Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-06-08
BRIEFS.


Mems, women's and children's shoes
and Oxford's at Hodges.
Wheat is down 10 90 cents bushel
this week. Corn is IS cents.
All kinds of optical work done by Max
Lewis. Broken lenses duplicated.
Born 10 Mr.. and Mrs Howar c. Lowe,
a tine son, weighing IL l-2 pounds.
Prices have been named on hard coal.
Get prices for winter supply at Hodges.
Old gold and silver bought, exchanged
or remodeled by Max Lewis, the ieweler.
The home of Mrs. Ida H. Neill on King
street has been improved with a new
coat of paint.
+ Lost, small gold Masonic stickpin.
The finder will be rewarded by returning
10 Miss Maggie MerrellS.
DR.. J. w. McSheny, of Berkeley coun-
iy, sold bunch OF 10 lambs few days
ago that Melted him 800 each.
Anybody can get drunk in Hagerstown.
A man with no arms and no legs was ar
rested there on Tuesday dead drunk.
Harry NJ. Show has purchased from
the Conway heirs a dwelling house on
Camp Hill, Harper's Ferry, for 81 200.
People never knock a dead article.
Nuf Sed Owens & Miler'S for Stag
Paint and Kyanize varnish and stain-the
cheapest and best.
There was big rain in this section
Wednesday morning, and the ground got
a thorough soaking. All the growing
crops are flourishing to remarkable de-
gree.
Martin A. Little has sold his farm OF
PAP acres, lying in Berkeley county, near
Bedington, TO Wallace w. Cochran, OF
New York. The consideration is not
given.
Mr. Ford Thompson, who is recuper-
arng from an operation for appendicitis
performed IN hospital in Newport News,
Va, is home TO spend a week or two
with his parents.
AT a special election in Mill Creek dis
tnct OF Berkeley county recently the peo-
pie voted in favor OF a high school at
Bunker Hill. The vote was ITO in favor
OF the school TO 4S against.
Mrs. Edward E. Miller's Sunday school
class will have festival at her home near
Winebrenner'S Cross Roads on Friday
night, June 9th. Soup, icecream, etc.,
Will be sold. Everybody invited.
The Jefferson Hotel at Charles Town
has passed to the management OF John
Hamilton, who also runs the Palm Hotel.
Both houses will be conducted by Mr..
Hamilton, who is very successful hotel
man.
Bernard W. Sitter, son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
q. M. Sitter, OF Charles Town, has been
appointed by Congressman Bowers TO be
a cadet at West Point The young man
IS now attending the West Virginia Uni
versity.
We are requested by Larry Wright,
tenant on the Blunt farm, and Mrs. ]. S.
Pierce, OF AYrle, TO warn persons against
unlawiully dumping trash along theirprop-
eTly contiguous TO the river road. OF
tenders will be prosecuted.
The Governor OF Maryland has named
Friday, June 3Oth, as the day when John
Brown, colored, shall be hanged in Ha-
gerStown tor the brutal murder of aged
Mrs. Susan Dixon in the mountain near
Rohrersvile last December.
William Trapnell, OF Cumberland, has
been promoted from division engineer or
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to be dis
trict engineer, maintenance OF way, with
headquarters at Wheeling. Mr.. Trapnell
is former Jefferson county man.
Mr.. Charles S. Billmyer last week at
tended the big sale OF Jersey cattle at the
stock farm of Cooper Brothers, at CooperS-
burg, Pa. Prices were higher than ever
before. Cows sold up to S., 900 and the
cattle sold averaged S64l per head.
The Harper's Ferry correspondent OF
the Charles Town Advocate says that the
electric railway company that has line
running out Of Washington to Bluemont
has corps of engineers surveying for an
extension from Purcellvie through Lou
doun to Harper'S Ferry, on to Charles
Town and Winchester. They have got
ten sufficiently along with their work TO
set up headquarters on this side the river,
occupying the room formerly used for the
postolfice as their office.
II. A. Moler, OF Eleele, Hawaiian Is
lands, in renewing his subscription TO the
Register, writes us as follows: "When
visiting my home last spring had the
Register sent 10 my address here in the
islands, and only since then have | be-
gun TO realize what have been missing
for the past twenty years since leaving
old Jefferson" Although the Register is
two weeks in reaching Mr.. Moler in his
home in the islands lar off in the Pacific
ocean, he greatly enjoys reading the news
from his old home.
The Ransom bond issue, which was
voted on by the citizens OF that town IN
January, has been pronounced illegal by
attorneys OF the brokerage firm in Cleve--
land, Ohio, which was the highest bidder
for the bonds when they were offered for
sale. 1t was found that certain legal
technlcalties were not observed both in
framing the ordinance providing Tor the
bond election and in giving the published
notice Of the election. A new ordinance
Will be adopted TO conform 10 the legal
requirements in such cases, and new
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