Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-07-20
LITTLE LOCALS.

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Rev. Absalom Knox will hold service
this Thursday night at the county infirm-
airy near Leetown. and Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock Rev. S. L. Flickinger will
preach at the same place.
The board of education on Monday ap-
pointed Earl L. Daley to be principal OF
the public school at Moler's Cross Roads
and Miss Maud Ethel Feaster to be prin-
cipal OF the Uvilla school. Both are
graduates of Shepherd College, class OF
1916.
Because Of the Inconvenience occa-
stoned by the warm weather, il has been
decided by decided by Pack Horse Ford
Chapter of the d. A. r. TO hold no more
social meetings until the regular time in
Octobers Due notice will be given when
the next meeting will be held.
The board OF education will build a
brick addition of two rooms TO the public
school building at Kearneysville, as the
present accommodations are inadequate.
Miss Ada Knode, of this vicinity, has
been appointed principal of this school
for the ensuing year, with Miss Ollie
Blessing and Miss Jessie Engle as assist
ants.
President Wilson has honored our for
mer fellow-townsman, Henry S. Baker,
by reappointing him as member OF the
Excise Commission OF the District of CO.
lumbia. The President also appointed
Cy Cummings, of Chevy Chase, to be a
member of the commission in place OF
General Smith. who was rejected by the
Senate.
Folks on the side streets are complain
ing good deal at being kept in darkness
these nights. Three or four weeks ago a
regulator was burned out, and as il has
not yet been'repaired there has been no
illumination on the circuit it controls.
The people are getting peevish over the
delay and say, Give us lights or full moon
every night.
A few days ago COW was shot and
killed on Rockland farm. presumably by
hunters who were after squirrels, though
there's good deal OF difference between
heller and squirrel. William Muzzey,
manager of Rockland, is making an inves-
tigation, with the hope of discovering the
guilty person. In the meantime he warns
all trespassers off ofthe place.
A very considerable proportion of the
public roads in this section are in bad
condition-and getting worse. The chief
difficulty seems to be that practically no
effort is made to keep the bitches open,
and consequently the water runs over
the roadway and washes gullies in it
every time there is rain. II would pay
the county well TO keep the roads proper
ly drained.
Navigation was stopped on the canal
for several days this week. A slight
break in the towpath at Dellinger's wide
water started the trouble, and then load
ed canal boat in charge of William Sny-
der, of Sharpsburg, grounded in the aque-
duct at Williamsport, knocking hole in
its bottom. The cargo of coal had to be
unloaded before the boat could be re-
paired and raised.
The Atlantic City tourists returned
home last night safe and sound, bringing
back with them as many limbs as they
took away. Thanks TO having complied
implicitly with the Registers suggestions,
they experienced no difficulty whatever
with sharks. Miss Annie Licklider, how
ever, claims to have narrowly escaped
collision with German submarine while
she was doing some fancy deep diving
Tuesday morning. We are proud to re-
port that all except seven of the party
went to church on Sunday.
Jefferson county's title to the ground
on which the county jail in Charles Town
is located is no good. according TO the
opinion of the legal advisers OF the United
States Government, who have been in
vestigating the question in preparation
for erecting a postoftice building there.
The title is so defective that negotiations
for purchasing the lot from the county
have been indefinitely suspended. The
government will now institute condemna-
ton proceedings in order to get the lot.
The lot will be appraised and it will pass
to the purchaser at its appraised value.
Thunder storms passed over this Sec
ton last Thursday night, and in the south
ern part OF the county the lightning was
lively. On the farm OF B. F.
near Myerstown, a mare and
colt were struck by lightning, both be-
ing instantly killed. On the Howell
Brown farm OF George B. linn, near
Charles Town, seven cattle were killed
by one stroke Of lightning. A bunch OF
cattle were standing under tree in
field when bolt struck the tree and
jumped TO the cattle, killing seven of
them. All the stock were insured against
lightning by Washington, Alexander &
Cooke.
Main street has been greatly improved
the past week under the direction OF May
or Martin. The four principal blocks
have been oiled with superior quality
of oil, containing larger percentage of
asphaltum than ever before, and between
Church and Princess streets fine crushed
stone has been placed on the oil. BY
this method OF treatment the street is not
closed to traffic. and it looks as if the
roadbed will be greatly improved, as the
oil and crushed stone together form a
binder that sheds water and seems to be
but slightly affected by travel. tits to be