Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-01-28
LITTLE LOCALS.

grounding day. Let us hope that the
critter will treat us right.
Master Lucien Reinhart narrowly es-
capped an attack OF pencilitis last week.
He swallowed lead pencil two or three
inches long, but fortunately no serious
result followed.
Miss Katharine Adams, OF SharpSburg,
entertained at very delightful bridge
party Tuesday evening at her home in
that place. Her guests included a number
OF her Shepherdstown friends.
Baylor Reinhat has gone to White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, where he has a
position in the government fish hatchery
located at that place. On his way 10 his
post he was taken i'll and had to stop off
for a couple OF days.
The public sale held by J. Strider Moler
on Tuesday at Bakerton was attended by
an unusually large crowd and the bidding
was spirited. Excellent prices were real
lied, horses selling up TO $226 and COWS
up to $40. The total proceeds were
s., 349. Dodd & Hoffman were the auc-
tioneers.
The Northern Virginia Power Company
is extending its lighting system at Shen-
andoah Junction. A new electric line
has been put up from the Junction TO farm
buildings on the farms OF John D. Nc
Garry and Milton w. Burr. They will
use the current in lighting their residences
and barns.
A number of persons from Shepherds
town sent telegram on Tuesday to Sem
dtor Beckwith and Delegate Burr at
Charleston urging them to support the
bill now before the Legislature prohibit
ing the employment at night of children
under sixteen years OF age. Rev. J. w.
Ware was deeply interested in the matter.
Mr.. w. q. Moore, an engineer from
Baltimore, has been in Shepherdstown
during the past week, looking over the
ground in the interest Of the proposed
waterworkS company. Ii is understood
that he regards the conditions here as very
favorable to the enterprise If the people
will give it such support as il deserves.
The town clock has recently formed
the regrettable habit of stopping at a
quarter of one O'Clock and stubbornly re-
fuSing TO move until il is showed forward.
The town sergeant doesn't seem TO be
willing TO move it past the trouble line
twice every twenty-four hours, and so
we have no time. We hope that our
town officials will have the clock doctor
ed-the people miss it when it is out OF
commission.
In a warmly contested game OF basket
ball last Friday night the Shepherd Col
lege team was defeated by the Martins
burg High School team, by the score OF
81 to 10. The game was close one and
the interest was intense, for the home
team was always so close 10 the visitors
that couple OF baskets would have put
us in the lead, but the needed goals failed
TO materialize. Kirk Mckee starred tor
Shepherd College, getting 7 field goals
and fouls.
Owens & Miller, the enterpriSing drug
gists, inform us that today begins the
sixth year of their business career in
ShepherdStown. They are still at the
old stand in the Register building, as at
tentive 10 the wants OF their customers as
ever, and their store is still one OF the
most popular business places in town.
We hope that they may have long and
prosperous business career here and that
good fortune may always attend the genial
proprietors.
Everybody in the community ought to
give liberal encouragement to the pro-
posed water company by subscribing for
lis service Our town has long been in
need Of water and the lack OF this modern
convenience is a great drawback 10 our
prosperity. The opportunity to secure a
desirable system without burdening the
corporation seems at hand, and nobody
should hold back. When representatives
OF the proposed company call 10 see you,
put your name down as patron.
We have had more sombre, wintry
weather this week, with one or two
bright days to relieve the monotony.
Sunday night there was an unusually
heavy fall OF sleet and some rain, cover
ing the earth with thick coating OF ice.
some OF which still fingers. Monday
was hard day on pedestrians, for the
slippery sidewalks made walking dan
gerouS and difficult. As we write this
morning the wind is from the northeast
and there are flying snowflakeS that indi-
cate more weather.
AT a recent meeting OF the town council
an order was entered inStructing the treas
urer 10 pay off 5000 in bonds out OF the
funds in his hands. We would much
rather see this amount spent on extern
sion OF the sewerage system OF our town.
Sewerage is getting 10 be real necessity,
and many persons are OF the opinion that
our surplus revenues could be best spent
in extending the system from IFS present
terminus at the college property up
Princess street TO Main street and as far
up Main street as it is possible TO con-
Struct it. If we get waterworkS a sew
erage system cannot be dispensed with.
A party of young men and women from
Martinsburg who attended the basketball
game in Shepherdstown last Friday night
came near having serious trouble on the
return trip, when their automobile was
wrecked near Frank r. McQuikin'S place,
a couple of miles west oftown. tits said
that the car was being driven at high