Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-08-03
LITTLE LOCALS.

SSfcidi PSiSonS ioi iiSiilHS III Tie Snen-
andoah river on Sunday. II is to be
hoped that he will not come up Shep-
herdstown way on the Sabbath.
1t doesn't look very well TO seenews-
papers that circulate in the homes of the
people OF a community advertising whis-
key in flaming letters. The Register long,
long ago drew line that all respectable
family newspapers ought to observe.
Secretary E. T. Licklider has just is
sued the premium list of the Morgan's
Grove fair, which will be held September
5, land 8 at Shepherdstown. Copies Of
the fair book may be obtained from Mr..
Licklider or at the stores in Shepherds
town.
The reunion of Confederate Veterans
OF Jefferson county will be held in Wallis
grove, near Charles Town, on Thursday,
August 18th. Senator Culberson, OF Tex
as, and Major Holmes Conrad, of VIM
chester, have been invited to deliver adj
dresses.
John Hollida, of the Scrabble neighbour
hood, was thrown from his automobile
last Thursday while driving between Ha-
gerstown and Shepherdstown, A wheel
suddenly collapsed, and he went through
the windshield, but he got no worse
hurts than some ugly cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Josephine Hodges gave very
enjoyable card party last Saturday even
ing as compliment to Mrs. Byrd M.
Robinson, of New York. Tuesday even
ing Mrs. H. c. Marten entertained Mrs.
Robinson and a number of other friends
at an equally pleasant Give hundred"
party.
Henry Shepherds steel boat is lying
at the bottom of the river near the foot
bridge in twenty-five or thirty feet of
water. A party of bathers were hav-
ing fun with it on Monday, when an air
chamber sprung leak and it sank in a
short time. The boys have been trying
hard to recover the boat, but have not
yet succeeded. The water is too deepto
dive for it and so far they have not been
able to get hold on it with hooks.
The water in the Potomac river is very
low, and all the water from Dam No. 4
being required for the canal, the electric
power plant at that place has shut down.
Shepherdstown is now getting its cleo
tricity for light and power from the plant
at Millville. The current is carried to
Martinsburg and sent back to this place.
There is not enough water in the upper
levels of the canal to float boats with a
full load, and the boatmen are having a
good deal OF trouble.
Miss Alice Marten has been appointed
teacher OF the public school at Rosemont,
near Clarksburg, w. Va. Miss Rhoda
Needy is reappointed to the Milville
school in this county for the fourth con-
Secutive year OF her service there. Miss
Texana Strobe gets the Fairview school
near Winebrenner's Cross Roads, Miss
Louise Folk will teach at Swan Pond,
and Miss Rose Sellar goes to Cherry
Run, in Morgan county.
The baseball fever is not quite as high
as it was, but there was revival OF in
tereSt last Saturday, when Shepherds
town beat Harper's Ferry to the tune of
IL TO 2. Joe Triplett set the crowd wild
by making home run, while Ed. Athey
damned one against the fence for three
bases and Will Sachs knocked a two
Dagger against the canvas. Fred Legge
pitched fine game, and held the victims
TO four hits.
The mendacious Hag Mail loves lie
better than the truth. In its issue of Sat-
urday last it says: Speaking of those of
Jefferson county who come TO HagerS-
town to buy, the Register OF Shepherds
town styles them old soaks and rummieS
and most OF them negroes" So far as
we know, the Register has not within the
past dozen years or so referred to the
persons who 60 from Jefferson county 10
Hagerstown to buy wet goods or dry
goods or any other sort of goods. The
poor, degenerate old Mail is so daffy on
the booze question that it sweats beer
and froths at the mouth at the very men,
ton of Temperance and decency and So
briefly.
There is need for some efficacious pray
ing for rain throughout the country, for
from every section comes stories OF dis
treSS and loss on account OF drought. In
this neighborhood there have been some
helpful showers from time to time, but a
good, steady, soaking rain, such as we
have not had for several years, is greatly
needed to replenish the underground res
ervoirs and bring the springs and streams
to their accustomed flow. Unless we
have rain soon the corn crop will be con-
siderably shortened. Baltimore city is
badly off because of a shortness in its
water supply, which is growing less day
by day, and that which is now being sup
piled is fit for neither drinking nor cook
ing purposes.
Thos. B. Line has had the old dwelling
house on the corner of Princess and High
streets torn down, his arrangement with
the State Board of Control, which re-
Gently purchased the Line property for
Shepherd College, being that he should
remove the buildings from the lot. This
old dwelling was part frame and part
log and was very old-probably was
erected considerably more than hun
dred years ago. The logs and frame are