Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-11-02
LITTLE LOCALS.

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| A rumor was prevalent here the first of
the week that r. d. Fisher had re-
turned to his home near Sharpsburg.
This was untrue, and another report has
| it that he is dead broke in Wyoming.
| Geo. H. Bowers will sell two of his
farms, one known as the Ramsburg farm
and the other as the Elmwood farm, and
all personal property, exceptinghis driv-
ing and riding horses, on November 7th,
at his home place, near Sulphur Spring
ford.
Geo. H. Bowers will sell all his stock
and farming implements and two farms
near Leetown next Tuesday, November
7th, at public sale. Included in the per-
sonal property are IS head of particularly
good horses. Read the advertisement in
another column of this paper.
Mr.. Robert M. Duke, one of Jefferson
countY's most esteemed residents, was
stricken with paralysis Tuesday night
about ten o'clock at his home near Bak-
eton, and has since been extremely i'll.
He has been unconscious since the at
tack, and there is little hope of his re-
covery.
The wheat fields Of this section present
very remarkable appearance just now.
The growth is luxuriant beyond anything
that we have seen for years at this season,
being so thick and high that the earth is
covered as with carpet. II there is any
thing in having good start, there should
be an enormous crop next year.
A cold wave is on its way, according
to the morning weather reports. The
temperature here is down to 40 degrees,
with cool wind blowing from the north
west. There's freezing weather through
the northwest, and blizzard is sweeping
through Minnesota and Michigan, leaving
three-inch fall of snow behind it.
Mrs. Annie Trostle has sold her house
and about ten acres of land just east Of
Shepherdstown to Mrs. Kate Johnson, of
Berkeley county, for $500. Mrs. Tros-
tie, whose health has not been good for
some time past, left on Tuesday for Nc
KeeSport, Pa, where she will make her
home with her son, Benjamin F. Trostle,
who came here this week to helpher set
tie her affairs.
AS fast freight train was running south
Monday evening drawhead on one of |
the cars pulled loose on the bridge at |
Shepherdstown and the train broke in
two. The trouble was fixed, and then
as the train was pulling into the siding |
the same thing happened TO another car |
and made another break. Passenger
train No. 81 was delayed about an hour
at this place.
The faculty of Shepherd College gave
an enjoyable reception to the students
last Friday evening. After a couple of
hours pleasant social enjoyment in the
library and study hall, the assemblage
adjourned to the old hall, where prettily
decorated tables bore a savory repast of
refreshments appropriate to the Hallow-
cen season. The reception was an un-
usually pleasant one in every respect.
A good many persons in this neighbor-
hood are Strengthening their hogs, although
il is several weeks before the usual
butchering time. They are doing this,
literally, to save their bacon, for the hog
cholera is so prevalent that they prefer
to run the risk of the meat spelling to
having the hogs get the cholera. Thous-
andS of dollars worth of hogs have died
from the cholera in this county during
the past few months, and the disease is
still raging.
Halloween passed off very pleasantly
Tuesday night III Shepherdstown. The
town was properly policed and lighted
and there was no depreciation such as
occurred last year. There were num-
Der of enjoyable little parties at various
homes, and some amusement was created
on the streets by persons who were
masked and costumed in odd style.
There was plenty of enjoyment without
destruction of property or annoyance to
the people-let us hope that this may be
the method of celebrating the festival
hereafter.
According to the following item in the
Martinsburg Journal, the roads in Berke-
ley county need some attention: A county
road leading from John Miller's orchard
to Arden is in such bad condition that a
horse fell down on il the other day and
would have drowned in a mud puddle
had not man come along and helped
the driver in his difficulty. A boy named
Light was driving two-horse team that
had been hauling apples. The one horse
fell, and the boy managed to hold Its
head up from the water until Thomas
Butts came along.
Pay Inspector James S. Phillips OF the
U. S. Navy, who has been located at An
napolis. Nd, for the past year, has been
transferred to Norfolk, Va, where he is
in charge Of the navy pay office. This is
a very desirable assignment and one
that is quite gratifying to Mr.. Phillips.
He began his duties there yesterday, and
in all probability he and Mrs. Phillips
will make their home at that place until
his retirement from active duty. He is
first on the list of Pay inspectors, and
his next promotion will make him Pay
Director. Mrs. Phillips was in town on
Tuesday, arranging for the storage OF her
furniture.
At meeting of the board of directors
of the Citizens Fire Insurance Company
OF Charles Town last Monday if was
agreed that the executive Offices Of the