Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-03-08
LITTLE LOCALS.

highest price yet reached.
Prof. S. A. Bond has rented and is now
occupying the Westinghouse formerly
occupied by the late c. A. Licklider on
Prospect avenue. He and Mrs. Bond
will be at home there until the end OF the
school year.
SOLDIERS Rest" one OF the oldest
houses in Clarke county, Va, which was
erected by Hessian prisoners for Gen.
Daniel Morgan, has been sold by J. E.
Barnett TO Clifton Price for So. 900. The
estate comprises 225 acres of fertile and
highly cultivated land, and lies half a mile
north OF Berryvile.
Postmaster ]. A. bearing has resigned
as postmaster at Shenandoah Junction,
and the office is in charge OF the Messrs.
Osbourn. Mr.. bearing will move to
Washington with his family. DR.. George
A. Davis has resigned as postmaster at
Summit Point, and Mrs. Catherine Chris
man has been designated as acting post
master.
Rural Mail Carrier B. F. Hartzell has
been unable to get over his route this
week in his automobile because OF the
condition OF the roads. The snow an i
mud have been too much for his Car, and
he has had to 90 back TO the use OF horses
and wagons. He has had to have two
assistants to help get the mail over the
route.
Randolph Moler, of this county, was
operated upon for appendicitis in a hos
pital in Baltimore last week. He was
taken i'll while in Baltimore under treat
ment for eye trouble. Mr.. Moler was a
student in the school OF agriculture at the
West Virginia University, but had to
give up his studies because OF trouble
with his eyes.
w. Harry Staley has bought from Lewis
d. Getzendanner the property on Main
street, Shepherdstown, in which the post
office is located and in which Harry E.
Mundey has his home. The price paid
was $4,650. Mr.. Getzendanner bought
this property last September at public
sale. II had been owned and occupied
by Mr.. Mundey for long time.
Next Monday will be corporation cleo
ton day. Two tickets are in the field,
and there will probably be warm con-
test between Mayor U. S. Martin, who
is a candidate for reelection, and ]. l..
Waldeck, who heads the opposition
ticket. Practically all of the voters have
qualified themselves TO cast their ballots
by paying their poll tax, as required by
corporation ordinance.
The Jefferson Orchard Company.
which recently acquired the orchard OF
the Jefferson Highland Orchard Company,
The lands OF Geo. w. Johnson and S. A.
Hays, near Leetown, has issued bonds OF
the face value OF SAT 10000 to be secured
by first lien. on the tracts OF land men
toned. The bonds bear interest at the
rate OF 6 per cent and mature in fifty years.
The Parkersburg National Bank, OF Par
kersburg, w. Va, is the trustee.
The dates for the commencement ex-
ercises of the several State educational
institutions have been announced by the
Department OF Schools. The Shepherd
College commencement will be held in
Shepherdstown on Friday. June Sth; the
West Virginia University commencement
on June 18th; Marshall College, June
18th; West Liberty Normal, June 7th /;
Fairmont Normal, June 9Th; Chenille
Normal, June 7th; Concord Normal, June
9th; Keyser Preparatory, June 9th.
Our friends Mr.. and Mrs. d. J. Folk,
Of Pasadena, California. formerly OF this
section, in renewing their subscription TO
the Register write us: "lf ever there may
have been time when we thought we
did not need the Register il surely is not
now, when we are so far away from home.
We are glad TO pay the advance in price,
for we realize that everything is so much
higher now, and even an editor must eat.
for others feast on his editorials, which
are so often treat. We wish you and
the Register all success"
Although the weather was anything but
salubriouS, a large crowd attended the
sale OF the personal property OF the late
Milton Miller near Kearneysville last
Friday. The property sold very well.
the proceeds OF the sale amounting to
more than $500. The antiques sold
especially high. A small mahogany sew
ing table brought $5S, Davenport $75, a
set of small andirons $15, walnut Sec
rotary $3.50, and plain walnut ward
robe sold for SIS. The live stock also
sold well. Horses brought as high as
$l67. cows up TO $Sl, sheep $l4.5O each,
and hogs up TO 1856. Potatoes sold
from $40 10 $40 bushel.
Local orchardists state that the busting
method for fruit trees, instead OF the
spraying method. which has obtained TOR
many years, will probably be extensively
used in this fruit belt this season, and ii
is declared that many growers are con-
WINGED that this is the method ofthe future.
The busting method is strongly recon-
mended by Prof. H. Wentzell, OF the
Cornell University experiment station.
A mixture OF s. per cent of exceedingly
fine sulphur and Is per cent OF equally
fine powdered arsenate OF lead is used in
the busting process, application being
made by driving back and forth along
the rows OF trees and driving the dust
into the limbs OF the trees. Four appli-
cations at different times are recommend
ed II is said the busting method costs