Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-07-02
BRIEFS.

West Xirginia's dry.
Flags for July 4th at Schoppert's.
Wheat is IA cents bushel and corn 80
cents.
Best grades threshing coal at Hodges
elevators.
All Oxfords and summer shoes at cost
at Hodges.
Buy your good things for picnics at
Schoppert's.
Butter is Is cents a pound and eggs
are II cents dozen.
Schoppert has just received a key of
new sweet pickles from Heinz'S.
Welch's grape juice and Dole's pine
apple juice Tor sale by Schoppert.
Chase and Sanborn's celebrated cof-
fees and teas are sold by Schoppert.
Ivory wall plaster and Portland cement
at Hodges Shepherdstown and Kear-
neySville elevators.
Let US have safe and sane fourth OF
July. 1t is against the law either to sell
or set off large firecrackers.
II. E. MeleSter asks us TO announce to
the farmers that he has first class tbresh-
ing outfit now ready for business and will
beglad 10 have the patronage of the public.
Three big church reunions will be held
al Pen-Mar this month-the Reformed
Church on July 10th. the Lutherans on
July 23d and the Presbyterians on July
3Olh.
RaSpberries are very plentiful and
reasonable in price. Fine Maryland ber-
rieS have been selling this week in Shep-
herdStown at 500 to $2.25 a crate OF 81
quarts.
The annual supper and festival at Mar
vim Chapel for the benefit of the church
will be held on Friday and Saturday July
3lst and August LIST. Supper and refresh
ments will be served each evening.
AT the annual Sunday school conven-
ton OF the Shenandoah Baptist Associa-
ton held in MartinSburg last week, Prof.
F. A. Byerly, OF ShepherdStown. was
elected president for the ensuing year.
Everybody who can do so ought to
take day off on Saturday, the 18th of
July, and enjoy the union picnic at Nor
gan'S Grove. 1t can be made an occa-
sion OF great social pleasure to everybody
and wholesome amusement for the young
folks.
Bank Examiner Diehl was in Shep-
herdStown yesterday making his semi
annual examination Of Jefferson Security
Bank and the Farmers Bank. 1t is I'M
necessary TO say that he found both of
these flourishing institutions in perfect
condition.
Class No. 9 OF the M. E. Church South
will give play in the firemen's hall on
Thursday, July 9th. 1t is coached by
Mrs. Gibson. Proceeds for the new piano.
There will be music and recitations also.
Begins at O'Clock. Come and help us.
Mrs. |. V. Johnson, teacher.
Powhatan College at Charles Town,
of which Dr. J. R. Pentuff is president,
last Saturday filed voluntary petition in
bankruptcy before Deputy Federal Clerk
NadenbouSch in MartinSburg. The debts
are given az about $4,000. Powhatan
College has been in precarious condi-
ton for long time.
The wheat harvest is about over in
Jefferson county. II has been cut in good
order, and though the rains dampened
that which was in shock, the high winds
the first OF the week dried it out nicely.
II is believed that the crop will be the
largest that has been raised in Jefferson
county in many years.
Fred L. Fizer, of Martinsburg, aged 81
years, committed suicide in the peniten-
tiary at MoundSville Monday night by
hanging himself in his cell with rope
made from his underclothing. He was
sent to the pententiary last April to serve
term OF four years for attempting to
shoot and kill a young girl who was
keeping house for him.
A serious accident befell Mrs. John
Ramsburg, OF Berkeley county, while
visiting relatives in Leetown. In attempt
ing to get out OF buggy at the home OF
her sister, Mrs. Kate Fulk, her foot Slip
ped off the step, which resulted in fall
that broke her hip at the joint. The &C
cident is very unfortunate one, and she
will be incapacitated for long time.
The booze joints at Weverton are re-
sponsible for another death. A few days
ago an Austrian with an unpronounceable
name who worked at Brunswick went
TO Weverton and got a jug OF whiSkey.
Returning, he let the jug fall into the
canal. He spent so much time diving
and swimming for the jug that he became
exhausted and finally sank to the bottom
and drowned.
The body buried several weeks ago in
the cemetery at Middeway in the belief
that it was that OF young man named
GlaSSiord was identified as that OF man
by the name of Sweeney, from Philadel-
phia. His widow went to Middeway a
few days ago, and the body was exhumed.
She identified it as that OF her husband,
and bought lot in the cemetery and had
il reinterred.
Ernest r. Darby, of Hagerstown, road
superintendent OF Washington county,
was quite badly hurt last Wednesday
evening when the motorcycle on which
he was riding was run into by reckless
party of men from Baltimore driving an
automobile. One shoulder was dlSloca-