Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-08-03
Ghe Shepherdstoun 8egister,
Thursday,
August 3, 1916
BRIEFS.

% cents dozen.
Born TO MIR. and Mrs. H. A. Tenant
yesterday son.
Phone your wants TO Owens & Miller's
for toilet articles. etc.
Bargains in mems, women's and chill
dren's shoes at Hodges.
Ice plant for sale. Inquire of H. l..
Snyder, Shepherdstown, w. Va.
Jacob Wolf, a merchant OF Charles
Town, has gone into bankruptcy.
Best grades threshing coal, Security
cement and Ivory wall plaster at Hodges
elevators.
After good many weeks OF darkness
the lights have been turned on again on
the side streets.
Wanted, young chickens, for which
highest cash price will be paid. E. L.
GoldSborough, Iceland.
Mrs. E. II. Remnant has bought from
the ShepherdStown Garage handsome
five passenger Empire touring Car.
II. Pinkney SchleY has bought from the
National Highway Garage a new Ford
touring car, TO be delivered this week.
The town council will meet next Tues
day night, when the application for the
waterworks franchise will be considered.
J. Yancey Blackford, the contractor
and lumber dealer of Shenandoah Juno
lion, has bought handsome new Over
land touring car.
Lemen Brothers have gotten nice new
delivery wagon for use in their milk bust
ness. The wagon was made by Hess,
OF Hagerstown.
Hezekiah Snyder, OF MartinSburg,
whose back was broken in an automobile
wreck near that place three or four weeks
ago, died last Monday.
When words fail, send Gilbert'S choc-
olates. They're wonderfully good and
she deserves the best. Don't delay
stop al Owens and Miller's for that box
We are sorry to note that VIM. K. Kline,
a well-known resident of Martinsburg, is
Ill IRON slight stroke of paralysis re-
ceived last week. His left side is affected.
The annual harvest home supper and
festival OF MI. Wesley NJ. E. Church will
be held on Saturday, August 18th, at
Harry Writings home near Billmyer's
Mill
Attention is called to the advertisement
oil the Roper real estate IN this county,
which will be sold on August 10Th in
Charles Town by Trustee S. w. Wash
ington.
Soup, iCecream, cake and candy will be
served on the college campus Saturday
evening by classes 10 and II of the South
ern Methodist Sunday school. Every
body come.
Postmaster J Frank Thompson, OF Mar
tinsburg, has been adiudged bankrupt
by the United States Court. The report
is that his liabilities are large and his
assets small.
The Leetown Baptist Church will hold
lis annual harvest home Thursday, Au-
gust II, in the parsonage yard. There
Will be services all day in the church
Everybody invited.
Philip Grove, agent for the Norfolk &
Western Railway at Antietam Station,
has Just bought from the National High
way Garage, OF Shepherdstown, a fine
new Maxwell roadster.
NJ. K. Bowers, one Of the up-to- date
farmers and dairymen OF the Leetown
vicinity, has recently had installed an
automatic mixer that milks several COWS
at one time and does it successfully.
The Norfolk & Western Railway will
run an excursion TO the LuraY Caverns
rext Wednesday, August 9th. The train
leaves ShepherdStown at 904 a. m, and
the fare for the round trip is only $3.50
Ewes will be better property another
year than they have been this, and some
ewes have made for their owners from
twelve TO fourteen dollars per head. Z.
F. Wall is the man to furnish you ewes.
A young colored man named Robert
Green was run over by Norfolk & Wes-
tern freight train at Beryville Saturday
night and instantly killed. He had jumped
the train, intending 10 ride to Hagerstown.
Robert Underdonk, who has been tend
ing lock al Cabin John, Md, Tor the past
year or two, but who has recently been
working forthe Ford Automobile Company
in Washington, has moved back to Shep-
herdStown, his old home.
The annual harvest home OF the South
ern MethodStS OF Uvila will be held in
the grove at that place on Thursday,
August oath. Dinner and supper will be
served at 3 cents and refreshments will
be served as usual. Everybody invited.
Floyd b. Matthias has moved into the
Entler dwelling house on Duke street,
vacated by p. N. Brilliant. Silas Ship
ley and his wife will move here from
Sharpsburg, occupying the Billmyer
house on Princess street that Mr.. Matthias
LETT.
The o. NJ. Phillips Lumber and Sup
ply Company, which has been engaged
in the lumber business in Charles Town
for the past couple Of years, has made an
assignment for the benefit OF its creditors.
W. q. Pringle is named as the trustee.
The liabilities of the company are about
$4,000, with assets OF about $25, 900.
&C. d. Morgret is in town for few
days and will be glad TO cut those dates,
ETC., on old monuments. Also prices