Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-10-13
LITTLE LOCALS.

dial on Washington street, adding another
improve ment TO that street.
The County Court will meet on Octo-
Der 3lst to make final revision OF the
voting lists. Ifyou ARE not registered,
this will be yorr last chance.
The stork has visited Shepherdstown
a couple OF times recently leaving fine
baby girl with Prof. and Mrs. Walter M.
Duke and another with Mr.. and Mrs. r. Luz
Glen Remnant.
DR.. T. A. Ramey, president of the
West Virginia State Camp of the Patriotic
Order Sons of America, last Friday night
instituted Bakerton Camp, No. 80, with
twenty-siX members.
Everybody ought to observe Friday OF
this week as cleanup day, as suggested
by the Department OF Public Schools OF
this State. We should like to see every
one in Shepherdstown interested in this
good work.
w. N. Lemen & Son have put an cleo
trio motor in their elevator TO furnish the
power heretofore gotten from the gaso-
line engine. They are greatly pleased
with electric power, which they find
more satisfactory in every way than gas
or steam.
The Frederick fair will be held next
week, beginning on Tuesday and con-
tinuing until Friday This fair is always
an interesting one, and its attractions for
next week are greater than ever Fred
erick is splendid. hospitable old town,
and visit there IS always enjoyable.
There will be large attendance at the
fair from Jefferson county.
Our town clock has something wrong
with its inwards, and neither runs nor
strikes. The clock is useful and re-
spected institution of this community, and
the whole town misses it when it isn't
going. We hope that Our city fathers
will have it put in order at once, so that
we may hear its cheerful voice once more
and watch its smiling face.
The drought was broken last Thursday
night by some fine showers, and Satur-
day there was another gentle rain that
was OF vast benefit to the fall pastures and
the newly Sown wheat. There was not
enough rain to swell the streams, which
continue very low, nor have the wells
been repleniShed, but the cisterns were
helped and much good was done.
1t is not often that good farm comes
on the market in Jefferson county. Fl.
l.. Snyder & Co. have one OF $50 acres
that they can sell at reasonable price.
| II is near TO fine markets, on firSt-claSS
road, in a good neighborhood, right in
the apple belt. already having a bearing
orchard Of. ten or twelve acres upon it,
and will make a comfortable home. In
quire for particulars.
While Geo. T. Light, of Charles Town,
was speeding along the Shepherd pike in
his automobile last Sunday his raincoat
was blown from the car. In attempting
to catch it he gave the steering wheel a
turn and the machine SWerved and crash
ed into a telephone pole alongside the
road. There was a sudden stop, but
fortunately no harm was done, except to
he car, which was somewhat broken.
H. l.. Snyder & Co. have sold for Rev.
A. A. p. Neel and his wife their farm OF
fifty acres near Billmyer's Mill to Charles
N. Whiting for 500 an acre. Mr.. Whit
ing has also bought from the heirs the
Robert L. Billmyer farm of A acres, near
the mill, paying $4,000 for the place,
These are two nice little farms, and Mr..
Whiting has acquired some desirable
property in purchasing them.
AT the regular monthly meeting OF the
town council on Monday evening last the
usual routine business was transacted. A
license to conduct pool room in the
Hartzell building on Princess street was
granted to Z. p. Shaffer. In response to
an informal query as to whetherthe town
council would grant liberal franchise to
a private corporation for waterworks
system in,thiS place, members OF council
expressed themselves favorably toward
the project.
The condition of a number OF the ty-
phoid fever patients has been very criti-
cal this week. Miss Eleanor Butler, Miss
| Virginia Butler and Mrs. Louise Ricamore
have been extremely i'll the past few days
and Miss Frances Hodges has also been
very sick. Miss Alice BillmYer and
| MesSrs. Joseph Triplettand Horace Banks
seem TO be holding their own. SilaS
Shipley has been quite i'll. There is a
little improvement in the condition Of
Mrs. Annie Hill.
S. Preston Hopkins, resident OF Mar
tinsburg, formerly of this county, on
Monday entered suit for damages in the
District Supreme Court in Washington
against the National Hotel for $25, 600.
Mr.. Hopkins alleges that on May 5 last
he registered at the hotel and was assign
ed to a room on the second floor. While
asleep portion OF the ceiling fell, i,flict-
ing injuries to his back and spine, he
says, from which he has never fully re-
covered. He also AYERS that he has
spent $3.50 in medical treatment.
We publish on the first page OF the
Register this week the very interesting
paper on early ShepherdStown written
by S. Gordon Smythe, ESQ.,, OF West
Conshohocken, Pa, and read by him al
the homecoming exercises in this place
last month. Mr.. Smythe is careful and
accurate historian, and his paper is ex-