Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-12-06
Syhe Shspherdstoua 8egister.
Thursday, December 6. 1917
BRIEFS.

Miss Mary Stanley has taken position
as clerk in the store of ]. L. Welshans.
Wheat is SIP bushel and corn 81 30.
Butter is 40 cents a pound and eggs are
As cents dozen.
Pay a small deposit and have your
Christmas presents laid by until Christ
mas al S. L. Cooley's.
Goodbye, Mr.. Corn. and farewell 10
you. Mr.. Bunion. Owens & Miller's
corn remover did it-l5 cents.
Buy your Christmas candy early and
avoid being disappointed. Full supply
on hand now at S. L. Cooley's.
There will be meeting OF the U. D. C..
Friday afternoon at 23O o'clock at the
home OF Mrs. Virginia Harrison.
The cheapest and best semi-paste paint
al Owens & Miller's. Ask for quotations.
Money back if not as represented.
Joseph H. Trout, OF the Farmers Bank
OF Shepherdstown, has qualified as a
notary public for Jefferson county.
Since using Tarco- Mentho, having pur-
purchased bottle at Owens & Miller's
for Is cents, my cough has left me.
Miss Margaret Maddox has taken a
position in the postoffce and will assist
with the mails and other postal work.
For sale. SOW which will farrow in
week or two and % nice shoats. Apply
TO Dudley Moler, near Bakerton, w. Va.
No need to use an axe, because Owens
& Mlller's laxative quinine tablets break
up a cold in "a hours. Only 25 cents a
box.
For sale, a desirable home in Shop
herdStown with modern Improvements.
Price very low. Inquire at the Register
office.
Announcement is made that Postmaster
Simms Powell, of Parkersburg, has re-
signed his office. He will engage in other
business.
Large stock OF mems gum boots, arc
tics ana heavy rubbers at Hodges. These
are scarce and may not 10 be able 10 be
gotten later.
The monthly meeting of the Village
Improvement Society will be held in the
council room on Monday, December 10th,
230 O'Clock.
The price for shining shoes has been
advanced from five cents TO ten cents in
Shepherdstown-probably on account OF
the high price OF rags.
See my line OF jewelry, Silverware, etc.
have the same kind OF guaranteed goods
as before. Come in and inspect them.
You will not be urged to buy. Max
Lewis.
Yes, Owens & Miller have sold and are
now selling Victrolas and records. We
thank you for your patronage in this line.
Quick service. Owens & Miller'S is Vic
trola headquarters.
"Uncle Jimmy" Small, well-known
old Confederate veteran OF Harper'S Fer
ry, has gone TO Richmond, Va, where he
has been admitted 10 the Confederate
Soldiers Home.
Several persons in this neighborhood
claim TO have seen an aeroplane pass over
ShepherdStown one night last week.
They say if flew across the country about
one O'Clock at night.
My certainly do wish that had ia
ken those double strength nux vomica
and iron compound tablets sooner. Feel
bully The best medicine ever used.
Sold only by Owens & Miller.
Will you help save the eyes OF Shop
herdstown child ? Fifty dollars is needed
at once TO save il from blindness and
becoming State ward. Send contri0u-
tions TO w. p. Licklider, acting treasurer.
Car OF yearling and car oftwo-year-old
steers-good property. Scaled TO you
l2l-2 cents a pound. won't ask you
near that much. Veal calves and all
other stock wanted. c. F. Wall, Charles
Town.
Mrs. r. c. Ringgold is having her
brick stable on Main street converted
into a comfortable Westinghouse,
which she will rent out. This was once
a very fine stable, erected by the late
Henry Shepherd.
There will be festival and box supper
at the Uvilla hall on Saturday evening,
December 8, 1917, for the benefit OF Uvilla
school, All ladies' are requested 10 bring
a box. Elizabeth Boswell and Nellie
Miller, teachers.
DR.. ]. L. Luke has sold farm OF Al
acres adjoining the farm OF the Timber
lake heirs, one and a-halt miles southwest
OF Middleway, to A. L. OmpS, who al
ready owns farm in that neighborhood.
The price was 800 per acre.
The usual Thanksgiving service was
held last Thursday in the M E. Church,
when an able and appropriate sermon
was preached by Rev. !. Frank Brooke,
Of Romney. A collection for the poor,
amounting 10 over $50 90, was taken up.
VIM. H. Johnson, who lives north OF
town, had considerable loss recently,
when tour ID his flttening hogs died sud
denly from some unexplained cause.
The veterinarian sid that they had been
poisoned from something they had eaten,
but Mr. Johnson has 10 idea how they
could have golten any poison.
Hog cholera has made its appearance
in a herd owned by F. L. Jordan, south OF
Charles Town. The hogs attacked by
the disease are among those that Mr..
Jordan failed TO have inoculated with anti
cholera serum. His hogs that were
treated with The serum are in apparently