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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
2
The Shepherdstown paper reports on West Virginia politics with talk of incumbents and would-be electees, debates over tariff and currency, and a looming deficit. It mentions Roosevelt, Morgan, Bryan, and Aldrich figures, plus a two cent passenger rate claim and Wheeling convention outcomes.
The Supreme Court named a master to take evidence in the Virginia West Virginia debt case. The master will report on Virginia debt, public works, population by counties, and expenditures since debt contracted. The court reserved decision on interest and costs until the master reports. The Democratic State Committee meets June 17 at Martinsburg to address candidate contest between William Campbell and A C McIntire and urge fair, honest nomination procedures.
A reader recounts a long health sentence cured by Bucklea’s Arnica Salve, promoting Hill’s drug store. Peter Wise finds a hen sitting on a nest of snakes, eleven slithering offspring revealed. he disposes of both, mocking the hen’s instincts. Ads tout Foley’s Honey and Tar for consumptive relief and Hill’s Pharmacy. Former Senator James K. E. Jones of Arkansas dies in Washington. West Virginia University commencement runs from June 11 to 17.
The observer recalls a past era when bell teams warned oncoming wagons in Shepherdstown on routes to Baltimore and Tennessee. He notes William Short’s influence against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the old inns with bells, and the pride of riders like Adams, Butch Crowl, and local stage drivers, as trains neared through nearby Kearneyville.
A reader recalls early train rides and cattle drives through Shepherdstown along Main street and glances at a bygone era. The piece notes how freight, not beasts, now moves goods and wonders how an old driver would react to modern cars. It also reports a new law closing bar rooms from Saturday midnight to Monday five am with penalties for law enforcement failures.
A collage of advertisements and notices recounts a claim that deafness is curable only by constitutional remedies, detailing catarrh caused hearing loss and a $100 reward for cures. It includes a saloon fine, Dr. Shoop remedies for women, a department store incident, baby care product notes, and a gold coin discovery tied to Mary Ann Kilch and Libby Kilch.
An Italian track laborer on the B and O Railroad was struck and killed by a train at the Opequon bridge near Hagerstown yesterday. The report notes a series of local notices including land sales, elections, crime arrests, and property transactions in Washington County and nearby towns.
Prices list from Shepherdstown markets include Wheat at per 000 0.06, Corn, Oats per bushel, Butter per lb, Sides per lb, Lard per lb, Potatoes per bushel, and a note advertising Thoroughbred C. Brown Leghorn eggs for sale from a pen of selected birds at 5 counts each or 4 dollars per hundred.
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