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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1915
Page
3
Miscellany of announcements from Shepherdstown and nearby towns, including store ads for aluminum ware price cuts and free pieces, a roadster purchase, college commencement dates, a theater drama event, plant sales, a silver tea by Daughters of the Confederacy, and church fundraisers. Also reports on local shipping, a marriage, school social, and state college commencements with dates.
Arrears notices threaten to stop papers while Dr. C I Woodley visits Shepherdstown for chapel and possible address. Shepherd College and town school events, local electric lights, bass laws cases, wheat and corn market, bankruptcy petition in Martinsburg, Shepherd College baseball loss, local arrests for bass violations, Ascension Day Knights Templar services, bird protection plea, C N Whiting mill work update, drought relief rain boosts crops, Governor Hatfield discusses foot and mouth disease claims funding and legislative needs.
Local notices list many residents visiting, traveling, or staying with family in Shepherdstown and surrounding areas. Nurses, students, and officials make brief moves between Berkeley County, Charles Town, and nearby towns, with updates on illnesses, travel, and weddings. A Confederate Reunion trip details rail rates from Washington to Richmond and Shenandoah Junction. A July 4 community celebration plan is proposed with a meeting for pastors teachers and editors.
James M. Hendricks resigns as road supervisor for Shepherdstown district to rest after a long career building and macadamizing Jefferson county roads. The county court reluctantly accepts, seeking a successor to manage three sub districts and standardize road improvements. Smallpox spreads in Maryland with new cases in Hagerstown Sharpsburg and Boonsboro prompting quarantines and toll gate concerns. A barn fire destroys the Trussell farm near Leetown, killing four horses and causing heavy losses. Missionaries C C Bush and wife Rev. Mrs Bush, returning from Wembo Naomi Africa for health reasons, expected home late March.
News from Washington City reports General W W Kirkland died after pneumonia at his son in law R D Shepherds home He will be buried in Elmwood Shepherdstown with the body to be moved via Shenandoah Junction at 9 o clock He was 83 a Confederate veteran long a resident of Shepherdstown and Washington Survived by three children and a daughter Mrs Bessie Kirkland Shepherd Also noted are deaths of Charles J Corbin Lizzie Jefferson John Q A Owen Anton A Boyer P R Staley James W Barrick Ralph P Fry Harry E Rodrick and other local notables with court actions and a theater fundraiser upcoming for Shepherd College funds amid community obituary notices.
Notes describe the session at St Pauls Reformed Church with licensure for J W Kirk, pastor appointments for most charges in the Classis, and remarks by Rev Guy P Bready on Sunday school and orphans homes. Also mentions Rev Peter Miller of Virginia Synod, Rev Sloop’s resignation, and local church service plans across Shepherdstown Kearneysville and nearby towns.
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