Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-12-14
LITTLE LOCALS.


Tuesday, when the news was published
that Germany had asked for peace. Yes
terday it gained two cents, and today oul
local dealers are offering $l.5S bushel
Corn is "a cents.
A test was made this week OF the water
in the 3S5-ft. we'll bored for the new
waterworks. II was found that the pres
ent stream yields IS gallons minute.
AS this is only one-third of the amount
needed, the drilling will be resumed until
another stream is struck.
Fifty-three of the iifty-five counties oil
West Virginia will share inthe distribution
of $SS, 900 set apart by the Legislature for
State aid to classified high schools. In
Jefferson county the Charles Town and
Harper's Ferry high schools will each
receive $665 and the Leetown school
S275.
A musicale will be given in the Shep-
herd College auditorium Friday evening
ofthis week, beginning at s o'clock, under
the direction of Miss Maggie MerrelIs,
whose pupils will render pleasing pro-
gramme of vocal and instrumental music.
Admission free and everybody invited 10
attend.
Turkeys are very slow sale just now
and there is not much chance that the
market will become brisker. Owners
are asking Is cents pound, live weight,
but there are few buyers at this price.
Most persons will substitute chickens or
some other sort OF meat for Christmas
dinner.
In the circuit court at Hagerstown last
week John Wahnstreet was found guilty
of numbering Harry Mathews and was
sentenced to the Maryland Penitentiary
for life. The tragedy occurred in Cum
berland some weeks ago. Mathews was
sitting in a saloon playing piano. His
music didn't suit Wahnstreet, who walked
I'D 10 him and cut his throat from ear to
ear. Mathews was son OF Mrs. Flor
ence Cookus Mathews, formerly OF Shep-
herdstown.
The first basketball game of the season
was played here last Saturday night in
the college gymnasium, when the Shep-
herd College team defeated the boys from
the School for the Deaf, OF Frederick,
Md, by the score OF "a TO 20. The game
was spirited one and was won by our
boys in the last half by clever work.
The mutes were an aggressive set, and
though they couldn't make much noise,
they expressed themselves quite well by
motions. Shepherd College will play
the mutes return game Friday night in
Frederick.
The first real snow Of the season came
on Tuesday. When folks awoke in the
morning the flakes were coming down
swiftly and they kept il up until almost
noon. But il wasn't real winter, and the
snow melted almost as fast as il fell, until
by evening there was only sluSh left. AS
this snow came on the 18th day OF the
month, we may look for twelve good
SHOWS this winter. Yesterday snow No.
2 arrived. For half an hour or so it fell
thick and fast, and then fierce gale car
ried the clouds away and brought us the
coolest spell Of the season.
Acting upon hear-say evidence, dep
uty game warden from Berkeley county
created panic among the young men
and boys OF the Ripon neighborhood by
having warrants of arrest issued against
fifteen of them for alleged violations OF
the game laws. The arrest OF one OF
them gave the cue to the others, who
exercised strategy in retreatipg to places
beyond the reach of the law. The exc
dus has caused labor shortage out here.
CornfieldS have been depleted of Shuck-
ers until an amnesty can be agreed upon
between the officers and the alleged Of
fenders.--AdpOcate.
Harry Kirkpatrick, accused of being a
horse thief, committed suicide rather than
surrender to a sheriff's posse. He had
been arrested and lodged in jail in Lees
burg, Va. He escaped from the jail Sum-
day night by digging hole in the wall
with a case knife and went to his home
near Lovettsvile. The sheriff organized
a posse and surrounded the house, and
when he called on Kirkpatrick to sur
render the man refused and opened fire
on the posse. For four hours he held
the officers at bay. When he found his
ammunition becoming exhausted and
realized he could not hold out much
longer he committed suicide by shooting
himself.
Plans are under way to float bond
issue OF $l50,0O0.00O for the Western
Maryland Railroad, which is now backed
by the Rockefeller interests. This huge
sum is 10 be used IN taking care OF present
obligations and in making notable i'm
provements TO the railroad property. II
is believed that a portion OF il will be
used to construct the new line between
Bluemont, the terminus OF the Washing
ton and Old Dominion Railroad, and
Williamsport, on the Western Maryland,
the route for which is being so carefully
surveyed by the engineers whose head
quarters are now in Shepherdstown. The
Rockefellers, it is needless TO observe,
are quite able to build this line without
being pinched.
State Tax Commissioner Fred o. Blue
has mailed a circular letter to sheriffs-
elect and county courts in answer to q
variety OF inquiries he has received about