Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-09-04
LITTLE LOCALS.

Miss Florence Licklider has been re-
appointed to her position as teacher in
the public school at Elkins, this State.
Miss Ruth Licklider will teach at Cowen,
where she will have the primary work.
We give cordial invitation to visitors
to ShepherdStown TO subscribe for the
Register before returning home. If you
are interested in the town or its people
the Register will keep you posted for a
dollar year.
The corporation authorities have had
the stone crusher at work this week
crushing big pile of stone at X. Lucien
Remnants place, near the river. The
material has been placed on the streets
where most needed.
Owens & Miller wish to thank the peo-
pie OF this and adjacent communities for
their past kind patronage and solicit your
future drug wants. Either phone or mail
your order to us and we will send it to
you promptly. Day phone Jefferson l5-K,
night call Jefferson Blk. Don't forget
the name-Owens & Miller.
Mr.. Harry N. Moore, of Haltown, this
county, and Miss Mabel E. Kretzer, of
Hagerstown, were married Monday at
the First Presbyterian Church in Wash
ington by Rev. Daniel c. Mcleod. The
wedding was witnessed by Mr.. and Mrs.
P. S. Millard and daughter, of Bakerton,
and few intimate friends. After Octo-
Der lst Mr.. and Mrs. Moore will be at
home in Brunswick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Johnson, of
Charles Town, announce the approach
ing marriage of their daughter, Miss Mo-
selle Johnson, to Mr.. Richard Conway
Meyer, of Baltimore. The wedding,
which will be quiet one, will take place
at the parental home on October 4th at
6 o'clock in the evening. The bride-to-
be is sweet and charming girl who has
friends in Shepherdstown.
Charlotte Hendricks, the nine-year- old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry q. Hen
bricks, OF the vicinity OF Shenandoah
Junction, became i'll the latter part of last
week, and her physician, DR.. G. w.
Banks, having diagnosed her case as ap-
pendicitis, took her to the hospital at
Charles Town, where she was at once
operated upon. She stood the ordeal
well, and is now getting along satisfacto-
rily.
Mrs. c. A. Mckinney, OF Ottawa, Kan
saS, formerly of this vicinity, in renewing
her subscription to the Register, writes
that the drought has done great damage
in that State. From the last OF May until
the middle of August there had been but
one light shower in the Ottawa vicinity,
while the temperature for weeks at a
time ranged from 100 to log in the shade,
with hot winds nearly all the time. The
pastures are bare and the corn crop gone.
81 appreciate the Register, as it gives me
the news from the old home."
Last Saturday while w. Lodge Bowles,
of Clarke county, was driving pair Of
prize show-ring horses from Rockville,
Md, TO the Morgan's Grove fair at Shep-
herdstown the team was run into by a
man on motorcycle. MIR. BowleS was
thrown from his buggy and painfully in
jurcd, while Juvenile. one OF the horses,
was so badly cut that il will not be able
10 inter- the ring this season. Juvenile,
who is valued at 81 900, was sent home,
and Mr.. Bowles came on to Shepherds
town.
A Baltimore & Ohio freight train, east
bound, was wrecked right in front OF the
depot al Shenandoah Junction soon after
midnight last Saturday night. The train
broke in two and the rear end crashed
lnlo the part ahead. Seven cars were
smashed and their contents OF general
merchandise strewn over the roadbed.
All the tracks were blocked for five or
six hours, and trains from each direction
were held up until one track was cleared.
No one was hurt, fortunately-but I'M
fortunately the old shack that does duty
for station was not demolished.
Stuart w. Walker and Charles A. Mil
Ter, prominent residents of Martinsburg,
were the recipients of bla.k hand letters
last week. Mr.. Walker, who is a prom
inent lawyer and politician, received
through the mail letter demanding that
he place the sum OF SIC, 900 at designated
place under Kilmer's bridge over the
Tuscarora-under penalty of death. Mr..
Miller, who is a wholesale grocer, was
asked to yield up $1,000, and if ne re-
!, fused his property was to be destroyed
Both letters were probably from the same
source, and were written in a disguised
hand by an illiterate person, probably a
, foreigner. Neither of the two was pre-
pared to fork over the money on such
short notice, and the letters were turned
over to the postal authorities, who are
making an investigation.
Farmers in the southern section OF the
county have been losing their hogs by
cholera, and from vaccination for the dis,
ease. Charles E. Harris. south OF Myers
town, who has been breeding mulefoo
hogs, guaranteed immune from cholera,
has had peculiar experience. He lost
IS hogs, varying in weight from 40 TO 25(
pounds. AT the outset of the cholera ir
; his neighborhood, he had number OF his
hogs, including few of mulefoot breed,
inoculated with antichoera serum. AL
of the inoculated hogs died except few