Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1911-12-07
LITTLE LOCALS.

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December 10th. II will be a literary
event of great interest.
The Register will be semitic any address
from now until January |, 1913, for one
dollar. you are not already a subscrib-
ef, let us send you the paper.
A young Martinsburg couple who have
been disputingfor some time asto whether
they would buy horse and buggy or an
automobile, have compromised on baby
carriage.
B. E. Beavers has sold his Riverside"
farm, along the Shenandoah river at Wat
sons eddy, to VIM. M. Burns. The
place contains 1913 acres and the price
paid was SIS an acre.
R. H. M. Billmyer has been busy this
week opening up new goods for his store
in the Billmyer building. He will open
the store to the public this Thursday ev-
ening. William Folk will clerk in the
new store.
Robert Shipley and g. w. Terrell, who
have been running the moving picture
show for some months past, have given
up their lease of the family theatre. The
attendance has not been very large re-
Gently and as the show did not pay they
have quit.
Brown Gardner, of this vicinity, has
been suffering severely the past several
weeks from malignant carbuncle on the
back OF his neck. He fully agrees with
Mark Twain's theory that the only salts
factory place for boil or carbuncle is on
someone else.
County Superintendent James Grantham
is placing in the public schools of the
county report cards which will give the
grade of every pupil in the schools month
by month. This is very excellent plan,
and has long been used in the Shepherds
town Graded School.
A. w. Billmyer, living south OF town,
lost very valuable horse by death few
days ago. II is thought by some persons
that its death was caused by eating en-
silage. While ensilage is excellent food
for cattle, it is believed by many to be
dangerous for horses unless il is at pre-
else state Of fermentation.
The corporation authorities have the
stone crushing outfit of Shepherdstown
district at work this week matchmaking
the river hill, leading to the bridge. The
stone blasted from the trenches in which
the sewer was laid is being utilized for
this purpose, and is crushed very fine and
put on in an eight-foot width.
Mrs. Harvey w. Harmer. of Clarksburg,
w. Va, has our thanks for a much-ap-
preciated Stonewall Jackson calendar
gotten out by the ladies of that city, the
great Generals birthplace. The calendar
contains excellent pictures of the house
in which Jackson was born and ofthe old
mill where he spent his youth.
Prof. T. c. Miller is arranging a plan to
keep Shepherd College more comfortable
this winter. The main entrance, which
faces the northwest and lets in blast OF
cold air every time the door is opened, is
to be closed for the winter, and the South
entrance will be used. A concrete walk
and concrete steps will be put in, leading
to this entrance, and il is hoped that by
using it the temperature of the building
will be much more pleasant.
At meeting ofthe Shepherdstown Fire
Department on Monday the following Of
ficers for the ensuing year were elected
F. w. Myers, president; H. L. Winter
moyer, first vice-president; F. L. Johnson,
second vice-president; Herbert Rogers,
recording secretary c. N. Crowl, finan-
cial secretary; DR.. J. L. Myers, treasurer;
T. A. Carter, chief; M. q. Bast, first as
sistant; DR.. Hopkins Gibson, second as
sistant; H. E. Melester, chief engineer;
]. R. Show, trustee for three years; J. H.
Crow, trustee for two years; G.. c. Show,
trustee for one year; Phil Taylor, ianitor.
The Winchester and Washington City
Railway Company, which already has at
Millville one the largest water and steam
electrical plants in this section OF the
country, has decided to make still greater
Improvements and additions to the pres
ent plant in order TO meet the rapidly in
creaSing demands for commercial pur-
poses. Arrangements are being made for
the installation OF another large turbine,
and the present transformers are to be
duplicated. The Improvements are to be
made in the near future, and when COM
pleted the value of the plant will be over
81 100000.
Miss Helen Hobbs is to give reading
in Shepherd College auditorium on Sat-
urday evening, December 10th, and
most delightful entertainment is promised.
Those who have heard her declare her
to be one of the most interesting persons
on the platform of the present day. Her
charming personality, her wonderful voice,
her dramatic force, her facility of express
sion, her artistic temperament are said to
be unexcelled, and wherever she gives
a performance she captivates her audience.
She is attractive, graceful and gracious,
and her coming to Shepherdstown will
be literary and dramatic event long to
be remembered. Keep in mind the date,
December 10th, and make your arrange
ments so as to be able to hear her.
"Prince," the faithful old dray horse
belonging to William Wells, died a few
days ago as the result of a large dose OF
chloroform, administered mercifully to
relieve him of suffering when il was found