Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-10-31
LITTLE LOCALS.

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The Shepherdstown Fire Department
will hold fair during the approaching
holidays. II is hoped to renew work or
the new building within short time and
push the structure to completion.
E. w. Athey has completed the fine
new barn erected at the Odd Fellows
Home at Elkins, w. Va, and with his
force OF workmen has returned TO Shep-
herdstown. He says that the barn is
one Of the best he has ever put up.
Two Jefferson county couples were
married in Washington. These were
Lester g. Brantner and Miss Emma g.
Furtney. both of Shenandoah Junction,
and Edward S. Disney and Miss Belle
6. Tinsley, both of Charles Town.
We regret to announce that the en-
gagement of Congressman Vim. g. Brown
to speak in Shepherdstown Friday night
has been cancelled. Mr.. Brown has been
recalled to Kingwood by the extreme i'll
ness of his aged mother, and all his en-
gagements had TO be Cancelled.
Miss Ethel Louise Brown, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles w. Brown, OF
Charles Town, and Mr.. John w. Huntz-
berry, Of Frederick, Md, were married
yesterday at the Presbyterian manse in
Hagerstown by Rev. r. A. Boyle. Mr..
and Mrs. Huntzberry will reside in Fred
erick.
Thanksgiving dinner and supper will
be served in the town hall by the ladies
of the Episcopal Church on November
18th. Tables may reserved for families
on application. Dinner IS cents, supper
Is cents. There will also be fine stage
entertainment at 8 o'clock, admission ID
cents.
DR.. q. w. Banks has joined the au-
tomobile club. He has just bought
new Ford runabout, and he is now en-
gagged in mastering the intricasies of the
machinery and the disposition OF the car,
and hopes in short time to have it be-
come as well acquainted with the roads
hereabouts as his faithful old grey horse.
The water seekers are having great
difficulty in finding an ample supply OF
pure water at Wild Goose Farm. They
have bored deep down several times
without shrinking a satisfactory stream,
and are now at work on the fifth well.
This seems to be a case requiring the
services of the old-fashioned water
smeller with his witch-hazel stick.
TAKE NOTICE - CHANGE OF
place of the Mrs. Sprung furniture sale :
To afford better opportunity of inspec-
ton, and TO avoid risk of bad weather,
said goods will be moved to the Old
Lutheran Church, at east end of German
street, where the sale will take place Sat-
urday next, November I'd, at O'Clock p.
m. Will be open for inspection 10 to II
a. m.
Our friend Samuel F. Hebb, of Sharps-
burg district, was in ShepherdStown on
Tuesday, driving his pair of handsome
matched sorrel horses, and we had the
enjoyment of a short drive behind these
splendid animals. Mr.. Hebb is proud OF
this fine pair OF drivers, and he has a
right TO be, for they are mighty hard to
beat. He was offered $500 for the pair
some time ago-and he laughed at it.
The full and complete bulletins OF the
election returns as furnished by the WeS-
tern Union Telegraph Company will be
given in the opera house next Tuesday
night Wires will be run directly to the
building and the returns will be thrown
upon the curtain by the moving picture
machine. Admission will be Is cents.
The firemen will serve sandwiches and
coffee at popular prices. Everybody in
| yited.
We do not recall ever having seen
better stand of wheat at this time OF year
than that which now covers the fields in
this section. Every seed seems to have
sprouted, and the carpet OF living green
makes beautiful scene. The luxuriant
growth is inviting to that ever-present
pest, the fly, and there is fear that it will
| do more or less damage before the next
harvest. But there is no disputing that
the wheat is now in fine condition to enter
the winter.
A representative OF the American Union
Telephone Company was in Shepherds
town this week canvassing for subscrib-
ers for this telephone system. He said
that he would put an exchange in here ii
| he got Is subscribers, but we understand
that he got but six. We fail to see the
necessity for another telephone system
| in this place, for the Bell Company is CIV
| ing us firstrate service at reasonable rates,
and an additional company would increase
expenses while giving but little benefit.
The trees are now in the full beauty oil
their fall foliage, and a drive or walk
through our lovely country is genuine
treat TO lovers of the beautiful in ma
ture. Although the leaves are beginning
TO fall more and more rapidly, there are
still enough left TO lend rich color to the
landscape and give avariegated LONELINESS
] that is most impressive. The weather
has been ideal this week-crisp, but
balrny, with bright sunshine by day and
a silver moon by night that has made OIL
valley charming place at all hours.
A.sensation was created in Martinsbure
last Friday by the arrest of Claude W.
Stewart, manager of the Stewart Vehicle
Company, on the charge Of having caus-
ed the fire that destroyed the large plant
of the company several weeks ago. The