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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
David Washington.

David Washington,
vs..
Charles Washington etc.
This is TO certify that George D. Moore has given
bond with good security as required by decree in the
above named cause
mo. ~ DANIEL. Clerk.
Jan r. 19i1-3w
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
How'S This q?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
]. Cheney for the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by his
firm.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26

Sunday papers al Owens & MiIler's.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
Wonted.

-Four wood-choppers at once. Sec me
at Maple Shade Farm.
Jan. 19, 1911.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
81 HEAD OF SHEEPI
SO HEAD OF HOGS

80 ewes and one buck. all good strong yOun
sheep, buck eligible for registration.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
Another Operation Avoided.
PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned will sell at public SALE on the
Turner farm near Dam No. 4. four miles northwest
OF Shepherdstown and miles north OF BiImyerS
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
80 HEAD OF GOOD EWES
# HEAD OF HOGS |
PUBLIC sale OF
Valuable Real Estate.

The undersigned Special Commissioners. by viz
tue OF the authority conferred upon them by GER
tain decree that was entered on the 3St day OF Oc-
tober 1910 in the cause OF David Washington COM
plainant against Charles Washington and others.
defendants pending in the Circuit Court Of Jefferson
County, West Virginia will offer for for sale al pub
lie oulcTy, TO the highest bidder, in front Of the
Courthouse, in Charles Town, West Virginia. on
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-01-26
7HEAD OF HOGS |
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.

One sow and five pigs. one boar will weigh abe
200 pounds, 5 shoats will weigh about Is or
pounds
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

s7 per ton. The cost in February, de- livered. was SS.10 per ton and the sell ing price $5.S9. This difference is due to the sharp falling off in the demand in cold weather, yet it costs the com pany practically the same to deliver as during the season when the de- mand is large. The profits of this company for the first six months of the last fiscal year were $25,000. This was up to September 30, 1909. Since then vember, $3,350; December, s4,0SS; Janu- ary, s3,Se4; February, s3,5OO; March (estimated), s3,5O0 This makes a total of S2O,415 lost for the last six months. The net profit for the year is s4,S9S. This is the profit of $100,000.
 A table compiled from the books of a New York company covering from 1870 to 1905 shows that while there have been sharp fluctuations in price, the average from 1896 up to the present time is actually lower than for a like period preceding this date. In 1870, 1874, 1880 and 1890 ice reached the dol lar mark. These high marks represent the famine period. The table follows, and is worthy of study, always bearing in mind the fact that the cost of har- vesting and delivering has steadily in creased. The low prices of 1898 and 1899 were due to the efforts of c. w. Morse to secure control of the trade. In 1900 he had control of 80 per cent, the jump to 60 cents resulting. The price was forced down the next year by the independent companies.
 Selling Selling
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Has Your Ice Bill
 Grown EXOrbitant? ?
Valuable Information for Householders Gathered Ii
 One Hundred and Twenty Towns

agreement to maintain uniform price. Evidence is not wanting, how ever, to show that often this agreed upon price level is lower than it would be with single source of supply. Competition has brought it down to the point of forced agreement. In a few places the artificial product Is in product.
 Nature Regulates Prices.
 Like agricultural crops, natural ice is dependent upon weather conditions. In severe winter we naturally look for a big ice harvest and with reason may expect low prices the following summer. An open winter is followed by high prices as surely and as natur- ally as a partial failure of the wheat crop sends the grain markets skyward. The consumer may grumble at what he has to pay, but he appreciates the situation and does not protest openly.
 When, however, this open winter is followed by a good winter from the iceman's point of view, and the follow ing summer the price fails to drop back to what the consumer believes to be it's fair and normal level, he comes out with open and vigorous pro- test. At first glance 1t would seem that he has every reason for his dis satisfaction. Unquestionably he has. in many cases. Nevertheless, there is something to be said for the dealer. Not infrequently in the season of short supply his business is run at no profit and may even show a loss, notwith- standing the higher price charged. In the first place, the consumption is very heavily reduced; in the second place, his expenses are approximately in creased because he must maintain
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wagons and horses which are not earn ing their keep. In the good season following he reasons that he must make good his losses of the previous season, and therefore the reduction in price is not what the consumer thinks it should be.
 Again, there has been a constant in crease in the cost of running any buSl- ness employing large numbers or horses. The price of draft animals has advanced sharply of late years. The cost of feed has advanced even faster. The iceman's business is a business of few months only, yet when the sea son has closed he cannot afford to dis pose of his horses or his equipment Unless opportunity favors him so he can engage in some other business in which he can utilize these, they stand him a heavy loss during the months of idleness. These facts are to be con- Sidered in trying to estimate whether or not we are overcharged for our ice:
 Prices vary according to locality and availability of source of supply. In small towns with nearby supply and more or less limited demand prices range from 25 to 30 cents per hundred pounds. Where the nearby supply is ice is brought in by rail, there must necessarily be a higher charge. The law of supply and demand affects the price of ice as of any other commodity.
 Wholesalers Profit Small.
 Because the wholesaler represents the larger amount of invested capital, the consumer very frequently lays, the blame for high prices wholly at the wholesalers door. An investigator in terviewed the president of one of the large wholesale companies supplying New York and adjacent territory. Fur ther than this, he was given access to the cOmpanyS books to confirm the facts stated by the president. Here are some of the facts which the books showed:
 In an exceptionally good year, when ice sold at S2sa ton and costs were low, the amount of ice ssold was 17,4lS tons. The average profit on this was 30 S-10 cents per ton. The total profit was $5.397 on a capitalization of $780, OO0. The actual money handled was S53, ,656.
 Another company does a retail bus1- ness as well as wholesale. The books show that last June the cost delivered to the consumer was fraction over s4.50 per ton. The selling price was
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

| he pays for, but in exact ratio to the I distance traversed the customers pay a higher price for their ice. The | shrinkage is rapid. Thus, a 10O-pound cake will lose ten to twenty pounds | before it is finally delivered. Obvious 1 ly, the customer taking fifty pounds, one-fourth of what was once a 200- pound cake, is actually getting. instead | of the fifty pounds paid for, not over forty to forty-five pounds. In this matter of weight guessing the delivery man should not be blamed 1 wholly. Probably there is no class of labor today with longer hours or doing harder work than the ice delivery man. Nor are these men paid in pro portion to the work done. Lifting such weights as are involved in blocks of ice from early morning until late at night is tremendous strain upon the human system. The tendency to shtrk the lifting on and off of the scales Is quite natural and not to be too harsh1y condemned.
 Nor is the dealer to blame, for he cannot follow his delivery men to in- sist upon exact weights. He will usu- ally do the right thing if complaint fs made to him.
 Purity and Cleanliness.
 No attempt has been made in this inquiry to decide upon the merits Of artificial versus natural ice. Unques-
 
 which are anything but hygienic. On the other hand, artificial ice made un- der sanitary conditions and from pure, distilled water is at least cleaner than natural ice. Experiments go to show that germs packed in ice survive but few weeks at most. Therefore though ones ice may come from a germ-infected source, it is probably, if properly packed and held in storage for some months, free from living germs. One does not, however, like to think of the possible conditions under which the ice has been harvested.
 One of our correspondents writes us of a small town of which she kneE which was at one time supplied from a pond just above and draining into which was a slaughterhouse. When one considers the horses and men which tramp over the ordinary ice field, the various forms of dirt which may accumulate there. and in other cases the bad condition of the water in heated months, the thought of this ices being used in drinking water is not pleasant.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

the plants and conditions are satis- | factory.
 | At Muncie, Ind, artificial ice is si.75 per hundred, while at Anderson, an hours ride from Muncie, the price is always 25 cents to S5 cents less. Conc yer, N. C., pays 55 cents; Norfolk, Va, l 35 cents; during an ice war last sum- mer it went as low as 10 cents. Jack sonville, Fla, pays 35 cents. Manhat- 1 tan, Kan, Lafayette, Ind, and New kane, Wash, pays 70 cents. Alameda, Cal, pays 1 cent per pound, while san Francisco pays 60 cents a hundred for amounts between one hundred and three hundred pounds, 50 cents per hundred for 300-pound blocks and 75 pounds. Ann Arbor. Mich., pays s2 for 500 pounds.
 A careful study of the figures re- ceived from more than a hundred places shows that 40 cents is very nearly an average price. Very many this excessive.
 Have Your Ice Weighed.
 In a few places only do we find it customary for the delivery man to weigh ice Nearly always he guesses at the weight. This is manifestly to the disadvantage of the buyer. The fault lies not with the dealer, but with the buyer. If the buyer will insist upon having his ice weighed, he Is pretty sure to meet with fair service in this respect.
 Lifting ice to the height of the scales dangling from an ice wagon is a severe tax upon the strength. It is a strain not easily borne. The delivery man is going to avoid this whenever he can. He assumes that he can accurately judge a piece of ice and that the va riation from the specified weight will average up about an even thing the season through.
 In the case of artificial ice this req soning is at fault. This ice is usually made in 100 or 200-pound cakes. Start ing out from the factory the delivery man knows the exact weight of each cake Fifty pounds is frequent weight sold. This means a cake divid- ed in four equal parts. So far so good. A man with reasonable eXpertness can divide a cake so that the four pieces will vary little, if any. In a large number of cities this custom prevails.
 The customer nearest the factory has nothing to complain of. He gets what
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01
SN9k6AMS THE DAY OF SMALL HATS ~RQ&S4 KlA@E2k -nNG

nery of the smartest modistes of the Rue de- la PaiX and Fifth Avenue. The large hat with high crown and wide upturned brim is of palest blue hemp and the flowers, which are rather larger thar carnations (except of the. Lawson pink" family) usually are-and wonderfully we'll made-are of pale pink, shading at the edges to deep crimson. The stems and leaves are of a soft green with silver tones in it. This is one of the smaTtest hats of the season. The arrangehent Of the flowers is particularly happy. They are gracefully disposed, and yet they have almost the air of having fallen in a shower on the tall crown of the hat, whence. they are sliding down in all directions toward the brim. These are the effects that the ambi- tiouS amateur must beware of, lest in her zeal to be original and carelessly artistic she produce a hat that is mo- table chiefly for eccentricity and until diness. The hats of first-class milli- ners, no matter how odd and unusual they may be, are rarely sloppy and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01
Sailors
 in Vogue
Rather Like Straw Hats Worn by Men-Marie Louise Picture
 Hats

crimson, couple of wall flowers in tones of deep red and yellow, a yellow and purple pansy or two and soTns delicate trailing pale green asparagus fern. It does not seem possible to make this odd assortment of kinds and colors abide in peace on the same hat, but the result of this curious combi~ nation was charming and the bow of pale blue velvet at the back, which ended in streamers which fell over the brim, was not the least fetching of the various artistic odds and ends on that hat, which was signed" by one of the foremost names in the world of French
 nodistes.
 Some of the smaller hats. with high crowns and narrow brims upturned at one side, are very 1aunty and becom- ing. For example, one of purple straw has wired loops of purple velvet at the back and the crown is covered with fuchsia in lovely tones of pinkish pur- pie and blueish red.
 A little hat of white straw is faced with white camelias and the crown is wreathed around with forget-nne- nots, which in turn are yelled mfstfIy and poetically in white lace.
 The big, f1atscrowned, wdde-brimmed sailor is much in vogue among women with girlish figures and faces sttatoare fresh with youth. It is sometimes of rough, natural straw, much like a mans straw hat, and sometimes Of me hemp or Milan or Of rough rice straw. One such sailor of sunshade proportions was completely covered, crown and br1m, with dark blue silk with enormous polka dots, each one as big as a silver quarter. This silk was put on smooth and plain and the appearance was of silk hat, although the wide brim was faced with straw.
 The Marie Louise is the name that the big flat, wide-brimmed picture hats of the season are called. They are never trimmed with plumes. F7uf- the Marie Louise, which takes it's name from a famous French mi11ineT. The hat itself is taken from an old painting of Marie Antoinette at the Trianon, where the unhappy consort of Louis XVI used tn play at being a farmers wife and, for this purpose had the most fascinating frocks and hats that were ever seen.. The hats in par ticular were charming, with dropping brfms and long streamers of pa1e-hued ribbons and stiff little tufts of flowers at one side, or sometimes directly in front Sometimes the brirn was faced softly with lace, and once in a way the whole crown was covered with mist of lace. .. The flowers for these so- called sailors, which are not at all our idea of what a sailor should be, are tiny stiff bouquets C'posies'' they used to call these wee bouquets in the long ago). or roses that are made of ? great number of petals so closely furled that the round, hard little rose lookss when complete, more like a peach than flower.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01
S THE reader getting the ice h

S THE reader getting the ice he
 pays for? Is he satisfied that the price charged is reasonably fair
 eThe price charged and the price paid are not necessarily the same thing, as will be pointed out later)
 There appears to be a feeling, almost universal, that the iceman is growing rich at the expense of the consumer; that the price of ice is, as 9 general thing, on an excessively high level. Are there grounds for this belief?
 Not merely the comfort but the health of the family depends in a large measure upon ice during the an important factor in the cost of liv- ing. Is there evidence to show that through monopoly or combinations among dealers controlling the ice SUD- ply prices are exorbitant?
 The idea that there is an ice trust or monopoly of national proportions has no foundation in fact. There never has been a national ice trust and prob ably never will be- Ica being both is doubtful if it would be possible to bring the entire supply under one con- trol. However, local monopolies, many of them operating over an extended territory may and do exist. Thus, during the past winter the American Ice Company was convicted of an at tempt to create and operate a monop- oly in New York city. Southern papers have recently announced a merger of ice companies operating in Georgia, Tennessee and some parts of Florida In small places the "one man" trust is freuuent and consumers are at his mercy Tn the majority Of places where two pr more companies are op- erating there is ample evidence of an
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

Ostrich feathers are positive craze
 this season and they appear in strange and wonderful guises. One of the
 feather manufacturers in New York has advertised his wares in odd and attractive fashion by having two tiny ponies decked with bells and plumes (three Prince of Wales feathers fas- tened to the head of each wee horse) the form of huge milliner's box. A black boy in livery sits behind the
 box and a girl attired in a long, light
 driving coat and wearing a different
 feather-trimmed hat every day sits in
 front and drives the spirited pair. The livery of the boy and the feathers in the hat of the driver and on the heads of the little horses always match per
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

sinks in suddenly and then humps up again toward the tail the end of which is partly raised instead of dropping. Some of the large leghorn hats are trimmed with one of these long plumes humping itself more or less gracefully over the crown of the hat, long f1ues falling like fringe over the sides of the brim.
 Some of the French hats in the very fashionable New York shops are trimmed with so many different kinds of flowers that. it is quite task to describe them. and yet the general eff feet is one of perfect harmony. For instance, a big, graceful. white hemp leaves, shading, from yellow through the brown tones and then from pink to
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

pink buds here and there has a plume of inky black at the back, and the eff feet is very good.
 The little hat of rough, natural straw with Indian plumes of emerald green is very smart and, while peculiar in style, would look extremely we'll on some piquant heads.
 The demure little hat with the broad bow of purple velvet is of mauve and white straw braid, with rosy cherry blossoms nestling in front between the purple loops. The little lingerie bonnet is made of eyelet embroidery and at the back is a puff of pink chiffon, while around the front of the shovel brim is a gar land of tiny roses and pale green leaves made of ribbon.
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fectly, for the object of the adver- tisers is as much to prove their skill at dyeing as to display the different Kinds Of feathers that they sell.
 The other day the black ponies wore panaches of magenta plumes of the camel-back variety-a novelty of the season. The fues of this plume may be straight, curly or widowed, but 1t is the poor things spine that is diff ferent. It is apparently bad case of curvature. The feather starts out nor mally and then humps it's back like a cat frightened by a dog. The back
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01

There is a small hat tilted up in back and shading the face in front and it is of natural straw, the crown smothered in geraniums in the natural tones. At the back is a pretty ar rangement of lace wings which gives the effect of a particularly lovely but terf1y just alighting to enjoy the gaily-hued flowers.
 The picture hat with the wide sash of ribbon and the willow plume is bright blue and was designed to be worn with gown of softest gray. The effect was stunning.
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untidy, which makes the great differ ence between the French hat, which is justly acclaimed the best hat in the world, and the English hat, which is generally admitted to be the worst. The French hat has a definite mean ing in its most apparently cratic guises. The English hat is either painfully prim, neat and stiff or ab- surdly graceful" hoppy and pseudo aesthetic.
 Two hats with the big bows of the moment are shown here, and they are both simple, chic and serviceable. They could, at pinch be worn under a veil for motoring, and in their pris- tine state they are smart enough to accompany a very smart frock to a function of most fashionable preten-
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tions. One of these hats. is of natural straw with bow of green and white ribbon. The other is of mauve straw with a rosette in pearl tones Shading from gray to blue, with hints of roses and mauve in the changeable weave of the silk). The edge of the brim is in a deeper tone of mauve (almost purple) and the plume is of shaded blue and mauve-these tri- colored or shaded plumes being one of the extravagant fashions of the sea- son.
 The toque of red roses with a few
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shrinkage about 10 per cent. It costs | g to $3.50 a ton to deliver to custom CTS. It costs less to customers taking ice in large quantities, and therefore l the price is less. This large margin of profit is more apparent than real, be- cause, as already pointed out, the profit in summer is offset by heavy losses in winter.
 Another New York authority states that 40 cents hundred in New York | city and 25 cents to 30 cents in smaller cities is a minimum price at which any ordinary years ice can be sold to fami- | lies with profit. In very small towns where the harvesting field is close at hand and the expense of harvesting is small a lower price is possible. The apparent high price of 40 cents is due to the constant increase in cost of pro- duction and delivery. On the Hudson river ice fields ordinary labor Is $2. 50 per day, and many of the laborers gre inexperienced and consequently ineffi- cient.
 Cost of Making Ice.
 Artificial ice has become a serious competitor with the natural product all over the country of late The in variations in price which are not satis- factorily explained. It would seem that the cost of manufacture in one place should not be materially greater
 
 other place; nevertheless, there is a wide variation in prices.
 From several Southern points come quota tions on artificial ice at one half of what the product costs in places where natural ice is in competition. Houston, Tex, offers artificial ice at 25 cents a hundred the year around. Manufacturers, wholesale and retail, from their platforms at 15 cents hun dred, and many people send regularly for their supply. Delivery is made at the figure quoted previously 25 cents, with a good margin of profit. There is fine flow of artesian water almost anywhere a we'll is sunk. Every brew cry and packing house, and one large grocery company, manufacture their own ice and sell the surplus.
 New York city pays 40 cents, Wash ington, D. C., pays 50 cents, Roanoke, Va. 50 cents in small pieces and 35 cents for 50 pounds or over per day. Columbus, O., has it at s3.50 per thou sand pounds. In Kansas City it is 40 cents, which has been the standard for years. Distilled water is used in all
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-01
Drawers for Pantry

XXJHEN we built our house, we had, w in the pantry, two good-sized
 drawers lined with zinc. These had covers hinged about halfway from front to back. They are the most sat- isfactory receptacles for bread and cake have ever had. The cake drawer has a lock as a safeguard against predatory boys. MJ