Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-08-12
LITTLE LOCALS.

ryan N. otdllcy, vi Tic hcdIHctS-
vile neighborhood. has bought one of
the popular new 1916 Overland touring
cars. He purchased il from The National
Highway Garage, OF this place.
Rev. Mr.. Miller, from near Roanoke,
Va. has accepted call to become pastor
OF the i.eetown Baptist Church. An eff
fort will be made 10 have the Baptist
churches Of Shenandoah Junction and
Summit Point unite with the Leetown
charge.
Jack and Jimmie Billmyer made money
by going on the excursion to Pen-Mar
last Thursday. Just before the train
reached Shepherdstown on the return
trip they found good gold watch on the
steps of one OF the cars, and so far no
owner for it has been found.
The Register has in type an exceeding
ly interesting letter from Prof. John N.
Ware, who is now in Germany, but owing
to press OF advertising that must be in
serted this week, we are obliged 10 defer
il until our next issue. We are sure that
our readers will appreciate it,
The Charles Town horse show will be
held Wednesday and Thursday OF next
week, August 18th and 10Th. Many en-
tries of fine horses give assurance that if
will be a success. A company OF United
States cavalry will be encamped on the
grounds and will give exhibitions each
day.
We are sorry to learn of serious illness
in the family OF Mr.. W. W. Waddy, agent
OF the Norfolk & Western Railway in this
place. Mrs. Waddy and three OF the
children have been sick with typhoid
fever, though Mrs. Waddy seems now to
be on the mend. We hope that they may
all speedily recover.
There were more showers OF rain the
past week, again refreshing the growing
corn and other vegetation. II is believed
that there will be bumper corn crop in
this section, some farmers declaring that
they have never known the prospect
TO be for as large yield. The ears are
already hanging downward from very
fairness.
The extension department OF the College
of Agriculture at Morgantown announces
the following dates and instructors for
farmers institutes in Jefferson county
Shenandoah Junction, December is;
Ripon, December 9-l0; ShepherdStown,
December IL. The instructors named
are w. D. linn, OF Philippi, and E. W.
>Sheetz, OF Morgantown.
Its said that those miserable little pests,
the chiggers, are unusually annoying this
season. c. J. Hill, who lives north OF
town, has had good deal OF trouble with
one OF his arms, caused by chiggerS. He
scratched it and blood poisoning set in,
causing him much pain and anxiety. A
little daughter OF R. L. Bowers has also
been suffering from the same cause.
Two automobiles occupied by Mar
tinsburg men ran into each other last
Wednesday night on the road between
Shepherdstown and SharpSburg. One
of the cars belonged TO Roscoe Lamar
and the other to F. w. Coils, and ashley
topped hill The bust-up ensued. Alon-
20 Edwards had an arm broken and I.
T. Lemen, Jr., was thrown over the top
of the car and rather badly bruised.
Both cars were considerably damaged.
A meeting of the Equal Suffrage ASso-
cidlion will be held in the old college hall
Friday evening of this week at I o'clock.
All the members and everybody interest
ed are urged to be present. Mrs. Valen-
line, OF Richmond, Va, who is proml-
nenl in the equal suffrage movement, and
who is speaker OF national reputation.
will De in Shepherdstown on August Path
ard deliver an address, and she will also
speak in Charles Town on August 23rd.
The large barracks on the farm OF
Charles H. Lewis, near Charles Town,
was struck by lightning last Sunday about
noon, and in the fire. that followed the
structure was entirely consumed, with all
its contents. One thousand bushels OF
wheat, fifteen tons OF hay and all his
arming implements were destroyed. The
loss is about So 900. on which there was
an insurance OF s., $50 with Washingt on,
Alexander & Cooke. The storm was
very severe in the Charles Town neigh
borhood.
Mrs. Carrie Woods, the young wife of
Lewis Woods, lost her life last Sunday by
taking poison at the home OF Thomas
Leggett, in Shepherdstown, where she
was staying temporarily. The young
woman, who was only Is years of age,
and who had been married but year or
two, was not living with her husband, and
worked around the neighborhood at dill
ferent places. She had recently been at
the home OF her stepfather, Alexander
Myers, but had come to town for few
days. Last Sunday she became i'll, and
finally admitted that she had taken dose
OF strychnine. DR.. Burwell was sent for
and endeavored to save her life, but it
was too late, and she died IN short time.
Someimportant changes are being made
on the Shenandoah division of the Nor
folk & Western Railway. A number OF
new block stations are to be established
and seventeen additional telegraphers
are to be employed. A new station is to
be built at Grimes, and two new men
will be put in charge there. Antietam
Station, which has been managed TOR
years by Philip Grove, is to have an ad-
ditional man, J. E. p. Farley having been
put there, and it will be block station.
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