Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1912-02-08


herdstown. New and convenient ans
in good neighborhood.
The Register is pretty well filled will
sale advertisements this week-and still
there's more to follow. We will hav,
to ask our readers to excuse the lack o
interesting reading until the sales ART
over.
AT the public sale by c. ]. Cavalier &
Son near Harper's Ferry on February 18th
there will be sold 300 single-comb pure
bred white Leghorn chickens, many o.
which are now laying. They are very
fine.
AS Miss Kate Remnant, an estimable
lady OF this town, was on her way to Sun
day school last Sunday morning she Slip
ped and fell on the ice at the Episcopal
chapel and broke her lett arm. DR.. Banks
gave her surgical attention.
Ned Athey. of Shepherdstown, who is
attending Eastern College at Manassas,
Va, has signed contract to pitch for
the baseball team OIL. Johnson City, Tenn,
next season, at SIS a month. We will
miss Ned IN Shepherdstown.
The dwelling-house Of ]. w. Milbourn,
two miles east of 'Martinsburg. was en-
tirely destroyed by fire, with nearly all
OF its contents, last Saturday. The family
barely escaped with their lives, and had
to walk to a neighbours in their bare feet.
Frank W. Myers has given us an un-
usually attractive calendar gotten out by
the Ciizens Trust and Guaranty Company
| OF Parkersburg, for which he is agent.
The calendar is embellished with beau
tiful drawing OF the West Virginia State
flag in colors.
The Register has added to its equip
ment very fine piece of new machinery
an Oswego paper cutter made by the
famous manufacturers, Brown & Carver.
II is OF the newest design and most up
to-date pattern and is most useful addi-
ton 10 our job printing department.
The ground-hog saw his shadow last
Friday. and retired into his hole to stay
until the six weeks of bad weather shall
have passed. The day was cloudy, but
the sun broke through the clouds suffi-
GENTLY bright TO make shadow, and
that settled it. The next DAY it showed
and got very cold, but the weather hasn't
been any worse than we expected.
When the grand jury OF Frederick coun-
ty, Va, assembled on Tuesday there was
not single case before it-not one wit
ness had been summoned nor was any
person chargedwith crime. This triumph
OF order and decency, and the great saw
ing of the taxpayers money. is directly
attributable to the fact that Winchester is
dry town and that the rotten old Savage
distlllery has been driven from the coun-
ty.
In the Circuit Court at Martinsburg last
Thursday Judge Faulkner sentenced Chas.
A. Westenhaver, q. 7. H. Baker and
John P. Creque each to pay fine OF $500
and serve four months in the county Jail.
They were all found guilty OF selling liquor
illegally, as told in last weeks paper.
Sentence was pronounced by Judge
Faulkner, but stay was granted pending
writ OF error to be presented to the
Supreme Court.
William d. Hines, who graduated at
Shepherd College last June, and who
started in as teacher OF small public
school near Bluefield in September, has
been promoted to the position OF aSsis-
ia Il superintendent of the Bluefield High
School, very desirable appointment.
MIR. Hines friends here are glad to know
that he is making good in so satisfactory
a manner, and we wish him continued
success.
Among the deeds admitted to record
last week in the office OF the county clerk
we're the following: Decatur Osburn and
vile TO Mason Osburn, tract OF 80 acres,
adjoining the land of E. A. Colston's es-
tate and others, near Summit Point, 30
800; r. q. Miller to Bette E. Shell, house
and lot fronting "a feet on German street,
Shepherdstown, $700 Rebecca Athey
10 Edward Domer, house and lot OF two
acres on Rocky Lane, two miles south OF
Shepherdstown, $500.
D. Frank Hill, who lives west OF town
a mile or two beyond Blllmyer's Mil,
was in town Tuesday in very comfort
able sleigh that has been in the Hill family
for 76 wears. II was originally made Tor
his father, the late David Hill, who took
unusually good care of it, and Mr.. Hill is
equally careful. II is an old-fashloneo
wooden sleigh and is entirely comforta-
Bile. Although it is so ancient, it is IN
perfectly good order, and is sound IN all
its parts, though bit OF paint would mol
be amiss. 1t has been in use for three
quarters of century, and bids TAR 10
last long while yet.
An art teacher has been provided Tor
Shepherd College, and Miss Addle X.
Ireland, of Morgantown, has been. ap-
pointed to fill the position and will begin
the work at once. Miss Ireland is a
graduate of the art department OF the
State University and has done very &C
ceptable work in Morgantown. She will
teach drawing and other studies in art at
shepherd College, and will thus fill a
long-felt want. Prof. Miller has been
trying for a long time to establish this
department, and is much gratified that