Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1917-05-10
BRIEFS.
Sunday VIII be mothers dav

81 Hodges elevators.
Burpee's seeds that grow-l9l7 seeds
al Owens and MIXERS.
Butter is 30 cents a pound TODAY and
eggs are 80 cents dozen.
Shoes at half price at the sale at the
KlmSey Hotel store room.
Bl0y supplies at Owens & Miller's-
all Kinds OF oaoy foods, etc.
The Jefferson Circuit Court begins in
CHARLES Town next Tuesday
Bora 10 Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight E. Nc
Qaukm, 10 Roanoke, fine son.
Don't TAIL 10 see a circular OF the big
sale at The Hotel Rumsey store room. .
Just arrived fresh supply OF Eastman
kOcaKS and hlms at Owens & Mlller's.
Hammocks and croquet sets at Owens
x Mlller's. New line or goods, also ten
MS balls.
Spring phosphate for corn and potatoes
at Hodges Kearneysvllle and Shepherds
town elevators.
Fifteen cents buys ladies' or mems pure
silk hose at the big sale at the Rumsey
Hotel store room.
The Shepherd College team and the
HagerSiown High School boys will play
here Saturday afternoon.
Now is the time to use Kreso Dip No.
and Cdl-Sino poultry and cattle pow
uerS. Al Owens & Mlller'S.
will take in sheep, lambs and calves
al Bardane on May lSIh-never a better
tine TO bring yours in. c. F. Wall.
Quoth Abe Martin: "Miss Tawny Apple
says She'd GIT new spring hat If she
thought anyouddy would look that high"
An important meeting of the U. d. c.
viii be held al the home of Mrs. Virginia
HlrnSon Friday evening OF this week at
o'clock.
DR.. J. b. Chamberlain, optometrist, OF
MaTunSourg, will be at the RumSey Hotel
IN OHepherdStown on Wednesday, May
80. Eyes examined and glasses Tilted.
Members OF the Shepherd College
Alumnae Association are requested to
meet al the college Thursday evening,
May I'M, al 100 p. NJ. Business OF i'm
pOudnce.
Miss Anna SanboWer, who for several
years was employed IN the Ii dependent
printing office in this place, has resigned
her position there and has come to the
Register office.
e. q. Morgret, representing The Han
COCK Marble and Granite Works, is in
town today and will be here until Satur-
DAY. Inquire at the cemetery or at Crowns
boarding house al meal hours
Sam Miller's automobile bucked with
him yesterday and stood on its head
along the road mile or two west OF
town. Fortunately 10 person was hurt
and the car was damaged but slightly.
Captain John Kyd Beckenbaugh has
sold lis clearinghouse on Prospect
street, IN HagerStown, 10 William b.
Staley, OF that city. Captain Beckenbaugh
Is now living on his Ferry Hill farm, OPP
poSlte ShepherdStown.
\ d. Franktorer, of Hagerstown, spent
last Friday in Shepherdstown, where he
took fifteen photographs OF groups and
scenes iOr Shepherd College State Nor
mai School. The pictures will appear in
the issue OF the 1917 catalogue OF this
school.
Two good shows are billed at the opera
house next week. Denman ThompSon'S
famous play, The Old Homestead"
Will be gwen again on Wednesday, and
Thursday night Mark rwan'S "Puddin'
head Wilson" will be shown. Both are
flne pictures"
The excursion TO Washington and Bal
tmore on the B. & D. railroad advertised
Tor May 10Th has been Cancelled. The
railroads are bending all their efforts now
10 The mOVlug OF important freight, and
passenger traffic and transient business
must be sidetracked.
The Shepherd College baseball team
LETT this morning Tor Berryvile. where 1t
plays today with the Berryville High
School boys. Our team has been broken
up rather badly by two or three OF It's
members returning to their home to take
up agricultural work.
Adam B. Link, OF this county, who has
been member OF Company F, OF Mar
uusOurg, and who has been with his reg
Iment the past year, has been honorably
discharged from the service. The mar
ned men md those having dependents
are being released from duty.
A Sunday school was organized last
last Sunday at Lakewood School-houSe,
or SANDY Ridge, and will meet regularly
eiCn Sunday an 30 o'clock. The people
generally are invited to attend. Rev. J.
{. SIler will preach at O'Clock on Sum
cay, alter the school diSmiSSeS.
Roy Myers, who has been in Norfolk,
where he was pitching with the Norfolk
team OF the Virginia League, is home
again. He developed a sore arm, which
kept him from pitching, and our local
fans are trying 10 persuade him TO stay
hight here at home, where he is needed
50 badly this summer.
While Mrs. Abbie Taber. OF Berkeley
county was driving 10 ShepherdStown
yesterday TO attend the funeral OF her
sister, Mrs Bowers, an automobile ran
INTO her buggy in MartinSbnrg, throwing
her cut and giving her some painful
bruises. She had to be attended by a
physician when she arrived in Shep-
herdStOwn.
A debate will be held in the Shepherd
College auditorium on Friday evening,
May Ism, at o'clock, between represen-
tauves OF Daleville College and Blue
Ridge College, on this question: "ReSol-
vea, Ihdl the federal government should
regulate the wages and hours OF labor OF
employees on interstate railroads..
Every body is invited TO attend. AdmlS-
sion . cents.
An important meeting OF health officers
Is being held in Charleston this week,
and DR.. q. w Banks, OF Shepher lstown,
Is among those present. The meeting
was called by State Health Commissioned
DR.. S. L JepSon, and physicians from
every county and from most OF the towns
90 the State are in attendance. Among
the subjects TO be discussed is infantile
paralysis and the methods OF fighting this
disease. Ii is feared that there Will be