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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
4
The current column lists Pendleton's in Brevi Court, November 18, offering a variety of goods for sale. It mentions carpet, shoes, underwear, and household items as available, with notes on pricing and location. The page also references public figures and local business activity in Charles Town and Shepherdstown as part of routine notices.
Shepherd College receives 264 specimens from the National Museum for zoology. Jefferson County resident William R Irvin delivers a prohibition address in Charles Town, triggering audience departure. Edna Pearl and A W Shewbridge wed in Frederick City. couple to reside in Harper's Ferry. Charles E Jones plans large scale orchard expansion across 150 acres in Kearneysville and Leetown.
PERSONAL notices from Shepherdstown recount Charles W Adame leaving Tuesday for Roanoke Virginia to work in Norfolk and Western Railway erecting shops. Several locals vote and visit, with many relatives traveling or visiting nearby towns. Deaths include Fannie O Bannon, Rev. Thomas Hoffmeier, R Dudley Coyle, and Malinda Boyce. Local color notes also mention visits from various residents and travel plans.
Posters announced a LaClaire-Beecher troupe gram performance in Shepherdstown. Delays due to unpaid bills and scant audience funds kept curtain from rising. The Shadows of New York was panned yet entertained by improvised scenery and revolvers. Public aid funded two benefit shows. troupe left for Baltimore after earning enough for rail fare. Church sale and court actions also noted in Advocat e.
A man calling himself Dr Fahrney travels through Charles Town and Martinsburg areas selling medicines and misdiagnosing patients while cruelty to horses proceeds. He rented a livery rig, drove horses to death, and fled after bonds were posted. Detectives chase him as rewards total 300 dollars for capture. He previously served time for stealing near Vandalia.
A crowd of youths terrorized Shepherdstown on Halloween night tearing down shutters damaging property and overturning items including equipment from the Pennant Knitting Company. The factory was declared bankrupt with Charles J. Miller buying the property for 1500 and plans to form a new stock company to revive the plant, with interest from Blue Ridge Knitting Company manager Mr Werhemayer.
An enduring traveling figure, the old man with the fish on his back, has spent nearly thirty years aiding the ill and weak. He provides strength and flesh to consumptives and nourishing food to sickly children, embodying Scott's Emulsion of pure cod liver oil as a health tonic for all ages.
The Jefferson Dee Convention meets Friday and Saturday November 14 and 15 at the Southern Methodist church in Charles Town with a Sunday School mass meeting on November 16. G M Beltzhoover of Shepherdstown presides for this county organization as C H Shipman of Charles Town coordinates. Speakers and music are planned along with other program features. Each county Sunday school gets two delegates, pastors and superintendents are delegates ex officio. The Lutheran Sunday school sent 35.70 to the home mission fund last month and Rev Fr Baum spoke last Sunday. Claus No 5 won the banner for the largest collection. Rev John A Troetle, formerly of Sykesville MO, has moved to Germania WV with family. Rev Mr Troetle is Jefferson county native. Rev Father T J Wilson, formerly of Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown, moved from Fredericksburg VA to St Vincent’s Catholic church at Newport News VA. A pastors meeting for Shepherdstown is set for Saturday afternoon at 8 o clock in the College reading room to arrange a Thanksgiving service. Rev F J Baum of Philadelphia preached at Lutheran churches in Shepherdstown and Avilla.
Whitfield Grayson about 18 is wounded in the skull by Roy Colbert nine. Grayson staggers downtown for help, Dr. Garrett extracts skull fragments and bullet under chloroform. Grayson returns home after treatment. A报 reports Colbert shot while trying to kill a rabbit. A separate note recalls a Halloween incident where William McLain is killed by his mother.
A garbled ad style passage markets a rapid wealth claim and a medical remedy. It references a supposed “Two Weeks' Ove” and names a drug store, with bizarre phrases about selling all possessions in a day and cures for constipation stomach and liver issues.
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