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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
3
A jumbled mix of notices, sales, and community items from Shepherdstown and nearby towns. Demands include farm ads, pharmacy promotions, a political club formation, birth and death notes, school and church announcements, and local business offers.
Local readers learn of growing street lights demand on Main Street, T. B. Line renting space in the Regent building, and J. L. Welshans expanding his stock after moving to a larger Main Street room. News covers crop yields, train engine breakdown, railway franchise talks, river water anomalies, college teaching appointment, local arrests, and real estate transfers.
Shepherd College announces a new lecture and entertainment course with higher prices. Patrons will pay season tickets at 1.75 and single admissions at 50 cents, with a star lineup including Broomell Reed Company Frederick Warde and DeWitt Miller.
The Winchester Presbytery met in Shepherdstown with discussion over Davis and Ekins College looting in Elkins and a proposed joint control by Winchester Presbytery and the Synod of West Virginia. Resolutions and appointments covered missions, church property, and the 1909 General Assembly topic on Christ in Science.
The regular monthly Anti-Saloon League meeting is set for Monday night at 7 oclock in the old college hall September 23. The public is invited. There will be singing by our best talent a short business session and brief talks by temperance workers. Supporters urge attendance to close saloons in Shepherdstown and vicinity to curb drunkenness for the next generation.
The article lists several detailed wedding notices from Berkeley county and surrounding towns. It mentions Lavinia Watson and John Alexander Grant eloping to Fredericksburg before their marriage, plus multiple couples including Miss Kowoslar Weather and Mr Freak Gardner, Elle Sparrow and a groom from Roanoke, and other pairings with dates and officiants noted in regional churches and homes.
An incident at Tiger Hall last Thursday night erupts into a riot during a colored community dance. Sergeant Shipley confronts a fight, is struck, and a suspect, George Devonshire, is jailed after a scuffle. Mayor Lobley holds hearings. others face county jail as police pursue additional participants.
Four young horses offered by Nelson T. Snyder at Shenandoiah Junction on Sandy Ridge road. Three two-year-old colts and one sul colt available for viewing at the farm, with location noted as one and a half miles north of Shenandoah Junction. Dated September 10, 1k-Sw.
At the Supreme Lodge of the I QC Shield of Honor meeting, new rules require updating death certificates. Members of the Clift City Lodge must forward their old certificates to the local secretary immediately for issuance of new ones.
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