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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1915
Page
3
A jumble of short items from Reinhart's and nearby locales. Pineapples, beans, and fresh fruit sodas appear alongside drugstore notices and a run of local happenings including weddings, church rentals, land sales, and a college alumni meeting. Community happenings mix with yard sale hints and farm gear.
Activities in Shepherdstown include a party at Belle-Vue for Miss Virginia Reinhart, who wed Rev Dr Ghiselin today, plus news of Mr Charles Sandower and Miss Hazel Siitley marrying last Thursday in Hagerstown. Bridge painting on the Norfolk & Western span over the Potomac, hospitalizations for appendicitis, and a rumor of a new Rumsey monument obstacle are reported.
Local column recounts numerous visits by William Wright and family, George Beltzhoover, Miss Katheryne Peas, Miss Alice Banks, and others to Shepherdstown and nearby towns. Mentions illnesses, hospitalizations, travel to Morgantown and San Francisco, and various social calls and church notes. Includes a painful dynamite cap accident involving Max Gelsemacher and Jack Muldoon with medical treatment by Dr. Burwell.
The column lists deaths including Miss Lillie L. Kerney of Philadelphia formerly of Shepherdstown, aged 40, with burial in Elmwood Cemetery after services at the Hoffman home. Also noted are Mrs. Anna C. Smith of Shepherdstown near Hagerstown aged 79, Mr. Alpheus Stansbury of Hampstead Md., and Ridgely Emerson of Shepherdstown, all with brief biographical details and surviving relatives. Other notices include Martinsburg resident Thomas O'Brien, Berkley county figures Mollie Houser and John Copenhaver, and community updates on recent Civil War service histories and local church affiliations. A heavy rainfall event is described, with rising Potomac river levels and canal traffic disruption. The 1916 Overland Model 83 car is advertised by the National Highway Garage in Shepherdstown.
A Central and Northern States notice warns of brood six 17 year cicadas arriving this month from the Mississippi Valley eastward with concentrations in Berkeley and Jefferson counties and parts of Maryland and DC. Also details Shepherd College State Normal School commencement week schedule and Confederate Memorial Day events in Shepherdstown with a Richmond reunion report and local court notes.
The Register records multiple drowning incidents and accidents. Roy Staley aged about 20, son of James P. Staley, disappeared after a skiff capsize near the oldrenent mill in a swollen river. F Guy Tucker, 22, of Martinsburg, drowned when a fishing trip capsize sent him underwater. Sherman Snyder survived. James LeRoy Lusimers, 24, of Mountain Lock, drowned in the canal near Flakerton lime works after an epileptic episode. Two accidents include Miss Jessie Engle's fall from a car due to a passing auto near Myers town, and Andrew Comey of Martinsburg injured in Hagerstown by a runaway carriage. Further, Charles C Neal was jailed for drunken assault. the piece questions a saloon owner's responsibility.
Hattie A. Quimby of 59 Price Street Waterville Maine reports severe kidney sickness lasting three months followed by seven bottles of Swamp Root. She says she instantly improved and was fully recovered with no kidney trouble since. She encourages publication to help others and swears to the truth of the statement before a local official.
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