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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1901
Page
4
The text presents a garbled collection of brief items and notices from a local page. It mentions community events, sales, meetings, and various names and places, but many words are distorted or missing. It references ties to religious and cultural happenings and indicates public service and fundraising activities.
G M Beltzhoover begins remodeling at corner Main and Duke with Wm Sheetz as carpenter. J B Chamblin takes charge of a traction engine and thresher, running the machine this year. George W Marlow reports 198 acres of thriving wheat and clover. Fireworks planned by Frank W Muzzey at Rockland tonight. Douglas Camp U S C V to attend Presbyterian service in Shepherdstown Sunday with chaplain Dr Ghiselin. Transportation shifts include Norfolk division transfer of Theodore Low to Norfolk division and replacement by A C Needles. Local merchants expand stock in Shenandoah Junction and new railroad station plans are discussed. Community notes on marriage, lodge officers, and bank audit conclude.
A roundup of locals and guests includes Mesers. Baker and Lemon at Buffalo for Pan American Exposition. Mrs. Snyder visiting Bluefield with grandson Clarence Billmyer. James W. Greenwood visiting old friends and toying with a fife. Rev Neel’s family moving to Gainsboro Va.. Wilbur Green returning improved from Colorado. Prof E F Goodwin to assume Shepherd College duties. Ada Fowler returning from Fairfield Pa. to Williamsport with cousins Eva Fowler and John Fowler. C P Hutton now in Wayneboro Pa.. Watton family with Lita. W S Myers and family in Shepherdstown. Gra Knox visiting from Molors neighborhood. S Long in Washington. Lacey Beltzhoever visiting Washington City. Mrs Win J Britner visiting parents Mix and Mrs John J Show. J J Link visiting Dutfields. Martin Wright and two children visiting Jacob Wintermeyer. Miss Jessie Moler visiting Mamie Link. Nannie Thomas visiting Mamie Schley. Joseph Byere ill. Touro Shepherd in western state. Johny C Moffman in Waynesboro Ia. Lucy Schoppert visiting Wagnerboro Va.
A series of local nuptials are noted including Mary Arnette of Ifalitown marrying Robert T. Hower of Charles Town in Baltimore at Calgary M.E. Church South. The couple plan to reside in Charles Town. Charles E. Tipton of Front Royal wed Miss Dla J. Cavalier in Polivar with relatives present. Edward Bevron Argtrong and Nannie N. Browning were married at a Lutheran parsonage with few friends. Margaret Dors Rush and Jas C. Lindalwood tied on a moving train between Weverton and Washington. Grace Mattison and William Morrison visit post‑marriage. William Chamblin and Myrtle West wed recently in Berryville.
Robert T Banks and John Shipley killed a dangerous mad dog Monday at the Tan Ner farm just south of town. They found the exhausted animal snarling at a fence corner and struck it in the head with a heavy stone to dispatch it, likely preventing further trouble. The dog was a stranger to the neighborhood with no other sightings reported.
The Jefferson county area mourns multiple deaths including George W. Nicely a 95 year old Leetown resident and former Shepherdstown tailor. Surviving children span across Kansas Philadelphia and local towns as funeral rites in Elmwood Cemetery reflect a well known family. Another obituary notes Park H. Strode a Jefferson native who ran a Shepherdstown store and served in the Civil War. Additional notices report deaths of Win G Everheart near Rippon Clarke and Sharpsburg harvests amid extreme heat affecting workers. The era’s harsh conditions and community ties surface through these concise memorials and harvest reports.
John Butte of Shepherdstown was bitten on the hand by a copperhead while uprooting a ginseng plant near Dam No. 4. He killed the snake, sucked out the poison, and, after bandaging and whiskey aid from Byers, recovered enough to return to work by Monday. He later shopped at Vanmeter Bros for cheap goods.
Shepherdstown will gain a knitting mill from Pennant Knitting Mills of Philadelphia, run by Meeers Troughton brothers. The plant, to be located near the railroad, will start with about fifty women and girls and may hire more as business grows. Local support funded the bonus. the factory will use the south building of the manufacturing shops and promises employment for unemployed women. The article also notes extreme heat events, local school board actions for the colored school, and a baseball game at Harper's Ferry where Shenandoah Junction beat the local club.
The Epworth League officers were elected in Shepherdstown with W. P. Licklider as president and Ella Hout as first vice president. Beth esda Church chose Miss Ley as president and Ella Knott as organist. Reports also note Lutheran and Methodist church events, conventions, and upcoming services across towns, with mentions of Sunday schools, meetings, and regional gatherings in Virginia and nearby areas.
A large section of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel under Hoffman Street Baltimore caved in early Sunday morning. Train No 78 traveling from New York to Jacksonville was trapped. Engineer Morley and the fireman escaped from the west end as debris blocked the engine and three express cars. Water mains above the tunnel burst adding flood damage and widening the hole. The tunnel, built thirty years ago, spans ten city blocks nearly a mile, disrupting Baltimore traffic.
A mother from Huckwalter Ohio credits Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with curing her infant's cholera infantum. After two days the child recovered fully and is now vigorous. The note says the remedy is frequently recommended and never known to fail.
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