Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-30
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Thursday. November 80, 1916
BRIEFS.

thlShSiihS SuHHliSo az NCIuildlt y.
Good pumpkins for sale by T. H. Davis
Eggs are selling at 40 cents a dozen to-
day.
Everything for the fruit cake at Rein
hats.
Evaporated fruit in packages at Rein
hartS
Colonial-National Mazda lamps a,
Remnants.
" Security cement and Ivory wall plaster
at Hodges elevators.
High-grade butterine, perfect substitute
for butter, at Hodges.
Blankets, comforts, shoes. felts, arctics
and rubberS at Hodges.
For Sale-My home on New street.
Apply 10 Mrs. NJ. L. Hickey.
Butchering time is here-send in the
reports OF the heavyweight porkers.
More than 900 hunting licenses have
been issued by County Clerk Chas. A.
johnson this season.
A meeting OF the U. d. c. will be held
Friday afternoon at go O'Clock at the
home OF Miss Julia Grove
The usual union thanksgiving service
is TO be held in the NJ. E. Church South
this Thursday morning at II o'clock.
Shepherd College takes good thanks
giving holiday. School adjourned We'd
nesdar and will not be called again until
next Monday.
In order that all hands may have holi-
day on thanksgiving day. the Register
goes TO press Wednesday evening instead
OF on Thursday.
The bazaar for the benefit OF the Cath
olic Church will be held at the home of
Miss Agnes Gibson on November Both
and December lSt and ID.
d. p. Branson, OF Sutton, w. Va, has
been selected as county agent for Berke-
ley county, succeeding w. M Bewick,
who has gone to Wisconsin.
The ladies' OF Grace Baptist Church of
Shenandoah Junction will serve supper
and lcecream in the |. 0. o. F. hall on
November Both and December 1st.
An oyster supper will be held in the
domestic science hall of Shepherd College
on thanksgiving night by the ladies' aid
society OF the NJ. E. Church. Everybody
invited.
The temperance people Of Washington
county, Md, spent 81 ,939 10 in the recent
successful campaign TO rout the whiskey
saloons. licoStthe liquor people 50, 454-
SO TO lose the election
Philip Lucas, one of Kearneysville's
reliable and industrious colored men,
came in a few days ago and renewed his
subscription 10 the Register. Tue in
creased price did not scare him a bit.
The Shepherdstown Garage has sold
and delivered 10 Mrs. Jack Trapnell, OF
Charles Town. handsome Hudson SUI
per-six at $4,000. Mrs. Trapnell
says she would not have bought itifW Will
son had been defeated.
The ladies' aid society of the NJ. E.
Church will hold an oyster supper in the
domestic science hall OF Shepherd COL
lege on the evening OF thanksgiving day.
Supper will be served from O'Clock on.
Fancy articles will also be sold.
Howard L. Knode has bought the gro
Gerry and meat shop conducted by G. c.
Frazier in the telephone building, and is
now in charge of the business. "Johnny"
invites share of the public patronage
and says that he will treat his customers
right.
The ladies OF the Reformed Church
will have chicken and waffle supper on
Saturday, December I'd, in the domestic
science hall (old town hall. Also sale
OF aprons and fancy articles, suitable for
Christmas presents. Public cordially in
vited.
The Young Peoples Society OF the
Presbyterian Church of Shenandoah
Junction will have sale OF fancy articles.
suitable for Christmas presents, at the
residence OF J. Y. Blackford all day on
Wednesday, December 9th. Soup and
icecream will be served.
The Rohrersville Band, of which J. F.
Chopper is the popular leader, last Sat-
urday dedicated new hall recently COM
pleted at a cost of 81, 900 at Rohrersville
This band is highly regarded in Shep-
herdstown, where it furnishes the music
each year tor the Morgan's Grove fair.
The Village Improvement Society will
meet at the home of Mrs. Molle Folk on
Saturday at 80 in the afternoon. The
election of officers for the ensuing year
and the transaction OF other important
business calls for a null attendance. Every
member is urged TO be present.
One OF The prettiest picture plays ever
seen here was given in the Opera House
Monday night, when Manager Musser
presented popular Mary Pickford IN Gin
derella." A crowded house thoroughly
enjoyed if. MIR. Musser is showing some
very attractive pictures. "Are You A
Mason?" is the feature for thanksgiving
day, and where Are My Children ?"
will be shown on Friday.
John Lester Mcdonald, the l7-Year- |
son Of MIR. and Mrs. Frank Mcdonald,
who live on the Rutherford farm near
Martinsburg, stumbled and fell the other
day, breaking his right leg and his left |
arm. This makes the seventeenth time
the boy has suffered broken bones. The |
bones OF his body are so brittle that they
break if any unusual strain is put upon