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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
5
The town advertises Christmas items and groceries with various prices. Local stores offer prunes, dates, figs, apples, and candies, plus oysters and meat by weight. Community events include a town hall musical and assistance notices. snow covers the ground and residents discuss shipping, trains, and church entertainments.
No teacher candidates appeared for the Charles Town exam last week. County Superintendent Engle notes a local surplus of teachers though the state faces a shortage of a couple hundred. Agoston the magician postponed his Shepherd College entertainment with a new date to be announced. Christmas subscriptions and telegraph link to Baltimore expand local services. Welshans offers a new line of goods and store improvements are noted at Lemon’s. Missing utility pieces in town hall property are being investigated. Santa Claus heads Jefferson County at Pendleton’s store with toys and gifts. U S Court of Claims awards amounts to WV claimants from the Civil War era. Prof. Barbe of WVU will speak at Shepherd College next week on English and American literature, free to the public. Bankruptcy proceedings feature Judge Butt and trustee J O Lemen. Licklider opens a holiday showroom for china and gifts, with Christmas groceries and sweets. Ladies arrange for a great firemen’s fair, with a December 7 meeting. Potomac Knitting Mills upgrades include twenty new machines and ceilinged work room. orders ahead to Marshall Field & Co. and plans to hire about a dozen more workers.
Mr. Charles Schley, with a survey crew for the &O. Railroad, is home as Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia survey work ends for now. Others travel to Washington, Knoxville, orBaltimore, with deeds like farm rental and teaching posts. several locals visit kin, attend holidays, or renew subscriptions while illness and travel weave through Shepherdstown and nearby towns.
Walter Roy, held at Molers Cross Roads, has a serious smallpox infection. A pest house was erected nearby and a nurse was assigned as the patient moved in. The Reinhart property building was burned Sunday night, with no water to hand. Authorities report isolation and precautions to prevent spread. Another smallpox case in Charles Town involves a Clarke county girl.
A Winchester to Baltimore Sun dispatch reports Geo B Whiting of Summit Point died Tuesday from a mysterious contagious illness sweeping Frederick Clarke and Jefferson counties. Diagnoses vary between smallpox, chicken pox and Cuban itch, with communities under quarantine. Whiting, 31, relatives say he died of acute kidney trouble and showed no eruptive symptoms. Burial faced obstruction as undertakers were barred and the grave dug in the yard without rites.
Obituary notes record the death of former West Virginia state senator John Howard Gettinger at 77 in Martinsburg after years of rheumatic gout and stomach trouble, with survivors including widow Maria L. Jarboe of Frederick Maryland. Additional obituaries cover Gillestie Boyer 19 of Sharpsburg Typhoid fever Elmer Henry Vanclererville consumption George Whiting Jr Summit Point 21 Harry League Clarksburg typhoid fever Col Charles Maddox Warren County Confederate veteran 59 Charles Stine Charles Town Jesse Ashton Martinsburg 23 H Clay Ankeny Washington County 64. Circuit Court proceedings detail railroad fund distributions, leave to file petitions, indictments for break-in, and multiple jail terms and real estate actions. The term included verdicts of guilty for malicious assault and battery and several ongoing cases.
In Williamsport Pennsylvania yesterday Dr William L Peet of Proctor faced charges of attempting to spread smallpox. He allegedly visited patients and then mingled with others without disinfecting or changing attire.
Miss Irene Humrickhouse wed J William Osbourn at home in a quiet ceremony led by Rev H C Hartheor. The couple will reside in Philadelphia. Also, Miss Bessie Feltner and Mr Aaron Lloyd married at a Jefferson county residence with a small wedding party. Florence Young wed Erwin Allbee, a romance sparked by long correspondence. Other notices include Rolth Barker and Bernard Wright wedding by Rev O D Harria, Orbrns Abrame and Nora Stickles tying by Rev Dr A Hopkine, and Richard C L Moncure’s marriage to Annie Turnbull Tabb in Washington. The Avilla school rebuilding was completed. Bard of Education praised the new brick structure. Football injuries from 1903 season noted. poll tax debates and Zion City finances mentioned.
The third quarterly conference of the Shepherdstown charge in the Winchester district will now be held in Shepherdstown on December 5 and 6, with Rev. H. P. Hamill preaching. A union service and sermon were recently held at the Southern Methodist church. Other items include a clergy reshuffle, trance reports, a highway fund bill in Congress, a Roman Catholic priest's attempted visit to the White House, and coal miners facing a wage cut near Myersdale.
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