Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-05-07
LITTLE LOCALS.

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section. II will not be long until Saw.
ages swillery will have to move on again
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The editor is in Jacksonville, Florida
this week attending the Confederate re-
union, and we find it mighty hard strug-
gle 10 get the paper out during his alb
sence. There is scarcity of local news
which makes it difficult to keep up to the
standard, and any adverse criticisms will
please be kept back until the editor is
again at his desk.
After three-day trial in the Circuit
Court in Martinsburg, the jury in the case
of Baltimore & Ohio Detective B. L.
Prince, indicted for killing Leslie Creque
last December, on Saturday returned a
verdict OF guilty OF involuntary man
slaughter. The verdict carries penalty
of one to five years in the penitentiary
A new trial will be asked
Edward HammersIa, who is tenant
on E. T. LickIider's farm south of town,
met with rather painful accident OH
Tuesday evening. He was leaning on a
fence looking at some horses, when one
OF them near him reached over and bit
him on the face, taking good-sized
piece of flesh from the side OF his cheek.
DIR. Banks was called and dressed the
wound.
The town authorities have force OF
men at work cleaning Main street, and
the work will certainly make very de-
cided improvement. During the dry
weather the dust had become almost in
tolerable, great clouds sweeping down
the street into The houses and places of
business caused much annoyance. The
annual coating OF oil will not be applied
until about the first OF June.
The Choral Society OF Hagerstown and
the Concert Orchestral Club will give a
May Festival next Thursday and Friday
evenings, May IA and Is, in the Academy
of Music, Hagerstown. High class solo,
lists have been engaged for the solo work
and the chorus has been trained by COM
petent directors. Miss Marie Kaiser, OF
New York, is the soprano soloiSt. and
her work is most favorably know through
out the musical world.
Governor Hatfield has issued procla-
nation designating Thursday and Friday,
May % and %, as Good Road Days in
West Virginia, and asks that able bodied
citizens labor upon the roads for these
two days. The women OF the State are
also invited to participate in festivities OF
these two days by preparing dinners and
otherwise showing their loyalty and in
terest in the great movement, for those
who labor, and thereby share IN the glory
OF the day.
Mr.. Laskie Smith Stanley and Miss
Grace M. Maddox, two popular young
residents OF ShepherdStown, went to Ha-
gerStown last Thursday, where they
were married by Rev. DR.. A. B. Station
at the parsonage OF St. PauPs U. B.
Church. The bride is daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. H. b. Maddox. The friends
OF the happy young couple join in wish
ing for them great happiness. Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley will reside in the home re-
Gently purchased by him on Duke street.
Our town people are certainly not to
be very highly complimented for their
efforts in trying to clean up on and around
their properties last Thursday and Fri
day. Probably not more than dozen
property owners entered into the spirit
OF the occasion, and as result the dit
ference was scarcely noticeable. This is
certainly very necessary work and that
our people took so little interest in it is
very unfortunate Would it not be worth
while to make another attempt and make
our properties, streets and allies clean
and sanitary?
The interesting drama OF "Queen ES-
ther," by Prof. J. R. Pentuff, was very
excellently rendered in the Shepherd
College auditorium last Friday night by a
cast OF young ladies from Powhatan COL
lege, Charles Town. The actors acquit-
ted themselves most creditably, and sew
eral of the young ladies' showed much
dramatic talent. Miss Irene Virginia Ul-
mer was the director of the play, and
those who took part were Misses Blanche
Peters, Goldie Shriver, Lucille Rose,
Esther Taylor, Margaret Engle, Carrie
Pennebaker, Ruth Clipp, Orville Cole
and Louise Boehler. A large audience
enjoyed the performance.
The weather this week has been very
much like summer. Sunday was pleas
ant and warm and beautiful day. Mon
day il began to get much warmer and by
noon the Register thermometer went up
to 81. Monday evening severe thun-
der storm, accompanied by heavy rain,
passed over this section, which turned
into steady downpour lasting until
Tuesday morning. Another thunder
storm passed over Shepherdstown Tues
day afternoon and since that time strong
north wind has been blowing. The
farmers have been thrown still later with
their work by the wet weather.
The news that the road between An
tietam Station and Shepherdstown is
really going to be macadamized is very
welcome indeed to the people OF this
section For wears this road has received