Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1904-03-31
LITTLE LOCALS.

of coal. The first boat out was No.
Is, Capt. Charles Fox commanding.
Attention is called to the new ad-
vertisement this week of J. D. Swartz,
the old reliable Hagerstown clothier.
He has full line Of spring and sum-
mer suitings, which he will make up
tn the latest styles and guarantee to
be satisfactory. Call and see him
when in Hagerstown.
Farmers report that although wheat
was not in very promising condition
last fall, it has come through the win
ter in fairly good order, and the
prospect now is for a tolerably good
crop. That which was sown early
looks quite well, and the fields are
showing green already.
The preliminary oratorical contest
to determine which of the students of
Shepherd College shall represent this
school at the inter-normal contest at
Hinton on April 10Th. will be held in
the town hall Saturday evening of
this week at s o'clock. The public
are invited to attend. Admission 10
and Is cents.
We call attention to the advertise
ment of r L Koontz in another COL
umn. Mr.. Koontz has opened his
agricultural implement house on
Princess street, and will handle the
best of farm implements and machin-
cry. He invites the farmers to call
at his place of business and see the
line of goods he carries.
Charles NJ. Sheetr has opened his
new store in the Billmyer building,
next door to Jefferson Savings Bank.
He has a nice new stock Of fresh
groceries and provisions, tinware, etc,
and asks share of the public patron
age. He is a Shepherdstown boy, and
is WORTHY of support. He will do tin
roofing and spouting and repair work.
He invites the public to call and see
him.
The star route from Kearneysville
to Middleway by way OF Leetown has
been abolished, and the mail carrier
from Kearneysville carries the mail to
the Leetown postoffice as well as cup
plies the free delivery route. The
Middleway mail is taken from Summit
Point by the rural carrier. There is
fear that eventually the Offices at
Middleway and Leetown will be
abolished, though the people Of both
places strenuously oppose it.
AS Benjamin Hartzell was driving
towards town yesterday along the
Martinsburg road the horse he was
driving got beyond his control and
began to make pretty rapid speed.
Mr.. Hartzell checked it by steering it
into telephone pole in the west end
of town, but the animal tore loose
from the vehicle and ran down Main
street. Town Sergeant Robert Shipley
made jump for the reins, and though
he was knocked down he pluckily
held on and stopped the horse before
serious damage was done.
The following Shepherd College
students are victims of the mumps
J. l. Triplett, Louise Anna Snyder,
Fred Cooper, David Hill, Harry Baker
Tom Remnant, Strother Pendleton,
Cleon Osbourn, Henry Barnhart, Ed
ward Barnhart, Fanny Wright. 9th
ers in town who have the same dis
ease are Walter Humrickhouse, Anna
Humrickhouse, Will Snyder, Rose
Snyder, Louise Rightstiue, William
Alice Martin, Edna Nun
dey, Robert Keplinger, Eleanor BIT
Ter, Clarence Myers, John Fairall.
H. A. Carroll, who was the candi-
date for jailor on the sherifalty ticket
headed by William Wilt, has volun-
tarily withdrawn and S. G NJ. Riss-
Ter has been put on the ticket in his
place, In giving hia reasons for with
drawing, Mr.. Carroll says that his
political enemies lad foully misrep-
resented him, charging him among
other things with being Republican.
This charge had been repeated so
often and in parts ofthe county where
voters were upacquainted with the
facts, to the detriment of the ticket
with which be had been identified.
In view of this Mr. Carroll decided
to Withdraw and will prove later the
falsity OF the charges that have been
made against him -Advocats
On the 18th of February Robert
Watson, fourteeu-year old boy who
had been bound to B F. Fulk, near
Leetown, disappeared and not word
has since been heard from him. The
boy had been living with Mr.. Fulk for
four years and had good home He
to be satisfied with his place,
and was on the best of terms with the
family. He started for school on the
morning of the 18th, and was seen by
two persons on his way to the school
house He did not 60 to school, and
nothing has since been seen or heard OF
the lad. He disappeared as complete,
ly as if the earth had opened and
swallowed him up Mr. Fulk made
every inquiry for him and also adver-
tised for him, but he is yet among the
missing. His school books were found
behind the school-house.
An epidemic of mumps is sweeping
over Shepherdstown at present. and
there are scores of cases in the COM
munity. A considerable number of
the students of Shepherd College are