Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-09-16

we want 10 get the Register into every
home in Jefferson county. Well send il
for dollar year.
1t is said that within month the power
plant at Dam No. 4will be furnishing cleo
tricity. There will be rejoicing in Shep-
herdstown, for our lights are so dim that
occasionally we have to strike a match to
find them.
The Potomac river is about as low as
it ever gets in this section. A child can
lord it at several places below Shepherds
town. The rain last Thursday night re-
freshed vegetation greatly but did not
help the streams much.
The Register last week stated that
George B. Folk, of this vicinity, had been
reappointed principal of the high school
at kingwood, w. Va. He filled that po-
sition last year, but has been appointed
superintendent of the Kingwood schools
a much better position.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, the famous
Democrat of Cleveland, Ohio, and City
Solicitor Newton D. Baker, of the same
city, formerly of Martinsburg, passed
through Shepherdstown in their automo-
bile on Tuesday. They are making tour
OF the east in the machine.
Thomas Jones, the Harper's Ferry
liveryman, had costly drive in Shep-
herdstown last Thursday. His speed
was too great and he wanted too much
OF the road, and incidentally he took off a
wheel from John Allen Foutz's vehicle.
BY the time he had settled with Mayor
Martin and paid the repair bill he was
out something over twenty dollars.
The editor of the Register is indebted
to ]. c. Bitner, ofthe Kearneysville neigh
borhood, for basket of the finest grapes
we have seen this year. Mr.. Bitner
regularly takes the first premium on
grapes at the Morgan's Grove fair and
just as regularly he presents the prize
fruit to the editor. His grapes are lovely
TO the eye and delight to the palate.
The poStoffice authorities have given
notice to patrons of rural routes, residing
within quarter of mile of a fourth class
postoffice, that they must get their mail at
such offices, instead of continuing to be
served by rural carriers. This order af-
fects number of residents of Kabletown,
Summit Point, Shenandoah Junction,
Kearneysvile and patrons of other offices
in the county.
DR.. g. w. Banks took his relative, Miss
Lizzie Johnson, an aged and respected
resident OF this place, TO the Presbyterian
Eye and Ear Infirmary in Baltimore few
days ago for the purpose of having her
eyes operated upon. Miss Johnson has
recently become almost entirely blind
from cataractS which formed over both
eyes. Her friends pray that her sight
may be fully restored.
DR.. A. S. Reynolds has sold the apples
in his orchards east and west of town for
Sl,750. County Commissioner N. T.
Snyder sold the apples in his three-acre
orchard for $500 as they hang on the trees.
Charles D. Wysong, who estimates his
crop at about thousand barrels, has not
sold, but will handle the fruit himself.
There is strong demand for apple-plck-
ers, and men engaged in this work ale
getting 81 so day and upward.
The Shepherdstown Graded School
began its sessions on Monday, when
Rev. DR.. Charles Ghiselin made an ad-
dress at the opening exercises. Princi-
pal Charles T. Smooth is in charge, all
the other teachers being the same as last
year. The total enrolment is l59-of
these So are boys and II girls. In room
No. | there are 26 pupils, 20 in No. 2,
II in No. 3, Is in No. 4, 20 in No. 5, q
in No. 6, Is in No. 7, 10 in No. s.
The Board of Regents last week ap-
pointed Prof. Lorain Fortney as ateacher
in Shepherd College State Normal School,
and he entered upon his duties at the
opening of the school term on Tuesday.
Mr.. Fortney has had considerable exper-
fence in normal school work, having been
for several years principal of the West
Liberty Normal School, and Shepherd
College is fortunate in securing his ser
vices. He will have charge OF the de-
partment OF science.
There was a remarkable difference be-
tween the condition ofaffairS this year and
that of former years in this vicinity during
the week of the Morgan'S Grove fair.
This year there was not an arrest on the
tair ground, not disturbance OF any sort,
while in town there was but one arrest
that of a Harper's Ferry man who was
hailed before the mayor for fast driving on
the streets. We submit that it was vastly
better to have the town "dry" and order
ly than to have the saloons wide open
and drunkenness and disorder rampant.
The assertion has been made that where
one pint of liquor was consumed this year
there were a hundred last year. A re-
duction of go per cent isn't so bad.
There was sensation in Charles Town
Monday morning when John A. Emmert,
a well-known resident of that place and
the fire-marshal of the town, was arrest
ed on the charge OF robbing DR.. Pittman's
drug store. II appears that for many
months valuable goods have been taken
from the store from time to time, and
although watch was kept, the thief could
not be discovered. Early Monday morn
ing Howard Allen, clerk in the store,
who had been on the lookout for several
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