Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-05-11
SHARPSBURG NEWS.

Mrs. Ada Thomas has returned home
from Washington, where she has been
spending a part OF the winter with friends.
Miss Susie Hout has gone to West
Minister to spend some time with friends
and relatives.
Miss Frances Mumma was visiting
friends in HagerStown last week.
Lot owners in town have been having
considerable trouble in getting their
ground ploughed. owing to the very late
season. Those that have been ploughlng
had 10 use their teams at home.
Ernest Highbarger, who is employed
on the Western Maryland Railroad, is
home owing to depression in freight
hauling.
VIM. 0. Cox intends tearing down a
part of his stable and then rebuilding,
making modern barn OF It,
Miss Margaret Grove, OF Shepherds
town, visited her auntS, Misses Sue and
Marion Grove last week.
William Jackson, OF Roanoke, brought
the body oil his little baby TO his former
home here and had il inferred in Noun
tain View Cemetery.
Grand Army memorial services will be
held in the Lutheran Church here on the
morning of May 18th at 10 O'Clock. Rev.
VIM. L. RemSburg, a q. A. K. veteran,
will officiate, assisted by Rev. A. A.
Kerlin. Every body is invited.
Whit GraySon is teaching his sister
Lucy's school this week, owing to her
illness.
Lester Smith, OF Roanoke, spent sew
eral days at his former home here with
l. MIC Inhu w EauaU
Thomas Houser who is enlisted in the
u. S. Navy, is spending a 3O-day vacation
with his parents at the Dunkard Church
toll-gate.
The growing wheat and clover and
timothy grass are looking extra nice.
Some of the wheat is so rank Of growth,
caused by the rains, that il is already
going down, some flat to the ground.
Mrs. Stephen p. KretZer, OF WeStfield.
n. l., was the guest OF Mrs. ChaS. w.
Adams and Miss Adams the past Sunday.
Miss Martha Reilly came up from
Baltimore Tuesday by auto and is spend
ing the week with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. 7. Reilly.
Val Smith and couple OF friends OF
Waynesboro, Pa, are spending this week
at the Wayne-Mar clubhouse at Miller's
saw mill.
Mrs. Daniel Souders spent Sunday in
Hagerstown with her son, whose wife is
in the hospital.
Noah Cronice, of Hagerstown, spent
Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Wilson and
his brother George.
Miss May Bowers, OF Norfolk, Va, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Fannie Bowers.
The L. H. Ranft'S circus, OF Michigan,
gave show here Monday and Monday
night They gave very good perform
ance. They are very nice people and
were well patronized.
A little daughter was born 10 Mr.. and
Mrs. Foster Mongan. They have pair
nova boy and girl.
Leonard Highbarger has very hand
some pet dog, and some one gave it
poison. Leonard has been doctoring
him day and night, and says he is getting
over it he thinks now.
Decoration day arrangements are pro-
crossing nicely, and if we have a good
day there will be large number OF per-
sons here. There will be lots to be seen
and heard: Look for the big bills;
Prof. Miller, OF Shepherd College,
ShepherdStown, and party OF his friends
from Tennessee were visitors TO the bat
tlefield Sunday. Prof. Miller fought with
the It'll w. Va, Infantry at Bloody Lane.
Mrs. B. F. Roulette and sons intend
matchmaking their lane from the Bloody
Lane 10 their farm buildings. They will
utilize the old stone walls running the
entire length of the lane.
John Starlper, who employed in Wash
ington, is at his home here with felon
on one OF his fingers.