Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1910-08-04
LITTLE LOCALS.

AT meeting OF the State Board of Re-
gents last week Miss Harriet Hale was
appointed one of the teachers for Shep-
herd College and r. P. McGary teacher
OF elocution for this school.
A car in which were several automo-
biles belonging 10 X. c. Ringgold and
VanMetre Bros, ofthis place, was bump
ed so forcibly on siding here yesterday
that the machines were considerably
damaged.
The teachers institute for Jefferson
county will be held in Shepherdstown
the week beginning August 22nd. The
instructors will be Prof. r. B. Teitrick, OF
Harrisburg, Pa, and Mrs. Anna K.
Bourne, of Bethany, w. Va.
Persons wishing tents at Morgan's
Grove fair should make application to
Secretary E. T. Licklider not later than
August 10Th. The tickets for Stockhold-
erS may be secured in the same way as
they have heretofore been distributed.
Architect S. p. Humrickhouse, OF this
place, is making plans for large and
handsome three-story building to be
erected by the Jefferson County Tele-
phone Company on the corner near the
courthouse where its present offices are
located.
Companies A and D will hold their an
nual reunion at the harvest home given
by the ladies of the Lutheran Church on
Thursday, August 18th, at Uvilla, No
baskets will be necessary, as the ladies
will furnish dinner at Is cents. All eX
ConfederateS are cordially invited to at
tend.
John L. LiverS, manager OF the Shep-
herdStown Electric Light ard Power
Company, was in town Tuesday on bust
ness. Mr.. LWerS has just closed a nice
contract with Bedford City, Va.-he will
build an electric line for the hydro-electrlc
power plant at that place at a cost OF
$17,SOO.
The Times-Register, of Salem, Va,
speaks in the highest terms OF Rev. VIM.
S. McC lanahan, whose death was announ-
ced in this paper last week. Just few
weeks before his death, Rev. and Mrs.
McClanahau gave a small farm to the LG-
theran Orphans Home, which he had
founded.
Attention is called TO the advertisement
OF the ShepherdStown Garage in another
column. This new firm is agent for the
Studebaker automobiles and has recently
sold three carloads of these cars. Be-
sides selling automobiles, full supply OF
accessories and supplies is kept on hand,
and repairs will be made to all sorts OF
automobiles.
We hope that our town officials will
soon make the needed repairs TO the
street crossings in ShepherdStown that
are such a nuisance to travellers in We
hicleS and automobiles. Strangers pass
ing through the town get very bad i'm
preston of the place when they are
bumped and jolted at almost every street
crossing, and these conditions ought to
be remedied.
The report that there was change i'll
the dates for holding the Morgan'S Grove
fair is entirely without foundation. The
fair will be held September 9th TO 9th, in
elusive. The prospects are good for an
unusually attractive fair. Much interest
is already being taken in the various de-
partments, and the horse show promises
to be a good ole. The catalogues are
out, and may be obtained from Secretary
E. T. Licklider or at the usual places.
Our old friend Josiah Kitzmiller, former
ly OF this place, writes us from Auburn,
Nebraska, that the drought in that section
has burnt up vegetation, and hot wind
recently, with the thermometer at lO5 in
the shade, caused complete cessation
of all kinds OF work Mr. Kitzmiller says
that he expects to leave Auburn, as the
town is about dead. He states that they
recently put in system OF WaterworkS
at cost of $75,000-and haven't any
water, after all.
The members of the Village Improve
ment Society and all persons interested
in the success of the Home coming Week
for ShepherdStown are urgently request
ed to attend a meeting TO be held at Sun
beam Hall on Friday evening OF this week
at 7 o'clock. 1t is desired to make ar
rangements for the programme to be OBJ
served on this occasion, and to make
other preparations tor the event. All OF
our people who can do so are earnestly
invited to be present.
While threShing wheat on the farm OF
Marshall Roper, south OF town, on We'd
nesday, D. r. Shoemaker fed piece Of
casting into the threSher. 1t broke the
lower plate in the cylinder box, and Mr..
Shoemaker considers it miracle that
greater damage TO the machine was not
done. The casting had been placed in
sheaf in the field near the roadside, the
belief being that it had been put there by
some malicious person intent upon in
flicting injury on the threSherman.-Ad-
vOcate,
The board of education Of Middleway
district has under consideration plans for
the establishment of graded school at
Leetown. Although there are at present
three public schools within mile OF Lee
town, there is none in the village itself,
and the children are compelled TO attend
one OF the schools near by. 1t is now
proposed to erect a school building in the
village itself, sufficient to accommodate
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