Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-10-21
LITTLE LOCALS.
The automobiles that are TO take mart in

the run from New York to Atlanta are
expected to pass through Shepherdstown
some time next "Wednesday. II is thought
that they will reach here during
the afternoon. Between fifty and a
hundred machines are expected to take
| part in the run.
On Saturday evening, October 30th,
the Y. w. c. A. and Y. M. C. A. of Shep-
herd College will hold a joint festival in
the old college hall. The following re-
freshments will be served: Icecream,
candy, soup, pumpkin and apple pies
and cakes. All are cordially invited to
attend. Come and help these Christian
organizations.
Jefferson Camp, 1906, Modern Wood
men Of America, will serve soup and
oysters in Odd Fellows Hall at Shenan-
doah Junction Saturday night, October
23d. A musical programme has also been
arranged and some special selections
will be rendered on one OF the best phon-
ographs in the State. The public are
cordially invited and all Modern Wood
men are earnestly requested to be pres
ent. Committee.
| Farmers in the vicinity of Middleway
are losing hogs with the cholera. The
disease has been prevalent in that part OF
the county for month past, and shows
no indications OF abating. Chas. B. Cole
man has been among the heaviest losers.
Thirty-six OF his died, some of them hav-
ing considerable money value. Deputy
Sheriff Macoughtry has lost several, while
Harry Keiter and John Light have also lost
heavily, the former about thirty head and
the latter twelve or fifteen.-AdpOcate.
Lawrence R. Lee, Of this place, has
bought the Denver farm, about two miles
west of Leesburg, Va, from the heirs of
Captain William B. Lynch, for years the
editor of the Leesburg Mirror. The place
contains 34l acres and the price paid was
| S45 an acre. The farm is we'll improved,
having upon it one of the largest houses
| in Loudoun county. Mr.. Lee, we under
stand, will put out about 200 acres of the
land in apple orchards, it being well adapt
ed for fruit growing. He will employ an
expert orchardist to Superintend the plant
| ing of the trees and to give them the best
of attention.
AT the home OF her, parents, Mr.. and
| Mrs. ]. H. Willis, of Leetown. and in the
presence OF few relatives and friends,
Miss Bessie Willis became the bride of
| DR.. Samuel Holtzclaw, of Greer, South
| Carolina, last Thursday evening. Rev.
w. D. McCurdy, of Johannesburg, was the
officiating minister. This nuptial event
was the elimination of pretty romance
that had its origin some time since in the
southern town where the groom is located.
The bride was pretty millner sent out
| by Armstrong, Gator & Co., of Baltimore,
and it was not long after meeting her that
the young doctor fell pleasant victim to
this West Virginia girls charms. The
happy couple will make their residence in
Greer.
Two educational conferences have been
arranged for Jefferson county next week
the first in Trump's hall at KearneyS-
Vile at 1920 a. m. on Thursday, October
18th, and the second at Harper's Ferry,
| in the opera house, at 2 p. m. on Friday,
October 10Th. Assistant State Superin-
tendent L. L. Friend and Prof. Morris, of
Charleston, and Hon. Thos. c. Miller,
principal of Shepherd College, will de-
liver addresses, and there will be addi-
tional features of interest. Boards OF ed
ucation, school trustees, patrons OF the
schools and the people generally, espec-
| ially all who are interested in school work,
are invited to attend these meetings,
which are free to everybody and designed
| to advance the cause Of education in the
4 county.
r. Lucen Reinhart, who recently bought
the old straw board mill property in Shep-
herdstown, sold the old iron about the
place to Joseph Bremen, a junk dealer, OF
Hagerstown. The principal articles are
| the four boilers and the engine that drove
the mill, all the other machinery having
long since been removed. p. Kline, OF
Martinsburg, is experimenting the work OF
removing the engine and boilers, and it is
no small Job. Each of the boilers weighs
about five tons. They are pretty badly
rusted and can never again be used as
boilers, while the engine, which is OF a
type long since obsolete, is fit only for
the Junk pile. Older persons will recall
when this mill was fitted up just above
forty years ago. The heavy machinery
was brought here by canal boats and I'M
loaded at the wharf at the river, for then
Shepherdstown was what you might call
seaport.
| Sheriff Charles D. Wysong has sold his
apple crop, which he estimates will be
about 2,4OO barrels-2,0OO barrels in the
orchard at his home place and about 400
barrels in the younger orchard on the old
| Staley place. His fruit is very fine this
| year, and consists principally OF the York
Imperial and Ben Davis varieties. Mr.
IWysong sold part of his crop to dealers
| and part he placed directly with COM
| mission men himself. He averages about
I$2.S5 per barrelfor the entire crop, and at
| this price picks, barrels and delivers the
| fruit {. o. b. at Shepherdstown. This is
tine price, and is considerably more than
the average price paid in Jefferson county
| Tbere &c a oood deal of COMPLAINT among