Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-01-15
LITTLE LOCALS.

| W ooShStodH VIII NC prayed III
the Shepherds College gymnasium mex
Monday afternoon at 3.l5 o'clock be.
tween the college quint and the team from
Randolph-Macon Academy.
The Shepherdstown Fire Department
has elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: President, J. H. Crow
VICE president, ]. H. Robinson; secre-
tary, Herbert Rogers; treasurer. DR..
Hopkins Gibson; trustee, DR.. G. W.
Banks; CHEF, ]. c. Fultz; engineer, ].
H. Crow.
We learn that the B. & o. Railroad is
about ready to issue orders TO have train
No. stop regularly again at Shenandoah
Junction at ) So p. m, as was done be-
lore the last schedule eliminated the stop.
Complaints have been so continuous that
the railroad people have been compelled
TO give them attention.
Mr.. Vim. T. McQuilkin, a popular and
prominent farmer and fruit grower of this
vicinity, has been suffering since last Fri
day from facial paralysis. but his friends
will be glad to know that he is now i'm
proving. He will probably be all right
again IN few days. Mr.. McOuilkin
keeps as cheerful as ever, though the
infirmity has prevented him from whist
ling.
Chicken thieves have been operating
in ShepherdStown and vicinity for several
weeks past. and many persons have had
their chicken-hou robbed of fine
fowls. Among those who have been
victims OF the thieves are Benjamin Hart
zell, ChaS S. Miller, H. E. Melester and
Fonrose Shipley. II is to be hoped that
the rascals will be caught, for Shepherds
town has not been bothered much with
chicken thieves for long time.
The Patriotic Order Sons of America
has recently had its numbers considerably
augmented, the local lodge having re-
ceived II new members at one session.
This meeting was most interesting one,
among the visitors being State President
Rev. S. D. Shelton, OF Mt. Clifton, Va. +;
State Vice-President J. w. Johnson,
Past State President DR.. Ramey, DR.. J..
NJ. Ransom and Postmaster H. n. Bradley,
OF Charles Town; State Secretary F. O..
Trump, of Kearneysvile. Other appli-
cantS to this order will be taken in later.
Our Berkeley county neighbors are
making great preparations for the launch
ing OF the "Tri-County Fair Association, F"
the object OF which is to combine Jeffer-
son and Morgan counties with Berkeley
county and hold big fair in MartinSburg
each year. We appreciate the compi-
ment OF being included in this enterprise,
but we hope that our Berkeley friends
will not expect too much of Jefferson.
With the old established Morgan's. Grove
fair and newly organized Charles Town
horse show both claiming and deserving
the support of the people, we are afraid
that we will not be able to do much for
the new venture except to wish it well.
We hope that our friends who ask us
to publish notices of festivals and ther
entertainments for churches, lodges,
societies, ETC., the object OF which is to
raiSe money, will remember that WE
charge for such items at the rate OF cent
word or five cents a line. We wish
that we could print them without making
charge, but DIT the rate OF a dollar year
for subscription, with the ever increasing
expenses of running newspaper, we
lind it necessary to require pay for them.
We will have TO enforce this rule, so
please keep il in mind. When you send
in the notices, count the words and send
the money at the rate Of cent word.
The editor OF the Register has received
within the past few weeks many mes
sageS OF kindness and appreciation from
the readers of this news paper, but none
has appealed to us more strongly than
letter from Miss Catherine V. Billmyer, OF
Anchorage, KY, who was beloved res
ident OF ShepherdStoWn years ago. In
renewing her subscription to the Regis
ter Miss Billmyer writes: al am still In
terested in Shepherdstown and any OF its
residents who were there forty year ago.
As Tor the editor, whom remember as
little boy, appreciate his kindly SYM
pathy for all his townsmen in either hap
pinesS or sorrow and his loyalty to his
home and neighborS.
The first match game OF duckpins play
ed in Shepherdstown in recent years was
rolled on the local alley last night, when
the Baldwin team from Hagerstown play
ed a team composed OF Shepherdstown
men. The first game went 10 Hagers-
town. who bested US 65 pins. The sec
ond game was won by the locals by =
pins. The third game was the most ex-
citing one of the match, both teams Striv-
ing to do their best, and again we won
by q pins. Shepherdstown's total for
the three games was Ito, while the Wis
itors' total was l,lS9, thus giving them
the match by l9pins. Melester, otShep-
herdstown, with an average OF lis, was
high man in games, and Kretzer, OF Ha-
perstown, with l06 was next.
A storm such as Shepherdstown has
likely never seen before, unless way
hack befo' the war, passed over this Sec
ton last Monday morning shortly before
Q O'Clock. The sun rose clear and the
air was sharp and crisp, with Stiff breeze
blowing from the west. About 20 minutes
before 9 o'clock, with the sun shining
brightly in the east, a dark cloud arose
in The west. and was driven forward with
,:Lio ,,aIocitv In three or four