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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
3
An OCR fragment reports assorted local items: holiday timing, grocery and produce notes, subscription details, town plans, shipper shipping costs, a marriage in Hygerstown, and scattered advertisements. Mentions CT Butler's, Deering, and various names. notes a Sunday sale, farm goods, and a local prize or admission fee. The text is partial and inconsistent, reflecting a community record page with ads, notices, and brief events.
Neighborhood notes report the Resister subscription drive through January, a new barn raised by John P. Kearfott with Contractor Athey, and a fatal accident involving Mrs. John McGrath in Houtzdale. Rain ends drought, local hotel praised, and plans for a Shepherdstown telephone exchange advance. Wheat markets rise amid drought forecasts. Shepherd College officials and professors visit, pushing for a $25,000 new campus building and continued faculty appointments.
The Teco Personal section reports the Muzzey family arriving from Philadelphia to summer at Rockland near town. It notes visits from Schueler, Miss Schueler, and others, plus local students and professors returning for Shepherd College events. Dramatic engagement news follows, detailing McLean and Tyler joining Modjeska on tour with plans for future independent starrings.
Obituaries note the sudden death of Mrs. Willaminer Snyder at Snyder's Mills. Other notices mark the deaths of Mr. Charles Rasimus Folk and Marjorie Conklyn, ages 25 and seven. A Martinsburg official, Thomas Munster, dies after brief illness. Reports describe Charlestown smallpox concerns easing, hospital isolation, and a late shooting incident involving guard Newton Hedges in Getzendamer alley.
A June wedding section records ceremonies at Zion Church Charlestown for Eleanor Marshall Trapnell and Rev Henry Felix Kloman with a large celebratory reception at the Getzendanner home in Teffarson county Washington. Other local weddings include Edward Lyndon Young and Edith Carrell Lloyd in Cumberland and Miss Lula Waters with George Demery in Martinsburg. A note thanks Miss Louise Snyder for her Shepherdstown essay and praise for local historical writing appears.
Congregational meetings last Sunday unanimously called Rev L G M Miller of Roanoke Virginia to become pastor of the Lutheran churches in Shepherdstown and Avilla. Vacancy since February when Rev C H Rockey resigned. Miller’s acceptance uncertain. Morer of Schuylkill Haven with a past link to the area preached there recently.
Scattered, unreadable entries from Shepherdstown markets list items such as produce and livestock with numerous garbled names. The legible parts reference potatoes and local vendors while other lines are indecipherable, leaving a partial snapshot of the market day.
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