gambling. The B. 0. Railroad plead guilty of isdemeanor, and was fined $10 and )StS.

john Emmert was put on trial for the lird time on Thursday, the jury at the vo former trials having disagreed. His ial resulted in acquital. The case of Rev. J. E.

Triplett against Jefferson County Telephone Cominy was tried on Tuesday. Mr. Triptt sued the company for mutilating lade trees on his property inShepherdswn, claiming damages in the sum of 05. The jury awarded him a verdict $75. The suit of C.

D. Wysong against C. Wall was begun yesteiday and is still i trial today. 4 OOO-Mlle Run. Kent Miller, of Hagerstown, is going i make a thousand-mile automobile run ith a Cadillac automobile.

The run ill be from Hagerstown to Martinsburg, Winchester, Berryville, Charles Town, arper's Ferry, Shepherdstown and rern to Hagerstown. This route is 100 iles, and the trip will be made ten times ith the same car, right straight along, he car is to run 15 miles per hour, here will be a stop of 15 minutes in each wn tor replenishment of gasoline, oil, c. The car will carry an observer and ress representative. The run began isterday at 7 a. and Mr.

Miller arved in front of the Register building on time at 1.51 p. leaving at 06. He reached Hagerstown at 3.10. id fifteen minutes later another driver the car out for the second round, ast night it pulled into Shepherdstown 10.16, and this morning made its third op here at 6.41. It is aue here again at 06 this afternoon, 11.31 tonight, 7.56 riday morning, 4.21 in the afternoon, 2.46 at night, 9.11 a.

m. Saturday, and le final stop here will be 5.36 Saturday ternoon, concluding the run at Hagers tre ij: wn ai o.uj p. mcic a iiu ouble. The 1,000 miles are to be made i 80 hours, and the engine, which is is to be kept running without a loment's stop. If anybody can keep a tr moving that long it is Mr.

Miller. leaning Up The Town. Last week the residents on Main street Church and Duke streets at their wn expense had the street swept as ean as it could be done, and the town fficers had the dirt hauled away. Then le corporation gave the same treatment i Main street between Church and Priniss streets, making a most gratifying iprovement. The dust was almost enrely eliminated from Main street.

Next Wednesday, May 31st, the town officials the people all over town to clean up leir premises generally and to sweep le street in front of their premises. If le dirt is swept up on piles in the street will be hauled away promptly. We ape that everybody will join in this ean-up movement, so as to have our look nice for memorial day. nportant Orchard Deal. One of our Kearneysville correspondits sends us the following item: B.

G. ratt, the well-known manufacturing lemist of New York City, president of le B. G. Pratt Scalecide has leased ir a term of ten years the Robert H. tewart 90-acre orchard near Kearneysille.

Mr. Pratt is a man of means and xperience, is in close touch with the ading horticulturists of the country, and himself known throughout our State as scientific orchardist. He proposes to iopt the most up-to-date and scientific lethods in this orchard, and expects to lake it in a few years one of the show rchards of Jefferson county. Such a lan should be of great benefit to tHe orlard interests of this section. Ir.

Reinhart Comes Back Home. J. Quigley Reinhart, who for the past ght years has been the representative in leveland, Ohio, of the Sharpe Dohme ompany, has returned to his old home, where he will engage i business. He has organized the Auto and Supply Company, and ill handle automobile supplies of every )rt. He has the exclusive agency for jme good things in automobile accesses, including the famous Miller tires, te Tuto-horn, starting devices, and the lany articles needed by automobilists.

are glad that Mr. Reinhart has come ack to Shepherdstown and we hope that is business may grow. eat Estate Sales. Among the recent sales of real estate in county we note the following: homas Mercer and others to Milton O. the old Kable mill property at Kaletown, including water rights and an ere of ground, for Wilbert A.

tnrris to Miss Ida M. Ronemous.32 acres the farm of the late Henry Ronemous, ear Duffields, for Isaac Kidwiler S. R. Potts, house and lot at Bakerton, 525. The old Flowing Spring Mill proprty was sold by Saltau and Baker to John I.

Burns for $2,100, the transfer including ine acres of land, the old mill, the water ower and a dwelling-honse. Yes, Burpee's seeds arriving every day, nd the kind that grow. Owens Milsr. Don't think that piles can't be cured. Tiousands of obstinate cases have been ured by Doan's Ointment.

50 cents at ny drug store. Confederate Memorial Day. The Southern Soldiers' Memorial Association, John Schoppert, president, has arranged the programme for memorial day in Shepherdstown, Saturday, June 3d. The procession will form in front of the college building at 2 p. m.f with Mr.

Schoppert as chief marshal, and march to the cemetery. The Shepherdstown Band will head the line, and following will be the speakers in carriages, Shepherd College Cadet Corps, Sons of Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy and Veterans. At the cemetery the exercises at the monument will consist of the usual responsive service, the firing of a salute by the cadets and "taps" by Bugler Hiedwohl. At the speakers' stand the following programme will be carried out: Music by the choir. Prayer.

Music by the choir. Address by Hon. Wm. G. Brown, of West Virginia.

Address by Hon. John Lamb, of Virginia. Music by the choir. Address by Hon. George Washington Taylor, of Alabama.

Benediction. Strewing of flowers. Village Improvement Society. A meeting of the Village Improvement Society was held last Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. R.

D. Shepherd, and plans were discussed for the work of the society for the ensuing year. A number of matters were considered, though defi- nite action was not taken on them all. It was decided to offer a first prize of five 2 nA uuiiaia auu a dwvunu uu lars for the most attractive flower gardens, the awards to be made in September next. This is notice to all persons inter- ested to do their best, and the prizes will be awarded upon the judgment of a com- mittee from out of town.

This competi- I tion is open to everybody, and it is hoped that many persons will try for the prizes. The president was authorized to appoint a committee to present a plan for tree planting in town, providing for the filling in of places where there are no trees and suggesting the sort of trees to be planted. The next meeting of the association ill be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Potts on Saturday evening, June 10th, at 7.30 o'clock.

All members are urged to be present. Excitement at Kearneysville. 1 There was much excitement at Kear- neysville Tuesday evening over the ston- ing of a train on the B. 0. Railroad and a fight that being, as i usual, at the bottom of the trouble.

It appears that a freight train was passing Kearneysville, and a youth jumped on i the caboose to ride a short distance. A young man named Tucker, who was un- derthe influence of liquor, heaved a stone at the boy, and it smashed through a win- dow of the caboose. The conductor and brakeman rushed out and pitched into Tucker and his two brothers, and beat I them quite severely. One of the Tucker boys ran home and got a revolver and I began to shcot, though it is said that he did not fire at the railroad gave them a good scare. The bluff worked all right, for the railroaders took to the fields.

Several trains were held up by the fracas, and officers were telegraphed for and came down from Martinsburg to investigate the trouhie. isooody was hurt, but Kearneysville had a very lively evening. A Pleasant Day in the Country. In company with Prof. Thos.

C. Miller and Prof, and Mrs Walter M. Duke, the editor of the Register spent a very pleas- 2 ant day last Saturday in the Bakerton i neighborhood. A good country dinner I was enjoyed with Mr. and Mrs.

Robert M. Duke at their comfortable home near the village. Through the courtesy of Superintendent D. R. Houser and his able assistant, Wm.

H. Link, we went through the great lime-burning plant at Bakerton, where Uiousands of barrels of lime are manufactured every week and i shipped to all sections. This plant is growing all the time and now employs 250 hands regularly. The village is im- proving, and boasts of a number of pretty residences with neatly kept surroundings. We also visited the old Virginia ore bank, where for over a hundred years an excel- lent grade of iron ore has been produced.

Our day was a very enjoyable one, and we were pleased to renew acquaintance with I a number ot old friends in that neighbor- hood. Married. Mr. Olin Conrad McKee, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Edward 0. McKee, near this Miss Azemia Shepherd Crowl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. P.

Shepherdstown, were married in Charles Town May 13th at the Presbyterian manse i by Rev. Dr. A. C. Hopkins.

The bride has been a valued helper in the Register office for the past year or two, and is a popular and respected girl. The Register greatly regrets losing her services, for we have never had a more faitnful and efficient employee. She is about the twentieth girl we have lost through matrimony, and hereafter we shall require them to give bond that they will not get married. Card of Thanks. The family of the late J.

J. W. Johnson wish to express their thanks and appreciation to the friends and neighbors who were so kind to them during the recent illness and death of the deceased. The great kindness of the members of the International Bible Class is especially appreciated. B.

F. Itch I I guess not, after using a bottle of Owens Miller's sulphur and cream of tartar lozenges. IWIllllCll 1 Lfl FOR Sliced DRIED BEEF, BREAKFAST BACON, BOILED HAM, BOLOGNA. Sliced any thickness desired from I 1 -48 of an inch up. Once you have tried our Dried Beef, you will have no other.

Ask for a see how the Great American Sliring Macine does its work. Reinhart Shepherdstown, W. Va. Nazareth Waists, 2 to 12 years, 25c, Muslin and Knitted Underwear of all inery Department Corsets, 50c J-X-M St WE SELL EVERYTHINC WOR 1 PURE DISTILLED During the past year there has 3 could not get pure ice from us, deli jf quantity. We do not ask for your busines: We give you a pure product all the now making regular morning trip co-operation and we will give you pect the ice man to clean out your i 5 have it ready to receive the ice wh doing we can give every one promi Celebrated Casca We are exclusive distributors We also keep on hand a full line 1 crate lots to merchants and the fan Owens Miller's, J.

H. Hill's and I Ice Plant open from 7 a. in. to 6 I I PURE ICE AA Down-town office, Entler Hotel Bu illlllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllll OWENS COLD SODfl. nights are getting warm nov have been calling for some of our so DRINK on.

as we will be prepared to serve new ones that we have originated I FREEMAN'S ICECREAM AND by insuring safety in drinking at ou IOWENS Most Up-to-date Drug Mai! Orders Attende Wholesale and Retail. 'Phone Jef 1 Closing Out Sak Having given up our Vehicle Rep iness, we are offering at gpeatly 1 REDUCED I Our entire stock of Stewart Bugg ber and Steel Tire; Dog Carts, Aut and four-horse; Dump Carts, se jg Stock must be closed out at once, jjjj Vehicle cheap. JEFFERSON VI Repository, Starry Building. MELVIN T. STRID CHARLES TO fsags at thi in front.

'M with Money ba TA13TI O. 1 124 North Queen Street SflCHS A Have moved into the new store roon lerdstown, with a new and complete li SPRING Ladies' Suits, Skirts ant Dry Goods, We begin our new career by offerir it prices and greater satisfaction than SACHS Leaders in Ladies' and Shepherdstown .1 THIS is a department that is popular with the women Shepherdstown. All of the stanard wash goods of old-fashioned uality, as well as many of the jwest novelties, are included in le stock at your disposal. The rices range from 6c on up to 50c ard. few Silk Hosiery, 50c up to $1.50.

Cotton Hosiery, 10c to 50c. and Nazareth Union Suits at 50c. New novelties in the MilMcCall. Patterns. BY WOMEH(p?" ICE.

1 W0TER. 1 araianaaanrjiwannrainiMaii 3t been a single day that you vered to your home in any 5 5 during the hot months only. year round. Our wagon is 3 every day. Give us your prompt service.

Don't ex- efrigerator every morning? en our wagon stops. By so and better service. de Ginger Ale. 1 this celebrated ginger ale. 3 of pop-all in ss lily trade only.

On sale at P. T. Carter's by the bottle, jg p. m. COMPANY, I AKERS ilding.

Jeff. Co. 'Phone, jg llllllll llllllll IIIDOflUDflflHI lillP MILLERI and sonic of our patrons Jg Jelicious cold refreshments; i all former drinks and a few 8 for the season. We use only 9j DISTILLED WATER, there- Fountain. jD tore In the County.

to Promptly. Delivery Everywhere, jjjj ository, and going out of bus- PRICES ies, Surreys, Runabouts, Rub- )urn Farm Wagons, one, two veral Portland Sleighs. All This is your chance to get a I EHICLE Telephone 109 F. ft Manager. 6 W.

A. Rigbt Suit. the same care in selecting your lit that you would in buying a live in both. no excuse for a man looking he knees or wearing a coat that collar, and drags forlornly down uy clothes won't happen Ve illustrate today our new three what your clothes if you buy them where clothes considered an art and not a trade. 12.50,$ 15 to $20 iu have bought a Suit here and vhile, you'll be just as well satisit as when you first put it on.

ck, if anything goes wrong. TJ from Head to Foot, Martinsburg, Va. COMPANY i in the Chapline Building, Shepne of SUMMER Childrens' Dresses, otiOQS, Etc. ig to the trade better goods, Call at our new store. OMPANY.

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