Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-09-05
LITTLE LOCALS.

Manuel, both of Shenandoah Junction,
were married in Hagerstown last Sunday
by Rev. DR.. Chas. L. Pate.
Butler Jones. of Billmyer's Mill, who
had one OF his legs broken a couple of
months ago in an accident. is able to be
out again with the aid OF crutches.
In accordance with provision Of the
law passed atth last session Of Congress,
the pay of rural mail carriers will be in
creased from 81 900 to 81, 100 per year.
The regular fall term of Shepherd COL
lege State Normal School will begin next
Wednesday, September 18th. II is ex-
pected that there will be large attend
ance to begin the year.
The annual Confederate reunion held
last Saturday in Wallis Grove, near Charles
Town, was attended by large crowd.
Rev. DIR. Randolph H. McKim, of Wash
ington, delivered a most excellent ad-
dress.
Miss Ruth Taylor, who graduated from
Shepherd College last June, has been ap-
pointed as one OF the teachers in the
Kearneysville public school. She gets
the place made vacant by the resignation
OF Miss Bessie Lamar.
Some mighty fine strings of bass have
been caught in the Potomac river near
ShepherdStown the past week or two.
Raymond Baby proudly exhibited the
finest catch of the season few days ago
"a bunch of Al beauties.
Doctor and Mrs. St. George T. Brooke,
OF Charles Town, announce the engage
ment of their sister, Miss Anna Floride
Brown, to Henry Starr Wattles, of Alex
anSria, Va. The wedding will take place
on September 18th at Charles Town.
Geo. D. Baumgardner has sold two
acres of land with Improvements at Hall
town, recently purchased of Miss Virgin
ia Lucas, TO Mrs. Laura V. Henrietta, for
Sl,l75, and thirteen acres Of the same
tract, unimproved, to Lawson Goens, at
SHOPPER acre.
Hon. Ben H. Hiner, Democratic candi-
date for CongreSSman-at -large, will open
the campaign in Jefferson county this
week. He will speak at Shenandoah
Junction Saturday at 3 O'Clock in the ev-
ening and in Charles Town at O'Clock
the same night.
Last Sunday and Monday were OPP
pressively hot days. Monday evening a
severe thunder storm, accompanied by
| heavy rain, passed over this section.
Lightning struck building on the Bill
myer farm, just north OF town, but no
serious damage was done.
The wedding of Miss Eleanor Lloyd
Butler, daughter of Mrs. c. T. V. S.
Butler, OF ShepherdStown, to Mr.. Charles
Schley Mercein, OF Milwaukee, Wis,
will take place in Trinity Episcopal
| Church, in this place, next Wednesday
evening, September 18th, at O'Clock.
Among our callers last Saturday was
w. w. Myers from south of town. Mr..
Myers, reports that he and his son, q.
| w. Myers raised 100 bushels of wheat
this year from 80 acres, an average OF p
bushels per acre. This entire crop was
threshed in less than twelve hours by
Charles Kidwier
Rev. I. SydenStricker has received
word that his daughter, Mrs. L. H. Ar
mentrout, OF Grandfield, Oklahoma, who
was seriously ill, is improving very much
and her early recovery is hoped for.
She submitted to an operation last week
and is now much better. Mr.. and Mrs.
Z. W, Alder, of this place, are with her.
1t is said that the yield of apples in
Jefferson county this fall will be about
forty per cent of full crop. No buyers
have yet made their appearance in this
section, bu. few Of them have been in
Berkeley county and in the Winchester
neighborhood. They are offering less
than The prevailing prices of last year,
although no sales of importance have yet
| been made.
IF. Legar, proprietor OF the Shep-
herdstown Roller Mills, announces to the
public that he has had the mill overhauled
and put in firSt-clasS condition, and is
| now ready for custom and merchant trade.
He will supply the best grades OF flour
and meal and all kinds of feed, middlingS,
bran, chops and cracked corn. He asks
share of the public trade and invites
farmers and others to call and see him.
One OF the largest real estate transac-
tons in Jefferson county this year was
closed last week, when John L. Burns, a
prominent young farmer near Ripon, be-
came the purchaser of Crock Hail., the
farm of N. H. Willis, near Summit Point.
Rock Hall farm embraces All acres of
land, with ample Improvements that make
it most desirable property. The pur-
chaser gets possession next spring. The
price paid for it was SIS per acre.
There has been good deal of trouble
in the board of education for Harper's
Ferry district over the construction OF the
new high school building, the appoint
ment of teachers and other matters, and
President c. E. Upton and Commissioner
J. Strider Moler resigned from the board.
Their places have been filled by County
Superintendent James Grantham, who
appointed Geo. H. Child as president and
w. F. Clabaugh as commissioner.
Mrs. James S. Phillips has moved into
her new home, just completed on her 80
acre farm about half mile west of town.