Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-07-22
LITTLE LOCALS.

Charles B. VanMetre is limping this
week as the result OF a very sore loot.
While working at The National Highway
Garage he got bad puncture by STEP
ping on nail that penetrated his foot.
DIR. Banks gave him surgical attention.
Shepherdstown played double header
game OF ball with Berryville at the latter
place last Thursday. We won the first
by score of to ), but lost the second.
aiive-inning contest, by 2tol. Adouble-
header game is 10 be played on the Shep-
herdstown diamond this Thursday.
Joe Wheeler, the cook at the Jefferson
Lunch Room, left few days ago for
visit OF a few weeks in Carlisle, Pa. He
was respondent in his company clothes,
his decorations including light trousers,
speckled vest, black coat, lavender tie,
bright green hat ribbon and No. II shoes.
The Register has added a number of
new names to its subscription list the
past week, and we thank our friends for
their patronage We would like TO add
about three hundred more and make our
list an even 1000. lfyou read this, send
us dollar and We will send you the Reg
lister year.
Yesterday perfectly good ten-galon
freezer OF delicious chocolate icecream
just made by thl Jefferson Lunch Room
somehow got sab in il and could not be
used. The society editor OF the Register
told proprietor Shipley that if he would
put coaloil in the icecream the salt would
never be noticed, but he didn't seem i'm
pressed by the suggestion.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on
Tuesday placed an order for 1000 steel
hopper cars and so passenger coaches,
TO cost some $2,500,000. II is great
pity that the order for coal hoppers was
not cut 10, say, 1893, so that the money
saved could be applied 10 building
decent station at Shenandoah Junction 10
replace the old shack now in use.
The National Highway Garage has Sc
cured the agency for the Ford automobiles
Tor Shepherdstown and vicinity, and will
hereafter sell these popular cars as well
as the Overland. This garage will also
be Ford station, where full line OF
accessories and repairs will be kept in
stock, giving excellent service to the
owners of Ford cars.
The Norfolk & Western Railway will
run an excursion TO Pen-Mar next Thurs
day, July 10Th, the special train leaving
Shepherdstown al $40 a. m. Fare for the
round trip only one dollar. The Pres
byterian reunion will be held on this date.
On August 9TH another excursion will be
run, leaving Shepherdstown at 9. 40 a. m,
on account of the Odd Fellows reunion.
Work is being pushed along rapidly on
c. N. Writings big new Touring mill on
Washington street. The structure has
been framed in part, and the outside
sheathing is now being put on. The
timberS of which the building is con-
structed are enormously heavy, and every
thing about the mill is TO be OF the most
substantial character. II will be by long
odds the best mill ever operated in this
end Of the county.
Abou: 500 yearling bass. consigned to
D,,.vnOII nd paNInr Dainhart 1
were receives here last Thursday night |
from the United States Fish Commission |
lDd were al once placed in the Potomac
river al the foot of Princess street. They
were lively young fellows from two to
three inches long. Ii had been expected
that about 10000 of the fish would be
sent here, and there was considerable
disappointment at the limited number re-
ceived.
We learn that typhoid fever has made
IFS appearance in the family OF Charles I.
Hollida, in the Scrabble neighborhood,
Berkeley county, and that an investiga-
lion indicates that the trouble originated |
in the we'll, the water of which has been |
found TO be polluted. The well is a deep |
driven one, and there is surprise that it
should have become contaminated. The |
use OF the well has been stopped, which |
is matter OF much inconvenience TO Mr.. |
Hollida and his family.
Lightning stirred up quite an excite
ment Monday evening at the home OF J.
p. Kearfott, at Kearneysvile. A heavy |
charge OF electricity followed the tele-
phone wires into the house and besides |
burning out the phone and scorchlng |
the box did other slight damage in the |
room. Fortunately no person was in the |
room at the time. Mr. Kearfott, who was
on the front porch, was considerably |
shocked and other member OF the family |
were greatly frightened.
A horse belonging TO L. w. Thompson
created a sensation early last Saturday |
morning when il ran down Main street
with the fragments of buggy hanging to
it. The horse fell at the hotel corner,
and it was caught and put under control.
The most notable feat OF the runaway an
imal was the effective manner in which it |
broke through two heavy gates at the en-
trance of the alley at Miss Annie Lickl-
der's home-it went through them as
though they were paper. incidentally, |
the Hoise ofthe runaway attracted so much |
attention that many different styles in
morning dishabille were observed.
The intensely hot weather the past
week seemed 10 be making up for the
cooler weather the first of the month,
ODD q ,,uet no admitted that IL made the |