Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-01-11
LITTLE LOCALS.

two, but there are still a number Of per-
sons in this county who ought ito take
the Register. A dollar gets II for a. year.
George S. Knott has sold to Harry P.
Lord the farm near Middleway. known
as the Gilbertfarm. ltcontains l89 acres
and the price paid was $500. Mr.. Knott
lived on this farm number Of years ago.
Rev. William H. Compston. rector OF
the Episcopal Church at Harper's Ferry,
and Miss Elizabeth Alexander Washing
ton. OF Riveton, N. j., were married
yesterday in Christ Church at the latter
place.
Chas. H. Johnson has sold his farm of
l37 IL acres near Middleway to ]. A.
and Edith Grantham, for $500. Pos
session will be given April lst. Mr..
Johnson is going to Los Angeles, Cali
fornia.
The handsome Stonewall Jackson cal
endar issued by the ladies of Clarksburg
for the purpose Of erecting a monument
to the memory Of the great Confederate
soldier are on sale at Owens & Miller's,
Shepherdstown.
The Register office received handsome
calendars from Frank w. Myers, repre-
senting the insurance firm of Washington.
Alexander & Cooke, from ]. H. Hill. drug
gist, of this place, and from ]. w. R.
Fisher. the timer and plumber, of Mar
tiusburg.
In renewing his subscription to the
Register, of which he has been good
friend for many years, Mr.. VIM. D. Hays
lett, of the Leetown neighborhood,
writes: 'You have my best wishes for a
happy and prosperous year. Keep up
the good fight that you are making against
the evil power of the liquor interests"
James Hofimaster, of the Moler's neigh
borhood, thinks that he has beaten the
corn-husking record of the Maryland man
of whom our Sharpsburg correspondent
told. He and his two sons, Walter and
Roy, husked the past season 2,700 BUSH
els Of corn, beginning the first week Of
October and finishing the third week in
December.
The Shepherdstown Garage has recent
ly sold three handsome Everitt touring
cars; A four-cylinder Sc h. p. five-pass-
enger touring car to John R. Fisher, OF
Hagerstown six-cylinder 48 h. p. six
passenger touring Car to the Citizens
Garage. Cumberland; and four cylinder
Sc h. p. touring car to Boyd A. Reinhart,
OF Cumberland.
The entertainment by Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert Sprague, who gave the play Grip
Van Wrinkle" in the town hall last Friday
night, was enjoyed by large audience.
What the cast lacked in numbers was
made up by versatility. Mr.. Sprague
made an excellent rip" and Mrs.
Sprague represented the female characters
quite creditably.
Enclosed find dollar to pay for the
Register another year. II is one of the
incest, cleanest family papers publishes
in the United States of America-sure it
is. Judge ]. Q. A. Metcalf, Palmyra,
Mo. Thanks, good friend. Judge Met
calf says that he hopes to again visit
Shepherdstown, his boyhood home, some
time-we hope that he may do so and
will promise him hearty welcome.
We again call The attention Of persons
who expect to have sale this winter and
the coming spring to the fact that the
Register is among the very best adver-
Using mediums in this section. Our cir
cu'aton covers both Jefferson and Berke-
ley counties and the Register is also read
extensively in Washington county, Nd,
and other adjoining counties. Our sale
bills arc the most attractive that are print
ed in this section. Call to see US or write
or phone you intend to have sale. No
tice in the sale register free.
Miss Christine Timing, Of Norfolk,
Va, who is prominent throughout this
country as scientific exponent Of the
benefits of temperance, is in Shepherds
town this week giving instruction on this
subject in the graded school and in Shep-
herd College. Tonight she will speak
at the union meeting in the M. E. Church,
and everybody is invited to hear her.
Miss Timing is thoroughly familiar with
her subject, and is doing great good in
putting before the people, especially the
young, the truths concerning the use OF
liquor.
Apples grown in the Shepherdstown
neighborhood are evidently finding their
way over pretty much the whole country.
c. D. Wysong, one of our largest growers,
shipped several thousand barrels the
past season, and in each barrel he placed
a card saying that the fruit was grown
and packed by him. A few days ago Mr..
Wysong was gratified to get letter from
Mrs. ]. M. Aldrict, of Michigan City,
Mississippi, in which she said: 81 have
just finished using a barrel OF apples
grown and packed by you, and would
like you to know that there was not a
wormy or rotten apple in the barrel.
This is quite unusual and worthy OF men,
tion."
Last Sunday night a young horse driven
by John w. Mitchell, living along the
river road east OF town, broke loose from
the rack at the Reformed Church, ard
after making turn in the street started
for home. II travened the narrow and
dangerous river road all the way from
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