Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-06-19
LITTLE LOCALS.

July.
The Shepherdstown baseball team will
play the Hagerstown Orioles. Friday af-
ternoon at go O'Clock. The battery for
Shepherdstown will be Myers and Ship
ley. Admission Is cents. Everybody
invited.
The wheat harvest is at hand, and some
farmers will begin cutting around the ed
ges the latter part of this week. BY the
middle of next week the binders will
be running generally. The wheat is
standing up nicely, and the crop in this
section will be fairly good one.
The Norfolk & Western Railway will
make special rate OF $2.75 from Shep-
herdstown for the round trip to Gettys-
burg during the great reunion of the Blue
and the Gray in July. Tickets will be
on sale June q, Is, 20 and 30 and July
LIST, and will be good to return until July
10th.
The Valley Register, published at Mid
dletown, Md, last week entered upon
the 10th year OF its existence. The Reg
lister is the best country newspaper that
we know ola model after which al!
other local papers may pattern-and is
deservedly popular, having circulation
OF more than $500 copies.
Prof. Archibald R. Hoxton, who has
friends in this vicinity, where he has
frequently visited the Andrews home at
Fruit Hill Farm, has been selected as
principal of the Episcopal High School,
near Alexandria, Va. He succeeds DR..
Launcelot Minor Blackford, who retires
after 43 years of service as principal.
During the storm last Monday evening
lightning struck the hay barracks on the
farm of ]. Wesley Welshans, tenanted by
John ]. Byers, in Berkeley county, cauS-
ing the destruction of the barracks and
about eight tons of hay contained therein.
During the same storm lightning struck
the barn on the farm of Charles Keller,
west of HarperS Ferry, tenanted by OS-
Car Ballinger, and it was destroyed in the
resultant fire with most of its contents.
At a largely attended meeting of the
Henry Kyd Douglas Camp of Sons OF
Confederate Veterans last Saturday night
it was unanimously agreed to buy new
uniforms of Confederate gray, and COM
mittee was appointed TO secure prices
and make contracts. The camp agreed
to meet regularly the first Saturday night
of each month, and il was determined TO
use every effort to increase the interestln
the organization. A picnic will probably
be held at Morgan's Grove sometime dur
ing July.
Edmund Licklider, OF Shepherdstown,
has been in Roanoke, Va, this week,
where his suit against the Norfolk and
Western Railway came up in the Federal
Court. A year or two ago, while work.
ing in the N. & w. shops at Roanoke,
he lost part of one of his hands in ma
chine, and he sued the company tor DAM
ages. The case was to have been tried
yesterday, but the attorneys got together
and effected compromise by which the
railroad company agreed TO give Mr..
Licklider 81 900 and pay the costs of the
case.
A party of She pherdstown folks started
on hike Monday morning that will call
for a good deal Of resolution if they carry
out their plans and walk the route they
laid out for themselves at the beginning,
regardless OF the hot weather. Rev.
Chas. F. Freeman, Misses Alice, Jessie,
AOUie and Rebecca Banks, Robert Banks,
Jr. Harry White and Roy Staley composed
the party, and their route was to BoonS-
boro, Braddock Heights and Frederick,
and back home by way of Brunswick and
Harper'S Ferry. They expect to return
by Saturday.
One of the most vivid electrical storms
we have ever witnessed passed over this
section Monday evening between six and
seven O'Clock. The full force Of the
storm was not felt here, and there was
but little rain, though small amount Of
hail fell. The storm seemed 10 extend
in half circle, and from the west around
b,yt "a ,ArfI, 20 tho fhara q
tinuous display of wildly brilliant light
ming. The day had been an unusually
hot one, the thermometer having gotten
up to 81 in the shade.
A decree for the sale OF the assets OF
the Potomac Refining Company was
signed by Judge Rose in the United
States Court in Baltimore last week upon
the petition OF Morris A. Soper, ]. Craig
McLannahan and Charles E. Cockey,
trustees in bankruptcy Of the company,
who were also appointed trustees to
make the sale. The company's assets,
which we're appraised at $33, ASP, consist
principally of 1877 acres OF land in Wash
ington county, Md, near Harper's Ferry.
The Potomac Refining Company was an
ambitious organization with an advertis-
ing staff that were skilled in the use OF
printers ink. II came to grief largely
because the promoters could not square
their performances with their promises.
Some of its officers made little money
by the sale OF stock-and others earned
term in Jail.
In the Circuit Court at Hagerstown
on Tuesday Judge M, L. Keedy filed an
opinion in the divorce proceedings OF
Thomas r. Backford VS.. Harriet I.
Blackford, well-known residents oil
Sharpsburg, dismissing the bill OF COM
plant and requiring the complainant 10
pay the costs. The bill of complaint was