Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-01-23
LITTLE LOCALS.

particulars.
Sad news for the editor of The Hag
Mail-the Hagerstown Brewery has gone
into bankruptcy. Charles D. WagaDan
and Alex. R. Hagner have been appoint
ed receivers for the property, which seems
TO be hopelessly insolvent.
There will be game OF basketball
Saturday evening of this week in the COL
lege gymnasium between the Shepherd
College boys and the team from the
Waynesboro PA High School. Game
called at 100. Admission 10 cents.
Edward o. Mckee, who lives on j.. d.
Muldoon's farm, west OF this place, Will
move to town the first of April, and will
occupy Miss Ellen Welshans' house on
Washington street. Edward Griffith will
take Mr.. McKee's place on the Muldoon
farm.
We invite attention to the law card OF
Mr.. ]. Wilmer Latimer, of Washington,
d. c., published elsewhere in this paper.
Mr.. Latimer is an old ShepherdStown
boy, and we are very sure that business
entrusted TO his care will be satisfactorily
attendedto.
Mrs. Clara Crumpton gave very en-
joyable card party at Sudley Place last
Friday evening TO number other friends.
Five hundred was the chief attraction.
Mrs. Crumpton entertains most charm
ingly, and the evening was spent in the
most delightful manner.
The big water maple trees around the
Episcopal church-yard on Main and
Church streets have been trimmed down
TO the quick, and the scenery OF that sec
ton has been materially altered. The
trees had grown very large and unwieldy
and il was necessary to trim them back
great deal. Jack Phillips did The work.
We are sorry to report that Michael
Brown, Of this place, has lost the sight
OF one OF his eyes as the result Of NAL
adv that seems TO have baffled the skill
of physicians. MIR. Brown, who has
suffered greatly from the trouble with
his eye, was in Baltimore for treatment
the past couple Of weeks, but obtained
little or no relief.
The will OF the late L. Dow Maddox,
formerly OF the Uvilla vicinity, who died
recently in Worcester county, Md, has
been filed for probate. The instrument
conveys all OF the testator's property, in
GLIDING about twenty acres of land near
Uvilla, to his widow, Mrs. Margaret E.
Maddox. A daughter, Lalla Rose Maddox,
and son, John J. Maddox, are named as
executors.
Fine prices were realized yesterday at
the sale of personal property OF the late
James Bane, near Shepherdstowu. Two
farm horses sold at $225 and S2l0respec-
lively, colt less than two years old
brought $l75, and horse twenty years
old was bid up TO SOL. Cattle sold at
high prices, one COW bringing $65. Sheep
sold up to $3.50 and hogs were out Of
sight. 1t looks as if live stock will be
juStiaS high as ever this season.
Our friend Mr.. q. r. Staley sends us
from New York a fish story which, al
though out of season, sounds equal to the
best OF Mr.. Bowly'5 yarns. The story
says that Edward .Ackerly was fishing for
bass lew days ago, when he had two
strikes at the same time and hooked two
line fish. They broke his line and got
away. The next day Emmett Taxter
was fishing in the same waters, when he
gotta Strike and pulled in three basS-the
one that took his bait and the two that
Ackerly had hooked.
The new high school building at Har-
per's Ferry is to be opened with appro-
pirate exercises next Monday, January
9th, when it will be occupied by the
Harper'S Ferry and Bolivar
schools. An interesting programme OF
exercises is being arranged, but i; has
not yet been definitely decided upon and
we cannot give details. II is hoped,
however, TO have some leading educators
and several State officials of prominence
there, while the people generally are in
vited 10 attend the exercises and inspect
the new building. The Register hopes
to give detailed description OF the build
ing in its next issue.
There seems little doubt that Charles
Town will soon get handsome new
government building. II has been agreed
by the House Committee on Public Build
lngs and Grounds that each Congressman
shall be allowed one building for his dis
trict where conditions warrant its cree
tion-where the receipts of the postoffice
are not less than $4,000 a year. In &C
cordance with the above agreement, Con-
gresham VIM. q. Brown has selected
Charles Town as his choice for a public
building. An appropriation of SIS, 900 is
asked for, but as the postofiIce receipts
are only about Sll 900, it is possible that
this amount will be reduced to $4,000.
We congratulate our neighboring town
upon its prospective good fortune.
One OF the Registers readers whose
good opinion we value has written us a
letter that we deeply appreciate. And
although we are liable TO be accused OF
egotism, we cannot forbear quoting from
him. He says: eve enjoy each weeks
issue ofthe Register. lhave never known
weekly paper to rank with if. Each
item is treated concisely yet comprehen-
Slvely-you are never verbose or inane.
Your dlction is OF high order through
out, your sense of news values phenom-