Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-04-16
LITTLE LOCALS.

five hundred party Monday evening to
number of her friends at her home on
Main street. Abouttwenty persons were
present.
The Shepherdstown Garage has sold
10 J. L. Whalen, of Hagerstown, hand
some King roadster at $l,l95. II has
full electrical equipment and is QUE OF
the finest cars of its type manufactured.
VIM. M. Burns and Charles H. Moore
are announced as candidates for county
commissioner from Charles Town dis
trict. it is said that present commissioner
John c. Burns will not be candidate
| for reelection.
A large party OF "wanoerlusters" IRON
Baltimore are expected TO visit Harper's
Ferry on Sunday, and will spend the day
tramping over the mountains in that sec
ton. Extensive preparations are being
made for the outing.
The round-trip rate from Shepherds
town for the Confederate reunion at Jack
sonville, Florida, in May, has been def
initely fixed at $l6.50. This is aremark-
ably cheap trip, and it is expected that
good many persons from this section will
take advantage of it.
VIM. H. Martin has contracted with E.
w. Athey for the erection of new barn
on his farm above Shepherdstown to re-
place the structure destroyed by fire
few weeks ago. The new barn is to be
somewhat larger than that which was
burned, and will be model OF convent
ence-one OF the best in this section.
Charles Jones is now doing the masonry
work, and the barn will be rebuilt as
soon as possible.
The first game OF baseball this season
in Shepherostown was played last Sat-
urday, when the Shepherd College team
and the Frederick High School boys
crossed bats. The visitors just WalOed
all over us, winning by the score OF II to
s. They fairly outplayed the home team,
which was not IN good condition and had
lots OF bad luck besides. Another game
will be played here on Saturday with the
Benyville team.
| Potomac Commandery of Knights
Templar had il annual Easter service in
Charles Town Monday night, in Zion
| Episcopal Church. The sermon was
preached by Rev. M. II. Lichlter, OF
Baltimore After the service banquet
was held, al which a number OF toaSts
were responded 10 by members and visi-
ting brethren. A number of members
OF the commandery from ShepherdStown
were present.
Robert n. Enge has just returned from
trip to Clinton and Charlotte, N. c.,
disappointed in the apparent poverty OF
the soil there, where corn is planted five
feet between rows instead OF three and a
half as with us and farmers talk of 500 and
600 pounds OF fertilizer to the acre to
make crop. Cotton is foot high there,
but is an easy crop to raise, as one mule
and single pillow was all they used to
pillow for this crop, which at the estimate
of half bale TO the acre yields $25.
Last years crop was worth 1000 mil
lions to the South.
lanes Grantham is announced in an
other column as candidate for re-elec-
ton to the office of county superintendent
OF Tree schools for Jefferson county. SO
far as we have heard, there will be no
opposition TO him, and it seems TO us
there is no occasion for any. Mr.. Gran
than is not only gentleman OF the high
est type who has the respect OF all the
people, but he has proven his fitness for
the Office he now holds by the satiSfac-
tory manner in which he has discharged
rs duties. We have no doubt that he will
be easily reelected.
Dr.. ]. L. Meyers is having repairs made
to the Winiermoyer building, next door
to the Register office, which he pur-
chased some time ago. This structure
extends over the town run, and the walls
Of this stream are being rebuilt and the
building put in good order generally. II
is a curious fact that the timberS nearest
the water seem to have been entirely
unaffected by dampneSS and are practi-
cally as good as when they were first
put in Dr. Meyers will have the upper
part of the building remodeled and made
into living apartments which he and his
wife will occupy, and the room on the
ground floor, formerly used as a press
room, will be converted into an Office.
! The Adams building on Main street,
occupied by the Model Bakery, is being
renovated and improved. All the interior
fittings have been taken out, and after
necessary repairs to the woodwork have
been made the room will be reprinted and
repapered and made as attractive as pos
siole. Old folks will recall that this build
ing was once lively and busy place,
when it was part OF the famous old
Valley Hotel and restaurant, conducted
so long by the late James A. Adams.
, Many interesting episodes have occurred
in that building, some full OF fun and hu-
NOR and others with tragic side. While
) the repairs are being made Messrs. Free
a man will continue business in the Mar
kell building, just across the street.
One OF the heaviest loads of its kind
to ever pass over the roads of this section
in years, and certainly with draft OF only
six horses, passed through ShepherdStown
last Friday. 1t was a portable engine OF
thirty horsepower, weighing about seven
tons, and was being transported by Charles