Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-10-18
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some of the fruit men of this section
are putting their crops in cold stor
age until there is raise.
The corporation authorities arr
having the crossings rslaid and tn
streets repaired that were 30 serious
ly damaged by the foods in August
They have been in bad condition fol
almost two months.
We are getting all the telephones
we want in the N. & w. station al
Shepherdstown now. The United
Company putin a phone the first o
the week, and Agent Spedden car
now answer inquiries from all direo'
tions.
F. L. Bushong and Geo. D. Moore
will address the voters at Kearneys.
vile on Friday evening, October 26th
and at Bakerton on Saturday evening,
October 9th, at 100 o'clock. The
public are invited to attend these
meetings.
Owing to the fact that the rive,
road at leagues run is not passable
at present. Rural Mail Carrier B. F,
Hartzell has to change his route to
some extent. he reverses the order
of travel each day, and will have to
do this until the new bridge is erect.
ed.
Joseph Turner, who lives at Bridge.
port, opposite Shepherdstown, thinks
that he holds the record for raising
big pumpkins. he pulled three from
one vine that weighed respectively
s9, 1911 and IS pounds-an aggregate
of 247s pounds. Can anybody beat
them?
Its lawful to shoot partridges now,
but nobody ought to do it, as they are
still very scarce in this section and
should be given opportunity to in.
crease. Some farmers report good.
sized coveys on their places, but they
declare they will not allow them to
be shot.
Road Supervisor ]. M. Hendricks
has started force of men excavating
for the piers of the new bridge to be
built across leagues run on the riv.
er road east of town, and as soon as
the way is clear the stone masons will
put in the abutments. The iron for
the bridge will be delivered in few
weeks. Mr.. Hendricks asks us to
say that the river road will of necessi-
ty be closed to travel while this work
is in progress.
A very remarkable spell of weather
prevailed in this section last week.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
nights frosts unusually heavy for this
time of year were experienced, and
ice was formed on the ponds. Some
persons say that few fakes of snow
fell in this section, and in the noun
tain districts of West Virginia three
or four inches of snow fell. The
heavy frosts killed the more tender
vegetation dead as doornail.
Superintendent Shoemaker, of the
Martinsburg Power Company, is au'
thority for the statement that electric
heaters and cooking stoves will be in
troduced in this section by his com.
pany as soon as the power plant at
Dam No. 4 is completed. The new
plant will give the company a great
deal Of surplus power and the officials
will endeavor to put this to use and
profit by introducing modern house,
hold appliances run by electricity.
Miss Wright, the music tea cher at
Shepherd College, renders special
programme each Friday morning at
the chapel exercises at 10 o'clock, and
the public are invited to be present
on these occasions. Miss Wright is
most accomplished musician, and
it is worth while to spend a half hour
on Friday morning as she gives these
recitals. Those who desire thorough.
ly good instruction in piano, pipe or
gan or voice culture have an oppor-
tunity now that is exceptional, and
she ought to have large classes.
Rev. Samuel W. Grafin, pastor of
the Patterson Memorial Church, Bal
timore, will give his illustrated lee
lures, 1.-THE Hoosier Schoolmaster"
and "Ten Nights in Barroom," at
the Mt. Wesley M. E. Church on
Tuesday, October %, and at Sharps-
burg on Wednesday. October "a.
He gives these as return lectures, at
the earnest request of both congrega-
tions. Admission, adults 20 cents,
children 10 Gems. He will lecture
| in the Shepherdstown M. E. Church
on Monday, October %, on the END
| of the Rainbow Admission Is
cents. The public is invited to come
and hear him. He is eloquent, rich.
ly practicable and very funny.
In many places the trees along our
country roads have been most reck-
lessly mutilated by the workmen
erecting wire lines Of various sorts,
and the limbs and shrubbery are per-
mitted to lie along the public high
ways just as they fell. We call upon
our county officials to take notice of
this carelessness and vandalism, and
those guilty of infringing the law
should be punished. 1t is wrong to
permit this destruction and the con.
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