Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-06-01
LITTLE LOCALS.

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Church reunions at Pen-Mar have been
fixed for this year as follows: Reformed,
Thursday, July 10th; Lutheran, July 9th;
Presbyterian, August Sd. Former Sena-
tor Wellington, of Cumberland, is to de-
liver an address at the Lutheran reunion.
Miss Bessie Butler entertained the Sem
ior Class and faculty OF Shepherd College
last Friday night at avery enjoyable party
at her home on Main street. Saturday
night the Junior Class gave a delightful
reception to the seniors and the faculty
on the college campus.
With the installation of one OF the ia
nous "McRay Refrigeration Systems"
we are again able to supply you daily
with cooked and uncooked meats, such
as bologna, beef, ham, boneless break
fast bacon, sliced to any thickness on our
American Slicing Machine. Reinhart
Bros.
The Martinsburg Light and Power
Company has just placed an order with
the General Electrical Company for big
1000 horse power steam turbine engine,
which will be installed at its plant in
MartinSburg. The company will then have
plenty OF power, whether the Potomac is
high or low.
The Southern Soldiers Memorial Asso-
citation has purchased $50 beautiful little
Confederate silk. flags, which will be used
to decorate the graves of the Confederate
dead in Elmwood Cemetery on memorial
day. With the flags owned by the Sons
of Veterans, there will now be enough to
mark every soldiers grave in the ceme-
terry.
The Norfolk & Western Railway is
erecting new water tank just south of
Shepherdstown. The new tank, which
is of 100000 gallons capacity, will rest
on Superstructure of steel supported by
concrete piers. When the new tank is
completed the old one will be taken down
and removed, as it has outlasted its use
fulneSs.
Tuesday night passenger train No. IA
pulled into the Norfolk & Western station
here on time at 8 o'clock. When the
engineer attempted to start his locomo-
tive the cylinder head blew out, and he
stayed right there. There was a delay
OF about an hour until another engine
came from Hagerstown and pulled the
train to the end of the run.
Sad news is announced by the Jeffer-
son Telephone Company. II is that |
'phone-holders in Shepherdstown and
other part of Jefferson county must pay
extra to talk to persons in Martinsburg |
and Berkeley county. Heretofore we
have had the privilege of talking to our
neighbors without extra charge, but now |
we must pay five ceuts for every call.
Thus does monopoly grind us down.
In pursuance Of the request Of Mayor |
Martin, the people worked with will |
yesterday TO clean the streets of the town,
ard three carts were kept busy hauling
away the dirt. The streets all look very |
nice now, and little attention will keep |
them in good order all summer. Mayor
Martin asks us to express the thanks of
the town for the general response to the
request 10 observe cleanup day.
The drought that has prevailed for some
weeks past was broken yesterday by
fine shower of rain that accompanied
thunder storm. The rain was greatly
needed, for the gardens were parched
and dry and wheat and corn were suffer-
ing for it. There will be very little hay
in this section, it is said, as the great
drought last fall and the long and unusual
dry spell this spring have materially in
jured the grass.
Claude Engle, son of James M. Engle,
Washington, d. c., won first honor in
his classes atAntioch College near SPRING
field, Ohio, and will graduate at the head
of his class next week. Ex-Speaker J.
Warren Keiffer is the managing trustee
of this college, 60 years old. Claude
Engle graduated in Central High School,
Washington, spent year George
Washington University and finished his
college course at Antioch to be near his
mothers people, who live in that section
of Ohio.
The election in Charles Town last
Thursday for members of the town coun-
Gil resulted in the choice of DR.. r. E.
Venning, E. b. Lunceford and Thornton
T. Perry. II is said that the vote was
about 100 less than two weeks ago, when
the rotten license election was held.
The temperance people won decided
victory in the election of councilmen, and
the new council will be strong against
license. II is said that the town is certain
to be dry next year, even though the
court should grant license for this year.
Walter Whateley, secretary of the Viz
ginia Horticultural Society, in bulletin
giving the outlook for a fruit CROP in
cludes Jefferson and Berkeley counties.
OF the leading winter varieties of apples,
Yorks and Bens show good prospects at
this date, averaging 80 per cent through
out this section. PippinS (where grown
are variable from Is per cent to 90 per
cent in different orchards. Other stand
ard varieties show prospects OF good
crops. Peaches show better prospects
than expected, averaging Is per cent
where grown.
w. J. Knott, ESQ.,, president of the
Alumni Association of Shepherd College,
has arranged an interesting programme