Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-07-06
Thursday,
BRIEFS.

To-Day. SoIn - up W - SSntS.
Born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Harry ]. E.
Thomas, Of Sharpsourg, fine daughter.
There will be meeting OF the Hospital
Guild at the home OF Mrs. Edward l..
Reinhart Friday evening, July It'll, at 8
O'Clock.
G. w. Freeman is ready for business
al The Model Bakery. Bread, cakes,
pies and other good things always nice
and fresh.
The Senior Epworth League of Baker
ton will hold festival and spelling bee
at that place Saturday night OF this week.
Everybody invited.
A friend OF the Register in Preston
county, W. Va, in renewinghis subScrlp-
ton writes US that sit looks bright Tor
Wilson IN this county"
Mr.. E. L. Goldsborough has bought a
handsome siX-cylinder seven-passenger
Studebaker touring car, and IS now en-
joYing il with his family.
A Charles Town automobile on return
trip from Sharpsburg ran into the gs
pump al The National Highway Garage
few days ago and wrecked IT.
The ladies OF the Leetown Episcopal
Church will hold festival on the lawn
al w. Strider's home on Thursday even
ing July 18th. Everybody invited.
Your insurance policies, deeds and valu-
able papers are safe from loss by fire or
THEFT II placed in fire proof vaults at Jef-
terson Security Bank, $3.50 per year rent.
The junior missionary society will sell
icecIeam, cake and candy on the lawn at
The Lutheran Church on Saturday evening
OF !hiS week. Proceeds are for a good
cause.
G. w. Freeman, OF the Model Bakery,
respectfully SollcitS share of the public
patronage. Let him furnish you your
bread and icecream. Old friends and
new are welcome at his place.
The weather this week has been ideal
for harvesting, and nearly all OF the farm
erS have gotten through with this work.
They are now making every minute count
as they are blowing corn and making hay.
The Stale Board of Regents has ap-
pointed the teachers for the several nor
NAL schools for the ensuing year. We
learn that no change was made il the
faculty of Shepherd College. Indeed,
there were but few changes IN any of the
noTmaS.
On Monday, July 10Th, an entertain
ment consisting oil music and recitationS
will be gwen in the Palace OF Pleasure at
Bakerton by Prot. Stevens and Company,
OF Frederick. Admission 10 and 20 cents.
This entertainment was postponed from
June 30th.
Lost, on July 4th, on the road between
the residences oil A. S. cambridge and E.
L. GoldSborough, near Shepherdstown,
grey coat, in the pocket OF which was a
Kodak. The finoer will be rewarded ii
he will return the coat and Kodak to A.
5. cambridge.
The members OF the Pack Horse Ford
Chapter, ID. A. r., wish TO thank all per-
sons who helped in any way to contrib
uie 10 the success OF the 4th OF July cele-
bration and to express their appreciation
OF the sympathetic interest shown by the
community generally.
The young peoples missionary society
OF the Presbyterian Church at kearneyS-
vile will hold festival on the lawn at
the church Friday evening, July IA tn, TO
which everybody is invited. lcecream,
cake and candy will be sold. Proceeds
are for good cause.
Lee Wah, our new Chinese laundry
man. is fitting up his laundry IN the Ma
sonic building on Main street, and ex-
poets TO be ready for business next week.
Lee Wah comes here from Front Royal,
wnere he has had a laundry for the past
fourteen years. He asks tor share Of
The public business.
The wel-known firm of p. A. Brugh &
Son, dealers in ladies' goods, OF HagerS
town, will close out its business. The
elder Mr.. Blugh has been in bad health,
and the son, Mr.. Lynn K. Brugh, does
not care TO maintain The large store. This
firm has long been an advertiser in The
Register and has enjoyed considerable
trade from this section.
Next Tuesday The Adventures of
Boy Scout will be given in the opera
house, and all the proceeds will be gwen
to the local camp of Boy Scouts for the
purchaser OF uniforms. The boys are
selling tickets at Is cents, and so far have
been very successful. Everybody in the
community should help them by buying
literally OF these tickets.
Relatives and friends of Jack Crawford,
OF West King street, are much distressed
over his failure to return home from a
business trip taken the other day, and
many think he may have enlisted IN the
National Guard, possibly at Laurel, Md.
Others fear that he may have met with
some disaster. Mrs. Crawford and child
will leave this evening for her home in
North Carolina.-MartnSburg Journal
Announcement is made of a material
reduction in the price OF the famous line
OF Maxwell automobiles, as may be no.
tlced by the big advertisement in the
Register this week. The touring car is
reduced from 1865 to 1896 and the road
sler from $685. to $3.50. There can be no
question that at these prices the Maxwell
car is big value The National High
way Garage OF Shepherdstown now has
these cars in stock Tor immediate delivery |
and will be pleased TO demonstrate them |
TO prospective purchasers.
Judge |. M. Woods has refused an ap- |
peal from an order of the Jefferson Coun-
ty Court IN The matter of the claim OF
Vim. T. McQuilkin, executor OF Hortensla |
KoontZ, against the estate OF the decd |
emf TOR alleged services rendered by the
executor and his wife. The claim was |
for 81 900. The commissioner OF accounts |
before whom the executor settled his ac-
count allowed the claim. Exceptions |
were taken to his ruling, and the County
Court sustained the exceptions. Now
Judge Woods records himself against the |
claim.-AdpOcdte.
Benjamin F. Hartzell, mail carrier on |
the new automobile rural mail route, |
made his first trip last Saturday. He had
gotten only few miles out when the
automobile that he was using temporarily |
went dead and he had to send town tor
help. He has bought from the National
Highway Garage a new Ford chassis, tor
which special body is being made. and
this week he is getting along alright. ne