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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1915
Page
3
A lengthy Martinsburg page note list covers purchases from Owens & Miller, sale notices and local ads, a police mention, and community events. It notes a June 24 1915 date and items from DeLaval you can buy, a sale of old furniture, a marriage, a law partnership formed in Charles Town, and a storm damaging crops near Shepherdstown.
Shepherdstown to honor independence day with a fireworks display at the north end of King Street on July 3. Town funds will buy a generous quantity, light refreshments for children. Also notes local updates on a vacant lot sale, residents moving businesses, and several local incidents and events.
Personal notes from Shepherdstown detail visits and trips by residents and former locals. Families from Port Deposit and Chesapeake area travel through Duffields and Baltimore, with relatives visiting in Sharpsburg, Clarksburg, and Wheeling. Several locals and guests are noted for hospitalities, illnesses, and church events as summer schedules unfold. Harvest prospects report wheat fields in Jetson county ready for cutting after favorable rains.
A wave of obituaries and notices from Martinsburg and nearby towns reports Horace Clifton Young, 37, killed by a streetcar in Washington, DC, on Friday after serving in the U.S. Cavalry and recent discharge. He leaves a mother and siblings. Other obituaries note Kate McPherson Orndorff, 68, and Martha Banks, 82, both remembered for Christian character and family ties. services in Shepherdstown and Martinsburg. Also listed: May C. McKee, 38, died in Martinsburg hospital. Charles Clayton Mack, 54, restaurant operator, Martinsburg native. Postmaster Benjamin Foley of Berryville, 70, Confederate veteran. and Mrs Frank Dinkle of Harper’s Ferry who died suddenly. A canal boat, No. 83 of the Canal Towage Co., sunk at Big Pool while carrying coal. crew escaped by swimming ashore. Brief notes include deafness treatment ads and Owens Miller’s ice cream soda promotion.
The ceremony for Bessie Grove and Philip Grove took place at Mrs. Elizabeth Grove's Sharpsburg home with Rev. Charles E. Shaw officiating. Guests included family. reception followed as the couple prepared a Catskill honeymoon then to reside in Sharpsburg.
An old ad copy touts Gibson's Deodorant for careful use and accuracy. It promotes Gibson's Blood Purifier as enriching blood and strength, priced at $1.00 per unit, and warns about pests with Bordeaux Arsenate or Paris Green including Slug Shot products for bugs blight and pests.
The article records Samuel F. Hebb’s bird observations near Shepherdstown noting 72 species including ground sparrow night hawk and cedar waxwing. It describes bird protection, cat threats, a storm damage to a martin house near the college, and ends with a June 11 marriage of Mrs Rosalie Grimes Meade to William Warren LaRue at White Post Meade Memorial Church with Rev. Wm. Wallace officiating.
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