Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-10-09
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III VI hopkins Gibson, of Shepherd.
! Town, has been honored by an annoint.
.!ent as Assistant Surgeon General or
inc Staif OF General w. w. Old. of Nor.
Iolk, Va, Commander-in-C Chief of the
oohS oil Confederate Veterans.
Your doctor knows-so do we-aud
you should-that we put up prescriptions
ftgh. NO one is better prepared than
we are, because OF our training and equip
ment. No better drugs can be had than
thoSe In this store. Owens & Miller.
The annual meeting of the Shepherds
town Branch OF the American Bible So
ciety will be held in the Shepherd College
auditorium Sunday night. The address
Will be delivered by Rev. DIR. H. C.
Haithcox. The meeting will be at 7 90.
Mr.. W. P. Licklider has been on the
SICK list this week, suffering from an at
tack OF lumbago. He has had TO stand
up most OF the time, he says, as if was
too painful TO arise when once he sal
down or reclined.
The family of the late Rev. Iohn E
| lnplett take this means of expressing
their deep and lasting appreciation to the
people of ShepherdSlown and community
1or their many kindneSSeS to them and to
theirs during the last illness of their dear
husband ana father.
Much interest has been manifested in
ShepherdSlown this week in the great
series OF baseball games between the
| New York Giants and the Philadelphia
Athletics. Owens & Miiler's drug store
mas been receiving the score by innings,
and an Interested crowd gazes on The
bulletins each afternoon.
Mr.. VIM. w. Myers has been very
sick the past week al his home on High
street. He was first taken with an at
tack o. bronchitis, and his coughing
brought on spell of hiccoughs which
could not be controlled for long time.
His condition was serious for time, but
he is now good deal better.
| There's covey of partridges that is
living very close to town, for several
times during the past month the pretty
birds have come into the gardens and on
one occasion a couple OF them trotted
down Main street. A few days ago sew
eral OF them made visit to the yard al
the editors home, and showed little fear,
calling cheerfully to other members OF
their family from whom they had become
| separated.
h. E. Williams, Commissioner OF Ag-
riculture for West Virginia, has taken
space in the United States Land Show to
be neld in Chicago from November 10th
| to December Sth, and Is anxious TO show
at that exhibition the best OF our State S
agricultural products. He would like TO
have Jefferson county well represented.
We hope that our farmers will be inter-
| eSted. Write to Mr.. Williams at Charles
ton, and he will give full information.
Uncle" Lee Williams, one of Shep-
herdStown'S beSt-known and most re-
spected colored men, died on Tuesday,
| aged about 10 years. The deceased was
| very industrious man, quiet and we'll
behaved, of good manners, faithful and
| dependable, honest and reliable, and
| there is much regret at his death. He
had become blind during his last illness.
| "Uncle" Lee was slave before the
| Civil War, having belonged 10 the Moore
family, OF this county.
| The entertainment in the college audi
| forum last Saturday night by Col. Tom
Booker and Capt. Tony Miller and their
! quartette of negro singers was a real treat,
| and was enjoyed by good sized audi
| ence. Col. Booker was lively as cricket
and sang and played his banjo with much
| fervor. The colored men sang perfectly
| the melody being such as only negroes
seem able TO make. Their steamboat
song was marvel OF harmony--lndeed,
we are sure that this quartette is easily
the best group Of colored singers that has
ever been heard in this section.
We are SONY to note that smallpox has
| invaded The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
| hnode, couple OF miles south OF town.
| Their Youngest daughter and their two
| lite grandSons, children Of Mr.. and Mrs.
| ChAS. ]. Derr, have the disease, though
fortunately II is lii very mild form. II
| will be recalled that Mr.. Derr was taken
down with The disease some weeks ago,
and IL is supposed that the children were
infected from this case. Miss Knode, his
slster-in-laW, was also at his home, anc
probably caught if at the same place
We understand tilatthe patients are getting
along very well and il is hoped that they
will soon recover.
A good deal of comment is being caused
by the discovery of many serious errors
in the work OF the county assessors as
revealed by an examination OF the lax
bills now IN the hands of Sheriff Gardner
and his deputies. There seem TO be
errors of every sort-of omission and ad-
dition that will in some cases result IT
considerable loss of revenue and IN others
cause individual evaporation. A casual
inspection OF the books for Shepherds
town district show that the farm OF M
M, Stanley and the dwellings OF {. M
Sheetz and E. X. Hill are not assessed a
all. while Well-k RoWn individuals IN toWr
are partly or entirely relieved on persona
property. An effort will be made 10 cor
rect the errors, but there seems TO De
bad mix-up.
Last Saturday night John and JOE
Sanbower and Dan ShipleY, the Shep-
herdstown Bard, went to the fiShpot be.
low town to catch themselves a gooc
mess of cells. They attended the tiShpo
faithfully all night and were rewarded fol
their labor by catching about forty large
cells, which they proudly put in a live
box at the waters edge. On one o
the trips Toe fell in the river and got sucf
a soaking as to neceSSitate the building o
big fire to dry him out. This took
| considerable time, and while they were
thus occupied some unknown depredatol
visited their live box and stole every ee
therein. II was mighty mean thief wh(
would thus rob them of the fruits OF thel
toll, and they were perhaps JUSTIFIED II
the language they used concerning MN
The Norfolk & Western Railway will
sell excursion tickets TO Hagerstown OF
account of the fair next week at DO cent:
for the round trip from ShepherdstowT
Tickets on sale October 18th to lGh
good returning until the 10Th. BESIDE
; the regular trains. two specials Will D.
run on Wednesday and Thursday, ON
starting from Elkton and the other iron
Berryyile. The train from Elkton WI
make no stops north OF Boyce. I'M
train from BeTyville will stop al onep
herdstown at S.27 a. m, and returnln
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